Insanely deep rpgs are a bit of an issue for me as well. And I generally do love rpg games, but I feel like the good ones should ease you into decisions a bit better than dropping you into a character creator.
Edit: Idk if it's just me on linux, but it seems like CS1.6 no longer launches on the new update. A bummer, but I had a lot of fun play HLDM just now so I think they'll fix it eventually.
So it looks like I've become the moderator and owner of /m/manga and I'm glad to take charge here to help keep it clean and provide moderation needs for manga fans across the Fediverse/Threadiverse....
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While it's a bit of a faux-pas to conflate the way a game level "looks" with how it's designed to be played, I think that we might get more milage out of this magazine if we also allow posts from users who want to talk about how game levels "look" as well. We can make use of tags here for users who really don't want to see...
Kicking off this sub with some content as an example of what we should expect from posts. This seemed like an interesting video and I think it's worth sharing here.
@Ernest has pushed an update which allows users to request ownership/moderation of abandoned magazines. Ghost/abandoned magazines were fairly prevalent after the initial wave of hype due to users either squatting magazine names or becoming inactive for other reasons. Now is your chance to get involved, if you were waiting to do...
This is great. I dont want to request moderation on too many so I just picked a few that I think I could handle and communities I'd like to see developed. (Specifically the manga and bitwig magazine.)
As an added note to the development team @ernest and others:
This has worked pretty well and I'm now trying to clean up the areas I have ownership of now. However, I have a few notes:
I would like it if, in the case of a community ownership transfer happens, that the original "founder" account was noted on the right hand side with the panel details. It would be nice to know this as a moderator or owner of a magazine as, if the user ever comes back, they could reapply for moderation access and I could approve knowing that the person was actually the original founder. Right now, it would be hard to verify that the person submitting a mod request is actually the person who originally founded the community for example.
It would be nice if moderators had the ability to add badges to existing posts to help clean up communities that might have had a lot of content but not much in terms of badge management.
When ownership transfers, it would be nice to get a notification. When transfer of /m/manga and /m/bitwig came to me, for example, I didn't notice until a few days after since I didn't receive a notification.
Should these types of issues be posted as a "bug"? Or is it better to just leave feedback here?
The instance has been updated to the latest version of the code. For the next few hours, there might be issues with communication in the fediverse. We are working on it, and everything should return to normal shortly. I'll keep you updated....
signing into cloud services and downloading apps is just so much easier to do!
This is actually true, but it doesn't speak to why self hosting is "impossible" and more to how the lack of education around computers have reached an inflection point.
There's no reason why self hosting should be some bizarre concept; In another reality, we would all have local servers and firewalls that then push our content into the wider internet and perhaps even intranet based notes. Society as a whole would be better if we chose to structure the internet that way instead of handing the keys to the biggest companies on the stock market.
I'll give this podcast a listen to though, as it might be interesting. I think the reality is that some more docker frontends might help casual users jump into the realm of self hosting -- especially be setting up proxy managers and homepage sites (like homarr) that work intuitively that never requires you to enter ports and IPs (though fearing that is also an education problem, not a problem with the concept itself.)
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has used a system called Giant Oak Search Technology (GOST) to help the agency scrutinize social media posts, determine if they are “derogatory” to the U.S., and then use that information as part of immigration enforcement, according to a new cache of documents reviewed by 404 Media.
Crazy to me that they'd shut down instead of going open source and integrating with the fediverse. Doesn't even seem like a good business move as offering hosting for other companies and professional groups seems like a good market opportunity in a world where businesses even dislike Twitter.
Edit: for example, offer gitlab like service but for social media.
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Some people on the fediverse do not want their views challenged and react with hostility. It's not like that all over, but it can certainly be frustrating if some users treat this as a walled garden of thought and lash out at others for challenging their viewpoints.
If an intern gives you some song lyrics on demand, do they sue the parents?
Uh--- what? That analogy makes no sense. AI is trained off actual lyrics, which is why companies who create these models are at risk (they don't own the data they're feeding into the model.)
Also your comment is completely mixing Trademark and Copyright examples. It has nothing to do with brand names and everything to do with intellectual property.
Spotify serves mp3s because it uses less bandwidth and most people can’t tell the difference on their 30€ Bluetooth headset.
I think this highlights a bigger issue when it comes to this discussion.
The issue isn't the mp3 format -- for the most part, the format of any lossy encoder can sound good with the right settings. The problem is that, unlike flac, all encoded lossy files are essentially untrustworthy audio formats. So when people say mp3 sounds bad, it's only a half truth in the same way that it's a half truth to say that people cannot tell a difference. You are putting trust in the person who encoded the audio to make the right choice and the encoder is putting trust in the idea that the person consuming the media can't tell the difference.
When it comes to being cheap on bandwidth since most users can't hear it, that's a huge cop-out being made for a company that can do better. While Apple is pretty notorious for making terrible decisions for arbitrary reasons, even they respect the user enough to allow you to opt into higher audio format quality. It's decisions like these that cement Apple as the kings of the creative computer user.
I have a kind of complicated system for organizing my music files -- some of which is admittedly way too much maintenance but it might be of interest to some.
For my general "commercial" music collection, the folder structure is roughly Music/%Release Artist | Band%/%Album%[%Year%]/%Track No.% - %Title%.%Format%
This is simple to maintain. I basically just use MusicBrainz Picard and set up appropriate paths.
For my soundtrack collection, it gets a bit more complicated. For Anime/Film/Whatever, I have it sorted basically the same way but in a different root folder. So something like: Music/Anime/%Release Artist | Band%/%Album%[%Year%]/%Track No.% - %Title%.%Format%
Which is also easy to maintain since most of these also have commercial releases.
But games are sorted more strangely. To put it simply, I have a folder structure that puts the console or platform first, followed by the game name and then the loose files. Since some of these files are emulated formats (.vgm, .nsf, .spc), I generally don't bother renaming them and keep them as is and trust that the music program in question has tagging support. It also means that having them sorted by console is mostly beneficial to quickly find emulated file formats, but YMMV and I have regretted the choice on occasion.
Obviously game soundtracks are spotty when it comes to releases. Some companies have reliable metadata you can get from MusicBrainz Picard, like SquareEnix, but others have no tagging at all or very incorrect tag values. Because of this, I generally use something like VGMDB, which is usually higher quality but not always. I do have to resort to manually correcting files on occasion.
If anyone has a nice automated way to sort this stuff out, it would be a real benefit to me as well.
No. I think that anybody can make a spin of Snow White if they want to which is why Disney spent a lot of their 90s in making unique IP that simply "borrowed" plot elements from famous plays. (The Lion King, for example.)
I imagine they'll eventually find a way to prevent us from blocking ads. Twitch TV for example has found some ways to make adblock useless.
It's a shame, and it's really just a side effect of google racing to the bottom of the adspace game. If ads weren't as cheap as they are today, they wouldn't be trying to maximize the amount of users who are forced to see advertisements.
I don’t wanna dive super deep into this, but ever since the news broke it feels like this place has become a hub for shit-flinging from literally everybody about the topic. Sure, I’ve seen some nuanced opinions and some people attempting to have a normal human conversation, but I just dislike people using this particular...
I agree. It's a mistake for Valve to reduce platform support as it becomes a justification for dropping other platforms for other developers as well.
I know that MacOS is a bit of a pain to support right now with how steam and third party applications are treated, but it would be a bigger issue for Apple to drop support if Valve maintained a strong presence on the platform via steam. With the way things are now, Apple might rip the bandaid off and just remove the ability to have third party stores on their computers. This is already what they do with Iphones/Ipads
Both in that case are a copyright violation, depending on which images your source. Collages are a frequent example of this, it's already an answered problem.
So, while this is not exactly a typical "self-hosting" question as many users might not be using domains, I would be curious if anyone else has any experience with this....
As an update, I think this was a side effect of how Wordpress / Gitlab was set up, where it was expecting it to be IP:PORT, which would force a redirect to the port specifically. Using the subdomain as the setting for web url seemed to resolve my problem. Thanks for the replies from everyone as all of the advice here is still really useful!
How are you all playing these insanely complex games?
Just some off the top of my head: Destiny, Deep Rock Galactic, Overwatch, and most recently Baldur’s Gate....
Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update - Half Life Uplink, New Multiplayer Maps, Updated Graphical Settings, SteamDeck Verified and More (www.half-life.com)
Under new moderation: Here's the current plan
So it looks like I've become the moderator and owner of /m/manga and I'm glad to take charge here to help keep it clean and provide moderation needs for manga fans across the Fediverse/Threadiverse....
FPGBC KIT: Gameboy FPGA Replacement Kit (funnyplaying.com)
FEATURES Simulating real hardware using FPGA Supports hardware cartridge Features USB-C compatibility for easy firmware updates Higher sound quality speakers INCLUDED 1 x FPGBC PCB 1 x Panel（Including adapter ribbon） 1 x 2w speaker 1 x 1800mAH battery TYPEC housing （Need to purchase separately） NOTES The kit only...
Yay or Nay: Should we allow posts about environment art as well?
While it's a bit of a faux-pas to conflate the way a game level "looks" with how it's designed to be played, I think that we might get more milage out of this magazine if we also allow posts from users who want to talk about how game levels "look" as well. We can make use of tags here for users who really don't want to see...
IndieTales: Breaking down the greatest level design trick I've ever witnessed (www.youtube.com)
Kicking off this sub with some content as an example of what we should expect from posts. This seemed like an interesting video and I think it's worth sharing here.
To those genuinely interested in moderating
@Ernest has pushed an update which allows users to request ownership/moderation of abandoned magazines. Ghost/abandoned magazines were fairly prevalent after the initial wave of hype due to users either squatting magazine names or becoming inactive for other reasons. Now is your chance to get involved, if you were waiting to do...
kbin.social update
The instance has been updated to the latest version of the code. For the next few hours, there might be issues with communication in the fediverse. We are working on it, and everything should return to normal shortly. I'll keep you updated....
Pebble Shuts Down...But Starts a Mastodon Instance? (wedistribute.org)
Security expert reveals surprising way to make your password stronger: use emojis (nypost.com)
The Verge Takes on Self-Hosting for the Masses (www.theverge.com)
Inside ICE’s Database for Finding ‘Derogatory’ Online Speech (www.404media.co)
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has used a system called Giant Oak Search Technology (GOST) to help the agency scrutinize social media posts, determine if they are “derogatory” to the U.S., and then use that information as part of immigration enforcement, according to a new cache of documents reviewed by 404 Media.
Pebble, the Twitter alternative previously known as T2, is shutting down | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
The first I’ve heard of this platform is when it’s shutting down… might be why it did.
Where will we all be(e) next year?
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Music publishers sue Amazon-backed AI company over song lyrics (www.theguardian.com)
How do you manage your music library?
Hello!...
The Daily Wire Is Making Its Own Snow White Movie to Counter ‘Woke’ Disney Film Starring Latina (www.mediaite.com)
YouTube cracking on ad blockers. (lemmy.world)
Anybody else here dislike how beehaw is becoming a bit of a hub for the israel-palestine talk?
I don’t wanna dive super deep into this, but ever since the news broke it feels like this place has become a hub for shit-flinging from literally everybody about the topic. Sure, I’ve seen some nuanced opinions and some people attempting to have a normal human conversation, but I just dislike people using this particular...
Valve Says Counter-Strike 2 for macOS Not Happening Because There Aren't Enough Players on Mac to Justify It (www.macrumors.com)
https://www.macrumors.com/2023/10/10/valve-confirms-counter-strike-2-no-macos/
Users dodge A.I. filters to generate pictures of pop-culture characters performing terrorism (kotaku.com)
NGinx Proxy Manager and Domain Routing to Docker Services on Specific Ports
So, while this is not exactly a typical "self-hosting" question as many users might not be using domains, I would be curious if anyone else has any experience with this....