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Now to go take my wife out to a nice dinner, to soften the blow of what I'm about to spend on that fancy pants new C64.
(Not really, she just deserves a nice dinner because Pride stuff is dragging on her this year, and I can actually afford to be the provider just this once)
this whole conflict wherein multinational corporations demand unpaid labor from hobbyists is only happening because the free software movement has built stuff that capital is not capable of building for itself
Indie devs: any of y'all ever gone with a publisher, and did you feel you came away from it doing ok?
idk, the idea of compounding Steam's already ridiculous 30% cut with a publisher cut on top of that feels like a recipe for getting bilked. But I'd be happy to be wrong.
The consensus seems to be that I'd probably be better served by hiring a PR firm than trying to go with a publisher. So I guess I'm doing some research this week, to see if I can find something that looks good, and that I can afford (which ain't much).
there are at least a few stories where it came to disputs related to publishing versions early on platforms agaist the will of the developer. Also they might stop early with any marketing if their numbers are not promising enough, and then its hard to get back out of the contract.
I've heard that a publisher usually isn't worth it unless the publisher has an active fanbase for a particular style of game that your game fits.
it's also possible to hire PR people, and then that way you're able to get more PR while still retaining full control and rights etc over your game, I can't say whether it's worthwhile or anything though because I've never been able to afford that.
i think we should just phase out all forms of welfare but still maintain some kind of homeless shelters where people can get help, sleep in a bed and get clean from drugs, and eat a nutritious meal
the public school system is mixed bag. some kids have really poor quality of life at home and so you can make a case for a public school system. there are good arguments for and against it
same with public hospitals. the government should operate networks of free clinics where people can get basic medical care like STD testing, antibiotics, wound care and so forth. it's important to control the spread of infectious disease, if nothing else, and prevent complications and reduce the burden on the private medical system
i can't fully get behind the total libertarian model where it's just every man for himself, because i have compassion for disadvantaged people. but we have to acknowledge that often people are poor because they make poor choices. simply giving them cash to spend and paying for all their needs is insane and unsustainable
@nerthos so if some poor person who is behind on their taxes brings a kid in to the public ER with a broken bone, what are you going to do? turn them away?
Yes. It sounds awful but it's often necessary. If you just take everyone in it'll be massively overused by people who don't contribute and the people who do contribute will still pay off their ass for private because public is overcrowded and run down. This is what happened in Argentina, and we're now fixing by simply turning people who abused the system away.
At least at the start, if it stabilizes to the point resources and manpower are abundant for it without being a HUGE money drain, you can extend it. This is mostly a cultural thing though.
You can also just have a "this is the amount it costs, no charges past the real cost of the procedure" credit system like with foreigners, which would also solve this situation. If you're not qualified for the "free" treatment you can pay for it and use it.
@nerthos you didn't answer my question. i'm not talking about "people who abuse the system" i'm talking about a kid with a broken bone. an emergency. you're going to send a kid with a compound fracture away from your public clinic because his parents are behind on their taxes? that is barbaric and uncivilized.
TBH the conditions for qualifying for access can be defined along with the program.
I don't think it's reasonable to deny someone who's behind because of a bad year. I do think it's reasonable to deny someone who has never made any significant contribution their whole life.
@nerthos you can draw these lines in different ways and debate what sort of basic level of care should be available and to who, but anyway my original point was just that there are benefits to society to provide some basline level of care, like infection control and trauma care. just basic compassion that doesn't have to cost a lot of money but improves society overall.
whether an alcoholic bum on the street deserves a liver transplant, whether someone who is 90 years old should have a million dollars worth of heroic cancer treatment, whether a morbidly obese person should have a heart transplant, free diabetes treatment etc, those are debates i'm willing to have
I like this in theory. In practice, the private sector won't always pick up the slack (as I believe it should in these scenarios), or might have trouble reaching the people they'd like to help.
I hated school, my maths teacher told me I was a retard. 12 years later I'm pricing synthetic derivatives for JP Morgan. I pay for my kids education now.
But the cost of private education has nearly doubled in the UK over the last few years. I give it 2 to 3 years before AI schools are springing up offering dedicated 1 to 1 tuition.
@realcaseyrollins @diego i mean that with the information available online and now with AI language models it seems that we could rethink how people learn. more applicable to some professions than others
Ok #mastodon has started doing the javascript-refresh-that-vanishes-what-you-started-reading trick that twitter and facebook do and it is NOT OK. #UXfail
'We're Not the Same People Anymore': IDF Soldiers Reveal What No Israeli Wants to Hear About Months of Fighting in Gaza
Sent into #Gaza straight from high school, five young #Israel conscripts describe the brutal, exhausting reality of the war with #Hamas – a world of despair, rage and crippling fear, with no end in sight
"Soldiers interviewed are handpicked by commanders and #IDF spokespersons and thoroughly briefed on what they can and cannot say. And so, reporters return with the same clichés: "This is a generation of lions," they declare. "Morale is sky-high."
But active-duty army soldiers who spoke to Haaretz in recent months paint a very different picture...
They describe mounting exhaustion, severe physical and psychological strain, and a constant fear that they'll be the next to have their names released as fallen."
Sent into Gaza straight from high school, five young Israeli conscripts describe the brutal, exhausting reality of the war with Hamas – a world of despair, rage and crippling fear, with no end in sight
The event showed working class solidarity—but also the rising tensions in a Reform-supporting County ~ Tom Brown ~ It was an early start for Durham Miners’ Gala, these islands’ largest gathering of the working class.
HÜZÜNLÜ BİR AŞK HİKAYESİ ; GAM ZEDEYİM DEVA BULMAM... Tüm şarkıların bir hikayesi vardır... "Gamzede’yim Deva Bulmam." Şarkısı da bu tür şarkılardan biridir... Hemen belirtelim, Gam-zede, üzüntü sebebiyle kötü duruma düşmüş anlamındadır. Hikayenin kahramanı Kemani Tatyos Efendi’nin kendi cemaatinden çocukluk aşkı bir sevdiği varmış. Aile o tarihlerde Erivan’a göç ettiğinden evlenememişler. Aradan uzun seneler geçmiş Tatyos efendi evlenmiş çocukları olmuş ancak kadın hiç evlenmemiş ve bir gün İstanbul’a dönmüş. Bunu öğrenen Tatyos Efendi sözlerini de yazarak bir eser bestelemiş... Kısa zaman sonra Beyoğlu’nda bir meyhanede gece nihayete ererken birkaç müşteri ve sandalyeleri toplayıp yerleri süpüren birkaç çocuktan başka kimse kalmamışken birlikte oturdukları Vasili ve Ahmet Rasim Bey de tam gitmeye hazırlanırken Tatyos Efendi kemana uzanmış sanki saatlerdir içen ve çalan o değilmiş gibi kemanı omuzuna yerleştirip, hafifçe başını kemana eğerek, dudaklarında acı bir tebessümle o ana kadar duyulmamış o uşşak şarkıyı ilk defa söylemiş...
Gamzede’yim deva bulmam, Garibim bir yuva kurmam, Kaderimdir hep çektiren, İnlerim hiç reha bulmam. Elem beni terketmiyor, Hiç de fasıla vermiyor, Nihayetsiz bu takibe, Doğrusu ta'kât yetmiyor. Ehl-i dilin yoktur kadri, Uğraşma gel Tatyos gayri, Eserin çok kıymetin yok, Git talihine küs bari...
Tatyos kemanı omuzundan indirdiğinde hiç kimsenin tek bir kelime edecek hali yoktur... Vasili hıçkıra hıçkıra ağlıyor meyhane de kalanlar da göz yaşlarını birbirlerine sezdirmeden silmeye çalışıyorlar... Birkaç hafta içinde İstanbul’da bu şarkıyı ezberlemeyen ne hânende ne sâzende kalıyor... Şarkıyı besteledikten bir ay sonra Tatyos Efendi vefat ediyor naaşı kilisede iken otuz yıl önceki çocukluk aşkı olan kadın Ahmet Rasim’in yanına üzerinde "Tatyos ile birlikte defnedilecektir..." yazılı bir zarf bırakıyor... Yarım saat sonra Tatyos’un naaşı ile birlikte toprağa verilecek zarfın içinde şu dizeler yazılıdır;*
*Gamzede'sin devân benim Garip kuşsun yuvan benim Çektiğimiz yeter gayri Kaderimsin inan benim. Ta'kât yetişmez eleme, Bülbül imrenir çileme. Bizim şu kara sevdamız, Kalsın öteki aleme. (...) ALINTI
"Not then, not now, never again fascism Never forget Srebrenica genocide"
Mural in Amsterdam of Potočari cemetery featuring the names of different Bosnian towns and cities with the corresponding estimated amount of victims.
Almost 30 years has passed since Europe was shaken by the genocide of more than 8000 muslim boys and men in the Bosnian city of Srebrenica, at the hands of Bosnian Serb troops during an operation of ethnic cleansing, witnessed by UN peacekeeping troops who failed resoundingly in their protection mission.
In the midst of the conflict in the Balkans during the 1990’s, the small city of Srebrenica, in Eastern Bosnia, was established as a “safe area” by the UN for civilians fleeing fights between Bosnian government and separatist Serb forces, during the breakup of Yugoslavia.
On 11 July 1995, Serb forces attacked Srebrenica lead by Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladić, conducting a ten-day operation to take over Srebrenica and subject it to ethnic cleansing. More than 8000 people were killed, mainly Bosnian muslim boys and men.
Turbo Macro Pro is a native assembler for the Commodore 64, which provides syntax highlighting and an advanced macro and include system, to make it easier to make complex programs sensibly. It even has the ability to embed external binary code (such as sprite data) in your executable.
Programming in assembly for a C64 is excellent training for embedded coding. You're right close to the metal, you have to know the system inside and out -- and you're learning in an environment that encourages making fun things.
making a video game for the Colecovision in Z80 assembly language was the best lesson in I had in embedded programming...better than any formal course on the subject.
Its BIOS, called OS7, was pretty decent too so you could leverage it to do some of the minutiae and concentrate on the fun stuff. I suspect the same is true about the routines in the C64 KERNEL and BASIC ROMs.
I am regularly told that people stumbled on my work via my site's #i2p mirror. The 'regular web' may be dead, but I am convinced that darknets are alive and well with people actually browsing the web. This surprises me because I have no idea how they're finding my site via I2P...
"TURQUIE / KURDISTAN – Dans la province kurde de Diyarbakir (Amed), des femmes ont organisé un sit-in pour interrompre les travaux d’un projet controversé d’une mine de cuivre. Leur protestation vise à dénoncer un passé de violences qui a déjà dévasté leur village à sept reprises. Dans le village de Mizak, dans le
There would never be a better time for Q to reappear than now, and talk about how Epstein was a distraction to get the real criminals, Obummer and the demonrats.
>You would have never believed the truth if I told it to you from the beginning anon. >You needed something you could relate to; pedophilia. >But now you need to let it go because the true crimes are SO much worse. >They've purposely kept the black men down after stealing their technology, 5000 years ago in Egypt...
Trump’s 50% copper import tariff said to cover refined metal. This is important because copper is in practically everything, and it's a bellwether commodity for recession as well.
More #Israeli #gaslighting and #propaganda. It has never been anti-semitic to criticize or "demonize" #Israel and anyone that tells you so is full of shit. Israel claiming something is "anti-semitic" when it clearly isn't is simply their way of manipulating opinions so they can't be held accountable for their actions. Well, enough is enough. ---
it's incredible how the e-rightoids think they only have two options every single fucking time MUH TRANNIES try to appropriate anything: a) immediately give up the thing they loved up until 5 mins ago (and even go "well ackshully in retrospect that thing i loved was always tranny-coded so good riddance") b) bitch about it in their social media circles without ever actually doing anything (this eventually leads to option a every single time without failure) but option c (actively fighting against it/ignoring it altogether) is never ever on the table
learned helplessness is both terrifying and disgusting
@kvit gaylo decided to fight against option c and just ban anyone who even dares to talk about uma global because MUH TRANNIES MUH TOURISTS ETC ETC but some people (said e-rightoids) think he was completely justified in nuking half of varis' (the instance) regulars because like 10 trannies did the usual "omg this anime's girls are all trannies!!!" thing on twitter in other words, yet another perpetually ceding everything to the trannies with no resistance award 🏅
@kvit i mean he was correct in every person on varis being tourist if they suddenly had interest in uma after the global release despite having two years of constant uma propoganda
If I could have just downloaded an apk and let it rip I would have played JP. Not wanting to jump through an insane amount of hoops to play a game in a language I can't read fluently where the story is incredibly important to the enjoyment of said game doesn't make me a tourist. He can go fuck himself.
And it's not just a translation problem. That's the easiest part. The nightmare is fooling the game into thinking you're in Japan because of their stupid region lock.
@Goalkeeper @theorytoe @kvit no you just don't get it dude, you're a tourist!!!! you had horse girl propaganda shoved down your throat 24/7 and you still didn't jump through all the hoops? but you installed it NOW??!?!?! T O U R I S T!!!!!
still remember the gundam online multiplayer with 100 man servers that checked IP and system locale to try and weed out foreigners. and even if you got in each lobby seemingly had admins dedicated to sniffing out and banning the gaijin trespassing in their sacred mecha game
I'm a bit emotional right now. But in the bad way to be fair. I just got stung by a wasp without any reason, after having to take a extensive shower before because my body was totally itchy from all the mites and whatnot. UGH! 😫
I've been pretty proud in the beginning of this experiment, because there were lots of wild bees, beetles and other cool critters around here. It's basically like being in nature.
But I forgot that nature sucks... 🥲
For example, imagine laying in the grass and just chilling. Beautiful for the first 5 seconds, but then, you begin getting stung in the asscreek by a dozen ants and get everything ruined.
Nature is basically dead in my area, so only the asshole bugs survive here.
The whole balcony is swarmed by aphids/ mites as well as ant colonies that protect those suckers from ladybugs and other beneficial predatory insects.
The aphids droop honeydew everywhere, which attracts lots of yellow jacket wasps, which in return could kill my girlfriend in minutes because she's highly allergic. I didn't even realise that asshole (the wasp, lol) is there until I got stung just by existing.
I'm right about to pull the trigger and get my pesticides (neem oil/ pyrethrum extract) out.
Also, I began to hate soil even more than before. I have to hunt for slugs every evening, because they're everywhere, and I can barely stand a chance against them. There are gnats living in it too, as well as other unwanted guests.
The plants in soil are starting to spread diseases and pests to my otherwise healthy plants in hydroponics. I will for example harvest my weed soon, and there are bugs sticking in the buds like in a glue trap. I have no idea how I should get them out of them, it's just disgusting.
I also largely prefer hydro compared to soil, not only because there are less pests, but also because due to the much lower water demand and control it gives me. The soil is guzzling water like crazy and still the plants are looking way less healthy.
Spraying neem oil on my hydro plants and just not using soil anymore seems to be the way better choice right now.
but let's keep in mind that "nature" isn't sleeping beauty, it's animals and plants all trying to get one over on one another. They don't give a shit.
Second, like, agriculture isn't nature. It's highly managed systems out of any kind of ecological context. So mixing you pot in with nasturtium? Maybe get off of tiktok for gardening advice.
Pick: Do you want to grow plants for human products or do you want a slice of the natural world?
If you want to grow for production, out doors indoors doesn't matter. The name of the game is sanitation sanitation sanitation. And you can manage that in a mixed system.
Second, your "mites" aren't mites, they are aphids. I can't believe I have to explain this to a weed grower. Ants will move aphids around plants, effectively using them as their own form of animal agriculture. So relying on spraying doesn't solve the primary issue there. You will need to spray to get the superficial stuff under control if you want to, but getting the ants under control is the only real way to control the aphids. The ants are far better at spreading aphids than you are at managing them. Beat the ants and then beat the aphids.
As far as beating the ants. Figure out what species they are first. Plenty ants will die back a bit from a chemical spray, but then come back with a vengeance a few weeks later because stress causes them to make more queens.
What can you do? Take it all as a lesson, take some time to clear you mind about what you want to do, and give it another go after cleaning up the mess. The outdoor pot is prob unrecoverable and will be swaggy after anyways. And it's not clear why you are growing. Figure out what you want from growing and focus on doing that effectively.
If you want nature, that comes with slugs and wasps and ants. And mixed systems can be effective (my garden has probably a hundred different species). But it takes a long time and a lot of experience to have the knowledge to be able to identify issues early and respond appropriately for each plant in a mixed system.
Hey, buddy. Take the shade out of the comment and someone might be more willing to listen. You just j Sound like kind of a dick the way this is phrased.
Blocking #RobertReich. Dude doesn't say anything I don't already know and he's clearly a #BlueSky whore now that treats the #Fediverse like we're second-class citizens. Dude won't even set up his BlueSky #bridge as a gesture of #goodwill.
Fun fact: IBM isn't the same people who made the 5150. Microsoft isn't the same people who made Windows 3.11 and DOS 6.22 either. Companies are not people except as a legal fiction -- a company is still itself even when it's completely changed hands.
Eh, I don't know if that's true when all that changes hands is the brand name. Plenty of zombie brands that exist only to slap a recognizable old name (like Bell & Howell) on Temu-grade crap.
The new brand owner *could* make an effort to bring back a level of engineering comparable to the original company (probably scaled down to serve fewer product lines or taking advantage of modern manufacturing approaches).
But that's not the way to bet. It's usually the Temu-grade crap.
@jonhendry Based on who is involved, I don't see a lot of Temu grade crap in Commodore's future. Jeri Ellsworth and Dave Haynie and Bil Herd will not want their good names so tarnished.
Had to fill up after driving to Madistan yesterday, and they literally changed the price on the marquee as I was pulling in. Saved myself 4¢/gallon. #winning
An interesting approach. I like it. From the article
The attorney general also pointed out that if AI chatbots are deceiving consumers through manipulated “fact-checking,” it may violate the Missouri Merchandising Practices Act, which aims to prevent companies from using false or deceptive advertising to sell merchandise in the state. Given the substantial revenue these tech giants generate from Missourians, Bailey asserted that their activities fall within his authority to protect consumers from fraud and false advertising.
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is demanding answers from big tech giants including Meta, Google, and OpenAI, about their AI chatbots distorting facts and producing biased results about President Donald Trump.
Its strange, i listen to a #song that has lyrics by a #rap artist and it says "i hear voices" yet in reality i enjoy this fucking song and my neighbours who must be deluded as fuck use this as ammunition against me for things that i dont experience personally. I dont hear fucking voices other than my own #dialogues meaning my own fucking voice and memories of other #people in my life #speaking. People are fucking stupid!
We make a discount to ourselves saying ‘they are antisemites’. I don’t think that they are only antisemites, I think many of them are anti-Israel because of what they watch on television, what they watch on social networks. This is a painful but normal reaction of people who say ‘hey, you guys have crossed every possible line’.
The situation has become so bad that the Environment Secretary has warned that if nothing is done we could run out of clean drinking water within a decade. This is, frankly, embarrassing. We’re supposed to be a developed country and we have abundant rainfall, and yet our state is so dysfunctional that we soon might not have enough drinking water.
While the government has approved the building of two new reservoirs, expected to be complete by 2036 and 2040, and plans to build another seven by 2050, this is not fast enough. And so water companies are considering rationing supply through surge pricing, much to the delight of some environmental campaigners.
Die zufällige Schwankung bei der Zahl der Feiertage, die auf Werktage fallen, dem Schalttag, usw. wird übrigens aus dem BIP einfach rausgerechnet, der Standardisierung wegen. Schon mal was davon gemerkt, am "realen" Wirtschaftswachstum? Didn't think so... norden.social/@bwaaaaak/114847…
Pfoten weg von meinen Feiertagszuschlägen
https://www.mdr.de/nachrichten/deutschland/politik/pfingstmontag-abschaffung-feiertag-dihk-peter-adrian-100.html
The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love triangle with beautiful Naval nurse Evelyn Johnson. But the rivalry between the friends-turned-foes is immediately put on hold when they find themselves at the center of Japan's devastating attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
Actors: - Ben Affleck - Kate Beckinsale - Josh Hartnett - Cuba Gooding Jr. - Jon Voight - Tom Sizemore - Alec Baldwin - Jennifer Garner - Jaime King - Catherine Kellner - Sara Rue - Michael Shannon - Dan Aykroyd
I just think its so funny how hard online games have tried to "curve toxicity" by limiting player communication or trying to punish players for toxic behavior.
Don't they understand? Calling someone a slur or telling them to go kill themselves is and will always be part of the online experience.
Retard used to be the medical way to talk about retards, the kind and proper term for talking about the subject.
Then children realized that retard meant retard. Retard became a "slur" because children didn't mean it in the kind medical use way, they meant that a fucker was retarded.
So we went with "Special". Kind word for the unfortunate simpleton. Once again kids found out that it means retard. Now Special is a "slur".
It doesn't matter what word is used for retard, it will always be used to laugh at people being retarded.
Take out the hook and they'll find a new way to tell each other to hang themselves. Sanitize it completely and even the nicest of words will be the ones used to tell each other to kill themselves.
[ Rosie O'Donnell Responds as Trump Threatens Her Citizenship | TIME ] time.com/7301997/trump-threat-… Let's strip #Trump and his family's US Citizenship instead and deport them all to South Sudan. #USpol
[ Gavin Newsom’s Press Office Calls Stephen Miller A 'Fascist Cuck' Amid Rumors About His Wife And Elon Musk ] huffpost.com/entry/newsom-step… Good! More people need to treat that Nazi fuck like the fascist cuck that he is. #USpol #StephenMiller
Government: "Just trust us blindly!", and when the classified documents are coming later declassified out then nobody except "conspiracy theorists/narrators" are looking at it anymore.
I found on my Linux or Android systems, magnitudes more power can be saved by minimizing I/O consumption, like "data saver." This brings down by magnitudes those CPU wakeup interrupts. I also found increasing the time between flushing the write data to storage helps too. A quiet I/O bus is a power saving I/O bus. Displaying seconds uses orders of magnitude less power than wifi or cell phone modem wakeups.
I guess the race to "I can do that in 1 watt" is real. I would worry more about potential corruption from delaying writes without a UPS which uses power. And around we go.
I found there was a limit to delaying writes. After about 24 hours, the memory overflows and there was no automatic flushing handler in the kernel at the time. And that was the kernel panic...
No. Schrödinger's cat isn't a thought experiment that makes any goddamned sense. It was designed (by a serial pedophile, no less) to be confusing and ridiculous.
Just drop it. You do not need Schrödinger's cat to make sense of anything, not sexual assault (e.g. "Schrödinger's rapist"), not the genocide taking place in Gaza, not even quantum mechanics itself.
You will be better off just explaining what you mean than hanging onto a pedophile's shitpost.
I am begging people to please find a second analogy for uncertainty.
(Setting aside that *the whole point* of Schrödinger's cat is that uncertainty in quantum measurements is ontic, not epistemic, a conclusion he found unpalatable and thus decided to mock.)
Clarissa | making Enigma Heart
in reply to Clarissa | making Enigma Heart • • •On the one hand, see above
On the other... a publisher would have greater reach than I could achieve on my own/with my PR budget. So ⚖️
Clarissa | making Enigma Heart
in reply to Clarissa | making Enigma Heart • • •The consensus seems to be that I'd probably be better served by hiring a PR firm than trying to go with a publisher. So I guess I'm doing some research this week, to see if I can find something that looks good, and that I can afford (which ain't much).
One more thing on the pile 😅
FlyingMana
in reply to Clarissa | making Enigma Heart • • •Resni
in reply to Clarissa | making Enigma Heart • • •I've heard that a publisher usually isn't worth it unless the publisher has an active fanbase for a particular style of game that your game fits.
it's also possible to hire PR people, and then that way you're able to get more PR while still retaining full control and rights etc over your game, I can't say whether it's worthwhile or anything though because I've never been able to afford that.