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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

It truly made no sense to me when they started the process of migrating stuff from control panel to the "new" Metro-style Settings, then just kind of... gave up and left everything as a spread-out mess. I can't believe they've left it this long to address, it's an awful user experience.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago

I can't speak for Craigslist, but in my area Gumtree is big, and I know from first-hand experience that they "handle it" by waiting for the crime to occur and be reported to police, then they give police the list of all IP addresses that viewed a listing. Having stared down the pointy end of a knife right outside my own home, I feel there's an opportunity to build a better system that keeps people honest and discourages thieves.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

One of the biggest challenges with online marketplaces is personal safety for physical meetups and scam prevention for online sales. It'll be interesting if there are any efforts to solve this, such as an escrow system or other process to keep buyers and sellers honest.

[–] [email protected] 169 points 4 days ago (1 children)

robots.txt is the perfect summary of the web era. A plain text file that politely asked web crawlers not to do certain things. Such an innocent time.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago

"What would you like to play Ibrahim?"
"I don't know, nothing"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Another vote for Mikrotik, but only if you're technical-minded and want to learn how routers work. One of the things I like the most about it is the ability to import/export the router config as plain text. That makes it very easy to do things like bulk-editing (I have a lot of IOT devices I need to configure), storing your config in version control for safe-keeping etc.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago

It really shouldn't be possible in a EULA/agreement of any kind to essentially say "you agree you can't sue us in future for anything ever".

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Witcher 4: Uma, The Jester Years

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

But in many ways, it would probably be easier for them to remake in first person, considering they've got the engine and a wealth of Fallout 3D assets ready to go.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

What I love most about 8-bit era games are how small they were storage-wise. Most of the ROMs are tens of kilobytes for the entire game. Developers were severely constrained by the hardware limits which led to some creative decisions, eg. the bushes and clouds in Super Mario Bros are the same sprite just drawn in different colors. All code was written in pure assembly for efficiency and size.

To put it into perspective, AAA games today are one million times bigger.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

God, even if they didn't have QA test it, they should have had continuous integration running to test all new channel updates against all versions of their program, considering the update will affect all of them. What an epic process failure.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

It's mentioned in the article.

 

Ouch, 20% unemployment in China is rough. How tied to China's economic outlook do you think we're going to be in Oz?

 

PWC: Government business division for sale - $2 Allegro Funds: Tell 'em they're dreaming

 

Oh good, I'm sure now the government will do something...

 

Sorry for the Murdoch rag, but I thought we could do with a trashy article to lighten things up a bit. Anyone else claimed depreciation on a boob job or the family pet?

 

Would be nice if there was legislation that prevented companies from doing this, so price increases couldn't be concealed so easily.

 

This might be a Lemmy question more than a Jerboa question, but no matter what I try I can't seem to mention myself in a comment and have it show up in my inbox. Is there a trick to mentioning someone? Or is this part of the app not working? Or do I need to wait for the federation to do some funky syncing between instances?

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