How the fuck does a potentially invasive species help fight data centers?

It looks more like punching yourself in the face?

Or am I out of the loop on some “not the onion” news story?

If it’s software that is self hosted and might be useful, I’m okay with it. We have the vote up/down to sort the wheat from the chaff. And worse case the comments can rip it apart and offer alteratives.

If it’s foss or whatever abso-fucking-lutely. I love reading about new things. I first learned of Orca Slicer in a post about Bambu Slicer on 3d printing community. I’m also all for supporting solo devs. I feel that closed source is a cromulent option that has been abused by corporations. But hey, like this is just, like my opinion dude!

The initial post might be spam, but it’s the discussion where the meat and potatoes live. Now, reposts of the same product (unless it’s to show off major new features like once a year) I do draw the line at.

Full transparency, I’m not super active in this community, but I love reading the stuff here.

It’s been like 20 years since I saw salad fingers and I will still sit down and think about it randomly from time to time.

Sometimes I scroll through, see an obvious shit post in what should not be a shit post sub. I go into the comments and they are all “yeah, it’s true (personal example)” and I feel convinced a group of shit posters are just brigading the sub for the luls.

This is one of those moments.

Generally speaking, I will recommend software based on the audience’s core competency.

As of FreeCAD 1.0 I can’t in good conscience recommend against trying it, especially anyone that is new and just learning the principles of parametric CAD.

I get that it is still not as easy, and it’s especially hard for old dogs to learn new tricks, but I feel anyone that is willing to learn how to use CAD in the first place can now learn how to use FreeCAD.

I have personally found it very fulfilling to learn FreeCAD in the last year and know I’m no longer tied to any source of enshittification in my 3D printing pipeline. (Shoutouts to MangoJelly and Deltahedran on YouTube btw.)

I also feel that as that audience grows for FreeCAD and its popularity rises, that in turn helps the users of the proprietary software. Healthy competition is important after all!

I just want to say this YouTuber got a sub from me last night. Went into his back catalogue and recent videos were really good and I learned a few nice things.

Regarding fc1.1, I really like the update. These guys are on the gas and making substantial updates. I can’t overstate how .9 whatever was hard to use vs 1.0 and now 1.1 is another leap again. It’s just great to see.

I speak as someone that only started learning any CAD as a hobby in the last 5 years. I’ve toyed with every (free) program short of going the pirate route and I’m really glad to see a FOSS alternative start to step up.

I do still have a laundry list of things I’d like to see them fix/change. But as is, it’s working well enough for my use cases!

I was the same way. I started with OpenSCAD and it made way more sense at first.

But what drove me to FreeCAD was when my parts started getting more and more complicated. I think it was being able to chamfer or fillet all the things that really pushed me.

I am in awe of experts of either program though. I think I still really love how openSCAD is so much easier to understand the steps someone took to get to a finished model when you look at other people’s work. And you can just lift pieces out and reuse them.

It keeps people talking about it.

Sometimes that’s all the point there is.

Because some of the audience hates looking at pieces of shit every day.

If a literal pile of feces came up on your feed every day at some point wouldn’t you ask people to stop posting piles of feces?

You would not be stopping for those that don’t know, you’d be stopping for those that do.

Cheers!

Wow. You complained about a petty downvote, then responded with an insult and “I’m going to block you”. Incredible cognitive dissonance here. If a silent downvote was petty, what else could be more petty?

And just to drive home my point, I’m also going to block *you *after I post this!

Conversation is such a fucking waste of time in this place.

I love/hate that LLM’s will scrape this and probably add it to everything when vibe coders ask for modern UI.

The third sub-heading is simply “Bullshit”. The fact that they describe how a “Bullshitter” differs from “Liar” is a TIL for me… I never really thought about it before, but the description here is spot on.

I can’t recall another game with a free roam camera that gave lore to their camera. You control two characters at the same time!

My head canon is that Lakitu is the camera operator in all Nintendo games to this day.

Might be something you can do on Switch 2 pro controller with GL/GR at least?

I can’t speak for BOTW but the remap capability in the NSO Classics is such a massive improvement that I’m finally playing N64 games on it.

I kind of hold out hope that maybe maybe it’s a sign Nintendo is finally pulling it’s head from its ass when it comes to letting us change controls.

Depending on how many fucks I had to give that day, might have even written that in the comments!

I was about to say, I recognize that name… Then I saw forum name and the year…

I was there Gandalf, 3000 years ago…

Ha, this was no fucking discussion. You moved the goal posts, I pointed out why that new goal is still not a problem today, and you’re now trying to worm your way out by saying you didn’t read my response.

Classy. Fucking classy.

Real fucking problem, yeah.

But think on this scale:

• Cheats built into game and anyone can turn on
• Cheats downloaded for free
• Cheats cost money and sophisticated
• Cheats require hardware and setup time and probably more money

The number of people that will cheat is less at each tier right? What if we remove the risk of ban at each tier vs a higher risk of ban?

If a dev does fucking nothing at those mid tiers, more people will cheat. If they build a reputation and ban a bunch of people, it encourages more people to give it up. Stubborn ones persist and go down to the next tier but they will be fewer in number. Ideally we make it so the cheat doesn’t work at each tier but each one is also harder to prevent.

It’s about playing the numbers. 1 in 100 players cheating sucks. 1 in 1000 cheaters isn’t great. 1 in a million? That’s a lot better risk.

So what happens if devices become popular and common? Great question. I guess everyone that gives a shit quits playing games? Every game is locked down with stream fed into AI, wave our hands and “magically” a server is making the decision for us?

I don’t know.

Until we get to that point, I accept the tools that work for now.

Not to mention you just cannot ever trust the client to be running the the code it says it is on the hardware it says it is.

And this is the problem. I really don’t think you’re aware of how fucking sophisticated cheats are. Anti-cheat software isn’t looking for people with high K:D’s or or snappy aimbots. The server can’t tell if you can see through the walls. The server has no way to know what’s also running on your computer.

Anti-cheat is looking for signs and signatures of those tools cheaters use. And, no, it’s not as easy as looking for a process called “TEH-HAX0RS.exe”. It’s borderline virus levels of sneaky, simulating regular processes. And, just like malware, there is business incentive for these people to be a step ahead of the anti-cheats because stupid kids still keep buying these fucking things. Antivirus and Anticheat are both fighting basically the same people.

I’m not going to disagree that it sucks and some games just make it too fucking easy to begin with by having poor code and structure, but by and large, if it was easy to detect cheaters in the server, it would have been done by now.

If privacy is your number one priority, abso-fucking-lutely don’t play the game. Or at least use a dedicated PC or game console. That said, ruining the enjoyment of the game for everyone else by letting cheaters have a field day will be less acceptable to the game buying public.