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Seems a bit like GNUS [0].

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[0] https://www.gnus.ai/

I read on Twitter this week that someone made such an interface on top of GIMP.

https://github.com/Diolinux/Photogimp

Unreal actually also has a female protagonist.

https://unrealarchive.org/wikis/the-liandri-archives/Prisone...

You could hobby with LÖVR: https://github.com/archibald-carrion/LOVR-VR-game-design

No, for a long time I never clicked. But since I keep seeing the freaking ads, I decided to click on them, because from what I understand they have to pay money for each ad click.

The AI product rollouts in the last two years have been some of the most aggressive and user hostile product rollouts in my entire life.

I’m getting extremely annoyed by the Base44 ads I see on YouTube every other video.

First I pressed skip all the time, but the ads keep popping up. So now, every time I see it, I click on the ad and then immediately close the site. At least I can make their aggressive ad strategy a bit more expensive.

There's apps that can simulate color blindness, which can be used for testing purposes.

This is such an app for iOS / macOS: https://michelf.ca/projects/sim-daltonism/

Seems in Libanon the IDF is currently targeting hospitals and first responders [0]. Sometimes people are just evil.

Regarding the USA-Iran war, the president of the USA has threatened to destroy essential infrastructure (e.g. electricity) if Iran doesn't surrender in 48 hours. Which, from my understanding, is a war crime. I think Trump is perfectly ok with bombing schools and hospitals.

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[0] https://x.com/haaretzcom/status/2035545687006298392?s=20

At least AI seems very useful to quickly write unit tests for the stuff I work with these days, like Angular & C#.

P.S.: I loved Glider and Glypha, great games!

On iOS I have seen ads with very small close buttons, so clearly intended to cause people to miss-click. Buttons should be 44x44 pixels, it’s recommended in the human interface guidelines [0].

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[0] https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...

Another one would be Bastion - code is even open source [0].

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[0] https://www.supergiantgames.com/blog/bastions-open-source-br...

In the context of Lua, I’ve taken a liking to LuaLS (Lua Language Server). You can just write your Lua scripts with annotations (where needed) and the language server can help auto-complete and verify type usage. No compilation step needed.

I never tried “typed Lua” variants (such as MoonScript IIRC), but I believe those do require a compilation step.

Luckily I haven't had any emergencies. But in Thailand recently there's been flooding in the south, many people stuck. And in eastern part many people have been evacuated due to border tensions with Cambodia.

I live in the north-west Thailand, close to the border with Myanmar. An area known as the Golden Triangle [0].

About once a month or so we don't have electricity for a about 10-12 hours or so.

I also experienced a quite big earthquake here about a year ago.

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[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Triangle_(Southeast_Asi...

I'm just a Dutch guy that emigrated to Thailand, but I'd never trade my Toyota Hilux diesel for an electric truck. I don't want to have to rely on electric to be able to drive my car. A hybrid could be ok though.

The nice thing about diesel, in case of emergency is you can have a couple of filled jerrycans around so you can always move if needed. I like the reliability, it feels more anti-fragile, if that makes sense.

I wonder if the Gibraltar company that produces Toyota trucks for UN [0] is going fully electric anytime soon, if ever.

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[0] https://www.offgridweb.com/transportation/toyota-gibraltar-t...

Is this style of coding possible using VS Code and free Copilot?

I loved World of Warcraft for many years, but kind of stopped playing during Cataclysm.

And it's kind of weird, but I preferred the old-style questing (many repeated quests and perhaps less streamlined experience) compared to what came afterwards.

In Cataclysm they tried to improve the quest experience, add more variety, but somehow the game lost a bit of its magic - at least from my point of view.

I'm also not a fan. Due to your point regarding code branches, but also because I just don't find the code very readable.

I think Result<T> has its use, but I don't think this is a particular great example.

Basically the Lindy Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect

I haven't checked the Guardian in dept, but I believe they towed the same messaging during COVID as any other major Western publication and the same regarding the Russia / Ukraine situation right now.

Alternative voices are to be found on tight corners of the internet, like an individual on Twitter for example.

You can setup a private VPN with Digital Ocean and a PiHole droplet. I guess it's a little bit less likely to be a honeypot. It also seems cheaper than any public VPN offering.

Of course a digital id doesn’t prevent illegal immigration.

Proper border checks prevent illegal immigration.

The digital ids are introduced for other reasons - this is something Tony Blair has been pushing for a long time.

Just something like an INI file might be fine for most use-cases as well and is easier to reason about.

I don't think you can expect any major UI changes in Tahoe at this point. Maybe the next version of macOS will return to its desktop roots a bit more.

... The 'Unofficial' boss of European Union is Germany. ...

I disagree with this sentence. The unofficial bosses are both Germany and France. Which is also the reason why the people in the richer EU countries will suffer economically when the upcoming bailout for France /will/ happen.

Yeah, my experience with LÖVR [0] and LLM (ChatGPT) has been quite horrible. Since it's very niche and quite recently quite a big API change has happened, which I guess the model wasn't trained on. So it's kind of useless for that purpose.

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[0] https://lovr.org

Thanks for the explanation regarding Mavericks issues with third-party VPN software.

I noticed the app section included VPN.

Recently I've been looking for some VPN solution and found that many are quite expensive, though often you get a decent enough discount if you subscribe for like a year or longer. Also, I believe many services are probably not trustworthy (regardless of their claims).

A very affordable alternative is a DigitalOcean droplet with PiHole. You can connect with this VPN with Wireguard, which will probably work just fine on Mavericks. Been using this now for a couple of months and no issues. My costs are probably around 3-4 USD per month, but I don't use VPN all the time.

I feel the Mac way is preferable, if possible.

Download a package (disk image) - macOS automatically extracts to the desktop. Drag and drop the application from the disk image into the /Applications directory. Done.

This is the way, I believe, most software should be installed. I understand some stuff might need to touch system files and for that, perhaps a wizard makes sense.

A few points:

- It's very unclear what your complaint with Grok exactly is.

- What do you mean it's a scam? It's an AI tool, probably by Twitter's own making. It does much the same as other AI tools.

- Yes, AI tools might share info with government agencies. I believe Sam Altman recently stated that whatever you write in ChatGPT, it can also be shared with government agencies. You should probably be careful with whatever AI tool you use, if you don't want to share personal info.

- I believe many people here on HN are actually not Musk fans. Most US-based visitors probably vote for the Democrat party.

- How can you be silenced? You created an account just for this post, I think. If this account would be banned, you can easily create a new account to share similar complaints.

I recently started replaying Syndicate again as well, but I do think the game has some issues.

- Gameplay is very simple, not much strategy involved.

- Missions are pretty much all the same, very little variety.

- Perhaps because I am older now, I know to quickly research to become powerful.

- Enemy AI seems non-existent.

I first bought chest armor for my cyborgs, which increases survivability a lot. Afterwards heart upgrades, which I think helps health recover quickly. Also got mini-guns by level 6 or so. Makes it very easy to deal with enemies.

With that said, still a fun game, but when I was younger I had a bit of rose tinted glasses about the game I think.