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1·8 days agoI mean, it is a fun game, I like that it does a zombie game but shifts the theme to something more refreshing.
hell yeah mass transit
OpenRA has already done more for the RTS industry and growing new ideas forward than EA will ever do. They killed the C&C franchise, and helped kill the RTS genre with it.
It is going to be funny when all of a sudden the RTS industry comes back from the dead with a vengence because all of a sudden there are good moddable platforms for RTS games that massive investment companies can’t vacuum up and extract the spine and heart out of.
IGN will interview the CEO of EA and they will be like “Wow, we never saw this resurgence of RTS games coming! Isn’t it crazy? Nobody could have predicted this, none of us did!”
Do the monsters know and are like “yeah, I mean you are cool as a lame normal human long as you aren’t dressed like a lame ass normal human” or is the clown in some kind of deep surveillance operation? Or is the human undercover as a monsterclown?
6·9 days agoWhy the f$%! would you trust Microsoft to not break the law with medical data privacy laws here?
It isn’t rational or ethical and any healthcare professionals who think it is are fooling themselves and putting others at risk for it.
“At Microsoft, we have long believed that AI has the incredible potential to free clinicians from much of the administrative burden in healthcare and enable them to refocus on taking care of patients,”
You know what would be easier, more efficient and significantly less expensive than dumping 100s of billions and nature obliterating amounts of energy into shitty AI assistants that will forever test the legal limits of how much private data they can steal and sell… to “solve” administrative burden?
Eliminating the private “healthcare” insurance industry
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Microsoft maybe you could you use your AI to explain to your execs why the US wastes so much money and resources for so little benefit to patients??
https://www.pgpf.org/article/how-does-the-us-healthcare-system-compare-to-other-countries/
That is ok, I dropped support for the idea of ever buying another Ubisoft game already :)
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1·16 days agoIs the appview part of Bluesky open source? If so why not? How does that not make saying “Bluesky is open source” an inaccurate statement, or at least an incomplete statement? Can somebody reasonably run their own relay while handling a realistic amount of data from interactions?
Also there’s bridgy so you can talk across Mastodon / bluesky by letting bridgy mirror posts and replies between the two networks
A bridge is something you build and maintain, requiring constant maintenance, that joins a place that is connected with a place that is not.
is specifically not clarified to leave open the possibility for monetization such as forcing as on users What
Typo, sorry I meant to put *ads in there
It has investors, those investors are going to want money.
It doesn’t make any sense for the University or specific professors to officially host a fediverse community in the first place, it is the wrong system of governance and community ownership here. Something like a student club or independent association of professors and students should host fediverse communities that then become unofficially associated with the University and the University should be hands off unless something really egregious happens.
The only reason to create a fediverse server directly under the auspices of a University or under an official capacity for the University would be to use the fediverse server as a public communication tool (like how Universities and other institutions might use Twitter), which actually isn’t a bad idea but is totally separate from what people are suggesting here…
Not required to join the fediverse, only to host your own community yourself, which is NOT what scientists need to do (unless they want to).
No, aspects of the Bluesky system are open source. The moderation and filtering layer is effectively centralized, is specifically not clarified to leave open the possibility for monetization such as forcing ads on users, and even if you could theoretically run your own Bluesky network… it would never be a useful alternative to the Official Bubble maintained by the Bluesky corporation that you must submit to or be left out in the cold interacting with users only on alternate, small personal networks.
5·16 days agoFor some alternatives check out
Construction Simulator
https://www.protondb.com/app/1273400
Out Of Ore
https://www.protondb.com/app/2009350
Hydroneer
https://www.protondb.com/app/1106840
Gold Mining Simulator
https://www.protondb.com/app/451340
Motor Town: Behind The Wheel ok it isn’t about building anything, but if you want to drive big trucks and do jobs with them than Motor Town is what you want
https://www.protondb.com/app/1369670
Snowrunner same point as Motor Town lol
Being a scientist also kinda means understanding what are your strengths, and how you can combine them with other people who are smart along very specific narrow vectors.
Being a scientist means understanding that if you work together with the right kind of smart, curious people you can build amazing things that will improve the world.
Being a scientist in 2025 means understanding the modern business world is utter bullshit and will rot any science it touches to the core.
Being a scientist, like truly living that ethos, means being someone who believes the truth is important and that there are power structures who will fight tooth and nail to subdue that truth or hoard it to themselves for personal gain.
Being a scientist thus effectively means that I would expect that after having a brief conversation with you that you would at least understand the grave danger that entrusting science communication in another for profit social media company poses and how it doesn’t seem sensible to take that risk when the actual material barriers to creating Fediverse communities as alternatives aren’t actually that high no matter how much it feels like the barriers are impossible and the network effect is unbeatable.
Don’t get me wrong, those hurdles are real, the fediverse can be confusing, there are lots of growing pains here… however, not every scientist needs to become an expert in selfhosting Fediverse software, and not every scientist needs to become a Fediverse evangelist (although it wouldn’t hurt), but we do need to connect boldly and clearly the tragic hypocrisy of supposedly truth valuing people (scientists, science communicators and leaders that defend science) all shepherding dutifully onto another platform that will silence and betray them violently.
Scientists are inherently aligned with modern progressive politics, or rather scientists need to understand they are at everything up to physical bodily danger from being hurt by conservatives now and they need to understand that makes them fundamentally aligned with modern progressive politics.
There is no “I don’t want to get political here” and the failure of the science community at large to recognize how embracing Bluesky as if it was a genuine solution to the unfolding catastrophe of science being defunded and destroyed is embarrassing. Those of us on the Fediverse should be kind, but also we should make fun of them for not using their brains. They clearly have them. Fucking use them you fools.
Bluesky is a for profit corporate venture, the same EXACT incentives that now have placed us all very much in danger and have placed the very funding structures of science in danger the world over (at least in US/European connected science communities) are at play in Bluesky and Scientists betray the begrudging respect the public has for their intelligence (even if they pretend to hate Scientists) by treating Bluesky like it is safe. Bluesky is not safe. This is no different than scientists endorsing any other thing that is fundamentally a threat to the health and safety of innocent people. It is just new, people are scared and scientists are largely too overwhelmed to see things for how they are.
At the end of the day, every Scientist needs to hear to their face that Bluesky is a threat to science, science education and the free access to knowledge in general the world over, they need to defend their choice to go on Bluesky anyways instead of Mastodon (both is fine tho) along the terms of what motivates their pursuit of studying and doing science. I don’t care if scientists are already overwhelmed and scared, they along with everyone else have all the information to understand why choosing Bluesky to throw the weight of science communication behind is dangerous, and it is unacceptable to give them a pass because 2025 is a terrifying mess. 2025 is a terrifying mess for reasons DIRECTLY RELATED TO THIS DISCUSSION. Scientists should understand that better than almost anyone else if they are paying attention, and many do which is why Mastodon is full of scientists!
May not be much, but it’s a start.
Actually, when you tell people something is a start but it is actually a false start that doesn’t deliver on the fundamental promises at all, it is much worse than having a much slower start…
At least Bluesky is a public benefit corporation
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^ people that think that actually matters in 2025
Yeah, honestly Friendica has been around for ages at this point and I assume is pretty damn mature in terms of most features… what is exactly missing here that it isn’t even worth mentioning by name when talking about replacing Facebook?
Since when did M$ give a shit about that.
They must be pretty desperately grasping for straws.
The AI bubble is going to pop soon and it is going to be ugly/beautiful.
As a genuine fan of video games as art and multiplayer video games as digital communities, seeing everything go to Discord, even open source projects, has been really sad to watch happen over and over again.
Honestly… Lemmy would be a FAR better platform to run a video game community on than Discord.
Fuck Discord.
Like… the format of Discord is fine (except if you are going to use it to manage a software project, it needs to be designed to facilitate technical support, questions about bugs, and facilitate creating an easily searchable wiki of info along with the live chat), I am fine with the idea but Discord has used its massive popularity and capital to completely eat entire swatchs of video gaming niches and not only is that scary, Discord SUCKS as a tool for handling complex communities with lots of moving parts.
Before someone defends Discord by saying “it works great for small groups of friends” let me pre-emptively answer -> true, yes it does work great for small groups of friends, that is what it was designed for originally probably right? Ok… but small groups of friends is literally the easiest possible usecase for a communication tool, if Discord was bad at that it wouldn’t be good at anything.