Gumbies isn't real, but if you can explain to me how CI/CL or github actions work using only their documentation I'm going to proverbially eat a hat.
Gumbies isn't real, but if you can explain to me how CI/CL or github actions work using only their documentation I'm going to proverbially eat a hat.
That's not good, but it's not like we can switch to a more secure alternative. ;)
Internet companies usually have clauses that they can terminate the agreement at any time for any reason, including "because they feel like it". They usually don't have to tell you why, either.
Same deal with all the "licensing" things and "digital goods ownership". In two words: you don't.
But it's been that way for ages.
"a AAA single-player shooter in today's market was a truly awful idea"
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2009100/Immortals_of_Aveum/
1.1k reviews 75% positive
https://store.steampowered.com/app/379720/DOOM/ (2016)
125k reviews 95%
Git gud, EA, and make an actually competing product.
...and whose fault is that, private publishing industry? Hmmm? Who didn't invest here?
Also #politics for allowing it to happen of course.
And to be fair, this Orwellian oversight could be a good thing. Literally over the last few weeks, we’ve witnessed a huge manhunt for a guy suspected of being involved in a chemical attack. At the time of writing, he was last seen on the Victoria Line. So if this AI technology had already been rolled out across the Tube network, it could have conceivably been possible to find him before he had even left the station.
But what makes the tech powerful is also what makes it scary.
Really. Ya think. What gave it away.
You know what this feels like? It feels like this sketch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_4J4uor3JE
Also, I'm not sure how much this applies to helldivers specifically, but from what I've seen, teams didn't really teamwork. Because they didn't have to.
This can be very bad because if it follows these steps:
Then people will complain, justly, that they don't have the tools and methods to beat the challenge. Which is correct. They don't. But you can't just tell people to "go play easy mode and learn the game", when they are "max level" and put 40-100 hours into the game.
Of course the synergy tools still have to exist and I'm not knowledgeable about helldivers whether they do.
There is no good choice to "encourage" teamplay, except via creating "natural" funnels that people will "end up at" "organically", and putting a challenge in front of them that they can only work with teamwork. But that means the challenge has to beat them, until they get it. And that may never happen.
One game I have found exceptional as a case study for what is "overpowered" and what isn't, and why, is magic the gathering. All the "code" is public. The complaints are public. The bans are public, and explained. So if anyone here wants to nerd out about balance and doesn't know mtg yet, there is a rabbit hole for you.
The people in this thread are open source power users who don't get and don't want the features that discord offers. It's no surprise you'd rather have your forum back. I don't think that's how it's going to work.
Privacy is good and what discord does is bad. But don't lecture me on how convient and nice it is to use or run something like matrix, if this is your idea of a user onboarding experience:
This is a good post, but I'm not sure it belongs in technology. Hmm.
It's just a well made game in an era of badly made games that hype themselves up bigger than they are.
Palworld is "just" good monster collection, good combat and some good survival crafting. I'm not going to play it, but it's very easy to see the appeal.
It's like the newer doom games. They're "just" good shooters. You "just" get to go through well built levels, nice visuals and good music.
Would you like to get some info going back to 2005 regarding the interest and effort Microsoft puts into PC gaming?
So, this is kind of funny, because when you think "cyberpunk" "high tech, low life", there always was/is the question of how this tech abundance but also poverty can coexist. Surely it takes a lot of money to build all this?
It's waste. That's the answer. It's the repurposed, discarded corporate trash that didn't meet the quarterly goal. It's all starting to make sense you guys!! In new and terrifying ways!
have made a few really really good programming / puzzle games.
made crypt of the necrodancer and phantom brigade , both of which are really good ideas and if you haven't checked them out, you should.
Yes, but I don't think it matters. It's not hyper specialized yet, but the initial problem of "there are no users" is gone. I don't think anything can stop the fediverse now. The protocol is just too useful to not support.
Eh. Seems alright. Definitely not going to a cinema to see it. Gearbox milked the franchise to death, I really only liked Borderlands 2. Looks like Krieg is in this, which isn't canonical. But fun. He also says nothing in the trailer?
My hate for what they did with tiny tina is unmeasurable. The character does not work when she is not a child. If they had put an actual child actor in their shoes and THEN made them blow up a lot of people, with gore, that would be the level tina is at. Like, if Borderlands had realistic graphics, it would be as PG 18 as Doom (2016) +. For understandable reasons. She is a traumatised child that got ate up by pandora and lived. On a revenge quest. All other characters +1 or +2 Tina gets a -20.
Not hating on the actor, lots of things can go wrong for the "magic" to not happen, most aren't on them.
I actually don't care for the prequel or BL1 backstory part. I'm not hooked by the premise.
Expectation is "mid". If an opportunity to watch it falls right into my lap I might, but realistically I will probably forget it exists when the ad campaign is through.
Not sure about unsung, but definitely heroes in my book.
There may be a few catches here and there, but overall the game works, the world is pretty big / big enough and the features are well designed and well paced enough to keep people entertained for several dozens of hours.
That's what I mean by "well made". It's not an actually unfun game with bad explanations.
Yes, but you have to remember that the developer community is absolutely tiny compared to the number of gamers.
It's a neat gimmick, but 98% of the people who could be your audience will get nothing out of the game being open source.
I would really like it if certain specific games were more open source and more moddable, for example stellaris has an annoying formula hard coded that makes combat balancing and weapon modding very difficult. On the other hand, games like openRA exist and I'm not playing that and I'm not doing anything with the source either. That one even has fully functioning multiplayer, but it's so built in that it's hard to reuse for anything else. So you might end up being torn between making the game really good and making the tools and code really good.
I think the biggest appeal of open source games is as a learning resource. Maybe. idk.
Also, may I suggest panda3d, which I'm shilling for at every opportunity that I get, because it's neat, 3d, open source and runs with C or python?
It said "cheaper" not "energy efficient".
Wings are easy, jet engines are hard.
Besides, if you can do it with an electrical locomotive on the ground, the energy conversion to electricity of a power plant should be better than the energy conversion of a jet engine from fuel to movement.
So imo, cheaper seems plausible, energy efficient is a maybe.
Eh. It's a bit more handwavey than that. It's whatever you want it to be.
Virtual reality was supposed to be simulated, but "actual still science fiction" levels of simulated. seamless 3d environment, intercepting nerve signals to look and intuitively control an avatar or ready player one had a haptic suit.
AR stems from that and was supposed to be "the real world, but cyber". Or "VR, but with real world elements". In the novel "virtual light", it's supposed to overlay that "datasturce of cyberspace" on the real world. Even then it was never really clear what purpose cyberspace as a 3d world would have, what data looks like or should look like, and what the advantage of that visualization would be. Or why would rather see that than what the world looks like.
Mixed reality is also that. Imo. It sounds the same to me too.
The whole thing is like hand gesture control. It looked great in minority report, but we had it since one of the 2010s xboxs and it went absolutely nowhere.
Anyone got a commmand line tool change all my stuff? Because if I have to do change all the remotes all the time, for dozens of projects I'm going to lose my mind.
Also the migration on gitlab/codeberg looked like an amount of effort that doesn't round down to zero.
Let's be real here: They are trying to create a "platform"^TM and "ecosystem"^TM to later wall off, embrace, extend, extinguish or otherwise enshittify.
There is no actual problem they are solving.
It's venture capital bait.
Matrix isn't competing with the experience of setting up another account on a different platform, with email, username, passwords, recovery key, display theme, notifications settings, content warnings, etc..
It's competing with being able to click on a link to join a subgroup of a social network that people are already a part of and already signed into.
Factorio works, but it would probably help to give a guided to tour the store and genres, to figure out what she would like.
If she has really no exposure at all, playing just factorio is limiting yourself to eating one flavor of ice cream.
Oh I agree, doesn't prevent me from being locked into certain communities on discord.
Downgrading to a Floor-Top device? Sounds like you can't go any lower, no thanks.
That is true, nevermind me.
Exactly, it's a different paradigm and I don't want a forum.
We're talking about discord and why people use that and not other technology. 99% of the people on discord are not involved with FOSS, but they are what make the platform attractive.
programming.dev is useless and serves no purpose?
No, this instance is federated and not a traditional forum.
A budding community must be online 24/7 to provide support
No, it's fine if that support is given via the git platform, and it's also fine if it takes a while. And it's also fine if the question goes unanswered.
imagine a community with many people and the chat moving forward quickly enough for your question to be out of scrolling view within minutes due to other discussions going on. Even in that scenario there is “no purpose” for a forum?
Yes. Because it is functionally no different than a forum main page where so many new topics get created that questions people don't get to get buried. And also, I've never seen that happen with chats. What I have seen is that people didn't have time or interest to answer my question. Which is fine because they owe me nothing. But a forum would not have "solved" that.
Where is the guitar?
How do you expect people to become rockstar https://codewithrockstar.com/ devs without a guitar?!
This is objectively not true, because social network effects are in place and there is a switching cost.
To me it looks like the features are about 80% there, can't find the screen sharing, login with QR doesn't exist. Not really sure how to even search for some features because the naming is so extremely bad. "matrix automation" "element bot". E.g. this is a very poor collection: https://element.io/integrations Looks like custom emotes are still missing.
But let's say all of that exists and works.
What other features are essential for an opensource community that only discord provides?
I think we're talking about different things then. I don't need something for an opensource community. I need something for ALL communities I'm a part of. Because I'm already in 40 of them and 5 of them are FOSS projects. So switching those over increases friction, if it's not a total replacement.
As for forums, they are for async. Are you going to seriously tell me discord is a good forum replacement?
This is inverted. I don't need to defend why the platform I'm on is good, (it's not), you need to explain why forums are supposed to be better (they are significantly worse).
Documentation belongs on a dedicated website, Issues belong on some gitlab or something instance. If I have a question, I want the answer reasonably quickly or I'm just not going to use the software you're providing. If I'm nice, I'll leave a post on the bug tracker that the install/getting started documentation didn't work.
Forums serve no purpose anymore.
Right now, I'm going to stop using element/matrix again for the forseeable future because there are no communities with public rooms I'm interested in.
Oh sure. They could do this. But they don't.
But there is absolutely no way to verify what they are doing, no fear of getting caught and thus there is no incentive to behave with integrity.
At least my state of knowledge is that this: https://reproducible-builds.org/ isn't fully functional and even if it were what HP does on their machines is closed source stuff.
And even if there were companies or organizations that are big enough to enforce transparency, like a big multinational or a government, there will be plenty of cases where smaller companies with sensitive data can't, like doctors offices or independent lawyers.
It is way easier to charge for a "data privacy" subscription tier and then still just not honoring the wording of that, than to actually put in the effort.
If anyone seriously believes HP will develop two copies of operating software, one with "send everything to HP" and one without, they are delusional.
It may very well be that there will be a contract saying something completely different than what is happening in those machines.
That's actually too easy, because electrical systems have been standardized for a long time.
Should be something like "15 highpowered electrical stoves, but keep the total power consumption below 15 Watts."
Or, homeautomation and integration with google/alexa, but using the old fridge.