Auster

@Auster@thebrainbin.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Final Fantasy on GOG⁩ ⁨⁨51⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  Ooooooooooooooooooooooh

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, I see. Sorry for misinterpreting it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do you need a launcher? (asking older gamers actually)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  90's kid myself so I probably don't fit into the old gamer category, but my grievance with launchers is the same with most UI systems: I must figure out how the author expected it to be used, and if there's something that bothers me, finding ways to circumvent or solve it is a quest.

  At least with terminal-based tools, or very basic lanunchers, I can find ways to make launching games ideal, even by bridging to a program or the system's UI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨noyb win: Microsoft ordered to stop tracking school children⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yet to read the article, but I hope it gets enforced. I grow tired of seeing laws and proper judicial decisions not being enforced or being done so at the convenience of those interested.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can we make federation less dependent on domain names?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Didn't mean it was. Just mentioned it as it was the most common example I knew. But thanks for the link! Reading it now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can we make federation less dependent on domain names?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  How interesting. Isn't the did: system also what AT Protocol (Bluesky) uses? 👀

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you have one, how much do you pay for a domain name? Any cheap registrar recommendations?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Dunno your region, but Registro.br's domains are rather cheap imo. However, I need to check again, but afaik it's only for people with CPF or CNPJ, the Brazilian equivalents of person and company identification numbers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Android won't kill sideloading after all, but new verification rules will make it harder⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  "Starting in Brazil"

  Not as much of a proactive people, from what I can see in person, but the "jeitinho brasileiro" hopefully will show ways to make Android programs without Google's tools.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Going by title alone, sounds like a false flag. If people that are against read it, they could feel like they're in a comfortable spot and lower pressure. And with so many companies implementing LLMs to their services, the push growing weaker would allow these companies to gain even more space, for there is no vacuum in power.

  Still need to read the article itself, but manipulation by headlines is a common strategy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  @scytale Toguro is introduced near the end of S1 as part of the ice lady's mission, so I guess it starts there?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Also is it just me or did Boutan get nerfed after season 1? Can't remember her flying at any point of S2, and in a few moments it would have been useful.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft target audience when they play a good game⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed. And in this line of more subtle storytelling, from the games I played from the franchise, if anything, it took all the way to Portal 2 for some things to start making sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube disabled SRV3 subtitle uploads and started deleting them on existing videos⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Because God forbid using anything other than their own generated subs. Or to have options.

  If that's a push to their AI systems, while AI has its uses, when coincidences or fuck ups are too consistent, it may not be either anymore. And thus it feels like Google is trying to tarnish AI to the point even supporters move away from it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it just me, or does anyone else wish there was a federated, decentralized alternative to YouTube Music?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally, if I must listen to music through streaming, I don't have much of a need for the Youtube Music variant, so my opinion below stems from that.

  Now, I think Peertube could retrofit that and benefit from it. I've seen discussions that it doesn't improve as much as other ActivityPub platforms because videos are so big few end up making instances of them. But as musics are so much smaller, uploading them could give Peertube a boost in interest.

  And instance-wise, there could be instances focused solely on musics, or akin to Bluesky and Piefed, that offer lists that group channels/profiles/etc. based on common subjects.

  Also I know other instances can display Peertube contents, so maybe playlists that propagate through ActivityPub could be made too to work as some sort of radio?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oltre il blackout: nasce l’Apartheid Digitale⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  To the OP: since diggita uses Lemmy, I'd suggest setting the post language to Italian when posting in that language. That'd let users leverage their instances' language filter settings.

  And a translation by Google of the article:

  Beyond the blackout: Digital Apartheid is born
  
  According to Filterwatch reports also reported by The Guardian, the Iranian regime is developing a plan to turn access to the global web into a "government privilege".
  
  Instead of blocking specific sites, the regime is reportedly implementing a “white list”: that way, only domestic services hosted on the National Information Network (NIN) would be allowed to function.
  
  Access to the web could only be granted to previously "screened" and authorized individuals and institutions, creating a system of digital apartheid.
  
  According to some testimonies, it seems that the network seems active (the signal icon is there), but the data does not flow or the connection "pulses" (disconnects every few seconds), a technique used to discourage the use of VPNs.
  
  The report would confirm the total collapse of e-commerce and domestic logistics as “collateral damage” necessary to maintain political control and prevent protest coordination by completing the infrastructure necessary for a permanent detachment from the World Wide Web, replacing it with a fully surveilled national network.
  
  It could be the end of the “open” internet in Iran, replaced by a closed network that serves as both a tool of surveillance and a weapon of political isolation.```
  

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  proceeds to unplug the pc

  Also energy consumption in such cases is bound to skyrocket.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do we need more users ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Makes me wonder if it's specific softwares that are pulling the statistics downward, or in general. Also the last trimester seemed rather stable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft may soon allow IT admins to uninstall Copilot⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Reading the article, it's so many conditions to be uninstallable I fear even Bill Gates himself couldn't.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sell n64 carts?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I'd imagine they're only getting rarer. Also maybe they could be of use to dump the ROM and saves too.

  Let's hope you don't need to, but I'd selling them only if you're desperate for money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deshittification⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I made the community pretty open-ended, so I guess both count.

  Also, on using alternatives being a type of deshittification, I'd say even that with competition around, the original or more prevalent tool needs to seek ways to be better as to not lose market share.

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