I will never understand why we looked at modern programming, saw that there is a good bit, which is programming, and a bad bit, which is code review… and decided to automate the good bit at the expense of having to do a lot more of the bad bit.
How embarrassing, successful socialism…
The author tries hard, but she is having to bite her tongue.
Nothing is perfect, but communitarianism, a rejection of Hindu nationalism and relatively low levels of corruption seem to have helped.
@sounddrill You mean Homebrew for Switch? Yeah there is, sort of but for the Switch Lite you gotta solder a physical mod chip to hack the console to load the exploits. Afaik, the OG Switch had it easier.
Homebrew kinda ruins the fun for me because it takes the fun out of buying and finishing games so I never modded any of my consoles in the past.
Back in the late 2000s, it was incredibly hard to find someone with a PSP in India. Only the rich kids used to have it.
Here I am almost 17 years later, finally having a handheld console. I never got the PSP back then but at least I have a switch which is the modern equivalent of it.
Building and “shipping” software projects is easy with LLMs now - but there is little to no satisfaction of building things anymore
And respect peoples time - there are humans on the other side of these FOSS projects. Fork and make changes in your own projects if you have the interest, but dont push slop upstream.
It's been 4 months since XMPP worked properly for me. The entire protocol is broken for me across various clients and devices. Can't login to any XMPP service on iOS, Gajim doesn't work on Mac and fails to work properly on Windows/Linux.
Honestly at this point I'm thinking about not using it anymore because its barely usable. IRC and Matrix work flawlessly on the other hand. Not sure wtf is wrong with XMPP.
Microsoft Copilot terms of service have been updated to include this gem: "Copilot is for entertainment purposes only." https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/02/copilot_terms_of_service/
Finally bit the bullet and installed FreeBSD from scratch inside a VM. Baremetal install coming soon.....
raylib sounds interesting…
The easiest way to make a game w/o an engine is Lua’s Love2D framework but I like C because I don’t want to learn a whole new language for this hypothetical game of mine.
Let’s see if it’s doable in C…..
Thank you OpenAI and every AI techbro scoundrel for ruining my favourite hobby. You ruined one of my dream purchases. I was saving up money to buy a PS5 and I can't get one anymore to justify the price. Fuck you and your AI.