kazerniel
@kazerniel@lemmy.world
- Comment on Powdertoy: FOSS falling sand 2 days ago:
wow this is really fun!
- Comment on Adguard DNS: Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today 4 days ago:
I’m glad they posted about the background, I was one of the pissed users on their Github complaining about the sudden blocking of the 2nd largest archive site, that was unblocked by my UK ISP. (It didn’t emotionally help that as a paying AdGuard customer, I was spending money on a service that temporarily made my browsing experience worse.) Fortunately they managed to unblock it after a few days.
- Comment on Uh oh: Ubisoft postpones its quarterly financial report at the last minute and halts stock trading 4 days ago:
Hmm sadly that’s a very different gameplay to Just Dance, here’s an example. In JD they record dancers with motion capture, and you need to follow that choreography, while the game tracks your accuracy with a phone, console controller, or camera.
So it needs a bigger production team than FLOSS indies can probably manage :c
- Comment on Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin 4 days ago:
- Thanks, I’ll check Winboat and Winapps out! My existing info came from the WineHQ website, and InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop were all reported as various levels of broken. And yes, sadly the FLOSS alternatives don’t meet my needs, I did quite a bit of research on this a few months ago.
- I guess some of it is habit, kernel-level anti-cheat has been a thing as long as I’ve been gaming, so it feels “normal” :| But I’m looking forward to the day when my favourite games won’t use it!
- Not using it regularly, but when I do need it, I extremely strongly prefer GUIs to CLI. I’m just a visual person, so it feels important to be able to navigate in a visible interface and see “where I am” and what my actions are affecting. With CLI I find it quite stressful to e.g. have to memorise modifier letters, instead of just clicking a checkbox. I’ve seen screenshots of people doing everything (including PKM) in CLI and it honestly baffles me how they can feel comfortable with it.
Just saying, it is constantly evolving and most of the road blocks are out-dated or hinge on reliance on some other big tech company besides microsoft that is just as far down the enshittification rabbit-hole. It is not a decision you made once and have to keep living with. None of us swore a life-debt to our “team”. :)
Of course! Make no mistake, I feel no affection towards any corporation, their main goal is to bleed us dry for their shareholders. But giving up my fully featured software and favourite games to follow my FLOSS ideals does not seem to quite balance the scales for me yet.
Though disclaimer: if I wasn’t doing piracy, but actually had to pay for Microsoft and Adobe’s rent-seeking, and be subject to all their bullshit restrictions, I would probably have jumped ship years ago. Enterprise group policies can remove a lot of user-hostile crap from Windows.
- Comment on Uh oh: Ubisoft postpones its quarterly financial report at the last minute and halts stock trading 5 days ago:
The only Ubi game I play is Just Dance Now. Sadly I can’t think of a non-Ubi alternative to that gameplay :/
- Comment on Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin 5 days ago:
Yeah, I have like a dozen colleagues between 25-60 and I can think of maybe 2 that have a PC outside of their work laptops. And those are both gamers.
- Comment on Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin 5 days ago:
Which is why Windows 7 is the best operating system microsoft has, and seemingly will, ever produce.
hear hear!
- Comment on Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin 5 days ago:
I’m not sure why some people still refuse to consider using an alternative to windows these days.
- Adobe programs
- some online games
- not having to fuck around in CLI if I want to change obscure settings (e.g. regedit or group policies)
Those are the main points that keep me from switching.
- Comment on Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin 5 days ago:
this phrasing had to be intentional xD no social media worker can be this clueless
- Comment on God ****** dammit, here we go again 1 week ago:
Yeah, I left LastPass after like 15 years when I’ve come across some news headlines that it had got breaches more than once while I was using it O.o
Been a happy user of Bitwarden for a couple years now. I love that little “copy custom field name” function, so I don’t have to go hunting around in the HTML code if a site is using weird field names.
- Comment on God ****** dammit, here we go again 1 week ago:
for anyone who doesn’t get the reference, it’s an ancient Bash chatlog: knowyourmeme.com/memes/hunter2
- Comment on God ****** dammit, here we go again 1 week ago:
I share my Bitwarden account among 4 browser profiles on 2 PC-s.
- Comment on FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site 1 week ago:
Wayback Machine lets you select snapshots in a calendar without thumbnails, which is better for navigating among a large number of snapshots, while Archive.today shows a chronological dump of thumbnails, which is better for noticing visible changes.
Archive.today is better at getting through paywalls, the Wayback Machine doesn’t really do this.
And while not a functional difference, but imho quite important: The Wayback Machine is ran by a 100+ employee non-profit registered in the USA, which lends it quite a bit of legal and financial stabilitym but also subjects it to official oversight/censorship, while Archive.today is ran by a single mysterious dude who carefully hides his identity and we know nothing about what money the site is financed from. Both financial security and resistance to censorship can be useful attributes to an online archive, but I have more trust in the Wayback Machine being online in 10 or 20 years, than Archive.today.
- Comment on Controversial startup's plan to 'sell sunlight' using giant mirrors in space would be 'catastrophic' and 'horrifying,' astronomers warn 1 week ago:
Capitalism is at it again 🤦 What are they selling next? Air?
- Comment on Is Kagy web browser worth it? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been using Ecosia for a few months now and sadly that’s my experience too. For mainstream stuff it gives good results, but once I search for obscure phrases or god forbid another language, it often just completely gives up and doesn’t show a single result. It pains me to say that I more reliably get usable results from Google’s Web search (so with the AI crap removed) than from Ecosia with Google set as its results provider.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 3 weeks ago:
this extension seemingly only lists third party DRM.
That could be the case! Unfortunately I can’t see any documentation about it on their website or github repo.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 3 weeks ago:
I’m playing with mouse and keyboard, so not sure that’s possible with the Android version.
I saw a Linux Genshin launcher on github a while ago, but iirc it carries some ban risk that I don’t want to expose my account to.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know of a bulk tool, but the Augmented Steam browser extension shows a DRM warning above the purchase button when you go on a game’s Steam store page.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 3 weeks ago:
And many games haven’t been assessed either. I plug my Steam account into ProtonDB, and apparently 51% of my games can be made to run perfectly on Linux, 10% are various levels of broken, but the remaining 39% has no information. I guess it’s because I have many indie games in my library.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 3 weeks ago:
The only thing I want to say is that the “10%” that don’t work are usually pretty popular.
Yeah, like I’m glad Linux support is increasing among games, but my main daily driver game (Genshin) still doesn’t support it 🤷 And I don’t think Hoyoverse will be spending work on Linux support when they are raking in so much cash from their mostly mobile playerbase. From what I can see Linux userbase hovers around 0.3% in China, and that’s Hoyo’s main market.
- Comment on mercy merci 3 weeks ago:
website
this is such a cute idea 🥹 now I imagine them running little Wordpress blogs
- Comment on Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors 4 weeks ago:
Agreed, despite its faults, Wikipedia/Wikimedia is one of the most ethical organisations I know of, to a large degree because of how much average users can take part in its various decision-making processes. Most of its bureaucratic processes happen in the open - I sometimes enjoy reading through 15-years-old discussions about why/if a certain page should be deleted or a certain user banned.
- Comment on Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors 4 weeks ago:
That’s a good point, scary to think that there are people growing up now for whom LLMs are the default way of accessing knowledge.
- Comment on Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors 4 weeks ago:
They have no desire or intention to use AI in a way that directly effects the information on the site, how it’s presented to visitors or to use it in a way that would manipulate how articles are edited.
To be fair in June they tried to introduce AI-generated “simple summaries” to articles, but the editor community was so vehemently against it, that in the end they shelved the idea.
- Comment on Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors 4 weeks ago:
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
I understand the donors aspect, but I don’t think anyone who is satisfied with AI slop would bother to improve wiki articles anyway.
- Comment on one bright second 4 weeks ago:
Reminds me of that Kurzgesagt video about Optimistic Nihilism:
“Close your eyes. Count to 1. That’s how long forever feels.”
- Comment on one bright second 4 weeks ago:
Nope, I think humanity will be long gone by then, so it doesn’t really matters what happens after that.
- Comment on i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too 5 weeks ago:
Got the same in the UK, had to disable uBlock for Cloudflare to let me through.
- Comment on wax on 5 weeks ago:
Yea, I’m vegan, so I’m mindful of milk and honey (and yes, they’re disgusting), just never really thought about what process wax exactly came from.
- Comment on wax on 5 weeks ago:
I never thought about it, but beeswax is kinda disgusting, basically ass-grease :P