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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best "screwing around" Game Request⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  A few people mentioned Saint’s Row, and it basically wasn’t even on my radar as a series I knew about. I’ll check it out!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best "screwing around" Game Request⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I said in another reply I didn’t even think of Spiderman, but I actually have been playing the remaster of the first modern one, and I agree fully. It totally matches this vibe and it’s pretty great!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best "screwing around" Game Request⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yeah! I didn’t even think to mention it, but I did really dig just swinging around in Spiderman!

• Best "screwing around" Game Request
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Outer Wilds drawing I made⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I fully understand. But if it helps (without major spoilers), the horror elements are not permanent, and as you learn to progress you learn to work around them and through them.

  But yeah, if they’re too deal-breaky upfront, I totally get that. You do spend a lot of time, pun intended, in the dark.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Huge respect to the folks at Obsidian': Todd Howard invited Obsidian devs onto Fallout season 2's set so they could see New Vegas in the flesh⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  As a person who didn’t work on New Vegas, and in fact has never even played a Fallout game, I’d like an invitation if we’re giving them out!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I made a free & open-source cooking game with my friends⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If nothing else, it looks like you’ve got the grass handled. That’s the number one thing in a cooking game 😛

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh. I didn’t know this was a feature Steam had. Weird!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I hear people say this sometimes, but I don’t know what they mean. Is there part of Valve’s system that has a gambling mechanic I’ve just never engaged with?

  Or is it one of their games that has gambling?

  Because I’ve been using it for years as basically my sole gaming interface and haven’t seen any gambling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feeling that groove⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah! It’s dope. With this new understanding I’ll circle back around. In an indirect sense the groove of a record represents how far our eardrum should be from its “silent resting position” over time. That’s it. The brain is what takes that complicated signal that varies over time and makes something it recognizes out of it.

  And then the information encoded on a CD, or magnetic tape, or in a compressed audio file is just the same thing: distance of eardrum from neutral over time.

  Oh, and stereo and surround sound and all that is just different audio tracks that play out of different speakers at a synchronized time. Again, it’s our brain that notices it hears a flute in the left ear very slightly before it hears it in the right ear and thus feels like that means there’s a flute to our left. But there’s nothing “flute left” about either individual signal, they’re just different audio that we detected a slight difference in from ear to ear.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seals the deal, once and for all.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Entirely unrelatedly, I think I’ve concluded that black men are also real women.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feeling that groove⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah! The “timbre” (which despite how it looks is said “tamber”) of an instrument is its audio “profile”. It’s what makes a piano different than a flute, or on a more subtle level makes one piano slightly different from another.

  But here’s the nuts part: what makes up the timbre of an instrument is a bunch of different resonating bits all resonating together. Essentially the reason a flute sounds like a flute is because it comes “pre-loaded” with a boatload of simple waveforms already added together. When you play a note on one, you get the main pitch you’re playing, but the instrument’s body and your breath all also produce a whack-ton of side tones all playing at the same time. And like a fingerprint, our ear/brain hears all these bits start and stop together and says “that’s a flute”.

  So it’s the same process, really: simple bits adding together. But “flute sound” isn’t the atom. It’s made up of a bunch of simple waves already added together, which then gets added to the other sounds that sound like pianos or guitars, which produces the final mix.

  I don’t know if you’ll get anything out of it, but you could look up videos of a “modular synth” setting up a trumpet sound or something. These devices have simple electronic tone generators, but by layering them and plugging them into each other, and using effects and the like, they can start to mimic the timbre of a trumpet or whatever. By essentially adding together the “key bits” of the harmonics (these other waves) they can start to approach the feeling of a trumpet sound, but just with simple, raw, parts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feeling that groove⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Highly basic answer, let’s say the strength of the vocals wave over time is:

  5, 4, 3, 2, 3, 4, 5, 4

  And drums is:

  4, 0, 2, 0, 4, 0, 2, 3

  Then you add them together for each time slice and get:

  9, 4, 5, 2, 7, 4, 7, 7

  And you put that on a record, or out to a speaker, and our ears are able to break that up into the two parts when it hears it. This is the same as when two things are in the room making sound, there may be two sources, but my ear only has one hole, and that hole has one eardrum behind it. The different sounds just add their powers together and hit my ear as one mixed wave.

  Alternative answer: magic

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pokémon Lazarus: When a Fan Game Becomes a Conversation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like Nemo needs to spend some time watching Matt Colville’s video on Community

  Everyone should watch it, really… even if it is an hour…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Economist on using phrenology for hiring and lending decisions: "Some might argue that face-based analysis is more meritocratic" […] "For people without access to credit, that could be a blessing"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  "Imagine appearing for a job interview and, without saying a single word, being told that you are not getting the role because your face didn’t fit. You would assume discrimination, and might even contemplate litigation. But what if bias was not the reason?

  Uh… guys…

  Discrimination: the act, practice, or an instance of unfairly treating a person or group differently from other people or groups on a class or categorical basis

  Prejudice: an adverse opinion or leaning formed without just grounds or before sufficient knowledge

  Bias: to give a settled and often prejudiced outlook to

  Judging someone’s ability without knowing them, based solely on their appearance, is, like, kinda the definition of bias, discrimination, and prejudice. I think their stupid angle is “it’s not unfair because what if this time it really worked though!” 😅

  I know this is the point, but there’s no way this could possibly end up with anything other than a lazily written, comically clichéd, Sci Fi future where there’s an underclass of like “class gammas” who have gamma face, and then the betas that blah blah. Whereas the alphas are the most perfect ughhhhh. It’s not even a huge leap; it’s fucking inevitable. That’s the outcome of this.

  I should watch Gattaca again…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Technically they are the 2fa. The second factor is something you have. I store all my passkeys in my password manager too, so I’m not faulting you, but technically that’s just undoing the second factor, because now my two factors are “two things that are both unlocked by the same one thing I know”. Which is one complicated factor spread across two boxes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Over the past ~20 years, Google became the de facto entry point for learning new skills and information. Google also sucks now. This is a really big problem.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know everyone complains about it, but fuck Google’s results have been absolute dogshit lately. I’ll write a query with like 5 or 6 words, and the results will make it clear it took about 3 of them and turned them separately into synonyms, ignored the other 2 completely, and then gave me a bunch of results that contain literally none of the words I asked for and are irrelevant to my search.

  They even helpfully highlight words I didn’t ask for in the digest!

  Sometimes I can still influence it into giving me what I want with some judicious use of quotes or something, but even that doesn’t always work these days. Sometimes I’ll search something like “Linux suspend bug” or something and it’ll give me results that don’t have Linux in it, and then there’ll be a little blurb under the result being like “yeah, this one doesn’t have Linux in it. Do you want that?”

  Yeah! I gave you like 3 words, and you decided to show me results that ignored the most discriminating word I gave you? Yeah, use it, that’s why I typed it!

  It’s like they tuned the engine to work on the terrible queries my relatives would type 10 years ago, and in so doing ruined my ability to be deliberate and precise…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that’s relevant to the discussion though. Most people sit like two feet from their gaming monitor and lean forward in their chair to make the character go faster.

  But most people put a big TV on the other side of a boring white room, with a bare white ikea coffee table in between you and it, and I bet it doesn’t matter as much.

  I bet the closest people ever are to their TV is when they’re at the store buying it…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discuss⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Woah Woah Woah. I’m Canadian and peanut butter and chocolate is also a thing here. Peanut butter may be my favourite thing. Why am I catching strays?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Took me a moment⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Unsure if… fuck it I’ll just blow it open.

  The context is that log~e~ has a shortcut called “ln”, that is L N, said lawn, for “natural logarithm” (but not in English)

  And so the joke is that “ln” looks like “in” in this context.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone finally made a "Sonarr for YouTube"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you want movies you use Radarr, and if you want TV Shows you use Sonarr. And if you want either of those to use torrent sites to find things rather than Usenet, you setup Prowlarr to convert from those random sites into the format Radarr and Sonarr support.

  There are others, but that’s a place to start.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VOIP - Lifetime alternative to hushed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s true, but JMP holds a balance. So you could put a bunch of money into it and then forget about that for a while and it’ll truck along until you run low. If you feel like that’s similar enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox Finally Introducing Matroska / MKV Playback Support⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely true. But it’s relatively easy, I assume, given that webm is just a subset of mkv anyway, and why not!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox Finally Introducing Matroska / MKV Playback Support⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s highly popular in the anime scene for its ability to contain original audio and dubs and a few subtitle tracks, including custom fonts for some of the subtitle formats that are feeling pretty special.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A national tragedy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know this is just a me thing… but I think there’s a lotta "me"s on here. I wish they’d used “JESUS CHRIST, GAZE INTO YOUR ORB” or something instead. The idea of “turning on” an orb just really rubs me in a bad way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Activity Pub: Can I join a PeerTube or Mastodon server using a Lemmy account?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The fediverse has been around for a while, and fediverse people are more likely to want browser extensions than most demographics, so honestly that may already exist!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Activity Pub: Can I join a PeerTube or Mastodon server using a Lemmy account?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, the redirect is easy. The hard part is that I’m just some unauthenticated user on whatever.net or something and I clicked the 👍 button. That could pop up a box that’s like “hey, what server is your server?” and then I type it in. That could be done, but it’s kinda crap, and we don’t have anything better 😅

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Activity Pub: Can I join a PeerTube or Mastodon server using a Lemmy account?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe I should create a new post for this but has there ever been discussions regarding SSO? So you have one identity across all fediverse services?

  This comes up from time to time, but usually not for what you want. Pixelfed and PeerTube and Lemmy and Mastodon are actually pretty different experiences. They don’t really do the same thing, they don’t appear to have the same verbs and nouns. So using one to talk to the other is actually a little weird, not because we’re trying to make walled gardens, but just because the focus of Lemmy is on the threaded topic, and the focus of PeerTube is comments on videos in my playlist.

  The fact that they can cross-talk at all is kind of an accident. Each system wants to federate with itself, and so they have a protocol to do it. And because it’s an open protocol, anyone can use it. And it is intentional that any compatible software should be able to use it, so Mastodon and other microblogs can cross-talk, that’s on purpose. But with these different “kinds” of services, they all picked the same protocol because it already existed, it already worked, and it met their needs. I don’t think the people making Lemmy really intended PeerTube users to use it, even though it’s sometimes possible in particular ways. They’re compatible because they both used parts of the same protocol, and so when you put them together they happen to have overlap, but that’s almost a coincidence.

  The reason SSO sometimes comes up is actually to solve a UX problem that’s plagued the fediverse since the beginning. If I’m a user of lemmy.ca, and I’m looking at lemmy.ml because I got there from a link it Google out something, and want to comment on what I see there, I can’t. Not directly. I can’t click the join button or follow a user or any of it, because this site is not my site. I have to first go to my site, where I have an account, and then find this content on my site, and then interact with it there. That sucks and has always sucked. So one of the proposals people have pitched to fix it is if I could login to lemmy.ml directly with my lemmy.ca account, then I could drive it remotely, in context, while maintaining my actual account somewhere else.

  The downside of this is that a whole bunch of random sites have tokens for me, every instance has way more “users” than users, and if any one of them has a security incident then it doesn’t just affect the users of that instance, because that instance also has keys for a bunch of other random instances. And overall the way I’d login on the remote site is to type my home site’s address, to kick off the SSO login, but if I’m doing that anyway I could also type that in and just have it redirect me there natively. So not great.

  If we’re talking about using SSO just to only have one credential, this is actually better handled with normal, existing, SSO. Like OpenID or whatever. If Lemmy and Mastodon and PeerTube and PixelFed all allowed creating an account with an existing SSO solution, of which there are several, then you can already create an account on each of them using the same identity provider and not make any new accounts. This is likely cleaner than requiring each of them to be, themselves, an identity provider just so they can all login to each other so you can start with any one of them natively, but from there only have one identity for all the rest. That would add a bunch of extra requirements to being a valid implementation, and maybe lead to some bad or insecure identity providers, and not give that much benefit in return.

  But I love SSO as a concept, so we should definitely support the much simpler thing, which is that all FOSS websites support SSO standards, not for fediverse reasons, but just because it’s nice in general. For me 😛

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Activity Pub: Can I join a PeerTube or Mastodon server using a Lemmy account?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And so I’d say this also answers your broader questions. Since Activity Pub doesn’t allow me to join other servers, it also doesn’t allow me to join other sites.

  So a Lemmy post may be compatible with a Mastodon message sent to a group or something, that’s only because the messages Activity Pub sends are similar. But PeerTube is different software with different buttons, and the existence of those buttons on PeerTube doesn’t change anything about what buttons Lemmy has, and I can’t “login” to a PeerTube server with my Lemmy account, so I don’t gain any special abilities outside of what Lemmy can do.

  The only way it would be possible is if Lemmy added a feature for uploading videos that sent the same kinds of messages to other servers that PeerTube sends. Then, if they did that, someone on a PeerTube instance could see these messages coming from Lemmy and interpret them on their server as a PeerTube video or something.

  But all that Activity Pub allows is exchanging of information between sites. For them to interoperate in a way that makes sense, they need to exchange the same kind of information.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Activity Pub: Can I join a PeerTube or Mastodon server using a Lemmy account?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Quick clarification, because I can’t tell from your words if you’re confused about the concept of federation or not 😅

  If by “join” other servers you mean use their site as if logged in, or like you have an account there, then that is not federation. That’s single-sign-on (SSO) and is not a feature of the fediverse (Mastodon, Lemmy, Peertube, etc). That would be like the “login with Facebook” or Google buttons around, where by having this account on site A, you can instantly signup on site B without making a new password or anything. That’s not how federation works.

  Federation is like email. I can have an email with GMail, you can have one with Proton, and someone else can have Yahoo, and I can send an email to you anyway. It doesn’t mean I can “join” Proton with my GMail account, it doesn’t mean I have.a Yahoo account, it means I don’t need a Yahoo account to communicate with Yahoo users.

  But, if by “join” you meant “join a community” as in subscribe to updates from a group on another server, then most other people’s answers apply. I wouldn’t call that “joining a server”, though, because servers host many communities and you’re not joining all of them.

  Joining a community works like joining a mailing list. Activity Pub allows accounts on different servers to communicate without an account on their own server, so my account would send a message to your account saying “I’d like to subscribe to this community, send me a message whenever something happens on it”, and then the other server says “okay, will do”, and the after that will periodically send my server messages saying “hey, here’s that update you asked for”. And when I comment, like right now, it’s like an email being sent from my server to yours, and then your server puts it into the history.

  This allows my server to present the community from your server to me, without me having account on your server. Without me having to “join” your server, I’d say.