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Android developer verification: Early access starts now as we continue to build with your feedback in c/android@programming.dev
[–] Kissaki@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

In my interpretation, the gains will be

  1. Google Store apps will have identities linked, making it harder to mass-produce and mass-publish scam apps
  2. Enabling app installs outside of the Google store will have an additional barrier to combat scammers interactive pressure, maybe a cooldown of 24 hours or something like that
Android developer verification: Early access starts now as we continue to build with your feedback in c/android@programming.dev
[–] Kissaki@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago

So they're addressing students and private hobbyists, but not open source and hobbyists willing to publish.

Sounds like it will be a kind of sideloading onto your own devices.

that allows experienced users to accept the risks of installing software that isn't verified

So for F-Droid, a vetting and curating publisher, users will have to go through this expert process. The announcement that activation under pressure will be prevented makes me thing of a time cooldown, like activate now, and it becomes active by tomorrow, 24 hours later.

Scamming is a real problem, and to a degree, it may end up being a good thing. As long as Google does not take this opportunity to push hidden agenda of increasing accessibility and choice, to seize more control not for security but as market and platform strategy.

F-Droid says they don't want to impersonate other projects in order to be able to publish their projects, arguably decreasing security, which is a valid concern. As long as there's a setting to allow this kind of sideloading and the use of F-Droid like before, I guess it is what it is, and may be acceptable.

If only they had started from where they are now. It's plainly obvious there's these kinds of users and use-cases. Did they really need "the community feedback" to learn about everything outside of their primary "linear" users?

Is Valve showcasing Godot in their new Hardware Announcement? in c/godot@programming.dev
[–] Kissaki@programming.dev 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Godot is certainly the easiest and simplest to install in terms of full engine and game dev IDE.

Whether they wanted to showcase or deliberately chose it for how it looks or not, I think the simple install onto a presentation desk/PC/Steam Machine may have been a reason as well.

On native datepickers in c/programming@programming.dev
[–] Kissaki@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

On AniDB I can enter dd.MM.yyyy or yyyy-MM-dd (text input), which I like a lot. I often prefer reading and writing yyyy-MM-dd.

Some time ago I changed my Windows number format settings to show me yyyy-MM-dd formats. Unfortunately, that broke my webbrowsers date input / datepicker. :( So I had to go back to the standard culture format (de in my case).

The worst is when you work with dates and don't know what is what, or when the behavior is unexpected.

Probably everyone knows about the Excel shitshow of implicitly converted values.

In SQL Server, what do you think 0000-00-00 is when converted to a date, explicitly or implicitly? Well, unfortunately, yyyyMMdd is a safer format than yyyy-MM-dd.

SET LANGUAGE 'us_english'
SELECT CONVERT(date, '2025-12-13')
--SELECT CONVERT(date, '2025-13-12') -- err
SELECT CONVERT(datetime, '2025-12-13 07:00:00')
--SELECT CONVERT(datetime, '2025-13-12 07:00:00') -- err

SET LANGUAGE 'Deutsch'
SELECT CONVERT(date, '2025-12-13')
--SELECT CONVERT(date, '2025-13-12') --err
--SELECT CONVERT(datetime, '2025-12-13 07:00:00') --err !!
SELECT CONVERT(datetime, '2025-13-12 07:00:00')

No, yyyy-dd-MM is not a common or valid German date format. That's usually dd.MM.yyyy.

But worst of all, it changes behavior of the date parsing between date only and date + time types.

Can we possibly do without apps on PCs ? in c/programming@programming.dev
[–] Kissaki@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Your question was very unspecific and broad, and despite that, now it goes into a direction I have not foreseen. Your question would have been much more useful and you would have received a lot better answers if you had provided some context, established a premise, been more specific about what you're asking.

You asked about PC. Given that Windows is the prevalent PC operating system, I'll answer for that.

While Windows has a Microsoft Store app store now, traditionally and still prevalent, most software and applications is installed and managed not through this "app store", but manually or with other non-OS-integrated software.

I feel like the premise of the question is from a very different understanding of how things work or are.

I haven’t written a line of code in a month. in c/experienced_devs@programming.dev
[–] Kissaki@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I regularly write code.

My customer gave the go-ahead to use LLM in our project very recently. We'll be trying it out. I'm interested to scope out its use and limitations especially. I'm skeptical it will increase efficiency for me overall. The project is too complex, my/our requirement on quality too high, and I'm thorough to the last var name and code formatting for readability and obviousness. I'm not sure whether I could find it acceptable to compromise on those.

Between customer communication, planning, review-prep, guiding and helping my team members, and doing reviews, and other tasks within the company, time for my own work can be reduced by a lot. Still, I have tasks I work on, and that includes coding.

What do you think the future of Windows is? in c/programming@programming.dev
[–] Kissaki@programming.dev 10 points 2 months ago

Microsoft pushes cloud and AI with increasingly negative side-effects. Eventually, EU regulation steps in to require offline-capable OS with fair and obvious choice. Microsoft tries to argue security, but ultimately fails.

Microsoft continues to push and connect their services as one, with synergy effects. Eventually EU regulation and prosecution steps in, requiring a neutral OS that must not pre-install software or point to other products in OS settings and apps, etc. Integrations must be openly standardized first, before implementing their own.

Despite all this, and despite a move from EU and EU-national institutions to sovereignty through shared open source solutions, Microsoft retains their strong/prevalent market position because the market as a whole is not as strategic and concerned, and Microsoft products like office, onedrive, Teams, and their other business software and services remain a predominant and grab-first choice, and the security promise of big enterprise software, battle-tested, with strong established auth etc remains a big selling point for them.

Can we possibly do without apps on PCs ? in c/programming@programming.dev
[–] Kissaki@programming.dev 5 points 2 months ago

Yes, living without any PC at all is possible.

Automated changelog generation in c/programming@programming.dev
[–] Kissaki@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

At work, I set up convco for automated commit checks and changelog generation with custom/slightly adjusted configuration of conventional commits (types) and changelog template.

[Idea] Officially hosted bot for Reddit → Lemmy crossposting in c/meta@programming.dev
[–] Kissaki@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This bot is "official" in what way?

KeePassXC codebase's jump into generative AI - Discussion in c/opensource@programming.dev
Made a titanfall-esque movement system for my silly little kitty in Godot 🐱 in c/gamedev@programming.dev
[–] Kissaki@programming.dev 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Does it float because it's a balloon cat or because of the jetpacks? 😸

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Firefox 139.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes (www.mozilla.org)
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TransformersSharp: A wrapper for hugging face transformers in C# (github.com)
 

A little wrapper for Hugging Face Transformers in C#. This is not a comprehensive 1:1 mapping of the whole HuggingFace transformers package, because the API is enormous.

If you need a specific feature, toggle or pipeline API clone this repo and make adjustments.

This project was created using CSnakes and will fetch Python, PyTorch, and Hugging Face Transformers automatically, so you don't need to install them manually.

Demonstration (Video) from MS Build conference

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CSnakes: Embed Python in .NET (github.com)
 

CSnakes is a .NET Source Generator and Runtime that you can use to embed Python code and libraries into your .NET Solution without the need for REST, HTTP, or Microservices.

Video Demonstration at MS Build Conference

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Announcing dotnet run app.cs - A simpler way to start with C# and .NET 10 - .NET Blog (devblogs.microsoft.com)
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Blog post text follow-up to the build conference video announcement posted here two days ago.

We are super excited to introduce a new feature that was released as part of .NET 10 Preview 4 that makes getting started with C# easier than ever. You can now run a C# file directly using dotnet run app.cs. This means you no longer need to create a project file or scaffold a whole application to run a quick script, test a snippet, or experiment with an idea. It’s simple, intuitive, and designed to streamline the C# development experience, especially for those just getting started.

In upcoming .NET 10 previews we’re aiming to improve the experience of working with file-based apps in VS Code, with enhnanced IntelliSense for the new file-based directives, improved performance, and support for debugging. At the command line we’re exploring support for file-based apps with multiple files, and ways to make running file-based apps faster.

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VisualStudio.Extensibility: Editor classification and updates to user prompt - Visual Studio Blog (devblogs.microsoft.com)
 

Our 17.14 release of VisualStudio.Extensibility includes the following features:

  • Text classification support
  • Updates to the ShowPromptAsync API

This release also includes a previously mentioned change regarding .NET runtime management requirements. VisualStudio.Extensibility extensions are executed on a separate .NET runtime host, unlike VSSDK extensions which run in the same process as devenv.exe, using the .NET Framework runtime. Since VisualStudio.Extensibility extensions operate on .NET, we must adhere to the runtime servicing lifetime of .NET. Consequently, the VisualStudio.Extensibility platform will be regularly updated to advance to newer versions of .NET LTS. For more information on how this affects you as an extension developer or consumer, please refer to our documentation here.

Note: VS 17.14 was released 14 days ago. This VS blog post highlights and elaborates on this topic.

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How do you experience and handle reviews and feedback about your games, positive and negative? (programming.dev)
 

How do you experience good and bad reviews and feedback on your games? Are you ecstatic or proud when reading positive reviews? Is it difficult to read reviews listing a lot of negative points?

How does it depend on the proportion of your contributions to the project?

I've occasionally wondered about team titles, how individual developers feel when reviews turn out majority or overwhelmingly negative. For very small teams and individual devs, I've often wondered how they feel when receiving "negative" feedback, especially reviews pointing out many flaws.

Today, I posted a Steam review with a long list of things the title is lacking. Personally, I would have never released a title in that state, and for money. I feel bad about pointing out many flaws on indie titles. But I also see no way around it. It's only honest to list what I see and notice. For a review, honesty is key, and allows others to see these things that are not visible from a store page or game trailer.

I'm interested to hear your thoughts and experiences.

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An Elaborate GitHub Comment on Microsoft's new edit CLI Text Editor Asking for Simplicity and Predictability (github.com)
 

The comment does well in providing context and arguments.

Lets go back to the closest thing we have for requirements for this editor..Default CLI Editor - Feature Exploration!. This discussion was based on the current state of windows and was not concerned with UNIX.

Being a simple text editor, it should not hallucinate, it should not add text one did not type, it should not change the text that was typed. If the user typed a tab character, it was because the user wanted a tab character. If you want four spaces then type four spaces.

edit should by default work like the original namesake and not hallucinate or add characters that were not typed or make assumptions.

Where do you draw the line on "smart" features? Tab should not add indent spaces? Encoding or newline mechanisms? Determining EOF newline?

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100 Slaps: The Breaking News The Games Industry Ignored in 2024 - People Make Games (YouTube) (2025-01-07) (www.youtube.com)
 

Almost four years after our reporting on the games industry's unseen crunch at outsourcing studios in SE Asia, Chris received an email that demanded we return to this story once again.

Reporting on a specific outsourcing studio with abuse, with occasional references to the broader industry and its dependence on outsourcing studios.

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Nushell 0.104.1 | Nushell - Windows Installer Fixes (www.nushell.sh)
 

This release fixes some issues related to the Windows MSI installer and the Nushell winget package. macOS and Linux users are not affected.

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Entschuldigung leaving Steam “imminently” - Delisted Games | Representing difficult topics in games or art (delistedgames.com)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by Kissaki@programming.dev to c/gamedev@programming.dev
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I found the announcement (quoted in the article) interesting and worth sharing, even without knowing or seeing the game.

Excerpts (I recommend reading the full thing):

My primary inspirations were the Japanese living doll myth and my experiences urban exploring in Germany (many backgrounds were crafted from photos I had taken).

The final act obviously deals with a difficult topic, sexual assault. I wanted the ending to be shocking, that was intentional, but never to cause harm. Instead, I thought I had crafted things in a way that would act as a jumping off point for some difficult discussions.

Secondly, the girl was never meant to look underage. In retrospect, I should have been more careful to ensure there was no ambiguity. Because she’s a doll (not human), I didn’t consider the possibility of misinterpretation as thoroughly as I should have.

This was also written long before the #MeToo movement, and I was a lot less educated on all the nuances of topics like these at the time.

If I had written it now, in my mid-30s, in 2025, it would be very different. Still, some choices I stand behind:

Do you have experience representing difficult topics in art? Weighing or deciding on respectful or acceptable representations, on the degree of deliberately shocking or uncomfortable representation?

Or do you remember scenes in games or otherwise in art that you found uncomfortable or shocking? In a good (well-represented or tactful) way or a bad way?

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.NET Aspire 9.3 is here and enhanced with GitHub Copilot! - .NET Blog (devblogs.microsoft.com)
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Accelerate Your .NET Upgrades with GitHub Copilot - .NET Blog (devblogs.microsoft.com)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by Kissaki@programming.dev to c/dotnet@programming.dev
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The VS extension

GitHub Copilot app modernization - Upgrade for .NET is a public preview AI-powered experience that helps you bring your .NET applications to the latest version quicker and more confidently than ever before. Powered by GitHub Copilot and Agent Mode, it serves as an intelligent upgrade companion that understands your code, determines the right upgrade path, and applies changes step-by-step with minimal manual effort.

This public preview focuses on Core-to-Core upgrades, such as: .NET Core 3.x, 5, 6, or 7 → .NET 8 or .NET 9

If your solution is currently on .NET Framework (e.g., .NET Framework 4.8):

  • Use the existing .NET Upgrade Assistant to upgrade from .NET Framework to .NET Core (.NET versions 3.x, 5, 6, etc.).
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