Elder millennial - American+French

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Cake day: January 2nd, 2024

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  • This “You may not upload, download, transmit, display, or grant access to content that includes graphic depictions of sexuality or violence” looks like pure madness. An online reproductive biology course is going to feature depictions of sexuality; we’re not allowed to bookmark university courses with Pocket now? Many movies explore sex and violence; syncing my Netflix password with Firefox Sync, let alone streaming through “their” VPN technically “grants me access” to that. Hell, even bookstores feature “content that included graphic depictions” of all sorts of sex and violence. What kind of stone-age regression to puritanical fundamentalism is happening inside Mozilla for them to come up with this nonsense!?

    Btw, anyone subscribed to Mozilla VPN should know it’s just Mullvad VPN sold at twice the price.










  • Oh yeah, right. That’s the problem. Consumers have too much choice now. It’s not at all that 90% of those gamed now are badly lacking compared to what we used to have. It’s not at all that publishers feel it’s okay now to release unfinished products and continue development haphazardly after the game is put on sale. It’s not at all that this leads to execs either pulling these dev resources as soon as the game had made good money to put these resources either on new projects or on DLC development. It’s not at all that the industry has been pandering to the lowest common denominator for twenty years, making games that lack a challenge and reward you for nothing. It’s not at all that games are produced by executives with business degrees rather than by extraordinarily passionate and talented creative typed like George Broussard, Chris Sawyer or John Carmack. It’s not at all that in-game purchases through micro-transactions or even large transactions has skewed the incentive structures for both player and developer.

    No, it’s those pesky consumers, they’ve been given too much choice, they’ve become spoiled and entitled, so they won’t be content with whatever crap a studio puts out, now. They won’t just play the game and shut up.


  • Long live Firefox and high praises to all those who develop, maintain and package it.

    Release notes: “Firefox now defaults to the Wayland compositor […] It is also a known issue that windows are not correctly placed when restoring a previous session on launch.” I had been led to believe that one of Wayland’s strengths was solving the correct window coordinates save-and-restore problem. Does someone know what happened here?