

Yep, Stacy Spikes. The weird part is he actually did reincarnate moviepass in the original concept (https://www.moviepass.com/ is live) but also attached this weird crypto shit to it


Yep, Stacy Spikes. The weird part is he actually did reincarnate moviepass in the original concept (https://www.moviepass.com/ is live) but also attached this weird crypto shit to it


Pretty sure it’s a different company with the same people, so no. The original founder bought the assets back at bankruptcy sale, including the name.
Another one: steam has some sort of multiplayer integration for devs, so they don’t need to host their own servers and you don’t need to expose ports; instead you can add people using your steam friends. Found this out to my sadness when I bought risk of rain 1 on Gog and the multiplayer was completely gutted compared to my friend who bought on steam.


Ooh can I suggest games? There are definitely a bunch that are great to play sitting down, or standing up but in place. I haven’t bought new VR games since alyx came out, but I def have plenty


From the Wikipedia article:
Doctorow argues that new platforms offer useful products and services at a loss, as a way to gain new users. Once users are locked in, the platform then offers access to the userbase to suppliers at a loss; once suppliers are locked in, the platform shifts surpluses to shareholders.[11] Once the platform is fundamentally focused on the shareholders, and the users and vendors are locked in, the platform no longer has any incentive to maintain quality.
And when discussing the solution:
The second is the right of exit, which holds that users of a platform can easily go elsewhere if they are dissatisfied with it. For social media, this requires interoperability, countering the network effects that “lock in” users and prevent market competition between platforms.
It’s a made up word that was defined by a specific article by the person who made it up. So yeah, it is.


No, we don’t: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification.
Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification, and it is a seemingly inevitable consequence arising from the combination of the ease of changing how a platform allocates value, combined with the nature of a “two-sided market”, where a platform sits between buyers and sellers, hold each hostage to the other, raking off an ever-larger share of the value that passes between them.
A key component to this is being locked in, which didn’t happen here as most of these games are still available elsewhere. No one is stuck with a games subscription where the quality of games is dropping. This is just a business realizing it’s not viable and paring back their offerings.
People on Lemmy seem to have a tendency to overuse enshittification, which sucks because it refers to something real and also actionable. If you dilute the meaning, you make the solution less likely. Lemmings should be among the forefront of people familiar with the real meaning, since Doctorow’s suggested solution is open standards for interoperability, like ActivityPub/Lemmy.
Do you say hetips for HTTPS?
No but now I want to start (though I’d go hittips instead, and its insecure alternative, hittip). HTTPS has always been a mouthful lol
The last language I learned was Rust, I did a mix of the two. I read through the canonical Rust book and then got to coding because I learn more deeply when I can apply what I’ve learned. It’s still a tricky language to keep a conceptual model of in your head though.
I have the same but it’s called “please”
No, it only has an integrated html previewer. They removed the full integrated browser because it was unnecessary and an actual browser did the trick
Are you telling me that no compiler optimizes this? Why?
Nothing you’ve said is wrong, but (at least in the screenshot) the OP didn’t say anything about it being used in anything official. It’s a relatively common term in everyday language thanks to medical dramas which use coding a lot, and it’s even in the Merriam-Webster medical dictionary.
Not to invalidate what you’ve said! Just pointing out that it not being used in official contexts doesn’t make it nonsense to use elsewhere, like on some forum.
Yeah this was before I realized Lemmy didn’t have DMs 🤷🏽♂️


Maybe controversial, but the fish shell. I know it’s not strictly bash syntax, but the OOTB features are just so user-friendly. The most helpful features for learning: the autocomplete (with descriptions of subcommands and flags!) and the fuzzy history search.
I write bash scripts all the time, and am significantly more knowledgeable than anyone else on my team (admittedly frontend) because I got comfortable in fish.


Oh hey, you’re totally right, that’s crazy. I use Beeper (hosted matrix setup) to aggregate my chats and I guess I’ve always been using that to search across all servers without realizing. Fully thought the DM search would also search across servers.
DMs are definitely also another case though - you can’t easily DM people on another server if that requires you to log into another server.


That’s still not a solution. That entails non unified communication, access, and search. Making it easy to log in to others still doesn’t solve easy sharing between others. Also oauth2 is a pain to set up, and many people hosting their own instance aren’t going to bother.


You could’ve made music out of ejecting/retracting those all at different times!
Would’ve actually been fantastic distributed systems practice, synchronizing all of those to tight tolerances of music across a network connection…
What, are we code golfing?