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- Comment on Why? 5 hours ago:
All the smarter ones don’t because an email can change, your google account unique id will not, that’s the purpose of account IDs.
I won’t deny that many people/websites probably do use email though. Which is bad. But I can’t deny that that probably is what is happening.
- Comment on Why? 5 hours ago:
Unfortunately just an example.
- Comment on Why? 5 hours ago:
That’s… mostly because of popularity and it depends on whether some service is offering OAuth and if the website in question is using THAT identity provider.
For example, mastodon is technically offering it.
github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/16221
but this is the docs page:
docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/optional/sso/
So the answer in this case is to just grow, promote and support what we’re already doing: fediverse stuff.
- Comment on Why? 1 day ago:
How hard is it to implement email verification?
Harder, actually.
That’s the point of OAuth, which is what you’re seeing there.
The idea is that you’re you and you have a… google account. This shitty little website doesn’t want to be responsible for you login details, because those can get stolen. Maybe they contain an email address, which is a problem. Software needs to be updated, it’s all a big. They don’t want to touch anything in terms of security that identifies you as you.
Maybe all the website does is save your favorite pepe memes. They don’t need anything else from you, but they still need to have something to get a user id and make sure nobody messes with your pepe meme collection. That’s where this system comes in, because the rest of website becomes significantly easier. They don’t need to store anything personally identifying, all they get is an ID and they can connect it with your pepes.
The only downside to OAuth is, as you can also see, that it’s corpos you don’t want to trust that are offering it.
- Comment on I still can't get over Skyrim. Are there any games that can replace it? 1 week ago:
I only watched some streams, they did some updates for the controls and the UI, inventory stood out to me. So I hope they updated the controls to be “modern and palatable” too.
- Comment on I still can't get over Skyrim. Are there any games that can replace it? 1 week ago:
Have you looked at the gothic remake? It’s probably not as big but it should scratch a similar itch.
Otherwise… no not really. I could recommend wildly different games and genres that also feature exploration, but skyrim is just very good.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Maybe you didn’t find the genre that clicks with you.
1984 is an objectively depressing story and not really interesting for the love story or other things. It’s political.
Reading is great when you have hours to kill and want just more dense information or description. You also sort of need to enjoy using your imagination I guess.
Maybe you’re interested in a biography of a musician or movie director, maybe you’re into history, maybe you like crime and horror stuff.
But also, there are SO MANY bad books out there. Don’t worry about it. I haven’t read a book in years, because I am not really interesting in topics at that level at the moment and I don’t think many authors really capture things well. You need a real good book recommendation.
And also, maybe you just don’t like reading books.
- Comment on There are basically 4 types of files : text, image, audio and audio visual, right ? 2 weeks ago:
Not really.
For practical purposes, all files “binary”, ones and zeros. And with those ones and zeros, you can encode stuff for example text and for example with ascii en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII But you can also encode programs that can be executed, or what you named, visual, audio, or whatever you want. The differences are the “encodings”.
Sometimes, things work a bit like one of those Russian Matryoshka dolls, for example a PDF can contain a JPG or a PNG but also TXT.
It’s really not that simple as there being “4” types.
I’m not sure that answers your question though.
- Comment on How do I get myself to actually do thing? 2 weeks ago:
Psychological tricks with external help.
Specifically reserve time for them, plan them out in advance, do something every day if you can and set reminders. There are even apps that try to support you with habit forming.
So if for example 6pm to 7:30pm is hobby time, every day, and you treat it like an appointment you have to go to (with yourself).
Plan your projects in advance. This can be done during that hobby time, but be sure to write down which tools and material you need, so you can just pick it up. Also, it helps if things are organized, if you just need to grab a box and it has everything in it, that’s easier to pick up and put down than searching and collecting all your tools every time you need them.
- Comment on Factorio 2.1 will be the last major update as Wube Software are moving on 2 weeks ago:
The one thing that’s unclear is if they are going to change the spaceship scheduling, sending, dropping, etc. interface. That could be QoL. Otherwise I’m not sure what else would justify a big patch and a big version bump. We’ll see…
- Comment on What's your opinions on film critics and film snobs?? 3 weeks ago:
Depends.
If they are the “Ratatouille” kind of critic, knowing what they like, or what is good and serving as a “bar”, that can be a good reference if you are informed about their tastes.
But there is also a bunch of “high art film” that’s just boring, so if they insist that that is art or film or cinema and something more mundane but fun isn’t, because it doesn’t fulfill some arbitrary condition, that’s bad.
A horror movie critic after watching thousands of horror movies saying “The overall movie was meh, but that one thing about the monster or the way they did their camera work was cool and that’s why the movie was worth watching and if you are just watching for entertainment, not so much”. And the same person can judge a different horror movie to be “completely unoriginal and derivative”.
But if it’s a movie about someone watching paint dry and it’s “super interesting because it reveals something deep about our human nature and our relationship with the passage of time” then that’s… that’s not my thing.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 4 weeks ago:
If you haven’t played it, try hollow knight.
- Comment on Part of internet most harmful to teens? 1 month ago:
If you’re worried about misinformation, the most dangerous places are main stream media and a bad algorithmic selection on youtube or other “endless scroll” websites.
And the main stream media thing not because it’s obvious nonsense, because they having specific wording and focus you don’t really see until you look for it, so it looks balanced and fine and high quality, but you only get a good sense of what’s going on by reading from multiple international sources, even bad ones and noticing the differences in focus and tone and thinking about it.
If you have a source or person you trust implicitly, be sure to check them in depth from time to time.
- Comment on I'm designing a browser game where the economy is the battlefield. I need skeptics more than cheerleaders. 2 months ago:
As a player myself, I’m genuinely tired of seeing gorgeous trailers and promo images that have zero relationship to the actual game. It’s become almost a meme at this point. When I have real gameplay, real screenshots, real footage that’s when I’ll show something. Authentic over polished-but-fake, every time.
Sure, I get that, but right now what the public can see is just the idea, as written text with like 2 pages. It’s the concept of a game. And it’s a decent concept, but there is nothing else there yet.
- Comment on I'm designing a browser game where the economy is the battlefield. I need skeptics more than cheerleaders. 2 months ago:
go. seed. lord. cum.
😐
“seedlord” is bad enough by itself btw.
Seriously though, I like the approach, but the reason games do that RMT pay to win stuff is because stuff costs money.
I’m not really interested in browser games. The concept with the economy sounds good, but the website is very “bare”, no images, no videos, etc…
- Comment on live a little ;) 2 months ago:
With god, anime and lemmy on my side, it will turn out differently than last time for sure.
- Comment on What is likely to happen when/if trump dies? 2 months ago:
Nothing would change. It should be obvious that Trump isn’t the one making the decisions and neither would be JD Vance.
I wouldn’t even be surprised if there was little attention being given to a funeral. Just as a show of power of how disposable the figure heads are.
They could go the way of a leadership cult they have in north korea, where btw, the title of kim il sung is still technically, officially head of state, even though he’s dead. They simply invented a new position and keep him as eternal big leader. + something with christian nationalism, like “trump is watching over you guys from heaven”.
Maybe I’m too pessimistic too, we’ll see if “they” will allow the mid term elections to take place or how that will go down.
- Comment on What are your hallmark games? What games have shaped how you view games? 2 months ago:
- Starcraft
- Gothic
- Magic the Gathering
- Warcraft 3 + dota
- FTL
- Nuclear Dawn / Natural Selection 2
- Supreme Commander
- Eve Online
- Factorio
I could list a few more RGPs, like Mass Effect, Fallout New Vegas and the Witcher games that are also top tier experience, but they all sort of the do the same thing, in that a story you might expect from a novel or movie, can be told in a game, but also the game offers more interactivity.
- Comment on What is your take on organ donation? 2 months ago:
I would be totally fine with it.
The problem is that it is factually worth a lot of money. Saving a life, either through an organ or by blood donations, is nearly impossible to evaluate.
And lots of people need stuff that isn’t blood or organs. If I need a car, or place to live and someone in society dies and has a car or a place to live and that’s not being given to me, but instead it’s turned into cash and assets.
That’s asymmetric.
Now I’m not saying I’m entitled that society should just give me everything I want. So I wouldn’t call it “unfair”.
But on the other hand, giving away organs and blood, completely for free, is a bit much.
That’s why I’m against it.
- Comment on Saying that hardware price increase is good cause it forces the devs to optimize is not as good as it seems. 3 months ago:
That’s a weird take.
I still rock a gtx 1060, I have no issue playing a wide variety of games, obviously most classics and many newer indie titles.
The games I “can’t run” are modern AAA titles that put a lot of emphasis on spectacle and pay no attention to optimization.
Yes it sucks for people who want new hardware right now because they have literally nothing, but even then something used from 5-10 years ago will play 95%+ of all games, including many many classics and very popular games like minecraft and fortnite.
- Comment on Games you fell out of love with. 4 months ago:
I could write a book on eve online. That one is insidious. The hook is that you dream of getting the upgrade, which takes real world time to get, both in farming and in “skill training” time that’s passive and works while you’re offline but measured in real world time and can only be boosted but still takes months to do. So you sit there and think “oh boy it’ll be so cool when I finally can do X” and then you get it and it’s pretty much the same you were doing before, but bigger numbers.
It also got community and then you have friends and don’t to leave your friendgroup
And the devs? Deliver banger shows that show what they’re planning. Planning being sort of the catch, because in the nearly 15 years I’ve been watching what they’re doing, they did things I would call “correct”, one which they reverted (because the players were running away) and the other which they nerfed.
More recently skilksong. All the elements for a fantastic game are there, art, especially the music are unbelievable. But upgrade system, the placing of where you can get them, what they actually do, some of the resources and currencies. That part just sucks.
And for some reason, the game and the community ship the main character and a mass murdering psychopath? Just wild.
- Comment on [US] How are so many people able to protest? (Logistically) 4 months ago:
If you work 10 hours a day and sleep 8, that’s 6 hours left over for protesting. If 40 adults are going to a protest 2 can watch the kids. 2 1 can make soup for everyone. Same for transportation to and from protests.
You can make it work if you prioritize.
- Comment on Is anyone else having a hard time sympathizing with Americans? 4 months ago:
The population of countries are not single minded monoliths.
The people fighting ICE now are largely the same people who have also been opposed to the US military doing the bad things they did.
Even or particularly, among members of the military and veterans, you have hardcore loyalists of course, but you also have plenty of people who join the military because it’s their ticket to a little money and an education. They know it’s bad, do it anyway, and while they do have a respect for their comrades, they also know fully well that what they did was wrong and that the military is treating veterans pretty badly.
So, there are people in the US, who ignored reality for a good while, and if and when they get hurt, I feel no sympathy.
But there are also plenty who have been opposing or trying to improve and refrom the negative aspects of US society and culture their entire life, and when they get hurt, I do feel sympathy.
Some are still ignoring it. Prominently, former president Obama still behaves as if he’s safe. Of course, I wish no harm on anyone. I do wonder if his approach is too hands off though and if it turns out it is, the best I will be able to say is “told you so”.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
Pretty insightful. Key takeaways:
- linear growth didn’t really happen like that
- pre-planning would be good
- experience of tax collectors skimming the surplus, plus hazards of rural life.
- Comment on How do you build revolutionary optimism in these dark times? 5 months ago:
The fediverse is a good example. There are performance improvements happening at the language level, so even old code runs faster. More essential services are online, online banking isn’t weird and niche anymore. We have so many different messengers to choose from, it’s no longer just skype that can do video calls.
Did you know we have reproducible builds now? reproducible-builds.org
For a long time, you could make software from one piece of code and you got working software, but it wasn’t guaranteed to be identical. That made security and verification a lot harder, because you need to check for behavior instead of just comparing a check value. Now we can just compare the check value.
There are things like better testing and CI/CD pipelines now. We can measure that stuff. More projects have moved to git.
The micro computing sphere is very mature now, you can just buy a raspi or a comparable device and do home automation projects with them.
The only area where things are still messy is some areas of web technologies, because they’re constantly being rewritten.
- Comment on How do you build revolutionary optimism in these dark times? 5 months ago:
There are still many things happening that are objectively improving. You just have to look a bit harder.
One definitive field is software. It continues to get faster and better and more reliable.
It’s not the way I wanted it to happen (my country fucked it’s industry), but China understood the issue with transition to green energy and built so much production capacity for solar and wind energy, solar energy is properly exploding. Exports to Africa increased by 500% in the past 5 years. ember-energy.org/…/the-first-evidence-of-a-take-o…
- Comment on Anon files a lawsuit 5 months ago:
There are three reasons against incest:
- culture
- genetics
- it is impossible to rule out power dynamics and grooming. If they were freely consenting adults it wouldn’t be bad from this point alone, but you can never be sure that they are actually freely consenting.
- Comment on How to vote? 5 months ago:
You are supposed to upvote things that:
- you like
- belong in the community it’s posted in
- upvoting favors it for the algorithm, ranking it higher and making it stay longer. If you want others to see the stuff, you upvote.
With comments, you are supposed to upvote things that contribute to the discussion, even if you disagree with it, but in practice people often just upvote what they like and agree with and downvote what they don’t agree with and there is pretty much nothing anyone can do to change that. So do what you think is right.
- Comment on as a young person, what must one look for when it comes to finding a new country to live in? 5 months ago:
To enter, you need a visa. They’re timed permits to enter countries for a specific purpose.
There are travel visas for a short time and there are work visas that are longer time and allow you to work. (you are not allowed to work with just a travel visa).
Then the process is different per country. The next step is “residency” and then the next is applying for citizenship. Each country has different conditions for when that’s possible and how quickly.
As a rule of thumb, if you can get a stable job, or you’re rich they usually let you in and let you stay. Sometimes there are special recruitment programs that you can look up at the local embassy or under search terms such as “migrating to [country]”. Those that are looking for immigration usually advertise the ways to do it.
- Comment on …but why male models? 5 months ago:
Don’t confuse how you think it works, what people say how it works and how it actually works.
Funnily enough, there is a harry potter fanfic “…and the methods of rationality” that put it very succinctly:
- observe that you are confused by a situation
- detail what the confusing contradiction is, exactly
- observe precisely what is happening and adjust your world view.
I don’t understand the government coverup.
In corporate (or democratic) America, everyone is expendable at anytime.
The coverup protects people, but if everyone is expendable at any time, they would not need to do that.
If they are doing it anyway, to protect people, that must mean those people aren’t expendable.
If people in corporate or democratic systems are replaceable and these people aren’t replaceable, the actual system at work can’t be corporate or democratic.
Put differently, even if Trump is a figurehead and replaceable, the structure behind him ultimately isn’t. It’s very specific people in very specific positions of power and wealth, who want to increase their power and wealth. Having one of them replaced (forced to give up power or wealth or both), is the opposite of what they want to achieve.