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I started using Baking Soda on iOS/Safari and it's a game changer and it doesn't seem like YT can do anything about it.

I love Kagi, used my free searches and customized the crap out of it. It would absolutely be worth the cost if I wasn't penny pinching because of cost of living increases and infla…

> The only Rails projects that I worked on that never had performance problems are the ones that never reached any scale. All Rails projects that gained traction that I worked on, …

Meta/Google/etc... at the end of the day are businesses, and the currency they deal with when transacting with us is our personal information and they convert that to dollars with …

Without any evidence to suggest otherwise, it's just baseless conspiracy theory to think some "shadow figure" was secretly pulling the strings to make their preferred evil-capitali…

It's a bot prevention measure (allegedly). It also conveniently blocks out people that are more likely to not want to share all of their personal information with them. No skin off…

AA and AAA are a statement of budget, size and scope of a project. BG3 is a rare example of a AAA indie game.

The CEO has openly stated they were given full creative control of what's in the game.

> I fail to see what separates Alma from CentOS Stream at this point Alma is getting their source packages from CentoOS Stream, but they are using the specific versions that are in…

Alma Linux is getting their source packages from Stream but they are using the exact same versions that are in the current Redhat release.

As far as I know the only censorship that was done to the game was the sexual content for release in the Japanese market.

Baldurs Gate 3 is also technically an indie game by the classical definition.

"The science" has become religious dogma to many people, the complete anthesis of science. When people say they (follow) "the science" I don't even bother listening to what they ha…

If NYT wins this, then there is going to be a massive push for payouts from basically everyone ever…I don’t see that wallet being fat for long.

I don’t really see it as good guys or bad guys - just that China (and Russia) don’t really care too much about American copyright. And there seems to be an an obvious advantage fro…

Even if they win against openAI, how would this prevent something like a Chinese or Russian LLM from “stealing” their content and making their own superior LLM that isnt weakened b…

Someone probably did a join on a has-many association without narrowing down the right side of the join is my guess - creating a Cartesian product of the result. Can be easy to mis…

Recently started trialing Walmart Delivery Pass to get next day delivery from local stores. Actually pretty convenient to get my fresh produce, meat, dairy, etc… delivered along wi…

I used to use HG for my personal projects but these days I use fossil and keep the database in dropbox, works shockingly well.

What do you use for assets then, if you don't mind my asking..?

Does it support working with a custom default system connection yet? I use podman in parallels because I get way better performance than with the qemu podman machine but podman des…

Unpopular opinion, but I still really like SVN and prefer Mercurial and Fossil to Git as distributed systems. You can install TortoiseSVN for a non-technical user and give them a q…

As a Ruby/Rails developer, time mocking is awesome. It's built right into rails or you can use Timecop and it's just as simple as adding: around { |example| Timecop.freeze("2023-12…

I suppose this is a decent workaround for certain things (i've used it in sqlite before), the main kind of index i'm using with postgres jsonb looks something like this create inde…

First, MySQL is the "devil you know". If you've spent a decade working exclusively with MySQL quirks, you're just gonna be more comfortable with it regardless of quality. MySQL als…