dfyx @ dfyx @lemmy.helios42.de

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Don't forget elementary school, first pet and favorite sports team.

Collections might have been inherited over generations. For some of them, the current owners may not have much interest in what they have and therefore not be aware of some rare copies.

In proper libraries, we probably have the author and title in a database somewhere but not the content. In private collections, all bets are off.

I would assume that almost any old library or private collection that includes old handwritten books has at least a couple of manuscripts that nobody has read in decades if not centuries.

I think that one baffles me the most. They make an argument for Shenmue and even if I don't agree with it being on one, I can somewhat see why it's on the list. But KCD2 has no right to be on the list at all. As they state themselves, the game is not even two months old. We can't even remotely say what its long-term influence on the gaming industry will be. Though my money is on "none at all."

HALF-LIFE 2

Okay that’s a little weird. We’re getting up into the real high-water heights here and I mean HL2 is good but…

This list is not about good, it's about influential. HL2 was the first major game that based its core gameplay to its physics engine, the first to have HDR rendering and the game that Source engine was developed for. Without HL2, a lot of video games in the decade that followed it, would have looked a lot different.

SHENMUE

THE FUCK WHY WHAT

The article claims that Shenmue was the first to have a "living world" where characters follow their daily routines and so on. But yeah, I have my doubts if all the other games that do that were influenced by it.

We're talking about the same event, aren't we?

Big university in Germany that's well-known for their computer science department. Started in 2008 and took way longer than planned. As stated in my other comment, being openly trans was rare when I started but had become more common by the time I got my degree, especially among new students who took the chance to make new friends who never knew their pre-outing personas.

So they see you as a human. Not a gay human.

On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog

Oh, thanks for the heads up, I didn't notice.

From personal experience, I would say it's a phenomenon of the last... maybe 10 years, at least in Germany. When a friend of mine started university in about 2010, I think she was the only openly trans person out of 300 first semester computer science students. These days, when you go to a Chaos Computer Club event, it's full of pride flags and queer people dressed in skirts, striped programmer socks and cat ear headbands. In the opposite direction, free tampons for trans-masc people in the men's bathrooms are just... normal.

For a while this caused a bit of friction, not because people were outright anti-queer or anti-trans but because they felt it had gotten so extreme that their queer-welcoming computer nerd event had turned into a pride event which just happened to include a few people with laptops. Now everyone seems to get along though.

That being said, there have always been gender-nonconforming people in IT and gaming. As an arbitrary example, Rebecca Heineman is a trans-woman who taught herself how to pirate and reverse-engineer Atari 2600 games in the 1970s, became the first (US) national video gaming champion in 1980, worked at a gaming magazine, co-founded Interplay Productions, worked on many well-known games. It's just that being trans wasn't as accepted back then so a lot of them chose not to out themselves, which honestly can't be good for one's mental health.

As we said back in university: "If we have too few women in our field, we will make our own."

After playing around for a bit, this really looks like the best option. I will wait until federation support gets added to the self-hosted version though.

Telegram on desktop shows all participants on the left if the window is over a certain width so you don’t have to move your eyes left and right over the whole screen.

Not sure about the best overall but one of my favorite karaoke memories is a metalhead friend of mine performing Weird Al - White & Nerdy.

Java is also an island

(Sorry, small inside joke for German-speaking Java programmers)

Sorry to be the buzzkill here but this is not encryption but obfuscation and can easily be broken by comparing letter frequencies, so don't use this for anything more sensitive than your shopping list. This is not suitable for writing your next serial killer letters or a mysterious book about medicine that will stump scientists for centuries.

Still a really neat as a non-encrypted writing system though. I could see this in some sci-fi or fantasy media.

Edit: oh sorry, I missed that you mentioned it in the post body, I only read the title and then jumped directly to the explanation from your community's sidebar.

Surprisingly, yes, I do. Cucumber is a testing tool for ruby applications for a whole lot of programming languages.

That doesn't sound like a federated wiki but more like federated account management.

They have existed about as long as RFID has been available.