ithas

@ithas@artemis.camp

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the name of this type of image⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Slightly off-topic but recently I saw a bunch of these under the rayshader tag on mastodon, seems like https://fosstodon.org/@terence posts a lot of them if you want to check some out

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Last Week in Fediverse #37 - The Fediverse Report⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  To get an impression of the direction they will be taking, their Lemmy post discussing the archetypes of people who might use PostFreely.

  This sentence sort of reads like there was a link expected to be in it, but I could be mistaken. I think I found it here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As of right now, firefish.social has been down for nearly 2 days upgrading and changing databases, as their data migration is taking longer than expected. 🤞⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  To add to scytale's description, it's a fork of misskey that was formerly known as calckey

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"They don’t care": Inside the triumphs and failures of accessible gaming hardware⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is quite the in-depth article on the topic, I might have to read through it a few times to digest it all.

  One thing I was going to point out was I definitely see benefit to working on software changes where possible to save the cost of needing specialized equipment. The article does cover this

  Holden cites Sea of Thieves’ addition of 'single stick' controls, where any swashbuckling and/or plundering can be performed using a single thumbstick

  I was going to mention PSO2: NGS which has a single button to cast any spells based on what might be best for that situation (maybe one of the few things I liked about that game...). Definitely would like to see more of that. I also play FF14 and read a theory that the devs there consider button bloat a game feature, so whenever they simplify one skill (by making it a single button) they have to split another skill by making it multiple instead, which I find really unfortunate, I have a disabled friend who has trouble playing much due to the mass amount of skills.

  And yea, definitely a good idea to donate to charity. SpecialEffect is listed which has always been in the Yogscast Jingle Jam charity event at the end of the year. Assuming they have one this year, might be a good idea to send some money their way or to other relevant charities for people who can do so

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky sees record signups day after Musk says X will go paid-only⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I found this which has registrations and posts for mastodon / fediverse over hour / day / week / month but it breaks it out by instances so can be a bit difficult to tell overall. Here's mastodon in the last 7 days for example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don’t throw out those used coffee grounds—use them for 3D printing instead⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, what? I need more information. You probably mean loose leaf but I guess you could just cut open a used bag? But surely that's like, one bag a month or something. I drink like 6 cups of tea a day, how long does it take before you can add more? (I had this problem with composting when I learned I could add like a small peel per week and I was like... I generate 10x that per day.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Cyberpunk 2077 clawed its way back from disaster to complete one of the greatest redemption arcs in gaming history⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The article does a good job of summarizing everything they changed and improvements, but I feel like the headline is sort of leaving off a "... after reducing scope". For instance, the multiplayer mode that had been announced before launch. I also think I read they planned on multiple DLCs but they reduced that down to just this one? Regardless all my friends seem to enjoy the game so I'm sure it's a fun game to play

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Collectively, Lemmy has a substantive comment issue⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  One thing I've been told in the past is that with public voting records you at least get an idea of if brigading is happening, where it's coming from etc. Though maybe that's just a giant list of randomly generated usernames but if it's coming from a single instance there are at least actions to take from that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FTC fails to redact Microsoft document, revealing an old Bethesda release schedule⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It also says FY which I assume means Fiscal Year. It seems like Microsoft's fiscal years end in June and start in July based on browsing a few investor pages (like this one saying fourth quarter ended in June)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is "Burn Notice" worth watching?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on if gaining a yogurt eating habit is defined as being a better person or not xP

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instance Protectionism in the Threadiverse happens because of the Prisoner’s Dilemma (protecting one's own instance is currently more sensible than increasing overall discussion quality)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I do think your heart is in the right place trying to find and discuss engagement issues in the threadiverse. That's obviously been a common complaint people have posted about and I can see you believe strongly about this.

  I think I just disagree with the issue at hand, or at least that there is a single one and that this solves it. To give an anecdotal example: I make a post around every day on kbin.social that gets 0 likes, 0 dislikes, and 0 comments, in other words no engagement. You might say this is due to it being difficult to find! Well, it actually is! So much so because it doesn't even federate out to lemmy.world, lemm.ee, fedia.io, etc. I check remote instances and my posts never federate anywhere. If you look at my profile from your instance, lemmy.world, it would seem I barely have any posts, but on my home one I have quite a few.

  This is just one example of course, but from my perspective, the major issues we have right now are technical ones, and I'd like to see those fixed before trying to focus on social ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instance Protectionism in the Threadiverse happens because of the Prisoner’s Dilemma (protecting one's own instance is currently more sensible than increasing overall discussion quality)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Mastodon solved this with an Explore-Feed, which consolidates the Local- and All-Feed

  Can you please explain what that means for non-mastodon users. As far as I know about lemmy, which granted isn't much, local posts are not hidden from all, meaning it already is a consolidated local and all feed.

  Personally, I didn't agree with your previous post and I don't agree with this. I believe instance owners can run their instance however they wish, they're the ones paying and maintaining it. If it's not suited to your tastes, there are other places to look at. If an instance wants to federate with no one or hide all remote posts or anything, that is there choice to run the software that way. People aren't locked in jail cells making decisions with no information of the outside world. Nor are the defaults they set locked either, I just bookmark "hot" and "sub" and go to those every time, regardless of what the homepage has set.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CAPTAIN I PROPOSE WE EJECT THE CORE IMMEDIETLY⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  8:00 almost slipped by me there

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 - Official 2023 Announcement Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Neither of those had any NPCs, did they? I'm not familiar with Dear Esther but from looking it up it says you just explore environments, and I remember Everybody's Gone to the Rapture having like, vague humanoid models but I don't recall them being animated, could be wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NASA moon orbiter spots crash site of Russia's failed Luna-25 lander (photos)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It's really impressive to me they were, assuming correct, able to pinpoint this on a celestial body from estimates.