a1studmuffin

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[–] a1studmuffin@aussie.zone 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It truly made no sense to me when they started the process of migrating stuff from control panel to the "new" Metro-style Settings, then just kind of... gave up and left everything as a spread-out mess. I can't believe they've left it this long to address, it's an awful user experience.

[–] a1studmuffin@aussie.zone 9 points 2 months ago

I can't speak for Craigslist, but in my area Gumtree is big, and I know from first-hand experience that they "handle it" by waiting for the crime to occur and be reported to police, then they give police the list of all IP addresses that viewed a listing. Having stared down the pointy end of a knife right outside my own home, I feel there's an opportunity to build a better system that keeps people honest and discourages thieves.

[–] a1studmuffin@aussie.zone 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

One of the biggest challenges with online marketplaces is personal safety for physical meetups and scam prevention for online sales. It'll be interesting if there are any efforts to solve this, such as an escrow system or other process to keep buyers and sellers honest.

[–] a1studmuffin@aussie.zone 176 points 3 months ago (1 children)

robots.txt is the perfect summary of the web era. A plain text file that politely asked web crawlers not to do certain things. Such an innocent time.

[–] a1studmuffin@aussie.zone 33 points 3 months ago

"What would you like to play Ibrahim?"
"I don't know, nothing"

[–] a1studmuffin@aussie.zone 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Another vote for Mikrotik, but only if you're technical-minded and want to learn how routers work. One of the things I like the most about it is the ability to import/export the router config as plain text. That makes it very easy to do things like bulk-editing (I have a lot of IOT devices I need to configure), storing your config in version control for safe-keeping etc.

[–] a1studmuffin@aussie.zone 39 points 3 months ago

It really shouldn't be possible in a EULA/agreement of any kind to essentially say "you agree you can't sue us in future for anything ever".

[–] a1studmuffin@aussie.zone 11 points 3 months ago

Witcher 4: Uma, The Jester Years

[–] a1studmuffin@aussie.zone 2 points 3 months ago

But in many ways, it would probably be easier for them to remake in first person, considering they've got the engine and a wealth of Fallout 3D assets ready to go.

[–] a1studmuffin@aussie.zone 6 points 3 months ago

What I love most about 8-bit era games are how small they were storage-wise. Most of the ROMs are tens of kilobytes for the entire game. Developers were severely constrained by the hardware limits which led to some creative decisions, eg. the bushes and clouds in Super Mario Bros are the same sprite just drawn in different colors. All code was written in pure assembly for efficiency and size.

To put it into perspective, AAA games today are one million times bigger.

[–] a1studmuffin@aussie.zone 15 points 3 months ago

God, even if they didn't have QA test it, they should have had continuous integration running to test all new channel updates against all versions of their program, considering the update will affect all of them. What an epic process failure.

[–] a1studmuffin@aussie.zone 1 points 4 months ago

It's mentioned in the article.

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