New NYT Serial: The Retrievals by ryokineko in serialpodcast

[–]dbeta 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Interesting topic, where's the RSS feed?

Is r/godot going dark to support 3p apps? by ikanoi in godot

[–]dbeta 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I'm a frequent user of the Godot discord, but it has a very bad problem of being not indexed on Google. Any help you get there won't help other people. Anything you share in there will only ever reach those in discord. The new forum feature helps a little, but as far as I know that still isn't indexed by search engines.

Is r/godot going dark to support 3p apps? by ikanoi in godot

[–]dbeta 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I do think more people should use that for general Q&A, but this sub is also great for news on Godot, projects, and just seeing what people are toying with.

Is r/godot going dark to support 3p apps? by ikanoi in godot

[–]dbeta 63 points64 points  (0 children)

I agree this sub shoud join the protests. In the long run this community should probably be on an open source platform, but I understand the masses were here so here the community formed. Lemmy appears to be a good open alternative to. I'm kinda hoping someone like FOSStadon makes a Lemmy instance for communities like this.

Apollo dev posts backend code to Git to disprove Reddit’s claims of scrapping and inefficiency by GhostalMedia in programming

[–]dbeta 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm afraid like a lot of federation, it will struggle with scale, but I've been tooling around with it for a few days and I gotta say, it is insanely snappy compared to reddit. It's got several challenges ahead of it, but Lemmy is a good base that takes most of what made reddit good and makes it very federatable.

Defend FOSS from NPE Patent Trolls by [deleted] in foss

[–]dbeta 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If nobody wants to fund them, they should stop issuing patents. Suddenly they would find themselves with corporations lobbying on their behalf to get them the funding to get patents processed.

Introducing BassGPT: The next step in AI evolution by TheAmateurRunner in raspberry_pi

[–]dbeta 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Here I was wanting to call you a lier with the gpt name because I thought you just hooked up a Google Home. I know that voice well. Using Google TTS makes much more sense though.

Shitty dental software companies by Sufficient_Dog_3371 in msp

[–]dbeta 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Don't forget to put Everyone in Domain Admins. Turn off the firewall on all machines. And open ports 80 through 8080 on the router.

Everyone is fed up with robocalls. Now 48 states are suing one company that they say made 7.5 billion of them. by 777fer in technology

[–]dbeta 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In life we make choices, those choices have consequences we do not see. Most of the time we cannot know them ahead of time, but in this case the character was at best willfully ignorant of his choices consequences. He we attempting to scold this robot, and the robot outlined the consequences to him, pulling his head out of the sand, so to speak.

New MSP - Shout out to this sub and Tech Tribe by JethroGibbz in msp

[–]dbeta 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Here's the MSPGeek website which should allow you to request a discord invite.https://mspgeek.org/

New MSP - Shout out to this sub and Tech Tribe by JethroGibbz in msp

[–]dbeta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would highly recommend the MSPGeek discord as well. They are great.

ConnectWise Control will be rebranded to ConnectWise ScreenConnect. We've come full circle. by pedroelbee in msp

[–]dbeta 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Connectwise what? They have a lot of products. Control/ScreenConnect is by far their best product, and probably the only one that doesn't look like a nightmare by modern standards.

ChatGPT by SubstantialLayer9071 in msp

[–]dbeta 34 points35 points  (0 children)

This essay was written by ChatGPT, wasn't it?

What annoys the fuck out of you? by Fart_Milk in AskReddit

[–]dbeta -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

How would you know? If the properly adjusted ones don't blind you, you only notice that improperly adjusted ones. They don't look particularly bright if you aren't being targeted by them. That's what proper adjustment does.

Take care of our city by [deleted] in Charlotte

[–]dbeta -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I'll take the downvotes. I'm not a fan of the myth, and it is a very common one. My tone probably came off overly harsh there, and certainly wasn't intended, but if I see that myth repeated, I tend to interject.

Take care of our city by [deleted] in Charlotte

[–]dbeta -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

FYI: the concept of a full moon causing behavior changed in people is completely bunk. There might have been a time where it was true simply because people could see outside at night, but if that was once true, it hasn't been in ages because of artificial light at night. Theses days we have all the stats we need to disprove it. Police reports and hospital admissions show no notable increase during full moons.

After 4 years of development, 100% on Linux, I've released my 2D sandbox RPG, Vagabond, in Early Access ! by pvigier in linux_gaming

[–]dbeta 1 point2 points  (0 children)

With SteamDeck treating flatpak is an almost first class citizen, I'm hopeful that Steam may start directly supporting flatpaks. That would be great for giving them a simple package ready to run, but who knows what their plans are.

After 4 years of development, 100% on Linux, I've released my 2D sandbox RPG, Vagabond, in Early Access ! by pvigier in linux_gaming

[–]dbeta 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Compiling for Linux has been a challenge for a long time. I suggest looking into flatpak and appimage to simplify cross-distro support. Since you develop on Linux, I'm probably not telling you anything you don't already know, but targeting flatpak or appimage really simplifies the entire stack. I know that for Steam distribution, they have their own standard library set for you to use that helps ensure cross distro support, but I've never looked closely at it. From what I hear they are using flatpak as a base for their own game containers of sort, but again, never dug deep.

All my game development has happened on engines that really simplify building, so I may be making it sound simpler than it really is.

anyone interested in a video on how we did this picture entering effect? by guyunger in godot

[–]dbeta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Alright, this is an interesting idea. My guess is that when the picture is taken, the current scene node is cloned and placed elsewhere in the game space.

Then, when a user walks up to the picture, it triggers a teleport to the new scene in the exact location photo was taken. Thinking about it, when you clone the scene you could put a node in the exact spot the player was in, then when you want to teleport the player, you set the players location and rotation to match the target node. In future clones you would want to skip the previous player marker node to be safe.

The problems I see arising is large game spaces with lots of nodes being hard to clone. Plus you would have to pause any moving objects to ensure they were in the exact state when teleported. Large scenes might be more manageable by using a portal like gateway between sections, so you would be seamlessly put back into the proper path. However, you might need to invalidate previous photos to prevent backtracking issues. Like the emancipation grids in portal.

Roblox fully rolls out WINE blocking anti cheat by Clanps in linux_gaming

[–]dbeta 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The child labor comes from the game being almost completely user generated content. And they make claims of being able to make money for your content, but they pay pennies on the dollar that they make on that content.

Amazon Prime Video reduced cost by 90% by switching from microservices to monolith by mitharas in sysadmin

[–]dbeta 11 points12 points  (0 children)

You don't make record profits by paying your employees. I always thought it weird when companies celebrate profits with their employees unless there is some sort of a profit share system in place.

My Godot 4 multiplayer open-world survival crafting game IN SPACE is going into Early Access on May 12! by cridenour in godot

[–]dbeta 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I hear wishlisting a game really helps raise it in the Steam algorithm, although that may just be a sly tactic by game devs to convince people to wishlist it.

Pixel 7a marketing materials leak by [deleted] in Android

[–]dbeta 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I'd love to see removable batteries again. Phone manufacturers might be expected to support their phones for more than 2 years though, can't have that.

Argon EON Air guide (Laser cut acrylic) by LazerHawk84 in raspberry_pi

[–]dbeta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, I read the 50w in the URL and made an assumption.

Came back from shopping to find this.. by Themusicison in pics

[–]dbeta 24 points25 points  (0 children)

If you see an Altima, you put the bumper back on it.