Holy cow, Ed Zitron can write about the careening rolling disaster that is the useful knowledge of the web being rendered useless by the glue-factories of modern search
The Randstad is such an interesting and powerful entity.
You have Rotterdam, which is an industrial city with the largest harbour in the Netherlands.
You have Den Haag, which is the political heart of the Netherlands.
You have Amsterdam, cultural city of canals and largest in the Netherlands.
@mic I've had the misfortune of trying to travel on the Benelux-Frankfurt ICE corridor.
It's a fucking cool train... until it gets canceled on you, a DB-staff member stuffs a hasty printout of a routeplanner page for an "alternative" (that sends you over all sorts of shitty slow connections) in your hands, only for the next ICE to...
@mic I also once tried to get a refund on a seat reservation on a train I couldn't take because of their fuckery.
Handy online form!
Fill it all out, and...
It...
It...
...
It generates a pdf.
They want you to print it out.
And MAIL it to them. By physical mail, with an envelope and post stamps and everything.
I'm already on your website, just send it to an HTTP endpoint! You literally already have the information, how else did you generate the pdf?!
(I mean... I say this as if they're being incompetent, and not actively malicious by making sure specifically the refund procedure uses such a weird step.)
Today KeeperFX 1.0 was released, marking the completion of the entire original Dungeon Keeper code being rewritten plus a bunch of fixes, improvements and new units. https://keeperfx.net/
Are there AI improvements? I remember loving this game in the past, though in the original it was often a bit of a disappointment to build up a whole base, only to find out the enemy's economy had completely collapsed and their dungeon protected by, like, two bugs...
The whole base-building aspect was fun, though, as well as taking control of your minions and exploring your dungeon...
#TweesecakeApp, I have a question. I saw once that there's a way to make and answer calls using Telegram. Is there a way to do that or am I just forgetting something?
Hey #opensource people, got anything fun that you could have some extra help with?
I'm kinda coding solo a lot of the time and I wanna learn how to function more in a cooperative environment, but I dunno where to start and the larger projects are a bit intimidating.
Decentralized DIscord-esque social media platform? Neat!
This might be right up my alley... What's the purpose? A fun project t learn by doing? Something you're looking to use? Something to compete with Matrix?
I can do "for leaning purposes", learning is exactly what I'm trying to do.
Building on top of Matrix? Do you mean it'll be interoperable, or use the same protocols?
I gotta say I'm not terribly thrilled with Matrix as a protocol; especially their idea of E2E encryption is a bit... meh, IMHO, since it pertains only to the message body (metadata and emoji reactions are in plaintext) and it's honestly way too technical for average users, though the latter should be fixable implementation-side since it's mainly a UX problem.