"Stop Killing Games" failed because it asked for the wrong thing

submitted by AppleTea to gaming
26 points | 18 comments

A screenshot of a tweet stolen from reddit, as is lemmy tradition.

You can’t compel companies to keep a server up. It’s a silly request that was doomed from the start.

But you _can_ make it legal for fans to host their own servers, regardless of the financial success of the game. If “Stop Killing Games” wants to actually achieve…

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Smallest GUI distro (for a low-RAM Chromebook)?

submitted by Flagstaff to linux
32 points | 18 comments

PeppermintOS? I’m trying to prepare an ancient Chromebook C202S for Linux and have had some ideas from antiX to MXLinux and Loc-OS, but it seems that PeppermintOS may be among the best choices.

The tech level of this Chromebook’s end user is unlikely to work well with Arch + BSPWM, which was recommended to me by someone else.

Baden-Württemberg: Bundeskanzler Merz als "Lackaffe" bezeichnet: Gericht verhängt Strafbefehl

submitted by aaaaaaaaargh to dach
25 points | 18 comments
https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/regional/badenwuerttemberg/swr-bundeskanzler-merz-als-lackaffe-bezeichnet-gericht-verhaengt-strafbefehl-100.html

Wer sich negativ über unseren sehr guten Kanzler äußert, soll die Strafe dafür spüren!

'Logical Conclusion' of Citizens United as Delaware Judge Lets Corporations Vote in Local Elections | Common Dreams

submitted by supersquirrel to aboringdystopia
94 points | 18 comments
https://www.commondreams.org/news/corporations-can-vote-in-delaware

A judge in Delaware—a state with more registered business entities than people—ruled Monday in favor of a small town that allows corporations to vote in local elections.

“What is a ‘person?’ When one cuts to the heart of this case, that is the…

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What happened to (arcade-type) Joysticks?

submitted by 1Fuji2Taka3Nasubi to pcgaming
18 points | 18 comments

I realized I haven’t gamed with arcade-type joysticks for a long time and kind of missed them.

It seems to me gamepads are way more popular than large joysticks nowadays, when joysticks used to be a popular gaming accessory.

Is it because they take up too much space?

Is it because they lack the modern gamepad features (analog…

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18 years after Californians voted for High Speed Rail, with the SF-to-not-quite-LA segment still >12 years off, state is now exploring *High Speed Buses* to connect SF and LA in 3h at 140mph (225km/h)

submitted by cypherpunks to nottheonion
72 points | 18 comments
https://gizmodo.com/california-is-exploring-high-speed-buses-that-connect-la-and-san-francisco-in-just-over-3-hours-2000759206

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_High-Speed_Rail

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Ladies and gentleman, we have reached peak Agentic AI Coding - Goblin instructions in OpenAI's Codex system prompt

submitted by brianpeiris to programming
173 points | 18 comments

In case you missed it, ChatGPT 5.1 had a tendency to talk about “goblins” in its responses. Supposedly this was a result of training a “nerdy” personality, but it bled into the model as a whole. Because the training run for the latest model already had this flaw, they had to add specific instructions to the system prompt for their…

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