[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 14 hours ago

As a side note, I'm aware that Brazil did something similar back in the Paraguay War, but the person who wanted to avoid being conscripted had to pay the govt and offer another person in their place - who would either be bribed or threatened into accepting going as the substitute.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 4 points 14 hours ago

Valid for many wars before and still valid today

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From wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounty_jumper

men who enlisted in the Union or Confederate army during the American Civil War only to collect a bounty and then leave.

A month after the Battle of Fort Sumter the United States Congress passed a law allowing for bounties up to $300. The Confederate government did likewise, starting at $50 and then later in the war increased the bounty to $100.

As the typical Northern private was paid $13 a month, the bonuses were considerable.

Risky, since desertion for them could mean torture or execution, but the money was really good for the time.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 11 points 1 day ago

Corporations must be held accountable for the scams that are posted/boosted on their platforms. If they profit off it, they must be liable for letting it go public.

I suspect a TV channel in any civilized place would avoid showing an advert for an obvious scam (the fake AI celebrity endorsement) because that would, at least, destroy their reputation, or even get sued for not vetting the content.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago

Never saw anything like that, but I more or less gravitated towards something like that. Just Intro - Point 1 - Point 2 - Point 3 - Conclusion

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 6 points 1 day ago

Not necessarily, any model that is manifold, that is, fully "enclosed" without its interior or backfaces exposed, can be made hollow, which is the main saver of print material, whether resin or filament.

I've also found some models, back before the pandemic, that had loose vertices, unconnected to anything. When slicing, they'd create several faces that were only visible in the sliced file, fucking the print. Always good to get at least a basic understanding of blender and 3D models before printing.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 7 points 1 day ago

According to a customer survey, 20 percent “tried AI and found it not good enough,” according to the site. Only four percent of buyers of 3D printing models said AI “works well,”

As someone who looks for 3d models to print once in a while, I can confirm that the vast majority of slopped models are a fucking mess. The artifacts and lack of precision can be more or less handwaved away in 2D images, but in a 3D model that shit looks atrocious. Sure, the render may look lovely, but printed stuff doesn't need textures, which is where all the flaws become apparent.

Not to mention that "low poly" slopped models are likely to have over 100k vertices.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 39 points 2 days ago

Many Taiwanese widely consider travelling within the island to be prohibitively expensive, with high accommodation costs cited as the primary driver, according to various surveys.

The lack of novelty in attractions, featuring copy-and-paste old streets and night markets selling the same items in different cities, and the stress of high holiday traffic and crowded tourist hot spots were also cited as reasons to not travel domestically.

There, the meat of the article

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 14 points 2 days ago
  • Shipoftheline (Manowar)
  • Adultz (Bratz)
  • Fear Industrial Complex (Fear Factory)
  • Sewyng Machine African Swallow (Taylor Swift)
  • Empress (Queen)
  • Cannons and Bouquets (Guns 'n Roses)
  • Eemineem
  • Vantablack Sabbath
[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 32 points 2 days ago

Don't kid yourself, USA armed forces is full of similars. This waffen might get a promotion for being so openly nazi

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 52 points 2 days ago

Worth reading some yt comments

Go easy on the dev team, it was probably the first time they've actually played the game.

"Welcome I'm your host Jared." to "Ollie this is your show. Wrap it up." What comradery and unity. I want this content to be mandatory and on live. Make them try to play weekly until the game runs well. Bet they fix it faster.

The energy in this Video feels like the atmosphere of a recently finished HR seminar.

I don't think I want the same experience they had today.

Wow, awesome work guys. Came in the presenting the game how its meant to be played. 4 guys on their own server, abysmal performance, bugs everywhere, one guy literally team killing and badmouthing his other teammates. And then ending acting all is fine. So we as the players are supposed to get this experience you just show us LOL! CLAP CLAP! awesome effort I will give you more money haha

Seriously, you devs literally just jump in on this with no preparation, no moderation, no prior media training. When you are about to literally show the world the best part of your game? Haha really show the effort you guys put in

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 17 points 2 days ago

Meanwhile, when novels do have a relatively large fanbase, boy, better stay away from them

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Essentially the same html/css rendering of Firefox or Chromium, still able to access the www, but with javascript fully removed for another language that can be interpreted - like python or lua. Is this feasible?

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I'm messing around with my OrangePi5 again, gonna experiment with Armbian and DietPi again. As both offer a minimal installer, I'll want to add a DE, or at least a graphical interface that can run at boot and let me control it with a bluetooth controller.

If not a full DE, just what packages should I experiment with?

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Context: Working Designs was a studio that localized several Japanese games for western markets in the 1990s. Besides translation, they would often increase the difficulty of the games they translated

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Been wondering that after playing Undertale Yellow (great game, btw)

Romhacks would fall into a different category, more like modding the main game.

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Undertale Yellow is a fangame and "prequel" to Undertale. If you liked the original game, chances are high that you'll like UY. It's free and you can get it on the link below

https://gamejolt.com/games/UndertaleYellow/136925

The game does a great job in keeping its universe believably canonical by sidestepping most characters from the original game. You interact with Toriel for a very brief moment in the starting 2 minutes, then you're out to explore another side of the underground. Only Flowey will follow you around and, if you've played the original game and understands how and why he did the things he did, everything he does in UY will make sense. The game doesn't spoil any of the revelations that happen in the OG and only mentions the important characters (Asgore, Toriel, etc) sparingly and without extrapolations, so it really does a good job of acting as a prequel that respects the canon and doesn't extrapolate.

The new characters really feel like they belong in the OG, with a neutral/pacifist run showing how silly, dorky and lovable they are, this is true even for the background NPCs and enemies you fight. Not every such NPC is lovable, some are kinda assholes, and that's a good contrast.

Perhaps most important, the soundtrack is fucking awesome (the Gamejolt link above also lists the soundtrack for listening. 77 - Meltdown, for one of the later areas, rocks). Some are references and/or homages to original tunes. Boss themes are super memorable and really fit the respective characters.

One thing that I loved is that every enemy has a "hurt" graphic, which shows once they're under 1/3 of health, which also lets you spare them. Seeing them hurt like that does make me feel kinda bad.

Oh, a genocide run won't be a cakewalk like the OG, you'll be up against a number of alternative bosses that will give your reflexes a workout (I've died on the first genocide-exclusive boss 8 times, and that's after a 0-death, up to the final boss, neutral run).

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The CD case was all warped due to heat, the CD didn't survive either :/

How long was it there? Some years, i think

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I don't know if this is stance specific, but whenever I create a new post and start typing the title, it'll list some "posts that might be related", limited to the community if it's already selected.

The problem is that the posts are almost never related to anything I'm writing in the title or might even write in the body at all. For instance, I just posted a question on how to poison videos against AI, the "might be related" posts were about Donald Trump and Epstein, with another post being about WoW Mists of Pandaria.

It seems to look for the post body for all the words in the title first instead of looking for any similar title first

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Ideally something that wouldn't leave viewers complaining about obvious artifacts or effects, but I'm willing to make some compromises

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submitted 1 month ago by ICastFist@programming.dev to c/til@lemmy.ca

Back in 2020, Brazil launched the PIX system of instant money transfer between any and every bank within the country. Meta was already trying to implement Whatsapp Pay in Brazil around late May, but was being held back by regulation agencies, on purpose, in order for PIX to rollout first. PIX started working around November 2020, while Whatsapp Pay was allowed to resume work in March 2021, but it fell flat and was scrapped away some time later.

For context, some 98% of Brazilian phones have whatsapp and it is the 2nd largest market for the app, only behind India. Had Meta gotten its way, a huge number of Brazilians would've had their finances controlled by Meta.

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The photo in the article shows the kind of webbing I used to think was made by spiders. The silk strands are usually around 90-100nm, or almost 100 times thinner than human hair

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I recently found out that you can get up to 3 free .eu.cc domain from GNAME, which also claims that you can renew for free when its within 90 days of expiring. So I got one to check it out.

Obviously, the next step is making one of my local machines act as the target destination for any queries to the address, so it becomes accessible for the wider web. I'm not entirely sure, however, what to configure on GNAME (there's the option to setup A and AAAA records, which I suppose I should just point to my IP, but there's also CNAME, TXT, NS, SRV and what configurations/programs my local server (rPi 3) needs to have running besides a webserver (Apache2 or Nginx)

My intent is to have it run a single-user fediverse server, possibly friendica, as it seems to have the best support for seeing all sorts of APub posts. If that proves too heavy for my old pi, I'll try one of the lightweight APub alternatives

I know I'll also need to do some configurations on my router, so I'd appreciate help on this, too.

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