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by jm4 4d ago
RTS is pretty much a dead genre these days. There have been indie releases but nothing did well enough for a big studio to take notice. They tested the water with a Command and Conquer remaster a few years ago too.
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by jm4 6d ago
Not to mention, they have 1 GB of headroom in their back pocket if/when they need to make Windows more efficient. Quick rewrite of that app or just scrap it and they've saved months of optimization.
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by jm4 16d ago
Not as far as I can tell. If I'm not mistaken, Goodreads is owned by Amazon now. The Kobo does have good Overdrive integration and that's a huge plus.
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by jm4 16d ago
Love Kobo. I switched from Kindle to the Libra Colour a while back. It's a superior device and I don't have to give money to Amazon. It's more responsive, it has physical buttons for turning pages and the screen looks great.
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by jm4 16d ago
I took it to mean backdoored similar to the NSA's tailored access operations or the Supermicro backdoor several years ago.
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by jm4 17d ago
The guy who invented Ruby on Rails. He’s been pretty important in web dev and he’s an excellent engineer, although he’s a polarizing figure. He’s always been opinionated and never afraid to ruffle some feathers. More recently, he’s been pos
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by jm4 17d ago
You still have to use rpmfusion, which isn’t a huge deal. It’s maybe 5 min one time and then you are set. Or you could use one of the Universal Blue spins. Bluefin and Aurora have non-free stuff built in and you can install pretty much any
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by jm4 20d ago
I just don't want to be logged in. I used to be an active user. It sucks up too much time and there's a lot of toxicity. I finally got off when they blocked third party apps. Their official app is horrible and the website has enou
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by jm4 21d ago
The Reddit thing is disappointing. I stopped being a user a long time ago, but their links often show up in search results. I started noticing I couldn't see the page without logging in. I ended up blocking Reddit in my search results.
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by jm4 26d ago
This might be useful to me. I have an app where I’m reusing an existing harness. It generally works well, but there are some rough edges where I have to work around the harness. I don’t want to code one from scratch. This may work as sort o
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by jm4 28d ago
You can use one key for multiple models, you can have many keys with a budget on each, you can manage all your keys in one piece of glass, you don't have to deal with the upstream vendors directly just to name a few. These are all thin
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by jm4 28d ago
They are the leading LLM API routing tool. Stripe is the leading payments API. They are betting on OpenRouter being as important to developers as payments. Both let them take a small percentage of a shitload of transactions. Being the goto
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by jm4 29d ago
That's unusually honest and the sharpest thing in this thread.
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by jm4 29d ago
A big part of it was like $5T in covid stimulus, most of which happened under Trump. Biden piled some more on, probably unnecessarily. It felt like we were balancing on a razor's edge and maybe starting to come out of it by the end of
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by jm4 29d ago
Could you imagine a CTO adopting this thing? They would have to be a complete moron. Yeah, let's standardize on this thing peddled by a lying crook that has fewer features than any of the alternatives. The only people who are going to
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by jm4 29d ago
There's other stuff out there. You don't have to use it except when you're working with someone who does and there are other systems with some compatibility for that exact scenario. Git became popular because Linus Torvalds
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by jm4 29d ago
I dunno. Those features are valuable to somebody. Probably enterprise and government, which is where the money is. They basically get a full stack - and if we're being honest, it's actually pretty damn good aside from the downtime
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by jm4 29d ago
In all fairness, the features expanded substantially after the acquisition so there's are a lot more components that can experience downtime. Pre-acquisition, github was a fairly simple code repository with issues bolted on. Actions,
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by jm4 29d ago
Git is objectively better than Subversion. The problem is we are conflating a widely used hosting service with the underlying SCM. We don't need github to use git successfully. Sure, it's nice, but you can install Forgejo or som
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by jm4 29d ago
It sucks to see Github's fall from grace, but I just can't bring myself to use a service like this under the custody of SpaceX. Agreed. It's like going from bad to worse. Not to mention, Origin doesn't even support act
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by jm4 1mo ago
I can’t sign up for that. I tried authorizing Codex a couple days ago. For some reason, their system says my phone number has been used for verification 3 times even though it definitely has not. I’ve had this phone number for over 20 years
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by jm4 1mo ago
I can assure you that they are not hosting for free because the cost is zero and goodwill pays the bills. Read the TOS and privacy policy. If they’re not monetizing the data in their custody then it’s just more overhead that has to be cover
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by jm4 1mo ago
Why not do it then? Seems you would have plenty of customers judging by this thread and the others today asking about alternatives.
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by jm4 1mo ago
Same. Currently, I'm spending $10/mo on a VPS from OVH to host Forgejo. I have hourly backups to an rsync.net account I was already paying for. It's not the most efficient way to do things, but Forgejo is actually pretty nice
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by jm4 1mo ago
Maybe. You would either have to buy and colocate physical servers and pack the hell of them or develop something on AWS or GCP that aggressively scales down to zero. Anyway, how are you going to pay engineer salaries and 24/7 support s
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by jm4 1mo ago
This, in a nutshell, is why Github is the way it is and there's a lack of good alternatives. I'm not knocking you in particular because we're all pretty much in the same boat here. "I am willing to pay ~$5-10/mo fo
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by jm4 1mo ago
Fossil looks really cool. I like how it's all in one and includes the web interface. The only thing is it doesn't seem like anyone actually uses it outside of sqlite. I don't necessarily need to use the most popular thing out
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by jm4 1mo ago
Everyone is well aware of how crappy the launch was. From the article: "Speaking of No Man’s Sky’s updates, there have been 286 of them since launch. Hello Games has released 54 major updates as well as 232 smaller patch/updates a
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by jm4 1mo ago
Probably network effects, integration, just about everyone knows how to use it, high switching cost, the fact that it’s mostly good enough, etc. Even if you switch away from GitHub, you’re probably going to use it for something else anyway.
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by jm4 1mo ago
I self host Forgejo on a cheap VPS with hourly borg backups to rsync.net. It's a great system and seems comparable to github, although I'm not a heavy user of actions on either platform. I do use the container registry though. It

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