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- Comment on StarCraft-Inspired RTS From Former Blizzard Devs Losing Online Multiplayer Because Server Partner Was Bought By AI Company - Aftermath (Nathan Grayson) 1 day ago:
Beats me; I wasn’t trying to talk about that. I was just pointing out that StarCraft and TA, despite both being RTSs, are different enough from each other that it doesn’t necessarily make sense to try to share a codebase between them.
- Comment on StarCraft-Inspired RTS From Former Blizzard Devs Losing Online Multiplayer Because Server Partner Was Bought By AI Company - Aftermath (Nathan Grayson) 1 day ago:
I mean, if the game engine is the issue you’re worried about, people had already been working on Free Software WarCraft/StarCraft clones almost a decade before the Spring Engine existed. stratagus.com/stargus.html
- Comment on StarCraft-Inspired RTS From Former Blizzard Devs Losing Online Multiplayer Because Server Partner Was Bought By AI Company - Aftermath (Nathan Grayson) 1 day ago:
I think the reason nobody has is Starcraft is so much more limited of an RTS design it feels weird to start from a Total Annihilation inspired rts game engine and take a whole bunch away (shift clicking, build cues, actually 3d trajectories of cannons, complex unit interactions rather than simplistic rock-paper-scissors relationships, actually flying aircraft, organic terrain variation instead of simplistic stepped levels…the list goes on and on)
Exactly. Those “limitations” (I would use a less biased word, BTW) make it a different game. Not necessarily worse or even more simplistic, but definitely different, kinda like how Chess and Go are different even though they’re broadly in a similar genre.
- Comment on StarCraft-Inspired RTS From Former Blizzard Devs Losing Online Multiplayer Because Server Partner Was Bought By AI Company - Aftermath (Nathan Grayson) 1 day ago:
I haven’t played Beyond All Reason or this “StarCraft-inspired” game, but I have played Total Annihilation and StarCraft and I wouldn’t consider them to be substitutes for each other.
- Comment on StarCraft-Inspired RTS From Former Blizzard Devs Losing Online Multiplayer Because Server Partner Was Bought By AI Company - Aftermath (Nathan Grayson) 1 day ago:
WTF are you talking about? Every multiplayer PC game had that when I was growing up; it was just the normal way multiplayer worked. One player hosts a game and the other players type in their IP address and join it. Server browsers using external infrastructure (whether third-party, like GameSpy, or first-party, like Battle.net) didn’t come until later, and even then, they were just matchmaking services and the game server itself was still run by you.
Restricting multiplayer to only servers run by the publisher is the abnormal, fucked-up thing!
- Comment on StarCraft-Inspired RTS From Former Blizzard Devs Losing Online Multiplayer Because Server Partner Was Bought By AI Company - Aftermath (Nathan Grayson) 1 day ago:
This sort of shit is why we shouldn’t have accepted it when games stopped coming with the ability to run your own server.
- Comment on DLSS Multi-Frame Generation Is Now Easier To Enable On Steam Deck, And It Makes Gameplay Worse 1 week ago:
Nvidia slop on an AMD GPU?
- Comment on New Steam Beta can run the Linux client inside a container with 64bit 2 weeks ago:
👆Why are you booing him? He’s right!
I mean, good for Valve for finally making progress on 64-bit, but it really is kinda absurd that it’s taken this long.
- Comment on US governor boosts US-Iran 'combat footage' that is actually from War Thunder, featuring WW2-era weapons 4 weeks ago:
This is some North Korea-level shit.
- Comment on Call of Duty co-founder claims Activision put "very awkward pressure" on Infinity Ward to make a game about Iran invading Israel 4 weeks ago:
LOL, yeah right. Next you’re gonna tell me America’s Army was a recruiting tool.
- Comment on Timberborn devs announce automation is coming to the city-builder in the 1.0 release 4 weeks ago:
The removed sluices
Damn, just when RCE finally figured them out!
- Comment on Timberborn devs announce automation is coming to the city-builder in the 1.0 release 4 weeks ago:
Perfect secondary function for foresters in their little towers.
Also, this suddenly gave me the idea of having wildfires during droughts.
- Comment on Upcoming California law to require operating systems to check your age 4 weeks ago:
Even aside from the obvious (or at least, should-be-obvious) tyranny, there are so many problems with this as a concept. For example, WTF is supposed to happen when the OS is in a VM spun up by an automated system and has no human user to begin with?
- Comment on The 'No ICE in Minnesota' charity bundle is live on itch.io 1 month ago:
Jeez, that’s a lot of stuff. I tried to copy it into a spoiler tag (so the post wouldn’t display too long), but it won’t even all fit in the Lemmy comment length limit. Apparently it’s 1439 items.
- Comment on How do I disable the file type filter in KDE's file picker? 1 month ago:
The phrase “XY problem” was not in and of itself, but the paragraph below it where you explained what you wanted in more detail definitely helped.
- Comment on How do I disable the file type filter in KDE's file picker? 1 month ago:
What I want is to set the default filter to “All Files” for every application that uses the file picker. I don’t want to do it per application. If there’s a setting for the file picker itself, I want to use that.
It’s not just the save dialog, I mentioned the file selection dialog (for uploading) in the post. The Librewolf “save page as” is just one singular example, not the entire problem!
Oh! In that case, KFileDialog might actually be (roughly) the part you want to patch.
(That was just what I found in a couple of minutes of looking, BTW. I’ve never programmed anything related to KDE – not even applications, let alone the library itself – so do your own research. I’m just going by generic software engineering principles, not anything specific to how KDE works, either technically or administratively.)
What would the effects be?
Depends on exactly which bits you change. The “save” dialog probably inherits from an abstract dialog or something. If you change the base class everything will be affected; if you change the derived class only the derived class will be affected. The trick is to find the right layer in the hierarchy that changes everything you want while leaving everything else alone.
How would I go about this? Would I need to alter the source code and recompile? What would happen when I update the software?
Yes, you’d have to alter the source and recompile. At that point, you’re basically maintaining your own small private fork of the software, so you’d have to merge your changes back in on each update.
Alternatively, you could try to get the KDE project to accept the changes, but I have no idea how receptive they would be.
“Saving HTML files with their file extension” can still be accomplished if I can see all the files at once. I’m not changing the extension, I just want to see where I’m putting them. There is no reason why viewing all files would prevent me from saving the same file types together.
If you’re saying that you’d like to decouple the filter of what file types you can see from the filter of what file types you can save as, that’s interesting. It might have merit in terms of user experience, but I suspect it might be a slightly more invasive change to code – and an even more invasive change to the public-facing API, which developers of applications that use KDE might have something to say about.
- Comment on Dutch authorities seized one of Windscribe VPN's servers – here's everything we know 1 month ago:
Just encrypt the drive and store the key somewhere easier to destroy.
- Comment on Neocities founder stuck in chatbot hell after Bing blocked 1.5 million sites 1 month ago:
There are no Chinese search engines?
- Comment on How do I disable the file type filter in KDE's file picker? 1 month ago:
You’re going to have to find the line in the Librewolf source code where it sets a file extension and/or MIME type filter on the “Save Page” dialog, edit it to remove the filter, recompile, and optionally create a bugzilla issue and patch to try to get your change adopted for everybody instead of just you.
This isn’t a KDE thing, BTW; it’s a Librewolf (or upstream Firefox) thing. The web browser knows it’s trying to save a web page, so the devs programmed it to force the standard, “correct” extension. (You could try to patch it at the KFileDialog level instead of the Librewolf level as described above, but then you’d lose filtering systemwide.)
More realistically, your best bet is to save it with the
.htmlat the end, and then just rename the file to what you actually want afterwards. - Comment on Valve stress again that there'll be more Steam Machine Verified games than Steam Deck ones, with "fewer constraints" in their testing programme 2 months ago:
As more variety of hardware gets released, sooner or later Valve is going to need a “compatible with SteamOS” test that has little or nothing to do with hardware specs and will basically be equivalent to a generic “this game works in [at least one distro of] Linux” statement. I look forward to that.
- Comment on Indonesia blocks Grok over non-consensual, sexualized deepfakes 2 months ago:
Temporarily? Boooooo.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Contrary to my limerick, your phrase wasn’t incomprehensible, just odd.
Is your native language French? My Duolingo lessons lead me to believe that’s likely.
Rest assured, your English is way better than my skills in whatever your other language is!
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Sanctions against the user were sought Because he was mistook for a bot His posts would be removed Unless his humanity could be proved But never mind that— what the fuck is a “margerine pot?”
- Comment on Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama. 3 months ago:
Sure, so does organized crime. What’s your point?
- Comment on Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama. 3 months ago:
Copyright, patent, trademark, and trade secret laws are all entirely different and have almost nothing to do with each other (don’t be fooled by the property-rights-hating shysters who try to gaslight you into lumping them all as “intellectual property[sic]”).
Trademarks and patents don’t have the same kinds of interoperability exceptions that copyright does, and you can’t claim to “support HDMI™” without licensing rights to those in addition to whatever copyrighted code you might need for the software side of the implementation.
- Comment on Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama. 3 months ago:
I’m a little disappointed, but not surprised. This thing is designed to be used in the living room hooked up to the TV, after all.
The fact of A/V consumer electronics standardizing on HDMI instead of DisplayPort is kinda not Valve’s problem to solve, as much as I’d like it to try.
- Comment on Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama. 3 months ago:
Valve tells Ars its “trying to unblock” limits caused by
open source driverclosed source corporate megalomania issues.FTFthem. Open Source is not the problem here.
- Comment on Grab a free copy of Warhammer: Vermintide 2 for a limited time 4 months ago:
Heh, I didn’t even get as far as typing anything. I clicked on the search box and it was at the top of the “popular searches” list.
- Comment on I’ve already been using a “Steam Machine” for months, and I think it’s great 4 months ago:
Framework Desktop 64gb
I wonder how that compares to my mini-ITX Ryzen 5700x3D/9070XT/64GB system. I guess yours is even smaller and better at running LLMs due to the unified memory, but mine is probably cheaper and better at gaming.
- Comment on Mozilla is recruiting beta testers for a free, baked-in Firefox VPN 5 months ago:
Progressive Web Apps
Modern Tab Management
Isn’t that already an extension?
Improved History Search
Could also be an extension, I bet.
Cross Site Scripting (like “Web Macros”)
Improved privacy containers (fighting browser fingerprinting)
Clearer and more fine granumar permission concepts (like Android, “may this website do xyz”)That’s the sort of thing I meant by “under-the-hood stuff normies won’t notice.”
I think a number of Javascript Apis are lacking in Mozilla compared to Chrome and others.
No, that’s a good thing. Fuck JavaScript; it has way too much access to stuff it shouldn’t already. If anything, APIs need to be removed.
I almost hate Mozilla as much as I do hate Google, because they are slowly letting Firefox die a death of unpopularity.
But at least they can pay their CEOs a lot of money out of that sweet Google ad revenue.
I think Google still deserves to be hated a lot more, but otherwise I agree. IMO there’s no good reason for Mozilla Corporation to exist; it should only be Mozilla Foundation (the non-profit part) and all board and management should be replaced with non-overpaid people who actually believe in the mission.
