mghackerlady

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by mghackerlady 2mo ago
If you have the time, taking some time to learn the basics, even just for fun, adds a neat skill to your toolbox. You never know when you might have a use for it. Even if you don't, sometimes learning a new creative tool gets the idea
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by mghackerlady 2mo ago
Right, but those are for simple tasks. Much like vi or emacs, the keybindings are esoteric and historical but so much of what makes the tools great is reliant on on said historical and esoteric behaviour that changing any of it becomes an e
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by mghackerlady 2mo ago
I could see a collaborative open source web index run by the WMF, Internet Archive, EFF, GNU, DuckDuckGo, and Kagi being too big to simply ignore like a previous commenter suggested might happen to a new index. I could also see Qwant being
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by mghackerlady 2mo ago
The license is tied to the platform (for the most part, there have been ways to run Java edition on android forever), so if you bought the android version you only have whatever's available on android. I brought up the bedrock/jav
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by mghackerlady 2mo ago
At this point, I want to see the next indieweb thing be forgoing domains entirely, instead passing around IPv4 addresses and keeping your own indexes in a markdown file or something
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by mghackerlady 2mo ago
ownership requires a bit of toiling to be meaningful, though. If everyone can have something, then nobody has it because it stops being something to be had
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by mghackerlady 2mo ago
You aren't getting the point though. Despite the burdens being technical in nature, they aren't very complex. There's just enough friction to prevent every village idiot from publishing, but the friction is easy enough to ove
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by mghackerlady 2mo ago
because the ones who have interesting things to say and want to say it for themselves number many, despite being very small in the face of the unwashed masses
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by mghackerlady 2mo ago
I didn't think that, but despite being in jest my head immediately answered "simpson"
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by mghackerlady 2mo ago
Even then, couldn't you just use IR cameras with IR lights for illumination. I'm sure that comes with it's own set of issues, but strictly speaking is better for maximising surveillance while minimising human impact
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by mghackerlady 2mo ago
I feel like, despite not being my (and presumably most of HNs, given the general demographics) cup of tea, sports are largely that. The players are skilled but also uniquely themselves. The world cup wouldn't be nearly as interesting i
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by mghackerlady 2mo ago
I've always taken :/ to be a kind of hopeless dejection mixed with apathy. In this case, it seems to convey their disappointment in their skills as well as the futility of improving
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by mghackerlady 2mo ago
Anecdotal, but the best machine will never be able to do something as good as the best human in most circumstances. That is because, unlike machines, humans have passions and character that subtly imbues itself in the end result. This, of c
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by mghackerlady 2mo ago
I feel like there'll soon be a market for AI controlled enhancements like limbs. Neural interfaces seem to be a long shot, at least for now, so some kind of AI that senses the environment and intelligently react to it seems like the ne
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by mghackerlady 2mo ago
No, but people aren't that smart. They're angry and need a sacrifice
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by mghackerlady 2mo ago
The (official, though by now long dead) raspberry pi version has python scripting. TBH that's almost all it has going for it, besides being open source
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by mghackerlady 2mo ago
And the one that Mojang actually uses for development. IIRC any new features are done in Java and ported to bedrock (presumably by a seperate team)
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by mghackerlady 2mo ago
Also, minecraft wasn't nearly as big as it was today. It was noticeable, but it wasn't headed by microsoft. There's no way it would've gotten an exception
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by mghackerlady 2mo ago
That's nothing, I think it's even cooler to see what people can do with just command blocks (which are basically redstone activated console command scripts). Even cooler still is the people who forgo even that and do cool things i
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by mghackerlady 2mo ago
Dude, spoilers
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by mghackerlady 2mo ago
BAD ADVICE. LIKE, REALLY BAD ADVICE. Many a dumb kid has set up an ill protected minecraft server for fun and gotten ddossed by skids only a few hours later
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by mghackerlady 2mo ago
I love Luanti. Is it as good as minecraft? No, not really, but I appreciate it's existence, if not for a non-hacky BSD minecraft experience (You can run java edition on *BSD from what I've seen, but ymmv as I've personally
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by mghackerlady 2mo ago
In case you aren't aware, bedrock and java are both part of the same license and can both be played freely in the launcher. Also, while desktop GNU/Linux can't run bedrock, android can, and that has been exploited to allow fo
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by mghackerlady 2mo ago
As someone who's messed with redstone on both, Bedrock is uniquely infuriating because it adds some really cool things (being able to move entity blocks like chests and furnaces comes to mind) while completely destroying the groundwork
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by mghackerlady 2mo ago
I know this is probably not as easy as it is in my head, but doesn't xbox have a .net runtime? It would completely take away the portability aspect, but if the original 360 port was handled in house I could totally see them using that
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by mghackerlady 2mo ago
At least for libraries, Java was actually pretty good for game development at the time iirc (Admittedly, I wasn't there, so I could be misled). It was kinda your only option if you didn't want to use C++
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by mghackerlady 2mo ago
The developers are used to Java, and as someone who's worked with both Java and C++, Java is simply better for the kind of iterative development minecraft seems to do. From what I've seen (which admittedly isn't much more tha
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by mghackerlady 2mo ago
(eh, most people I know occasionally touch the snapshots for new features. Way back when the nether was updated, nobody I knew was on the release version because the nether was simply so much better that it was hard to play the older versio
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by mghackerlady 2mo ago
You've clearly never been saved by a random .patch from pastebin, have you
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by mghackerlady 2mo ago
That and Webkit on unix is almost entirely worked on by GNOME people

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