Tekhne @ savedbythezsh @sh.itjust.works

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Another one: steam has some sort of multiplayer integration for devs, so they don't need to host their own servers and you don't need to expose ports; instead you can add people using your steam friends. Found this out to my sadness when I bought risk of rain 1 on Gog and the multiplayer was completely gutted compared to my friend who bought on steam.

Ooh can I suggest games? There are definitely a bunch that are great to play sitting down, or standing up but in place. I haven't bought new VR games since alyx came out, but I def have plenty

From the Wikipedia article:

Doctorow argues that new platforms offer useful products and services at a loss, as a way to gain new users. Once users are locked in, the platform then offers access to the userbase to suppliers at a loss; once suppliers are locked in, the platform shifts surpluses to shareholders.[11] Once the platform is fundamentally focused on the shareholders, and the users and vendors are locked in, the platform no longer has any incentive to maintain quality.

And when discussing the solution:

The second is the right of exit, which holds that users of a platform can easily go elsewhere if they are dissatisfied with it. For social media, this requires interoperability, countering the network effects that "lock in" users and prevent market competition between platforms.

It's a made up word that was defined by a specific article by the person who made it up. So yeah, it is.

No, we don't: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification.

Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification, and it is a seemingly inevitable consequence arising from the combination of the ease of changing how a platform allocates value, combined with the nature of a "two-sided market", where a platform sits between buyers and sellers, hold each hostage to the other, raking off an ever-larger share of the value that passes between them.

A key component to this is being locked in, which didn't happen here as most of these games are still available elsewhere. No one is stuck with a games subscription where the quality of games is dropping. This is just a business realizing it's not viable and paring back their offerings.

People on Lemmy seem to have a tendency to overuse enshittification, which sucks because it refers to something real and also actionable. If you dilute the meaning, you make the solution less likely. Lemmings should be among the forefront of people familiar with the real meaning, since Doctorow's suggested solution is open standards for interoperability, like ActivityPub/Lemmy.

Not an expert by any means, but I'd guess that has to do with the distinction between being on top of something, and having boarded something. You are on top of a (small) boat or motorcycle, but within a car. These examples refer to position. You can be both in or on a bus, plane, or yacht, because you have boarded the bus, plane, or yacht, and thus are "on" it, but are located physically within the vehicle and so are also "in" it (in the case of a yacht, that may depend on whether you're inside it or on top of it). These examples refer to both position and state of existence.

This is totally conjecture so I'd be very curious to hear from an actual expert.

I'm shocked no one else pointed this out. This isn't a rule of grammar — this is a style rule, which isn't actually part of the English language. Different style guides recommend different things. This happens to be specifically delineated by American/Canadian style guides vs British/Australian style guides; however anyone could publish a style guide. If USA Today decided to make and publish a style guide that they used in their articles that said there should be periods both within and after a quote, that would be valid by that styleguide.

As someone with a mental disorder, I prefer DD(YY)MM

Do you say hetips for HTTPS?

No but now I want to start (though I'd go hittips instead, and its insecure alternative, hittip). HTTPS has always been a mouthful lol

Lol this is hilarious. This paragraph is my fave:

We identified that color is a way to connect with people across all divides (and we have research that people respond positively to it) — it is a universal language that transcends the boundaries of our diverse verbal languages. And we chose “Colorways” rather than “themes” to show we are branching out from our language of “browser” to speak the language of everyday life and everyday users. This is about more than just installing a new “theme,” which really doesn’t have much meaning to most people.

On a completely unrelated note (your username), I just started reading a couple Asimov novels! Any recommendation for which ones I should pick up next? I've already done I, Robot and Caves of Steel. Thinking maybe I start Foundation soon (but just started the TV show).

I have the same but it's called "please"

Oh yay I get to post the relevant XKCD! https://xkcd.com/2408/

Are you telling me that no compiler optimizes this? Why?

There is much meaningful difference - gold has widespread practical use, while paper currency does not

Yeah this was before I realized Lemmy didn't have DMs 🤷🏽‍♂️

Obligatory: Cuttlefish https://xkcd.com/520/

Maybe controversial, but the fish shell. I know it's not strictly bash syntax, but the OOTB features are just so user-friendly. The most helpful features for learning: the autocomplete (with descriptions of subcommands and flags!) and the fuzzy history search.

I write bash scripts all the time, and am significantly more knowledgeable than anyone else on my team (admittedly frontend) because I got comfortable in fish.

A little off topic, but do you know of a kink community on Lemmy? Not porn, more just to talk about it/share resources, etc.

You can do a lot of sites! https://duckduckgo.com/bangs

I have the same situation. DDG has a feature where you can write "!g query" and search for "query" on Google. I use that as a fallback whenever DDG fails to yield good results - it's super easy!

Honestly, good security instincts by your dad though. If you're not technical enough to understand the risks, you probably shouldn't be connecting to random servers