Lemmy shows you a community’s posts in order — a big room really is a room with more people in it.

This is … wrong and misleading? The default sorting order for posts is “Active”. You can sort by “New” (as well as a whole bunch of other sorting methods) but it’s never been the only option. Maybe OP is on an instance who has set their default sorting order to “New”?

Furthermore, what is this “room” verbiage? Maybe it’s just an attempt at descriptive metaphor. To me, it comes off as mixing up Matrix rooms and Lemmy communities.

And then there’s the line

Which instance you’re on matters about as much as which community

Which (imo) misses how many instances, in practice, self-select who posts from them. I think there’s a degree to which these numbers reflect how much each instance’s userbase tends to get replies, but without more detail on what these uses are posting it’s a correlation at best and noise at worst.

Was not expecting Texas to be one of the two states.

I could have sworn that hexbear defederated from jlai.lu. there was a whole spat between our instances a while back.

Et merde

Federation is still a work in progress IIRC.

But everyone can already selfhost their own instance if all they want is a web-facing git forge.

I have no hope for my car’s Android Auto or LG’s stupid website — but I choose to believe that everyday software will get better as a result of this frustration. We’re already seeing [acts of rebellion] against the current state of macOS and Windows, and I hope the trend will spread across the stack.

I was hopeful, until I clicked on “acts of rebellion” to see that he’s talking about omarchy…

For the unaware: https://マリウス.com/a-word-on-omarchy/

Now, maybe omarchy has gotten much better in the 8 or so months since this critique was first posted?

Not who you asked, but here’s a link to one party’s view (that starts by linking to something posted by another party): https://andrewkelley.me/post/my-thoughts-bun-rust-rewrite.html

the “AI engineer base in Japan” thing is so fuckin’ weird. has there been an account repeatedly posting that?

“regex” is short for “Regular Expression”, a type of program for matching characters in text. I haven’t read the actual code that uses the userRegexes list, but I think you’re safe to assume that it means the tesseract client was filtering your comments and/or posts.

Haven’t you heard? “React” content is the new meta (/s only half way).

Oh wow, I think this is the first time I’ve seen analognowhere referenced outside of the the fediverse community where pmjv posts their artwork.

I’m halfway through the logs; I’m finding them much more compelling than the initial story - something to do with the tone(s).

Thank you for writing/making this!

Without ever having actually played it, it reminds me of Riven

Put a cracker on his head and called it macaroni 🎶

Also that repo is full of vibed slop that barely works, see: https://github.com/deletexiumu/wifi-densepose

Slay the Spire but with poker hands instead of medieval-fantasy-combat

“sorry to disappoint you, Timmy, but the tooth fairy only comes once she knows the parents are aware their child is about to get some money/a visit”

I’m very surprised there are parents telling their kids about the tooth fairy that can’t recover the story when confronted by their kid with such evidence.

I’m probably going to play dwarf fort on my desktop once the trial is over - I don’t have the disposable income to justify buying CrossOver.

There are a bunch of games on steam that natively work on my M1 mac, so you can try suggesting Slay the Spire to your friend for example. For multiplayer, satisfactory and 7 days to die both have native Mac versions available through steam.

I’ve started a two-week free trial of CrossOver, the paid macos wrapper for wine whose developers contribute to wine, in order to play dwarf fortress on my M1 MacBook. It works like a charm, and the setup to get the game running is just like how Lutris does their “pre-packaged” game installations.

Dwarf Fortress Classic (without the premium graphics) is a bit disappointing; the ASCII graphics don’t seem to be able to render crosshairs on the tile you point at with your mouse and so designating certain things like bridges and screw pumps is hard - if I hadn’t played a bunch of Premium on a linux box through steam I don’t think I would understand half of what’s going on. For the first time since purchasing Premium I’m missing the old, keyboard-centric user interface… Other than certain things not rendering, the updated UIs are surprisingly pleasant to navigate in ASCII mode.

Making crafts from mussel shells is still as overpowered as ever for bootstrapping a fort’s trade capacity!

Oh definitely. I think it’s anthropic who have stated in multiple interviews that they break even on most of their models, it’s just that they keep spending exponentially more to train the next model. They and openai seem to be stuck in an arms race where switching to purely serving existing models to their existing clients just won’t work. I do wonder how accurate that assessment is on their part.