Valve have started offering refunds for CS:GO prime (not any of the microtransactions) if you played mostly on a Mac, or if you bought prime on a low-end Windows machine* between the CS2 beta and CS2 release https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/73EF-08A3-0935-6369

make sure to get your refunds in if you were affected!

Well this kind of gets straight to the point

https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2023/10/10.html

@astrid The mental health benefits of switching off of the main Youtube frontend were almost immediate for me (<- victim of accidentally clicking on an interesting looking short and immediately falling down the hell hell hell hell hell hell hell spiral)

Tiktok and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race

the launch of cs2 becomes more dumb

this is the DUMBEST way to handle reviews for cs:go, being, yknow, a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT GAME from cs2 on the same store page

https://www.theonion.com/increasingly-powerful-trans-person-capable-of-using-eve-1850907115

normal 3 am activity such as installing ffxiv on your phone

a delight to read this kind of stuff. Mario Wonder had no deadline for the whole prototype phase. https://www.wired.com/story/super-mario-bros-wonder-nintendo-switch-mouri-tezuka-interview/

“My son turned out fine”
“Your fox is crying ma’am”

we have to survive because it will be really funny having all the nerds have a weird nerd new years party when unix time finally explodes

i have outright deleted a major patchset i wrote for a project under freedesktop.org stewardship, which someone else is probably going to write again in a year or two, because i realized the project had a real-name policy, and decided it wasn’t worth it. i then lost motivation for the cool thing i was working on that needed me to write that patch

this is not the intended effect of a “real-name” policy, but it is the actual effect. and, as the cool kids say, “the system is what it does”.

there is no such thing as a “real name”. the concept of a “legal name” is fraught, and most certainly is not what you think it is, or what you are looking for, if you are a software developer. many assumptions you have about what a “legal name” is probably are not true.

consider this: the name on my birth certificate is different than the name on my drivers license, and that is different from the names i am called by my friends. those names are all different from what is likely to be on my passport when i get it, and all of those are different than the name i publish my open source projects under. all of these, in different jurisdictions, might or might not be something you could consider a “legal name”. which one do you want me to use when i submit a major feature to your library? are you going to turn me away if i try to submit it as “linear cannon”? why? if i have a website and contact information under that name, why does this matter? how is it substantially different than an author of fiction novels publishing under a pen name? does it change if i produce a piece of government-issued documentation with that name on it? why, or why not?

if your real name policy does not answer these questions adequately, then there’s a very good chance i’m just going to assume that you’re going to turn me away, as has happened to me several times already

DIVINE LIGHT SEVERED

YOU ARE A FLESH AUTOMATON ANIMATED NEUROTRANSMITTERS

Today I found out that google docs infects html exports with spyware, no scripts, but links in your document are replaced with invisible google tracking redirects. I was using their software because a friend wanted me to work with him on a google doc, he is a pretty big fan of their software, but we were both somehow absolutely shocked that they would go that far.

This website is begrudgingly generated by the use of software

We live in a Wet-Dry World

#splatoon #splatoon3 #splatoonart #splatoonfanart #fanart #vectorart #nintendoswitch #supermario64 #wetdryworld

@ipg Also of note is that they gave out Messi and Neymar cards to celebrate them leaving the European leagues for the first time in their career (and also just leaving PSG in general god bless) but neither Inter Miami or Al Hilal is licensed (as are all the teams in each of those leagues) so they both just have generic as shit kits on in their cards

Last week, the Journa server was taken over by new management. None of us were notified, and I found out when server updates caused account to freeze for a few hours.

The instance has now been taken over by a "Jeff Brown" from Newsie. Now, I have no idea who he is and have no ill will towards him. But the individual is not a journalist. I couldn't find anything on him online that would suggest that he would be trustworthy enough to oversee management of Mastodon's largest journalism instances.