I do some game modding, and sometimes have to hack together software to help with it, some of which ends up public.

One of my programs relied on the location of other, existing files and so would poke around at runtime to see where the user had launched it from, alerting the user if it was in a location where it wasn’t supported. If that happened, an interactive message box pops up with the title “UNSUPPORTED LOCATION” and text that says, verbatim sans my [notes]:

"Running [this program] from [unsupported] folder is NOT SUPPORTED, and is likely to produce errors. Run [other program] instead.

If you want to run [this program] from here anyway, type “I understand”.

You can’t skip or just “OK” the message to dismiss it, otherwise the program just immediately begins a managed shutdown of itself to prevent any of the aforementioned potential errors from occurring. I STILL had a user message me saying how making them type in “I understand” was a weird thing to make them do in order to use the program. Thankfully I think they’ve been the only one so far so it’s certainly not the norm, but the average computer user is also much less tech-savvy than someone downloading mods for a video game.

They are different, but to clarify, Linus Sebastian worked at NCIX (defunct computer parts / tech retailer), not NZXT (computer hardware manufacturer).

“Gigi screams give me e████████████ life”

Haha, totally understandable then

Thank you for being considerate though.

No worries, thanks for bringing it up!

That doesn’t seem to be in the latest announcement, but seems to check out based on earlier statements

They say spaced repetition helps the brain remember things, so here you go:

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Another interesting tidbit:

I really appreciate the excitement for RDNA 4. We are focused on ensuring we deliver a great set of products with Radeon 9000 series. We are taking a little extra time to optimize the software stack for maximum performance and enable more FSR 4 titles.

Hmmmm I personally think the title is better with the strikethrough (ignoring formatting problems) than without it, as it makes it more descriptive without obfuscating information or misleading about the content. All of these three title alternatives are less descriptive imo:

• Gigi screams give me ear problems
• Gigi screams give me life
• Gigi screams give me ear problems / life

I guess we might just have different ideas of what counts as clickbait. The title isn’t deceptive or misleading about the contents of the video, doesn’t obfuscate important information for the sake of click-through (“one weird trick!” instead of saying the relevant keyword) etc. So to me there’s no “bait”.

It’s unfortunate that the strikethrough doesn’t render well on your phone though, it actually renders better on mine (it looks nearly “native”!) than on my PC lol. I’ve done a few character swaps in the past for the clip titles that use 𝓦𝓮𝓲𝓻𝓭 𝓬𝓱𝓪𝓻𝓪𝓬𝓽𝓮𝓻𝓼 instead of normal characters - I guess I can start doing the same strikethrough, which I did already consider doing before I pressed submit but figured people would say if it didn’t work well (which you did!).

The submission title – minus my descriptive suffix – is copied from the video and pretty accurately aligns with the video’s contents. The formatting of “hardcoded strikethrough” is less than stellar (and varies depending on what you’re viewing the text with, which isn’t great) but that still seems pretty minor. What title would you suggest?

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Web development / front-end development joke: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document_Object_Model

It’s a nightmare that when you die in hololive you die in real life, really makes a sapling need to take a nap

I started out with one of the shorter clips of what happened and just ended up strongly needing more information / context haha

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When you can’t tell if the author’s key got stuck down while typing or not 😅

You’ve gotten a few replies from people who are talking about e-ink, which I can’t comment on without having used an e-reader, but I nearly universally prefer to read things on a screen bigger than a phone. I guess it’ll depend a bit on your phone’s screen size (mine is on the small side for recent phone generations), but it always feels like the screen is closer to my face than I want, the font is too small to be comfortable, and/or I can’t fit enough on the screen. Plus the aspect ratio of modern phones is very tall, meaning each line of text is pretty short which is kind of annoying for long-form content like books. If you have a big 6.5" screen that’s similar to a small e-reader’s screen size anyway then I guess it might not be as much of an issue though!

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The feeling is that simply having it be public isn’t an automatic license to re-use or “re-appropriate” the content outside of what’s required for normal network functionality. From that perspective, federating a post to a normal Mastodon / fediverse server = OK, viewing that post in your browser = OK, but many other uses = not OK.

This subset of the userbase want the norm for “extracurricular uses” of people’s posts to be opt-in only, even for public posts. I kind of envy the idea in some ways (aggressive requirement of consent), though in the world we currently live in, it does seem unrealistic without a team of lawyers behind it.

There’s a pretty strong no-scraping (and scraping-adjacent) sentiment within Mastodon

Well, if you allow the logical sequence presented (whereby small and local authors are disproportionately supported by the bookstores in question), I think it’s enough of a loss to be worth collectively considering how to prevent it. This is kinda like the physical books equivalent of losing indie game devs publishing their stuff on Itch.

Maybe the person playing The Sims on their PC let their younger sibling play and now the simulation is getting fucked up sideways?

She federated now but she doesn’t seem any happier :'(

Still really confused why I’m somehow able to get these problematic-federation posts from you 🥴