ProdigalFrog
@ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 17 minutes ago:
Yikes. I loved that framework trailblazed repairable laptops, but those responses are pretty fucking damning.
- Comment on What fuel will ships burn as they move toward net zero? 5 hours ago:
According to this very compelling article, we could actually skip transition fuels entirely, and switch over to iron oxide batteries pretty much immediately. It just seems to be lesser known.
I think it’d be possible to combine iron oxide batteries with new sail designs to extend the range even further without any carbon emissions.
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- Comment on Cool Project? 4 days ago:
We have a community for this project as well: !open_source_ecology@slrpnk.net
- Comment on Lemmy.zip & Piefed.zip Server Update October 2025 5 days ago:
The wittiness added a lovely complexity to the flavor, and the graphs gave a much needed texture to the data stream.
- Comment on Why can't we have a static vintage web? 5 days ago:
Neocities encourages static 90’s style webpages.
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- Comment on Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” 6 days ago:
It doesn’t necessarily need to achieve mass adoption, it just needs to get to a ‘good enough’ point to make it viable for those who are willing or desperate to get away from big tech.
Linux still has plenty of people giving reasons why they won’t switch, but it’s now finally viable for many, including myself. I just want mobile Linux to get to that point too, even if there’s still rough edges.
- Comment on Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” 6 days ago:
We rapidly need to switch Linux Mobile. PostmarketOS and Mobian are the two most promising projects, and I would highly recommend anyone reading this to donate to them if you have the means.
Both projects directly use your donations to hire developers to build and polish the critical essentials to get this alternative viable as a daily driver.
- Comment on No, Deus Ex Remastered, I simply do not believe you need an RTX 2080 to run at recommended settings 1 week ago:
The Revision mod looks leagues better, and overhauls the gameplay too.
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- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 1 week ago:
Kobo e-readers are 1-to-1 alternatives that allow you to easily transfer epubs or PDFs to it with a USB cable.
- Comment on Is there some sort of "underground" net for old computing? 1 week ago:
There’s still BBS’s around, and I think the Amiga has a network that old amigas can connect to to share software and such.
- Comment on Setting up a DOS/Win98 system for gaming 2 weeks ago:
DOSBox-X is supposed to have 3DFX support, though I’ve never tried it myself.
- Comment on Community Discoverability Inconsistencies 2 weeks ago:
By default, a piefed/Lemmy instance only knows of the existence of its own local communities. To see any off-instance communities in the search, they first have to initiate federation by a local user manually searching that community and/or subscribing to it.
Once the off-instance community has been federated by a single user, it will stay that way forever, and other users on your local instance will see it show up in the search as well.
There is an effort to automate that initial federation by Lemmy-federate, which creates a bot on participating instances to automatically subscribe to participating communities, but I’m not sure if piefed instances are compatible with it yet.
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- Comment on Primordia, a sometimes difficult Point & Click Adventure game with a great story 2 weeks ago:
Wadjeteye games (who published primordial) mostly publish serious non-comedic point’n’clicks. I highly recommend Gemini Rue by them.
- Comment on Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site” 3 weeks ago:
I would suggest that it is as complex as you wish to know.
My explanation above is not truly required to effectively use a federated platform, in the same way that most email users don’t actually know how precisely email works, and would find an in-depth explanation of it very complex.
All someone needs to know about email is that they must login to their email host provider, and that every user they might send email to has a unique name, and possibly a different host name after the @ symbol.
In the same way, the only thing soneone needs to know about this platform, is they must login to the same place they signed up to (their host provider). If anything, that might make it easier to use than email.
- Comment on Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site” 3 weeks ago:
They each use a different backend, and their web UI’s are designed with their own unique backend in mind.
There is Photon, a third-party web UI/client that may someday be compatible with both Lemmy and Piefed, but currently only properly supports lemmy (AFAIK).
- Comment on Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site” 3 weeks ago:
Lemmy is a software that people can host on their computer, and many people doing that form what is essentially a bunch of mini-reddits that can talk to each other to create one big platform.
Piefed is trying to fulfill the same goals as Lemmy, and is even fully compatible with Lemmy, so someone hosting a piefed server on their computer can join in with all the Lemmy servers, and to the Lemmy people, it appears to them like any other Lemmy server.
But underneath everything, code base is entirely different. The commonality they share, along with mastodon, is they all use ActivityPub, which is the standard that allows them to all communicate and be compatible with each other, just like there’s an email standard.
Kbin (now Mbin) is yet another Lemmy compatible software that you can host on your computer, but it also tried to implement features that make it more like mastodon (twitter-like), so it can act both like reddit, with threads and comments and communities around single subjects, or be like mastodon and work with hashtags and following individuals instead of communities, like a microblogging website.
They also use different interfaces, but it’s only visible to people who directly use that server; to others who access it from their home server, it’ll adopt the look of the software their home server is using.
So as an example, you are using Lemmy since your home server is Lemmy.ml. if you visit a community hosted on a piefed server from within your Lemmy, like !fullmoviesonyoutube@piefed.social, it’ll look like any other Lemmy community.
But if you directly go to that piefed server by going to piefed.social/c/fullmoviesonyoutube you’ll see it from the piefed interface, since you’re accessing that piefed server directly.
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- Jesus! - A creepy 1987 space adventure by Enix that inspired Hideo Kojima (PC-88 Paradise) -NES too!www.youtube.com ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to retrogaming@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency 3 weeks ago:
I’m not German, but I would know better than to praise a pick from the AfD.
- Comment on Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency 3 weeks ago:
The Proton CEO thought that the party taking bribe after bribe from oil companies to Tech-bros, and which removed the FTC chairwoman that was bringing anti-trust cases against amazon and publicly criticized Google’s monopoly, would somehow install a good, pro-competitive and consumer rights advocate?
If he genuinely believed that, then he’s either wildly out of the loop in one of his company’s largest markets (which I’ll grant as possible, CEOs can be pretty out of touch with reality), or a fool.
- Comment on Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency 3 weeks ago:
This praise is, itself, ass-kissing the orange, likely in the hopes of getting in the good graces of the administration.
- Comment on Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency 3 weeks ago:
This article shows what happened: techstory.in/proton-mail-faces-backlash-over-clai…
- Comment on Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency 3 weeks ago:
Unless something has changed, I believe Windscribe also allows port forwarding.
AirVPN does as well, but as they are based in Italy, I think they may have to comply with the new Italian VPN anti-piracy law enacted there.
- Comment on Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency 3 weeks ago:
Quite damning of Proton, but unfortunately isn’t too surprising after the CEO’s pro-trump comments.
I would say they have proven themselves untrustworthy and mostly concerned with profit-seeking, and would suggest moving to alternatives if you use their services.
Mullvad is a solid VPN (Tor is better), and Posteo, Tuta, or Disroot are good email providers (don’t use email for anything sensitive, private providers only give protection against survailence capitalism).
- Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11 3 weeks ago:
To be fair, Windows 10 has some meaningful upgrades compared to 7.
- Windows 10 can handle radical new hardware (such as swapping a drive to a totally different PC) much more gracefully, where as Windows 7 could sometimes freak out and crash or not boot.
- Windows updates were ungodly slow to install on Windows 7, but were much quicker on Windows 10.
- Windows 10’s ability to automatically download drivers was very convenient, bringing it more in-line with the experience of Linux, which generally has drivers out of the box.
- Windows 10 was generally quite stable, even more stable than 7, in my experience.
But with all those advantages, came many downsides as well:
- Windows 10’s system settings interface is an absolute clusterfuck, making changing simple things like the refresh rate of a monitor difficult to change or find due to being buried behind so many sub-menus. The Windows 10 settings are usually a dumbed down version, with a small easy to miss hyperlink somewhere on the page to bring up the older Windows XP/7 era settings panel that actually adjusted the thing you needed.
- Windows 10 has a lot of annoying pop-ups for features that barely anyone uses or wants, but likely helps monetize the OS.
- Windows 10 incorporated ads into the start menu. Fucking ads!
- Windows 10 was a privacy nightmare compared to 7, and the privacy settings were in a constant state of flux after an update
- Windows 10’s automatic driver installer had a downside, in that it would automatically download an outdated version of your GPU driver automatically before you could beat it to the punch with a properly new one.
