thal3s

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by thal3s 5mo ago
I've been learning more about game development by recreating Slay the Spire in Godot.
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by thal3s 7mo ago
Reddit is deteriorating by the day. The Fediverse (specifically Lemmy and PieFed) have much higher signal to noise ratios and are frequented by the same folks you see here in a lot of cases. Additionally, their APIs are open and free.
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by thal3s 1y ago
I can never say enough good things about the Godot engine.
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by thal3s 2y ago
Contrast this with another story on the first page this morning: "Google are deliberately breaking YouTube when it detects you're running Firefox" ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42388983 ). Open-source
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by thal3s 2y ago
It's the Fediverse version of YouTube using the ActivityPub protocol just like Mastodon and Lemmy.
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by thal3s 3y ago
It's funny how they always leave out all the negatives in articles like these. Increased traffic? Time away from family? Higher gas and food bills? Quality of life? Never covered. Just reams of text about poor landlords.
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by thal3s 3y ago
If we go to yet another corporate/tech bros entity, we're stupid. Let's build our communities right this time and select something open-source, and federated so we don't end up in the same place in another 10 years.
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by thal3s 3y ago
Kbin is very close to the Reddit UI and Lemmy is nice as well. I've used both since last week and user engagement on both is through the roof. I'd encourage anyone to at least check them out.
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by thal3s 3y ago
> I have a more vibrant and more interesting mastodon feed than I ever had on twitter. Exactly! I can comment on a post and have real engagement with someone which hasn't happened in years on Twitter.
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by thal3s 3y ago
He's probably talking about Matt Wolfe's newsletter and AI tools site: https://www.futuretools.io/
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by thal3s 4y ago
And what does that have to do with the new changes he pushed to have his tweets be in every single users' timelines?
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by thal3s 4y ago
We've already got a replacement that's owned and administered by users, with no ads, that can't be bought and ruined by billionaires: Mastodon. The ex-twitter employees are already running their own server: macaw.social
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by thal3s 4y ago
This is mostly an opinion piece that's critiquing issues we've only begun to solve. Also, Elon has now shown us all the absolute danger of centralized platforms. Email and web servers are a federated system and function just fine,
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by thal3s 4y ago
> But China can continue to improve the quality of life for Chinese people if they don't do anything really stupid and end up isolated like Russia. This is extremely unlikely. Half (HALF!) of China's 1.2B people will be dead by
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by thal3s 4y ago
I'd love to see the engagement metrics over time. How many minutes are people really spending per-session on Facebook now compared to years ago? It has to be trending downward...
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by thal3s 4y ago
By-and-large, no group of people in America treat women worse than anti-abortion crowd.
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by thal3s 4y ago
We're not slaves anymore. You as a human being are allowed to express your thoughts and opinions. Would we know how awful it was at Activision/Blizzard if those employees had not said something? Elon and C-Suite execs own and cont
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by thal3s 4y ago
Dark Reader and other extensions aren't necessary. Chrome has built-in functionality (since v78) to turn every website dark and works flawlessly on 99% of sites. [Chrome Experiments Dark Mode]( https://www.howtogeek.com/
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by thal3s 5y ago
I replaced jQuery with vanilla JavaScript a couple of years ago and never looked back. Between the abundance of features in ES6 now and the death of IE, I wouldn't recommend any junior developers utilize libraries like these.