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by pwdisswordfishs 6mo ago
It's "implied" throughout the whole post (or more like assumed that the reader understands this, because it's the basic premise of the problem). It's why they link to a post that explains the basic concept after a
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by pwdisswordfishs 6mo ago
Git is a DVCS, created to help manage Linux, which uses a distributed cabal of individuals, each of varying "authority" who choose whether something gets in or not. The problem is that despite using the same DVCS for source code m
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by pwdisswordfishs 6mo ago
That's ice cover.
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by pwdisswordfishs 6mo ago
The DREAMM list of supported games is here: https://dreamm.aarongiles.com/docs/v40/#intro-games It doesn't list any Barbie titles. It's not the project that I'm thinking of.
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by pwdisswordfishs 6mo ago
I'm not looking for instructions about how to get Barbie Riding Club to work. I'm looking for that blog post, the list of titles, and the short subthread about it that I mentioned not being able to find.
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by pwdisswordfishs 7mo ago
I'm not looking for instructions about how to get Barbie Riding Club to work. Our conversation led to a vague memory of the blog post/release notes. I'm looking for that blog post, the list of titles, and the short subthrea
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by pwdisswordfishs 7mo ago
I was talking to a woman last night who still has the Barbie Riding Club CD-ROM that she played in 1999. She mentioned trying to get it to work a few years ago on her computer at the time but it not working. (This probably would have been
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by pwdisswordfishs 8mo ago
> IETF is a community that is "all about enterprise use cases" and "not capable of simple". "What is now offered is a blueprint for an authorization protocol", he noted, "that is the enterprise way&quot
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by pwdisswordfishs 8mo ago
What does that observation have to do with the topic under the microscope?
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by pwdisswordfishs 8mo ago
Hatching a reputation-based scheme around a "Contributor Management System" and getting "the people you want as contributors" to go along with it is easier than getting them to fill in a 1/username 2/password 3
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by pwdisswordfishs 8mo ago
> The real problem are reputation-farmers. They open hundreds of low-effort PRs on GitHub in the hope that some of them get merged. This will increase the reputation of their accounts, which they hope will help them stand out when applyi
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by pwdisswordfishs 8mo ago
What I'm hearing is, "Your Honor, I know that I shouldn't have blown through that stop sign, but hear me out: I wanted to. If I didn't, then I would have had to stop and wait for traffic to pass and respect other people
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by pwdisswordfishs 8mo ago
> message boards suffer from the SSO friction issue GitHub is an SSO provider and has been for a long time. This criticism is ignorant. Aside from that, there's nothing stopping anyone from using GitHub's dedicated message boa
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by pwdisswordfishs 8mo ago
It's the default on new accounts for stuff when people do things through the GitHub interface. If you set user.email using git-config on your machine to a real email address and decide to author and publish commits with it, then GitHub
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by pwdisswordfishs 8mo ago
On the Web, the github.com/*/*/issues namespace is home to the worst bugtracker behavior in the world. A bugtracker should should be restricted to bug reports and (well-informed) proposals and discussion about the bug/b
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by pwdisswordfishs 8mo ago
Every set of release notes that's intended to double as a press release needs to involve the judicious inclusion of a blurb that immediately explains what the hell the thing actually is. document.querySelector("#content .sec
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by pwdisswordfishs 9mo ago
This is how GTK came about. Literally "GIMP Toolkit". They took the widgets that the GIMP creators had created, and turned it into a general-purpose toolkit for other apps to use, due to issues with Qt. The comments about web st
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by pwdisswordfishs 9mo ago
> LLMs/coding agents on the other hand are anything but: they make errors in logic and errors in judgement, resulting in functional bugs and slop. > But they’re fast, and there are effectively infinitely many of them. That's
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by pwdisswordfishs 9mo ago
The future of cross-platform toolkits for graphical apps is Godot ("GDTK"?), instead of Electron?
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by pwdisswordfishs 9mo ago
"it was a dreadful, useless computer, even then" So you don't dispute the thesis that the hypothetical general-purpose machine described in the comment would have needed to have been been better than the PS2?
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by pwdisswordfishs 9mo ago
With all these editor improvements, we should now be waiting for someone to realize that a soft fork + a thoughtful plugin-based architecture using the original as a base means that lots of the effort that has gone into Godot's (snappy
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by pwdisswordfishs 9mo ago
Generative AI didn't need to come into existence in order for the proliferation of utterly mind-numbing devops slop that already dominated modern development to suck all the fun out of computers that were originally intended to solve p
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by pwdisswordfishs 9mo ago
> The PlayStation 2’s library is easily among the best of any console ever released, and even if you were to narrow down the list of games to the very best, you’d be left with dozens (more like hundreds) of incredible titles. But the PS
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by pwdisswordfishs 11mo ago
This is an insane comment right from the thesis.
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by pwdisswordfishs 11mo ago
That's not ironic. If they had trouble with Git on GitHub, and then left GitHub for Codeberg, where they also have to use Git, then that would be very strange. Instead, they had trouble with GitHub, so they left GitHub, which makes per
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by pwdisswordfishs 11mo ago
> ICE, Actions, and Microsoft, not a single complaint about git itself Codeberg is also a Git-based project host. It doesn't even support other repo types. Why would you be expecting the latter? If a project announcement or articl
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by pwdisswordfishs 11mo ago
JSON-LD, ActivityPub, and scholarly metadata are all examples of Semantic Web technology that have caught on.
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by pwdisswordfishs 11mo ago
Valve–Roku merger. Someone buys a Steam Machine that they keep in the living room for both general purpose computering and as an HTPC that never, ever runs a game purchased from the Steam store, but they still make money. Easy peasy.
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by pwdisswordfishs 11mo ago
The hardware does not compare favorably to a 2024 (current, in other words) Mac Mini. Consider what the Steam Machine requires sacrificing: - fewer USB-C connectors - larger physical footprint - can't buy and take it home today It&#x27
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by pwdisswordfishs 11mo ago
An idle site that receives no hits still costs around $1.50/month with NearlyFreeSpeech.net since the change that limits the number of "non-production" sites that was instituted from around the time when Cloudflare decided to

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