In a recent competition, a state-of-the-art quantum computer barely edged out a supercomputer, showing the growing utility of even noisy quantum computers....
I can see that. To maybe overgeneralize, the people that are active on reddit today will consist primarily of the people that were inconvenienced by the protest. Quite a lot of them are pissed that they were inconvenienced. Support for the protest on the platform will kind of evaporate because the majority that understand why it was necessary are already gone.
Yeah, I don't have hard numbers or anything but I wouldn't be surprised if the active Reddit users today consisted more heavily of people that are pissed that they were inconvenienced by the blackout.
Yeah, I don't really expect any further voting on any given subreddit's side to be particularly successful from this point on because of that.
But honestly I'm kind of okay with a slower start on this side of things. If we see any kind of concentrated surge of users on to the various /kbin or Lemmy instances then I think we'll find out really quick where the breaking point is from an infrastructure and moderation standpoint. Like a few others have mentioned in this thread, we don't really need Reddit to die - we just need these alternatives to grow in to viable platforms in their own right.
For me it was minesweeper clones. I got frustrated one day and decided to learn how to be good at minesweeper. After beating the medium and large boards a couple times I looked on Steam for minesweeper versions, and turns out there's a whole genre of clones. Some of them are direct clones of the game, while others are very...
Sea of Stars is jumping straight to the top of my To Play list once that drops. I've heard great things about Chained Echoes too. I should make some time for it.
I'm moving away from reddit and looking for a new link aggregator/discussion site, but I want to host my own personal one, and just participate with fediverse sites with federation, since it's unclear which of kbin or lemmy will take off fully, and which specific sites will stick around....
The good news is that by the nature of federation, the only factor that's really going to matter is which software you're more comfortable with. If you decide on kbin, you can still federate with all of the Lemmy instances out there and vice versa. And it's not limited to just those two services either. You can follow Mastodon users or any other ActivityPub-enabled service too.
So even if there's a clear winner between Lemmy or kbin public instances, as long as the projects are getting updated and one gives you an experience that gels with how you like to use it then go wild.
I've had the discography of Distant Dream on heavy rotation lately. A fantastic choice if you're in the mood for some instrumental progressive post-metal. Helps me focus on whatever I'm working on.
I agree. Even if Reddit booted out spez tomorrow and canceled the whole API plan I wouldn't believe their sincerity. The problem is no longer just that the API price is insulting and that they want to hamstring 3rd party apps, it's that Reddit as a company believes it doesn't have to respect the users that are solely responsible for generating the value of their website. Its why the Apollo dev has stated that even a complete course reversal on Reddit's part wouldn't bring Apollo back at this point; Reddit has proven that they are not a reliable business partner.
It's honestly exciting being at the start of what feels like a new social media wave.
It really is. Giving up Twitter for Mastodon was easy for me because I never used Twitter, but Reddit has been a staple of my life for over ten years now. It feels a lot more real this time around. Thankfully a federated link aggregator like /kbin suits my preferences much more than a microblog like Mastodon does, and I'm excited that this will still let me peruse that microblog content when it suits me.
By silencing the molecular pathway that prevents macrophages from attacking our own cells, Penn Engineers have manipulated these white blood cells to eliminate solid tumors. […]
Someone here already has 12 subs on his own. We would be inspired to avoid the era of the power mods. Moding should involve an interest, not just collecting rings of infinity like it's a gold rush. How can it be a good practice in the long term?...
Definitely a valid concern. Any attempt to make a limitation like this should include consideration of what it would take to circumvent it.
In this case it sounds more like we should find a way to encourage or reward moderators who limit themselves in scope. Perhaps magazines can have a visible moderation "grade" which is scored on factors including how thin it's moderators are stretched with obligations to other magazines. Maybe it could also pull information from the moderation log such how how contested their mod actions are. I'm imagining a situation where magazine subscribers can upvote and downvote mod actions the same way they would a normal post. In aggregate it would be a way to measure the community's support or opposition to any given action.
I can also imagine how such a system could be abused in its own right, but we can save figuring all of that out for if it ever actually matters. :P
I agree, and it could be that the simple action of needing to swap accounts for each magazine they moderate in order to get around the limit would be sufficient for all but the most determined anyways. It's an inconvenience that makes itself more prominent the more someone has to do it.
And a power mod needing to rely on a ton of different accounts does diminish one factor that might motivate someone to do it, in that the "prestige" of being a mod wouldn't be attributed to their main account.
I've finally finished my exams, and now finnaly have some time to play. I was wondering what games I should try out? I usually end up playing for 30 minutes before losing my attention span, so I'm looking for a very immersive and simple to get into game. Anybody got any suggestions?
Ageing mice, worms and monkeys can live longer or healthier lives when fed large amounts of taurine, a common ingredient in health supplements and energy drinks, a study suggests....
Obviously just downing energy drinks will cause a whole host of other problems, but it'll be interesting to see what they narrow down the actual chemical mechanism at play to and whether that may have any relevance to humans as well.
I'm pretty excited for this game. I don't have a PS5 yet, maybe this Christmas. But if you do, what better way to spend time in the world of Final Fantasy when it feels like the rest of the internet in down.
The demo went a long way to assuaging some of my concerns about the combat. The only major issue I experienced was that any time I had combat in an enclosed room, I lost my frame of reference for where I entered the room since all of the objects inside were destroyed and combat tended to whip me around in every which direction. Without fail, I always accidentally chose the wrong door out and ended up backtracking before realizing my mistake.
I hope that we see greater variety in the interior environments besides dark and grim stone corridors that are impossible to distinguish, which should help keep this issue from cropping up nonstop like it did in the post-demo section for me.
Need to finally finish my Death Stranding playthrough, which I have about 80 hours in so far. Cassette Beasts is also on the docket, but I'm still super early in that one.
Haha yeah, it's definitely a bit of a polarizing game for that reason. I just like how it really leaves you alone with your thoughts quite a lot and is kind of Player versus Environment in an almost too-literal sense. There's just something about rebuilding those highways all the way across the landscape to re-civilize it just a bit that really engaged my lizard brain.
What game mechanics do you enjoy or that surprised you when playing a game? I recently started playing Tunic and I love building out the "manual" for the game and getting hints on how to play.
Honestly that's a big reason that Personas 3, 4, and 5 stand as some of my favorite games. Letting a player focus on the main character's relationships with the supporting cast around them just makes the main story hit that much harder when it involves all of these people you've ended up forming strong feelings about.
Shadow of the Colossus fits the bill on this one for me. Jacob Geller's video on the decade-long search for the game's last secret is a much watch IMO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQNeYbBiCKw
With gaming often bringing me into a really depressive headspace sometimes with how the markets are developing, whats a game you can always go to and just be lost in, or just be happy with?...
Mitsuda might just rank as my favorite video game composer of all time, and it's largely due to his work in Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross. As time goes on and I discover more games he's had a hand in, my opinion really only grows stronger.
Fantastic recommendation on Casiopeia, and yeah - jazz fusion ended up having quite a large influence on VGM. I was amazed when a buddy of mine started pointing out some of the connections. T-SQUARE is also worth a listen, for anyone wanting more music in this style.
New technique in error-prone quantum computing makes classical computers sweat (news.berkeley.edu)
In a recent competition, a state-of-the-art quantum computer barely edged out a supercomputer, showing the growing utility of even noisy quantum computers....
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What's the latest video game genre rabbit hole you jumped into?
For me it was minesweeper clones. I got frustrated one day and decided to learn how to be good at minesweeper. After beating the medium and large boards a couple times I looked on Steam for minesweeper versions, and turns out there's a whole genre of clones. Some of them are direct clones of the game, while others are very...
Best for personal self hosting, kbin or Lemmy or something else?
I'm moving away from reddit and looking for a new link aggregator/discussion site, but I want to host my own personal one, and just participate with fediverse sites with federation, since it's unclear which of kbin or lemmy will take off fully, and which specific sites will stick around....
What's a song that you like?
Whats a song (or more than one) that you like, or been listening to lately?
A lot subreddits end their blackout tomorrow. Will you go back to Reddit, or continue with kbin and the Fediverse?
I haven't used Reddit at all since the blackout began. Even if they change course, the Fediverse is growing on me, and I think I'll stay here....
Engineered White Blood Cells Eliminate Cancer - Penn Engineering Blog (blog.seas.upenn.edu)
By silencing the molecular pathway that prevents macrophages from attacking our own cells, Penn Engineers have manipulated these white blood cells to eliminate solid tumors. […]
Should we establish a maximum of subs per moderators?
Someone here already has 12 subs on his own. We would be inspired to avoid the era of the power mods. Moding should involve an interest, not just collecting rings of infinity like it's a gold rush. How can it be a good practice in the long term?...
Recommendation for games to play
I've finally finished my exams, and now finnaly have some time to play. I was wondering what games I should try out? I usually end up playing for 30 minutes before losing my attention span, so I'm looking for a very immersive and simple to get into game. Anybody got any suggestions?
Taurine supplement makes animals live longer — what it means for people is unclear (www.nature.com)
Ageing mice, worms and monkeys can live longer or healthier lives when fed large amounts of taurine, a common ingredient in health supplements and energy drinks, a study suggests....
Final Fantasy 16 demo is out, save carries over to full game (www.polygon.com)
I'm pretty excited for this game. I don't have a PS5 yet, maybe this Christmas. But if you do, what better way to spend time in the world of Final Fantasy when it feels like the rest of the internet in down.
What Are You Playing?
Old School Doom for me mostly with new wad files on GZDoom
Star Trucker: Elite Dangerous meets American Truck Simulator (www.youtube.com)
What are some of your favorite game mechanics?
What game mechanics do you enjoy or that surprised you when playing a game? I recently started playing Tunic and I love building out the "manual" for the game and getting hints on how to play.
Is it hard to give up your niche reddit communities? I may have a solution. Kind of.
So, this isn't meant to be a "guide" or anything but I thought it could be helpful to some....
Comfort games?
With gaming often bringing me into a really depressive headspace sometimes with how the markets are developing, whats a game you can always go to and just be lost in, or just be happy with?...