I love it too, Dusk being one of my favorites. My only complaints with modern PS1/PSX aesthetic 3D graphics (as I often see on reddit):
Can fly, swim, walk, and climb trees. Looks stylish as heck. Objectively one of the coolest birds.
Never liked photorealistic games for some reason, my brain’s perception just filters it out past the first few minutes looking at effects.
They don’t need to. In sarcastic words of Cory Doctorow, it is OK because it’s through the app.
Illegal unregulated hotels? It’s OK because it’s through the app. Illegal taxis? It’s OK because it’s through the app. Plagiarism and IP violations? It’s OK because it’s through the app.
Started doing the same a few months ago too, mainly prompted by streaming services removing and shuffling movies around constantly (particularly noticeable for series and classic Christmas movies).
At a repair cafe, just saw someone with a chunky Dell Inspiron laptop that had a built-in modem and phone jack (!), which dates it to late 2000s (I believe), and I was impressed how fast Windows 10 was on it compared to newer cheap laptops.
No vibe coding needed. Many years ago, my friend, a new yet overly-confident web developer, pulled the entire list of usernames and passwords from the back-end when the login page opened. It was to “check if password is correct faster”.
(And yes, he stored passwords in plaintext)
Another Android fork like eOS or iodeOS, but this time, it’s different, we promise!
When I was taught that Philo Farnsworth, a “farmer” who “invented” television by using the idea of plowing a field in parallel lines to display an image, I was completely dumbfounded. A farmer figured out how to build a vacuum tube, fire an electron beam, deflect it at phosphor-coated surface, and do so in lines, varying the intensity, to display an image? This simplistic “history” skips about 50 years of progress in vacuum tube design and absolutely fascinating mechanical television.
On that note, The Upright Thinkers by Leonard Mlodinow is a good book about scientific progress, and really drives a point about incremental nature progress.
When Steam first appeared (and was required to play Half-Life 2 IIRC), I thought that was a ridiculous idea to have a middle man to play a game. Well, what do I know, everyone loves Steam now (yet hates on other launchers).
Are there plans to produce ARIA commercially? (All i saw in the article is about the prototype) Looks like a DIY Honda CR-Z, in a good way.
There was a cool Sono Sion project, a smallish boxy EV that comes with a repair manual, solar panels for topping off the battery, and power-sharing mechanic to power another EV or a home. But they either ran out of money or could not set up manufacturing.
Another fantastic short story is The Sleepover. Most of humanity is in hibernation and is being haunted by ethereal lovecraftian entities.
Turquoise Days was the first short story I read by him, and I think it could make a fun movie.
… and Fjöhurs Lykkewe
(Portlandia skit)
TBF, specifically for games, enemy behavior has been called “AI” for decades.
The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei. Main part of the story takes place on a generation ship that has been sabotaged, but there are multiple flashbacks to MC’s childhood, astronaut training, politics and climate of the time. Pretty interesting so far.
Just train it on StackOverflow answers! Kidding, of course, although it probably could pick up a few hostile non-responses such as “what are you even trying to do here?” and “RTFM”
More of a self-directed way, but check out eBird for submitting bird observations and iNaturalist for almost everything else. The cool part about iNaturalist is that your observations also get identified by other people, so you know the submissions have been reviewed. And you could help identify others’ observations too.
These are great reviews. Some of the books are on my to-read list for this year, so I appreciate the lack of spoilers. Do you keep these on a blog or anywhere else? I’d be interested to follow.
I’ve been keeping a similar list: https://yaky.dev/reads/
I have once heard “It is our time to make fun of them” from a software developer. He wasn’t a very well-meaning person in general, bootstraps and all.