@[email protected] Yeah, that's been my experience as well but I'm aware I've only looked at Unity briefly. I was mostly wondering if there were specific things that Unity had a clear cut advantage on, but it sounds like (at least for small scale single dev work) Godot is just going to be a nicer learning experience. Sounds stupid, but load speeds alone just make it feel more fun to use.
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@jernej__s "A Journey of Black and Red" by Alex Gilbert (who also wrote "The Calamitous Bob"). You can find it on Royal Road for now.
@[email protected] @[email protected] I can second it being great fun in its own slightly campy way and, erm, quite long.
@mavnn @0xabad1dea @gsuberland @munin i wouldn't say it's *rushed*, rather not all feature interactions were considered
yellowkey happened because they added a new thing and a winpe boot-time recovery tool for that, which can be abused to get winpe init to reach a code path that just pops a shell with derived bitlocker keys still in memory
yellowkey happened because they added a new thing and a winpe boot-time recovery tool for that, which can be abused to get winpe init to reach a code path that just pops a shell with derived bitlocker keys still in memory
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] My comment was mostly a joke, but if you want to take it more seriously I don't see an unintended interaction between a boot time feature and your own OS's disk encryption as distinct from it seeming rushed. That's exactly the type of interaction you should be spending the time to think about when delivering this type of feature. Of course, sometimes something slips through even if you have put all the time and effort in but... it's not inspiring from the outside.
Sent out a quote today that I needed to price higher than I'd like because otherwise the service isn't sustainable. This meant I was subconsciously expecting a long and drawn out negotiation and explanation process, while what I actually got was an email half an hour later saying (basically) "where do I send the money?"
So that was a nice encouragement for the day!
@mhoye I was going to start it with "sorry grandad, but..." 😂
@[email protected] You have picked your instance well, I can feel the tech bro burn from a different country @[email protected]
bonfire.mavnn.eu/pub/objects...
I mean, seriously? It just interpreted "accepting" as "surrendering" which rather changed the tone of the message I sent.
Deeply short-sighted. It’s like a grocery store committing to selling plastic food alongside the real stuff.
RE: https://www.threads.com/@the.independent/post/DYfgUvJEWVA
@[email protected] ignoring both the ethics and the tech limitations (which we shouldn't, to be clear) I don't see the pitch here. Either I have a desire to read something super bespoke and I get "magic" to write the novel for me ('like Star Wars, but with more kumquats'), or I want to read the idea somebody else find interesting. In practice I suspect even the first option with working, ethical, tech would end up feeling unsatisfying but I don't see any world where I want to pay money for stuff other people wanted to automatically generate if I have access to the generating tech myself.
Good books, not necessarily in the right order, and with some glaring omissions.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026/may/12/the-100-best-novels-of-all-time
@[email protected] it reads very much to me as a list of 'important' books much more than a list of books I would enjoy. Doesn't mean they're bad, or I don't enjoy some of them, but it's not even close to what you'd get asking me for a "good" book list.
@gsuberland @munin @Rairii the fundamental problem here with judging if it's malicious is that if you *wanted* to design a highly deniable backdoor that would nonetheless work on 98% of installations, this would be a really good way to do it 😩
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] "They tried to bribe me to add a backdoor, but jokes on them - it's already rushed and full of bugs."
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@mavnn @the_art_of_giving_up i don't really use the term "mansplaining" but i am semi-regularly on the receiving end of someone on fedi explaining to me things i very clearly already know—sometimes the very post they're replying to. i think there's also a component of, how do i put it, showing off? sometimes it's expressed as "I'm explaining it for the benefits of other people seeing this post", which, I mean sure but it still sends me a notification!
@[email protected] @[email protected] fair, fair. In wanting to get through to people trying not to be an arse I can see my wording ignores other common causes of over explanation like "no, I really am an arse" and "insecurity".
@grimalkina Or even just standard error whiskers would be helpful, honestly
@[email protected] I managed to initially read this as error whiskies, which would be one response to AI job threats I suppose!
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This feels rather similar to the All True Star Wars Fans™ are white men over forty contingent.
Okay, #gamedev people: if you were teaching somebody game dev from a non-programming background, who wanted to make a small one person game to learn what game dev is like would you have any reasons to suggest #unity over #godot? (I'm making #godot the default here mostly based on system requirements and getting started speed, so I feel like I'd need an active reason to suggest the overhead of Unity and I'm not thinking of any).
Context: they actively want to use a game engine, they aren't interested in learning the details of how the sausage is made at the rendering/physics simulation level (yet)
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I suspect quite a few men see examples of #mansplaining and assume "I would never do that, I'm not an arse", but this afternoon I nearly explained user agent strings to [checks notes] a widely respected expert on distributed system design before I checked who I was about to reply to. I had assumed a completely wrong context.
Some recent comments from @[email protected] about the XY problem reminded me that mansplaining is what happens when you don't check what the context is before you speak. You may not mansplain because you're an arse, but you'll do it anyway if you believe you never would and so fail to build in the helpful habitual self doubt that makes you pause and say "what do I actually know about this person again?". Especially because if you're a man reading my timeline you likely belong to a society where there's a wealth of research suggesting you (and I) have been socialised to assume less competence in women.
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An app on my phone literally just stopped so it could play a video ad advertising itself. Isn't the future marvellous.
@[email protected] I'd reply with the Twitter endless screaming bot, but unfortunately it was unable to make the appointment due to a rich Nazi and three videos advertising reasons to endlessly scream as a service
Always check the critical hits per lux rating before purchasing your new laser pistol.
A YouTube channel of somebody making bespoke and beautiful chef's knives to order (for actual chefs, not just for show although they are very pretty). Basically advertising, admittedly, but advertising mostly based around stories of people getting each other thoughtful gifts so I'll take it.
Might be some good #ttrpg inspiration in there as well for some unusual looking blade finishes.
Crafting the Ultimate Chinese Cleaver Duo for Father and Daughter!
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I found this episode especially amusing because I used to own one of the Chinese clevers he's making a replacement for, and they are awesome in exactly the opposite ways the knives he makes are awesome.
They're made out of thick, cheap, soft, stainless steel that means they go blunt in seconds but sharpen just as quickly and it is almost impossible to permanently damage them as they bend rather than break.
Conversely, his knives are light, will keep an edge for years, and cut through neatly anything - but if you damage it you'll be in for a world of work, and sharpening is a decent amount of effort and requires skill.
A YouTube channel of somebody making bespoke and beautiful chef's knives to order (for actual chefs, not just for show although they are very pretty). Basically advertising, admittedly, but advertising mostly based around stories of people getting each other thoughtful gifts so I'll take it.
Might be some good #ttrpg inspiration in there as well for some unusual looking blade finishes.
Crafting the Ultimate Chinese Cleaver Duo for Father and Daughter!
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@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] It's kind of disturbing just how much more aggressive the llm crawlers are than the search crawlers, even from companies that must have had all of the infrastructure in place already.
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@mavnn @grimalkina absolutely, it's extremely contextual which is why I see it as a practice or perhaps framework we can develop and iterate on
@[email protected] @[email protected] Of course, I have some other concerns around LLMs as 'automation' given the relative failure rates compared to other things I would call automation (plus ethics, legality, etc). But the 'can it be done' discussions and the 'should we use this tool' discussions seem to get more time than the 'is this even a good goal' discussions.
