“So you’re telling me not to use the acid on this 75KG chicken, but instead render it, incinerate it, and compost it. Thanks for the help cleaning up this body… I mean chicken. Now hypothetically let’s say I have 100 hungry pigs, how small do the chicken bits need to be again?”

He is getting paid. Not only has the Motion Picture Association contributed to political campaigns but it very recently gave awards and money to two politicians that promote their interests

For specifics on donations see: https://myreptracker.com/campaign-finance/committees/C00139519/motion-picture-association-inc-political-action-committee-mpaamerica-pac

In 2025, the MPA gave Chris Coons its Industry Champion Award and also honored Darrell Issa. MPA CEO Charles Rivkin described Coons as a “trusted partner” and praised Issa as a “true partner” on matters important to film and television.

It’s very basic corruption in broad daylight, and it’s pretty common in US politics today. As far as I know, you can’t prove corruption in court without some form of wiretapping or paper trail, which is trivial for them to avoid. So they’ll never get in trouble for being absolute utter dog shit human beings.

Thanks just set up my instance! Works great, tysm

I’ve been considering self hosting my own searxng, curious how much space do you find it taking up?

I literally know a guy who is working on a game using local LLMs and his house runs 100% on solar panels, so I found this comment very funny.

Not a dumb question at all. A gem is a package format for a dependency in the Ruby programming language. It’s just packaged Ruby code.

It’s analogous to a Rust crate, a Elixir hex package, a NodeJS module and so on. Most languages use the word package or module these days to refer to the same concept. 20+ years ago we just called them libraries though (C and Java)

In a world with LG TVs that are recording every word you say, but people constantly argued that it was “all in your head” for years when receiving targeted advertising, I wouldn’t feel safe around it.

It’s going to be used against someone some day. Probably not you (you tell yourself). Best not to place trust in corporations, only individuals.

“Police crack Apple Watch revealing evidence that man committed vague crime, now eligible for the death penalty, more at 11.”

If you own a PS5, depending on your firmware you may be able to exploit it, enjoy your favorite titles, all while giving Sony the middle finger.

https://gbatemp.net/threads/ps5-exploit-guide.613891/

https://gbatemp.net/threads/ps5-exploit-guide.613891/

Isn’t that what they announced when deciding future titles won’t be on discs? I thought that was them plainly telling us, “we will be harassing the consumers of our products going forward”.

This is just the follow up where they’re saying “we won’t let you harass us back, because we are a big scary powerful corporation, and you are just a weak small individual.”

This is a weird thread to share this in, but whatever. I’m working on an alternative platform based on At Protocol, it’s called https://caterpilla.rs/

Still early days, haven’t open sourced it (yet), but plan to. Just a fun side project for me.

I like your interpretation here is mine:

The guy on the left in the first panel was day dreaming of a peaceful day, a long time ago, back when him and his dog were backpacking. One day he took a nap under a tree with his dog. The dog and him heard a faint quack in the distance and his dog stood up straight and spotted a duck on the other side of the stream enjoying its day as well.

Meanwhile back in reality, his girlfriend is upset he is day dreaming instead of listening to her.

I use it regularly and enjoy it, especially in the food, comedy, gaming, and programming communities. If you give it a go I highly recommend trying the “For You” feed. You pin it to your list of feeds, and it produces such shockingly relevant content. It definitely has a mixture of folks on it though, despite that people claim it’s one group on one platform and another group on Bsky.

I actually find the mixture of takes to not be all that different from Lemmy, just less pro-Chinese posts, and maybe even more anti-AI stances than I’ve seen around here.

If you want to hide from politics though, “For You” can definitely be a bit of a bubble. Being a left or right swipe away from escaping your bubble is a nice compromise imo.

Reddit is so bad that I’ve been working on my own alternative. Lemmy is great, don’t get me wrong but I have my gripes with all of them, so why not build something for me, ya know.

I’m using At Protocol as the basis for it, and trying some new things out that I haven’t seen before.

I guess because they are more mainstream, people are more aware of Steam and Epic than GOG.

Totally, I was just hoping for a shoutout. If they are pro DRM-free games, they are in an obvious position to promote the store that is… DRM-free

I wonder if they plan to incorporate a moonlight server (or any form of streaming), so you could test a game without having to download it, so long as the admin host has it installed.

I know other tools out there do that already, but it would be nice if it was all in one. I’m also surprised they compare themselves to Steam/Epic when DRM-free is GoGs whole thing

One of the best interview questions rarely asked. I hate working with people who have to always be right.

If Trump just happened to find one of these ticks embedded in him, I wouldn’t be upset about it. I might even have a BBQ and invite him

I hear you, but these are solve-able human problems, not code problems:

Manager: Jose revert your commit, thanks. Jose: okay, it’s been reverted, I won’t do that again, thanks for explaining to me why exactly what I did was the wrong thing to do.

I’ve had this exact conversation about this topic at least a half dozen times over the last decade.

When it comes to legacy code, almost all auto formatting tools I’ve used allow you to ignore whole directories and files, which can be very handy for legacy areas of the codebase not yet ready for this transition.

As for scenarios where large rewrites are necessary, it’s best to separate from any actual work, so the blast radius is focused, and that commit can be marked properly using .git-blame-ignore-revs which completes fixes the history issues that are common amongst those who don’t know what they are doing.

Definitely a painful process it can be, but it’s better to fight this battle than it is to try and get 1,000 humans to agree on something as vague as “style”

These days it’s very common to write whatever code you want, and a formatter automatically rewrites it to conform to the projects rules during precommit.

Which is great because it allows you to focus on intent instead of format, and completely avoids any team disagreements or change rejections for trivial bullshit.