Looks to be really interesting, similar to the Everquest or WoW private servers with bots, or FFXIV's NPC dungeons, but actually designed from the ground up to be a single player experience where the bots actually play with you. Sounds neat.
My issue with these is that my use case is public transport, for that it seems like GMaps is still unbeatable, i hope to find an alternative as good or better based on OSM soon because it's the one tool i still have no alternative to
According to software engineer and blogger, Paul Biggar, however, one key detail on the methods employed by the Lavender system that is often overlooked is the involvement of the messaging platform, WhatsApp. A major determining factor of the system’s identification is simply if an individual is in a WhatsApp group containing...
So I joined a new gym last year and was pleasantly surprised. They gave me a smart card to get in and out, that's it, no app, no accounts, no nothing. Well, today I got to the gym and saw the announcement that they are phasing out the access with the smart card and starting to use, you guessed it, an app....
First time i hear of this, sounds handy, although I've seen some of those "loyalty card" thingies with chips for hands-free usage, i tend to avoid them as a general principle as they're the opposite of privacy-oriented but for the few that you do want (like the store where you always buy your groceries from, to get extra discounts) might be handy
Given that the XMPP contingent is around, is there a comparison between a typical 2024 XMPP server (with all the recommended extensions and whatever), and Matrix?
Gabe Newell has done a lot for gamers and SPECIALLY for us in Linux Gaming, but he's still a billionaire with a yacht collection , give him props for his contributions but i don't think adding him to a "Good people list" is quite on point
Yeah, i was not necessarily looking for a hosting by the project devs, just seeing if there was some company offering managed hosting like masto.host and others do for Mastodon and so on, i have a general idea how much would it cost to have managed Mastodon and was curious about other Fedi options for this
Looks like another Have I Been Pwned, at least at a glance they’re looking for email addresses, and given that you have your email with them if you’re using this service they kinda do have it already
Been following the manga, and he does reflect more and deeper on the thing about the brother a bit later in the story (even though it does take him somewhat little time to accept it), hopefully it makes it to the anime
Thing is, considering he's a kid of a backwater noble and slavery clearly is legal in that world, i don't see any other way he could have rescued her, had he just taken her by force she could have been legally taken away, bringing all sorts of legal issues to his dad and family. We'll see if the story gets far enough, if he can manage to bring an end to legal slavery in that country/empire
All these discussions turn into that because WE KNOW that no one will convince MS to stop doing whatever they want, specially after investing literally billions on this kind of technology, the idea of MS “being held accountable” is something that realistically will not happen, and literally the only leverage people have against them is to just stop playing their game. Oh yeah, it’s not easy, but given the fact that MS have made it so that you’ll HAVE to fight the tech and relearn stuff every time they unilaterally decide to change things you might as well put effort where it will make a difference and free you from their BS
Oh yeah, this MUST be done too, but expecting that to be the solution to MS apps getting worse all the time is for the moment not a solution for the random user of the day complaining of yet another MS enshittification escalation.
Switching to Linux gets you completely out of that mess and has lasting results, continuing to participate in the MS market might change things if the anti-monopoly forces taking encouraging actions the last few years continue advancing but will take years IF it happens, along with any class-action lawsuit, anything else in the meanwhile (patches, debloaters, secret policy rules or registry entries, etc.) is nothing more than a band-aid treating the symptoms.
So, these discussions always devolve to this because it’s a proven and effective solution that works today and lasts, unlike any other patch that can be broken next time MS forces an update or catches you unaware, it’s hard and imperfect and “not the CORRECT way to solve the problem”, but works.
If the owner of the standard notes will now be a proton, doesn’t that contradict this principle? I have a proton email account but I don’t want it linked to my standard notes account. I don’t strongly trust companies that offer packaged services like google or Microsoft. I prefer to have one service from one company. I am...
I’ve mentioned this issue a few times, then “But Proton has proven to be good! It’s OK” is the usual response, that’s when i remind them of how Google also used to be good. I don’t really use a notes taking app, but in general after Google, the idea of “one login, a gazillion apps” is something i dislike in principle because even if the one central authority doesn’t go evil, one login incident and you’re locked out of everything you depend on.
Yeah, I’ll continue using Protonmail but that’s likely all I’ll use from them and diversify on the rest.
Proton said the Standard Notes app, which is available for both mobile and desktop, will remain “open source, freely available and fully supported”....
Even from the “all your eggs in one basket” kind of perspective it does feel worrisome, not to mention that i am unsure about this dilution of their focus on many apps being helpful, I’d rather have them focus on very few but rock solid and maintained services instead of going with the Google “we do everything” way to do things
Bought by Automattic? After they non-consensually took all of Tumblr and hosted Wordpress to train AI? And after their big boss revealed his transphobia? I guess i’ll skip this one
Had a longer answer that went away for some reason 😭
Your criticism is fair, but:
Using the email as a seed on the generator goes halfway there, here’s an example, although of course it could never change
Centralizing the avatar opens that service up to be grabbed for tracking like Gravatar did, or breaking the security of a site by injecting code without the consent of the site owner. The usual tradeoff between security/privacy and convenience.
Would be good to have a good user-managed way to do the same (well, beyond using an image on your own hosting, i guess)
I understand your position and hate that we live in a shitty world where that choice is forced on people, but from what i see it from here, you guys have a choice between choosing the guy who’s not good but is at least doing some good, and the active fascist idolizing Hitler, with every neutral vote being effectively helping the fascist.
Not much of a choice, yes, but that’s where you are, and any vote not going to the not good guy will help the fascist. So that’s your choice, will you choose to fly over the cliff along with everybody else in the rest of the car or help avoiding that?
Considering the mention of a party being recommended to be at least level 60 before fighting the Dark Lord, plus some of the things that happen on Book 3 without spoiling anything, the original boss-version Yumiella never was close to the level cap, so my guess would be:
Current anime party close to but not up to level 60
Dark Lord at about level 65
Game Yumiella at about level 70
So yeah, Our Yumiella should be able to easily defeat the Dark Lord at this point.
Now, entering Book 3 heavy Spoiler territory (don’t look if you haven’t read it) to further justify these numbers:
spoilerYumiella 2 was the only Boss Yumiella survivor on the multiverse branch beating the Hero party because she used our Yumiella leveling techniques, so she was much stronger than normal boss Yumiella, but was still weaker than OUR Yumiella, so she never broke the level cap. That leaves my estimate of her level on Book 3 at somewhere above level 70 up to 80, maybe something in the lower 80s, but lower than level 90.
Up to book 4 here. I BADLY want the anime to succeed at least enough to let them add two more seasons, JUST so that we see Book 3 adapted. I REALLY wanna see that animated, was my fav of the 4 we have translated so far. And as a bonus, S2 should have an episode where we will see drunk Yumiella, that alone makes it worth adapting the whole thing 😂
Still, until we have word that they have greenlit more seasons i recommend people to go to the books (the manga still hasn’t finished Book 1 so the anime is further ahead).
As Yumiella herself explained i think on episode 1, you can beat the Dark Lord when you’re after certain level with strategy and good playing, but Game Yumiella pretty much needed brute force. This pretty much reflects the experience on many JRPGs (most of my experience on these is with Final Fantasy where it amply applies), you can beat the Final Boss with strategy and the right combination of skills and whatever without needing to grind much, but when there’s a hidden boss you goddamn better grind a lot and level up to even have a remote chance, damn your skills and all that. Game Yumiella seems to be in this exact spot. The things on Book 3 that i mention help in determining the levels but we just don’t know for sure without the author explicitly giving numbers anywhere (anyone around with the right connections wanna ask for us? Pretty please? 😄)
Understandable. If/when we see Season 2, we will have A LOT more on Eleonora, i hope we do.
That’s the problem with ongoing stories, it doesn’t help much the anime-only people when told “Yeah, what you want to see is on Book X which might never be adapted to anime”. And in this case it HAS to be on the books because the manga is behind the anime, the novels are the ones multiple books ahead of both.
I do still recommend going to the books though, up to at least Book 3 which is my favorite of what we have so far.
Heh, i might not be a nut like Yumiella but i do kinda enjoy all that 😄
As for the novels yes, there’s 6 volumes published in Japan and ongoing, the J-Novel Club official translation is up to Book 4, with Book 5 to be released at the end of May. Beware because the book covers and descriptions themselves kinda are spoilers (more the descriptions, the covers are more like intense teasers 😜)
On the Reddit thread people, at least one of them tagged as a KDE dev, mentions that widgets NEED to be able to run arbitrary code. I am absolutely baffled by this.
A couple weeks ago Discord announced their plans to go down the IPO route. This means that there is now a ticking clock until the platform goes full-on enshittified like so many others before them....
A good idea i have been spreading around relevant people lately is to use ShellCheck as you code in Bash, integrate it in your workflow, editor or IDE as relevant to you (there’s a commandline tool as well as being available for editors in various forms), and pass your scripts through it, trying to get the warnings to go away. That should fix many obvious errors and clean up your code a bit.
Can’t say i feel like i have fully wrapped my head around this solution, but having migrated Mastodon instances before i see the need for it, this could help a lot as mentioned. And in addition, lots of people usually have multiple accounts across Fedi (“Here’s my main Mastodon one, here’s a Lemmy one, here’s one on Bookwyrm to rate books, here’s a Pixelfed one, etc.”) and this could help unify them which is good, “I’ll log in with this account on this server i had never seen before and it just works”.
That said, having either repeatedly seen (or occasionally, personally had) TERRIBLE experiences in the past with linked accounts on commercial platforms (like when somebody gets their Gmail account banned for whatever reason and suddenly their whole online life is halted down to banking, or when linking two unrelated accounts lets one company access to spy on the person much deeper than before, or many other cases) i have to say that i feel a visceral level of discomfort at the possibility of this coming to Fedi, even if i feel this might just be paranoia I’m still not sure what kind of power would bad actors gain over you in this setup, like admins of rogue instances, Big Tech spy-happy corporate entities once they do fully arrive here, hackers who suddenly have a magical key over everything yours, etc.
Let’s see, on one hand we have this list compiled by somebody on Mastodon:
mockup looks like they’re pitching a device.
mockup is missing critical functionality (buttons)
infected with cryptocurrency brainworms
they haven’t decided about open source yet
trash talking existing devices, yet being vaporware itself
grand claims that have no backing in reality (like Epic, Fortnite, Roblox)
And the article itself has this:
Update 13:34 UTC, 19/03/24: One of the videos Playtron supplied to The Verge, showcasing some tech used on mobile in the article linked below, wasn’t even their own and was taken uncredited from another person on YouTube, who hit them with a copyright claim and had it taken down. Not a good look.
I’m betting this is either an outright scam, or some small project by somebody WAAAAY over their head that won’t even see the light of day
Just earlier today i saw this phrase about cryptocurrency: “price discovery for bitcoin happens on an exchange that admitted a few months ago to being a criminal conspiracy”. Yeah, there’s HUGE problems with central banks, but by this point it should be very clear that a wild west casino full of scammers will not save us from that, it doesn’t matter what were the initial ideals of people about crypto, it’s main function now and for many years since it’s beginnings has been scamming real money out of people.
So, let me see if i understand the argument: Discord, a piece of closed source software which is very popular at the moment because they hit first (user inertia) and haven’t yet ramped up the enshittification (but sooner or later will because they already announced the intention to go the IPO route), wins over free software alternatives because of a 100% unofficial bot designed to help with one tiny niche user case most users of the platform haven’t even heard about, which is itself free software and therefore could be migrated and/or adapted to other free software?
Erenshor is a game that seeks to condense the MMORPG experience into a fully single-player title. ( massivelyop.com )
Looks to be really interesting, similar to the Everquest or WoW private servers with bots, or FFXIV's NPC dungeons, but actually designed from the ground up to be a single player experience where the bots actually play with you. Sounds neat.
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Why Creators Shouldn't Own their Creations (And Why its Good for them too) ( invidious.perennialte.ch )
Telegram founder and CEO alledges signal has backdoors, they don't provide reproduceible builds, etc.
Here's what he said in a post on his telegram channel:...
Why people don't talk about Google Maps' privacy issues ( www.youtube.com )
Title is editorialized because the original is, frankly, clickbait garbage
we fell for the corporate propoganda rule ( lemmy.cafe )
Israel using Meta's WhatsApp to kill Palestinians in Gaza through AI system ( www.middleeastmonitor.com )
According to software engineer and blogger, Paul Biggar, however, one key detail on the methods employed by the Lavender system that is often overlooked is the involvement of the messaging platform, WhatsApp. A major determining factor of the system’s identification is simply if an individual is in a WhatsApp group containing...
Got annoyed by my gym
So I joined a new gym last year and was pleasantly surprised. They gave me a smart card to get in and out, that's it, no app, no accounts, no nothing. Well, today I got to the gym and saw the announcement that they are phasing out the access with the smart card and starting to use, you guessed it, an app....
any xmpp user ?
Started using xmpp recently because messaging apps sucks . I want to see if anyone use this thing .
[not a meme] anyone I should add? ( lemmy.dbzer0.com )
I'm sorry if this is not the best place for this, I couldn't think of anywhere better to ask about it...
GoToSocial is a new ActivityPub social network server for the Fediverse ( github.com )
This service is still in Alpha release but is already deployable and usable, and federates with other Fediverse servers....
if you know you know ( lemmy.ml )
Lv2 Kara Cheat datta Moto Yuusha Kouho no Mattari Isekai Life • Chillin' in Another World with Level 2 Super Cheat Powers - Episode 3 discussion
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Microsoft is silently installing Copilot onto Windows Server 2022 ( mastodon.gamedev.place )
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Chromium Manifest V3 Explained for Toddlers ( youtu.be )
Most people still haven’t heard of Manifest V3, so if you are one of those not using Firefox, this is for you....
Astrology Rule ( slrpnk.net )
I made this shitty meme myself!
Standard notes: what about don’t put all your eggs in one basket rule?
If the owner of the standard notes will now be a proton, doesn’t that contradict this principle? I have a proton email account but I don’t want it linked to my standard notes account. I don’t strongly trust companies that offer packaged services like google or Microsoft. I prefer to have one service from one company. I am...
Proton picks up Standard Notes to deepen its pro-privacy portfolio ( techcrunch.com )
Proton said the Standard Notes app, which is available for both mobile and desktop, will remain “open source, freely available and fully supported”....
Beeper is now available, no waitlist! ( blog.beeper.com )
Holo from "Spice and Wolf: merchant meets the wise wolf" Plans to Make VTuber Debut ( animecorner.me )
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Facebook snooped on users' Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal ( techcrunch.com )
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Akuyaku Reijou Level 99: Watashi wa Ura Boss desu ga Maou de wa Arimasen • Villainess Level 99 - Episode 12 - FINAL ( ani.social )
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Mozilla just ditched its privacy partner because its CEO is tied to data brokers ( www.theverge.com )
Malicious KDE theme can wipe out all your data ( www.reddit.com )
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Current situation on FOSS Discord replacements?
A couple weeks ago Discord announced their plans to go down the IPO route. This means that there is now a ticking clock until the platform goes full-on enshittified like so many others before them....
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Playtron plan to launch PlaytronOS, a Linux-based system for gaming ( www.theverge.com )
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Gumroad no longer allows most NSFW art, leaving its adult creators panicked ( techcrunch.com )
GitHub Copilot will respect your privacy! ( sopuli.xyz )
Discord’s secret weapon against open source competitors (it’s PluralKit) ( medium.com )
Why are FOSS platforms like Matrix having such a hard time getting users to migrate from Discord? Because of PluralKit.
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