Currently studying CS and some other stuff. Best known for previously being top 50 (OCE) in LoL, expert RoN modder, and creator of RoN:EE’s community patch (CBP).
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If a few servers are linked up and talk to each other using TCP/IP (?) but aren’t connected to the wider network, that’s not enough for it to be considered another internet (but it could be an intranet).
If a few instances are linked up and talk to each other using ActivityPub but aren’t connected to the wider network, I think that’s not enough for it to be considered another fediverse.
No worries, easy mistake to make just based on naming. Hope you find an answer!
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The !support@lemmy.world suggestion isn’t that helpful here because that’s intended for .world only, but you could try !techsupport@lemmy.world, !lemmy_support@lemmy.ml (if you’re federated), or maybe the lemmy GitHub?
I do some game modding, and sometimes have to hack together software to help with it, some of which ends up public.
One of my programs relied on the location of other, existing files and so would poke around at runtime to see where the user had launched it from, alerting the user if it was in a location where it wasn’t supported. If that happened, an interactive message box pops up with the title “UNSUPPORTED LOCATION” and text that says, verbatim sans my [notes]:
"Running [this program] from [unsupported] folder is NOT SUPPORTED, and is likely to produce errors. Run [other program] instead.
If you want to run [this program] from here anyway, type “I understand”.
You can’t skip or just “OK” the message to dismiss it, otherwise the program just immediately begins a managed shutdown of itself to prevent any of the aforementioned potential errors from occurring. I STILL had a user message me saying how making them type in “I understand” was a weird thing to make them do in order to use the program. Thankfully I think they’ve been the only one so far so it’s certainly not the norm, but the average computer user is also much less tech-savvy than someone downloading mods for a video game.
They are different, but to clarify, Linus Sebastian worked at NCIX (defunct computer parts / tech retailer), not NZXT (computer hardware manufacturer).
They say spaced repetition helps the brain remember things, so here you go:
Active (default): Calculates a rank based on the score and time of the latest comment, with decay over time Hot: Like active, but uses time when the post was published
The feeling is that simply having it be public isn’t an automatic license to re-use or “re-appropriate” the content outside of what’s required for normal network functionality. From that perspective, federating a post to a normal Mastodon / fediverse server = OK, viewing that post in your browser = OK, but many other uses = not OK.
This subset of the userbase want the norm for “extracurricular uses” of people’s posts to be opt-in only, even for public posts. I kind of envy the idea in some ways (aggressive requirement of consent), though in the world we currently live in, it does seem unrealistic without a team of lawyers behind it.
There’s a pretty strong no-scraping (and scraping-adjacent) sentiment within Mastodon
Well, not to shit on the idea too much, but right now as of posting, looking at ~100 posts in the feed and the majority are bots, automated posts, or otherwise “brand” posts, not just regular people, and a few are Threads users or bridged Bluesky/Xitter accounts.
Doing a quick label:
That’s getting close to the 5k character limit, but you get the idea. This has actually negatively influenced my opinion on fediverse activity. I didn’t realize that such a high share of the activity wasn’t actually just “normal users”.
It’s easy to go too far in either direction instead of just doing what fits your needs (which in fairness, can sometimes be difficult to precisely pin down). Blindly going “it’s old, I need to upgrade” or “it still runs, it’s not worth upgrading” will sometimes be right but it’s not exactly tailored advice.
Someone I know was holding out for ages on a 4790K (2014), and upgraded a year or two ago to a then-current-gen system and said the difference it made to their workflow was huge - enough that they actually used that experience to tell their boss at work that the work systems (similar to what they had had themselves) should get upgraded.
At the end of 2022 I had had my current monitor(s) for about 10 years and had spent years of hearing everyone saying “wow upgrading my monitor was huge”, saying that either 1440p was such an upgrade over 1080p and/or that high refresh rate (120+Hz) was such an upgrade over 60Hz. I am (or at least was in the past) a pretty competitive player in games so you’d think I’d be a prime candidate for it, but after swapping from a 60Hz 1200p screen to a 144Hz 1440p screen for my primary monitor I… honestly could barely notice the difference in games (yes, the higher refresh rate is definitely enabled, and ironically I can tell the difference easily outside of games lol).
I’m sensitive to input latency, so I can (or at least could, don’t know if I still can) easily tell the difference between the responsiveness of ~90 FPS and ~150 FPS in games, so it’s extra ironic that pumping the refresh rate of the screen itself didn’t do much for me.
Greed or dishonesty are other abstract ones to consider. Worried that removing dishonesty could cause some harms, but I guess anything in the thread probably could.
Real life incremental game!
This looks like it AI generated using a dataset of images from 2003 lol
The process described and shown by the screenshots does seem a bit much for a cancellation. Suing feels disproportionate when I first hear it, but are there many other recourses to force it to become more user friendly?
The decentralization is good if you can get the numbers high enough for the individual communities to be useful, but having them concentrated creates a mini network effect, where each user is automatically exposed to all of the local communities, which would be harder to seek out and find individually. So I think there’s tradeoffs, and mostly-centralized and mostly-decentralized community-instance pairing both have pros and cons.
Afaik lemmyverse gets the descriptions from the instances themselves? Publishing any “curated” description and having everyone agree on it would be… challenging for some instances.
Instance does affect moderation policy though. For example, someone who likes the vibe of specific “controversial” instances like hexbear would likely find many instances to be dissatisfactory because many instances are defederated with it. Someone may also have strong preferences about “free speech vs safe space” kind of moderation.
General-purpose medium-sized instance is probably “good enough” (especially if picking your first instance, with a willingness to migrate later if needed), but someone will feel more at home if their preferences more closely align with the instance they’re on. For example, beehaw users generally seem to love being on there from what I’ve seen, and I think they would feel less at home on most other instances.
There’s also value in making use of an instance’s local feed in some cases (less so for most general-purpose instances though!). I participate in aussie.zone regularly, and at times it’s a pain to use from a remote instance. For example, if I want to submit a new post, I have to manually check several loosely-related communities to make sure it hasn’t already been posted to the instance (cross-posting intra-instance is not ideal imo). If I were a local instance user, I could just check the local feed, which most of the time I just end up doing anyway because it’s faster than checking several communities manually. It would definitely be easier for me in that regard if I just migrated there or had started there to begin with.
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High quality, positive content boosts mental health
Browsing shallow memes and political outrage here is basically just home-made junk food instead of store-bought junk food. Likely less unhealthy, but that’s not exactly eating a bowl of vegetables lol - that would perhaps be reading a book or something. Not a great fit for the comparison imo.
(as an aside, it seems plausible that junk food in small quantities as part of a balanced diet might boost mental health vs strictly never indulging)
FSR 3.1 (specifically 3.1, not 3.0) added an optional decoupling of the frame generation and the upscaling, but yeah that would still need first party support from the game developer. I should edit my comment to explicitly mention the frame gen possibility, didn’t realize that was something people were using this for!
I can get behind the general idea, but in this implementation specifically it seems like the low modulation example isn’t distinct enough from simply lower-quality audio, but the higher modulation example (where the effect is more distinct as an intentional effect), is just not nice to listen to. Maybe there are other ways to distort the voice that don’t have as much of that downside?