Auster

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux Kernel Rust Code Sees Its First CVE Vulnerability⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Surprised it took so long.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the best way to link to a podcast episode on the Fediverse?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  If your podcasts have an RSS feed, you can set a bot to share them. Apparently you can configure that natively on Friendica for thread-based posts, and on Mastodon you can ping @birb with the feed link for it to create a bot account for that feed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My PS1 died today⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
  1. Yet to play 2 and Third Birthday.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you find your favorite anime's fandom⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Unsure if the second phrase is implying to anything, but tried engaging with communities for same topics before accross different sites and can agree, they can behave rather differently from each other for a same subject.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would this be possible with the fediverse?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  GOG's site has no ties to ActivityPub, but one element from there may facilitate building on that idea.

  There, they have a review system, but it's not locked to only buyers. As long as the page for a game, DLC, etc. is up, you can leave a review. And as a way to mitigate voting manipulation, you as an user can filter by owner reviews specifically (and iirc, filters are saved in the browser's session so you don't need to change all the time).

  Now, into ActivityPub, two store projects exist that I know, Bandwagon and Flohtmarkt, respectively trying to mimic Bandcamp and Facebook Marketplace's experiences. Unsure how they federate their contents or how they work internally as I haven't tested them yet, but if a product listing gets propagated as a post to other social medias, people could comment on them. But if internally they can check who owns the product of the given listing, they could do so to filter out all non-owner comments.

  And furthermore, borrowing ideas from yet another store, the smut manga store Fakku allows people to comment on product listings, and optionally leave a rating along with the comment. Again, if either Bandwagon and Flohtmarkt have a way to check ownership, or if another ActivityPub-compatible store engine is released which then could have such check, maybe the store/engine could make the rating part locked out from non-buyers.

  And lastly, engine-specific functions don't seem far-fetched. From what I read, PieFed has things like community migration and Reddit-like flairs, Misskey has pretty powerful client-sided CSS capabilities, Mbin mixes microblogging and threads pretty organically, Minds, Wafrn and to an extent Friendica connect to multiple protocols, and Peertube feels like its own thing. So such proposed ideas, if not already applied, are within the realm of possibility.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's kind of funny how many late 90s games had at least one drum and bass track⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed 👌

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's kind of funny how many late 90s games had at least one drum and bass track⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Haven't played many late 90's games, but I remember FFVII's Cosmo Canyon having a quite unique track in that sense, and Parasite Eve's opening being quite on the bass side.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I'm not its target audience (not much of movies fan), but considering I made sheets for similar uses for music and games, it makes me think:

  • couldn't it be fully offline? More reassurance of no data collection and it should keep being useful virtually forever, specially if physical media and DRM-free movies and series get traction.
  • instead of an LLM, why not a local database with a tag or like/dislike system, with the system having a bit of randomness for suggestions to have an algorithm?
  • in line with the first point, if an LLM is a must, why not have a local one trained specifically on movies and series?
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Evidence That Humans Now Speak in a Chatbot-Influenced Dialect Is Getting Stronger⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So... What about autistic people sounding like LLMs before LLMs were a thing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My PS1 died today⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Been quite a few years since I last dug in the subject, but from what I remember, Sony used for the PS1 an emulator called "POPS", and Sony up to the Vita added hardware from the previous generation into the new console, but I don't remember any mentions of them adding hardware further than a single generation.

  And a surprise to me, but apparently according to this wiki (cw: Fandom), the PS3 used some degree of emulation even for the PS2. Rather curious as to run PS2 games, the PS3 boots into a PS2 mode, which feels almost like a dual boot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My PS1 died today⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Finished Parasite Eve that way. The final challenge without save states was... interesting.

  Just worth noting Sony's PS1 emulator is historically unstable with certain games. FFV, for example, if you play the black label release, the save screen has some issue (maybe a memory leak?) that makes the whole game utterly freeze, and that the further you are into the game, the more unstable that screen gets (meanwhile in the PSP with a dump of the same disc, iirc the graphics in the save screen just get increasingly corrupted)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My PS1 died today⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Rereading, one part of what I said wasn't clear: Emulators themselves you should be able to find for PC and phones. And if on PC, you should be able to play directly from the disc drive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My PS1 died today⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Respect for the soldier fallen after so long in combat 🫡

  Also if you still want to play the game and wouldn't mind doing so on another device, iirc the PS2 can run natively PS1 games, any of the PS3 models can for sure (it's different from the PS2 compatibility from the PS3), you can convert the game to run on the PSP and/or Vita, and there are emulators that have their own solutions to not need BIOS files.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for HDMI 'dongle' that has a manual disconnect button, so that I don't have to continuously unplug my HDMI cord and plug it back into my TV.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe some form of connection switch so you can toggle it? Seen some as levers before.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hadn't heard of it, but also I don't usually play mods. Also for my franchise mentality, I don't consider mods as part of a given one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Half-Life. Playing since I finished both Portal games, and when I start a game, I consider I started its franchise, and thus I feel in the obligation to finish the whole franchise. And although I am no fan of FPS games, and HL's being quite hard, it's somehow being one of my favorite yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Federated wiki software?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I see the last update was in may. Should it be source of concern?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone know if the Ayugram (Telegram client fork) team is at all shady?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  First time hearing about it. Does the team at least make the source code available? If not, I'd stay away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What game is a guilty pleasure of yours?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  defeats the dawn of souls final boss, phrekyos and deumion with the art of slapping

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What game is a guilty pleasure of yours?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Final Fantasy II - not Cecil's, but Firion's. If I could see people's faces in FF circles when I say that, I bet they'd be looking at me weird. e.e"

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  @fuat2mb Personally, I like the idea of instances exclusive for testing out.

  Also Mastodon allows the user to point to his/her new account, so migrating, for outsiders, doesn't too far fetched to implement elsewhere if desired. And Mastodon and Lemmy (at least) allow exporting the user's data, so also not reinventing the wheel there. And the idea of an instance made for testing out could be set up just like that, on an instance basis, so no need to change fundamental functionalities of a given forum engine.

  Two things I'd propose, though, first to not allow new magazines/communities to be created by non-admin/moderators as to not have derelict ones once the allowed usage period ends, and to have some level of control on people subscribing to avoid bots.

  And regarding the usage period, I wonder if a moderator bot could be set up to automatically lock a given account after it, only allowing to log in to get the aforementioned export data (if that is to be implemented).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japanese court orders Cloudflare to pay ¥500 million over manga piracy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds quite dystopian, setting a precedent for either (or both) the host being considered accomplice for any wrongdoings of any third parties, and/or inducing hosting companies to become informal polices. And it comes in quite a curious time, when the EU is trying to push for chat control, some US states are trying to push for AI surveillance cameras, Brazil passed a law that requires apps to do facial recognition, GrapheneOS is being targeted by French news media, and all those using potential crimes and cherry-picking cases to justify.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for an Itch Recommendation?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If I am thinking of the same Animal Crossing and Journey as you mean, neither are on Itchio.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for an Itch Recommendation?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not games with progress tracking usually, but Playnite and PICO-8 games on Itchio that I found are usually more chill and possible to play in short sessions. Just not sure how to play them on phone if that's needed.

  Also as more standard games, LYNE and Codemancer I quite liked, and both puzzle games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looks like now Mbin, at least on mobile, mixes threads and microblog posts⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Photos appear fine though? And I rarely see threads with videos attached so don't think those would appear on a quick check anyways.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looks like now Mbin, at least on mobile, mixes threads and microblog posts⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I see. Thanks. Asked because I needed it to test something, but luckily it appeared in a magazine's page. =)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looks like now Mbin, at least on mobile, mixes threads and microblog posts⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Like this in the respective tab of the dashboard (the menu the 3 gears icon from UbO open):

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looks like now Mbin, at least on mobile, mixes threads and microblog posts⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  On a magazine it appeared, so using it as basis:

  Threads appear as articles in the page's source code. Microblog posts appear as blockquote.
  So you should be able to hide them, at least with Ublock Origin, with domain_from_the_instance##blockquote, e.g. for mine, thebrainbin.org##blockquote.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looks like now Mbin, at least on mobile, mixes threads and microblog posts⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you change anything for the posts to appear combined? For me it only loads on phone.