Auster

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wondering if running a single user Lemmy is an overkill⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  RSS's a big for me and had been considering originally using Mastodon + RSS Parrot. But though I don't like the UI of Friendica, its native tracker bot function sounds rather interesting. 👀

  Thinking here, the site engine I'd pick for daily use would probably be Mbin. But as I hear it is a bit of a processing hog, running it and a Friendica instance on the same device would maybe be too much for the device, so maybe I should buy another Raspberry Pi or some other SBC for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  @piratepost if it's on poliverso, then users from the "threadiverse" should be able to find it with !medmastodon. And iirc, communities/magazines/groups/channels on Mastodon can be treated as both hashtags, and as users, e.g. @medmastodon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wondering if running a single user Lemmy is an overkill⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Tangencial comment, but as I'd presume your instance is running on a Linux server (usually sites are), maybe check with ncdu (if available) which folders are the biggest?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wondering if running a single user Lemmy is an overkill⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Also on the images issue pointed by another user, maybe also see if Lemmy now has a solution for it, or if any of the alternatives do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wondering if running a single user Lemmy is an overkill⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe there's a way to import contents through federation? Just, if both run on the same hardware when doing it (possibly the new instance on a subdomain), both would run way slower.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wondering if running a single user Lemmy is an overkill⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Directly compatible with Lemmy, there's Friendica (Facebook-like; also compatible with Twitter-like posts e.g. from Mastodon), Mbin (simplified/cleaner UI; also hybrid like Friendica), and PieFed (apparently more Reddit-like than Lemmy from what I read, in a technical sense).

  Dunno which are better/worse to run, but I remember seeing hardware requirements on the docs of each of them.

  Also it's not uncommon to see single user instances from my experience. But if you feel it's a waste of domain/resources, you could also create some dedicated community or something to give further use for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rather than fully cracking down on scam ads, Meta worked to make them harder to find - Sherwood News⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This appears to be the whole article:

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intro to Pico-8?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  On Lexaloffle, under the web player of each game, there's a pink cartridge icon. The image that opens is the cartridge - download it and load onto your favorite emulator.

  Itchio also has a bunch of those games, and iirc they have a tag for PICO-8 games as well.

  Also also, iirc the cartridges can be converted to Android's native format. And I'd need to confirm, but maybe HTML too, which if possible, would probably let for the game to be run on JoiPlay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why You Should Never Use Pixelation To Hide Sensitive Text⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Checked the user's account. In lack of more info, it looks suspicious, as it only has a handful of posts, all article links, and no comments to show it's an actual human. Perhaps it is a bot grinding trust more slowly, to not be burned too quickly. Or maybe it's just an user that seldom logs in here.

  And borrowing this comment to opinate on the article itself, it still sounds relevant as the technologies the article's OP proposes only got more powerful. Bet now we can even use LLMs to do that, no coding or research needed on the attacker's side.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Throwing ideas out for lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry. I guess the miserable part sounded different than what I meant. I some times mix the meanings and usage of words, even in my mother language. That part was meant as an extension of the "be nice" part from a previous comment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Throwing ideas out for lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  About size, Lemmy and Kbin (RIP) were pretty slow 2~3 years ago. Now, even though I block most generalist, region-specific and news communities, I still struggle to keep track of my feed.

  And if someone tries to build something good as a job, I don't think this job of his should be turned miserable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Throwing ideas out for lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Also an idea that requires more patience, share posts from here to your contacts elsewhere. That's specially practical if it's some image post (like memes) and the platform has good link preview display.

  Also also, not ideal and much more of a slow process, but if someone from your contacts is on Threads or Bluesky, respectively suggest to him/her to activate ActivityPub integration, and suggest to follow Fedi Bridgy. Both would be microblogging-oriented, but there should be some degree of propagation from threaded posts over to microblogging platforms.

  Also³, as I suggested in a separated comment, integration between ActivityPub-compatible platforms varies depending on each engine involved, so in Lemmy for example, if something is seen as a channel, maybe people could seek to follow and interact with it too?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Throwing ideas out for lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  By the by, Peertube channels are treated as communities on the threadiverse, and iirc Wordpress blogs too (though I'd need to confirm that one), so maybe people could subscribe to such communities through their threadiverse accounts to help with engagement?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Throwing ideas out for lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Places like Lemmy, PieFed, Mbin and Friendica, the "threadiverse", from my understanding are slower to grow, as they are meant for specific niches.

  Places for microblogging (e.g. Mastodon) and for videos (Peertube, Loops) should be steadier to grow, the former for being more engagement oriented, and the latter as most popular video platforms end up discount-Youtube or TikTok, or even those two themselves, and specially for Youtube, every few months there appears to be a blunder that could incentivize migration.

  Also the amount of options to join in can be rather off-putting. Even if the person is hellbent on joining some server, if he/she stops to check the rules of each potential server instead of picking the biggest one, he/she's in for a long read.

  And about sharing Reddit content, a tip, Old Reddit has open RSS for communities and profiles and you could see if the Lemmit or Ibbit administrators would be willing to track more feeds on their instances.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Me llegó la nueva Revista Replay #55⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Han formas de hacerlo ads sin sonar como a un bot. Además, ¿quizás lo quiera cambiar la lengua al español en las configuraciones de su post?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux Kernel Rust Code Sees Its First CVE Vulnerability⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Surprised it took so long.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the best way to link to a podcast episode on the Fediverse?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
  1. Yet to play 2 and Third Birthday.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you find your favorite anime's fandom⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed 👌

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's kind of funny how many late 90s games had at least one drum and bass track⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My PS1 died today⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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

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