Auster
@Auster@thebrainbin.org
I still prefer *bin over Lemmy for the UI and the domain-blocking feature, even with Lemmy having post-hiding features. 🙂
- Comment on Anyone know if the Ayugram (Telegram client fork) team is at all shady? 2 days 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? 4 days 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? 4 days 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 1 week 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 1 week 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? 1 week 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? 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago:
On a magazine it appeared, so using it as basis:
Threads appear as
articlesin the page's source code. Microblog posts appear asblockquote.
So you should be able to hide them, at least with Ublock Origin, withdomain_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 1 week ago:
Did you change anything for the posts to appear combined? For me it only loads on phone.
- Comment on Looks like now Mbin, at least on mobile, mixes threads and microblog posts 1 week ago:
I don't see anything on either https://thebrainbin.org/#settings or https://thebrainbin.org/settings/general, and on desktop it isn't loading combined for me so I can't test Ublock Origin filters either.
- Comment on Looks like now Mbin, at least on mobile, mixes threads and microblog posts 1 week ago:
Using Mastodon, it's a similar behavior there, and equally mildly annoying. Least bad in that sense imo is Misskey, as when the post is a reply, the one it replies to is partially loaded, though Misskey has so much visual noise it is disorienting in other ways.
- Comment on Looks like now Mbin, at least on mobile, mixes threads and microblog posts 1 week ago:
Ye. Back when I used Feeder (some Android RSS reader), it was a similar struggle as each feed loads their data differently and I would try to find the least bad of the display modes.
- Comment on Looks like now Mbin, at least on mobile, mixes threads and microblog posts 1 week ago:
Pinned and appears globally, I mean, which after a reload now also appears on mobile:
- Comment on Looks like now Mbin, at least on mobile, mixes threads and microblog posts 1 week ago:
Dunno at what moment they pinned it, but it appears on my instance:
https://thebrainbin.org/m/mbinReleases@gehirneimer.de/t/1213265/v1-9-0-rc1-Mbin-v1-9-0-Release-Candidate-1 - Submitted 1 week ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 27 comments
- Comment on The Fediverse and WordPress Should Be Better Friends, with Evan Prodromou 1 week ago:
I think proposals like Bridgy Fed and Minds.com are better, bridges run by independent groups, instead of changes being forced onto the underlying engine. When the latter is done, devs need to make changes based on the smallest common denominator, slowing or even halting individual development of environments. Bridges at least are developed adjacent to multiple environments instead of having to change fundamentals.
- Comment on Sliced off the tip of my thumb, what are some good one handed games? 3 weeks ago:
Have never thought about it so dunno how awkward it'd be, but maybe NES and SNES turn-based RPGs? Quite like Mystic Quest out of them, Final Fantasy on easy mode pretty much but pretty chill and enjoyable imo.
Would recommend also hasicontent, Slipways Classic and Dust Bunny, all for PICO-8 and on Itchio, and those I think that'd be more feasible one-handed. Also Final Fantasy II for the PSP specifically as it's the most feature complete version, and this one iirc is feasible with one hand.
Also more feasible and native to Android if that's your phone system, Chloe Playtime (Google Play), Codemancer (Itchio), Deeper Down Dungeons (Google Play), Quest of Dungeons (Google Play, Humble Bundle, Itchio), REDDEN (dunno if still distributed anywhere) and Tyrant's Blessing (Google Play).
And don't remember any, but if there's any game compatible, maybe also check stuff playable on ScummVM, Joiplay, and other similar projects?
Anyways, hope you get well soon, fellow stranger!
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to retrogaming@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark 3 weeks ago:
Haven't checked the news itself, but been following the hardware surveys from Valve for some years now, and on average, Linux is on a slow but constant growth. Also, been checking US's official analytics site every now and then for some months now, and there, Linux oscilates between 3 and 6% of users per system.
- Comment on What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint? 3 weeks ago:
Final Fantasy XII is pretty high up there for me.
Bestiary entries are vast, almost a book in game format, and most add to lot of worldbuilding even if not needed for the main plot itself.
Also bosses, sidequests, enviromental cues seldom aren't at least hinted by a few NPCs often dozens of hours before they're relevant.
Overall details are often explained when you look in the right corners of the game. Even some weird weather cycles seem to have some logic applied. And in a single case, it felt inspired by a real-world element, one even Mad Max 4 used a cut in the beginning.
And I wonder if the sky-gazing kid in one of the airships that says she saw something in the sky was referring to Deathgaze or the continent from Revenant Wings....
- Comment on What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint? 3 weeks ago:
One detail that held to me the strongest is the characters' talking patterns. It feels like dialogues were written in another language and then converted to English. The strongest example I think was the lady that gives the Knight flowers for delivering, which also is added to, iirc, being at least implied she is one of the oldest creatures in Hallownest.
- Comment on Recommend that new users join geographically local instances 4 weeks ago:
When I think a regional community could be good:
If the user doesn't speak English, or if neither the one recommending nor the one interested know what the latter wants.
And in the second case, a generalist instance like Lemmy.World or Mastodon.Social could be a good pick too.
- Comment on Recommend that new users join geographically local instances 4 weeks ago:
If the user likes none of the regional instances he/she knows of, should the user recommend things he/she doesn't like?
Similarly, some instances have more clear-cut niches. If the user finds such an instance to be a good recommendation to someone interested in the fediverse, should he/she avoid it if it's too far physically from the interested user?
- Comment on How can i legally buy a game for a child? 4 weeks ago:
Iirc, GOG staffers consider ok to let people from a same household to use an user's games. But you can confirm that in their official channels, and as you already have an account on GOG by the way you wrote, you can post and comment in their forums too, where staffers often lurk.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 13 comments
- Comment on Missed opportunity for Oneshot to come to GOG? 4 weeks ago:
If just for the sake of having it DRM free, if/while GOG doesn't pick it, it's on Itchio too
- Comment on Looking for bot-friendly Lemmy instances/communities for RSS reposting 4 weeks ago:
Strays a bit from what you asked so ignored if not welcomed, but in case it helps, or in case there's a way to have microblogging posts appear on Lemmy:
Sending RSS feeds to bots such as @birb or @owner should give a bot profile to follow a given feed's updates. And both should be usable from pretty much any Mastodon instances, making the potential usable instances much broader. Two small things to note however, first the Studio Rafflesia's bot's usage rules are in Japanese so potential language barrier there, and second and confirmed by the author, sending a feed to RSS Parrot through Mbin doesn't work.
Other than that, and in line with the question, I second !meta.
