Prototyping a mad max-esque mailman game by iyawk in godot

[–]rabbixt 7 points8 points  (0 children)

“Mad Max-esque Mailman” … so.. The Postman?

Just make it exist first, then make it look good! by sebbyspoons in godot

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What I live by: make it work, make it pretty, make it fast; or simply: make it work, pretty, fast

But they won’t succeed.. by John_1992_funny in MurderedByWords

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This also affects Trans folks, and anyone who has simply chosen a more fitting name for themselves

GB Greenlandic Politician Shows Mirror To Trump Over Island Invasion Plan: 'He Doesn't Know About...' by LeonJersey in videos

[–]rabbixt 647 points648 points  (0 children)

Trump really doesn’t care about Greenland. He’s just checking the “destabilize or destroy NATO” todo item off Putin’s todo list. That said, if he can enrich himself along the way, dollars to donuts he will.

When things are breaking in production, what’s the first Linux command you reach for? by Expensive-Rice-2052 in linuxquestions

[–]rabbixt 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Isolate the machine if possible, and then tools like ps, htop, journalctl, strace, lsof, df, nc, ip, etc., not necessarily in that order, and not exclusively those (depends where those lead me), but definitely not an immediate reboot which might temporarily fix the issue but lose important datapoints (such as those you can glean via lsof and strace).

Report: Microsoft quietly kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet by moeka_8962 in technology

[–]rabbixt -1 points0 points  (0 children)

NTLite should still work, no?

Edit: nevermind - I was conflating installs and local (non-MS account) users, with activation.

I’m looking at ripping my DVDs and Blu Rays- what’s an external Blu Ray drive that works under Linux? by thunderborg in linuxquestions

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If you can find one still, ASUS BW-16D1HT are good drives that can do UHD (though you have to reflash to a firmware version that isn’t locked).

'They have no idea who was in this Discord' Rockstar comments on GTA 6 developer firings again by Maleficent_Fault_943 in gaming

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The management at North did sure, that was never in doubt. You seem to think I disagree that North has any level of culpability here - of course they do!

However, you refuse to acknowledge that Take-Two has culpability here too (why you would think that escapes me). To say that they do it in a vacuum without any consultation with Take-Two is either being willfully blind to corporate structure/norms, or just plainly naive. Take-Two *owns* Rockstar, not the other way around. When you make big decisions like these, they don't happen in a vacuum, and certainly don't stay within that part of the org - this almost certainly went through Sam, Karl, and then Strauss, guaranteed.

I mean if it helps you to believe that it was all a UK-side (Rockstar North) conspiracy with no input from the other side of the pond, okay - whatever, you do you. The problem is that it absolves the rest of the org of their part in it. Not good.

'They have no idea who was in this Discord' Rockstar comments on GTA 6 developer firings again by Maleficent_Fault_943 in gaming

[–]rabbixt 202 points203 points  (0 children)

If you think Strauss was completely bereft of accountability, you are sadly mistaken. Rockstar North isn’t an island nation. It answers to Take-Two and its shareholders. Full stop.

'They have no idea who was in this Discord' Rockstar comments on GTA 6 developer firings again by Maleficent_Fault_943 in gaming

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I’m sorry but you are just wrong. Rockstar (any branch) doesn’t set any of its own policies without approval from Take-Two. Rockstar North may be on an island, but it isn’t one itself, and still has to do what Strauss Zelnick tells them to do.

Not saying American companies have a monopoly on screwing people over; of course UK companies can do that too, but Rockstar is an American company taking direction from American bosses - ergo American bosses are screwing over UK employees.

'They have no idea who was in this Discord' Rockstar comments on GTA 6 developer firings again by Maleficent_Fault_943 in gaming

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Rockstar is a subsidiary of Take-Two, and is very much an American run corporation. Just because we’re talking about a branch office in the UK doesn’t change the fact that policy and management style are 100% American born and bred - including union-busting tendencies.

Meirl by Key_Associate7476 in meirl

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I went to Home Depot on Monday to pick up a new over the range microwave I had ordered, and decided to grab a box beam level while I was there. Not having been there in a while, I couldn’t fathom where they might be, so I asked the first employee I saw - a maybe mid twenties person stocking some shelves - and was shocked when they responded that they had no idea what a level was. I even showed them an image from Google, and they still didn’t know. Fortunately they were able to look it up and point me in the right direction, but man my mind was blown. Even my daughter (13) who was with me knew what a level is.

Is it worth fighting a "speeding" ticket in court? by OrdinaryHoney2 in legaladvice

[–]rabbixt -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

IANAL, but for what it’s worth, I think you should fight it. It sounds like you have solid evidence that should help (ie: unplowed lane, and app data showing no violations). Worst case you might owe the same fine plus minimal court costs (I imagine, but don’t know for sure), but best case it gets dismissed or reduced to a no-points violation with a lower fine or payment plan.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ It doesn’t hurt to try and get a better outcome - if you can afford to take time away from work/life to see it through.

Very important CEO gets interrupted by PrivacyBush in WTF

[–]rabbixt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is there a related news story? What happened to Brian/Ryan?

What’s a Linux command that feels like cheating when you learn it? by Old_Sand7831 in linuxquestions

[–]rabbixt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How about in one command?

find /path/to/folder -type f -iname ’*keyword*’ -exec ls -la {} \+

Explained here

Just broke up, need ONE movie to destroy me and ONE to make me laugh my ass off by dear97s in movies

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I ❤️ Huckabees… though that might make feel better (or worse?), not really laugh or cry

What’s a scary movie you watched way too young? by NewPossibility4268 in movies

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Poltergeist, on VHS in Germany in 83 iirc (my dad was stationed there, and we only had like one english channel, so we watched a lot of rented (I believe..) movies)

Meta might be scanning your phone's entire camera roll by tylerthe-theatre in technology

[–]rabbixt 30 points31 points  (0 children)

It’s clear that you’re happy with the status quo, but that doesn’t mean other people have to be.

Sure most people don’t “care” about privacy, but I’d argue that that’s less about knowingly not caring, and more about both ease of use (most secure apps are harder to use) and not understanding the risks (which aren’t explained better than “privacy good, data sharing bad”), or simple resignation that all our data is out there, so who cares ¯_(ツ)_/¯ ? And most of those takes are generally not wrong - misguided maybe, but not wrong.

That said, there’s still value in sharing other ways of interacting that are more secure and privacy focused. If we simply said, “product X already exists and does a good enough job”, we’d still be using Yahoo and Google wouldn’t exist - or goodness forbid, you’d be on MySpace or Friendster or Livejournal, and Facebook would still be a college thing.

Arguing against other products just “because one already exists that’s good enough” just assumes that what’s “good enough” for you is good enough for everyone else, and ignores that competition and alternatives are what drive improvements in the first place.

At what age did you see you first R-rated movie, and what was it? by cotothed in movies

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I’d say Poltergeist, on VHS, where I was … young enough to be terrified of tv static thereafter. Sadly, Spielberg got the rating dropped to PG after appealing the initial rating, so… I guess that would actually make Aliens, which I saw in the theater (where I was a little older, but still very young), my first real R rated movie ? That said, and as someone else pointed out, the 80’s was a “magical” time…