[Itch.io] This week's assorted indie freebies
submitted by https://feddit.uk/u/smeg
https://tropicpixel.itch.io/thearchangelspear
The Archangel Spear is a challenging, mythological action game where precision, timing, and strategy are key. In this Souls-like experience, you take on the role of Alexios, a legendary warrior chosen to wield the divine Spear of the Archangel Michael. Guided by the Oracle of Ages, Alexios must descend into the depths of Hell, battle demonic forces, and face the fallen angel Lucifer to restore balance to the realms.
https://alexbaza.itch.io/outime
, parkour
https://studiogombo.itch.io/helping-santa-claus
Helping Santa Claus is a text-based management game where you’ll take on the role of Santa Claus’ trusted helper. You’ve received a letter from Santa himself, asking for your expertise in recruiting new trainees to assist with delivering gifts all around the town on Christmas Eve.
Your goal is to train your team of Santa’s would-be helpers to become proficient in three essential skills: gift wrapping, sleigh loading, and sleigh driving.
Start each day by assigning tasks to your trainees based on their current skill levels, recruit new ones around town, and monitor their progress as they learn and improve over time…
https://studiogombo.itch.io/capitalism
, a simple resource management text game
You play as Jack Marley of Scrooge & Marley Co. (but both names, of character and company, are customizable), a businessman with no scruples who has got to make the most out of his workers.
Hire applicants, exploit hard workers and fire the bad ones, keep your popularity high among your peers, keep away tax officers and trade unionists… and grasp as much money as you can before relocating somewhere else. That’s how you win.
Of course, CAPITALISM is written to be a funny relaxing little game, but it is actually also a pungent satire on the fast deterioration of work conditions in the Western world.
https://studiogombo.itch.io/the-labours-of-hercules
The Labours of Hercules is the first visual novel by Studio Gombo. It is based on the mythological tales on the hero and his feats. You play as Hercules, and follow him in his famous twelve labours around Greece, Egypt and various unknown worlds.
Twenty-three characters to interact with, and Hercules himself evolving during the adventure. The dialogues tell the “real” story in a generally funny atmosphere. Still, you may stumble in a couple of spicy situations and a few impolite words. Nothing scandalous anyway.
https://gamesbyrd.itch.io/my-cute-beings
Fill all your cute beings’ hearts with happiness!
In the game you buy beings, and you take good care of them!
The happiness-o-meter will show you how well you’re doing.
If your beings are sad for too long, they will fall into a sleep… forever
John Lithgow Will Be Dumbledore In HBO's Harry Potter Show
submitted by https://lemm.ee/u/Microw
https://kotaku.com/hbo-harry-potter-dumbledore-actor-john-lithgow-cast-1851766441
Trump posts bizarre AI video of Gaza vision as beach resort on Truth Social
submitted by https://lemmy.world/u/timewarp
In Trump’s latest Truth Social post, he shares a disgusting video depicting a golden statue of himself, a sky scraper with his name on it, a superyacht on the Gaza coast, him holding hands with a female entertainer in a night club wearing a see-through gown, him & Netanyahu shirtless together sipping alcohol on the Gaza coast with a sign that says “Trump Gaza,” and money raining down with kids jumping up to grab it.
All the signs of what many would call the antichrist, yet the religious-right is convinced he’s their savior. He wants to turn Gaza into a Las Vegas style resort with his name plastered everywhere.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-posts-bizarre-ai-video-092545359.html
Under pressure, EU to take axe to green rules due to "Clean Industrial Deal"
submitted by https://slrpnk.net/u/solo
Will using non-gmail hurt my chance of getting hired?
submitted by https://lemmy.ml/u/umami_wasbi
I’m using Proton right now. Someone suggest I should get a Gmail instead for higher chance of success. Is that true? How risky is it for Google sanning those mails in terms of privacy?
L’Estonia scrive il futuro dell’istruzione: ChatGPT Edu in tutte le classi entro il 2025
submitted by https://poliversity.it/users/memento
L’Estonia scrive il futuro dell’istruzione: ChatGPT Edu in tutte le classi entro il 2025
"It will increase risks for the public" Bedfordshire Police bosses call for council to reconsider plans to slash community safety budget
submitted by https://feddit.uk/u/bedsnewsbot
Bedfordshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner and Chief Constable Trevor Rodenhurst have urged Central Bedfordshire Council to rethink their budget cut proposals as 10 safer neighbourhood officers would be lost if plans go ahead.
Christoph Hellwig Steps Down From One Of His Kernel Roles Following Rust Drama
submitted by https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/u/toothbrush
Mozilla is removing "Does Firefox sell your personal data?" in anticpation of ToS change
submitted by https://reddthat.com/u/e0qdk
https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/d459addab846d8144b61939b7f4310eb80c5470e
Watched The Fall Guy(2023)
submitted by https://sopuli.xyz/u/endeavor
My gf made me watch the Fall Guy, and to my surpise it was not about the video game and instead was about stuntmen.
It was a very stupid (in the best way) rom com with tons of fantastic stunts. It was a bit masturbatory but it was very entertaining. It’s one of those movies you feel like everyone involved had a good time.
Has anyone else seen it and if so what are your troughts?
Thai Con struggles
submitted by https://lemmy.world/u/python
Getting Thai Cons while being as bad with plants as I am was such a huge mistake haha
The first one I got in late September - it was a young but well established plant with 3 leaves - one of them already decently fenestrated! I kept it in my very dark living room with a rather sad little grow light and it started rotting basically right away.
In desperation, I tried moving it to LECA and a much brighter spot, which seemingly did more damage as I had been a bit rough on the roots as I was cleaning the soil and rotten stuff off.
By December, all roots had died off and the rot was starting to get to the stem :(
I was really worried about the stem getting affected, so I made the executive decision to split up the plant about a month ago. The smallest leaf had already died off earlier, so one leaf was left with the questionable stem while the top-cutting (that had been struggling to push a new leaf since November!!) got exactly one root node. All the root nodes left on the stem cutting had already grown and rotted away, so I wasn’t sure whether that one could be saved.
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I think it was the right call though! The top cutting is growing amazing new roots with no rot in sight (see header picture), while the stem cutting is unexpectedly pushing out some small new root buds!!
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My second Thai Con - which I got in November and put into LECA at the same time as the other one - HAD been looking good until recently, but I’m guessing I was a bit too enthusiastic when building that self-watering pole and now it looks like overwatering is getting to it.
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Or at least I’m hoping that the yellow leaves and the weird brown stuff on the back of the leaves is just overwatering and not some larger issue ;_;
Tiny fucking lock buttons you have to push piss me off
submitted by https://lemmy.ml/u/HotWheelsVroom
(in the style of AVGN’s YKWBS series)
You know what’s BULLLLLLLSHIT? Those tiny-ass door locks that you have to push to lock the door. Who designed these? They are seriously the worst fucking door locking mechanism I have ever seen in my entire life. You know how on most doors, especially bathroom doors, where they have dials that you turn to lock and unlock the door? Super convenient and easy to use. But those fucking tiny lock buttons you have to push are the complete opposite. These things are so poorly and horribly designed. They malfunction so fucking easily! They are these tiny little buttons right next to the doorknob that you, you guessed it, push to lock the door, and you have to turn the doorknob for the lock to be disengaged. These things are so prone to issues, it’s unreal! Sometimes, the goddamn lock refuses to deactivate after the doorknob is turned and actually gets jammed! So, you’ll have to fight with getting the fucker freed so the door can be properly used from the outside. But wait, that’s not all. Imagine if you lock the door with one of these things to go to the bathroom. I mean, no one wants to see you do your business! So, it would be logical to lock the door. And then, when you are done, you get out, and you shut the door behind you, thinking nothing of it, but behind your back, guess what? The fucking lock is still active! And you didn’t even notice it. And then, when you try to open the door again, you can’t! Congratulations, idiot! You just locked yourself out of the bathroom. And now, since you have no way of getting into the bathroom because of the shitty lock still being primed, your only hope? Pry open the door with elbow grease using random things from your home. No one wants to do this shit! It’s much extra work! Especially when you gotta go really bad! You can’t just afford to shit yourself, you gotta go take care of yourself! But the damn lock won’t fucking budge, no matter how hard you try and get the door loose! You try everything; screwdrivers, your whole body, pens, pencils, scissors, and everything else. No. Dice. The door won’t move a fucking inch. And then, you finally get in after like 30 or so minutes, and realize the goddamn lock was still turned on! How were you even supposed to know that? I’ve had this bullshit happen twice to me already with the bathroom door in my living room. Twice. Both times I had to pry the damn door open. The first time, I had to use a flyswatter, and the second? A god. Damn. Backscratcher. Yes! I am NOT kidding! I had to use a fucking BACKSCRATCHER to pry open a goddamn DOOR that wouldn’t budge! And it’s all because of this fucker. How are these things even allowed to be sold, let alone produced? They are so prone to getting stuck and jammed that there’s gonna be a shit-ton of incidents like this one! Why can’t all doors just have a goddamn dial lock like every other door out there? It’s such a laughably bad excuse of a door locking mechanism. It works fine except when it doesn’t want to. I can’t even fathom how often people have locked themselves out of their bathrooms, their rooms, or even their entire fucking homes due to these bastards. This is such garbage-ass design! These fucking things should be OUTLAWED! And you know the little “clink” sound that the lock makes after its been deactivated? Well, when it gets jammed, it makes no such noise. But, you don’t really think anything about it and shut the door when you’re out, and you end up unintentionally locking yourself out because of shitty-ass architecture! It doesn’t help that the doorknob on the outside can’t be moved for shit when the lock is active. So, if you lock yourself out due to one of these, you gotta pry the damn thing open to get back in. Those tiny buttons just feel so fucking cheaply made. I mean, I wouldn’t be surprised with how often they malfunction! It’s just a simple-ass door lock and it ends up fucking people over and cuasing them undue stress and loss of time for no reason. These things piss me the fuck off. Why did anyone think these door locks were a good idea? They’re not! Not even close! They all too often stop working correctly and require unjamming. I mean, what the fuck? These things need to be just flat-out banned across the enite goddamn country. Yeah, imagine if your fucking car had one of these! You’d be fucked! You wouldn’t even be able to get in your vehicle to drive. You wouldn’t be able to go to work, get gas, get groceries, anything! You’d be stuck with a fucking door that takes an eternity to get open if you have the strength and patience. But if not? Boom! Probably fired from your job. “Yeah, my car door is jammed!” “No excuses, fired”.
These tiny-ass door lock buttons existing is proof that we’ve failed as a society. And THAT… is BULLSHIT.
Judge gives Trump administration two days to release billions of dollars in blocked foreign aid
submitted by https://lemmy.world/u/MicroWave
Summary
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to release billions of dollars in blocked foreign aid within 48 hours, citing noncompliance with a 13-day-old court order.
The freeze, imposed by Trump’s Jan. 20 executive order, halted funding for USAID and State Department programs, affecting hundreds of millions of dollars owed to nonprofits and businesses.
The cutoff forced tens of thousands of layoffs and jeopardized critical aid projects. Despite the Feb. 13 ruling, no payments resumed.
This follows another case where a judge found the administration failed to unfreeze trillions in domestic grants and loans.
https://apnews.com/article/funding-freeze-usaid-trump-d592d015249934827e023c65e644c51a
Post on /r/RedditAlternatives explaining why Fediverse alternatives are the way to go. 253 points, 115 comments
submitted by https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/u/Blaze
What happens when I ignore the cookie preference dialogue on websites?
submitted by https://lemmy.world/u/zkfcfbzr
Does the GDPR define what the default behavior should be when the user refuses to specify? Does it vary by site? Is it like clicking either “Accept all” or “Reject all”?
