From their new page on AI. God, who asked for this? How much time and money did they waste integrating these useless AI tools? I was optimistic that they mentioned OCR but the more I look into it the worse it gets, nobody wants to generate AI images in their text editor. I don’t want a chatbot to tell me facts about butterflies in my presentation tool. Wtf? I’m not usually this upset about random AI integrations but this is the exact thing Microsoft would do and why people would choose onlyoffice instead.

Edit: Well, the good news is that this AI garbage seems to be a plugin that’s not included by default, so they at least have some sense in them.

I guess it just wasn’t in my circle because I haven’t heard much about it since release, but good to know it’s more popular than I thought

I forgot about this, but AFAIK you’re still better off with fstab to give yourself all permissions for everything to work properly.

I was just adjusting my fstab today… Genuinely blows my mind how far Linux has come and I still have to delve into hard to read text files to open my damn drive when I boot my computer.

I haven’t worked on anything that big but I have gotten a ton of feedback on my free games and apps, some of which was really harsh. Positive reviews are always fun to read but usually I focus on the negative reviews. Negative reviews are hard to read but tend to be the most insightful, you get an idea for the things in your game that need work or are too frustrating for others. I think your review is pretty good feedback in general.

Many people definitely need a reality check - just don’t be rude. Lots of people think their game is going to be the next big thing or that somehow people aren’t going to compare it to games that are extremely similar and probably the same price.

I was at a gaming event once and one of the demos I tried was extremely unintuitive and at some point you had to search the floor for a key that’s way too hard to see (me and friends spent like 5 minutes running around a dark room). I pointed this out to the devs and they got super defensive, telling me that it’s not supposed to be obvious and you’re supposed to be looking for items for real. This is how not to take feedback. When someone says your game sucks, take notes and try to improve.

In terms of taking feedback, the best advice I can give is just be open minded. When someone says the game sucks, no matter how stupid their feedback is, just give them the benefit of the doubt. Maybe they’re right. Maybe they suck at video games and the tutorial needed to be clearer, maybe the writing really is boring and not as interesting as you thought, maybe it’s just not clear enough where you’re supposed to be going, etc. It’s good to get perspective of others.

Not all feedback is useful though, sometimes the game just isn’t for them. If Dark Souls actually took all that criticism about the game being hard and added an easy mode, it wouldn’t be as gripping or popular as it was. Don’t let players bully you into changing your vision just because they wished your game was a different game.

TL;DR: Feedback is always good, don’t be afraid to voice your opinion. For devs, keep an open mind but don’t let it get under your skin.

I work in the industry. You’re pretty much right. I wouldn’t recommend people to get into the field unless you’re SUPER into making games and are okay with working way harder than others. That said, other tech jobs are also suffering right now, layoffs are way more common than they used to be throughout the entire field feels very competitive.

MIT is the de-facto license that says “Do what you want with the software, just give me credit. Also, I don’t owe you anything”.

It lets people do basically anything with it but protects you from:

• People who would steal your project and claim they were the original creators (your name and copyright info is filled in the license which they have to include and mention)

• Any sort of liability or warranty - people can’t blame you for any damage done by your software

Do you mean it works reliably well in letting users through, or in blocking AI?

Both, check out this article talking about it: The Day Anubis Saved Our Websites From a DDoS Attack

Looking at the statistics really shows how dire things have gotten with AI crawlers. The before and after is crazy. There are some other blog posts also mentioning they get maybe 1000x less requests per hour after deploying Anubis.

Been seeing this more and more lately. It’s a shame we need such a nuclear solution, but it works reliably well. It takes a second or two to be redirected to the site you’re visiting.

The project is for making unofficial drivers for Apple’s chips, which very few people are trying to do. Without Asahi, you can’t run Linux on Macbooks.

I’ve started using more Zen Mods recently too, the most important one I would say is Zen Context Menu - which lets you de-clutter the options when you right click anything. There are way too many options being shown when you right clicked the sidebar, but it’s a lot nicer to use now.

I get people that make tutorials for “content” even if they suck at their job, but I CANNOT get over video tutorials where someone gets completely lost and doesn’t cut it out of the video.

Anyways we’ll go here-oh there’s an error. Uhm. Maybe we can do this? That didn’t work. Maybe that? Hang on, maybe it’s in preferences? Oh, it’s in tools, no, wait, oh I just wrote the name wrong

Would it kill you to edit that out and stop wasting my time?!

I wonder if they’re going to change the name to include a K in it like their other apps? Kanimator has a good ring to it.

I appreciate the rundown! I started getting used to Emmet now, it’s certainly more friendly than it looks. I think this is what I was looking for.

The short-hand for CSS in Emmet is also pretty neat, but It’ll take some time to get used to it. w75p m10 turns into width: 75%; margin:10px

I don’t think so, it’ll just remove the bad results and you’ll have to click next page yourself. Technology has its limits.

I think both of them would have a way to filter domains if you’re self-hosting. The blocklist uses simple regex so you can probably copy-paste the blocklist straight into your filters.

These websites are really bad, I really don’t understand why many of these websites that invite people to Linux fail to understand the user that would browse something like this. It straight up links to the GNU website to browse distros and software, which by the way, isn’t loading as of writing this comment.

This entire website talks about ditching Windows without an obvious call to action. Windows is bad, yes, but giving people a list of every distro under the sun and saying “good luck” won’t convince anyone to switch. Give obvious beginner recommendations. Tell people to install Linux Mint, and a beginner-friendly guide on HOW, and why Linux is good rather than just convincing everybody to stay on Windows 10.

I’ve been meaning to post some of my stuff to Flatpak when Godot 4.4 releases but never bothered to look into it. This is perfect, thanks for sharing!

I have been obsessed with this game since it came out. I’ve already put in 60 hours and got 14 games cherried (which means 100%ing them, getting a true ending, or beating a difficult challenge).

I’m writing an incredibly long blog post where I review every single game in the pack. Excited to finish & share it once I’m done playing through everything.

Surely this means they have plans to fix screenshare audio on Linux, right? …Right?