Natanox

Natanox, 10 hours ago to steam

Never forget, we got #dxvk and in extension #Steam #Proton mostly due to the original dxvk maintainer's simping* for 2B's butt.

*He is a self-described #Nier fanboy and REALLY wanted #NierAutomata to run on #Linux. :D

Short animated gif of 2B from Nier Automata without her skirt. Her butt is moving very prominently.

kubikpixel, 21 hours ago to shopping German

Viele Konsumentinnen merken nicht einmal wie sie auch ausgenutzt werden und dadurch die Ausnutzung von Energie so wie Hersteller und Arbeiterinnen fördern.

»Plattformen beim Online-Shopping: Weg vom Händler, hin zum Marktplatz.
Im Online-Handel geht der Trend zur Plattform. Das hat Nachteile – nicht nur für Händler, sondern auch für für Ver­brau­che­r:in­nen.«

📰 https://taz.de/Plattformen-beim-Online-Shopping/!6008556/

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#onlineshop #online #shopping #temu #nachteile #plattformen #handel #internet

Natanox, 22 hours ago to random German

Liebes Fedi, brauche eure Hilfe!

Meiner engen Freundin @Omega ist der Kühlschrank kaputt gegangen, für einen neuen ist kein Geld da. Ich weiß das es Vereine und hier auch Hashtags gibt worunter man schnell niedrigschwellig Hilfe finden kann, aber nicht mehr wie solche heißen.

Falls jemand (in Süddeutschland) etwas kennt oder irgendwie anders helfen kann bitte melden!

Omega, 23 hours ago to random German

Da sitze ich in der Weiterbildung und meine Freundin schreibt mir, das unserer Kühlschrank (der uralt & gebraucht ist) kaputt gegangen ist. Er kühlt nicht mehr und eigentlich alles was wir da drin haben wird nun verderben 😔

Toll, jetzt müssen wir uns einen neuen Kühlschrank organisieren - was ja ohne wirklich Geld 💰 zu haben, richtig spaßig ist 😫

dentangle, 1 day ago to random

Currently working on some #multicast peer discovery code. I keep abbreviating it as "peer disco", but it's definitely feels more like a peer cèilidh.

Nodes dynamically linking with each other in different configurations, shouting things to each other, nodes dropping in and out and reconfiguring again into a new shape and the dance goes on.

Yes, definitely more of a cèilidh.

All that's missing is some 80-shilling and a couple of nodes having a quiet snog in the corner.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A8ilidh

Alpha, 2 days ago to random

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kaia, 3 days ago to random

let's move to Saudi Arabia! :02smile:

kuketzblog, 5 days ago to random German

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Erpel, 5 days ago to random

#neomojimixer UPDATE
Click here to get to the neomojimixer

We have now a complete redesing of the website online that @freeplay did!

Thank you so much for the amazing work! It looks and works fantastic!
(And I now see how much I still have to edit to make the parts look better ​:neofox_googly:​)

tagesschau, 5 days ago to random German

CDU-Ministerpräsident Günther für offeneren Umgang mit Linkspartei

Die CDU hatte vereinbart, weder mit der AfD noch der Linkspartei zusammenzuarbeiten. Schleswig-Holsteins Ministerpräsident Günther sagt aber: Die Parteien könne man nicht gleichsetzen. Die Linke stelle keine Gefahr für die Demokratie dar.

➡️ https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/innenpolitik/guenther-linke-afd-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

#DanielGünther #CDU #LINKE #AfD

Natanox, 6 days ago to valorant

So… apparently #Valorant, or probably rather the #Vanguard "anti-cheat" system, is now taking screenshots of your desktop.

Not the game. Your desktop.

If it is Vanguard then quite a lot of games are now not just Ring 0 malware but openly admit to enact surveillance methods.

You can't make that shit up. And people still install it because apparently nerds are the only ones who still give a shit.
#privacy #security #enshittification #surveillance #dystopia

julienbarnoin, 6 days ago to legal

This is some dodgy license shenanigans.

Basically, Synergy (cross-platform keyboard and mouse sharing software) once was a one-time purchase, then moved to a subscription model. They took great pains to specify the new maintenance license did not apply to existing early adopters - see email below.

And then today I get this message saying my license is about to expire !

Is it even legal to pull something like this? In any case it's not a great way to treat early adopters !

#licensing #legal

Screenshot from Synergy software with a pop-up saying: "Your maintenance license expires in 28 days. After your maintenance license expires, you'll still be able to use this version of Synergy, but you'll no longer have access to technical support and software updates. Renew today to continue receiving technical support and updates."

EU_Commission, 7 days ago to random

The EU is stronger with the 10 countries that joined our Union two decades ago.

Today, we proudly unfurl our Union's flag to celebrate #20YearsTogether.

This is the symbol of our unity, solidarity and prosperity.

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kaia, 7 days ago to random

thisismissem, 9 days ago to mastodon

”But Mastodon also has [...] a lot on its plate including integration with Threads“

It's lines like this that makes me completely unable to take those calling for a hard fork of Mastodon seriously.

All Mastodon do for Threads is the same they for any fediverse developer having issues federating with them. (And there's certainly limits to that)

Along with perhaps writing more FEPs to standardize behaviour, which benefits everyone

#mastodon

Bundesregierung, 13 days ago to random German

Menschen können aus unterschiedlichsten Gründen ihre Wohnung verlieren – zum Beispiel durch Mietschulden, Arbeitslosigkeit oder Krankheit. Jede und jeder sollte die Chance auf eine sichere Unterkunft haben.

mina, 14 days ago (edited 14 days ago) to random

Does anybody know a PeerTube instance which does accept registrations and uploads?

I'd be willing to pay a few Euros.

Or a really cheap web hoster, where I could install my own?

The instance, I was using has apparently gone away.

Update: The instance, I was using was only temporarily down and is back up. So: no urgency.

In the long run, I will probably just run my own instance.

Natanox, 14 days ago to Skyrim

"I'm tired of all this shit."

proceeds to disregard physics, putting himself on fire
#Skyrim #gaming

javi, 15 days ago (edited 15 days ago) to random

offf, this story about how Google made google search into a pile of seagull shit hits me hard:

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

Around the time of this story, I was living through a similar situation in my work life (on a much smaller scope, of course, WordPress.com first, Tumblr later).

Back in 2019, working on WordPress, I started finding myself, almost weekly, arguing against people who wanted to take the product we were working at and made it worse if that mean they could squeeze 0.1% more revenue from it

The 0.1% figure is not even a random number: I remember this speciffic A/B test on WordPress.com that was declared a success and shipped to 100% of the users because it increased the free-to-paid conversion by 0.1%. Soon after it was released, I found out that as a side effect, it increased the churn of free users by 20 something %,so I called for an urgent rollback and removal of the change. So I was promptly explained that we didn't care about free-users churn, because finance had calculated the average long-term value of the free users to be something like $2 per year, and the increase in conversion was bigger than what we could get from them.

Everything became about growth hacking. Everything became thinly-veiled dark patterns. In our private dev slack channels, we joked that since it was impossible to make it smaller or less conspicuous, the next thing the growth team was going to ask us to do was to make the 'free plan' button flee away from the mouse pointer when the user tried to click it. We kept making our product worse, we kept consciously crippling the cheaper versions so we could force people to move to the more expensive options.

Back then I was the lead of one of the two dev divisions working on WordPress.com, so my job was mainly to discuss what we were going to be doing, when and how. And I was getting drained by a constant state of fight against a constant wave of shit they wanted us to build. So much than by the end of 2020, the CEO quietly told me to follow the growth team plans and shut up or step down.

So I requested to move to tumblr, because I thought the pastures were greener over there. But it was all the same: Adding login walls to what we were pretending to be "the last bastion of the free internet", cramping in embarrasingly obvious money-making schemes disguised as features, and making them silently opt-out instead of opt-in so the less people the possible would deactivate them, having to fend off the pressure from the CEO to make everything algorithmic timelines because, you know, tiktok makes a lot of money and why aren't we, etc etc.

I found myself in a place where building something good that people enjoy using was no longer a priority, but tricking people into generating more money for the company was. And when I looked around me, I could see that happening everywhere else, not only in my company. Experiencing the start of the enshittification years from inside wasn't easy.

And, as in the article, the people who decided to turn the shit-metter up to 200%, have a name, in every case. And these people, no matter if they are called Sundar and Prabhakar or Matt and Mark, are destroying the internet. These people are milllionaires, or billionaries, and are destroying our shared, common spaces to squeeze some extra cash from us.

That's why the fediverse and its principles are important. Because that's how we take back internet from their dirty hands. That's how we make internet resilient against them. That's how we build the commons.