Are these actually smart glasses, or just glasses with a camera in them? Because that is not the same thing. We’ve had glasses with cameras in them for like 20 years. They can be great for recording a ride or run, for example.

with a rolled r

If you’re being super strict, that’s technically what /r/ means. But in practice, it tends to just get used to mean “your rhotic consonant”. That’s why you’ll note the same symbol is used for that part of the word in both English pronunciations and the Nauruan* pronunciation.

* do we need to update the spelling of the demonym?

I’ve written a bot for Lemmy before. You can see it on !dailygames@lemmy.zip if you’re interested. I agree completely re the messaging being as nonthreatening as possible.

TIL the ANCAP safety rating of a car isn’t a global thing.

Anyway, here it means anarcho-capitalist. Libertarianism taken to the extreme. Zero government, just businesses, rich people, and private hired security imposing whatever they want on anyone who can’t afford to stop them.

Also, in response to Nath’s advice, I’m considering if the group name should change to Overseas Tidings, yes because of the pun, but admittedly I didn’t even know that word so I won’t go forth with that unless there’s community backing.

I actually don’t know how much that will help. I think the problem comes from the fact that its ID is !worldnews, and no change to the display name can change that.

But I do kinda like the implications of it. The dictionary says tidings just means news, but at least to me it feels like it connotes a greater degree of relevance than “news” alone does. Like “what tidings do you bring‽” seems like a request for “what news that is relevant for me to know?”

The bot would be immediately replying to a post a user has just made. I figure in that context, an hour should be more than enough time for the person who posted it to confirm that they’ve followed the rules.

I have plenty, thank you. That doesn’t change the fact that people who wear hats inside look like douchebags.

I honestly hate it when people wear caps indoors.

I suspect most rule violations are probably committed out of ignorance, rather than malice. Most people probably don’t read the sidebar.

I wonder if it wouldn’t be useful to have a very simple filter. A bot that replies to every post, and asks the user to check if they’re following the rule.

Going a step further, the bot could tell the user to downvote the comment if it is following the rule, in which case the bot would delete its own comment. Anything where the OP did not downvote the bot’s comment within, say, an hour, gets removed by the bot. Its message could also (optionally) threaten banning the user if the violation is clear. No automated enforcement of that, but if a human reviews it and finds that not only did it break the rule, but it very obviously did and there’s no excuse for not knowing it, the human could then follow up with a ban.

Would there be any interest in something like that? Either the whole thing or just the first half? I’ve had a little experience developing Lemmy bots before and would be interested to try my hand at it.

I’m anti-copyright in general*, and especially in favour of stronger fair use–type laws to allow remixing. But as far as copyright does go, this doesn’t actually sound all that egregious to me. The fault lies mostly with the musician that Mumbo Jumbo licensed from, rather than with Warner Chappell themselves. The ideal would probably be that MJ could keep the music up and the licenser would have to pay the entire cost of it to WC. But that’s a rather difficult thing to expect.

* sort of… Under capitalism it’s absolutely necessary that artists can protect their works in some form to be able to make a living, and I’m not entirely sure how to square that with the idea that artistic expression should be free.

Welp, time to hoard milk and bread I guess.

I honestly think articles like this are irresponsible reporting because they create panic and invite precisely the kind of hoarding that will make the problem more likely to occur.

and dint like it because u didnt read the culture tree

That is…more than a little bit reductive.

The game is also downloadable the normal way not just as torrent

Oh cool! Glad to see! 8 months ago either it wasn’t an option, or it wasn’t presented very prominently.

The “sexism” thing has been fixed, pesants now have random gender

That’s ok, but like I said in that thread, the problem isn’t really the sexism (that was just an added factor), it was the game design that came with that. The unintuitive way some military units can also do eco work, but some can’t, and there’s no simple or intuitive way to know which is which.

And as much as I liked the idea of having a trade-off that you have to decide how many and when to send citizen-soldiers to battle vs when to hang back on eco didn’t feel good. Maybe with more experience that gets better? But first impressions matter, and it definitely doesn’t feel as good as Age.

The threat of being sued or charged with criminal fraud.

Particularly dangerous in an environment where the courts are in the pocket of fascists.

It’s less that there’s anything inherent to 0AD I don’t like, and more just that it doesn’t really do anything well. It’s poor enough in terms of UX that it’s impossible for me to even evaluate its fundamental game design.

Here’s the comment I wrote up after my latest experience.

0AD is so much better than AoE

It really, really isn’t. It’s really quite terrible in comparison. I was actually quite saddened, because I first played it like 15 years ago, but then replayed it late last year and was excited to see how much it had progressed, but it still really felt like the early alpha game of my memory.

Not trolling. A genuine Nazi. They support Israel’s invasion specifically on the grounds of “lebensraum”.

Reminder to everyone that the person No1 is talking to here is a Nazi.

Cool. I stopped paying for it back when it was still called “YouTube Red”, during one of their many crackdowns on creators’ freedom in the name of benefitting advertisers. I dumped it and installed an adblocker, and eventually YouTube Vanced and its successor Revanced.

Transcription:

3 panels. 1: the Stephen Crowder “change my mind” meme: Age of Empires is shit, change my mind. 2: a red monk from Aoe says “Wololo”. 3: the Stephen Crowder meme edited to show him wearing red and the sign saying “I love Age of Empires ❤️❤️❤️❤️”

The Wololo tournament just took place this past weekend, culminating in the grand final at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Some absolutely fantastic gameplay in both aoe2 and aoe4.