INeedMana 15 hours ago • 100%
I've heard that too. But I don't really have an opinion on other authors, I'm more often exploring the lore for a run instead of reading Sixth World fiction, unfortunately
I don't want to spoil, so won't say much about the plot etc. To me it was a good read. Well written, I went from 16% to 100% in one day. The mystery was delivered nicely, well paced and interesting idea. And I liked the exploration of corp environment at high positions. I think it's not done often at this POV
INeedMana 1 week ago • 100%
A minority Ubisoft investor (...) noting that Ubisoft's share price has fallen by over 40% since last year. Accordingly, Krupa wants the board to "take Ubisoft private or allow it to sell to strategic investor"
Looks to me as if someone wanted a fast lever and with that failing now they'd like to sell ASAP
EDIT:
AJ Investments appear to be new kids on the block as Ubisoft minority shareholders. According to Krupa, "we started our Ubisoft position couple weeks ago and are still adding to it". They do, however, boast of their "extensive knowledge about the gaming industry" after being a "long-term shareholder in Activision Blizzard".
"We cannot understand the decision-making process of current management
U-huh
I guess it might interest someone and haven't seen it mentioned Year Zero Engine post-apo. Mutants, cyborgs and wasteland I'm not involved, just got an email about it
INeedMana 1 week ago • 100%
I think it comes from diminishing experience windows provides
An example, since a few windows versions I can't get to install an old HP printer because they haven't written the drivers for it. On Linux it works fine.
You don't want ads and your os to be sending your passwords who knows where? AFAIK ATM no long time support version of windows provides that.
My gaming buddy is rather well versed in computer stuff, he's the person that writes and hosts our discord bots. He can't make sound drivers to work as he wants. Sometimes things go loud without reason, sometimes mute doesn't work, sometimes sounds play on an output that according to Windows is muted... Crazy stuff
INeedMana 1 week ago • 100%
That's why I wrote it's another unpopular opinion. Somehow the internet claims Arch is hard when to me it's been the easiest distro I've ever used
- No GUI bs, unless you install it yourself, that you never know what it does under the hood. The config file you find in
man
is the config file that governs the thing - easy - You deleted a little bit too much? You just reinstall package, like in Slackware - easy
- You need something from outside the packages? Arch is very well prepared for you building things from source and install it in a sane way, instead of pure
make install
, like Gentoo - easy
And PKGBUILD is easy to understand, RPM and DEB package creation is black magic - You don't have a lot of crap in the system that you are not sure you need. Since it comes rather plain, you either install something you want, or it gets installed as dependency
But, of course, YMMV
And I've tried "easier" distros in the past. Sooner or later it always felt like I need proprietary set of keys to unscrew the lid to flip one small cable
INeedMana 2 weeks ago • 100%
I was mocking around with GPU drivers in order to make Podman containers to access the GPU. (...) I don’t have much spare time and I would like to play a game, I used to play before, without spending hours/days fixing issue that didn’t exist last time I played it.
And
I had other, non-regular user issues with those
I think, you should keep these two things (messing with containers accessing GPU and "just play a game") separate. I mean on separate boxes. Because now you can't "just play" because you've been elbows deep in OS internals. You can't take apart your fridge and then expect it to just cool the water the next day
“optimised” for KDE
Then I'm guessing these might need some KDE envs
Yes, I use it on a daily basis but there’s no easy way to get it working on iOS/iPadOS.
Ah, you're trying to breach the non-open wall. Is there an app on i* that allows you to set up an ftp/http file sharing server on the device? You probably could set it up as rclone upstream
INeedMana 2 weeks ago • 56%
started with Mandrake, moved to Mandriva, spent over a year on Ubuntu and recently I’ve been using Fedora
Another unpopular opinion:
That's because you've been using distributions that are either behind the times or have a lot of wonky crap added to them that looks like user friendliness when it works and is like fixing windows when it doesn't (I've been through similar path, just with a few other distros along the way)
Start with Gentoo or Arch (maybe Slackware). These are close to the grass, so the way to set things up is the way to fix things up
some apps don’t respect desktop scaling
are these gtk based apps? Different toolsets require different envs
syncing
Have you tried syncthing?
INeedMana 2 weeks ago • 100%
I think Musk is another puppet when it comes to X (SpaceX, Tesla and Neuralink not necessarily IMO). It's interesting how the message of both is "I'll make world easier by reducing number of people and processes". And it seems such language gets following
INeedMana 2 weeks ago • 100%
I know nothing about Ireland politics. But is it me that's jaded or this looks like puppet president?
INeedMana 2 weeks ago • 100%
This is where the name relativity comes in. You have to think in terms of relative speed. Your speed relative to earth will indeed advance closer and closer to c but never reach it. There’s a bunch of really wild and crazy implications behind this.
ah, right. In a ship travelling with c, for someone outside the ship, I turn on the lights and observe the light to travel with c. For that external observer the light from my lamp travels at the same speed as my ship
My mind was already bent! ;)
INeedMana 2 weeks ago • 100%
It’s popular to think of those things as like crazy high G turns but they’re not. You’re just flying in a straight line through space time.
Soooo... Interstellar was wrong with all the shaking of the camera?
Are you on earth or is the ship in space accelerating at a constant rate? Again, there’s no way to tell. They are, physically, the same.
In case of accelerating ship, I wonder what would happen in local frame once you hit/get really close to c. You'd get decelerated out of nowhere? Just as if you hit something?
INeedMana 2 weeks ago • 100%
The understanding I got from school was that gravity might be some kind of force and basically one mass attracts other mass, like electric potentials do
Keep in mind, that was 20 years ago. Our understanding might have changed and tbh I wouldn't expect a high school physics teacher to be on the bleeding edge of research in all physics fields
INeedMana 2 weeks ago • 100%
True. But that correction still doesn't unbend my mind
INeedMana 2 weeks ago • 100%
Then, I think, go into Steam, open the page of the game in library and in the options somewhere on the right, just below the image (?), try to disable something like Steam controller input for this game
INeedMana 2 weeks ago • 100%
uhm. Ok, let's get back one step. What is Steam shortcut?
It works when I launch through Lutris, but yea - using the Steam shortcut it doesn’t work
Does "steam shortcut" mean that you are running lutris from steam? In such case maybe it's the other way round than what I proposed earlier - steam controller thingy grabs the controller and because of that it doesn't go straight to the game?
INeedMana 2 weeks ago • 100%
Oh! Now I know what this is. It's not "mail voting is bad, let's not mail vote". It's "let's use X to vote"
INeedMana 3 weeks ago • 100%
Plot twist (just for fun, I'm not trying to protect him): he actually wasn't. The votes were fake and whoever were faking them dropped the ball by using info of someone recognizable
INeedMana 3 weeks ago • 100%
Does the game support the controller? When you're running the game via Steam, it uses its controller service(?). When you are running the game somewhat directly this part will not be running. So if the game does not support your controller directly, you might need to find a way how to make it recognize it
INeedMana 3 weeks ago • 100%
Asking an LLM for raw R code that accomplishes some task and fixing the bugs it hallucinates can be a time booster, though
INeedMana 3 weeks ago • 100%
As with any shared POV
INeedMana 3 weeks ago • 100%
I think it's like racists. Whether one wants to be one or not is not tied with being one or not. That doesn't mean they all have one secret handshake
INeedMana 3 weeks ago • 100%
🤯
So basically L before consonants is generally mute?
INeedMana 3 weeks ago • 100%
Wait... What? I'm not supposed to pronounce the l in salmon?
INeedMana 1 month ago • 100%
what happened is the programmer made assumption based on the illusion created by the libraries: writing application on arduino is just like using a library on a unix-box. (which is not correct)
That is why I have become carefull to promote tools that make things to easy, that are to good at hiding the complexity of things. Unless they are really dummy-proof after years and decades of use, you have to be very carefull not to create assumptions that are simply not true.
I know where you're coming from. And I'm not saying you're wrong. But just a thought: what do you think will prevail? Having many people bash together pieces and call in someone who understands the matter only about things that don't. Or having more people understand the real depths?
I'm afraid that in cases where the point is not to become the expert, first one will be chosen as viable tactic
Long time ago we were putting things together manually crafting assembly code. Now we use high level languages to churn out the code faster and solve un-optimalities throwing more hardware at the problem until optimizations come in in interpreter/compiler. We're already choosing the first one
INeedMana 1 month ago • 100%
Apparently new NVIDIA open source kernel module has the same performance as propietary so I'd fall back on the data from this and decide based on that
Some tools for fan curves etc might be still a little bit unpolished for NVIDIA, maintainers had a lot more time to fix them for AMD. But there are many NVIDIA users out there so I'd wager on the biggest issues being addressed rather sooner than later
INeedMana 1 month ago • 100%
Well, you have configuration and flag options to define what is it supposed to be trying to use. What order, I think too. But definitely understanding SSH a little bit will make the log more understandable. As with everything tbh :D
INeedMana 1 month ago • 100%
The whole point of ssh-agent is to remember your passphrase. If you don't want to do that your problem might be that for some reason ssh client doesn't pick up your key. Try defining it for the host
Also, there's -v flag for ssh. Use it to debug what's going on when it doesn't try to use your key
INeedMana 1 month ago • 100%
That can become an issue but IMO the person in your example used the tool wrong. To use it to write the boilerplate for you, MVP, see how the libraries should be used sets one on the track. But that track should be used to start messing with it and understand why what goes where. LLM for code used as replacement is misuse. Used as time booster is good. Unless you completely don't want to learn it, just have something that works. But that assumption broke in your example the moment they decided to add something to it
I have a very "on hands" way of learning things. I had in the past situations when I read whole documentation for a library back to back but in the end I had to copy something that somehow works and keep breaking it and fixing it to understand how it works. The part between documentation to MVP wasn't easier because I've read the documentation
For such kinds of learning, having an LLM create something that works is a great speed up. In theory a tutorial might help in such cases. But it has to exist and very often I want something like this but... can mean that one is exploring direction that won't address their use-case
EDIT: A thought experiment. If I go to fiverr asking for a project, then for another one, and then start smashing them together the problem is not in what the freelancers did. It's in me not knowing what I'm doing. But if I can have a 100 line boilerplate file that only needs a little tinkering generated from a few sentences of text, that's a great speed up
INeedMana 1 month ago • 100%
Illusion — Why do we keep believing that AI will solve the climate crisis (which it is facilitating), get rid of poverty (on which it is heavily relying), and unleash the full potential of human creativity (which it is undermining)?
Because we keep reading sensationalist advertisements presented as articles instead of experimenting with it ourselves, understanding what it is
And unfortunately, this article is also just a response to media clickbait, not a discussion point it tries to look like
INeedMana 1 month ago • 33%
~20 years ago:
"Reading documentation is for wimps! Real programmers read the source code directly"
LLMs are just a tool. And meanwhile our needs and expectations from the simplest pieces of code have risen
INeedMana 1 month ago • 100%
wrote a library in BASIC for screen / window applications in DOS. (you know, pop-up text-windows and so on). How do I do that on linux (in C)?
(...)
I know there exist things like QT and ncurses
So it's graphical interface we are after or text based?
For text, I agree with others, ncurses
For graphical
- pyGTK
basically everything you need, some learnig curve as it's big and versatile. But to be honest, when trying to achieve something I'd suggest to start from GTK reference to me it somehow conveys the logic better than the PyGTK reference - Kivy
haven't used it, but might be fun to use - wxWidgets
very cross-platform. Not only you can use it to write UI that will require minor fixes to have the same code for Windows and Linux at the same time, you can also tell it whether the toolkit used under the hood on Linux should be QT or GTK - Tk
old, simple (more fancy things need some gymnastics) but simple (easy to use) and supported in Python out of the box (you don't even need to install anything) - QT
I'm putting it here just for fairness. I don't like it, don't like its signal-slot design, I think it's hogging up too much resources. But last time I used it was ~10 years ago and in the end, it does in fact work
INeedMana 2 months ago • 100%
Exactly same as with a hammer ;)
INeedMana 3 months ago • 100%
In general whatever anyone does to anything, current userbase will 90% of the time be against it. But
"Next, we'll remove all the action buttons with their superfluous interaction counts from the main timeline," Musk posted in a subscriber-only post on X in October of last year. "Just view count will show, unless you tap into a post."
So the main thing will be views. Not how many agree, how many object. Views
And probably it will also become the main analytic datapoint
Shit in, shit out
INeedMana 3 months ago • 100%
Firefox turns the fan on while Chrome doesn’t
Does it also happen when you change user-agent to chrome? Google has been worsening the experience of their services on non-Chrome browsers for a solid few years now
INeedMana 3 months ago • 100%
To me it looks like the judge wants something to be seen. Wealthy-and-connected privilege? Maybe even these documents show how deep into the known names this hole runs? Without the ambiguity of "the only documented thing is a dinner"
But I'm not an expert on the issue and judges in general, so maybe I'm misinterpreting something
INeedMana 3 months ago • 100%
Haven't tested it but it seems so. Android client has the button too
INeedMana 3 months ago • 100%
What about Element/Matrix?
INeedMana 3 months ago • 76%
But that's just a block for me. Not a removal. I think harmful stuff should be removed
Honest question about the acceptance lines, not trying to trigger a response Personally, I feel this is misogynistic and derogatory. But maybe I'm the one out of line Btw, is there some other way to flag a whole community to the mods?
INeedMana 3 months ago • 100%
I would also keep the "on speed" part. Even if the band aren't users
I'm always on the lookout for run inspirations. But many Shadowrun missions were hit or miss
Has anyone looked at it? How streamlined it really is? Is this overhaul cohesive?
Alien RPG Starter Set has a discount currently. I think I've heard somewhere that it's doing some things well but I don't remember what & where. And I very rarely can get answers to my questions from description or reviews. Does anyone have experience with it? * How the system works? (d20/d6 pool/special dice/similar to X/etc) * Rather crunchy or narrative? * Are there some system elements that play into the feel of the setting?
> Cthulhu Hack, the simple and accessible Mythos tabletop roleplaying game from Just Crunch Games. This fast-playing standalone investigative game, based on David Black's minimalist fantasy RPG The Black Hack, pits ordinary people against the sanity-shattering horrors of the Cthulhu Mythos. With simple Save die-rolls and three resources (Flashlights, Smokes, and Sanity), Cthulhu Hack deftly supports published Investigations and campaigns for any Mythos RPG. Learn the whole system in 20 minutes, teach it to your players in five minutes more, and in another five their characters will be ready for a slow spiral into self-destruction. That piqued my interest, so I thought I'd share
I was very excited to see that open hardware seems to be happening, despite my perception But it seems that OpenTitan is somehow connected to Google. And now I'm conflicted
cross-post: https://lemmy.world/post/12428174 > I know that eventually the answer is "whatever I want" but I would like to hear what others think. > > There's an MCT oil rig on Baltic Sea. Anarchists from Kronstadt noticed peculiar data transfer some time ago going there and managed to hijack the place. Then they transmitted message that they are an eco terrorist group (I did not specify which one to my players) and demand MCT to stop polluting. After that, folded the satellite dish to buy some time for the decker and rigger to look around the host. > > Now, from a point of, for example, TerraFist. An oil rig nearby is in disarray, none of their contacts in other groups say they're doing it. And MCT HTR is definitely on its way. > Does it make sense for them to come to the rig and make contact/make sure it gets disabled/make trouble for HTR? > > I think their appearance has potential to turn this job into a nice chaotic clusterfuck and opportunity to show my players some variety of the world (they would definitely come on a yacht going superspeed with help of a spirit). > But does it make any sense at all for anyone besides me?
I know that eventually the answer is "whatever I want" but I would like to hear what others think. There's an MCT oil rig on Baltic Sea. Anarchists from Kronstadt noticed peculiar data transfer some time ago going there and managed to hijack the place. Then they transmitted message that they are an eco terrorist group (I did not specify which one to my players) and demand MCT to stop polluting. After that, folded the satellite dish to buy some time for the decker and rigger to look around the host. Now, from a point of, for example, TerraFist. An oil rig nearby is in disarray, none of their contacts in other groups say they're doing it. And MCT HTR is definitely on its way. Does it make sense for them to come to the rig and make contact/make sure it gets disabled/make trouble for HTR? I think their appearance has potential to turn this job into a nice chaotic clusterfuck and opportunity to show my players some variety of the world (they would definitely come on a yacht going superspeed with help of a spirit). But does it make any sense at all for anyone besides me?
I might be wrong but I'm 90% sure the Shadowrun (ttrpg) community was on this instance. Now I can't find it anywhere (cross-instance community search doesn't find it too) and I can see in my profile that my posts sent there disappeared too. Was the community closed? I couldn't find this info in the modlog
> This 200+ page hardcover book updates the original Science Fiction Companion to be completely compatible with the Savage Worlds Adventure Edition
cross-post: https://lemmy.world/post/2220151 > Blades' "skip to the action"+retrospective+stress mechanics worked really well for my table. > > I'm looking for other systems and homebrews that would allow us to "plan" the heists later, during the actual action.
Blades' "skip to the action"+retrospective+stress mechanics worked really well for my table. I'm looking for other systems and homebrews that would allow us to "plan" the heists later, during the actual action.
cross-post: https://lemmy.world/post/1426387 > I stumbled upon this channel long time ago. Since then he claims to have [Grown Real Spider Silk Using Yeast](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hf9yN-oBV4) or [taught rat neurons to play Doom](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEXefdbQDjw). > The way he presents the content doesn't sound like a complete fantasy but my understanding of the topics is very rudimentary. > > What do Lemmy biologists think about this channel? And what do Lemmy scientists in general think?
I stumbled upon this channel long time ago. Since then he claims to have [Grown Real Spider Silk Using Yeast](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hf9yN-oBV4) or [taught rat neurons to play Doom](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEXefdbQDjw). The way he presents the content doesn't sound like a complete fantasy but my understanding of the topics is very rudimentary. What do Lemmy biologists think about this channel?
cross-post: https://sh.itjust.works/post/973541 > My characters are organizing an extraction of local (country) MCT head of security. He is Japanese, raised by the corp from birth, but not completely beguiled as his son is an orc and he had to pull some levers to get him into school etc. > He's aware of extraction and agreed to it. > > But the twist is that he decided to get extracted because he's taking the fall for a secret lab getting blown up in the middle of MCT office campus. So in a way he was made responsible for actions of some shadowrunners and now he's hiring (technically it's his mother organizing this but that's a detail) another ones. I think that can evoke some ambivalent emotions. > They are going to meet in secret soon to get some of his blood, pass the details of the plan, etc. > **What are your thoughts on how to roleplay his attitude towards the characters and the whole thing?** > > P.S. He doesn't know that but, of course, it was our jolly bunch of psychos that have blown the lab up.
cross-post: https://sh.itjust.works/post/973541 > My characters are organizing an extraction of local (country) MCT head of security. He is Japanese, raised by the corp from birth, but not completely beguiled as his son is an orc and he had to pull some levers to get him into school etc. > He's aware of extraction and agreed to it. > > But the twist is that he decided to get extracted because he's taking the fall for a secret lab getting blown up in the middle of MCT office campus. So in a way he was made responsible for actions of some shadowrunners and now he's hiring (technically it's his mother organizing this but that's a detail) another ones. I think that can evoke some ambivalent emotions. > They are going to meet in secret soon to get some of his blood, pass the details of the plan, etc. > **What are your thoughts on how to roleplay his attitude towards the characters and the whole thing?** > > P.S. He doesn't know that but, of course, it was our jolly bunch of psychos that have blown the lab up.
Today I seem to be unable to comment [in a local comunity](https://lemmy.world/c/world). The "Post" button keeps spinning. I tried reloading the page, reload the cache (ctrl+f5), waiting more. Yesterday posting was working for me.
cross-post from: https://lemmy.world/post/688003 If the old ones (in my case these came with the skates, made out of aluminium or some other metal) seem to be working fine, is there any gain in replacing these with some "higher quality" ones?
If the old ones (in my case these came with the skates, made out of aluminium or some other metal) seem to be working fine, is there any gain in replacing these with some "higher quality" ones?
Sometimes I see an interesting question but since I prefer to watch "New" these are usually without any responses. I would like to be able to "watch" the post and get notified about new comments on it. I know that there is the save button and when I list the saved posts it will show me if there are some new messages. But still a notification would be nicer. Any way to have that currently?
As in the title. I know that the word jailbreak comes from rooting Apple phones or something similar. But I am not sure what can be gained from jailbreaking a language model. It will be able to say "I can't do that Dave" instead of hallucinating? Or will only start spewing less sanitary responses?
Do donations paid in [open collective for mastodon.world](https://opencollective.com/mastodonworld) also pay for Lemmy.world? Or do you plan to set up a separate collective?