Notices by Vokainen (vokainen099@cawfee.club), page 2
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Vokainen (vokainen099@cawfee.club)'s status on Sunday, 13-Jul-2025 21:30:32 JST Vokainen
@phnt I remember those fearmongering articles in the late 2000s about how the internet was about to "run out of IP addresses" without ipv6
Even then, they could have just made longer addresses, instead of the weird numbers + letters formatting ipv6 uses -
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Vokainen (vokainen099@cawfee.club)'s status on Saturday, 12-Jul-2025 04:03:04 JST Vokainen
@phnt Check qtstyleplugins, and see if you need apply a compatibility mode somewhere -
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Vokainen (vokainen099@cawfee.club)'s status on Saturday, 12-Jul-2025 02:50:29 JST Vokainen
@phnt @nyanide @deprecated_ii >add every conversation into this array
You haven't seen Bethesda games, then. Each has this huge array of "topics" which branch, and it's not even dropped into NPC properties.
It just stays there and runs check against who you're supposed to talk to and other conditions.
Each time you open it, a mighty delay ensues -
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Vokainen (vokainen099@cawfee.club)'s status on Friday, 11-Jul-2025 22:16:55 JST Vokainen
@feld This started before shorts, when there were those weird "Spiderman does this to Elsa" that were somehow showing up everywhere, clearly aimed at kids, but very very weird, with rather exposed cosplayers and, well, those spiderman guys.
I dunno what's happening behind the scenes, but YouTube has been milking this weird but aimed at kids side of itself from at least 2015-2016, and it's always been off. -
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Vokainen (vokainen099@cawfee.club)'s status on Friday, 11-Jul-2025 02:51:03 JST Vokainen
@Heil_Honkler @EssentialUtinsil @Marshall1Banana @Turdicus @WoodshopHandman @animepfp Would be very funny is LinkedIn went down, then someone bought the domainame and used it to redirect windows users to some scam or some ransomware scheme
But, these guys just think they can lobby their way out of any situation -
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Vokainen (vokainen099@cawfee.club)'s status on Friday, 11-Jul-2025 02:51:03 JST Vokainen
@Heil_Honkler @EssentialUtinsil @Marshall1Banana @Turdicus @WoodshopHandman @animepfp >Thinking big corps actually do any future planning/proofing beyond rent-seeking behaviours and quarterly growth forecasts
I got a bridge to sell you -
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Vokainen (vokainen099@cawfee.club)'s status on Friday, 11-Jul-2025 02:51:01 JST Vokainen
@Heil_Honkler @EssentialUtinsil @Marshall1Banana @Turdicus @WoodshopHandman @animepfp Well, Microsoft has been destroying their XBox division for a while now, it was once one of their most invested into endeavours.
Maybe a new CEO could move their HQ to India and close down most of their branches in the USA, LinkedIn included. That would probably require for Microsoft to fall out of government contracts related to Windows and Office (Google taking over those, basically). Then, they would possibly be allowed to remove themselves not being a strategic asset anymore -
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Vokainen (vokainen099@cawfee.club)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 21:48:56 JST Vokainen
@sickburnbro Hey @Hyperhidrosis lookee here :aaaaaa: -
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Vokainen (vokainen099@cawfee.club)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 21:48:55 JST Vokainen
@Hyperhidrosis @sickburnbro It used to be you could get all kinds of awesome jobs at NASA, also research was much much better, and plenty of Bay Area companies were hiring those graduates too.
Of course, getting into physics at all was far more difficult compared to nowadays -
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Vokainen (vokainen099@cawfee.club)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Jul-2025 04:24:59 JST Vokainen
@djsumdog Don't forget to check if you install the new Wayland module for qt6. Had applications not launching because the qt5 equivalent doesn't work even with qt6-qt5compat (Or whatever that package is named) installed -
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Vokainen (vokainen099@cawfee.club)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Jul-2025 04:24:57 JST Vokainen
@djsumdog May very well be a bug, they shouldn't have axed their GL support still.
As for stackoverflow, don't hold your breath, the site is botted and a shadow of its former self
You could use an AI though (That's what the cool kids do :airismile: ) -
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Vokainen (vokainen099@cawfee.club)'s status on Friday, 04-Jul-2025 20:18:39 JST Vokainen
@phnt @dcc @Tamamo @SuperSnekFriend I don't think an alt timeline where Steam fails or gets lawsuited to Hell and back, allowing GOG to become the dominant store would change much.
CDR would simply go the route of Valve and become mostly a publisher. Probably we would get a Linux GOG launcher much before, because then CDR would realize the risk of being locked down by Microsoft (Especially if in this alt timeline Games For Windows survives much longer), and basically not much would change.
As for CDR going shitty, that's the entire industry for you :airilaugh: -
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Vokainen (vokainen099@cawfee.club)'s status on Thursday, 03-Jul-2025 01:51:02 JST Vokainen
@phnt @Jain @lucy I meant kids that maybe may be interested into what was being played back in the days, and now can't get 2-3 bucks bargains.
OK, there's not that many of those, but if they did this pull-push trick, I think they think it could work -
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Vokainen (vokainen099@cawfee.club)'s status on Thursday, 03-Jul-2025 01:50:32 JST Vokainen
@phnt @Jain @lucy Well, the remaster galore is here to stay since it's been with us since like 2008 (Release of the new Monkey Island collection with "improved" non-pixel graphics. Arguably the first remaster on the current sense).
With development costs the way they are, it's not going to improve, unless AIs start pumping games on their own, but that opens another whole can of sloppy worms.
Consumer protection laws are a joke on average, and protect you from blatant fraud cases most times
Never mind going to regulators and explaining to them what the WON Network, or SDKs, or anything else are.
I think the EOL at stupidly high prices will be the end result. Technically available to prevent court cases, but financially inaccessible to most. At best we'll get influencers flexing privileged access in the face of their communities -
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Vokainen (vokainen099@cawfee.club)'s status on Thursday, 03-Jul-2025 01:50:30 JST Vokainen
@lucy @Jain @phnt Here's what happened recently: they pulled all of the 2000s-made Stalker games from all stores (Which on sale usually went for 2-3 bucks at worst), and replaced them with the remastered versions.
Anyone who already bought them, keeps the originals, and got the remasters for free.
Anyone else? Buy the remastered at the remastered price (20+ bucks on sale each), and we'll also give you the original unremastered.
You understand they're attempting to milk people that couldn't buy those games in the early days of digital distribution, and attempt to force them to pay more with the excuse of there being remasters.
So, no, if they do this pull-push trick on every notable game, then people now coming into the industry will be forced to buy classics at substantial prices with the excuse of upscaled textures being bundled along. Eh. -
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Vokainen (vokainen099@cawfee.club)'s status on Thursday, 03-Jul-2025 01:18:19 JST Vokainen
@phnt @Jain @lucy Ideally this should kick start regulation allowing things like the Half-Life WON Network (Fanmade reimplementation of classic non-steam Half-Life multiplayer) to exist without threats of cease and desist, and obliging developers to either provide SDKs to implement those, or to otherwise rely on interoperable protocols that would work pretty much on any game given appropriate plugins/configurations
In practice, what will probably happen is that developers will start requiring/bumping multiplayer subscription prices once products reach EOL, and maintain symbolic skeleton multiplayer servers at stupidigly high subscription prices so they could demonstrate in court that the product is indeed available, it's just that they had to bump prices because it's EOL and they have to focus on newer products -
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Vokainen (vokainen099@cawfee.club)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Jul-2025 16:19:56 JST Vokainen
@phnt @theorytoe @gray Not gonna lie, Minecraft had an obnoxious but still great community. Thousands of kids grew up with it. It wasn't perfect, but I'd take it any day over whatever YouTube has become.
Of course, by the mid 2010s it was ending because the kids were growing up and getting shipped to college. At least they didn't really see Microsoft run the game into the ground -
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Vokainen (vokainen099@cawfee.club)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Jul-2025 05:03:39 JST Vokainen
@mangeurdenuage This smells like it was drawn in the 2000s: things don't work this way anymore. Well, maybe even back then this was a pure illusion -
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Vokainen (vokainen099@cawfee.club)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 14:58:28 JST Vokainen
@phnt They're scared this will contribute to normalizing AI-written software acceptance, and put their job security at risk in the future
(Unfortunately their job security has been threatened by offshoring and foreigners since decades, but I guess AI sounds cooler, therefore more threatening) -
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Vokainen (vokainen099@cawfee.club)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 09:01:02 JST Vokainen
@nyanide Fer sure.
But same thing can be said for non mainstream Linux distros.
Staying away from anything RHEL/Canonical/Gnome-made cuts drama to nearly nothing, maybe only to when GCC breaks some user space ABI and that's it.
It highlights where the problem really is