At this point I’m starting to worry that all this push to distance Europe from America will eventually strengthen some “European Nationalism” or something along that line and we’ll be right back to the same problems in a few decades, just switching sides once more.

It’s an exaggeration. Browsers use a lot more RAM than one would expect, but there’s not that much of a difference between each one.

Friends of Mineral Town is a good remake of one of the most beloved entries in the series.

Only case where I consider pre-ordering is if there’s a decent discount for doing it and I know that I’ll definitely want the game at launch (for example if most of my group of friends will be playing it at the same time).

Have you played any of the harvest moon / story of seasons games? It’s the series that inspired Stardew Valley. Most of them are, in general, much more chill than even Stardew itself. There are a bunch of them on steam (on there, look only for the story of seasons games and ignore the ones named Harvest Moon)

I said it as a joke but I suspect it might be true, too. I see a lot of people complaining that they see too many posts of people they block.

Try blocking her, the algorithm will prioritize her posts if you do.

Not getting mad when someone feels threatened by you is a pretty good start.

I’ve recently been working with some niche tool that has very little documentation on the web but is open source and has a ton of discussions on public email groups. Chatgpt is sometimes able to figure out what param I need to send for specific stuff in that tool even if there are zero Google matches for the param name, but more often than not it just hallucinates stuff or mention things that no longer exists. I’ve created the habit of always asking things like “is that right?” or “is that answer up to date?” before even reading the first response from it and it often replies with things like: “no, that param only exists in some other similar tool” or “no that API has been deprecated” and shit like that.

If it were up to me I wouldn’t even be using chatgpt at all due to all the time it wasted with random stuff it makes up, but whatever training data openAI used, it surely had more information about the niche stuff I’m working with than the web does at this point - so sometimes it can still save me time too.

I’m two years Brazil will possibly elect some new right wing maniac and if it is as stupid as the last one, they’ll probably give Brazil’s whole economy to Trump in a silver platter.

Bolsonaro was recently criticing Lula, saying things like: “how dare he speaks up to Trump, as if our country had any relevance. He should shut up and just do what Trump tells him to”.

I once asked chatgpt for the name of an anime that I couldn’t remember. I described the whole premise of the anime and then some details of the final episode. Chatgpt says “Stein’s gate”. I say “no, it’s not as famous as that”. It then says “Erased”, and proceeds to describe it, showing that I was actually very effective in my description of it.

I asked “why did you say Stein’s Gate if I described Erased so well?”: “you mentioned time travel and Stein’s gate is a popular anime about time travel”

“but I also mentioned a lot of other stuff that don’t match anything with Stein’s gate, like the details about the villain or how the time traveling works”

“yeah my bad I just went by popularity”

“next time, how can I phrase my questions in a way that would make you consider the whole input instead of just using some key information in it?”

“you could have mentioned details about the villain or how the time traveling works and I would have used that to rule out Stein’s gate”

“but I did”

“yeah sorry about that, next time try giving me details about the villain or how the time traveling works”

I reached out to them and they told me they are currently working in implementing the native protocol and they’ll replace the bridge with it.

I’m not very familiar with the matrix protocol but rocket.chat advertises itself as having implemented the matrix protocol. What you said is also true according to their documentation, so now I’m confused about what is actually going on. Based on what rocket.chat implemented, is it wrong to say that they use the matrix protocol? And what are the limitations of their approach as opposed to a full implementation of it?

Rocket.chat implements the matrix protocol (or something else from matrix, check the other replies) to federate with other rocket.chat instances. It also had a different federation protocol before implementing matrix.

The sub-conscious processes of our brain tend to not use any language. Dreams and thoughts may be translated into some regular language for some people but not everyone and when it does the language picked might have more to do with the content of what is being shown than the person’s proficiency in the language.

I’m enjoying Zen browser in general but still facing several issues with it from time to time. Nothing major, just small nuisanses here and there.

I use it alongside Vivaldi since I often have to be logged in into two different sessions for the same site and it’s just easier to have two browsers for that. Vivaldi is a lot more stable and so I use it as the main browser - but everytime it updates I need to modify a JS file to tweak something in the UI to make it the way I like it to be. When using vertical tabs + tab groups + two layers of tabs (one sidebar showing the tab groups and a second sidebar showing the tabs inside the selected group), the maximum tab width is applied to both sidebars together instead of individually, so I modify the JS file to double that max width. I’ve automated it by now but it still annoys me that I keep having to do this.

But I think Vivaldi is probably the only browser that even has the ability to show tabs in that way, so I can’t complain that much.

Back in the early 2000s I met some guy who had once sold a copy of edit.exe to some store as if it were some software he had written for managing orders and inventory. The folks at the store used windows, but they would open up edit.exe and it looked just like the stuff that the larger store chains used to manage their own orders… The guy just made a sample file and instructed them how to input data in a specific format that made it all look like a table, but it was just a text file with no validation of any kind.

I don’t get it

In theory, yes. In practice, dealing with games is not so straightforward. Even the steam deck’s “suspend” is still far behind the Nintendo switch’s. In some games (older stuff, usually) the games don’t get paused at all, or it pauses the image but keeps the sound playing, or even sometimes appears to work properly, but then drains your battery just as fast as it you were playing - suggesting it is still processing the whole game in the dark.

Are their printers bad? I haven’t even tried any in decades because their business practices are so awful, but I always thought that at the very least the printers themselves should be good.

Sadly, Brother’s printers might be going on the same direction now.