Eldritch

@Eldritch@piefed.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FreeCAD 1.1 is out⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Possible. In free cads defense I started learning blender in 1996. Didn’t really get proficient till 2012 lol. Though I have used AutoCAD fine. But that was way back in 1994 under DOS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FreeCAD 1.1 is out⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, I would like to use freecad. And for reference I love blender and use it almost daily. The freecad interface and work flow just kind of bounce me off them so far. I can sculpt, model, paint, rig and edit video in blender. Right now getting started making a basic part in freecad seems like black magic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Built a RAID of Floppy Disks. Oh no.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Considering the vintage of the system. USB 1 caps out around 1Mb. So its more likely than you think. 13 drives at 78.7 Kbps would easily do that. And considering each floppy should be capable of 250Kbps it’s capable of much more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Everyone’s Picking Up a PSP Again in 2026 (my article!)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There were some decent games. What killed it for me was the layout. Constantly bumping the power switch mid game. It happened so often.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft announces sweeping Windows changes - but no apologies⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Krita is awesome. Tablet options not so much. Many Intel based tablets are rather heavy and clunky comparatively, or have poor digitization. Touch screens aren’t the same as digitizer pen support. Some like the surface tablets are proprietary enough that you have to jump through many tech hoops just to set it up. And then there’s the cost. You can do it but its expensive in money and time. It has to be something you want to do for yourself. Because it will not make monetary or otherwise.

  Android tablets are again loaded down with tech hurdles. Can they be unlocked? How hard is it? And what special hardware might you need to do it? Then you have to consider how hard is it to flash a different operating system onto it. And finally, how much of the proprietary hardware is just not going to work, and is that a deal breaker.

  There is a version of Krita for Android. But the few devices I have that can launch it. The UI is unusable. Everything else works. You just have to fight the UI hard.

  I got an older ARM based chrome tab for about 40 dollars. Went through the hoops to put postmarket is on it. Only the camera doesn’t work. But the 4GB of ram is the biggest bottleneck. CPU cores are fine. But just sitting idle at the desktop a little under 1/8 of the ram is already used up. Open Firefox or chrome and you are already swapping hard likely. Krita works well with the USF pen support. But the ram again is a heavy limit on document size. It’s definitely not for most people.

  I desperately would love a good affordable Linux tablet platform. KDE plasma’s touch experience has been really good. Not perfect, but most of the hitches are edge enough cases in daily use. If someone would make a shell with just a full HD screen and pen support capable of using a compute module SOC. Raspberry pi or other compatible SOC. That would almost be ideal as long as they could meet a decent price point. Which is always the thing that tends to kill these concepts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Manjaro Linux Team Goes on Strike, Threatens to Fork the Project⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And even that was only the most visible yet surface level one of their problems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meet the AI rapper funded by a far-right party— Advance UK has hired the mystery ‘collective’ behind Danny Bones, a white-nationalist musician and activist – who isn’t real⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The people making the slop absolutely are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lead Lemmy developer dessalines@lemmy.ml Appears to Have Had Their Account Compromised After Moderation Actions Raise Serious Concerns⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are some disabled by default, filters built into piefed. That the main Dev uses on their instance. It’s not really even remotely the same thing or as controversial. But it’s the closest thing piefed has and gets brought up regularly because of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony is testing dynamic pricing: one game - different prices on the PlayStation Store⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Steam and PC gaming if anything. That and changing life priorities in my 30s and 40s. GoG and epic too. Between them I have almost 1000 games I didn’t pay for. Combined with hundreds on steam from humble etc. I probably spend more time trying to decide what to play than playing it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony is testing dynamic pricing: one game - different prices on the PlayStation Store⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Then I will continue my 20 year Sony boycott.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And even then. Mp3 first in this day and age?! As an individual or a company that’s just bananas. MP3 as a fallback or baseline sure. As a feature to advertise or sell your service on. Clown show. Sure it’s a 30ish year old codec who’s patents have expired. But it’s also a 30 year old codec using ancient expired patents.

  There’s much newer patented and libre codes that can provide similar quality at half the data rate. Allowing you to serve twice the listeners with the same resources.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘I think the franchise is dead’: Saints Row design director says IP owner ‘ghosted’ his prequel pitch | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Alternate realities/timelines. It ain’t over until they destroy the whole universe, and even then it’s probably still not over.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Init scripts are just scripts. Technically, they don’t introduce any unique vulnerabilities of their own. Just the flaws in the shell itself or server binaries. A poorly written script absolutely can and will still fuck your day up.

  SystemD is a program. Which could introduce its own unique buffer overflows or use after free opportunities. I’ve not heard of any. But its possible. However, its standard set of interfaces and systems make the risks of writing your own bad scripts or just using other people’s random bad scripts like we used to much less an issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Archive Today (archive.is) is Down⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A ddos by it’s nature seeks to suppress speech and freedom.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Technically, sysv everything was just a file full of instructions for the shell to parse and initialize. Human readable “technically”. It was simple and light weight. SystemD is a bit heavier and more complex as a system service binary. But that load and complexity is generally offset by added features that are extremely nice to have. Providing much more standardized targets and configuration iirc.

  I had to search and dig trying to figure out how to set up services properly for my distro, back in the 90s. And when/how to start/restart them. There wasn’t one way to do it all. SysD made it all much more standard, simple, and clear. It’s biggest sin, is that it’s one more binary attack surface that might be exploited.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And how is not voting for them going to do that? They’re fine with you not voting for them, and even losing in the case of DNC leadership. Always have been.

  You want to put pressure on them? Be the candidate to primary the party line candidate in Democratic primaries. Yes they will use every structural advantage they have against you. But if enough people do it constantly. The cracks will widen and show. Otherwise they’re happy to receive donations and funding from the wealthy, even if they don’t win.

  To be clear, I think all national parties should be outlawed. Generally state wide ones as well. But unless you can change the political reality we are in. The only possibility is not just holding off the worst possible candidates such as trump. Though more should have shown solidarity against him. But being the candidates we want to vote for. And not letting some uninterested complacent national organization make those decision for us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone other young people into Retro Computing?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope, sadly most of these retro things are younger than me. 😆Guess that makes me retro too. Anyhow, always good to see younger generations enjoying the classics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vin Gasoline⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s about acquaintances.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I went back to Linux and it was a mistake⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Tech reporter……. Going back. As in not their first dip. As a tech reporter, they should have known better the first time. That the took a second stab still not knowing. Really makes one question their credentials.

  If you’re that base of a user, that you don’t understand that going in. It isn’t a software problem. It’s PEBKAC. And no one should ever recommend a person of that low skill ever try to install on their own. If you want everything to work, buy a system made to run the software. System 76, tuxedo, etc.

  Would it be nice if opensouce devs could make some of the most proprietary, custom hardware designed to only work with windows run under Linux? Sure, is it a flaw of Linux that it doesn’t? No. Not unless it’s a flaw of Windows that Microsoft doesn’t support modern apple hardware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Orion Browser⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Really, that’s actually interesting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Orion Browser⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Aaaah so even less reason to use it sadly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Orion Browser⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  On Linux there is Falkon. Windows too. (QT WebKit) And the reason I won’t use this will likely be the same as Falkon. Missing plugins etc. Other than that they are fine. Bitwarden has a desktop app. (Electron? Dunno but it would be ironic) But no auto fill ability. Darkreader? Nope. There may be some limited adblocking, but no greasemonkey type functionality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Piefed has two user rating systems. Your attitude, which is public, and allows people to see what your ratio of up votes to down votes is. The other being reputation, which is generally reserved for administration and moderation iirc. Which is an accumulation of how other people upvote and downvote you. Basically the sort of thing anyone could get just by looking at the public information just condensed all in one spot.

  Anyone calling it social credit score is being disingenuous. The most controversial feature it has is its content filtering system, which is disabled by default.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Episode] TRIGUN STARGAZE - Episode 4 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Definitely what I was wondering the original is a classic to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Piefed admin settings that allow to enable or disable content filters (they are disabled by default, see body for details)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh no. Actually AFAIK its basically public for everyone to see unless disabled. At least attitude is. Yours is currently scored at 86. Meaning you’ve been 5x as likely to upvote as downvote. I think the rep one is different. Nothing more happening with it ATM than that I think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Piefed admin settings that allow to enable or disable content filters (they are disabled by default, see body for details)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Aaaah, cool yeah. I never looked too deep at it. Just knew that much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Piefed admin settings that allow to enable or disable content filters (they are disabled by default, see body for details)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The software kind of scores you on a few metrics. Like the ratio of the things you vote up vs down. I’m sure there are others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix Becomes Max-Level Patron Of Blender's Development Fund⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, those donating time and resources often get extra consideration. But Ton has been fiercely independent for decades. And even though he’s stepped down from his leadership role. I think the board he helped put in place has things in good hands. They, KDE etc have forged their own path and shown the viability of their models. They’d be fools to abandon that or relinquish control after 30 years.

  Tons have come and gone with little fan fair. Blender OTOH has quietly made inroads into industry and the hearts of many many people. I have used blender since the mid 90s. Where it is today compared to back then is unimaginable. I can’t wait to have my mind blown by where they go in the future. Nodes and simulation are really shaping up. Who knows, between them and the love the NLE editor has been getting. Adobe, Houdini, and even Nuke might get some competition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guitar technology⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You haven’t seen his arc piano then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix Becomes Max-Level Patron Of Blender's Development Fund⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If all the other top level donators haven’t done that by now I don’t think there’s much to worry about. And if they had plans to, I think they would have to face off against the other top level donators. So it wouldn’t be that easy either.