I do like a good meatball sub
30 days is not nearly enough time for me to see an alert sent to my spam email lol. I probably log in to my Ubisoft once a year, at most. This is ridiculous.
Is HotS included?
This looks like something someone would make in Rollercoaster Tycoon
Honestly I think this is probably one of the many secrets to long-term happiness. Ignorance is bliss, as they say
I remember being 13-15 and not caring at all what the news was. Better times, I think
Most of my friends jumped off Reddit and onto Kbin/Lemmy for the week of the blackout. I think most of them are using some hybrid of Lemmy/Reddit now. I’m the only person I know that moved exclusively to Kbin, but that’s okay. It fills the same hole that reddit did, I don’t much care if other people I know do or do not join tbh
I’ve been playing Endless Sky, which is a free space sim (lite). Been really enjoying it.
I got stuck overnight at the airport with my Deck and this game saved me from falling in to insanity. Hard recommend keeping it installed in case of emergency
I recently gave up my 6t for a Pixel7 and it was the worst decision I’d made in awhile. I miss it so much, but the newer OP phones just aren’t any good from what I’ve been reading.
Ah man that’s a huge bummer. Thanks for checking in on that. Hopefully it’ll get there!
I’ve done some other xemu emulation for Deck and over all it’s pretty solid. Minor stuttering in Ninja Gaiden Black, but it’s completely playable
It doesn’t work for everything though. Having a self hosted account that wasn’t tied to any specific platform or instance would ideally allow you to have access to PeerTube and BookWyrm as well as Mastodon and Kbin, without having to worry about your instance shuttering and all of your posts and comments disappearing. I’ve also been really stewing on this idea, I think it’s a probable future state of the Fediverse
This is especially relevant for things like lightbulbs, cell phones, cars, etc, which are constructed in such a way that they will only last a certain amount of time, because the other alternative would be a product that never failed, and therefore only needed to be purchased once. True technological advancement would be the perfection of technology, but capitalism would never allow that because it wouldn’t be profitable in the long term
If a screen name is an identifier doesn’t that make literally every social website or forum a potential breach? That seems a bit harsh
Is it really so surprising? They have the entire Instagram userbase to feed off of. All the Instagram users have to do is open Threads and they are already a user. The userbase was already there, Meta just had to activate it.
I think for this same reason Threads probably will stick around. Especially with the way Twitter is going. Can’t say I’ll be joining in on the fun though
Does the fediverse need to consume all of the traffic that’s currently directed at other platforms? I think the best thing about the Fediverse is that it provides more options for online social spaces.
If I don’t like Twitter I can try something else. If I don’t like Reddit I can go elsewhere. It doesn’t have to be the exact same thing as those services, as long as it provides me an enjoyable way to consume information in my free time.
I don’t feel like the goal is to absorb all of the traffic from every other site though? Or if it is that seems misguided.
I’m very much enjoying my time on Kbin, even if it is janky and new and imperfect. All of that is actually kind of refreshing
I was hoping that because Kbin does support mastodon posts it might work. I’d love to see that integration
Is there any federated interaction between BookWyrm and Kbin? Can I follow book or author updates or keep up with reviews or conversation?
I enjoyed pair programming a lot for the two years I was on a project that did that. We paired every day all day, and I felt that it really drove a team dynamic where people understood the code, and the problems we were solving, and were comfortable and knowledgeable enough to have deeper discussions about technical and architectural direction.
There are some things I really miss, too. We didn’t do code reviews, because two people always had eyes on the code. We rarely ever had bugs in the code that were due to programmer error. I liked that when we came up against a tough problem there was immediately someone to bounce ideas off of, or give input if we were heading in the wrong direction. It felt very much like a team versus what I’ve experienced in my last 8 years of solo programming.
On teams where we are working alone there’s usually a lot of individual ownership over certain parts of the code. The team never feels really in tune with what everyone else is working on and what direction we are moving in. Usually a minority of the team are the vocal decision makers, and everyone else is just pulling tickets and churning out code.
With paired programming it can feel like you’re learning something new every day. You’re either paired with someone more junior, more senior, or at around the same level, and each of those groupings provide for different learning experiences and growth opportunities.
I agree that paired programming is not a silver bullet, and I agree that sometimes I felt like having two people on a task was wasteful, but overall I think it brought our team closer and made us more effective in the grand scheme of things. I miss it quite a bit!
Endless Sky is great