kazerniel

@kazerniel@lemmy.world

I’m decreasing my social media use, so message me on Discord if you want to chat.

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kazerniel,
  • Abzu - hated the underwater movement controls
  • Deponia & MechaNika - the protagonist is an asshole
  • Papers Please - too stressful (works well as a piece of art, but wasn’t an enjoyable experience)
kazerniel,

Üdv! Bár én sem élek Mo-n, de azért vannak azért még független, magas színvonalú médiumok, pl.: hírekre Telex vagy 24.hu, mélyebb oknyomozó anyagokra Átlátszó vagy Direkt36.

Mo-n élő családtagoktól is azt hallom, hogy az ország egyre menetel a fasizmus irányába, Orbán bandája már minden állami intézményt kifosztott, a szegényekre és kisebbségekre pedig nagyon rájár a rúd. És nem tűnik úgy, hogy ez akár középtávon is változna.

kazerniel,

I’m a graphic designer, and it could be interesting for working on CMYK files and actually see them as they would look on paper.

kazerniel,

I think this is their attempt to EEE (Embrace, Extend, Extinguish) the Fediverse, so I’m strongly in favour of immediately defederating corporate instances as soon as they are created.

kazerniel,

I also have limited understanding, but these are huge corporations with huge userbases. If they start giving “helpful” input on how the ActivityPub protocol should develop, it may exert a strong pressure/influence due to their sheer size.

I know it’s not the same situation, but it reminds me of how Google keeps trying to push shady stuff into Chromium, even though it’s supposed to be free, open-source software.

kazerniel,

I still see it, albeit rarely, on some subreddits, eg. NatureIsMetal

kazerniel,

OpenStreetMap is a joy to behold and fun to edit too, but for me where it really falls behind is its route planner :/ Google Maps lets us plan with public transport, shows multiple route options with journey times, and lets us edit walking paths by just dragging the line. OSM desktop doesn’t seem to have any of these features.

kazerniel,

Not only copycats, but there’s an Indian musician who has apparently been using almost 100% the same logo for the past two years.

twitter.com/kxlider

What's something you used to do/see/say but don't anymore because you don't feel it's right?

Me personally? I’ve become much less tolerant of sexist humor. Back in the day, cracking a joke at women’s expense was pretty common when I was a teen. As I’ve matured and become aware to the horrific extent of toxicity and bigotry pervading all tiers of our individualistic society, I’ve come to see how exclusionarly and...

kazerniel,

My high school class was in mid-'00s, and there was one girl who very much had that butch/tomboy vibe going on. I drifted away from the class, so only heard rumours after graduation, but I think she never actually came out as anything. On the other hand three others of us (two of whom, including myself, I never would have guessed back in high school) eventually came out as various shades of queer :D

kazerniel,

Interesting that this sir/ma’am thing is very location-dependent. I’ve been living in Scotland more more than a decade now and I probably heard someone address me as “sir” a grand total of twice. I remember because it always felt so jarring, like why was this random shop assistant speaking to me so subserviently O.o

But I heard in some places (USA?) it’s very commonplace.

kazerniel,

I’m happy for your realisation, OP!

For me it was homophobic and ableist slurs as general words for “bad”. It’s very common in my native society, so after I started learning more about social justice issues, it took a few years to wean myself off.

Also, looking back, I realise now that in middle school I was lowkey cruel to some classmates, manipulated them for my own amusement. I was never one to bully others, but I was often a bystander entertained by others being bullied. (Even though I was being bullied myself by the same people on other occasions. But I somehow never made that connection with their other victims, I guess my empathy wasn’t fully developed back then. Or maybe it was a mental self-defence mechanism, idk.)

kazerniel, (edited )

I’ve been a Firefox main since before it was even called Firefox :D

As much as it lagged behind in speed in the early days of Chrome, back then Chrome didn’t have anywhere near to Firefox’s amazing selection of addons, many of which were essential to my workflow.

That also meant that I hated Firefox’s switch to WebExtensions, as it gutted most of the addons I used at the time, and it took them many years to get back as many features as possible (which of course has never been all the original features).

I even switched to Firefox ESR, then when that dropped support too, to Waterfox for a few years to retain the ability to use classic addons. But eventually it became too much hassle, and I have been a Firefox mainbranch user again since 2021 :)

For the handful of websites that only work in Chrome (or when I need to test my own websites), I’ve been using Brave in recent years. It’s weirdly into crypto nonsense, but at least those features can be disabled. But if anyone knows a better Google-less Chromium browser, pls let me know!

kazerniel,

Thanks, I’ll check that one out too :)

kazerniel,

Oh RSS feed is a good idea. The only sub I still check is r/Genshin_Impact_Leaks xd

Edit: Anyone knows a better free web-based RSS reader than Feedly? It kept sending me to its paid service for trying to sub to a Reddit feed, until I subbed to it via SiftRSS D:

kazerniel,

Not that advanced, but two things I found useful:

  • If you’re in a country that blocks torrent websites but not trackers (eg. UK), visit the sites via Tor browser.
  • Rutracker.org and Rutracker.ru are surprisingly not blocked in the UK and have lots of good software. They’re BBCode-style forums, so fairly obvious how to navigate/search them even if you don’t speak Russian. If you want to read the description or comments of a specific torrent, pop the page into google translate.
kazerniel,

Yeah, before comments were added, you just reblogged the post, and added your content in the bottom, so the posts became increasingly nested as they moved through chains of followers.

Unlike Reddit/Lemmy, this system made it very hard to follow the entire conversation, as you could only see whichever specific “branch” reached you via the people you follow, and you had to go digging in the notes of the original post to try to find other response threads. (Which, in the case of truly popular posts with hundreds of reblogs buried among thousands of likes, good luck.)

Oh and you could also edit the original post (and any edits the OP made didn’t show up in existing responses as they essentially snapshotted it in the moment of reblog), meaning it was very hard to find the canonical / original versions of famous threads. Especially as people often deleted their accounts, so the only place a thread might be preserved is some never seen reblog of an obscure, abandoned account :D

They improved the UX a bit in recent years (comments, separating reblogs from likes), but I think due to its innate structure Tumblr is still pretty messy for trying to have conversations with more than a single person. It’s still better than Twitter lol. And of course Reddit/Lemmy is miles above either.

kazerniel,

This one seems to have actual user activity, the other one has zero comments.

(And since when do we care if a community is "official"? If we did, we would be on the HoYo forums 🤷‍♂️)

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