JackbyDev
@JackbyDev@programming.dev
Professional developer and amateur gardener located near Atlanta, GA in the USA.
- Comment on Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos 15 hours ago:
My understanding is they refunded everyone who bought it.
- Comment on kiss kiss, bang bang 2 days ago:
Kiss me within 2 standard deviations, baby
- Comment on Uh oh: Ubisoft postpones its quarterly financial report at the last minute and halts stock trading 2 days ago:
I saw what I imagine is a tourist attraction demonstrating that it’s “true” but you can definitely see them rotate their arm in opposite directions. They unplug a sink that that carry across the equator.
- Comment on pwned: do you pronounce it as "pohned" "pawned" or "owned" 5 days ago:
As owned with a “puh” on the front, but not as an extra syllable.
- Comment on do no harm 6 days ago:
lol, I think I meant to say “cave” but the idea of cumming from hearing about the possibility of having testicular torsion is too funny to fix.
- Comment on do no harm 6 days ago:
I was worried I had testicular torsion but didn’t think my pain was high enough for it, but there’s only so many times you can read stuff like “getting it addressed within X hours has Y% chance of saving the testicle” before you came lol. (It was actually a UTI or something.) The doc told me that it’s a 10, “well, more like an 11.”
- Comment on turing completeness 1 week ago:
The fediverse chick never messaged you?
- Comment on 2³² will get interesting... 1 week ago:
It’s a thought experiment though, in the magical world where we could have all of humanity tied to rail road tracks by an omnipotent being, I don’t assume there to be a finite number of people.
- Comment on 2³² will get interesting... 1 week ago:
“double it and give it to the next person” was sort of a trend with street interview type content. Like “Do you want a cookie or double it and give it to the next person.” Then the second would be “Do you want two cookies or double it and give it to the next person?” Eventually someone takes the cookies. It wasn’t cookies necessarily, sometimes money, sometimes other trinkets, whatever.
- Comment on 2³² will get interesting... 1 week ago:
But I don’t know if I trust literally infinite people. It might be better to kill one. Because unless you believe all humans are 100% willing to never kill someone then you’re risking a number of deaths larger than 1. (Potentially much larger.)
- Comment on It's a bit ridiculous that our government would sooner use Discord than a federated social media alternative 1 week ago:
That’s insane lol.
- Comment on The wall of this bathroom really intimidated me 1 week ago:
Please be joking.
- Comment on The Last Truly Custom Nintendo: A 3DS Retrospective 1 week ago:
Modern touch screens work well enough to not really require styluses to feel good though. So modern styluses feeling annoying isn’t as big of an issue for most uses.
- Comment on Got Banned for Fixing Roku — The Paul Blart Mod Chronicles 2 weeks ago:
Won’t someone please think of the random ass holding company that owns the rights to that old ass game nobody except for like three people want to play?
- Comment on The oldest Minecraft server, MinecraftOnline, is being shut down by Microsoft 2 weeks ago:
What I’m saying is that it sounds like lying. If you say “Hey, is KelvarCherry legit?” And they say “no” they’re lying, but if they say “you’re not allowed to verify users” that seems fine.
- Comment on Michael 2 weeks ago:
You can argue that enabled bad practices but it also enabled many good things in gaming.
- Comment on The oldest Minecraft server, MinecraftOnline, is being shut down by Microsoft 2 weeks ago:
The whole way Mojang “bans” servers is by marking certain IPs to always be told the connecting account is invalid.
Do they do that or just return an error? Because as described that sounds illegal.
- Comment on The oldest Minecraft server, MinecraftOnline, is being shut down by Microsoft 2 weeks ago:
What you’re making is a slippery slope argument that doesn’t really hold water.
Is it though? Like, really, is it? In the US the government is possibly doing shit like labeling transgender people as nihilistic violent extremists. The Project 2025 shit is coming fast. I really don’t like people using racial slurs either. But the idea that it could be very soon that things like speaking about some LGBTQ topics gets policed more and corporations go along with it is not as far fetched as it seems. A year ago I’d probably have a different opinion.
And I wanna be clear, I’m not defending people using slurs. I think it’s fine for Microsoft to not host that server on a public list of servers, I guess. I’m really just saying the slope is more slippery than previously thanks to the MAGA crowd. I’m not really sure how I feel about it all, I’m still in the cognitive dissonance phase as my mind works out where I really stand. I’ve been lucky enough that speech I consider acceptable has been what speech others considered acceptable for my whole life, but the idea that queer topics come under fire isn’t crazy.
- Comment on So...I feel like there are a lot of elephants in the room, could i get some help? 2 weeks ago:
This post is very rambley and I really don’t understand what you’re asking. If you mean things like basic life skills like laundry and stuff with money then there’s too many to list in a Lemmy comment in a succinct way. At times it sounds like you’re describing escaping an alt-right incel pipeline; if that’s the case then yeah, it’s still sort of difficult to answer “what you should have been taught” in a succinct way, and I don’t wanna assume that’s what you meant because it seems rude. I could be cheeky and say you should have learned to ask questions better, but that is really mean given the context that you seem to be going through a very tough time.
I’ll say this. You mentioned being in your late 20s. I’m 33 now. I remember through my 20s I consistently didn’t feel like an adult. I distinctly remember the first time I felt like an adult was when I was 28 years old. I don’t remember why, but I remember the thought entering my head again and I finally sort of thought, yeah, I feel like a real adult.
Your 20s are an odd time because you’re legally an adult and might even be living on your home but inevitably you’ll always have gaps in your experience with various things as a teenager as well as not having experienced many things adults consider to be universal adult experiences just yet. Know that a lot of people in their 20s feel this way even if they’re better at hiding it.
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 2 weeks ago:
Nah, engineering wise you can’t verify if a man actually has taken a pill and the sad reality is that women get stuck with the child and abortion rights are under attack. It’s like trying to implement authorization without any way to verify that the user is actually authorized. You can’t just go on vibes alone.
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 2 weeks ago:
Please do not eat the condom.
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 2 weeks ago:
I do think that birth control pills having 1 week of sugar pills to force periods rather than 1 week of optional pills to allow skipping periods is pretty fucked up though. The term conspiracy is pretty intense though. But it’s super fucked.
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 2 weeks ago:
I know a lot of people who take birth control pills to regulate their bodies rather than prevent pregnancy.
- Comment on Michael 2 weeks ago:
Counterpoint, you can categorize chess as a game and not a sport while still acknowledging it’s difficult and worthwhile.
- Comment on Michael 2 weeks ago:
I’ll bite. If you want to pick a singular thing to point at and say it’s ruined gaming you should be more upset about micro transactions, especially those in mobile gaming. We live in an era where so many people have a device that is physically more capable than the handheld gaming devices of the past but the entire mobile gaming market is just slop meant to be addictive and extract as much money from you as possible. Imagine a world where Nintendo was making mainline Pokémon games for phones. What if X, Y, Sun, and Moon weren’t made for the 3ds but for phones (or both).
- Comment on What's your answer? And in the picture which news story is being reported? 2 weeks ago:
I was born in 1991. For me, it’s gotta be 9/11. I can’t really specifically remember anything from before that, and I was only 9 when it happened, so I didn’t really pay much attention to the news.
There was a time I was on the news because my grandfather got asked about something at the airport. I have no idea what it was or if it was before. But it certainly wasn’t major and either way I don’t remember the actual story that happened. If I had to guess it was something about asking people about airline delays, but that’s genuinely just a guess.
- Comment on Minecraft is removing code obfuscation in Java Edition 2 weeks ago:
The comment said why not go open source, not why not go source available though.
- Comment on And what car did you learn in? 2 weeks ago:
Lawnmowers count? lol
- Comment on And what car did you learn in? 2 weeks ago:
Which also is a type of clutch obviously, but not what people usually refer to when they use the term clutch.
So many internet arguments come down to this sort of thing.
- Comment on And what car did you learn in? 2 weeks ago:
My first car was a 1972 Toyota Corolla! I fondly remember driving my first pet, Max, on good ol’ Pine Lane, where I grew up, to go see my mother Joan Hart, who retook her maiden name after divorcing my father!