D-side (Pavel Peganov) @dside@mastodon.online

@tindall "For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." (usually attributed to H. L. Mencken?)
Proclaiming something to be "fundamental nature" is often times exactly that.

@Gargron @annika then it has the same effect, since it also doesn't need backlight and only expends energy on pixels that aren't pure black.

@drq why, I can think of worse things than that. Like going publicly traded. Because at that point investors become the driving force for the studio, and consideration of players' interests is eventually reduced to a minimum.

A friend of mine recently tried to share a file from his #Dropbox with me. I received a link in an email, but it refused to let me download the file unless I either get an app (on mobile) or(/and?) sign up/in (on desktop).

How am I supposed to be inclined to use Dropbox it cannot accomplish such a simple task as simply sharing a file with a stranger with no strings attached?

Such a thing actually exists! Kinda.

A third party that shrinks terms and policies of various popular services down to bare essentials that are actually understandable and aren't buried deep in legal-speak.

Something to encourage you to question the blind trust in these services, to restrict your activities there and to consider alternatives to especially carefree ones.

https://tosdr.org/

(Kudos to @unreared@mastodon.social for the pointer) #tosdr #privacy #eula

@bleakgrey hm... something like Node-RED? https://nodered.org/
It's a generic automation engine. It doesn't really care what to automate and there are quite many community modules.
It's web-based, which might turn some people off, but I don't think I've seen anything better in the genre.

AppDaemon is somewhat similar, but it's full-Python and I think less popular: https://appdaemon.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

@LemmyDev @drq it's... not? The protocol doesn't care that much what kind of entity produces activities. It's an "actor", whatever has an inbox and outbox.
Even ActivityStreams defines Group as an actor type, but even if it doesn't fit your case, per ActivityPub spec: "actors are generally one of the ActivityStreams Actor Types, but they don't have to be." Meaning you can use your own type if you absolutely positively need to.

So humanity still refuses to learn to handle conflicts constructively. Instead choosing to talk behind peoples' backs and distancing themselves from the matter if/when the jig is discovered.

And I'm not trying to make just this board or the parents look guilty here, this a very widespread problem. There is a cultural trend of suppressing conflicts instead of solving them, which only serves to secretly annoy and heat up all sides. Until something goes slightly sideways.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56156795

Ok, Google, how's this lack of customer support service treating you? :)

Terraria lead dev's Google account is suspended without notice or explanation, with access to Google Play, GMail, GDrive and everything, he retaliates by cancelling Stadia release of the game.
https://stadiasource.com/article/1449/Could-Terraria-Be-Cancelled-For-Stadia-UPDATED

Here we go again, another app suspended for unmoderated content that users can choose to receive over the network.
https://mastodon.matrix.org/@matrix/105642019067772382