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tarmil

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In a world that has stopped caring about anything, giving a shit is the real punk rock.

Doing #fsbolero and other #fsharp things at https://www.d-edge.com.

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@lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar lritter , (edited ) to random

is the reputation of the politician's profession irreparably damaged?

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@lritter
This assumes it was ever good

@tarmil@tarmil.fr avatar tarmil , to random

RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@lritter/115930083242119640

Tax billionaires to their last dime

@lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar lritter , to random

the existence of cosplay suggests the existence of sinplay

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@lritter
tanplay is whatever trump spreads on his face every morning

@lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar lritter , (edited ) to random

Anthropic hides the mechanism that decides when to limit free plan sessions. If I worked there (which I fortunately don't), I'd suggest we train a model on the conversations people have before they buy a subscription, then use it to detect when a user on a free plan is having an "important" conversation, and limit them right there, increasing the chance of a purchase ("cliffhanger mechanic").

In fact, knowing in what business they're in, I suspect this is already the case.

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@lritter
Would be pretty expensive to run this on all free conversations though.

@tante@tldr.nettime.org avatar tante , to random

You can't point at everything you don't like and say "Enshitification". Doctorow describes a specific capitalist dynamic (kinda to save capitalism as a concept). It's not "a bad thing happens", it's basically just the specific way venture capital funded companies operate today.

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@tante
That being said, from the words of the man himself...

A photo of page 4 of Cory Doctorow's Enshittification with two sections highlighted: "Because enshittification isn't just a way to say "things got worse"*." and the bottom note: "*Though it's fine with me if you want to use it that way! One of the glories of English is its malleability. English words mean whatever English speakers say they mean. Go nuts. you have my blessing."
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    • @lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar lritter , (edited ) to random

    saying disney were reacting because of money not because people were angry, is like saying "i want you to listen to me because you empathize with me, not because the tone of my voice, the content of my speech and my facial expression cause your memory system and mirror neurons to trigger cortisol release and amygdala activation that makes you feel compelled to respond."

    money is simply a hormone of the corporate body.

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    @lritter
    money is a hormone of the corporate body, and oh boy are they horny

    @tante@tldr.nettime.org avatar tante , to random

    "Voice commands" have been embedded into our vision of computing for a long time: Star Trek did it and it does the whole anthropomorphization thing that tech loves.

    But from a practical standpoint it's a bad interface: Think of a handful of people sitting in an office yelling at their computers, it would be like working next to people having loud phone calls all day.

    And who exactly wants every thing they do with their computer broadcasted around them?

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    @tante
    Reminds me of the trend of transparent screens everywhere in sci fi. Looks cool, but completely unusable.

    @lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar lritter , to random

    marcus maximus, 1900 years ago: drops a clay jug cacas!

    marcus' wife: urceum fortasse iterum glutino iungere posses, scis?

    marcus: nemo tempus ad id habet.

    1900 years later

    archeologist: we are proud to report that we restored an ancient roman clay jug to pristine condition.

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    Well I'm still proud I remember enough Latin to recognize it

    @aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar aral , to random

    Look, Jeff Atwood, it is difficult to take you seriously when you write authoritatively on a subject you clearly don’t understand.

    GDPR doesn’t mandate cookie notices.

    Cookie notices are malicious compliance by the surveillance-driven adtech industry.

    If you’re not tracking people, you do not need a cookie notice, period.

    If you’re only using first-party cookies for functional reasons, you do not need a cookie notice, period.

    If you’re using third-party cookies to track people – i.e., if you’re sharing their data with others – then you must have their consent to do so. Because, otherwise, you are violating their privacy. Even then, the law doesn’t mandate a cookie notice.

    How would you conform to EU law without a cookie notice if your aim wasn’t malicious compliance?

    You would not track people by default and you would make it so they have to go your site’s settings to turn on third-party tracking if, for some inexplicable reason, they wanted that “feature”.

    Boom!

    No cookie notice necessary.

    What’s that?

    But that would destroy your business because your business is founded on the fundamental mechanic of violating people’s privacy?

    Good.

    Your business doesn’t deserve to exist.

    Because the real bullshit here isn’t EU legislation that protects the human right to privacy, it’s the toxic Silicon Valley/Big Tech business model of farming people for data that violates everyone’s privacy and opens the door to technofascism.

    https://infosec.exchange/@codinghorror/115120175033311443

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    @aral
    Really the main problem of this enforcement is that it came too late, when (almost) everyone was already dependent on collecting private data. That made it easy for the industry to collectively decide that intrusive popups would be the simplest way to comply.

    What were people going to do, take their business to the competition? Doesn't matter, they do it too.

    If regulation had come earlier, then the first ones to use popups would have been seen as obnoxious assholes and lost visitors.

    @lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar lritter , (edited ) to random

    submitting my newest invention to the unicode standard, the Exclaslash

    <exclamation mark> + <slash> = <exclamation slash>
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    tarmil ,
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    @lritter
    Ah yes, Slashdot's lesser-known cousin

    @lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar lritter , to random

    "everything has an ending, but the sausage has two" - ancient german wisdom

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    Ha, we have the same in France except with saucisson.

    @lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar lritter , to random

    pain au chocolat with earl grey notes instead of vanilla

    tarmil ,
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    Or as they call it in South Western France, chocola-tea-ne.

    @lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar lritter , (edited ) to random

    Been unhappy with the use of "parent/child" to describe relationships in tree data structures for a while, for many reasons: anthropomorphism, mixed metaphors, may sound confusing and unsettling to the uninitiated.

    So I've been looking for an alternative. Stick to the tree metaphor, you get crotch/branch, which is ... not optimal.

    The latest one that i liked is hub/spoke, borrowed from terms of wheel construction. It was monosyllabic and celebrated engineering culture.

    you preferred:

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    @lritter "unsettling to the uninitiated" Reminds me of the classic Facebook post of a lady who accidentally pressed F12 in her browser and, seeing the messages in the console, thought she had just been hacked by a sect of child abusers...

    @FediTips@social.growyourown.services avatar FediTips , to random

    Some good news about , there has been a very significant bit of code added which will automatically fetch all the replies in a thread. This means everyone will be able to see a thread's whole conversation no matter which server they are on! 🥳

    The code has just been "merged" which means it should become available in the next update to Mastodon, hopefully within the next few months.

    (Those who want the technical details can see the Pull Request at https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/32615)

    (Via @rolle )

    tarmil ,
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    @FediTips
    So in order for me to see all replies to a given post, will the feature need to be enabled on my server, on the original poster's server, or both?

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    @FediTips Nice, thanks!

    @lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar lritter , to random German

    "musk atnuss herr müller!"

    tarmil ,
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    Great, now I'll think even more of Nazis every time I use nutmeg...

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    @lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar lritter , (edited ) to random

    pronounce "rich" (the adjective) like "retch"

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    @lritter I don't wanna eat the retch though.

    @lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar lritter , (edited ) to random

    the male right had their own form of woke, it was called redpilled

    that's it. that's the toot.

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    @lritter @hipsterelectron I think you're basically describing Vaush, from what little I've seen of him.

    @lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar lritter , to random

    i am so dumb

    (yes i solved a bug)

    it's always a critical moment when you designed an emergent system, have sufficiently verified that its rules appear to be correct, and then move up to using the emergent system.

    you might get a bug and think: oh shit, perhaps the rules are not as correct as i thought.

    you check everything thrice, but no: everything works perfectly.

    then you realize the system is fine, you're just using it wrong now.

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    I guess it's a variant of Occam's razor: for a bug, the explanation closest to user code is usually the best one.

    @lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar lritter , (edited ) to random

    🤔

    ITT: more alternatives

    movie poster for GET IN (2019)
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    This is the only solution

    @lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar lritter , to random

    common: queer

    elevated: oblique, transverse

    tarmil ,
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    Is transverse a genderqueer poem?

    @lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar lritter , to random

    the -phobes annoy me. too many phobes lately phobin up the place.

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    Phobophobes unite!

    @lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar lritter , (edited ) to random

    let's try this differently. "i prefer my 3d coordinate system layouted like a...

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    @lritter This feels like one of those personality tests.
    Which graphics engine are you?
    Congratulations, you are... Godot!