Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@social.cleverlibre.org

@Alice A quarter of our population is obsessed with it and the other three quarters doesn't care.

They sound pretty damn comparable to me already.

@maddad @bruce Yep. I refused to download my bank's app for years until they stopped requiring unnecessary permissions (like for contacts. What does my bank need with my contacts?).

But, otoh, the categories offered by the OSes are... not well designed, and not granular enough. I.e. there's no way for an app to request permission to be able to save photos without also asking for permission to read all of your saved files.

Look, AI/ML is great at a lot of stuff.

But this. Is not. One of them.

@gisiger I recently read something similar:

In 1999, Neo's drab office life was meant to show that he was a mindless cog of the corporate machine.
In 2023, the fact that he gets a whole cubicle and computer all to himself makes his job look luxurious.

@jann Because when you're too stupid to increase supply, you decrease demand instead.

@inthehands It's definitely not "stifling free speech", but it does seem to be an anti-feature.

One of the main reasons I'm on social media is to be exposed to new experiences and perspectives. To add unskippable friction to that process does sound sad.

A pharmacy just texted me a link to a webpage that is only designed for desktop.

People really don't think these things through, do they?

You can always tell when someone takes #GunSafety seriously. Sometimes they even break character because handling guns safely is so important that it becomes an automatic reflex.

Note: Drew Carey delivered his line seamlessly while performing this maneuver, but then again, he is a former Marine.

Ah, so apparently the Federalist is writing guides on how to be the racist uncle at Thanksgiving now.

https://thefederalist.com/2023/11/20/a-guide-to-surviving-your-miserable-leftist-guests-at-thanksgiving-dinner/

@peterdrake Because when a trigger is involved, OnTriggerX gets invoked instead of OnCollisionX.

See the chart at the bottom of this page: https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/CollidersOverview.html

@peterdrake No, to the best of my knowledge, collisions are detected during the FixedUpdate cycle.

Strongly recommending the game #HighFleet.

I usually hate anything resembling a "bullet hell" game and sidescrollers aren't usually my preference, but this game is so singular and unique it needs to be experienced.

The premise is that you're in charge of a small fleet of gargantuan black-smoke-belching rocket-powered mountains of machines to run a guerilla war against a far superior force.

The graphics and sound design are superb, but the game itself is a masterclass on proper scoping. Everything that's included plays a vital part in making the game what it is and there's nothing extraneous.

The game is two-layer, much like XCOM. Half of it is frenetic dogfights between these massive rocket ships and the other half is a very challenging strategy/story layer about building your resistance.

Anyway, if you're a #gamedev and you want to see an example of an indie game done right, don't sleep on this one.

I don't care how "clean" you think it makes your app look, add fucking borders to your windows.