ICastFist

ICastFist , 3 hours ago

Use that fame to lead people to zuckerfucker, satya nadela or sundar pichai's homes. They could use some visits from "satisfied customers"

ICastFist , 1 hour ago

Robots can't take our jobs if we're all unemployed! taps head

ICastFist , 3 hours ago

To all the people pointing the many inconsistencies of Linux/specific distros, I recommend The Unix Haters' Handbook

ICastFist , 3 hours ago

I feel like what I used to be back in 2006-2010, mr. family pirate, although most of my family is glad to pay for one or two services, mostly Amazon prime, which is one of the cheapest. I let my Netflix account cancel from lack of pay some 6 months ago, nobody called me yet.

Earning money in BRL and lots of stuff having a base price in dollars doesn't help us much either.

ICastFist , 5 days ago

By the time the archwizard has finished the incantation, the rest of the party has finished the dungeon

ICastFist , 5 days ago

That's it, I'm deleting my account on ArcaneOverflow, everyone acts all high and mighty and is always saying "search the Wizardly World Weave properly, foolish simpleton". I'm going back to my pa's farm!

ICastFist OP , 3 days ago

Well, shit. The fuck am I supposed to do?

ICastFist , 7 days ago

LazPaint is also a decent alternative, very lightweight, though it does take a while to get used to it, several shortcuts are unlike other programs

ICastFist , 6 days ago

I don't accept Justine's political bias, nor associate myself with the human or its corporate/flesh associates, or any of its beliefs, views, comments & opinions. I simply use a language that uses a brilliant piece of technological artistry developed by an amazing soul.

That seems unnecessary to add in the Readme, I always thought people used other projects because they liked the project, not the person behind it.

Other than that, the thing that'd interest me the most, graphical programs, graphical user interfaces, is mentioned only once and talking about REBOL. I'd like to see an example of code in this Meta for a simple window with 2 or 3 different input fields for a user.

ICastFist , 7 days ago

Sticky notes, but they accept markdown and mermaid syntax

Option 2: a Windows XP Paint clone. Seriously, all the paint clones you can get on Linux, like gnome paint, just don't work properly

ICastFist , 6 days ago

No selection, copy or paste working yet, but looking good thus far

ICastFist , 9 days ago

When you least expect it, a horse-riding centaur...

https://programming.dev/pictrs/image/814b96b7-5063-4c60-adfd-61e7b2eb0451.jpeg

salsa - https://www.deviantart.com/himerosy/art/DnD-Centaur-Mechanics-BaalBuddy-Colorized-911737977

ICastFist , 11 days ago

No, because I'm a fucking luddite or something.

Thing is, it's pointless to me. I don't need nor want all my devices to have the same configurations, bookmarks and history.

ICastFist , 10 days ago

Why would I want to do that?

ICastFist , 10 days ago

No, I just literally have no usecase for sync

ICastFist , 10 days ago

you type in your password and 2fa code.

I don't. I prefer writing down my passwords on a little notebook. It's ironic as hell that a "coded" paper note at my own home is more secure than anything on my computer

all your favorite extensions are already inatalled and synced (including custom filters in uBO)

I'm vanilla as hell, I just use default uBO and sometimes NoScript. To me, sync offers nothing of value.

ICastFist , 12 days ago

Another way to put the message of that blog: think of it like making minigames for WarioWare. You have to think small and you're free to be silly and experiment. Metaphorically speaking, a minigame is a very nice looking and tasting candy and usually goes better when you eat one, not a dozen.

I think one artistic area that understands this very well is drawing. You don't start by drawing full scenes with lots of different shading and colors. You start with sketches and simple geometric forms. Then, you learn shading, which can turn a triangle into a cone or pyramid. When you get to drawing characters and people, you'll usually spend a good deal of time on eyes alone, then facial expressions, possibly without the whole head.

ICastFist , 10 days ago

Well, his report on Raylib definitely put a big damper on my want to learn it.

ICastFist , 1 month ago

My guess is that the headline would be something like "WOKE NETIZENS TRAIN HACKERS TO TAKE OVER THE INTERNET BY SPREADING WOKENESS"

ICastFist , 1 month ago

It amazes me that the majority of sites taken down are just to watch live sports, mainly (actual) football. There's a lot of money to gain from pirating that stuff, huh.

ICastFist , 1 month ago

Why does it feel that Linux infighting is the main reason why it never takes off? It's always "distro X sucks", "installing from Y is stupid", "any system running Z should burn"

ICastFist , 1 month ago

just not so much on the Desktop

Unix already had a significant presence in server computers during the late 80s, migrating to Linux wasn't a big jump. Besides, the price of zero is a lot more attractive when the alternative option costs several thousand dollars

ICastFist , 1 month ago

I mean, Wayland is still a hot topic, as are snaps and flatpaks. Years ago it was how the GTK2 to GTK3 upgrade messed up Gnome (not unlike the python 2 to 3 upgrade), some hardcore people still want to fight against systemd. Maybe it's just "the loud detractors", dunno

ICastFist , 1 month ago

Next thing you know, they'll move to a proprietary format that only opens in their exclusive apps.

ICastFist , 1 month ago

They take ages to localize Mangas

"bUt ThEre iSn't eNoUGh IntEreSt"

ICastFist , 1 month ago

+1 for Morrowind. Be sure to play via OpenMW. It fixes a LOT of stuff and gives many quality of life improvements

ICastFist , 1 month ago

Others have mentioned Elder Scrolls, but nobody recommended Daggerfall yet, so it's one of my picks. Yes, the 1996 game, which you can play on Unity for a much, much better experience overall. Since the game is free, you don't need to pay a thing. Combat won't feel good, tho.

If you enjoy space games, X3 Albion Prelude might be a good option. It's "open world" in that you can go anywhere right from the start, but the main gist of the game is to get rich so you can get the capital ships. Ship to ship combat is fine, each ship class has strengths and weaknesses. It has a learning curve and can feel needlessly convoluted at times

Kingdoms of Amalur isn't really open world, but its combat is awesome. Get the original, non-remastered version, and it should run on your stronger PC, hopefully.

ICastFist , 1 month ago

I put the link on the Daggerfall word, it's this one - https://www.dfworkshop.net/

ICastFist , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Considering the majority of malware we have to deal with nowadays, your best defenses are:

• A firewall that blocks everything by default. I use SimpleFirewall and give trust on a per executable basis.
• uBlockOrigin, because dear lord navigating some sites is almost impossible without blocking all that shit
• Avoid anything that asks for admin access
• Keep an eye on resource usage and be on the lookout for any weird looking processes.

There was one time I downloaded a piece of shit that started to encrypt my drive. Since the CPU fan started spinning loud, I immediately checked task manager, figured what was going on and ended the malicious root process. Next, it was time to scour my folders, especially inside %appdata%, for any possible leftover executables. All clean, restart PC, everything was fine. I lost a couple of files, but nothing personal, just other downloads.

ICastFist , 1 month ago

Ops, my bad, fixed

ICastFist , 1 month ago

Until they unite forces and attack the aussies. Cue another animals vs. Australians war

ICastFist , 1 month ago

20 years into the future, once WASM has been widely adopted, a browser within a browser will have been created, with its own equivalent javascript, which will then lead developers to create a WASM equivalent for a web browser running in a WASM browser, running on a bloated OS.

ICastFist , 1 month ago

I love theory, it can completely sidestep reality and sell a solution nonetheless. It works in theory!

ICastFist , 1 month ago

Don't forget the pitch is "free to taxpayers", so you gotta tax kindly ask for money from people who aren't paying taxes and most likely will never use said bridge.

"Help us fund the next bridge disaster!" Is certain to attract money

ICastFist , 1 month ago

Where's the train? Why is there no train in the solution?

ICastFist , 1 month ago

Maybe not directly related, but you can use Tiled to create your own maps. It doesn't export the finished map as an image, but you can probably use the PrintScreen key to work around that

ICastFist , 1 month ago

but in the past you needed to log in to your phone at least once a month for the web session to keep working. Is it that still the case?

Yes, unfortunately. From my limited experience trying to get it off a smartphone, leaving the number on a dumb phone and trying to activate on a sim-less smartphone, it simply won't work if doesn't detect a mobile number in its host Android

It doesn't use servers to keep messages, so when you first access from outside the "original device", it downloads the last few received messages of every conversation still in your phone, but rarely everything.

ICastFist , 1 month ago

In Brazil, the govt owned lottery site, created around 2015, only accepts passwords with 6 numeric digits. Your password has to be a number between 000000 and 999999. Only somewhat recently (6 months ago or so) they've added a 2FA through an email link.

Oh, said lottery is run by the biggest govt owned bank. Chances of people reusing their bank password there are very fucking high.

ICastFist , 2 months ago

Well, Excel is already an e-sport, so Microsoft is halfway there

ICastFist , 2 months ago

Crypto would be great if the idea wasn't "zero-trust money exchange". That is the root of the problems with high payment fees, super slow transaction throughput and excessive resource (storage space, energy) consumption

ICastFist , 2 months ago

I wonder how often Visa and Mastercard had to deal with those problems up to the early 2000s, with nearly every porn site being paid access and none of them accepting Paypal, as far as I remember.

ICastFist , 2 months ago

Which crypto is the easiest to actually use (send/receive), can handle 1k transactions per second (a bit under 5% of VISA's TPS) and is least likely to suffer wild price fluctuation? Honest question

ICastFist , 2 months ago

I miss the times when this kind of bullshit only existed as parody

https://programming.dev/pictrs/image/136b70f4-63ca-4f6f-92a8-411c25920fb4.webm

ICastFist , 2 months ago

Piper Net sitting on a couch surrounded by BBC (Big Bastard Companies)

ICastFist , 2 months ago

The real irony is that you can make games entirely with Javascript (no backend server needed) and I wouldn't be surprised if some of those games, even with 3D rendering via three.js or babylonjs, performed better than certain websites

ICastFist , 2 months ago

That's even more work than skipping the "weekdays" array wherever the sorting happens