lucasrizoli @lucasrizoli@mastodon.social

Quick n' dirty way to block the Redshell spyware recently discovered in many computer games.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/8rxfpc/batch_file_to_block_redshell_new_steam_spyware/

Why save the planet when you can profit from it?!

@jplebreton, I agree.

I got in some trouble for refusing to sing, stand, or participate in nationalistic rituals because I always thought it perverse and arbitrary. Yeah, even in Canada. (That I got in trouble for non-participation just encouraged me to push against it.)

Gaming disorder is the "increasing priority given to gaming over other activities to the extent that gaming takes precedence over other interests and daily activities, and continuation or escalation of gaming despite the occurrence of negative consequences."

Before pushing back instinctively, keep in mind this describes only severe behaviour; like an eating disorder is not "anti-eating," this is not "anti-gaming."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/who-declares-video-game-addiction-mental-disorder-1.4710500

"You could have a Flamethrower pointing backwards, or something!"

https://youtu.be/DZ00xyvtNQ4?t=20m42s

“Violence is bad, kids—but always be sure to win!”

Hell yeah, VOODOO Memory Management!

Had worked before with the assumption that character counts when translating from English to French or Spanish increase 30–50% on average.

Had not, until now, heard that the relative increase is inversely proportional to the length of the English string.

"The general message is that text will normally expand [when translated from English to another language], but note carefully how the smaller the source message, the higher the likely translation length."

Useful to consider localization as early as you can when working on UI. "When text is translated from one language to another, the length of the source and translated text is likely to be different. There are some ways in which these differences in length can be systematic."

https://www.w3.org/International/articles/article-text-size

I guess you've asked politely, but no thanks. No thanks.

I just wanna go home and play old(er) games. Like, some late-90's stuff.

Hard to believe almost 2 million people would, not just abide, but really want Doug Ford to be Premier.

I am disappointed in our electorate, and concerned for our province.

@jplebreton, something something the cloud, baby.

GOG syncs saves for a bunch of older games, like Thief, Jedi Knight, Deus Ex, and Syndicate.

https://www.gog.com/news/this_game_now_supports_gog_galaxy_cloud_saves

TIL about the Delete & re-draft function on Mastodon. Appreciated.

Sometimes Windows decides to add another keyboard—typically US International or the French Canadian—and the only way to get rid of it is to add it to your settings and then delete it again.

Previously: https://mastodon.social/@lucasrizoli/99366546455098692

"Hard to imagine GitHub ever generating the sort of revenue that justifies this purchase price…

"What Microsoft wants is much fuzzier: it wants to be developers’ friend, in large part because it has no other option." They cannot continue to use large numbers of locked-in Windows users as leverage on developers.

https://stratechery.com/2018/the-cost-of-developers/