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[–] jsdz@lemmy.ml 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

It was added to the "exclude" list in an apparently unrelated commit three days ago with absolutely no explanation. Glancing at its front page I see nothing objectionable, just a lot of anime stuff. When challenged u/dessalines had nothing to say other than "no, that is full of CSAM" and just closed the discussion without further comment.

Unless some more info comes to light it does not look good. Probably as good a time as any to depart from lemmy.ml.

[–] jsdz@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

I used it once, as a last resort when I wanted to try some program that had a ridiculous set of build dependencies that was just too much. It was okay, I guess.

[–] jsdz@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is the best summary I could come up with: It's "members of Congress, conservative activists and wealthy tech investors."

[–] jsdz@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)
int is_even(int n)
{
    int result = -1;
    char number[8]; //should be enough
    sprintf(number, "%d", n);

    // check the number
    // TODO: handle negative numbers
    for (char *p=number; *p; p++)
    {
        if (*p=='0' || *p=='2' || *p=='4' || *p=='6' || *p=='8')
            result = 1;
        else if (*p=='1' || *p=='3' || *p=='5' || *p=='7' || *p=='9')
            result = 0;
        else {
           fprintf(stderr, "Your number is wrong!\n");
           exit(1); 
        }
    }
    return result;
}
[–] jsdz@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

If everyone on the fediverse goes to google.com right now and searches for "best new iphone car insurance shopping aarp member bad credit" maybe we can save the economy.

[–] jsdz@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 year ago (56 children)

Who are all these extremist wackos who don't already want to abolish capitalism?

[–] jsdz@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Amazing how Johnson's government managed to combine this callous indifference to the fates of its people with one of the most cruel and restrictive "lockdown" regimes in the world, arresting people for going out to walk their dogs and so on. Boris really had a talent for ineptitude that was exceptional even among prime ministers.

[–] jsdz@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

More evidence that all political leaders need someone whose job it is to sneak up on them and whisper "remember, you too will die" whenever they seem in danger of forgetting it.

[–] jsdz@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When I played it the answer was to run "SwGame-Win64-Shipping.exe" instead of whatever stupid launcher it tries to load by default.

[–] jsdz@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

If you really want it right now, many guides for how to compile linux kernels are available. Here's one.

[–] jsdz@lemmy.ml 72 points 1 year ago

You might think that things have changed over the years, but I was around in 1995 and I can assure you this looked exactly as ridiculous then as it does now.

 

Mozilla seems to be asleep at the wheel, when it once drove online activity and communications. We have some suggestions where it could go.

 

Steve talks about the critical importance of product content and the role it plays in whether consumers abandon their shopping carts, make a purchase, or return a product. In fact, 70% of online shoppers say product content can make or break a sale.

 

I like small mods that make a big difference. It's simply a better Magelight that comes in various colours. If you've got lighting mods that make dark places really dark, it's all the more useful. I like the red one, since it looks okay and a backyard astronomer long ago told me that red is the colour to use to avoid spoiling your night vision.

It may require a bug fix or two if you want to put down large numbers of lights everywhere, such as along the roads as you travel at night in the fog at new moon. I think it was possibly the Community Shaders "light limit fix" which made that work for me.

But even without that, it's nice to be able to stick a few long-lasting colourful lights on the ceiling in the course of a dungeon crawl to light up a big area when your cover is blown and you want to see what's going on, and to mark where you've been. Or depending on other lighting settings, just make it possible to see who you're talking to in the Ragged Flagon. It changed Magelight from something I never bothered using to one of my most-used spells.

 

California's attempt to force "age verification" on us all is having legal problems.

"Based on the materials before the Court, the CAADCA’s age estimation provision appears not only unlikely to materially alleviate the harm of insufficient data and privacy protections for children, but actually likely to exacerbate the problem by inducing covered businesses to require consumers, including children, to divulge additional personal information."

 

I've installed a dozen more mods and am starting out in Skyrim once again. I can't remember any other one that's made a bigger difference than this. Finally my personal version of Skyrim has forests that feel like real forests, where you can't see all that far a lot of the time and it'd be easy to get lost if you didn't have a compass.

Sure, that is achieved by making the trees fantastically big and closer together than you'd expect for such giants, but it makes sense to me and it looks great from ground level when you're in the woods. There's obviously less gravity on Nirn judging from how high I can jump carrying a 200kg backpack, so why shouldn't the trees grow bigger? The only problem I've seen so far is that wild animals occasionally have trouble navigating, such as an elk that just ran headfirst into a tree instead of going anywhere. But they do that kind of thing sometimes in pure vanilla Skyrim as well.

It's just beautiful. I prefer "mythic" mode. It's what I always wanted in a video game forest.

 

I never did get any of the DLC when I played it on the PS3. Finally I will get to experience the horse armor.

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