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Mexican 🇲🇽 software engineer. FOSS advocate. Spaghetti code generator.

Blog: https://www.davidlunadeleon.com/en

In the Fediverse as @davidlunadeleon:

  • Mastodon: mastodon.online
  • Pixelfed: pixelfed.social
  • Lemmy: lemmy.ml
  • Bookwyrm: bookwyrm.social

  • Sometimes. It depends on what I'm reading, but if I do, it's a chill playlist or a game's soundtrack. Music with lyrics is distracting, especially if it's a language I understand, haha. There's also the fact that the mood of the book can change chapter by chapter, and the music may take me out of it or make the experience less enjoyable. Changing the playlist while the story progresses sounds like too much trouble to me, but it may be doable.

  • When using my computer, I just recently started using fluent reader. The UI is pretty clean and the few keyboard shortcuts fit my limited needs for an RSS reader. It also has filtering, which I guess pretty much all readers have.

    When using my phone, I use Read You. The reasons are pretty much the same, simple UI, easy to use, etc.

  • And some people still don't care at all, or even prefer to be spied on, for some weird reason. Definitely scary.

  • Technology @lemmy.ml

    Profiles of pregnant women built and sold by data brokers

    go.theregister.com /feed/www.theregister.com/2022/08/01/pregnant_womens_data_sold/
  • Technology @lemmy.ml

    Why the end of Optane is bad news for the entire IT world

    go.theregister.com /feed/www.theregister.com/2022/08/01/optane_intel_cancellation/
  • Steam @lemmy.ml

    Valve updates Steam graphical asset rules to curb "distracting" promos

    www.gamedeveloper.com /marketing/valve-to-stop-devs-from-including-accolades-and-marketing-copy-on-steam-graphics
  • Technology @lemmy.ml

    AMD and Nvidia leaks show we are drunk on power, and the hangover is going to be brutal

    www.techradar.com /news/amd-and-nvidia-leaks-show-we-are-drunk-on-power-and-the-hangover-is-going-to-be-brutal/
  • Technology @lemmy.ml

    Protestware on the rise: Why developers are sabotaging their own code

    techcrunch.com /2022/07/27/protestware-code-sabotage/
  • Gaming @lemmy.ml

    Looks like the Dark Souls franchise's PC servers are coming back

    www.gamedeveloper.com /business/the-i-dark-souls-i-trilogy-s-pc-servers-may-be-rising-from-ashes
  • Technology @lemmy.ml

    Nvidia might release just one RTX 4000 GPU this year – and it’s not the one you’re hoping for

    www.techradar.com /news/nvidia-might-release-just-one-rtx-4000-gpu-this-year-and-its-not-the-one-youre-hoping-for/
  • Gaming @lemmy.ml

    Remake of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is reportedly on hold

    www.gamedeveloper.com /business/report-aspyr-s-star-wars-knights-of-the-old-republic-remake-is-on-pause
  • If the creator of the work holds a patent related to it, even if it's licensed under CC0, they can sue you for infringing on their patent. The article links a good explanation: https://opensource.stackexchange.com/a/1393

  • Gaming @lemmy.ml

    Lucas Pope is releasing a mobile version of Papers, Please

    www.gamedeveloper.com /mobile/lucas-pope-is-releasing-a-mobile-version-of-papers-please
  • Open Source @lemmy.ml

    Fedora sours on CC 'No Rights Reserved' license

    go.theregister.com /feed/www.theregister.com/2022/07/25/fedora_sours_on_creative_commons/
  • Enough for my browsing needs, haha

  • Technology @lemmy.ml

    I've been fired, says engineer who claimed Google chatbot was sentient

    go.theregister.com /feed/www.theregister.com/2022/07/23/in_brief_ai/
  • Gaming @lemmy.ml

    VR studio Tender Claws has successfully unionized

    www.gamedeveloper.com /business/tender-claws-vr-game-developer-unionization
  • Technology @lemmy.ml

    Don't dive head first into that crypto pool, FBI warns

    go.theregister.com /feed/www.theregister.com/2022/07/22/fbi_liquidity_mining_scam/
  • Technology @lemmy.ml

    British recycle old arguments for borking encryption

    go.theregister.com /feed/www.theregister.com/2022/07/22/british_encryption_scanning/
  • Gaming @lemmy.ml

    Splinter Cell VR and Ghost Recon Frontline cancelled by Ubisoft

    www.gamedeveloper.com /business/ubisoft-cancels-four-games-including-splinter-cell-vr-and-ghost-recon-frontline
  • Hopefully more officials in other countries will take notice.

  • It's good to have a statement instead of just ignoring the problem. Especially since they have such a big audience, including many kids who probably don't fully understand how these things work.

  • Gaming @lemmy.ml

    Elected official in Japan wants a legal framework for preserving games and keeping them playable

    automaton-media.com /en/news/20220714-14016/
  • I keep talking about the Fediverse as a whole to anyone willing to listen. I may not move the masses, but if I can convince even a couple of my friends to give Lemmy, Mastodon or any other open source federated platform a try, I consider that a win.

    Just letting people know Lemmy exists is a contribution to its adoption. It's especially useful to let people know there are alternatives when a big platform has an exodus of users, be it due to poor moderation, a failed acquisition attempt, or any other kind of drama, since that's when they're most willing to migrate permanently.

  • The fact that every instance is capable of being its full-fledged thing, doesn't mean it has to do so. That's why we have federation. So yeah, federation allows any approach you want, like the one you mention, of having instances that focus in certain topics, but having generalist instances is okay too. The important part is that users from one instance can participate in the communities of other instances.

  • Either community or sublemmy. But I agree that community is generally better.

  • Basically, what came before the Steam Deck.

  • Valve really did a good job with the Steam Deck and Steam OS. I fully agree.

    Hopefully, more Steam Deck users will realize how easy it is now to play most games on Linux. And the games that are not playable tend to be multiplayer microtransaction fests that also require some invasive anti-cheating software, so it's not like we're missing much.

    For people who enjoy single player games and don't require specialized software for their daily life, this shows them how far Linux has come, and how viable it is as a daily driver.

  • Every time I want to read an article or even blog posts. So painfully true. 🙃

    • Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
    • Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
    • Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
    • The Black Book by Giovanni Papini
  • They took the bag and then let the speaker do his thing. As you say, massive respect to them. I fully agree with Venturelli when it comes to actually being in the spaces given to us and voicing our opinions, instead of being absent and letting crypto bros do their thing and appear legit.

  • This one sounds reasonable to me. Everyone loves bleeding edge and the latest updates until things suddenly stop working.

    We, as individuals, have the freedom to choose whether we want nightly updates or more stable ones, but there's a degree of responsibility that comes from distributing packages to users who, at least, expect usability. This is the case even for those of distros which pride themselves in being bleeding edge.

    I like the approach that Arch takes with having the official package and, oftentimes, a "-git" package in the AUR. The expectations should be pretty clear to all users with that.

  • I think that what's happening with Netflix and Uber only shows how unsustainable it is to disrupt the market with cheap prices and a goodish service in order to dominate and remove all competition from the market only to later, inevitably, raise prices and stop the innovation.

    To me, it's clear enough that competition won't dissappear and now users will be less than happy, since what they were used to is now being taken away due to raising costs of operation and the demand for ever-growing profitability by the investors.

  • Great article!

    I'm currently taking a course on compiler design, and our final project is to write both a compiler and a VM like the one specified in the article to run our compiled code. This helped me realize how inefficient mine is, though. 😅

  • That is true. I just wish it was also true for other countries, like Mexico, in my case :/