ViatorOmnium
@ViatorOmnium@piefed.social
- Comment on Batteries 1 day ago:
Perfect example, Skynet is an excellent engineer. Be like Skynet.
- Comment on Inside Project Nova, Firefox's biggest redesign in years 1 week ago:
Based on the rest I think they don’t mean actual natural language interface, but having enough personalisation options to setup the UI in a way that’s natural for your workflow. They are just speaking 2026-corporatise instead of English.
The full sentence is:
“Definitely, the idea of extensions and just customizations in general is: can you create more of like a natural language interface that lets people do everything they want?” Varma added. “For example, we announced an update that we’re doing to our design, which is called Project Nova. And a lot of people didn’t like the rounded corners modernization. Now, we can let people pick how round they want their corners. People care, so we put it in the settings.”
They also mention some misguided “AI” features, but not in this part.
- Comment on What are the most confusing false friends from your language to another that are spelt exactly the same? 1 week ago:
There are a few close ones between Portuguese and Spanish but I can’t think of any that’s spelled exactly the same.
Between Portuguese dialects, the first that comes to mind is “puto” which just means young boy in European Portuguese and it’s a swear word meaning male prostitute in Brazilian Portuguese (Brazilian Portuguese technically makes more sense because it’s symmetrical to the female “puta” which always means “slut").
- Comment on Most of plant based leather uses a lot of polyurethane 2 weeks ago:
Not all plant based leather uses plastic. It’s unfortunate that plant+plastic mixes are allowed to call themselves plant based leather.
- Comment on Gotta go fast 2 weeks ago:
Hydroelectric power stations still rely on steam, it’s just in another part of the cycle.
- Comment on Can you also do this with languages that use the Latin Alphabet? 2 weeks ago:
We have a few cases like “estar bem” (being well) and “bem-estar” (wellbeing) but they are much rarer.
A superifically similar phenomena is when we move adjectives to be before the word (like “antigo regime” vs “regime antigo") to tweak the meaning.
- Comment on Nutritional Hexes 2 weeks ago:
Pseudo-dermatology is also not very far away. The gap between what dermatologists and influencers say would be hilarious if gullible teenagers weren’t spending ridiculous amounts of money ruining their own skin.
- Comment on This is what ignoring experts looks like. 2 weeks ago:
Bibi needs the war to last at least until October.
- Comment on [Jason Schreier] AAA game budgets estimated around $300 million. These budgets are almost entirely dev salaries + overheard and have nothing to do with executive compensation (which is mostly stock) 3 weeks ago:
Some players will complain about everything, the industry is the one amplifying it. For example, Like a Dragon games have been recycling assets since forever, and so did Zelda TOTK and no one cares.
In the end, the players would also benefit if the games were made through iterative improvements instead of making everything from scratch every time.
- Comment on [Jason Schreier] AAA game budgets estimated around $300 million. These budgets are almost entirely dev salaries + overheard and have nothing to do with executive compensation (which is mostly stock) 3 weeks ago:
Executives should still be accountable for inefficiencies and bad scoping.
- Comment on Which government he might be talking about 🤔 3 weeks ago:
They could fund a public healthcare system twice over with the money the federal government is already spend providing piece meal health care through several inefficient programs. The war crime fund could solve the housing problem though.
- Comment on In the age of electronics, when is go to vote can I request a paper ballot instead of a machine? 3 weeks ago:
It’s easier to falsify a paper election than a properly implemented digital voting system. Keyword being properly.
- Comment on Choose your fighter 3 weeks ago:
Long term? The ecosystem. If we don’t change course, at some point the species that goes extinct is us, and nature is going to recover. Life has survived much worse than what we can do.
- Comment on Osk‽ Pfffft 3 weeks ago:
Wait, there are still t9 remotes that work with modern TVs?
- Comment on I started playing WH40k Rogue Trader and I'm digging it, but I know virtually nothing of Warhammer. Any super basic world info I should know going in? 4 weeks ago:
As a result, the canon is vast and occasionally self-contradictory
“Record keeping is shit and we aren’t even sure what year it is any more so don’t take anything at face value " is the new canon, so the canon being a mess is canon now.
- Comment on Is there a software method to "rotate" music around my head? 4 weeks ago:
Try to look for earphones with 3D head tracking. They work better for horizontal movement, but they might also help if you are lying down.
- Comment on Valve says 5,863 titles earned over $100,000 on Steam in 2025 5 weeks ago:
Because despite all the LLM slopaganda the laws of supply and demand give software engineers some leverage over prospective employers.
- Comment on Valve says 5,863 titles earned over $100,000 on Steam in 2025 5 weeks ago:
100k is not enough to pay even a single full time dev, so I wouldn’t call this the success threshold.
- Comment on spoopy figs 5 weeks ago:
Most commercially and home grown produced figs are self-pollinating, only a few wild fig species require wasps to pollinate them. So most people will only ever see wasp-free figs.
- Comment on Tasty Product 🍔 5 weeks ago:
To be fair, he failed to eat a McDonald’s burger not human food.
- Comment on Aaaand it's gone 5 weeks ago:
Breaking news: the slot machine is not an ATM.
- Comment on Heartily agree 1 month ago:
Of course they will, just not in the US (and probably Canada).
- Comment on No way!.. 2 months ago:
The problem is not in the old testament. Mainstream judaism doesn’t claim you need to a jew to achieve salvation.
- Comment on No way!.. 2 months ago:
That kind of statement can only apply to ideas and attitudes that also respect diversity. Christianity and Islamism taken at face value are exclusionary of all other religions. A “true” believer therefore has a moral imperative of destroying diversity in order to protect other people.
This is not saying all or even most followers of these religions will follow that path, but that they need to water down or ignore some of the core theology to fully operate in a diverse society.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
It depends on the country. While most countries start it in Monday, Sunday is also common, some muslim countries start it on Saturday, and Maldives start the week on Fridays.
- Comment on Overbearing datetime pickers 2 months ago:
I just pick whatever this year - 20 is.
It’s usually enough to stop services from nagging me again.
- Comment on Probably helps that I'm happy to listen to whatever genre 2 months ago:
My parents routinely started listening to several of my favourite bands when I was a teen.
Do you have any idea how hard is it to be an angsty rebellious teenager when your parents are supportive of your tastes and phases?
- Comment on How did "ancient humans" got the idea to pierce their ears/body ? 2 months ago:
You are joking, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the first people to use any form of body piercing did to look tough to impress women.
- Comment on How did "ancient humans" got the idea to pierce their ears/body ? 2 months ago:
There are archeological objects that are most likely piercings or earrings that are over 10 thousand years old. By the time writing was invented they were already very old news.
- Comment on It's barely a science. 2 months ago:
They don’t even disguise it, praxeology is effectively theology without the metaphysics.