In my experience, many translations suck hard, to the point of, having on occasion compared different language versions of a novel, wondering how can readers of the translated version understand certain passages at all… So, I also try to read in the original if possible, if it is Portuguese, Spanish, French, English or Esperanto. I can kinda understand Italian as well but not enough to read a full-length novel… Still learning German…

Was going to post this as well. Just replayed it again, never gets old!

OTOH, if you build a playlist manager for playlists everyone can add to, you make sure nothing anyone adds will break it…

Jesus! Fucking! Christ!

As someone who fears bugs and is browsing Lemmy before going to sleep, my nightmares thank you, good sir!

A rifle scope that can see through walls.

IMO, this seems exactly what the fediverse needs to thrive. The whole “choose a server” thing is a big disincentive to adoption by most people.

For when you hate camping but get talked into it by your friends and are determined to avoid all the parts of the experience you hate.

While I’m not entirely sure wat it actually means, the message you get on that site right now might be the reason (some kind of experiment gone wrong artificially inflating the numbers):

I was creating an implementation for the activity pub instance service transfer, but it seems to have spread far. We are very sorry to those who have experienced inconvenience.

All temporarily used data has been removed and all data has been removed. The figures in the data will soon converge to zero.

I trawled unintentionally.

Is federated authentication being considered for the future? The federated model of the fediverse is great, but it runs into problems when instances “die”, you want to access different servers as they federate with different things, etc. leading to the need of having multiple accounts. If there were a decentralized network of auth servers, could use the same credentials everywhere.

99% Invisible - An excellent design/architecture podcast

20k Hz (“twenty thousand hertz”) - great show about the audio that pervades our daily lives, from notification sounds to movie special effects, passing through game sounds, sound history,etc.

Imaginary Worlds - in their own words, “ a podcast about science fiction, fantasy and other genres of speculative fiction”.

All three are done by professionals in their respective fields, exceedingly well researched, and with superb production values.

The problem is that the concept of “user of a site” is still a thing. There should just be “fediverse users”. Everything gets federated, why not user credentials? Then it would not matter if you register on site X or Y. It would be the same. What we need is a federated identity service. It would still be completely decentralized, dependent on no single server, and much more resilient to server shutdown, defederation, etc.

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Went through this some years ago with my daughter. She was around 8 and came home from school all excited about Pokémon cards, as some colleagues started showing up with them. After getting her some, I realized that they liked to look at them, compare powers, do the odd trade and that was it…

Still, I feel it all got sorted out in the end. That fleeting interest planted the seed of interest in TCGs and now she’s 11 and we regularly play MTG against one another 🙂

Estas certe bonaj kialoj por ne pagi per karto (ĉefe, privateco). Tamen, ĉi tiu artikolo estas iom fuŝa, ĉar (laŭ mi,la du plej gravaj fuŝaĵoj…):

• ne ĉiuj kartoj estas kreditkartoj. Fakte, en pluraj landoj, preskaŭ ĉiuj uzas debetkartoj. Do, oni ne devas pagi pli ol la veran koston de la varoj…

• ĉu ĝi vere diras ke oni devus ne pagi niajn Impostojn?! Ne nur pro baza justeco oni devas pagi (nepagantoj estas parazitoj de la pagantoj kaj la socio), sed ankaŭ ĉar, aparte de militoj, ĝi ankaŭ pagas niajn vojojn, malsanulejojn, lernejojn, ktp…

Still, El Niño happens cyclically every few years, and this dataset spans decades. There are no other years in there similar to 2023….

This takes many forms. A recurrent one is for the take place right out of college (or while still in it!), taking advantage of the naïveté of those just entering the job market, and often as a precondition to access any kind of paid job some months later. The employer gets free qualified labor, the intern eat lots of ramen… families put up with it as a natural extension of paying for college, for a few more months… it’s exploitation pure and simple.

A “joke” I’ve heard several times over the years (not recently, though) summarizes the level of assholery that’s going on (warning: some may find this offensive)

I guess someone should come up with an idea for config.sys next!

The ones with the rabbits are pretty messed up as well!

So much this! I am old, I guess, but I was on Usenet for years before the web was even invented. When I became aware of the fediverse, I got serious Usenet vibes. A decentralized model, several servers, you access one and get what it sends you, but it syncs with all other servers. You‘re getting everything in the entire Usenet and what you post gets everywhere too… we’ve come full circle, I think, even if we now use ActivePub instead of NNTP… a shame people nowadays know of it as “that piracy thing” instead of what it once was (and was designed to be).

This. Inform was the language/platform developed back in the day to author/interpret Z-code, the basis for Infocom’s text adventures. It went beyond just that in more recent versions, but it is designed from the ground up for text adventure creation.