Malgas

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[–] Malgas@beehaw.org 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

but it seems too good quality to be custom work and is definitely an official controller.

Custom official controllers are a thing.

[–] Malgas@beehaw.org 10 points 1 month ago

When public officials tamper with elections, it's election fraud.

[–] Malgas@beehaw.org 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My favorite version was when Michael used it: "It's a human insult. It's devastating. You're devastated right now."

[–] Malgas@beehaw.org 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Then you get things like GTA or Saints Row, where whether I want to be using kb+m or controller changes based on whether I'm driving or on foot.

I've long thought that the ideal control scheme would somehow incorporate both a mouse for camera control, the sheer number of buttons you get from having your off-hand on a keyboard, and also analog inputs for things like movement/steering and vehicle throttle.

[–] Malgas@beehaw.org 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's not the half of it:

An image from a Busytown book depicting a smiling pig with a knife posing with many meat products including ham and bacon.  It is captioned "Mrs. Butcher sells all kinds of meat."

[–] Malgas@beehaw.org 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Shit in, shit out. That’s AI.

"On two occasions I have been asked, – "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."

—Charles Babbage, on his analytical engine, 1864

[–] Malgas@beehaw.org 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Off-topic, but, if that's a real cake and the image goes all the way around, that's actually kind of impressive.

[–] Malgas@beehaw.org 10 points 1 month ago

Don't dumb down the gameplay systems

Bethesda design challenge: impossible.

[–] Malgas@beehaw.org 10 points 2 months ago

Technically, what he's doing is election fraud.

[–] Malgas@beehaw.org 3 points 2 months ago

Depends on the distro. Some have a configuration setting to allow unfree software or not, others have separate repos.

[–] Malgas@beehaw.org 4 points 2 months ago

A similar argument is what finally caused the value of the vi family of editors to click in my brain:

They are designed to be fully functional over even the shittiest possible* remote connection. You can't always count on ctrl, alt, or even the arrow keys being transmitted in a way that is understood by the remote machine.

*Well, I guess the worst possible terminal would be something like an actual teletype, and in that case you'd probably want to fall back to ed or its descendants. To save paper, if nothing else.

[–] Malgas@beehaw.org 7 points 2 months ago

I'm under the impression that these sort of third-party warrants are often accompanied by a gag order. Which is why warrant canaries are a thing.

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