[-] raubarno@lemmy.ml 8 points 11 months ago

I see marketing via AI tools and bots unethical. Many things can be done via conventional marketing.

  1. Contact content creators (especially oriented towards Linux and Free software, like TheLinuxExperiment or DistroTube, or some gaming channels, as well) to create communities of their channels on Lemmy.
  2. Somehow reduce content about world news and politics. Many people go to the Internet to step aside from the real world events.

Also, majority of Reddit users are teenagers. The older generation of Reddit has fled away. We must think twice what target audience we want to bring in. I don't want Lemmy to become a place where alt-wing anti-establishment political leaders bait naïve teenagers and take them into the rabbit hole (aka scenario described in The Social Dilemma).

[-] raubarno@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 months ago

I see Chinese hieroglyphs down there, thus I've become Chinese.

[-] raubarno@lemmy.ml 8 points 11 months ago

My dark side: I feel disengaged in my duties, I tend to flee away from teamwork and skip deadlines, especially when the workflow is stressful. Of course, mates hate me for that :(

Others' inconsistencies I see: tendency to make careless decisions without thinking twice, or miscommunication (incorrect wording) of intended actions, especially in programming and/or designing things. Also, not admitting an expectation to get some sort of reward/compensation when giving things for free.

Example:

  • A: You gave me this, thank you! What can I do/buy to you in return?
  • B: No need, thank you.
  • (one year later)
  • B: I gave you that, so I want you to do something in return.
  • A: You told me I'm not obliged to repay you!
  • B: You should've understood it by yourself!
  • A: ...(Reimu mode activated)

Jokes aside, I am generous but this unspoken liability pisses me off.

[-] raubarno@lemmy.ml 17 points 11 months ago

Okay. I declare tomorrow to be International throw imperial units day.

[-] raubarno@lemmy.ml 32 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Unfortunately, Linux manuals are pretty scattered around. I'll try to find something for you:

EDIT: Forgot this important material:

  • If you need to know command-line argument specifics for a particular program, use manpages (For example, to find brief information about grep, type man grep in your shell, and info grep if you need a complete manual).
[-] raubarno@lemmy.ml 9 points 11 months ago

By the rising sun, did he mean Japan? Or maybe break the Hakurei Barrier to enter Gensokyo?

[-] raubarno@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 months ago

Hi. I understand your rant. Yes, the quality of most frameworks in the wild is pretty low, especially if it is one of the more niche algorithm nobody takes care to audit, or the programming language lacks safety syntax, like C++, which allows writing mixed C and C++ code and only few people understand the necessity of idiomatic C++. And of course, inexperienced devs go the easiest way.

Don't give up and take this as a challenge. It is a skill to understand what the other guy wrote. And this skill takes years to develop.

[-] raubarno@lemmy.ml 79 points 11 months ago

Must be fake (unless you're driving a lens-less camera obscura). There's a region starting from the camera surface until its focal point at which the camera cannot focus objects. This is why macro lenses that have a very small focal length exist. And the insect looks very clear despite being closer than the camera could focus. Also, in a real photo, the mosquito would not look transparent like that. It would look pitch-black like everything else in the photo. The background seems legit to me. It can be produced if you set narrow aperture, short exposure and low light-sensitivity, knowing this was made in a foggy day. But that mosquito is an overlay, IMHO.

[-] raubarno@lemmy.ml 10 points 11 months ago

Wait. A few years ago, Windows decided they couldn't keep up with warez, so they allowed unactivated Windows for the first time. Now, they are going back to paid model, just to let the piracy shine up again!

In addition, this means, that if I bought a computer with Windows pre-installed, I couldn't operate it? This will render OEM Windows installation useless. So.. year of the Linux Desktop?

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submitted 11 months ago by raubarno@lemmy.ml to c/music@lemmy.ml

One of the best Touhou pieces according to my taste. Looped this masterpiece once for 36 hours.

There are other pretty Touhou soundtracks, though.

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by raubarno@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

(begin rant)

Hi. Do you ever have a feeling that you have technical skills to qualify as a programmer, and there's a demand for specialists, but, ironically, nobody needs them to design some useful information system or optimize the workflow in the factories, or do real science and push the limitations of human knowledge, but rather, all is just to spread some crappy advertising message as cheap as possible to the broadest audience as possible, usually without giving any respect to consumers, that feels like you're losing your brain cells when interacting with the app/content you create. Quality level zero, consumerism level over 9k. Tons of boilerplate because 'everything must be kept proprietary' and it probably won't work after 2 years because the framework you were using is down and the very idea of the becomes dated. Also, the more advanced technology, the more it's used for shit. Like, we have generative neural networks that are used for turdposting conspiracies and generating profit/influence for some party.

I would say this clearly: I am very, very angry when I'm seeing this. I don't want to participate in something that forces consumers to eat shit. Fuck SEO and e-commerce. Everything's generative-AI, GANs, LLMs.. now, which do not produce any value, at least to the user, or extracting every single bit of data of the user. Everything's just to bombard people with information nowadays. Even Project Managers get biased (mostly because of naïve hype) and promote this crap.

(end rant)

So, my question is, how do you go through all of it? Of course, devs are better paid, but I don't care about money. I'm still a student and, although I really like programming, and I'm really good at solving Competitive Programming problems (been at ICPC several times), I'm tired of this junk, besides I have a feeling I'll be forced to do it. But, if I'm going to do it, somebody's gonna get hurt. But it seems that it's the only thing I'm skilled at, and I have no alternatives. So, how do you get through all of it, and what do you see it as relief, what does reward you at the very end?

EDIT: uncensored all swear words at request. I hope now you're happy.

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Used all of these three. I don't want to even look at MS Visual C/C++ ecosystem.

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submitted 1 year ago by raubarno@lemmy.ml to c/general@lemmy.world

Hello guys, I need to take a break from Lemmy. Lately, I've become attached to it, a part of the community (which is probably good). Unfortunately, it triggers fear of missing out (FOMO) lately for me. Don't get me wrong, Lemmy has become the most wonderful community on the Internet, but this time, I need a break from the Internet. I want to focus on my game development and away-from-keyboard tasks and use the computer less for lurking on the Internet and more for daily tasks.

In addition, I want to test myself how long I will stay away from social networks. I want to understand why community-based social media like Lemmy is addictive, what are the benefits and drawbacks of it, and re-learn how to use the Internet. I've set a goal to be inactive on Lemmy for at least 2 weeks, starting from tomorrow, but my journey can last much longer. I am asking for your support in this journey.

What do you think of the problems a perfect social media has I mentioned above?

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Taisei (as well as Touhou series) is a 2D vertically-scrolling danmaku (bullet hell) action game, placed in a fictional world of Gensokyo. The goal is to escape from hundreds of bullets. Touhou series originally began in late 1990s by a developer called ZUN for PC-98 and, later, for Windows computers. Development of Taisei (previously OpenTH) started in 2012. It is written in C, OpenGL and SDL, contains ~100k LoC, and supports Windows, Linux, Mac OS and Web.

What I like about this game is, that Taisei Project has soundtracks in the wild (by Tuck V). It also features fancy graphics (colour blending, shaders, character drawings). Not to mention, this game dives deep into the gameplay and realm, and is pretty hard in the beginning (as virtually all Touhou-ish games). Have fun!

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