There's been tons of right-leaning Reddit alternatives before, but they always quickly devolved into Nazi spaces.

Lemmy was the first one that I'm aware of, which told Nazis to fuck off right from the beginning.

This is specifically Bavaria. They also recently found out that their vice president has a past as a Nazi and the reaction of their president was essentially "Oh no. Anyway...". So, yeah, if you considered visiting the Oktoberfest, maybe reconsider.

Yeah, inflation rate is high, so central banks are trying to counteract that by basically slowing down the economy, so that our normally scheduled inflation countermeasures kick in appropriately. Well, and the usual way to slow down the economy is to make it more costly to loan money, i.e. increase interest rates. Which means investors can't just pump money into any company anymore, they want that money to actually pay out to cover those interest rates. And that means companies need to actually be profitable to get money to finance their operation.

You mean, like on Ubuntu?

Can someone explain to me

1. why the police is at that stadium to begin with?
2. why that stadium needed to be cleared out?

The bodycam footage looks like everyone was having a good time. So, I'd consider it the duty of police officers to enable everyone to continue having a good time. Asking a band director to cut off a song when there's no emergency is completely ridiculous.

Kind of feels disparate from it being a video game, but it's difficult to really make this experience another way:

I wanted to play a healer in an MMO. It was a shitty MMO, so healers could only be female characters wearing skimpy armor.

Well, it took about half a minute until I had people walk up to me, to then just stop 3 meters away. From the way they were moving, I have to assume, they were working their cameras to look underneath my skirt, and probably doing so with only one hand.

Some of them were sending me "hello :)" messages, which I guess is basic decency, if you're going to use my body, but it felt weird, too, since we had nothing to talk about.

All in all, it felt uncomfortable. And I did not even have to fear for them to start touching or even raping me. Plus, I was able to log out, delete my account and basically just leave all of that behind.

Well, except for one thing I did not leave behind: I do not want to be the other side in that experience either.

What kind of propaganda non-sense article is that? I live in Germany. We're doing absolutely fine.

I'm choosing the third side: WebAssembly

Voting registration. I get a letter that I can vote and what the options are. Then on voting day, which is on a Sunday, because why would it be on any other day, I just walk into my town hall with that letter and my ID card, put down my crosses and leave. It's like a walk in the park, often quite literally.

Well, if there was an emergency, I'd have expected them to at least drop the word "emergency" when talking to the band director. That would have side-stepped that whole discussion of how, when and why the band should stop playing.

And then, yeah, them focussing entirely on the arrest rather than actually clearing the stadium when the band did stop, doesn't speak in their favor either.

Sound engineering. Most people think sound is somehow sine waves and that's it. And well, that's technically correct on some level, but you can layer sound waves on top of each other to create triangle waves or square waves or what specific instruments happen to sound like: Source

And well, these aspects have implications. Like with an oboe, even the basic waveform is quite interesting, so it's excellent for solos.
On the other hand, with a more boring sound, like a sine wave, you can do relatively wild things in terms of melody or combining them into intervals, and listeners won't feel overwhelmed as quickly.

And then you've got the fun field of drums. You can often just take white noise (or pink noise etc.) and just make its volume drop off rapidly and that already sounds similar to a drum.
Which is again interesting on the boring/interesting spectrum. That noise signal adds a short moment of chaos into the mix. But then we often make drums play quite structured rhythms to entertain a different boring/interesting spectrum over time.

A long time ago in high school, my crush at the time was panicking, because a bug was crawling around her table. I was nearby, caught the bug, but then while still panicking, she told me to kill it.

I didn't care to kill it, it was a harmless bug, but figured, eh, at least I'll be her hero.

...nope. Immediately after I stepped on it, she hit me with "Why did you kill it?". She's vegetarian, just forgot her own principles for a moment while panicking.

Yes, she was not the most rational lady, but either way, that was when I learnt to have my own principles.

Few years later, there was a wasp in our classroom, which was drowsy from the heating. It managed to fly half around the room, then landed right on my sleeve. Everyone told me to whack it with a book, but I figured, fuck it, it can't sting me through my sleeve, I'll carry it to a nearby window.

She was in the room, too. This was long after I could have been her hero for anything. But that made it feel all the better, to show her I've grown up since.

What felt even better, though, was that I was my own personal hero, because these were my own principles.

So, first they rewarded YouTubers for wasting ever more of your time, making you watch as many ads as possible, and now they're building a tool to sort through that whole crap content?

For anyone left behind, Minetest is a community-developed alternative.

It's more of a game engine/launcher + highly moddable, so the base game is rather minimalistic, but you can simply install more extensive games. For example, for a very Minecraft-like experience, MineClone2 is your best bet.

I also find it incredible, that there's no GUI button to edit the path. You have to just kind of know that Ctrl+L does that...

SVG is for vector graphics, i.e. anything that can be described with lines and shapes, like logos or most icons.
WebP on the other hand is for raster graphics. For example, cameras create raster graphics.

So, while SVG may be able to replace WebP for some use-cases, it makes no sense to generally switch to SVG.
A suitable, better replacement for WebP is JPEG XL.

Because they have a monopoly.

"These AAA publishers have, mostly, used this production scale to keep their top franchises in the top selling games each year."

I never quite understood, why it's not more popular among big publishers to create smaller games throughout the year. You can have risky AAA titles in development and compete in the AA market at the same time.

Sorry to say, but that design is quite intentional. If you stretch webpages too wide, it makes it difficult to read any texts, since finding the start of the next line is rather challenging then.

And if they'd re-layout it to place multiple settings elements next to each other, that would add quite a lot of visual complexity, it would make it harder to explain to people where they find a particular setting and well, just more effort for designing/maintaining that page.

We're getting customers that want to use LLMs to query databases and such. And I fully expect that to work well 95% of the time, but not always, while looking like it always works correctly. And then you can tell customers a hundred times that it's not 100% reliable, they'll forget.

So, at some point, that LLM will randomly run a complete non-sense query, returning data that's so wildly wrong that the customers notice. And precisely that is the moment when they'll realize, holy crap, this thing isn't always reliable?! It's been telling us inaccurate information 5% of the usages?! Why did no one inform us?!?!?!

And then we'll tell them that we did inform them and no, it cannot be fixed. Then the project will get cancelled and everyone lived happily ever after.

Or something. Can't wait to see it.

Normally, I would reply to the guy, because, you know, he's a human being, but there's so many replies, I doubt, he can actually read all of them and potentially someone else has already made that point.

Anyways, I feel like something he kind of misses here is that many of us do it from a heartfelt place. Like, we're all techies. We've all used commercial software to a point where we've grown so frustrated with it that we decided it is a waste of time.

So, it's not us saying "Why don't you go and just have more time/money?".
Rather, it's us saying "This thing is wasting your time? Here is a solution that I felt wasted less time in the long run.".

Yes, sometimes that does miss the mark, because not every complaint is looking for a solution. Or because we may be frustrated with restrictions of commercial software, which are not a problem for less techy people. Or even because we're embedded in this tech world and are hoping to make it a better place, which someone just quickly visiting may not care about.

But other times, I do just happen to know a lot about technology and a non-techy genuinely did not know about the solution I suggested and is actually really appreciative of me bringing it up. It does happen. And it's not easy to discern who would appreciate a suggestion and who won't.

My parents found single-click behavior less confusing. It's how everything works on their phones and in web browsers.

Guess, AMP didn't give them enough control over servers, now they also want to capture the clients.

I thoroughly enjoy that it's still "X, formerly Twitter". I've seen other news sites just give up completely and continue referring to it as "Twitter". "X" is just really bad at being a name, because it always sounds like you're talking about some unknown thing, like "XYZ".

Point is, we have laws enforcing that possibility. It's not goodwill from companies...

...and might be losing money from each of those: https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-reportedly-is-losing-lots-of-money-per-user-on-github-copilot/

Others already pointed out the quality and pricing, I'd add that it's a rare title in the traditional RPG genre.

Many modern RPGs are really Action-RPGs, at least those in the Western market.
They let you do some role-playing, but you can usually play only one fleshed-out role (e.g. the Witcher, the Dovahkiin etc.) and they're much more focused on their combat systems.

We've also seen renewed interest in traditional role-playing in the form of table-top RPGs.

So, a big budget, high-quality title dropping after these years of drought just hits a nerve and has people hoping other studios get the message, too.

The fact it hasn't imploded a long time ago is proof that digital platforms need to be regulated to enforce interoperability.

Since this shitshow started, I have not heard from anyone that wanted to be on Twitter. In anything resembling a free market, these customers (both advertisers and users) could freely go to a competitor.

But due to the way platforms work, no one can compete, once a dominant platform emerges. A platform has a monopoly on all the things people built on top of the platform (content, software etc.). This monopoly kills the free market. Enforced interoperability would reduce this platform effect and help out competitors.

The EU is starting to tackle that, with the Digital Markets Act, but very few companies are targeted so far, even though the whole industry is plagued by quasi-monopolistic platforms that are universally agreed upon to be trash.

This, but like, unironically. It's literally an averaging machine. Sure, not everyone can be above-average in everything, but if you think it produces really good texts, maybe your standards just aren't very high...

Eh, I don't expect random tourists to be locked up by the fascists, nor do I necessarily expect the not-quite-fascists to distance themselves from the fascists, just from losses in the tourism industry.

I'm mostly just saying, there's tons of places you could be traveling to and "drinking beer with fascists" isn't quite as attractive anymore.

Sounds like something Microsoft paid him to say. Oh, right, they literally do that.

A big difference is that Twitch livestreams are creating content as reality happens. You can't skip ahead, you can't pre-load into a buffer. YouTube would need to take those features away to allow for similarly effective ad enforcement, which would eliminate a significant advantage of VODs.

The penguin is great, because it's absolutely unprofessional. I'd rather Linux be a fun community get-together than a sterile corporate brand.

Lukewarm counter-take: That non-commercial internet is still out there.

As long as there's nerds, there's going to be nerds building stuff for the fun of it. Building your Lemmys, your Fediverses, your Geminis etc..

There is definitely more legislation now, dissuading some percentage of nerds, but we also have a lot more nerds...

Mozilla prohibits connections to the internet, which aren't necessary for the advertised functionality of an extension. So, these are rather "Chrome extensions" we're talking about...

We built a whole quality assistance software to prevent human error in manufacturing. After political non-sense, the project got essentially cancelled when it just started to become useful.

We did ship it for one use-case, though. That use-case doesn't monitor human labor. Nope, they have robots that were supposed to be more reliable than humans and now we're quality-checking those robots.

How is that the use-case where we're most needed?

Connect Four, I win!

I don't think that, no.

People just love their defeatism, and I'm not having it. There is no point in giving up.

I feel like a big part of the change was also due to the US mass surveillance, which became broadly known with the Snowden revelations in 2013.

Before 2013, you could genuinely claim that collecting as much data as possible, might be done with good intentions. Afterwards, collecting more data than necessary for a given task turned into a moral failure. Their whole business model, while it should have felt sketchy beforehand, turned evil over night.

And of course, Google employees weren't forced to reflect on that. The spotlight was on the US government. Everyone expected the US government to just stop with that shit, after they got caught. And well, they didn't. Obama even doubled down on it, Trump certainly didn't drain the swamp either and Biden probably wouldn't even think about it anymore, if the EU didn't constantly get its ass sued for exchanging data with US companies.

The more it became apparent that the US government wouldn't go back on that, and as people had ever more critical data of themselves online, the more the public perception of Google fell down a hole, even if as a Google employee you could still be doing the same things you did in 2005.

Women aren't a hivemind. Some women are fully onboard with hypersexualisation...