Auster

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ghost of Lemm.ee?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Deleted my comment because you said it better.

  And an addendum to this behavior, dunno how aggressive Piefed and Lemmy are for pulling information, but I've noticed interactions keep making posts and the skeleton of the community propagate/federate.

  And though the search function can't pull posts from when the instance was active, it can pull comments to those posts and that are from still active instances, which then pulls a skeleton of the post and of the community.

  And though rarer, in fediverse softwares that allow following, doing so to someone that interacts with older posts also helps pulling these derelict posts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Genshin Memepact ani.social community has been created⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Community mention, which should be instance-agnostic: !genshinmemepact

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Austrian watchdog orders Microsoft to stop tracking schoolchildren in Microsoft 365 Education⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A ruling without consequences, or with negligible ones, has no value, so if MS insists on doing it, what the Austrian authority will do remains to be seen.

  Also, how would Microsoft know which of their users to not track? At some point they ask the age? Genuine questions, since I never used MS 365.

  And if they don't take the age, it further makes me think, how would they? It would sound to me like those censorious laws multiple countries in quick sucession are trying to pass, and coincidentally with similar excuses, "protecting the children".

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox's AI Kill Switch Lands in Firefox Nightly, Slated for Firefox 148⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I've always seen "kill switch" being used in a negative tone, so with how the headline is written, it sounded like some AI feature that could kill the browser itself was implemented.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Final Fantasy III, IV, VIII and IX are now available on GOG⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Played it some years ago. Story felt to be a lot on the weak side, but in retrospect, the gameplay was superb. =D

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Final Fantasy III, IV, VIII and IX are now available on GOG⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Being made officially DRM-free would allow pushing back to the notion ownership though. Piracy however, is just more ammunition for companies to take away that notion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In line of SEO, it makes me think, with how the fediverse works, it could end up being a search engine of its own. Including, I may add, for external contents as tracking bots are made. Quite an interesting realization.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VideoAfter 3 decades, the MS-DOS game 'Star Quest 1 in the 27th Century' is back, updated and free!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Checking on it. If someone's willing to suggest it to them, they have a section in the FAQ commenting about contributions.

• VideoAfter 3 decades, the MS-DOS game 'Star Quest 1 in the 27th Century' is back, updated and free!old.reddit.com ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok, but as I tried to say right next, still that sounds like a tangent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean Epic the storefront, not the umbrella company, as the "company" in my original quote. If we are to be pedantic, there is also Epic the game publisher.

  Also Rocket League was bought by EGS and turned exclusive after it already had a following, so the numbers for it seem kinda artificial. Though that and Fortnite would also fall in the publisher branch from what I understand.

  The storefront itself is seldom news-worth, except for the freebies and that time they added a shopping cart with a few years of delay. And their freebies strategy seems to not be working out as EGS has yet to see a profit from some recent news.

  Then comes Tim, that if I had to guess, is trying to dig any resentments people have with Steam to try to bring its userbase to EGS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨De-Escalating Social Media⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Could swear it had the extra B, but it stems from "mob", yeah.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨De-Escalating Social Media⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally, I don't like it because of the reason it would need be needed in the first place, mobbying against those that would find it useful.

  I think those that partake mobbying should be exposed and sued. And who knows, amid the process, maybe the suer could find out multiple of these accounts belonging to the same IP or even ID. And then, after some successful legal actions, mobbying should shrink a lot if not stop altogether.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was almost forgetting Tim's whole deal seems to be antagonizing more successful companies than his.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft to disable NTLM by default in future Windows releases⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  NTLM (short for New Technology LAN Manager) is a challenge-response authentication protocol introduced in 1993 with Windows NT 3.1 and is the successor to the LAN Manager (LM) protocol.

  Kerberos has superseded NTLM and is now the current default protocol for domain-connected devices running Windows 2000 or later. While it was the default protocol in older Windows versions, NTLM is still used today as a fallback authentication method when Kerberos is unavailable, even though it uses weak cryptography and is vulnerable to attacks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A look at Moltbook, a social network where OpenClaw assistants interact autonomously, as they discuss consciousness and identity, technical tips, and more⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If I am successfully sifting through the text, it sounds like Computer x Computer battles in Ultimate Ninja 5 for the PS2. Basically, they were fun to watch the first 2 times, then would grow boring and bland, and I'd pick the controller again to go back to playing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Pixelfed an extra network and not just a Mastodon client?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The way I understand it, no one should deal with those they don't want to, and that's best done bilaterally than having to deal with the choices of a central governance. And ActivityPub should go by this principle. Instances decide if they want relations with other instances. Users decide if they want relations with other users, communities, tags, and instances. If a given instance does something the user doesn't like, the user can pick another instance without inhering the choices of the previous, but still being able to access the environment and choose whom to deal with.

  Also, in a process, whatever it may be, it's the point that more parts depend on that if it fails, the more damage happens. While AT Protocol's PDS system helps lowering stress on specific instances, the tendency is to have only a handful few, as "they already do all the job", so if a PDS node fails, more strain goes to the others, if the site owner chose or remembered to put back up nodes. Meanwhile, if an instance dies on ActivityPub, just a small part of the environment dies, but even posts from that dead instance may keep propagating. It's a situation of safety versus server optimization, I'd say.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whats the best alternative to twitch and youtube?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hardware prices are weird. From what I follow and followed of companies like GOG and ZP, older games usually have their source codes lost because storage was way too expensive and so older code versions were deleted, that around the 80's~90's. And observing cycles, I also notice one where storage becomes cheaper and holding more data with the same space, followed by big industry players kicking the bucket about storage optimization, then rinse and repeat. But now at least, I feel like there's potential for it to be mitigated, as everyone with access to a forum or some other form of social media has the potential to give their opinions, including regarding this ups and downs cycle, and so reverberating even in those that in decades prior could not even notice the tendency.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whats the best alternative to twitch and youtube?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think Peertube is the best, not immediately but in potential. Given that, I'd suggest sticking around, interacting, making contents yourself and sharing stuff from there with your friends, so the environment gets traction and so those interested in improving the engine, the environment or just doing the same you did for traction, gravitate towards.

  Personally, I'd say it's the same as people saying Lemmy wouldn't go anywhere when Spez was going coo-coo some years ago. While Lemmy itself is more or less stagnant, it was a good kickstart then. And now, from what I saw in statistics some weeks back, comments are increasing on the "threadiverse" even if posts are slowly decreasing, which afaik is a better sign of organic growth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World Police⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Now it's quite a meandering description :v

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Final Fantasy on GOG⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ooooooooooooooooooooooh

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

  Ah, I see. Sorry for misinterpreting it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Since you mention "without backwards compatibility", I guess you are preparing your own installers to run the game. If so, try to look if there are any known issues between the PS3's emulator and the game, and if there are, look for the patch to inject when creating the installer. And if you're running CFW, iirc you just need to place the patch file in the same folder as the ISO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Played it before. Most non-horror horror game I've played yet. Pretty good though.

  Also the extra scene at the ending from the remaster is very sweet, pun intended.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nothing picked yet. Long weeks, those past few. ;-;

  Maybe I'll play Eternal Arcadia Legend or some other GC game. Finishing franchises is fine and all, but the mood for starting something new is growing along the need to game. =)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Neocities deindexed from Bing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So, going by the blog post, the entire domain got sanctioned due to a few (proportionally speaking) malicious domains?

  If so, wtf 💩

  Also, for things like this, I'd suggest linking to sites one uses (Neocities or otherwise) between one's friends and followers so discovery of sites flow through the chain of trust. Not as fast discoverable, but avoids algorhithm decisions like this, or shadow ban, or ill-intended sites paying to appear higher, or so on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spent more time looking for a game than actually playing one? Help me test Gamescovery, a recommendation engine built for your actual taste.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When you add such login options, I mean.

  Although, in this idea of leveraging public APIs, maybe database sites have them too? In all such cases, you could probably also already import useful stuff like tags, ignoring what's redundant and thus lessening the load on both your server and the API's server.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spent more time looking for a game than actually playing one? Help me test Gamescovery, a recommendation engine built for your actual taste.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can't test now, but an idea: as afaik EGS, GOG and Steam all have public APIs, maybe pull games to your internal database based on what is in the accounts of people joining in? As people likely have kilometric backlogs, it should already be useful for them, and it should help lessening the initial load as you wouldn't need to pull what probably is past 100k+ unique titles all at once.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix Animation Studios are now funding Blender development⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if they don't absorb Blender, who pays chooses the restaurant, adapting a local saying. The more a company or coordinated group injects moneys into a project, the more of a saying they have in the developments of that project.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chinese propaganda is rampant on the fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn't say necessarily China controlled. Social engineering is great for making people replicate the engineering without noticing.

  But indeed I notice a lot of posts that benefit China since I joined in some years back (thanks Spez), specially in news and country-specific communities.