Notices by Peter Brett (krans@mastodon.me.uk)

Interesting to note: not a *single* mention of “AI” in Valve's Steam hardware announcement.

Thinking about it, my Steam Deck has been the only truly user friendly computing platform I've had the pleasure of interacting with over the last 5 years.

If the new Steam hardware launch goes well, I really want Valve to make a phone.

With Google's acceleration enshittification of Android, and with the opportunity for Valve to make most of my game catalogue Just Work on a phone platform, I think it would be a “shut up and take my money” opportunity.

@whitequark I was hand-soldering 0.5 mm pitch connectors with lead-free solder in 2013 with _very_ little skill or talent, so I feel like it must have been perfectly usable even then. @slaeshjag

@whitequark In 2020 I had to completely rewrite a feature of our software from scratch because our customers stopped having access to browsers that allow XSLT of local filesystem XML files. It felt like a lot of rework that shouldn't have been necessary.

@dpk @janl

@whitequark

#define __lmao__ __builtin_unreachable

@whitequark I previously had the opposite idea — a set of libraries and exporter for designing #Factorio bases in Virtuoso Layout XL.

Because I'm a cruel bad person…

@libreleah Actually, what I'm saying is that if you feel that strongly that Google is that evil, you shouldn't be using YouTube at all.

I believe that the long term solution to this is to support creative-run competitors, like Nebula.

For me personally, the cost of running an Invidious instance at home would be much higher than that of paying for Premium.

@libreleah Okay, yes, I pay a number of people via Patreon, but I think that, “The recommender algorithm suggested this mini documentary about sinkholes in Dorset and I learned something,” level of videos also deserve financial support.

“Track down the PayPal of everyone whose video you watch,” is not a thing anyone can do in practice. Therefore I can only conclude that (1) using Invidious will deprive people of income for their work and that (2) you're fine with this.

@libreleah Serious question: have you tried doing that yourself?

@libreleah YouTube Premium does have the benefit of giving each video's creator more money per view, if I remember correctly.

@JamesAkers The top of a pineapple *is* a pineapple plant!

@TheTempleMom

@mcc Yes, where are the Arabic, Somali and Afar pronunciation options?

@cwebber The Lib Dems are supporting this?!

@cwebber (The reason I ask is because the gender criticals were literally run out of the most recent Lib Dem conference)

@whitequark Does it stimulate partial breakdown events (and monitoring/prevention)?

(This game seems like the sort of thing I would enjoy watching other people suffer)

@whitequark Oh come on, that's surely unfair

Xilinx ISE exists

@whitequark You'll make Alex Ameen very sad with that kind of talk

@inthehands If you like Hypercard, it sounds like you should check out LiveCode. When I worked on it back in 2017 it could load, edit and run HyperCard stacks.

@neil I loved my Zaurus C-3000. Even as a Sharp employee in 2005 it was hard to get one in the UK. Mine is languishing in a box somewhere, untouched since the day I acquired the even-better Nokia N900.

@dalias That seems lukewarm at best. I think you could replace “C“ and “Rust” with any programming language and it would still be true.

“‘vibe coded’ Lua is a far greater risk that well engineered Brainfuck.