I think that’s where I stopped, I might play more but I doubt it. I got to the point everything felt so muddled, I’m never really sure what’s going on because it’s hard to follow stories when they’re out of order and chunks missing plus so many side things the add to the confusion - not to mention all the random things in my inventory or boxes that I might need at some point maybe…

Next time I open it I’d have to sort my inventory and everything which is probably an hours work before I even get to finding the next thing to do…

What’s good about it? I’ve seen people stream it and it looks really boring, just repetitive and dingy.

Yes perfect example, people use quantum as the buzzword in every film so people think of it as a silly thing but when CERN talk about quantum communication or using circuit quantum electrodynamics then it’d be silly to try and tell them they’re wrong.

It’s a computer science term that’s been used for this field of study for decades, it’s like saying calling a tomato a fruit is a marketing decision.

Yes it’s somewhat common outside computer science to expect an artificial intelligence to be sentient because that’s how movies use it. John McCarthy’s which coined the term in 1956 is available online if you want to read it

The rest of the money goes into fighting for software freedom, developing infrastructure tools and other things they’re very open about.

Personally I don’t donate because I prefer to help small open source efforts where a little money makes a big difference, especially protects which I believe could help emerging open source communities grow or inspire more cc content. I’m glad Mozilla exist and that they get so much money from Google and donations

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Mozilla do spend a lot of money on software development, 220 million last year, out of total expenses of 425 million which came from a taking of 593 million of which 81% comes from Google.

That’s why you need Nord VPN so you can play raid shadow legends safely…

The thing is they have so much less control if they do that, I’m fed up of places with adverts where comments are turned off or heavily moderate - if their post comes here they can’t do any of that, I say we let them come, we let them come and then we smash them

It doesn’t benefit them to send adds disguised because they are paid to provide ad impressions which they wouldn’t have data for. It’s just an annoying business model not a conspiracy to brainwash you.

They’re a really good open source contributor with a great track record, I know people don’t like saying good stuff about zuck related things but they’ve helped progress machine learning quite a bit. Pytourch is a great example iirc used in stable diffusion

I went back and read it three times because I thought I was going crazy, it does say that - in charity you can say that he’s not saying it’s a xenophobic action but an action taken by xenophobes people, trivial distinction though.

Also though I will go a step further and say it is xenophobic because xeno is like in xenomorph, the alien wasn’t from a different country the word means from a different origin so fits perfectly apt to describe the situation as it’s the origin of their accounts. Though of course it’s common usage does normally imply nationality.

Anyone wondering it’s a long winded article blaming meta for a genocide, personally I don’t really see how it fits the conversation beyond ‘zuck bad’ because it’s nothing that’s going to happen here

I think you’re selling freedom short, yeah convenience and momentum are hard to beat but Lemmy is where the open source Devs are and the first adopters, I think we’re gonna go see a lot of interesting things emerge here which will draw a lot of users into trying it out - especially if all the other social media sites are closing their doors to people without accounts from viewing information.

What Lemmy needs is it’s own version of place, not the same thing but things that are fun and novel and community building. The basic stuff is still getting finalized but as things get established we’ll see plenty of tools made to help moderation, to enable new features and useful ways of interacting with information. Hopefully some fun games and toys too.

I’ve got a lot of work to do on my main project at the moment but I’ve also got a lot of ideas for Lemmy stuff I want to play with when I’ve got the time, I’m sure theres a lot of other people cooking up ideas and watching things develop and stabilize waiting for the right time.

Frequency of nice things said about me per year, especially as a ratio of good to bad.

I’d be fascinated to know what the peek’s correspond to

No it never changes and the community never gets added to my list, it’s only when trying to sub to communities from other instances as far as I can tell

Well half the things I’ve tried to sub to say ‘pending’ then never get added to my feeds so that needs to be fixed. I don’t think it’s a jerboa issue because I’ve had it on desktop too.

I don’t really know what’s happening there, am I waiting for permission to subscribe? Waiting for it to sync between local and remote instances? For my local client to communicate with the instance I’m on or the the community is on?

Either way there should be an intermediary step where is stored locally soi I can find it again

Also it can be really hard finding small communities from a different instance, a lot don’t show up or aren’t fully synced so some of the posts don’t show.

Hopefully this is going to be fixed but I think it’s limiting the growth of more niche communities.

We need mixed mode integrated transport networks, trains and trams are great in many situations but they’re not ideal everywhere. Current car culture is pretty terrible but self driving electric cars have huge efficiency advantages over other means of transport especially when fleet managed.

I’ve spent a lot of my life trying to rely on buses and they have a lot of downsides, one thing interesting is the bus Island and bus desert effect - buses end up pointing to corporate shopping areas where retail rents go up because there’s more foot traffic, nice little independent shops get priced out and relocate to areas where no one can go because there’s no buses… of course you’ll say just have more buses but the logistics get really messy, you need everyone to be going to the same places or you’re running empty buses. Trains are even harder to determine routes for because you either need it to be able to handle 100% of use cases or to also have a road network.

We absolutely need more rapid mass transit like trains, self drive fleet managed electric cars could make that possible even in rural areas

There is so much naivet here it’s beautiful.

But what is purpose? Video games serve no purpose, flavoured drinks serve no purpose, pets serve no purpose… Unless entertainment and distraction is a purpose, in which case fidget spinners have a purpose too.