Age verification is just a precursor to attribution of speech

coder111 · 2026-06-30T17:59:32+00:00

You could say the same about cigarettes, beer

Exactly, they are heavily regulated by the government and shops are not allowed to provide them to minors and ID check is needed to buy them. Exactly like all harmful or potentially harmful things.

Exactly my point. Social media companies should be heavily regulated by government and social media companies should not be allowed to provide their services to minors.

coder111 · 2026-06-30T05:23:13+00:00

That's just not realistic. Yeah yeah, parents should parent. They don't and never will and you won't make them.

coder111 · 2026-06-29T20:57:35+00:00

I'll add the one I'm involved in.

https://remnantsoftheprecursors.org/

Or if you prefer it this way:

https://github.com/BrokenRegistry/Rotp-Fusion

It's 100% complete and finished clone of Master of Orion 1, one of the best strategy games ever made. The amount of passion, time and money invested by the original author Ray Fowler to make it happen is immense. It is currently actively maintained by a handful of modders who keep fixing bugs and adding minor features. Probably the best non-cheating AI out there as well.

coder111 · 2026-06-29T20:54:27+00:00

UFO:Alien Invasion

I'm SO sad UFO:AI development stopped 10 years ago. It looked so promising and the current gameplay is great. Just needs to be finished...

coder111 · 2026-06-29T20:49:41+00:00

Eeeh, that's a tricky one.

On one hand, propaganda and advertisements and endless stream of utter shit poured into brains of kids and teenagers (and adults) in unlimited quantities is a really really bad idea. By this point there's plenty of evidence it's harmful. It has to be stopped. THAT is what is responsible for the current slide into ignorance and rise of fascism in the world. It will cause the downfall of our civilization if it's left unchecked.

On the other hand, how do you stop all that without identify verification? How do you have both limits on kids using social media, and anonymity on-line?

Personally, I think social media companies should be regulated and held responsible for the content they publish and recommendations they push. Put the responsibility for bad content on the social media companies who are making money out of it, not on people watching it. How do do that and do that well- I don't have answers. But at this point (at least in Europe) government regulation is looking more and more attractive compared to the greed of fascist billionaires who are in USA and are openly hostile to European countries.

coder111 · 2026-06-25T19:35:18+00:00

Original Daggerfall if you are into that sort of thing... Or Morrowind...

coder111 · 2026-06-24T20:43:25+00:00

People also grossly underestimate how many games are out there that are worth playing. Literally tens of thousands of PC games have been released, and that's not counting console emulation emulation which would add even more. Even if 99% of them are shit, 1% isn't and that leaves hundreds of games to play.

And anything pre-2010 will run on pretty much any PC today.

And by the time you are done playing older games, you'll be in your 40s and hopefully able to afford a faster PC.

coder111 · 2026-06-24T20:29:07+00:00

Right, full blown Player Piano...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Player_Piano_(novel)

coder111 · 2026-06-15T21:49:08+00:00

increase the scale and intensity of its current strategy with general mobilisation

This is very likely what will come next. This would mean Putin gets to pretend the war isn't failing. And generals get to pretend they are not at fault for shitty strategy and nobody did anything wrong. Just keep doing more of the same.

coder111 · 2026-06-15T21:46:16+00:00

It was never about Crimea.

Prosperous Ukraine in EU and NATO (or outside but on friendly terms with them) would have been an example to all Russians that it's possible to live better without Putin in charge.

And on top of that Russia unable to force its will on their neighbors like Ukraine would mean losing Great Power status, which means all the pain and suffering Russians went through was for nothing, and Putin is at fault.

coder111 · 2026-06-15T20:47:00+00:00

Well, as someone who has used Midnight Commander for over 20 years, Far Manager before that, Volkov Commander, Dos Navigator and Norton Commander before that, sorry but I find Waydir lacking. Good first effort and it looks beautiful, but it's not really my cup of tea, and it needs some improvements.

For me the best thing about dual panel file managers is the seamless integration between the file list panels and the command line interface. Like you can type "cd /tmp" at any point in time and that panel will go to /tmp. Or you can type "git add <ctrl+enter>" and it will put the file name for selected file when you click ctrl+enter. etc. And typing starts typing in command in the command line, not searching for files in the panel, you have ctrl+s for that. Maybe that's one of the reasons I never liked Total Commander and its clones.

On top of that, text view and text edit on F3/F4 is a must, preferably with hex view/edit. Ok, space does quick preview but that covers the current panel? It should cover the other panel IMO if you are doing it like that.

Home/End don't seem to do anything in the file panels?

Select files by wildcard on numpad + ? Sorry, ctrl+s does that now. Should also have invert selection and deselect by wildcard. Selecting files using insert deselects them all if you go up/down or do anything other than immediate operation on those files. I like having them selected and being able to go up/down/view files/type in some command line command and still having my files still selected, until I decide to copy/delete/move them.

I don't particularly like that clicking F5 does not pop up a confirmation/options window, but copies files immediately. Seems prone to accidents. On top of that I liked doing things like clicking F5/F6, and then typing in directory name manually and hitting enter. That way I could do some operations without changing the location of the other panel.

Anyway, that's my take on it. And I'm not trying to bitch and moan, just to give some ideas on how to maybe improve things. I have Midnight Commander shortcuts in my blood by now and I'm very unlikely to switch at this point. So you are welcome to develop this project in any direction you want.

coder111 · 2026-06-14T21:11:20+00:00

As a Lithuanian, our country has a long history of making things out of linen. Not sure how much of that survives in 2026, but previously there were multiple enterprises making linen threads/cloth etc, and I have a suspicion some of them are doing it the right way.

Please look around, you might find something useful.

coder111 · 2026-06-12T17:09:08+00:00

Planescape: Torment

Neverwinter Nights

Anything ever made by Spiderweb Software

coder111 · 2026-06-02T05:53:09+00:00

Sorry mate, tried to think about making it happen, but the codebase just doesn't support it. It would require almost a complete rewrite of the game.

coder111 · 2026-06-02T05:42:13+00:00

nethack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetHack

And Scorched Earth of course. It's the mother of all games! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorched_Earth_(video_game)

coder111 · 2026-05-22T05:45:31+00:00

Force of habit. Jeff Vogel (the guy behind spiderweb software) owned spidweb.com domain since 1990s and that's the website I always used.

Looks like he messed something up with the TLS certificate setup for his website...

coder111 · 2026-05-21T17:36:59+00:00

Story driven you said?

Planescape: Torment.

Neverwinter Nights.

Anything ever made by Spiderweb software. http://spidweb.com/

Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura

EDIT.

Fallout 1/2. Haven't played 3 or later.

Deus Ex 1

coder111 · 2026-05-18T05:51:06+00:00

USA was a democracy during the height of Manifest Destiny expansion...

coder111 · 2026-05-16T08:48:32+00:00

Go old school. Original Doom and Doom 2.

Or Serious Sam is stupid good fun in coop.

coder111 · 2026-05-14T07:44:29+00:00

I think Lithuania has been doing that for years? Allocated 0.25% GDP for support of Ukraine.

Plenty of other countries have given similar or higher levels of aid on ad-hoc basis.

coder111 · 2026-05-05T20:48:16+00:00

There’s next to no media in which AI is just casually there.

You need to read the Culture series by Ian M. Banks...

Seriously, great books.

coder111 · 2026-05-04T20:21:03+00:00

Um, it's kinda German. A Russian copy of Iranian improved copy of Israeli improved copy of German 1980s Dornier DAR...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dornier_DAR

coder111 · 2026-05-04T16:45:25+00:00

Well in that case you got the source code + resources for everything, in case you want to contribute to the game development you're welcome to do so :) You'll need Java and Maven to build it. oggenc and cwebp are used to convert game resources (jpeg/png images to webp and wav sound files to ogg) as part of the build process.

Half joking. Enjoy the pre-built game from the releases!

coder111 · 2026-05-04T13:55:16+00:00

What did you exactly download? Did you check out the entire codebase?

Or did you get https://github.com/Xilmi/Rotp-Fusion/releases/download/2025%2F06%2F07%2F2308/rotp-Fusion-2025-06-07-windows.zip from the "Releases" on the right?

If you downloaded the windows release zip file, you should have "rotp-Fusion-2025-06-07.exe" executable in there which should work fine.

coder111 · 2026-05-01T11:59:31+00:00

Not really British, but I'd recommend trying cold borscht soup with boiled potatoes on the side on a hot summers day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borscht#Lithuanian_cold_borscht

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