Just like Reddit's changes last year, seems like a clear and reasonaly expected consequence of the 'our text is so valuable because AI' idea.
The web will probably continue to become more gated and more fragmented as a result of that, plus trying to get more control to force ads.
I didn't care too much about API changes at first - I used an open source app on my phone, but mostly browsed desktop. Would have been fine going back to desktop only. As long as they keep the old site design around, I'd be fine to stay.
What killed it for me was the absolutely un-caring, not-budging response from leadership. I don't feel good continuing to feed the site my attention at that point.
I like quirky Foss stuff anyway, so I was already curious about Mastodon and Lemmy. But I'd always figured they'd be ghost towns. Twitter and Reddit deliberately being proudly, blatantly awful was enough to push me out to here, along with enough other folks.
Letting rage take over is not the right path, never is. Give yourself a little time and space to cool off. (Not to diminish that the situation sucks. It sounds terrible and I'm sorry for that.)
However, if you're not happy at work, looking for a new place is the thing to do. Update your resume, and take your time to find a new job. Importantly, don't quit voluntarily until after you find something else. Don't get ahead of yourself.
The website https://nobsgames.stavros.io/ helps surface these, and let's you filter out based on different things.
One that I like in particular is Gauguin. It's a Sudoku-like with different math-y rules.
Anuto TD is a tower defense game that is also really good, but not so low stress.
Lichess, if you're into Chess. It's a great, no compromise, high quality app. Stressful if you get too worked up about competitive, but puzzles are at least relaxing.
Yeah, somewhat agree.
It's great just to see it exist. And not every game needs to reinvent the wheel, especially when the series hasn't had a game in 15 years.
But by the end of it, I was kinda left wanting some new hook.
Sylux showing up was a cool moment though. I didn't expect them to honor that tease from Prime 3, and I appreciate it.
Well said. Within the existing framework of copyright law, the emergency open library thing that got them sued seems obviously illegal, despite it being a good thing. What's good and what's legal don't always line up.
The Internet Archive's work is too important. The library portion (that does controlled digital lending of published books) is nice, but I wouldn't be too hurt if it goes down. Regular public libraries can fill a lot of that role. But the archive itself is incredible, and losing that would be a huge shame.
Legally, I don't know that admitting fault and saying sorry does much good, but it certainly isn't surprising that they got into hot water here.
Nice! This is the one thing in other browsers that I wish I had in Firefox.
No. Though I think he said his YouTube channel will be stopping soon as he'll be starting a new project.
I wouldn't be at all surprised though if he decides to oversee an inevitable Ultimate port/expansion for Switch 2.
The next installment of the Genesis series is taking place over the next few days.
Startgg page: https://www.start.gg/tournament/genesis-x/details
Official website: https://genesis.gg/
Liquipedia: https://liquipedia.net/smash/GENESIS/X
Primary stream channel: https://www.twitch.tv/genesisgg
Event schedule: here
Stream schedule: here
Melee entrants - 1544, including:
Ultimate entrants - 1505, including:
In addition to the obvious 2 games, several other events will be featured as main titles:
A handful of other games will be holding side events, most notably including Smash 64 and Brawl.
Not really federated so far, right? They talk a lot about being open, but (when) will they be really? Can I sign up for an account that intereacts with Bluesky through any other provider?
I mean, I signed up, it seems interesting enough. If nothing else it has some recognizable accounts to follow, better network effect than Mastodon.
Generally I read HackerNews and Lemmy communities like this one. Once in a while interesting projects will get highlighted.
But for the most part, once I identify a need, I'll look through alternativeto.net and see what the popular open source options are.
First step definitely would be to identify specifically what you'd like to improve. To say 'tech skills' is to cast a wide net. If you want to learn all sorts of things that's fine, but to get started with that and identify resources you have to be at least temporarily specific.
Are you thinking along the lines of system administration? Networking? Programming? Hardware setup/troubleshooting?
Reward from backing the original project. Good to have the collection complete. Re-watch (and a first watch of Metagame) might be in order.
I feel like "See that mountain? You can go there." was already a cliche when the game came out. [Though I have no citation to prove it.]
BotW really delivered on it though, with everything being climbable as the rule rather than the exception.