silently install apps

Sounds like Google.

(/srs) Anyways, these "new"s are as old as “IoT” itself.

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that doesn’t mean ‘everything’

I said basically.

Neither does it mean that the majority mode of production of the world will be capitalism tomorrow.

Wanna bet? I close my eyes, sleep, wake up sometime (hopefully) then check.

Christiania

Intentional anarcho-communistic commune somewhere in the middle of Denmark. Denmark is fine with it because it’s making tourist money. It’s like a cool fact, like “did you know there’s a place where people avoid using money”. Obviously, they go out sometimes. Apart from that, stuff done there that is only “ethical outside of capitalism” isn’t ethical for the outside world. If someone does vibecoding there and considers it ethical for some reason but not outside (like the de facto lack of enforcement for intellectual property because it’s no longer needed), people outside still can’t use the work ethically. From what I’ve heard, they aren’t even really good with computers there, and I am not aware of any attempts to make their own.

can only be trained by data harvesting corporations

What is the problem here? The data-harvesting part or the corporations part?

Both? Some people don’t want data harvesting yet it’s done. The CEO gets capital, so do investment companies and maybe some client companies.

EDIT: even if the electricity is sourced “ethically” (no), the compute itself is attributing to climate change.

You are forgetting that basically everything is de-facto capitalism. If you use this in Christiania, you step out to Denmark and suddenly you are no longer ethical because you are contributing to capitalism.

Oh, and you are forgetting 6: can only be trained by data harvesting corporations. Open weight != open source.

Most accurate description of Element I’ve ever heard to be honest. It’s literally just Discord, with all of it’s bloat, but with a protocol that wants to have “security” bolted on. And all of the security related dialogs have race conditions in them. Actually, not just in Element, all clients, even nheko and fluffychat, have race conditions in the fucking security dialogs. All of my devices are just unverified now, I just gave up.

XMPP at least functions reliably, if you ignore all of the protocol extensions and use it like IRC with images of course.

Tox supermacy! Though the main and only good Android client got archived. But like, whatever. Fuck phones anyway.

You waste a few hundred megs of disk storage and a few gigs of RAM to get the same shit as https://totaljerkface.com/happy_wheels.tjf but with achievements.

Was about to mention the Flash version at happy_wheels_flash.tjf but they broke it. Ran fine at least last year, I tried it.

The only good thing I see here is offline support, although someone could code it as a userscript using “service workers”. I know the totaljerkface won’t, because money. If you really want, you could just open the Newgrounds demo (featuring the Flash exclusive “Green hills” level) in desktop Ruffle. You will get bored of it after a bit but if you get a few dozen more Flash games it’s fine. Oh, and the actual Newgrounds page for it has controller support, it says so in the sidebar. One of the things advertised on Steam is controller support, so I guess that’s nothing new as well… On Newgrounds it’s not analog, but I don’t see why anyone wouldn’t be using a dpad here anyway.

So, what is is it? The web version + a web browser shoved onto Steam? The flash version and flash player shoved onto Steam (like “Transformice”)? The mobile version?

The system requirements say “Any GPU with WebGL” which sounds like it’s the fucking web browser one, although the actual game uses a 2D canvas and not WebGL I am pretty sure.

EDIT: yup it’s a browser. For a free to play browser game.

Directory listing from BTDigg:

• chrome_100_percent.pak 702.79 KB
• chrome_200_percent.pak 1.21 MB
• d3dcompiler_47.dll 4.52 MB
• dxcompiler.dll 24.55 MB
• dxil.dll 1.44 MB
• ffmpeg.dll 2.97 MB
• Happy Wheels.exe 234.94 MB
• icudtl.dat 10.37 MB
• LICENSE.electron.txt 1.07 KB
• LICENSES.chromium.html 19.52 MB
• …