From the video description:

The Deepest Games are DUMB. How is it possible that this generation of game developers, who are clearly articulate and educated, be so obsessed with the idea of creating deep meaningful games, and yet consistently produce games that are shallow and automated? Also, why does it seem impossible for the depth of the games of the past to be re-created? There clearly isn't any technological barrier, so what is the problem?

One of the major problems that I discuss in today's video is the obsession modern developers have with making smart games and being perceived as these masters of human psychology and technology. Where this stems from is hard to know for sure, but there is clearly a trend of developers being able to find the areas of their game that contain the potential for depth, and then systematically eliminating them. Ironically a lot of these areas are labeled as "outdated" but what I think developers and reviewers really mean to say is dumb. No one would argue pixel art is outdated. No one would argue that Mario 3 and their favorite Super Nintendo games are outdated. What they mean is that these games are presenting the player true punishment and no smartly devised system to go around the punishment.

Edit 2025-04-09 16:42Z - article was updated with a tenth package (Prettier - Code)

A set of ten VSCode extensions on Microsoft's Visual Studio Code Marketplace pose as legitimate development tools while infecting users with the XMRig cryptominer for Monero.

ExtensionTotal researcher Yuval Ronen has uncovered ten VSCode extensions published on Microsoft's portal on April 4, 2025.

The package names are:

1. Prettier - Code for VSCode (by prettier) - 486K installs
2. Discord Rich Presence for VS Code (by Mark H) - 189K installs
3. Rojo – Roblox Studio Sync (by evaera) - 117K installs
4. Solidity Compiler (by VSCode Developer) - 1.3K installs
5. Claude AI (by Mark H)
6. Golang Compiler (by Mark H)
7. ChatGPT Agent for VSCode (by Mark H)
8. HTML Obfuscator (by Mark H)
9. Python Obfuscator for VSCode (by Mark H)
10. Rust Compiler for VSCode (by Mark H)

Edit 2025-04-09 16:42Z - article was updated with a tenth package (Prettier - Code)

A set of ten VSCode extensions on Microsoft's Visual Studio Code Marketplace pose as legitimate development tools while infecting users with the XMRig cryptominer for Monero.

ExtensionTotal researcher Yuval Ronen has uncovered ten VSCode extensions published on Microsoft's portal on April 4, 2025.

The package names are:

1. Prettier - Code for VSCode (by prettier) - 486K installs
2. Discord Rich Presence for VS Code (by Mark H) - 189K installs
3. Rojo – Roblox Studio Sync (by evaera) - 117K installs
4. Solidity Compiler (by VSCode Developer) - 1.3K installs
5. Claude AI (by Mark H)
6. Golang Compiler (by Mark H)
7. ChatGPT Agent for VSCode (by Mark H)
8. HTML Obfuscator (by Mark H)
9. Python Obfuscator for VSCode (by Mark H)
10. Rust Compiler for VSCode (by Mark H)

AMAB

This is a moving story about a cafe in Japan that allows house-bound people to join in with society and find a purpose, using remotely operated robotic avatars.

I had never heard of Absolute Linux, but the rest of this article has some interesting musings on lightweight distros that I thought would make for good discussion here.

If you want to go straight to the original write-up, it's here: https://eieio.games/blog/bad-apple-with-regex-in-vim/

Build log: https://www.southernamis.com/forum/general-discussions/xe-book-development

Great craftsmanship from this maker and the end result is impressive.

If you want to skip the construction process and just see the end result, skip ahead to 41:20.

Edit: this appears to be fixed now: https://lemmy.ml/post/22203615/14801411

All images in posts on lemmy.ml are currently being resized to 256px on the longest dimension (width/height), even if they are image posts, not intended to be just article thumbnails.

Is this an intentional change? It makes text in images illegible and means that I have to view the original post to see the original image on every image post.

If this is a deliberate space-saving measure, could it be tuned for a little better usability? For example, increasing the maximum size of image when the post is an image post (as opposed to a web link that generates a thumbnail) and setting a size threshold to trigger resize (ie. most small images could be left alone).

Some examples from my feed:

Threat actors are utilizing an attack called "Revival Hijack," where they register new PyPi projects using the names of previously deleted packages to conduct supply chain attacks.

The technique "could be used to hijack 22K existing PyPI packages and subsequently lead to hundreds of thousands of malicious package downloads," the researchers say.

If you ever install python software or libraries using pip install then you need to be aware of this. Since PyPI is allowing re-use of project names when a project is deleted, any python project that isn't being actively maintained could potentially have fallen victim to this issue, if it happened to depend on a package that was later deleted by its author.

This means installing legacy python code is no longer safe. You will need to check every single dependency manually to verify that it is safe.

Hopefully, actively maintained projects will notice if this happens to them, but it still isn't guaranteed. This makes me feel very uneasy installing software from PyPI, and it's not the first time this repository has been used for distributing malicious packages.

It feels completely insane to me that a software repository would allow re-use of names of deleted projects - there is so much that can go wrong with this, and very little reason to justify allowing it.