Notices by The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)

I do think LLMs capture the zeitgeist in one way: that we’re all supposed to just accept that things are a bit shite all the time, in tech and otherwise. That it’s just how things are & we shouldn’t expect better. Shut up, accept the slop, things getting worse, the enshittification. It’s just the way things are.

No, piss off. Things can be better, we’ve done it before. Just because some people can’t or won’t remember, doesn’t mean we all have to accept their low standards.

In the year 2372, inside the most immersive simulation we can imagine, the lights will still flicker like “mmamammmmammamamaaamammma”

Right folks I finally have a definitive answer to which social media platform is best in 2025. I have made an entirely scientific assessment based on the response to my Tiramisu photo post (https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@sinbad/114173681743652265)

Mastodon: 28 likes, 2 boosts, 6 replies
Bluesky: *crickets*

There's just no competion 😉

@mcc I keep telling people that writing documentation is often the best way to realise an API/tool you’ve designed makes no sense or could be significantly improved with small changes that you never realise until you describe it. Also best results are when you do this after not touching the project for a month

Well I guess at least those of us who have warned about the risks of entrusting your entire digital existence to big American companies can feel less like raving street preachers these days. Not so crazy now to advocate for retaining more control via small, local or federated solutions eh

I have to hope that the tides will turn once again towards positive, progressive and forward-thinking behaviour, but I sincerely hope that when they do, people don’t forget all the corporations that *immediately* abandoned their so-called principles the second the opportunity arose

I’ve had a low opinion of big tech for a while but even I was surprised at the sheer speed of capitulation. They really are just empty husks with a logo

“But Muuuuuum, I’m supposed to be the only one allowed to steal all the content off the Internet to train my bullshit machine!!! 😭😭”
https://mastodon.social/@speakingsatan/113910830178956575

This week’s Trashfuture features special guest Ed Zitron and they’re taking the piss out of OpenAi most delightfully https://trashfuture.co.uk

Feck, I'm stressed out right now. Trying to deal with some family stuff and random other shit I don't need just keeps popping up and making things more difficult for no reason. 😩 A lot of it caused by stupid tech 🖥👉🌊

@JeremiahFieldhaven Is suspect there was an ambiguous function issue and this was the easy fix

@cerberus1746 Yeah I've done that.

Sigh. "Unresolved external" linker error I've just been WTF at turns out to be that the const version of a UE function is NOT exported for some reason, while the non-const version is. I tend to try to pass const objects around if I'm not modifying them but can't in this case.

Gotta say that although I've had various issues with Epic's publisher software over the years (hardly unusual in this space TBF), the support response when you need to raise something is pretty good.

Fab support response was much faster than expected. They said they reset the trader info workflow so I could retry, but now the warning on my dashboard has just gone, and the trader stuff has a button for "changing" it, so hopefully that means it's now gone through based on my submission last year. 🤞

@djlink @on_code I guess it's just supply & demand, lots of people will work in games for little because it's their dream and that gets exploited. While in big tech they're constantly in an arms race just trying to fill their massive staff so throw daft money at almost anyone. Ofc they're also based in extremely expensive places a lot of the time - although that's largely because the big tech firms were there splashing the cash so it's been self-reinforcing

@paintgoblin grr

@on_code @djlink On the high side. $200-300k including benefits is not at all unusual for a "normal" dev

These days I'm amazed when computer systems actually work at all. It's like, a genuine surprise.

Ugh, despite submitting my "Trader Status info" in May last year, Fab is moaning at me that I have to do it by 1st Feb or lose access to the EU. Clicking on the link to do it just says "Thanks for submitting your info". So now I have to file a support request to ask whether I actually have to do anything else or not. 🙄

@on_code @djlink lots of people (especially in games) are definitely not paid too much but in big tech the salaries have got pretty silly