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- Comment on nobody in webdev knows what graceful degradation is anymore 4 hours ago:
Not even possible to reply to this post using the Lemmy Web UI without having Javascript enabled; the reply button doesn’t function without Javascript.
- Comment on Native Arch Linux Games - Share Your Favorites 1 day ago:
Markdown treats a single newline as a space, so that already wrapped text doesn’t need to be rewrapped. If you want to have each item on one line, some options:
two spaces before newline
Foo << two spaces here Bar
Yields
Foo
Barbackslash before newline
Foo\ Bar
Yields
Foo
BarParagraph Break
Most clients will have a “larger” vertical space if you do this:
Foo Bar
Yields
Foo
Bar
Bulleted List
* Foo * Bar
Yields
- Foo
- Bar
- Comment on UK should act to stop children getting hooked on social media ‘dopamine loops’ 2 days ago:
Kidron spoke to the Guardian before Friday’s deadline for online platforms – including Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X and Google – to introduce child safety measures, and for pornography sites to bring in stringent age checking.
Responding to Kidron’s comments, a Department for Science, Innovation and Technology spokesperson said the new laws were a “foundation for a safer online world” but “we will not hesitate to go further if needed”.
Kyle said the child safety measures represented a “line in the sand” that would “reclaim the digital space for young people”.
Age-checking measures could also be required for social media sites that allow harmful content, such as X, the platform where young people were most likely to have seen pornography, according to research published by the children’s commissioner for England, Dame Rachel de Souza.
thesun.co.uk/…/the-sun-page-3-channel-4-documenta…
The Sun’s iconic Page 3 will be celebrated in a new Channel 4 documentary to mark its 50th anniversary
THE Sun’s Page 3 girls graced Britain’s biggest and best newspaper for decades.
thesun.co.uk/…/celebrating-the-suns-fifty-greates…
Owner Rupert Murdoch’s mission was simple: to challenge our more staid, ‘Establishment’ rivals with a more brash, populist approach – and attract young readers.
Huh.
- Comment on I just went onto reddit to a intrest subreddit which happens to be NSFW and i got this, fuck reddit im glad i quit it. 2 days ago:
It’s going to be interesting to see if, after Britons become accustomed to letting websites take pictures of their identity documents, whether there will be interesting fraud attempts made on the British public from other websites who claim that they are conforming to British law.
- Comment on I just went onto reddit to a intrest subreddit which happens to be NSFW and i got this, fuck reddit im glad i quit it. 2 days ago:
It’s over the threshold for a few. Some examples:
!BayArea@lemmy.world for the San Francisco Bay Area.
!LosAngeles@lemmy.world
!london@feddit.uk
!NYC@lemmy.world
- Comment on I just went onto reddit to a intrest subreddit which happens to be NSFW and i got this, fuck reddit im glad i quit it. 4 days ago:
I’d assume that this is something that can be most-easily bypassed at the browser level if a site can request access to a camera.
I dunno about Windows, but at an OS level, Linux can do virtual video-4-linux devices, which is probably how the OS exposes a camera to a browser on Linux.
github.com/v4l2loopback/v4l2loopback
This module allows you to create “virtual video devices”. Normal (v4l2) applications will read these devices as if they were ordinary video devices, but the video will not be read from e.g. a capture card but instead it is generated by another application.
- Comment on I just went onto reddit to a intrest subreddit which happens to be NSFW and i got this, fuck reddit im glad i quit it. 4 days ago:
Usenet is still a thing, but it’s all us binary kids now. Maybe we could go back to how it was in the '90s and actually chat on the platform.
People stopped using Usenet for discussion in large part because of overwhelming spam problems and a lack of infrastructure to mitigate it.
You could maybe build some sort of system to mitigate that.
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Maybe automated text classification is good enough to do on a distributed level, on client machines, now. Problem is that automated text generation to try to defeat it has also probably improved, and I’d tend to bet on the spammers having the advantage.
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Maybe an out-of-band mechanism to generate information about posts would work. Have Usenet clients support pulling a database of scores for current posts in a group. Like, have some server(s) that generates various types of scores (advertising, flameware, etc) text scores for posts. Can incorporate various human moderation in that scoring, maybe let an end user subscribe to one or more “moderators”, which I understand BlueSky does something like.
Honestly, though, the Threadiverse mostly does what I want as a distributed discussion forum. I’m not sure what large benefits Usenet brings to the table relative to it.
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- Comment on I just went onto reddit to a intrest subreddit which happens to be NSFW and i got this, fuck reddit im glad i quit it. 4 days ago:
I’d add that if you pick Ireland as the exit country, it will have notable benefits:
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Sites that pick language based on IP will probably do English.
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It probably won’t add much latency.
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Ireland isn’t too bonkers and hopefully won’t have any online laws of their own that become an irritant.
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Because Ireland has a considerably smaller population than the UK, if people in the UK do this at scale for pornography, it will make the Irish statistically look like absolutely indefatigable horndogs, which I think will be pretty funny on visualizations.
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- Comment on I just went onto reddit to a intrest subreddit which happens to be NSFW and i got this, fuck reddit im glad i quit it. 4 days ago:
That is, I believe, a British law that they’re following for users that appear to be in the UK. Not like they’re going to just disregard the law.
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Yeah, the Online Safety Act 2023.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Safety_Act_2023
Probably should be mostly irritated with Parliament.
I expect that using a VPN that terminates in another country will avoid it, though I bet that then you can’t do things like buy Reddit Gold, if that’s still a thing.
- Comment on When someone asks for help/asks what something is on Reddit and the top comments are just stupid jokes that don't answer OP's question 1 week ago:
- Comment on I'm sorry... the last place I want a surprise is while using the toilet... 1 week ago:
www.homedepot.com/p/…/331933087
I’m pretty sure that Google Translate is better at getting a reasonable tone out Chinese->English translation than whatever they used.
- Comment on Southern Water nearly doubles CEO pay to £1.4m despite bonus ban 1 week ago:
Gary Carter, a national officer at the GMB union, which represents thousands of water industry workers, said: “For Southern Water’s boss to trouser more than a million pounds after just announcing a hosepipe ban and losing millions of litres in leaks every single day is abhorrent.
Sounds like some enterprising person needs to drill a well in London and benefit from all that freshwater replenishing London’s water table.
kagis
Apparently Coca-Cola is on the job.
theguardian.com/…/foreign-firms-taking-billions-o…
Coca-Cola extracts the largest amount of freshwater of any drinks company in England, the data obtained through freedom of information legislation shows. It has a licence to extract 1.59bn litres of water a year from boreholes in Sidcup, Kent for its soft drinks. On top of that, it has the right to take 377m litres for its bottled water brands Glaceau Smartwater and Abbey Well from Morpeth in Northumberland.
- Comment on Workers at Hinkley Point C nuclear plant stage wildcat strike over alleged bullying 1 week ago:
Workers have also reportedly complained that the construction site is overrun by rats. The Unite and GMB trade unions are understood to have warned EDF that urgent action is needed because the rodents are “everywhere”.
…org.uk/…/2020-02-25-the-brown-rat
Despite the scientific name brown rats originate from central Asia and northern China. They are possibly the most successful mammal on earth along with humans and can now be found on all continents except Antarctica. After reaching the UK sometime during the 18th century as stowaways on trading ships from Europe and Russia, it is now the UKs dominant rat.
Brown rats are incredibly adaptable animals and can take advantage of new situations. This has allowed them to be very successful in urban environments where there are opportunities for safe nesting habitat as well as numerous food sources from human created waste. In the UK there are very few predators that can take brown rats. Cats, foxes and owls may take young individuals, but fully-grown adults are unlikely to be predated. The greatest threat to an adult brown rat in the UK is road traffic and human rodent control.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratter_(dog)
The Guinness Book of World Records lists as the “fastest canine rat catcher” a bull-and-terrier dog named Billy, who killed 100 rats in 5 minutes 30 seconds (average of one rat every 3.3 seconds) at an event in 1825.[9] Guinness also credits Billy with having killed 4000 rats within a 17-hour period (average of one rat every 15.3 seconds) on an unspecified occasion;[9] other sources, including the 1993 edition of Atlas of Dog Breeds of the World, credit him with killing 2501 rats within a 7-hour period (average of one rat every 10 seconds).[10][11][12][13]
Unleash a couple of terriers on site?
- Comment on Bring them back!!! 1 week ago:
jurassicpark.fandom.com/wiki/Dennis_Nedry
Dennis Theodore[1] Nedry was the main antagonist during the first half of the original Jurassic Park film. He was a computer programmer at Jurassic Park. Due to his financial problems and low salary, he accepted a bribe from Biosyn to smuggle dinosaur embryos off the island.
In both the film and the novel, he is slain by a Dilophosaurus. He was directly responsible for the events that happened in both the novel and film. A combination of factors led to his demise: despite working in a career around dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures, he had a limited knowledge of them, and greed, which was intertwined by desperation to pay off his debt collectors and make himself rich after that.
- Comment on 'Autofocus' specs promise sharp vision, near or far - BBC News 2 weeks ago:
Consumer acceptability is key, acknowledges Mr Eiden. Most people don’t want to look like cyborgs: “We need to make our products actually look like existing eyewear.”
looks dubious
I can believe that most people want something that they consider stylish. However, I’m skeptical that most people specifically want something to look like existing stuff. Clothing has shifted a lot over the years and centuries; it’s not as if every person putting something on their body said “it has to look like the stuff that’s come before”, or present-day vision equipment would look like this:
Or this:
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- Comment on Baby dies after California mom leaves him in car to get lip filler on 101-degree day, police say 2 weeks ago:
I do think that from a UI standpoint, cars either need to support being left in park without the climate control eventually cutting off or be so extremely clear that this will happen that it would be extremely difficult for a user to miss, as this is a legitimate example of a “fail-deadly” feature.
IIRC from reading comments from people who have slept in their car and very much want the ability to leave the climate control system active, at least some Toyota models do support leaving the climate control active for extended periods of time, but the car needs to be in “Ready” mode. It was not immediately obvious to users that this was the case.
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 2 weeks ago:
There’s a whole class of controllers, often called “fightsticks”, which have a full-size arcade-style joystick and a ton of buttons, to replicate the feel of arcade fighting games.
!fightsticks@lemmy.world (not very active)
- Comment on Bethesda is allegedly working on ‘multiple Fallout games’, including Fallout 3 Remastered, teases report 2 weeks ago:
Honestly, I feel like Morrowind is the title least in need of a remaster, as unlike later 3D titles, it has an open-source fan reimplementation of the engine, OpenMW, plus the fan updates of content.
searches for video of content
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnvOy5Kw79Y
It looks like the OpenMW people are also working on a VR version.
- Comment on Jeremy Corbyn confirms new ‘socialist alternative’ before next election to fight Starmer 2 weeks ago:
new “socialist alternative” before next election
An ever-expanding category, that.
en.wikipedia.org/…/Category:Socialist_parties_in_…
en.wikipedia.org/…/Cross-Community_Labour_Alterna…
Cross-Community Labour Alternative is a minor political party founded to contest the 2016 Northern Ireland Assembly election. It stood three candidates[3] in the East Belfast, South Belfast and East Antrim constituencies. It was initiated by the Socialist Party.[4]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Party_(Ireland)
The Socialist Party (Irish: Páirtí Sóisialach) is a political party in Ireland, active in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Internationally, it was affiliated to the Trotskyist International Socialist Alternative (previously the Committee for a Workers International) until 2024.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_Unity_(UK)
Left Unity is a left-wing political party in the United Kingdom founded in 2013 when film director and social campaigner Ken Loach appealed for a new party to replace the Labour Party (which according to him failed to oppose the United Kingdom government austerity programme and had shifted towards neoliberalism).[5][6][7] More than 10,000 people supported Loach’s appeal.[8]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Unionist_Party
The Progressive Unionist Party (PUP) is a minor unionist[6] political party in Northern Ireland. It was formed from the Independent Unionist Group operating in the Shankill area of Belfast, becoming the PUP in 1979. Linked to the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) and Red Hand Commando (RHC), for a time it described itself as “the only left of centre unionist party” in Northern Ireland, with its main support base in the loyalist working class communities of Belfast.[7]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Justice_Party_(UK)
The Social Justice Party (SJP) is a left-wing minor political party in the United Kingdom.[2] It was launched in August 2023 at a conference in Whitby,[2] and was officially registered with the Electoral Commission on 2 February 2024.[3][4]
en.wikipedia.org/…/Transform_(political_party)
The Transform Party (also known as Transform Politics, or simply Transform) is a political party active in Great Britain. A merger of two political groups, the Breakthrough Party and the People’s Alliance of the Left, Transform aims to build a new left-wing political party to challenge both the Conservative Party and the Labour Party. The party is also associated with the Liverpool Community Independents and Left Unity, who remain independent parties.[1][2]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workers_Party_of_Britain
The Workers Party of Britain (WPB), also called the Workers Party of Great Britain (WPGB) or Workers Party GB,[16][17][18] is a socialist and socially conservative political party in the United Kingdom, strongly identified with its leader, former Labour and Respect MP George Galloway.
en.wikipedia.org/…/Socialist_Labour_Party_(UK)
The Socialist Labour Party (SLP) is a socialist political party in the United Kingdom. The party was established in 1996 and was led by Arthur Scargill, a former Labour Party member and the former leader of the National Union of Mineworkers. The party’s name highlights its commitment to socialism and acknowledges Clause IV of the Labour Party’s former constitution, as fundamental to the party’s identity. As of 2024, it is led by Jim McDaid.[1]
en.wikipedia.org/…/Socialist_Party_of_Great_Brita…
The Socialist Party of Great Britain (SPGB) is a small socialist political party in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1904[2] as a split from the Social Democratic Federation (SDF), it advocates using the ballot box for revolutionary purposes and opposes both Leninism and reformism. It holds that countries which claimed to have established socialism had only established “state capitalism” and was one of the first to describe the Soviet Union as state capitalist. The party’s political position has been described as a form of impossibilism.
- Comment on Bethesda is allegedly working on ‘multiple Fallout games’, including Fallout 3 Remastered, teases report 2 weeks ago:
“Fallout is the big one,” Middler claimed. “There are multiple Fallout projects in development, including, as far as I’m aware, that one that I’m sure you’re all wanting. It’s not far enough in along to say anything like ‘you’re going to be playing this game anytime soon’.”
Middler then joked, “Anyway, New Vegas 2, coming soon”. Is this the one we’re “all wanting”? Yes, but then also so is Fallout 3 Remastered, Fallout 5 and even a remake of Fallout 2. The fanbase is rabid, and hungry, and it’s been a long time since they’ve been fulfilled outside of Fallout 76 updates.
I mean, if Bethesda released all three of those, I’d buy all three.
I also don’t know what “Fallout 3 Remastered” entails, but if it means forward-porting the content to Starfield’s engine, that’d be pretty cool, though I do wonder how much effort will be required for mod-porting.
- Comment on I have about 55 hours of flights coming up. I’m thinking about the deus ex collection. Any thoughts? 2 weeks ago:
I love CDDA, but I don’t know if I’d call it light on a battery. It won’t hammer a GPU, but it actually does use a fair bit of CPU time for the simulation. Also, every time it redraws a frame, it does so via recomputing the world lighting and such, so it’s actually surprisingly heavyweight.
- Comment on Join the "beehaw" seeded Luanti server (Minecraft clone) 2 weeks ago:
kagis
docs.luanti.org/for-players/controls/
Touchscreen
Display inventory: Press on-screen button in left lower corner
- Comment on I have about 55 hours of flights coming up. I’m thinking about the deus ex collection. Any thoughts? 2 weeks ago:
There’s a similar, open-source game, Luanti (until recently, known as Minetest). It doesn’t have as many mods in 2025 as Minecraft does, but you might also enjoy it.
- Comment on What quintessentially British images should go on the new banknotes? Our panel has some ideas 3 weeks ago:
Me neither, but that just provides us with an objective look at what’s clearly best, free of encumbering sentiment.
I like the Bermudian idea of using flora and fauna to capture a country’s distinctive identity. A shift like this would show that we’re not trapped in tradition.
Exactly. A spectral lion, dragon, and unicorn in the background. In the foreground, a bulldog wearing mirrored steampunk goggles on a surfboard doing an aerial off a cresting wave with a fancy caption beneath him reading “Britannia rules the waves!” The mirrored goggle lenses are where the shiny anti-counterfeiting hologram goes.
Also, get Jessica Borutski to do the draft. She did a Canada logo a while back.
- Comment on The Mayor of Calgary, Canada, just received this letter 3 weeks ago:
I assume that it’s legal to ride a gasoline-fueled moped in the bike lane, and that no car lanes are being removed. Does this make everyone happy?
- Comment on Yep, I actually own 7,255 games on Steam. I’ve played 23% of my library. I regret nothing. 3 weeks ago:
Not ignored—not played yet.
Journal, July 3, 2025:
The day opened with a round of Barbie Project Friendship.
I then followed it up with survival horror Amnesia: The Bunker from survival horror specialists Frictional Games.
Next on the list was gay dom/sub dating sim Blood Domination.
Then hard milsim Command: Modern Operations.
I wound down with some relaxing time in art toy Zen Trails.
I have always been partial to variety.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
If it honestly doesn’t permit the User password to be reset, is there a “factory reset the whole BIOS” option?
- Comment on Like it or not, developers are experimenting with AI for their remasters and remakes - but can they ever be any good? [Eurogamer] 4 weeks ago:
Sure, but I think that the type of game is a pretty big input. Existing generative AI isn’t great at portraying a consistent figure in multiple poses and from multiple angles, which is something that many games are going to want to do.
On the other hand, I’ve also played text-oriented interactive fiction where there’s a single illustration for each character. For that, it’d be a good match.
AI-based speech synth isn’t as good as human voice acting, but it’s gotten pretty decent if you don’t need to be able to put lots of emotion into things. It’s not capable of, say, doing Transistor, which relied a lot on the voice acting. But it could be a very good choice to add new material for a character in an old game where the actor may not be around or who may have had their voice change.
I’ve been very impressed with AI upscaling. I think that upscaling textures and other assets probably has a lot of potential to take advantage of higher resolution screens. Maybe one might need a bit of human intervention, but a factor of 2 increase is something that I’ve found that the software can do pretty well without much involvement.
- Comment on Spelthorne restricts hoverboards, catapults and balaclavas 4 weeks ago:
What is banned?
- Possession of catapults, slingshots, or similar items without a legitimate reason
Was there an actual problem with widespread use of catapults in Spelthorne?