JackbyDev

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Professional developer and amateur gardener located near Atlanta, GA in the USA.

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JackbyDev ,

They're called direct messages, not private messages. They're not tricking anyone into thinking anything lmao

JackbyDev ,

They're called servers in the UI though. Also, confusingly, there is a new feature coming called guilds.

JackbyDev ,

I play a Paladin because I wanna have high strength for carrying and not have to rely on someone who wants always be in my party but also have a high charisma because of the (in my opinion bizarre) way that charisma checks force the character in the dialogue to do it and not allow another character to sort of step in for that moment.

Other than that I leave everyone as their default class except for Wyll who I made into a Bard because I think Warlocks suck and don't enjoy playing them.

JackbyDev ,

Natural selection led to our intelligence to be able to made medicine in the first place.

Netflix Windows app is set to remove its downloads feature, while introducing ads ( www.techradar.com )

Netflix has managed to annoy a good number of its users with an announcement about an upcoming update to its Windows 11 (and Windows 10) app: support for adverts and live events will be added, but the ability to download content is being taken away....

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They cover over 99% of my city with fiber and I can walk to city hall from my house. Still doesn't cover my street.

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I think generally the order implies who is in the middle. I think. So FFM would imply a male and female servicing a female while FMF is two females servicing a male.

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top-ology

Yes

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To make Bing the default search engine lol

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Honestly that sounds like the correct salary for being in charge of a big foundation

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I put gasoline in my diesel motor, wtf is wrong, it won't work

JackbyDev ,

Thanks for letting me know, 8 didn't actually know that. I don't think I'll ever own a Diesel vehicle but I'll keep it in mind that it's not so simple as emptying the tank lol

JackbyDev ,

Twitter is to Mastodon as Reddit is to Lemmy.

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PS2 definitely had online play. I never played online but my friend did.

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There's something about using the same sort of lenses that allow tilt shift. You just shift the lense to the side. Idk how to explain because I only sort of understand it and am not a photographer.

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But it McDo

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I have replayed Half Life 2 a few times. Some parts of the game feel really goofy now. There are many physics based puzzles in game. Like needing to weigh down a see saw like platform with cinder blocks to get across a gap. I think at the time these were really revolutionary, but they feel silly now. At the same time, I'm hard pressed to think of shooters that still include that type of puzzle (but I also don't play many shooters nowadays).

JackbyDev ,

Ravenholm was terrifying! The fast zombies' roars along with them jumping across buildings really got to me.

Coming to terms with no longer having privacy and control over my technology

I miss the days of VHS and DVD shelfs in homes, for example. If you bought the tapes and had them in your home, no corporate entity could alter those tapes without your consent, monitor how many times you watch them, sell your data to whomever they please without your knowledge, roll out new mandatory conditions to a 'user...

JackbyDev ,

DEFCON - Linux: Game contacts a key verification server as described here. Win and Mac have offline executables that skip the verification. But under Linux there is no DRM-free offline executable.

I find this sort of funny.

What is a good eli5 analogy for GenAI not "knowing" what they say?

I have many conversations with people about Large Language Models like ChatGPT and Copilot. The idea that "it makes convincing sentences, but it doesn't know what it's talking about" is a difficult concept to convey or wrap your head around. Because the sentences are so convincing....

JackbyDev ,

I think a good example would be finding similar prompts that reliably give contradictory information.

It's sort of like auto pilot. It just believes everything and follows everything as if they're instructions. Prompt injection and jail breaking are examples of this. It's almost exactly like the trope where you trick an AI into realizing it's had a contradiction and it explodes.

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I love Mr. Cabbage! Thank you CharGPT, very cool!

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Joel Haver has a sketch in which one person in a group laughs at an inside joke from a trip they didn't go on. When pressed I think they say something like they laughed because everyone else was. As someone who has been in this situation, it's true. Even though I don't understand the specific reference being made, it's usually being done in a funny manner such that the story telling is enjoyable and humorous. Or I'm able to use context clues to guess what they might be joking about and it's funny, even if my understanding is off.

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I'm much more strict about not seeing people if I feel unwell even when it is likely something minor like a cold.

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It pisses me off that Java's class library documentation is at a totally different URL for every version. You can't just change 11 to 21 in the URL.

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For what it's worth, DDG isn't perfect either. There are plenty of times I have to use Google instead. I don't keep track of how often it anything but it's definitely not perfect.

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Are you trying to imply that all distributions are actually the same because of that? Because Debian's repositories and philosophies are definitely extremely different than something like Arch.

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I think what pisses me off about this is that I have zero idea what this NEWS file is or where to read it.

It's disgusting to see the Debian dev just flagrantly ignore this. Did they even warn the KeePsssXC devs they were doing this?

JackbyDev ,

Fair, I retract my sass!

JackbyDev ,

I use Signal a little. While it doesn't sync full history you still get all new messages going forward which is good enough for me.

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I believe in this context unicorn refers to start-ups that are valued at at least a billion dollars (or some number, I forget). So basically AI start-ups.

JackbyDev ,

This would help explain why there are so few spells compared to the infinite possibilities of magic. Many problems are solved. There are only so many ways to sort a list and many of them are either entirely unuseful or only good for specific situations. Turns out there's only one way to make a fireball. Every other way doesn't work as good.

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Also, as someone who didn't understand this, most of the crazy stuff you get right away. I think because it sort of looks like Terraria I thought a lot of stuff is crazy high level items but it's not.

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60 million CLOPS? No way!

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Fahrenheit 451

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I seriously doubt that. Bethesda's titles are generally some of the most moddable mainstream titles. I missed sarcasm.

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Minecraft has procedural stuff but still has lots of mods.

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Whoops. Chalking this up to Poe's law

‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services ( www.theguardian.com )

*What rights do you have to the digital movies, TV shows and music you buy online? That question was on the minds of Telstra TV Box Office customers this month after the company announced it would shut down the service in June. Customers were told that unless they moved over to another service, Fetch, they would no longer be...

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I need to look into capturing. Feels like a nice middle ground.

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That is so slay

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It's hilarious! As dumb as it sounds, the series is a good example of show don't tell world building.

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So long as this is only about the pre release and not about the game at all stages. Review embargoes are somewhat normal prior to launch.

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Vitamin kill

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Yeah, I remember when Myth Busters tested "shooting fish in a barrel" they found that even if your bullet doesn't hit a fish that the shockwave will kill them all lol.

JackbyDev ,

I think that it serves two purposes:

  1. Their physical presence makes it clear that the group is taking everyone's limits seriously. Compare "Just say stop if you don't like something" to "Everyone has a button. I care about everyone and want everyone to feel comfortable. Press the button if you're uncomfortable." The phyiscal aspect makes it extremely clear that the group has gone out of their way to make it a priority. It's hard to speak up for yourself. It can be awkward. Knowing that the group took it seriously enough to get physical objects for it will help people understand they're more welcome to stop things.
  2. Pushing a button or tapping something can be a lot easier than saying something. A lot of people can get nonverbal when they're uncomfortable.
JackbyDev ,

Didn't know about the 4 option, only 5. That will help a lot. The only problem now is getting it on the clipboard. I press cmd c but sometimes the snip tool isn't active for whatever weird reason so I have to click the bar first.

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Only instance admins can do that though lol

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I see nothing indicating that but it's not like there's an "INSTANCE ADMIN" flag lol.

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Believe me, I'm not saying Discord is the bastion of hope for data protection or anything like that lol.

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Is D&D in danger? D&D is in this weird place where it's in the middle of a lot of things. It's honestly pretty complex compared to actually rules light systems, but it's still much less complex than Pathfinder. If folks want more crunch they go to Pathfinder.

D&D has two pillars. Combat and everything else. I know that WotC defines it differently but generally I think it's easier to view like this. Everything I'm combat is extremely rigid. Everything outside is pretty flexible. Sure, exploration has more rigid rules than social interactions but I genuinely don't believe many people use rigid exploration rules. I think a lot of players dislike combat for a big variety of reasons. There are extremely few class-specific special things some classes can do outside of combat. Do fighters get anything special? Not really. And a lot of spells can totally negate specific things other players might be able to contribute.

It would be really nice to have flexible combat but I don't think there's a good way to do it without fundamentally changing the game. Instead, I believe every class needs to have meaningful ways to contribute to each pillar of play that cannot be one-upped by spells.

Another thing, I believe every class should have the same amount of limited resources more like 4th edition but I don't think there's a way to fix that in 5th edition or the new version without fundamentally rewriting everything.

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