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[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Interesting. Any response to that last question? I thought those were bots all this time!

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Fine, *could literally be.

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 5 points 3 days ago

Let me offer a spin on this: the point-&-click adventure Technobabylon, which is more a staggeringly creative and massive series of escape rooms, and not that much of an open world to explore and revisit.

Perceptibly, it has zero grinding and is to the point with what you've gotta do. It is one of the only point-&-click adventure games that I've beaten; I normally dislike the genre, which speaks volumes to how incredible it is.

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Ironically, I couldn't get into Outer Wilds, myself; it sucks to get stuck.

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Sable is on a giveaway this week by Epic Games. Use the free-&-open-source Heroic Games Launcher to play it without having to download their platform.

I got bored by FAR's puzzles and didn't finish it but I guess I should persist, huh?

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Fun fact: Portal was originally a university student project called Narbacular Drop that got hired by Steam. In a sense from its limited narration and story, it felt a bit more like a proof-of-concept than almost a full-fleshed game to me at times, which, for me, was hands-down Portal 2.

They're great fun to stream and watch, too.

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 12 points 3 days ago (5 children)

ChatGPT 2 was literally an Excel spreadsheet.

I guesstimate that it's effectively a supermassive autocomplete algo that uses some TOTP-like factor to help it produce "unique" output every time.

And they're running into issues due to increasingly ingesting AI-generated data.

Get your popcorn out! 🍿

 

For example, I just tried linking https://store.steampowered.com/franchise/kingdom and wanted to delete the tracker. (Edit: lol, somehow Lemmy or Summit auto-deleted it upon my submission; interesting. Anyway, pretend there was a ? and garbage after the word kingdom there.)

  1. When commenting, tap the URL insertion button
  2. Tap the clipboard icon

Expected result: text caret is at the end of the URL to make adjustments

Current result: text caret is still at the front

Also, it'd be cool, now that I think about it, to dynamically expand that tiny URL field to multi-line to see the whole thing at once instead to having to pan—and maybe the URL link text field, too.

Thanks!

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

At first I thought this was an ad for the side-scrolling, 5-button strategy game Kingdom.

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I can't tell if this is serious lol. If so, is that possible to even do? How much Old Reddit-like stylization does Lemmy allow mods?

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago

Maybe exposure therapy is the way! Treat it out to lunch and then go volunteer at a soup kitchen together; you never know...

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Stirling-PDF can do 10x as many kinds of tasks as pdftk can. I used to use pdftk until I discovered Stirling-PDF and have never looked back.

 

I can't seem to find any such section.

 
  1. Search "summit"
  2. Filter for communities
  3. See that it gets sorted by your post-sorting method when you instead want Top of All Time, so sort for that manually
  4. Go here to !summit@lemmy.world
  5. Press the back button

Expected result: the search results should show what they were just showing a moment ago

Current result: the search results revert to whatever your account's default sorting method is

Way to make this a non-issue: add a separate sorting method when searching for communities versus other types of content

Thanks!

 

This appears to be the first post about it in the Lemmiverse (for this instance), so... here we go!

 

I'm part of programming.dev and I feel like starting a /c/volumeeating (to mirror /r/volumeeating wouldn't really make sense there, haha.

 

I've had no ISP-provided Internet access since Feb. 2023 or so and, while it's been a pain at times, I still haven't caved into returning to the evil monopoly that is Spectrum, so far, and probably won't for as long as I can't land a remote job. ~~ArrowDL, while not perfect, has been pretty good at download management for the most part in conjunction with mobile data-hotspotting.~~ Update: I'm now using AB Download Manager to mitigate download cancellations at the throttled speed.

 

When it comes to screenshooting ("screenshotting?"), I've never seen any tool even as remotely as capable as Summit; I think Thunder had some sort of system that builds it, but Summit appears to actually calculate the screen coordinates of content that displays on your device.

I never actually thought to press the button until now when I just tried it out of curiosity. Unbelievable!

 

The notifications are redirecting even Old Reddit users to WWW... not a good sign...

 

Does anyone recommend it instead?

 

It is fascinating that the search engine changes domains every single time you use it. While I'm big into privacy, I don't understand all these intricate details, but it seems cool and has yielded pinpoint results so far.

I just learned about the vast network of https://trom.tf/ through... hmm, I can't remember any more, haha! But it was either somewhere in the Lemmyverse or on Reddit, perhaps in a comment on a post in /r/privacy.

This TROM endeavor looks incredibly ambitious, so while FOSS is always welcome, I'm not sure about how long they'll be able to last running so many different projects. It feels like it's trying to be an immediate Google replacement and I fear that those who run it may be biting off more than they can chew... so I'm just trying the search engine for now.

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