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tabular, 7 months ago

I don’t suppose this VTuber is part of the cannibalizing shitshow “reactors” (defined here as reuploading the majority of people’s work as a substitute for watching the original)?

tabular, 7 months ago

Please let me keep these old chains for a bit longer!

We must continue to improve freedom-respecting operating systems so that more users will switch.

tabular, 7 months ago

I’d rather bath my nan than go through another Windows install.

tabular, 7 months ago

GNU+Linux *

tabular, 7 months ago

[agree to terms] - you can’t understand the plot of this novel

[telemetry] - my data is not for sale

[product key failed] - screw me for upgrading the computer - time to buy another 2nd hand CD key

[online account] - 🖕 🖕

tabular, 7 months ago

I recommend against dual booting because sometimes it may seem easier to switch back to Windows than try again to overcome an adjustment (or a painful problem that is harder to solve that a bug in Windows/Mac because of that lack of experience).

tabular, 7 months ago

My understanding is Win 11 makes it hard to skip using an online account now.

None of this is my issue anymore, no plans to use Windows.

tabular, 7 months ago

Why did you feel the need to post this?

tabular, 7 months ago

Is it possible to remain subscribed to Technology but not get posts about this person?

tabular, 7 months ago

Thanks, sounds useful here.

Sadly I am fussy when it comes to apps and Boost appears to be proprietary.

tabular, 7 months ago

Tell me AMD would be any different from Nvidia or Intel if the market share was reversed.

I ask this as one who only buys AMD GPUs because I reject proprietary GPU drivers (Linux).

tabular, 7 months ago

No C# export templates for HTML5 due to missing upstream support in .NET.

tabular, 7 months ago

Buy rug, put rug over cable on floor, disregard any discouragement of steps 1 or 2.

tabular, 7 months ago

The solution to single seat elections is… more seats 😛

tabular, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

DRM at best makes it take more effect to access - a hurdle to entry. In this day and age it has never been easier for regular people to copy, and trying to fight that is an uphill battle in a war they aught to stop anyway.

DRM is a black box of software, doing god-knows-what. That gives them unjust power over users’ computing. DRM manages “rights” by denying people’s software freedoms. DRM is digital restrictions management.

tabular, 8 months ago

That’s neat, not had that before. All that comes to mind is a LAN security camera system.

tabular, 8 months ago

My limited understanding is Cisco stuff is very blackbox/proprietary. I’d sooner spend time learning how to hack them out of spite ;)

tabular, 8 months ago

Damn. Does Cisco use their own silicon anymore or are many modern units able to run Tomato/Wrtt?

tabular, 8 months ago

As far as I know that is still “fast” here in the UK 😅

tabular, 8 months ago

That I can get behind. I’ve been meaning to get a Pi or equivilent.

tabular, 8 months ago

You wouldn’t download a Bently.

tabular, 8 months ago

It’s easier to take because it’s fundamentally different. If I take my neighbour’s crops they can’t eat or sell them but if I take their poem they still have it and can perform it. Laws to restrict unauthorised copying will be arbitrary instead of a simple concept like “don’t steal the thing”.

tabular, 8 months ago

“Control

Base class for all UI-related nodes. Control features a bounding rectangle that defines its extents, an anchor position relative to its parent control or the current viewport, and offsets relative to the anchor. The offsets update automatically when the node, any of its parents, or the screen size change.”

Could it have something to do with the screen changing size, or changing of it parent node (or grandparent node)?

tabular, 8 months ago

If you recreate the issue in a new project with only the needed nodes and it’s still happening then it’s more likely to be a bug than something you’ve done. After watching the video I’d suspect there is a bug because I don’t think it should change like that. If you can better understand when the bug happens then you may be able to find a bug report already exists.

tabular, 8 months ago

Been and gone for me.

tabular, 8 months ago

They removed books from your Kindle in the past. Who could have seen this comming?

tabular, 8 months ago

I want to see Godot running on original N64 hardware, unlicensed games ftw 😂

tabular, 8 months ago

What is the purpose of the loop?

tabular, 8 months ago

If speed is actually important then I would consider writing it in another language looking for someone else’s implementation (personally). I try to focus on readability and doing the simplest implementation. I’ve been trying to use better function/variable names to explain what is happening at a glance instead of reading the whole thing. Have you considered using map for array iteration? I am hoping even if people don’t know how this works the intended result is even more readable than an equivalent for loop:

<span style="color:#323232;">func _show_only_first_layer_dots():
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	var set_dots_visibility = func(layer): layer.get_node("Dots").visible = (layer == $Layers.get_child(0))
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	$Layers.get_children().map(set_dots_visibility)
</span>

tabular, 8 months ago

You looked at how it works and made comments about that (which I am thankful for and will enjoy replying to below). Can I first bring your attention to what is does instead of how it does it. Do you think that the names of the method function and helper function made it’s intended result clear? Could the use of map be so unexpected as to be a distraction?

I shouldn’t have included the node.visible = (expression) in the example, that was needlessly complex. It’s just what was in front of me (I do however find it appealing because it reduces the number of lines but that is another discussion).

While for loops are a popular method taught to every programmer early on then a for loop is easier to understand step by step. I do find occasions where a for loop just looks better but I keep finding that I better understand what my code is actually doing when I try to write a loop using functional programming methods.

tabular, 8 months ago

If you’re working on the function then yes; everyone learns for loops fairly early on.

If you just need to know what it is intended to do then I would argue you didn’t need to read anymore than the function name. If you do look further then I’d argue just the name of the helper function was easier to read than the whole for loop.

tabular, 8 months ago

Seeing another function divides the code into another subsection. In the example it’s the only one there but if more was added then you could choose where to focus your attention on the implementation.

tabular, 8 months ago

In practice it turns out the method to make just the first element visible was redundant anyway. It would be made visible during the setup function that all elements call.

tabular, 8 months ago

On the topic of Fennec F-Droid why does it still connect to various Mozilla and Google services that can track users? Is there an F-Droid browser which doesn’t?

tabular, 8 months ago

_ready() is called once a node (and it’s children) are loaded. I assume it is being added to the scene earlier than other nodes due to a delay? Perhaps it’s generally not safe to start things assuming others will start at the same time?

tabular, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

Does the uni not cater to older people who don’t have a phone? They probably have old systems in place for them if you insist to them you don’t have a phone.

tabular, 9 months ago

If they open source their engine then at least you wouldn’t need to trust them.

tabular, 9 months ago

Who really owns the computer you paid for :/

tabular, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

To give users access to an amalgamation of other’s works? Or to give MS access to the user’s works?

tabular, 9 months ago

Downvote = “it’s not illegal to copy portions of your code using complicated algebra so I will ignore your software license. Also, fuck you for objecting” ?

tabular, 9 months ago

If someone else controls it then you don’t own it - it only does what you want if the real owners says so.

tabular, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

I can’t make or fix a car but I choose the 3rd parties to fix my property how I want it, or if it gets fixed at all. Being able to crash my car or being able to “resell a license” (in the EU) is not enough.

tabular, 9 months ago

Nitter link 502 bad gateway.

I hope the user discovers twitter alternatives too.

tabular, 9 months ago

Didn’t know about those nitter mirrors, thanks.

tabular, 8 months ago

Got it working on Linux Mint. I had to also install libsdl2-image-2.0-0 (with the recommended libsdl1.2debian libsdl-image1.2 libsdl-ttf2.0-0 libgtk2.0-0 libopenal1 libsndfile1 libncursesw5)

tabular, 9 months ago

“We apologize for the confusion (…)”

We thought removing the git repository that tracked terms of service would make it clear.

tabular, 9 months ago

Requesting source of the emoji.