I think now is a good time to get into malware AI plugins.

Infinite scroll amplifies the “I’m never going to find that again” problem. That’s the thing I hate most about it.

There’s not really anything on that account, tbh. I only ever used it a few times to talk to friends when playing minecraft.

2D printers are way more difficult than 3D printers. The only reason we didn’t have 3D printers in the 90s is Stratasys and their stranglehold patents. Hobby-level 3D printers only became a thing because the Stratasys patents expired.

Before that they were just able to ask for €70k for what’s essentially a cheap ABS FDM printer.

Teamspeak is proprietary software, but it’s self-hosted and there’s an opensource TS3 client.

Since it’s self-hosted, enshittification is rather limited. If the new version sucks, anyone could just run an older version instead, so their are in constant competition with their own older versions.

Don’t worry, he fucks everyone. He fucks his employees, he fucks his customers, he fucks government and he fucks the victims of his software.

Teamspeak. It’s old and it’s still good. Uses no resources at all compared to Discord and there are thousands of free servers if you don’t want to host one yourself.

I uninstalled Discord yesterday.

I would totally go for that! After being together for a decade, it does become quite difficult to find something novel to enjoy together.

And if they are doing their job right, they also won’t lose that many customers.

Nah, they used oxygen-free bananas though.

The problem is with hardware requirements scaling exponentially with AI performance. Just look at RAM and computation consumption increasing compared to the performance of the models.

Anthropic recently announced that since the performance of one agent isn’t good enough it will just run teams of agents in parallel on single queries, thus just multiplying the hardware consumption.

Exponential growth can only continue for so long.

Can it be necrophilia if it has never lived?

Digging, if you don’t care about accuracy, can be done with smaller blocks.

Building not. Try building a nice house, but when you try to place blocks you get a burb of tiny blocks being strewn all over.

Look at what people are actually doing in Minecraft. Terraria is a completely different game, especially in regards to this mechanic and the gameplay surrounding this mechanic.

Also, for a 2D game, halving the block size means you quadruple the amount of blocks. For a 3D game it’s 8x.

2D and 3D are vastly different and stuff that works in 2D often doesn’t work in 3D or vice-versa.

For example, try to make a 2D first-person shooter. Or an RTS where units can freely move in 3D. Even something as simple as Chess completely falls apart when you introduce a 3D playing field.

(Goes without saying, this is about 2D/3D gameplay, not 2D/3D graphics. Every physical chess set has 3D graphics, but they also all have 2D gameplay.)

Yes, they are required by that type of gameplay. 0.5m cubes mean that mining and placing blocks takes 8x as long. That is a massive change in the gameplay.

Can you do a voxel game where mining and building is extremely fiddly and everything is much more laboursome than with 1m blocks? Sure you can. Has been done. And it sucks.

Is there a legal precedent on how copyright can be used against game clones?

I know that there is for board games, and there it says that the art and the rulebook cannot be identical, but that game rules aren’t protectable. So it’s basically the same level of protection that e.g. a painting would have.

If the same thing holds true for video games, then “The gameplay being similar” shouldn’t matter at all, and the only question is whether the art is too similar.

Considering that the art for voxel games is limited by technicalities (1m size blocks are required by the gameplay) and the low-resolution texture art style, I would naively guess that there’s not much room for differentiation and thus unless the textures are actual 1:1 copies of minecraft textures, there’s not much that can be done there either.

There aren’t a lot of ways you can draw a low-resolution square birch texture.

Holdovers from when “don’t be evil” was still a thing.

Both Android and Chromium are rapidly deteriorating in regards to FOSS. Yes, they are technically FOSS, but in the stranglehold of Google who keep carving away more and more freedoms.

Just consider Google Play Integrity and Manifest v3 (in regards to e.g. Adblocking) as two obvious examples.

If Google could, they’d instantly close the Android sources and remove the ability to adblock on Chromium.

80 cents for how much initial value?

The last uncleanly-wound spool I had was in 2018. I haven’t paid more than €25 per kg ever, usually €15-20.

Never had a pre-tangled spool. Tangles happen if someone lets go of the end.

Hot take: open-source top-tier printers are a thing of the past.

We are so far by now that companies can make out-of-the-box amazing printers for far cheaper and more high-quality than any DIY solution.

You can still DIY and get freedom, customizability and repairability for it, but you can’t DIY to get the best and/or cheapest solution anymore.