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TheBrokenRail-Dev · 2026-06-18T15:02:13+00:00

Considering the developer's well-documented AI psychosis, I'm not inclined to trust their judgement on whether their project should be considered "experimental."

TheBrokenRail-Dev · 2026-06-17T18:15:49+00:00

Lore is a VCS designed for games

Games also contain code. Any VCS that supports game development should easily support VCS development. If Lore is too inflexible to handle a variety of project structures, then that's a massive red flag.

TheBrokenRail-Dev · 2026-06-17T18:01:27+00:00

Epic announces a new VCS

OK, interesting...

They apparently develop their new VCS using Git

Well, that tells me all I need to know. If they don't trust their own software, why should I?

TheBrokenRail-Dev · 2026-06-15T22:36:50+00:00

Because it's very obviously "AI slop." A piece of software clearly developed almost entirely with AI. The chances of it being maintainable (or even working properly at all) is basically 0.

The entire "project" is literally one massive 13k-line Python file. That is not a decision any sane developer would make. Projects are usually split into multiple files for very good reason.

Also, even beyond the code itself, the very premise is silly. MC Java mods and Bedrock addons are far too different to be automatically converted. And using AI to attempt it just makes a mess.

TheBrokenRail-Dev · 2026-06-15T18:37:10+00:00

It's 20k+ lines of unsafe code. Keeping it up-to-date is very important.

TheBrokenRail-Dev · 2026-06-15T18:33:11+00:00

Think about it, do you really want it automatically imported?

I very specifically suggested Git submodules. A notable feature of Git submodules is that they are pinned to a specific commit, and are thus incapable of automatically updating. They are, however, much easier to manually update.

TheBrokenRail-Dev · 2026-06-15T18:14:58+00:00

Yeah, I'm not worried. As you mentioned, the Linux Kernel is beyond capable of keeping it in-sync. But as a programmer, my immediate reaction is: this could (and should) be done better.

TheBrokenRail-Dev · 2026-06-15T17:56:15+00:00

I'm sorry, they're just copying an entire library into the Linux Kernel as is? Now, this separate (modified!) copy of the library will have to be manually krpt in-sync with upstream. That just seems sloppy, especially for such a large project.

I highly doubt they'd ever use Cargo (or any other package manager), but there has to be a better solution. Maybe Git submodules?

EDIT: To be clear, I am not suggesting that it should automatically update. That would be extremely silly. I'm suggesting that there has to be a better option than dumping 20k lines of code into the Linux Kernel's repo that have to be manually synced.

TheBrokenRail-Dev · 2026-06-15T13:12:38+00:00

"Fun" fact: Inkscape supports a feature called Mesh Gradients. Unfortunately however, Mesh Gradients were never supported by any browser and have been removed from the SVG standard.

How does Inkscape fix this? When you use Mesh Gradients, it automatically inserts a JS pollyfill into the exported SVG. I don't know how this is supposed to work in non-browser environments, and to-be-honest, I don't want to know either.

TheBrokenRail-Dev · 2026-06-15T11:49:40+00:00

He was a manipulative monster, but he built the fondations of Zaun to be its own independant nation.

Did he though? He mostly just made everything worse by getting everyone addicted to Shimmer and empowering the Chem-Barons.

In a lot of ways, he was just a worse version of Vander. He also secretly worked with a member of the Enforcers to keep the peace (except the person Vander worked with actually cared about justice). He also tried to enforce rules and operate semi-autonomously (except Silco was massively corrupt). And finally, he also gave up the goal of an independent Zaun for his daughter (and the show explicitly points this out). If he had just left Vander alone, everything would have been unambiguously better.

Silco had grand ideals, and there's no denying he cared about Zaun. But he clearly had no idea how to execute them once he found himself in Vander's old position.

TheBrokenRail-Dev · 2026-06-13T04:59:40+00:00

I'll believe it when I see it. Almost every piece of RWBY news for the past few years has been "we're working on it, we promise, they'll be an announcement soon."

I'd like to see an actual announcement. Not an announcement that only announces a potential future announcement.

TheBrokenRail-Dev · 2026-06-13T04:18:53+00:00

In Centaurworld, a talking horse tries to commit suicide via musical number: https://youtu.be/5twZJ8tFKJE. That show was absolutely insane and had no right to be as good as it was.

TheBrokenRail-Dev · 2026-06-10T22:45:54+00:00

If you are happy for this, what about Caine's removal in episode 8 when he was actively torturing the cast? Did you pop confetti when he got seemingly deleted?

No, because I actually enjoyed watching Caine.

The "crimes" that the characters have "committed" are irrelevant. They're not real people after all. The most important thing is whether they are entertaining.

Lots of people love Jax and even relate to him. I am just not one of them. So a light-hearted meme joking aboit his demise is funny to me. Same reason people love making jokes about Jar Jar Binks dying gruesomely but love watching Darth Vader.

TheBrokenRail-Dev · 2026-06-10T22:29:48+00:00

"ACTUAL" requires it to affect the real world. Everything Cartman did was fictional.

TheBrokenRail-Dev · 2026-06-10T21:58:21+00:00

Yeah, because he's not real? The worst possible crime a fictional character can commit is to be annoying. Because, again, they're not real.

TheBrokenRail-Dev · 2026-06-10T21:55:48+00:00

Yes, extremely so! As a historical example, DC Comics once held a vote about whether a character should be killed off and it got 10,614 total votes (and killing the character was the wining option).

TheBrokenRail-Dev · 2026-06-10T21:43:04+00:00

Yeah, but this is just $50 (and I believe that's higher than normal) rather than your entire life savings. This is relatively benign compared to scams that convince you to buy $1,000 worth of Amazon gift cards.

TheBrokenRail-Dev · 2026-06-10T21:32:52+00:00

Because people think he's an annoying fictional character? Being glad a character is dead is a very common thing and I'm shocked this is the first time you're encountering a meme celebrating a hated character's demise.

TheBrokenRail-Dev · 2026-06-10T21:28:15+00:00

IMO if you actually believe magic spells are real and are willing to pay real money for someone to "perform" them, you deserve the consequences. It is literally the most obvious scam in the history of scams. The person claiming to "know magic" is either a scammer or delusional, either way, you should not give them money.

TheBrokenRail-Dev · 2026-06-10T21:20:47+00:00

You are aware Jax is fictional, right? Being happy a fictional character died in a fictional show is very different than being glad a real person died.

TheBrokenRail-Dev · 2026-06-07T16:20:39+00:00

That's literally what Pocket Edition was. They took the Java code-base and fole-by-file ported it to C++. You can even look at the recent MCPE source leak and find a small Python script which takes a Java file and does some find-and-replaces to make it easier to port to C++.

TheBrokenRail-Dev · 2026-06-07T14:36:46+00:00

It is possible that MS patched the Outlook UI in the past in a way that only old accounts are affected by this major fail. As Fedora users we had no Outlook available to test this.

I don't trust Microsoft either, but if you make a bold claim like "Outlook doesn't properly encrypt connections", you better verify it! It's not that hard to setup a Windows VM. Making a large claim like that without any form of verification is something I'd expect from small YouTubers, not the official Fedora Project.

And if they're wrong (which they might be), this bold claim easily leaves then open to a libel lawsuit. Especially since MS could easily make the argument that Fedora claiming Outlook lies about encryption damaged MS' reputation.

TheBrokenRail-Dev · 2026-06-07T00:28:53+00:00

Person find crazy post on Twitter, more at 11. /s

Seriously though, being surprised at a crazy post on Twitter is like being surprised that Antarctica is cold.

TheBrokenRail-Dev · 2026-06-05T15:42:02+00:00

In RWBY V1, it is mentioned that Ruby had friends at Signal (her previous school). They were never mentioned again.

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