I've always wondered where the dividing line really lies between doxxing and just compiling publicly available info into an easy to digest format.

Clearly, tying someone's pseudonymous online identity (like my lemmy account) to a real life identity crosses that line (except when those identities are explicitly linked by the account owner).

But like, what about a lemmy account that regularly posts links to github projects all by one github account, posted to lemmy a few hours after they go up on github, where the github has a link to the github owner's linkedin? The lemmy account is not explicitly linked to the identity in linkedin, but it only shortcuts perhaps 3 minutes of data gathering, and all the individual pieces are public.

What about if you have someone's full name and rough area of residence, as if you met someone at an event in your area? You can probably find their Facebook, from that a handful of info, chain that together with stuff like public yearbooks, linkedin, online white/yellpw pages, etc. Without digging into private information, just using public sources, you can get a shocking amount of info on most people.

All that rambling aside, live imagery of a person's face being matched to public pictures attached to online profiles is clearly a leap in the wrong direction, but the bigger issue is just how much public info is floating around about people.

While it's a privacy nightmare either way, on some level I prefer things like this being in the hands of the public instead of only available to corporations. I have this naieve hope that someday it might make people examine the overwhelming amount of data being collected all the time.

Welcome to the reality of indie game dev. Great ideas are comparatively easy, effectively dirt cheap. Like most things worth doing in life, the difficulty lies in actualizing those ideas and bringing them to reality.

The only real solution is experience. Beyond that: Learn to treat your "amazing game ideas" like cattle instead of pets. Prioritize rapid prototyping of your main gameplay loop/systems before you fall in love with the set dressing.

All of that said, by just finishing a project you are already further along than 90% of amatuer devs. The best takeaway from 4chan's long running amatuer game dev threads: just like make game.

Creating something that exists beyond your imagination is always progress forward. Releasing a game, even one that doesn't meet what you hoped, even one that's objectively shit, is monumental progress.

Now toss it up on itch.io or whatever storefront and start on your next attempt.

I've seen some meme's about imposter syndrome along the lines of "If it was really important, wouldn't they get someone better to take care of it?" and they've actually helped me relax quite a bit about my work responsibilities.

Also, I want others to be able to do my job. Being the only person where I work familiar with my shit is such a pain in the ass! I want to work on new stuff, not be cursed to answer the same damn questions every day because no one can be bothered to read the documentation I wrote.

!criticalrole@lemmy.world

Community link for folks like me on a mobile client that can't handle cross-instance links to posts.

I love the two comments calling out that this thread was posted to the help subreddit rather than any of the other more appropriate subs for changelogs.

Like come on, you know that wasn't an accident.

What "recent events"? People being weidly offended by "woke-ot" and the unnoficial community mod who apologized for being shitty years ago, or is there something new I missed?

The linked Github doesn't have any information on why it was forked. The readme hasn't been updated at all to say anything about why this should be used over normal godot.

What recent events? People being weidly offended by "woke-ot" and the unnoficial community mod who apologized for being shitty years ago, or is there something new I missed?

The linked Github doesn't have any information on why it was forked. The readme hasn't been updated at all to say anything about why this should be used over normal godot.

Oh my god, this particular point has been so frustrating to me. People talking about how much time it saves them with boilerplate code: If it's that boilerplate make yourself a fucking template! Learn your IDE's damn features, because most have code snippet features now where you can save them right in the damn IDE.

There's vanishly little that LLMs are actually being used for that can't be done far cheaper (computatiomally and cost-wise) with existing tools.

According to the Ryujinx (Switch emulator) Mac M1 branch maintainer, they literally did send people to the home of Ryujinx's lead dev in Brazil.

So we might already be there.

Hah, the gun in the second picture looks like those ridiculous "pimp my gun" pictures:

There's a decent amount of southerners that bought into the idea pushed in the 20th century that the flag was emblematic of southern pride instead of emblematic of racism.

Modern conversation about the US has generalized half of the country as poor, racist, mean, idiots who are stuck in the past. It's gone so far that people have started to describe impovershed areas worldwide as the global south.

While I would never choose to rally under a racist symbol because of it, I can understand wanting a shorthand way to show pride for the place you are from if you feel like public opinion just labels it as a backwards shitpile by default.

And if modern discourse is so wrong about how much of a shithole where you live or where you are from is, maybe they're wrong about this symbol meaning racism too? Spoiler: they aren't wrong about that, but that is the general thought path.

Similar sort of thing that drove a concerning amount of young men towards shitheads like Andrew Tate while the news media was going apeshit with articles about how all men needed to be taught not to rape.

Every cyptocurrency could replace fiat currency and traditional banks. Get back to me when one actually makes inroads on that.

Also with Firefox having effectively the only feature complete open source browser engine, personally I could care less if they might have implied negative things about the better crypto currencys.

Everyone is welcome to their own opinion, but this is incredibly minor in the grand scheme of things.