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[–] self@awful.systems 10 points 4 months ago

(Currently writing some book-like text on the AI bubble, with minimal crypto. I also have some book-like text on smart city scams, which has rather more bitcoin in it.)

fuck yes

AWS’ suggested upgrade path is Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL — which also does audit logs. So as usual, the answer to which database is: just use Postgres.

it’s amazing how often Postgres is the sane implementation for a database-shaped problem, including a search engine just waiting for a competent ranking algorithm and a crawler (yes I’ve considered doing this)

[–] self@awful.systems 7 points 4 months ago

Never change (meaning this sincerely, thanks for the good mod work).

anytime!

Investigating a user for a sus body shaming post, banning them for a programming drama post.

see, I don’t know Lena’s work well enough to know if maybe “she has ballooned” is a multi-layered reference that only looks like shallow, shitty body shaming if you don’t get the in-joke

but I’m online enough to know exactly where they got that Godot dogwhistle from, and it’s not even close to being an innocent mistake

[–] self@awful.systems 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I opened your post history to see if this was the lazy unfunny fatphobia I thought it was and found an additional awful fucking take right away:

That seems like a better system than say, Godot, who picks and chooses who is allowed to contribute.

so off you fuck

[–] self@awful.systems 18 points 5 months ago (3 children)

having stealth-launched a full-blown web3 game last week called Champions Tactics: Grimoria Chronicles on PC.

Champions Tactics is billed as a "PVP tactical RPG game on PC", and is both developed and published by Ubisoft. It involves collectible figurines of various warriors from the in-game fantasy world of Grimoria, which players assemble into squads of three and then battle in turn-based combat that looks oddly reminscent of Darkest Dungeon, of all things.

dear fuck this is incredibly generic. the game series is… Champions? of which this is a tactical installment and also the chronicles of Grimoria, a fantasy name so bland I can’t believe it’s not copyright infringement? this shit — name, concept, and all — definitely came from an LLM

But fundamentally, Ubisoft's perspective on the tech seems surprisingly bullish; the vice president of its Strategic Innovation Lab seems to think gamers just "don't get it."

yeah! your target audience just refuses to get what you’re going for! I wonder what that’s called again? oh yeah, failure

[–] self@awful.systems 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

…fucking hell I’ve got Netrunner on the brain. the card game about socialist hackers doing the best they can with what they can scrap together, organizing an economic war against extremely well-financed and terrifyingly powerful but inefficient corporations that almost own the entire world and will if you don’t single-handedly stop them

and as if that wasn’t cyberpunk enough, modern Netrunner is completely free and built on a game system and concept appropriated from Fantasy Flight after they let the game go out of print (though you can pay a reasonable price for good-quality printed cards, and they adopted roughly Fantasy Flight’s seasonal model that lets you do a MtG style deckbuilder without the greed elements, which is very nice)

e: and Musk is quoted in the other thread like “huh huh huh we all want cyberpunk right but just the duster not the other parts” and it’s like motherfucker a used duster’s normal hazard protection for a dying earth, ask me how I know, and all the other parts of any cyberpunk that’s worth a damn are about how much you fucking suck

[–] self@awful.systems 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

this is only part of why Netrunner is the superior deckbuilder

[–] self@awful.systems 5 points 5 months ago

unfortunately, the US election season is the time for tedious motherfuckers to try some shit

[–] self@awful.systems 4 points 5 months ago (6 children)

see I’m slowly shifting my vocabulary to tap unless I’m DIYing an NFC sticker into a project, but sometimes my cursed engineering brain takes over

maybe both should be tap. maybe it’s all tap. REST calls are now taps.

[–] self@awful.systems 6 points 5 months ago (8 children)

it’s embarrassing as fuck though when NFC’s either broken at the terminal or really finicky, so you have to get the cashier to slowly, painfully re-request the payment twice before giving up and seeing if your chip still works

or you’re at Walmart or CVS and they intentionally disabled it in all their stores for asshole reasons

even more embarrassing: I accidentally call it NFT and the cashier knows what that is and thinks I’m a fucking idiot

[–] self@awful.systems 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

congrats on subjectively being an utter shithead to an African while supposedly complementing African countries in your trainwreck of a post

fuck off now

[–] self@awful.systems 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

“I’m the most spontaneous wildcat in the fucking world,” he said. “You tell me let’s go, I’m there.”

Ayala agreed to an interview, but only if he would be paid. WIRED declined.

I keep imagining how hard Wired’s journalist must have been laughing when the guy with the personality of a particularly bland teenage try-hard demanded to be paid to promote his shitty pump and dump to Wired’s readers

One creator promised to pour milk over his supposed mother’s breasts, but only once his coin reached a $300,000 valuation.

fucking what? who is this even for?

[–] self@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago

can butts be used for online gambling? you bet your ass

 

this is a computer that’s almost entirely without graphical capabilities, so here’s a demo featuring animations and sound someone did last year

 

Bevy is a fun, cozy game engine to play with if you’re looking for something very flexible that implements some surprisingly advanced features. things I like:

  • it’s all rust, which is an advantage for me and the chemical burns I have from handling the dialect of C++ a lot of older game engines used to be written in
  • it implements a flexible entity component system, which I found pretty great for specifying game and rendering logic for things like roguelikes and simulations, where multiple game systems might interact in dynamic ways
  • the API is very cozy and feels like querying an extremely fast database at times
  • it’s a lot lower level than something like Unity or Godot, but you get some pretty advanced rendering features included
  • the main developer seems to have a lot of industry experience and a solid roadmap
 

Nix is one of the few pieces of software I trust. I use it on just about every computer I work on — awful.systems is managed and deployed by just nixos-rebuild and a deployment flake, as are almost all the computers in my house (including a few embedded into the house itself). in general it makes both software development and configuring Linux a lot more fun compared with the traditional way of doing things

I often call Nix fucking incomprehensible, but it doesn’t need to be. Zero to Nix is one of the documentation projects that’s intended to be a more gentle goal-oriented introduction to Nix concepts, and it’s definitely worth following along if you’re curious about Nix and want to be able to do something useful with it right away

if you end up liking Nix and want more of it, NixOS is an entire Linux distro configured and managed by Nix, and it’s incredibly powerful and stable. I run it on a full-fat gaming PC as my primary OS and the experience of running it is surprisingly very good; feel free to ask and I’ll summarize how I run stuff like games on NixOS

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