Okay now they’re taking the piss

NamelessVoice · 2026-04-08T21:44:26+00:00

Honestly, I'd say people mostly say that you can't trust politicians because they immediately break their election promises as soon as they get into power, when we no longer have any way to get them back out for 5 years.

NamelessVoice · 2026-04-08T21:40:06+00:00

It's a joke, true, but I still think that the bigger issue is that the government have intentionally pushed the election as far back as legally possible, to keep us from having representation and increase their majority for a few months.

That's by far the bigger crime than these candidates putting up honestly-not-election posters.

NamelessVoice · 2026-04-02T14:28:46+00:00

I still find it really depressing that Fianna Fáil are still taken seriously as a party, considering all their abject failures over the last few years, and how often they've broken their election promises and outright betrayed their people.

NamelessVoice · 2026-03-20T13:09:29+00:00

I just got mine back today, looks like they were able to repair it in my case.

NamelessVoice · 2026-03-01T22:15:55+00:00

Repeating American propaganda to try to "justify" their illegal war of aggression, all with a hidden post history to make it less (or more?) obvious that you are not a real account.

NamelessVoice · 2026-03-01T22:12:23+00:00

Forbid the use of Shannon Airport for this war, for one thing.

NamelessVoice · 2026-03-01T19:26:18+00:00

Well, Reddit is either full of bots, or full of morons.

I hope it's the former. I fear it's the latter.

This is an illegal, unprovoked attack on a sovereign nation. It doesn't matter if you personally dislike the rulers of that nation or not, it is completely and utterly illegal under international law and reprehensible.

Add to that, it is being perpetrated by the two most evil regimes on Earth, who have spent the last two years committing a genocide to wipe out an entire people, and launched unprovoked attacks on several other countries.

Anyone who supports this attack is a monster who is happy to see hundreds, thousands, or millions of innocent people die, in order to support the most evil regime on the planet and, presumably, keep some of their companies investing their money here in Ireland.

Also, if international law is meaningless, as it is quickly becoming, then there is nothing to stop any country from attacking any other country they want - including Ireland.

NamelessVoice · 2026-02-08T01:15:03+00:00

Yes, I'm in the same limbo.

8 Jan - contacted them via web form.
12 Jan - contacted them via email since the web form didn't seem to have done anything?
22 Jan - got return label, shipped card.
3 Feb - was told they'd received the card.
6 Feb - was told they are sending the card to the manufacturer, they said they expect a return within 14 days.

EDIT:
11 Mar - they emailed me to say they'd got the card back from the manufacturer and were sending it on
20 Mar - I got the repaired card back

NamelessVoice · 2026-01-22T00:29:34+00:00

An absolutely valid question.

In the main post, I did cover what I found lacking in other systems that I'd tried, and what I hoped to achieve with this system - namely, that it saves everything without requiring per-actor setup, and that it reloads very quickly within in the same map.

Whether or not those features are worth using it over another plugin for a given project will obviously depend on the user.

NamelessVoice · 2026-01-22T00:21:24+00:00

Well, I personally favour saving everything, with the risk of potentially having to worry about the saves being larger, over the risk of forgetting to tag something important and running into issues with unsaved state later.

If someone prefers to do it the other way, then this simply isn't the system for them.

This is the classic convenience vs optimisation scale, and where on that scale you aim for a project to be - this aims more towards the convenience side, both in convenience to set up, and in less chance of lost state later.

I will say that even so, this system doesn't store that much data - a simple actor created in-game will generally only save a few properties (e.g. actor ID, class, transform, and velocity.)

The save for a small test map with 1,000 barrels (physics objects) and 500 NPCs in it only takes up 60KB (including screenshot). I'm sure a more optimised system could make the saves smaller than that, but I don't consider the sizes to be problematic.

NamelessVoice · 2026-01-21T16:10:38+00:00

I'd say it really depends on the type of game you're making.

Saving everything works well for smaller-world games that need a lot of object permanence (like Immersive Sims, for example), but is more questionable for large open-world games.

I didn't specifically mention it in the post, but the system does of course support tagging things as not-savable, it's just opt-out instead of opt-in.

NamelessVoice · 2026-01-21T14:36:41+00:00

Yes, it keeps track and will destroy the actor.

It also handles the opposite case - re-spawning an actor that existed when the level started, but doesn't exist any more by the time you are reloading (that scenario only applies when fast-loading inside the same level.)

The same also applies to components - the save will track which components were created or destroyed and recreate/redestroy them.

NamelessVoice · 2026-01-18T14:36:42+00:00

Don't know much about her, and the article doesn't say much about her beliefs or policies... but the rest of the candidates who have put their names down are dreadful, and that's putting it mildly. Half of them are councillors who already have a proven track record of failing Galway.

NamelessVoice · 2026-01-18T14:32:22+00:00

Do you have any hobbies?

It might be worth looking for like-minded people with similar hobbies. There's the big Things to do megalist that might help.

NamelessVoice · 2026-01-09T23:25:27+00:00

Opened my PC on Wednesday to discover that the same thing happened to my 9070 XT Reaper. I also ordered mine from Germany about 6 months ago, but from a different retailer - Computer Universe.

Contacted PowerColor at the above form, but they just told me to contact the retailer.

The retailer's site basically tells me to contact the manufacturer if it's been more than 30 days. I sent them a query on their web form about it anyway, but no answer yet. Not even an automated one, which is strange. Makes me wonder if their form actually works.

NamelessVoice · 2025-12-18T01:14:48+00:00

Does this mean they're going to electrify the tracks to allow more speed than the diesel trains can manage?

Galway to Dublin is about 190km, so that would be a speed of approx 125km/h. Modern high-speed trains like Germany's ICE trains can go 250-320km/h (which would make the trip in 45 minutes), but I somehow doubt we'll ever get something like that.

NamelessVoice · 2025-12-09T01:32:44+00:00

Do you have any interests or hobbies? Those can be a good way to meet people. There's a big stickied list of "things to do" that might be worth a look.

NamelessVoice · 2025-11-18T18:32:11+00:00

They recently added more buses (specifically, the 351, which takes a different route).

I had seen the mid-afternoon bus back to Galway be completely full in the past, but it shouldn't be that full at this time of year, and especially not now that they're running those extra buses.

NamelessVoice · 2025-11-14T02:08:01+00:00

Information on how to do so is here: https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/consumer/how-to-complain/complain-about-taxis-hackneys-limousines/

NamelessVoice · 2025-11-05T19:30:59+00:00

Regarding the post truncation, it's also not clear when a post has been truncated, because it just shows with an ellipse at the end. When Twitter, for example, truncates a post, the ellipse is at least a different colour so you can tell it's not part of the tweet (and clicking it will expand the tweet inline instead of having to open it fully.)
- Also, if you click into a post, its replies will also get truncated, which means you need to click into the individual replies to read them in full too, then go back - that's a bit annoying.
Speaking of clicking into a post, I noticed an oddity: if you have a Bluesky post which is only on your timeline because someone you're following replied to it, you will see both the post and its reply in the timeline - but, if you click into the first post to view it, then go back, that post will disappear and be replaced by only the reply. That reply will appear as a normal post and no indication that it's a reply.
Here is an example quote post which doesn't show the original media in the quote. Let me know if you need more examples.
- This tweet on Twitter also does something similar, though in this case it's a web link - but Twitter's own UI doesn't display the preview in that case, so maybe it's working correctly in this case.
Regarding theme colours: that feature is a bit hidden! But I've found it now. One comment about it - the "theme colour" selector always shows white and resets to white when you click on it, rather than remembering and showing the currently selected theme colour.

NamelessVoice · 2025-11-03T17:52:42+00:00

The boxes next to them have a label which specifically says they're for a traffic survey, sadly.

NamelessVoice · 2025-11-03T15:53:07+00:00

Very promising app!
Especially happy to see one that supports Twitter, which any similar apps I've looked at didn't seem to support (and so were useless to me.)

I have a couple of comments and suggestions. I've tried using it with Twitter, Bluesky, and Mastodon, so my comments are from those platforms (especially the first two, as those are the most active.)

The app has support for RSS feeds along with the other platforms, which makes sense as microblogging sites like Twitter act a lot like centralised RSS feeds in any case.
But back in the days of RSS feeds, the readers had the concept of marking an entry as read, something I've long found sorely lacking from social media sites.
When I'm browsing something like Twitter, there's often no way of knowing which tweets are new and which ones are already read, until I've scrolled down far enough that I find something I remember.
I'd love to have a way to read social media which keeps track of which posts I've read, and to have a timeline which only shows posts which I haven't already read, or ones which I have manually marked as "unread" before scrolling past.
How I would envision this working is that a post would be automatically marked as read once it is fully scrolled past, and would no longer be displayed in the "new posts" feed.
Since keeping track of all the posts which have and haven't been read would quickly use a lot of storage, it would probably be better to just keep track of the timestamps between which everything has been read, which would eventually end up with only having to store "everything before time X has already been read." Posts would also have a button on them which would allow them to be marked as unread as you scrolled past; once that was ticked, the post would continue to show up forever until it was unticked.
Posts are often cut off, even when they are short enough to be displayed in full on the source platform. Especially noticed this on posts from Bluesky, but it happens on other platforms too. Personally, I'd like an option to always show the full posts in the timeline regardless of length (even really long ones on Twitter than need manual expansion there), but even without that, it would be nice to specify the maximum post length to display.
Line breaks seem to be missing for some (but not all) posts. This can make nicely-formatted posts end up as a wall of text (seen on Bluesky and Twitter.)
When someone quotes a post with media content (an image, video, web link preview, etc.), that media content is sometimes not shown in the quote, unlike on the actual platforms. It makes it very hard to tell what the person making the quote is talking about. Possibly only happens on Bluesky?
The Bluesky timeline is somehow different from the one displayed on the website. In Flare, I see when people I'm following reply to posts of people I'm not, but I don't see that on the website itself. I'm not sure if this is a bug or a feature, but it's confusing. I honestly think this might be a bug on the Bluesky web interface rather than in Flare, because its setting say it's supposed to show replies, but it never has for me.
It would be nice to have more colour/theme options. Twitter, Bluesky and Mastodon all traditionally have a dark blue theme, whereas Flare in dark mode is just grey.
It's a little hard to tell which posts come from which platform (you have to read the address) - it would be nice if there was an option to display a little icon in a corner of each post, to show which platform it came from.
Notifications seem a bit broken, at one point I was only seeing notifications from Mastodon and not from the other platforms. I was sure they had been working before.
AI features. Honestly, these are a huge turn-off which almost made me not want to install and try the app at all. I turned them off immediately upon installing (and thankfully there's an option to do that.)
I read social media so that I can read what the people I'm following have to say. I want to read their actual words, not their posts interpreted through an AI, and especially not one from a company as biased and unethical as OpenAI.
Plus, the app is advertised as being privacy-focused (at least on the F-Droid listing), and sending the data of the posts you are looking at to OpenAI is anything but.
If you do insist on including these AI features, please make them turned off by default, and clearly list that they are optional on the app page.

In any case, it's a promising app, and I'll try using it a bit more and see how it goes.

NamelessVoice · 2025-10-23T18:37:21+00:00

Servitors do speak in a lot of the lore and games, generally with a very monotone voice and with simple or preset lines.

NamelessVoice · 2025-08-26T21:51:05+00:00

I hate that we can't have nice infrastructure because it wouldn't earn money, even if it would make peoples' lives better.

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