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Yeah why would they keep making games that were successful when instead they could make games that no one asked for

I mean, I completely agree but last time I said that people flamed me over it. If it was still 2013 then I'd look more into it, but today it's such a monolithic architecture

Whoa was the AI boom actually just a big hype bubble?!

Come join us friend, one of us, one of us

I loved shadow of mordor/war, and always wondered why they didn't make another. However I also guess better to go out early before it's done to death

Then they really are horrible at gaming because there are millions of people chomping at the bit to pay any amount for dlc to that game

I've definitely noticed the younger ones are used to asking any question and having it simply answered. They grew up with the internet, it's obvious I suppose, and chatgpt is just going to make that worse. The juniors and entry-level people coming in are smart, but I feel like I'm seeing lower problem solving and critical thinking.

Things like "it doesn't work", okay well what you you tried? What things did you attempt before giving up. Idk, definitely a different mindset.

A great example is his handling of Laravel, scaling, and Docker. It's pretty clear that he doesn't have a huge understanding of Docker - or at least hasn't managed docker images at scale. A huge thing there that I ran into constantly is that the Pixelfed containers both are 1) Stateful and worse than that 2) depend on each other's volumes. These are both anti patterns specifically called out in the docker best practices. It ultimately means that the Pixelfed containers must share the same host as it's workers. He put a lot of time and effort into building scripts that would simplify the setup for a docker compose file, but never thought horizontally - scaling these containers out on a cluster or separating workers off away from the web-api nodes at all.

I spent 3 weeks trying to de-tangle that all and got nowhere. I've been watching the guys over at Pixelfed Glitch ( a fork of pixelfed ), and from what I see they're trying to do the same thing. I wish them godspeed. Until then, I can't recommend Pixelfed as it just can't horizontally scale. Sure you can throw a more expensive machine at the problem, but that's not a fix.

As for the last, I don't have any examples - and I think that's because no one else has gone on a press junket like he has. The owners of Mastodon started a foundation a while back, I think that's the most official news I've heard out of them. I think that's what bothered me - for the vast majority of people that was their first chance to hear about the open web. Instead of saying "We have a thing called the fediverse. I'll spare you the details but you can choose Pixelfed, Mastodon, even Wordpress or many others, and they all work together". Instead all I heard anywhere was Pixelfed. Feel free to call BS there, maybe he did somewhere and I just missed it.

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say you're both wrong. Here me out.

As other commenters have said, there should never be any expectation of privacy on the fediverse. DMs here and private items are not actually private, they're quite literally blasted out to anyone who listens. I feel like I have to say that a lot. I actually like how Lemmy handles it, it warns you that it's unencrypted and that it recommends Matrix (and you can put your matrix handle on your profile).

However. I'm also disillusioned by Dansup. He made a great project with Pixelfed. It got off the ground and has a great following. However, I've read through the code, I've tried to spin it up, hell even tried to help contribute - but it's a spaghetti'd mess of unmaintainable code. What irks me is rather than dive in and fix the code, help those who honestly want to spin up his projects, he starts a completely separate project (off the same spaghetti'd base that barely scales), and goes on a whole PR junket talking about it. Then when I see people asking questions of his code or how to do things he usually jumps down their throats - or completely ignores them.

And honestly the biggest thing that irked me was that I didn't feel he gave credit to the hundreds - thousands of other people who work to make the fediverse work. Pixelfed is a great experience - but it's one of many all working together, and the developers are a huge chunk, but you have the infrastructure, us admins hosting, those out there vocalizing it, those trying to start communities, it's an ecosystem, and I just felt like he ignored the fediverse and instead pushed Pixelfed.

Seriously they could have done sims level DLC and people could have just kept buying. New mounts, small new areas, bits of story here and there, a new class

I'm glad I'm not the only one genuinely confused by this. Are they shorting their own company? What is going on?

I mean, a Gollum game?

Which is fine, but I have no idea why they're just throwing everything they have in the trash. They built the whole world and just sat on it. Expansions could make them so much money to fund the next game in the short term

WHY?! WHY ARE THEY BEING SO STUPID WITH HOGWARTS?!

They built this whole world into the game and did NOTHING with it! It's empty! Hogwarts the settings is perfect! The castle was fun to walk around in, to explore! I 100%'d the game because I loved exploring in it! Then they did nothing else to the game. I don't even remember what the antagonist's name was!

The game oversold all expectations! People just loved shelling out money for it! Then WB just dropped it.

I see things bitching every day about how their game studios don't make enough money and then they shit the bed here by just letting that game sit here!

If they're actually worried about money why are they not cranking out DLC every 4-6 months?! People would buy it! The world they built is begging to have more stories told, and people are holding out their wallets asking for more content for it - and they cancel it?!? They can't bitch and moan that games don't make money and then they just flip the off switch on their freaking money printer.

Thanks. That was cathartic.

I've had about three companies do agile correctly. They were either less than 10 people total or did not care at all. Any company with middle management dipped their toes in, I think because they need to prove their existence

13 is too young for an unrestricted smartphone for sure. If you do, I would lock it down hard for another couple of years. No spying, they deserve privacy, but you should know who they're talking to (just not what they're saying). But the internet is much much too broad of a place to just dump a 13 year old into. (Just look at us cretins here. You just wait, someday someone will offer your child linux and he better be ready to handle it).

Joking aside, the other thing is if they want a phone badly maybe it's a good time to teach the lesson on finance too. Maybe you offer to go in halfway with them, and they can do a paper route or something. At 15-16 then they'll start being annoyed at the restrictions on the phone, and that's their opportunity to buy one themselves.

Ah the right of passage. The first "horny time I don't know what consequences are I'm sure I'll find a way out of it" moment.

Have fun with the parenting!

My mom bought me a book that said the devil was in my pants and I'd go to hell. So, that's one approach.

Yup. Agree or disagree, it's meaning has shifted. Language is an ever evolving thing. Computer meant something different 100 years ago. We didn't have the term fiber optic. There's always things that change.

Yup, wasted memory allocation to get something that's there already

God, as a true scrummaster - one who believes in actual scrum - where the devs make the rules - not management.. this hurts. This hurts so goddamn much.

• 4 hour planning? PMs shit the bed.
• Story points = hours? Micromanagement
• Estimate with that much accuracy? Micromanagement who are also terrible with managing their own schedules.
• It's a simple task. - How would any business person know how long or expensive a dev task is.

And on and on, and of course you all know this. The term "Agile" has been so bastardized from it's conception by management who think it's a micromanagement tool. It's quite literally the opposite. It's mean to put the power in the hands of the developers - so they can be efficient and keep management out of their way. Management just couldn't handle handing over a tiny bit of power though. Have to break the fundamental pillars of agile, like dictating what a point is, or how long things should take. Ugh.

I mean, you’re right here.

Thank you I thought I was going insane. It's not Reddit levels of activity, but I'd say this is pretty dang active. Stats on the right show almost 600 users a day, ~7k a month, almost 100k comments...