[-] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Had to use gett when I visited Tel Aviv a few years back. That's about it

[-] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

It's already in use responsibly.

And irresponsibly.

Turns out that you can't really argue the slope of responsibility as a way to shoot down a tool, when that's an individual choice of how someone uses that tool.

[-] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

I love seeing these outside views from folks who aren't developers 🤣

Gen AI is pretty well integrated into development pipelines at this point. In ways that are subtle and quite useful.

Especially autocomplete as you write code, and boiler plate autofill. These used genai, are subtle and not necessarily intrusive, and are pretty widely integrated across the development ecosystem.

Like everything the poison makes the dose. The larger the dose of genai the more poison you are introducing into your work.

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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by douglasg14b@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

I've been using Tube Archivist to archive my YouTube playlists, but I've hit a portability snag. It stores all metadata in its internal database and saves video files with non-readable filenames. This makes the archive unreadable without the software and its database, which defeats the point of long-term archival storage.

Are there any tools that:

  • Archive playlists with human-readable filenames (or let you control the naming scheme)
  • Have an API for queuing archival jobs
  • Store metadata in portable formats (e.g., sidecar JSON or YAML)
  • Don’t require additional software to interpret the archive
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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by douglasg14b@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

Mobile location based games. This is still a fledgling genre. But not many of them scratch the itch of online/shared world empire building.

There are some that try and scratch the empire building niche but they don't go far with the idea, or their implementation is kind of janky with older or awkward user experiences.

So.....

I started building my own

A location based, persistent, multiplayer, economy and industry sim.

A few years ago I was inspired by some of these games to build my own. After a couple years of development, I proved all the core technologies. It was at this point that I realized that without a community and without garnering interest, no matter how good of a game I made, it was still slated to die against the waves of slop on the app store.

It sat on the back burner for a bit but I've been interested in restarting the project recently. As part of that I want to see what sort of interest and ideas other folks have.

The Concept

The concept of the game (Heavily inspired by Resources, with the same gameplay loop), is that you are the owner of a corporation and can go around in the real world scanning for resources.

These resources are distributed in a manner that tries to match their real world properties. Certain resources that are often mined alongside each other can be mined together.

Once you find resources that you care about, you can place down mines to gather those resources. Since this is a persistent world, there is some sense of scarcity for certain resources as once someone else is placed mines there you cannot.

You can then use factories to refine those raw materials, and to manufacture products out of those raw materials. You can upgrade mines, your factories, your manufacturing capabilities...etc these refinement and manufacturing chains are also based off of their real world counterparts. Certain metals like copper and aluminum are incredibly difficult to refine and the efficiency of that refining process is based on the technologies you are using for that refinement.

A real player market is where you can buy and sell materials and products. You can either sell or buy materials for the purpose of manufacturing or you can play the market and make money through speculation.

Pressures are put on you in the form of mine upkeep, over time your mind's degrade and you will need to spend money or resources to maintain them. Natural disasters can affect the productivity of your mines and factories within certain geographical regions or even do damage to them.

You have a workforce and that workforce costs money to maintain and keep happy. The regional and global workforces of all players drive a level of economic consumption and need, alongside your natural growth and technological advancement.

Increase your manufacturing capabilities and technologies by unlocking them as part of a tech tree. As you progress, you are able to build and research technologies to not only unlock new products and manufacturing capabilities but boost productivity and efficiency.

....etc

Okay, that's a lot of words

Essentially:

  • Real world resource distribution, based on common geography and realistic resource availability.
  • manufacturing and processing chains grounded in how these materials are produced for real
  • A full technology tree and progression
  • A player driven economy
  • various upgrade paths for your mines, factories and other buildings
  • A "Headquarters" Which is an area with limited land availability for you to place billions like factories and refining.
  • The amount of land available for your headquarters is upgradable as you progress
  • Competition against players both for resources on the map, economic size, and leaderboards.
  • Direct trading, contracts, and sales between corporations

....etc

Who here has an interest in games like these? And what sort of empire building itch can this scratch for you?

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[-] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 78 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yep and the slow gutting of the education system isn't making it any better.

You have an entire generation coming of voting age who are rabid Trump supporters. They don't care about policies or democracy or public institutions. They don't care about healthcare, social securities, or the stability of the economy.

They don't care about any of the things that have been built up through generations. They lack critical thinking ability.

The recipe works. If you make dumb kids they will vote for dumb people. It works so well that part of the future plan for a trump presidency is to get rid of the department of education. Solidifying the Republican party indefinitely.

Without critical thinking and with mass media it's so easy to say every problem that people deal with is because the "other side" made it so. Even if the other side has been doing everything possible to achieve the opposite.

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by douglasg14b@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

Hopefully you all can help!

I've been to hundreds of threads over the last few days trying to puzzle this out, with no luck.

The problem:

  1. Caddy v2 with acme HTTP-1 ACME challenge (Changed from TLS-ALPN challenge)
  2. Cloudflair DNS with proxy ON
  3. All cloudflair https is off
  4. This is a .co domain

Any attempt to get certificates fails with an invalid challenge response. If I try and navigate (or curl) to the challenge directly I always get SSL validation errors as if all the requests are trying to upgrade to HTTPS.

I'm kind of at my wit's end here and am running out of things to try.

If I turn Cloud flare proxy off and go back to TLS-ALPN challenge, everything works as expected. However I do not wish to expose myself directly and want to use the proxy.

What should I be doing?


I have now solved this by using Cloudflair DNS ACME challenge. Cloudflair SSL turned back on. Everything works as expected now, I can have external clients terminate SSL at cloudflair, cloudflair communicate with my proxy through HTTPS, and have internal clients terminate SSL at caddy.

[-] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 165 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

You literally can't.

There's a ton of stuff you can't do with the new garbage settings.

Let's not even mention that on an operating system called "Windows" you can only have one "window" of settings open. And opening new settings will just replace where you just where. Which is extremely rage inducing.

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I just messed my ankle up and am going to a conference in a couple days where I normally walk 15-25 miles/day for the next week.

I've been advised to use a wheelchair instead of crutches. And will rent one when I get there.

I get the feeling that I'm throwing myself into the fire here, having never used a wheelchair before, and likely spending a crazy amount of time in one moving around over the next week.

I usually can't deal with sitting down for more than an hour or so before my back hurts, so I'm worried about that.

What advice do you all have for me? What do I need to know? What pro-tips should I take for the next week?

[-] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 98 points 1 year ago

Refrigerating bread slows down mold growth...

This increasing the shelf life.

You don't have to refrigerate bread. But you can with clear reason.

[-] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 109 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's not how systemic problems work.

This is probably one of the most security ignorant takes on here.

People will ALWAYS fuck up. The world we craft for ourselves must take the "human factor" into account, otherwise we amplify the consequences of what are predictable outcomes. And ignoring predictable outcomes to take some high ground doesn't cary far.

The majority of industries that actually have immediate and potentially fatal consequences do exactly this, and have been for more than a generation now.

Damn near everything you interact with on a regular basis has been designed at some point in time with human psychology in mind. Built on the shoulders of decades of research and study results, that have matured to the point of becoming "standard practices".

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I have already seen an allergist, and was on ramp up. We had to move, and to my surprise none of the clinics here will administer allergy shots.

There is a speciality clinic that will, but only if you are a patient of their allergist, they won't administer injections unless it came from them. There is a 3y wait-list for their allergist.

This is terrible news. My seasonal allergies are debilitating, they are a disability. In the words of my allergist "You are allergic to the world".

I could administer them at home, my spouse is an MA and knows how to do the subcutaneous shots. However, that's dangerous, and my allergist refuses to allow me to do this.

The alternative would be to just walk into a clinic or ER, get the shots administered by my spouse in the lobby. Wait the 20-30 minutes to ensure no anaphylactic reaction, and go home. And do this till I've ramped. But I get the feeling this won't go over well....

What sort of advice do you have for me on navigating this Lemmy? I was receiving treatment for this condition, and now I can't, which is essentially driving me into depression.

[-] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 114 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I mean you essentially just highlighted a primary user experience problem with Linux....

Information & advice is fragmented, spread around, highly opinionated, poorly digestible, out of date, and often dangerous.

And then the other part of it is that a large part the Linux community will shit on you for not knowing what you don't know because of some weird cultural elitism...

When you finally ask for help once you realize you don't know what you're doing, you're usually met with derisive comments and criticism instead of help.


Do you want Linux to be customizable so that users can control it however they want. Or do you want it to be safe so that users don't mess it up? You can't have it both ways, and when you tell users to "go figure it out" and then :suprise_pikachu: that they found the wrong information because they have literally no idea what's good or bad, instead of helping, they get shit on.

It's the biggest thing holding Linux desktop back.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by douglasg14b@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

This is great news, and a strong step forward.

A big part of this are the limitations around part pairing. Which often prevents repairs as the parts on the device are paired to each other and do not allow you to swap them out.

Recently this has become a problem even for EUVs like OneWheel. Who lock consumers out of repairing or modifying their devices.

[-] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 85 points 1 year ago

Just like others with a missed , obvious, opportunity.

I had a girl take me to a room, take her clothes off, and then just look at me and and ask "Well?"

I had no fucking clue what she meant or what to do so I just did nothing. She then changed into different clothes and left.

[-] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 81 points 2 years ago

Love it when corporations have more power than government entities.

The dystopian future is coming faster than ever

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by douglasg14b@lemmy.world to c/liftoff@lemmy.world

Whenever I try and go to this instance it shows that an unexpected error has occurred. What's the dealio?

The website itself appears to work.

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Seems an engineer stole source code, docs, presentations...etc related to car technology.

[-] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 235 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I think that community guidelines/ code or conduct should still exist at a top level, in a digestible form, and not nested within a legal document.

They can still be part of the legal document, but should be made more accessible if said guidelines are cared about.

Otherwise you'll find that it's a set of expectations that no one reads (And likely cannot find even if they where looking for them), when those expectations are critically important to community health.

[-] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 101 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

So, essentially, really poorly written malware? Given the number of assumptions it makes without any sort of robustness around system configuration it's about as good as any first-pass bash script.

It'd be a stretch to call it malware, it's probably an outright fabrication to call it a virus.

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I can't seem to figure out how to do this in liftoff.

The best search and find method that I have for communities is to create a new post and I can search through the communities on an instance there.

However I'm not sure how else to search for communities, it just go directly to one, as the search function isn't to helpful right now.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by douglasg14b@lemmy.world to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

A good example of why GitHub and similar sites/services are not reliable or good places to publicize this sort of data.

It seems kind of dubious that the DB could be DMCA'd for containing copyrighted videos, when it actually doesn't 🤔

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