Notices by ben 🇵🇸 ui (ben@m.benui.ca)

This is also true for programmers who use LLMs that are trained on stolen code.

#gamedev

A very clean tutorial on how to add a custom button to the editor toolbar. https://minifloppy.it/posts/2024/adding-custom-buttons-unreal-editor-toolbars-menus/
#UnrealEngine

This is _the_ thing to read when learning about multiplayer in Unreal. https://cedric-neukirchen.net/docs/category/multiplayer-network-compendium/
#UnrealEngine

i'm quitting epic and starting somewhere new next month 🎉

This small tool lets you browse Unreal Engine's Editor icons/brushes easily, search for specific ones and copy slate code for the selected icon. https://github.com/sirjofri/SlateIconBrowser
#UnrealEngine

@molly0xfff i would flip the image, Republicans are going hard right, Dems mostly right, the US needs to go left

Those thinking of escaping to Canada:

We have about 6 months before our own centrist neoliberal parties offer nothing to voters and eat shit in a general election.

@sinbad idk I think personally it's always been like this but it's just more nakedly obvious now.

@sinbad their responsibility is to shareholders, not human beings

@sinbad submit a PR

Grand Theft Autocomplete is my new favourite term for LLMs

@evan @fedi_jam heh, ok nevermind

@evan @fedi_jam I've always been interested in that, what kind of things could you do with a game and activitypub?

Reminder to all fellow Firefox users, they recently added and enabled privacy-invading ad bullshit in your settings

Go to your privacy settings to remove it

Edit: apparently it's ok at preserving privacy for now, but maybe I don't want to be helping ad companies

i run my own site, i know c++

i wish it was easier to understand and get into fediverse stuff

if i want to learn how to make something, publish something, all the tutorial start with "here are 30 technologies you've never heard of, throw them all together on a server and configure it in the 'standard way' then you're done!"

does anyone have any suggestions?

#fediverse #mastodon

I'm requesting that my questions and answers be permanently deleted under GDPR.

It's just a reminder that anything you post on any of these platforms can and will be used for profit. It's just a matter of time until all your messages on Discord, Twitter etc. are scraped, fed into a model and sold back to you.

Stack Overflow announced that they are partnering with OpenAI, so I tried to delete my highest-rated answers.

Stack Overflow does not let you delete questions that have accepted answers and many upvotes because it would remove knowledge from the community.

So instead I changed my highest-rated answers to a protest message.

Within an hour mods had changed the questions back and suspended my account for 7 days.