The team that made Minecraft console edition is now making their own blocky builder
  • copygirl copygirl Now 100%

    Taming animals so you can ride them, or let them pull carriages? Building roads for vehicles? Train tracks with functional trains? Cool airships? All made obsolete with this one-kills-all glider feature! Don't let good game design get in the way of convenience! /s

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  • Creator Of PS1 Emulator DuckStation Threatens To "Shut The Whole Thing Down" Following License Change
  • copygirl copygirl Now 89%

    A lot of contributors of FOSS projects make small changes that aren't copyrightable.

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  • Are there any decent, smaller, #Queer-friendly #Mastodon instances that don't block #Threads?
  • copygirl copygirl Now 100%

    The real question is not what the algorithm pushes to you, but whether their moderation actually bans bigots and removes their posts. Any other instance would lose their "right" to federate with a queer-friendly instance if they didn't do that, so why would Threads get an exception?

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  • Are there any decent, smaller, #Queer-friendly #Mastodon instances that don't block #Threads?
  • copygirl copygirl Now 94%

    Isn't "queer friendly" and "federates with Threads" an oxymoron?

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  • Peter Molyneux thinks generative AI is the future of games, all but guaranteeing that it won't be
  • copygirl copygirl Now 50%

    ECS already makes it a hundred times easier for me to conceptualize game mechanics, modify and extend them. Giving AI the ability the ability to create data separate from systems that use them will make it much easier for it to build a game. I don't believe for a second it will be able to write functioning object-oriented game code for example. It will likely be best if it avoided coding via a text-based language altogether, and use visual scripting or another system based on chaining logic blocks together. But that still counts as the "system" part of ECS.

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  • Peter Molyneux thinks generative AI is the future of games, all but guaranteeing that it won't be
  • copygirl copygirl Now 92%

    There is a possibility something like this will be possible in the future, but it's not going to be an achievement of AI, it's largely going to be the achievement of regular developers creating a general-purpose game engine that can be used to put together a game block by block, which can be utilized by both human game designers and AI. (Likely to better effect by the former.) I can imagine Entity Component Systems will play a big part of that.

    One of the biggest blockers for AI making games is going to be testing it to select for better performance. With text it's relatively easy to see if some text an AI produced is plausible. Images are also plentiful, but that's a lot more subjective. With both of these it would also not take a massive amount of time to add a human element. It's quick to check if a paragraph or image looks like it is a good response to the input promt. A game, however? How long do you need to play it to see if it's fun? At best, perhaps, you can write an AI to control a bot character to see if it's technically playable.

    I don't want to even think about the electricity that wlll be wasted training such models.

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  • TIL Gravity is not about mass pulling other mass. It's mass bending ~~time~~ spacetime that makes other mass get closer
  • copygirl copygirl Now 100%

    Indeed, it's a neat way to visualize gravity, but that's it. It lacks any sort of explanation of why masses appear to be pulled towards one another. (I will point to the other person in this thread saying it "explains gravity with gravity".) This is why I think the metaphor you mentioned detracts from the original video.

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  • Threads deepens its ties to the open social web, aka the ‘fediverse’
  • copygirl copygirl Now 66%

    I don't think that's how it works and it would likely not be legal. By explicitly blocking Threads, you make a big statement about not wanting your instance's posts to show up there. Also from a technical standpoint, I don't think a "middle-man" instance will push posts from another instance to a third one. You'd have to explicitly scrape data that's not available via the API. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

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  • Is there a way to make TNT explode if the "tnt explodes" option has been turned off?
  • copygirl copygirl Now 91%

    Actually this is pretty easy. First of all you got to get a stack of exactly 1 TNT and place it down where you want it to explode. Be careful not to put anything else in the slot the TNT was in because that's now shadow-linked with the TNT you placed. You need to somehow get a redstone signal to activate in the same tick as you punch the TNT block. It'll take a bunch of tries. Be careful not to pick up the dropped TNT item, or it'll go into the shadowed slot. That part is pretty random. Next open up the chat and type "BOOOM!" or similar. It helps if you copied the text beforehand so you only have to paste it in. Log out of the server and never come back because you're a bad person.

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  • Selfhost your own gitea instance - selfhosted, lightweight github alternative
  • copygirl copygirl Now 75%

    Could you please provide some sources for that? I'd like to know more.

    First of all though, there is no such thing as a "hostile fork". Being able to fork a project, for any reason, is the entire point of open source. And to be fair, not wanting to continue working for a for-profit company for free is a very good reason.

    And yeah, when you suddenly turn a FOSS project that's been developed with the help of a bunch of contributors, into a for-profit company, without making a big fuss about it beforehand and allow the contributors and community to weigh in, then yeah, that's a hostile takeover of sorts, at least in my opinion. Developers gotta make money, but they could've done that by creating a new brand instead of taking over that of a previously completely FOSS project. Forgejo is preventing that exact thing from happening by joining Codeberg (a non-profit).

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  • Selfhost your own gitea instance - selfhosted, lightweight github alternative
  • copygirl copygirl Now 96%

    There's been a hostile takeover at Gitea and it's now run / owned by a for-profit company. The developers forked the project under the name Forgejo and are continuing the work under a non-profit. See also: Their introduction post and a page comparing the two projects. Feel free to look up more, since I haven't familiarized myself with the incident all that much myself. Either way though, maybe consider using Forgejo instead of Gitea.

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  • Should one remove all Reddit posts and comments?
  • copygirl copygirl Now 100%

    I did decide to delete all my comments and posts on Reddit. Sure, maybe I've posted some helpful comments, but why support Reddit with their continued existence? Remove content, and people might move to other sites to get their information.

    I also decided to keep my account. Turns out some content stayed around, because I could not see and therefore delete it in locked subreddits. So when they came back, the comments came back too, and I was able to delete them, still.

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  • Problem displaying 'ff' in RichTextBox?
  • copygirl copygirl Now 100%

    I'm unable to test this, but I was browsing around and found that in a FontVariation you add "Standard Ligatures" to "OpenType Features" and then disable it. Would that by chance help solve your issue? There's also a similar field in the font import options in "Metadata Overrides".

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  • my thoughts after using arch as my first distro
  • copygirl copygirl Now 100%

    I don't know how many years it's been, but I also have been driving Arch for a while. I might not recommend it to absolute beginners, because you do need some patience and experience (such as how to effectively google), but honestly besides some mostly self-inflicted issues, I felt like I had it all around easier than users of other distros (and Windows, of course).

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  • Ada's actions are contributing to a hostile environment
  • copygirl copygirl Now 100%

    My only experience with Mind Traveler was them engaging with almost every single comment in one thread, seemingly stirring up stuff. I'm not sure about others, but to me that's not how I want anyone to interact with a forum such as Lemmy. I don't want half of the comments in a thread to be from a single user trying to argue every single other person, being as noisy as they can be.

    Also, what is your stake in this? You aren't a particularly active user, at least from what I can see from my Lemmy instance. There might be reason to believe you're an alt account of Mind Traveler or a friend trying to push some narrative.

    Besides, if anyone is not happy with the actions of our Lemmy admins, which are unlikely to change, why not just move to another instance? That's the beauty of the fediverse, after all. Unless, of course, they aren't welcome on other instances either.

    Please, no more drama or attempting to discredit Blåhaj Lemmy admins.

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  • Blahaj Lemmy state of the shark - Our goals, politics and recent events
  • copygirl copygirl Now 100%

    Regarding what I called a "witch hunt", it seemed like some users quickly jumped on board accusing the previous owner of the libertyhub community of intentionally misgendering a user, when it appeared to be a singular slip up ("you" instead of "You"), that he quickly apologized for and fixed. Maybe there were valid concerns regarding the moderation of that community and it was indeed the right choice for the owner to step down – I am totally missing the context for this – but I felt like there was a large focus on the wrong issue that might've driven him away from Lemmy.

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  • Blahaj Lemmy state of the shark - Our goals, politics and recent events
  • copygirl copygirl Now 100%

    As a spectator with no stake in what happened, except of course wanting people to feel comfortable, I feel like two things were still left unaddressed:

    • It looked like the owner of the affected community was driven out by something that almost resembled a witch hunt, with accusations that appeared to be unfounded or even maliciously pushed by people opposing the views or moderation style of the community.

    • There was a particular user who stood out to me because they tried to respond to as many posts as possible, seemingly fueling the drama, or at least actively pushing their opinion on everyone. I feel like this is not the appropriate way to interact in such a forum, nor healthy for that individual.

    What did the admins do or are planning to do in regards to these concerns?

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  • How transwomen/transmen dream
  • copygirl copygirl Now 55%

    When you say "trans woman" you affirm that they are women, and trans is just an adjective. When you say "transwoman" it can imply that they are something different altogether, and TERFs have certainly used it as such. Like, I dunno, a carpark isn't a park? That's the first example that came to mind, anyway.

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  • I don't see a way to block individual users' posts from showing up in my feeds. There is no "Block" button on any user's page like there is for communities. For some reason I thought there was a way to do this before, but maybe I was just using another frontend? I see some users are blocked when checking my settings. I made sure to disable uBlock Origin to check if it could be an element hiding rule. For the record these aren't rule breaking users or anything, but instead bots that automatically post things, some of them pulling links straight from reddit. I prefer my Lemmy being populated by humans. Thank you!

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zThmb9AAW2Y

    Create Aeronautics, along with other mods from the "Create Simulated" family, are addons for Create that push the mod into the realm of physics. This video talks about the state of the mods, what to expect, and some teaser clips and pictures. There was also a [blog post](https://createsimulated.com/blog1) by the creators themselves that contains some of the same information and teasers, if you prefer that format.

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    The Create machines are sneakily powered by a waterwheel, whose water source is dispensed / picked up with a button press, along with the one for bulk washing. And ooooh boy it was fun to figure out how to make it fit and look decent. ::: spoiler Mods used: - Create - Farmer's Delight - Cooking for Blockheads - Botany Pots (for growing crops) - Croptopia (cooking utensils on oven) - Decorative Blocks (supports) - Another Furniture (shelves) - Supplementaries (cog blocks) - Quark (spruce chests) :::

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    Source: https://twitter.com/RiniDisc/status/1582578949120741376 > [Oh look #digimon is trending, have a gatomon](https://twitter.com/RiniDisc/status/1582578670392463363) > And so is #furries, so have the coolest Linux fox too~ This was from before [RiniDisc joined Mastodon](https://meow.social/@rinidisc).

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    Source: https://twitter.com/realty_trends/status/1543109895641124864

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    Transcription of the [Twitter thread](https://twitter.com/cathodegaytube/status/1269405917700710400) (including screenshots): > with the permission of alan mackey himself, i'd like to present to y'all the linux fox herself: Xenia! > > (info thread to follow, happy #PrideMonth!!) > > i actually had this done a while back, but i figured that i should finally let this out of the bag, haha. > > a couple weeks back, alan emailed me about my initial drawing and divulged some information about it! like that the orginal image was drawn w/ a *mouse* on an amiga, and that his brother Ed, who was more involved with Linux at the time, was the one tht prompted him to enter the contest. > > lastly, he also told me this! > > > The fox was intended to be male, although certainly drawn fairly androgynously.. But to me your interpretation of her as female actually makes a lot of sense especially in the context of time. It matches the transitions of a lot of the smartest, nerdiest Linux users I know. > > so i'm like "yooo holy shit does that mean that i made her trans then?? this kicks ass", then suggested her name be "Xenia", a name picked by my girlfriend (who had shown me her design in the first place) > > he approved. i made the linux fox trans without even realizing! > > > And sure, you made her trans! Yes, feel free to run down these emails too. Xenia seems like a very appropriate name. I just read Stephen Fry's Mythos, and he had a lot to say about the ancient Greek concept of Xenia. What a weird coincidence. > > now, i'm transfem but not a programmer. i like tech and computers but i'm 2 dumb lmao. however, i know a lot of trans girls (incl. my gf) *are*, so i'd say this is pretty neat lolol > > that's kind of all i had to say lol, happy pride from me n Xenia! > > - F. Sinclaire

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