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Men guilty of felling much-loved British 'Sycamore Gap' tree in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

b3ta.com is still going? bloody hell it's brilliant

LEGO 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' IDEAS Sets Bring The Booyakasha in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Bring the what?

azaza.aaaza in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Does your client not allow you to make a text-only post without the keyboard-mashing URL?

One US politician wants to add trackers to Nvidia's GPUs so they can be bricked if they go to China in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 11 points 15 hours ago

So then what happens when someone spoofs a GPS signal outside your AI datacenter? ... I think I like this idea.

Google shares slump as Apple exec calls AI the new search in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

It was better than AltaVista, Yahoo!, Lycos, Tripod, Ask Jeeves, MetaCrawler et al. at the time when it gained its popularity.

Its main advantage was that they focussed on speed. You didn't have to load a "homepage" with news articles and link directories (as all the other search engines had become) before you could type your search query. It was just a logo and a text input box.

The search index even at the beginning was pretty comprehensive too.

Google jumped the shark a long time ago though, around when they started putting ads on equal footing with the search results, and boosting their Shopping links.

Google shares slump as Apple exec calls AI the new search in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

your link is broken

qwant.com

Anthropic launches Claude web search API, betting on the future of post-Google information access in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Where are the sample queries and corresponding results to demonstrate that it works well? Oh there aren't any?

Drought conditions already hitting UK crop production, farmers say in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Good job we have free trade with our closest neighbours... oh.

The 10 Largest Cities in Europe in 2025 (Based On 30km Population Circles) - Brilliant Maps in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

“in Europe”

I bought a Linux Magazine from 2000! in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Holy crap I had this issue. Seeing the cover just instantly hit me with the nostalgia.

In regard to Hyprland and Fascism in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I thought this was going to be a new article or news, but it's from April 9, 2024.

I think this situation has been picked over and rehashed now to the point where anyone who was going to change their behaviour will have already done so. If there is no update on the situation then all I see is you dragging up drama from a year ago.

Someone got the Nintendo Switch 2's hardware early and spilled all the beans in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago (2 children)

They’ve got beans in there?

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[video] The Deepest Games are DUMB. - The Electric Underground [34m21s] (www.youtube.com)
 

From the video description:

The Deepest Games are DUMB. How is it possible that this generation of game developers, who are clearly articulate and educated, be so obsessed with the idea of creating deep meaningful games, and yet consistently produce games that are shallow and automated? Also, why does it seem impossible for the depth of the games of the past to be re-created? There clearly isn't any technological barrier, so what is the problem?

One of the major problems that I discuss in today's video is the obsession modern developers have with making smart games and being perceived as these masters of human psychology and technology. Where this stems from is hard to know for sure, but there is clearly a trend of developers being able to find the areas of their game that contain the potential for depth, and then systematically eliminating them. Ironically a lot of these areas are labeled as "outdated" but what I think developers and reviewers really mean to say is dumb. No one would argue pixel art is outdated. No one would argue that Mario 3 and their favorite Super Nintendo games are outdated. What they mean is that these games are presenting the player true punishment and no smartly devised system to go around the punishment.

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[video] The Deepest Games are DUMB. - The Electric Underground [34m21s] (www.youtube.com)
 

From the video description:

The Deepest Games are DUMB. How is it possible that this generation of game developers, who are clearly articulate and educated, be so obsessed with the idea of creating deep meaningful games, and yet consistently produce games that are shallow and automated? Also, why does it seem impossible for the depth of the games of the past to be re-created? There clearly isn't any technological barrier, so what is the problem?

One of the major problems that I discuss in today's video is the obsession modern developers have with making smart games and being perceived as these masters of human psychology and technology. Where this stems from is hard to know for sure, but there is clearly a trend of developers being able to find the areas of their game that contain the potential for depth, and then systematically eliminating them. Ironically a lot of these areas are labeled as "outdated" but what I think developers and reviewers really mean to say is dumb. No one would argue pixel art is outdated. No one would argue that Mario 3 and their favorite Super Nintendo games are outdated. What they mean is that these games are presenting the player true punishment and no smartly devised system to go around the punishment.

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Visiting The Mining Spaceship Red Dwarf - Props & Costumes From The BBC Series (www.youtube.com)
 

Amazing collection of props and costumes!

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Malicious VSCode extensions infect Windows with cryptominers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/programming
31 comments fedilink
 

Edit 2025-04-09 16:42Z - article was updated with a tenth package (Prettier - Code)

A set of ten VSCode extensions on Microsoft's Visual Studio Code Marketplace pose as legitimate development tools while infecting users with the XMRig cryptominer for Monero.

ExtensionTotal researcher Yuval Ronen has uncovered ten VSCode extensions published on Microsoft's portal on April 4, 2025.

The package names are:

  1. Prettier - Code for VSCode (by prettier) - 486K installs
  2. Discord Rich Presence for VS Code (by Mark H) - 189K installs
  3. Rojo – Roblox Studio Sync (by evaera) - 117K installs
  4. Solidity Compiler (by VSCode Developer) - 1.3K installs
  5. Claude AI (by Mark H)
  6. Golang Compiler (by Mark H)
  7. ChatGPT Agent for VSCode (by Mark H)
  8. HTML Obfuscator (by Mark H)
  9. Python Obfuscator for VSCode (by Mark H)
  10. Rust Compiler for VSCode (by Mark H)
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Malicious VSCode extensions infect Windows with cryptominers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
2 comments fedilink
 

Edit 2025-04-09 16:42Z - article was updated with a tenth package (Prettier - Code)

A set of ten VSCode extensions on Microsoft's Visual Studio Code Marketplace pose as legitimate development tools while infecting users with the XMRig cryptominer for Monero.

ExtensionTotal researcher Yuval Ronen has uncovered ten VSCode extensions published on Microsoft's portal on April 4, 2025.

The package names are:

  1. Prettier - Code for VSCode (by prettier) - 486K installs
  2. Discord Rich Presence for VS Code (by Mark H) - 189K installs
  3. Rojo – Roblox Studio Sync (by evaera) - 117K installs
  4. Solidity Compiler (by VSCode Developer) - 1.3K installs
  5. Claude AI (by Mark H)
  6. Golang Compiler (by Mark H)
  7. ChatGPT Agent for VSCode (by Mark H)
  8. HTML Obfuscator (by Mark H)
  9. Python Obfuscator for VSCode (by Mark H)
  10. Rust Compiler for VSCode (by Mark H)
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Suggestions for music streaming services (lemmy.ml)
 

I would like to switch away from Apple Music, and Spotify despite being a European company, is not a desirable option for me. What music streaming services would you recommend?

I managed to download a text-only list of the albums in my Apple Music library, so if there's a simple library import option then that would also be very helpful.

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R(ul)esign (lemmy.ml)
 

AMAB

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rule set in a meat garden (lemmy.ml)
 
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This "Basic" Robot Solves REAL Problems (without AI) (www.youtube.com)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
10 comments fedilink
 

This is a moving story about a cafe in Japan that allows house-bound people to join in with society and find a purpose, using remotely operated robotic avatars.

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Absolute Linux has reached the end – where next? (www.theregister.com)
 

I had never heard of Absolute Linux, but the rest of this article has some interesting musings on lightweight distros that I thought would make for good discussion here.

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Bad Apple But It’s 6,500 Regex Searches In Vim (hackaday.com)
 

If you want to go straight to the original write-up, it's here: https://eieio.games/blog/bad-apple-with-regex-in-vim/

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[video] Atari XE Computer to Laptop Conversion (2m22s) (www.youtube.com)
 

Build log: https://www.southernamis.com/forum/general-discussions/xe-book-development

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