Gianluca Fiore

1) Pong
2) Quake 1
3) TES VI

Or, there is an excessive reliance on code being bug-free or letting customers being beta testers. Which would be fine for products sold for a couple of bucks but not when talking about EVs or >1000€ electronics

I do not think many systems are developed anymore with the "what if it breaks?" question in mind

Don't know if they are old enough to be considered classics but:

One Hundred Years of Solitude
Master and Margarita
Conversation in the Cathedral

Radiohead have never been britpop.

And Blur > Oasis anyway

we failed as a society when video games stopped coming with neat little instruction booklets that tell you about the characters and world and shit

Which does not mean that we should not care. We should. But do you want to win elections or not? Doing both is increasingly a naive strategy, and we have to face it.
World has changed, the populists were quicker to adapt. The left should. Fast. Yesterday.

It is been decades and I keep despairing at the discourse leftists and liberals continue to pursue in hope to win elections.
Half the people out there do not care what happens to trans or Palestinians and if you insist on their rights over local workers', you are going to have many more Trumps.

As much as I dislike the current tech leaders, this is spectacularly reductive. Silicon Valley did indeed create most of the technologies we use today, not just "apps"

It is 2025, we should not be adding <p> by hand...

Why can't we have, in the real world, some actually smart and challenging villains to fight, rather than buffons?
Why can't we have actual drama, rather than ridiculous farce?
Why is it all a poorly written TV show?

Tiglath-Pileser III would be proud of Trump today
#Gaza

(yeah, I am aware 0.001% of world population could get the reference here)

Forgive me if it sounds arrogant, but these days I look at americans on here and cannot stop thinking "why are you not on the streets protesting?".

"I don't need Linux. I'm a writer not a programmer"

I'm a fiction writer too and I use Linux. And git even. We're not all programmers. I can barely write some shell scripts.

I believe this applies to many recent technologies. Like they are providing a solution for a problem few, if at all, have

As a software eng, it is inherently satisfying to see an open approach beat close approaches in an innovative field.

Linux is open: Windows is closed

Llama, Deepseek, Mistral are open: OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic& many others others closed

Closed approaches winning almost always lead to monopolies.

Remove "may" in both cases. It is practically certain

Kind of sucks that we didn't at least get a Roaring Twenties before what's about to come

120 minutes is too much for social media and tv/youtube. 40 is already enough.
I would also not limit time spent reading

“True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it”

— Karl Popper.

Wonderful, more words 🫣

A jargon that feels like an addendum to the english dictionary though 🙂
But thanks, I should not doubt myself (not often at least)

I thought I knew english, deeply. Then I got interested in #sailing and discovered SO MANY NEW WORDS. Sailing terminology is like a plug-in language of english.

Social media and the greedy demise of search engines, not the internet.

We would have been fine with closer, smaller communities and a working Google. Not perfect, but fine.

Had to use Windows 11 Pro at work today and it is a complete shitshow. 8 minutes to install an update when opening PowerShell, changing language has it inconsistently applied even after a reboot, duplicate menu functions.
Feels like nobody tested parts of the OS.
How do you cope this horror?

If America is led by nazis and Russia aims to restore Soviet Union, can we fast forward to the when Hitler invades USSR?

Any dessert wine. Porto or Marsala

Never joined #TikTok btw. Anytime somebody showed me the app I was glad I never tried it. Brainrot after brainrot, endlessly *shivers*

Should better curate my feed, I guess. But social medias are a supremely low priority nowadays for me so I might never do that.

I did not expect a majority on my feed defending #TikTok.