Fylkir

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Fylkir,

especially small ones with small file size games that are easy to reinstall over and over?

Wouldn’t even need a small game technically. I’m pretty sure the only way to properly calculate would be running a postinstall script and someone could presumably just keep running that script

Fylkir,

Throwing a tantrum about what exactly? They’re one of the oldest-running Lemmy instances. Until now they were running a fork based on a pre-Federation version of the codebase.

You believe they did a bunch of work migrating their database only to then negate that work by destroying the community they wanted to Federate with?

Fylkir,

Although they probably got some good sweet Nvidia dollars.

Fylkir,

Skyrim had under 100 employees.

Fylkir,

It’s a lot more nuanced than that. The Chapo mods wanted to follow site-wide rules but reddit refused to explain what was in violation of them.

Reddit actually has a weird history of flipflopping with the banhammer.

Back in the day, the XKCD subreddit was run by a guy who linked a Holocaust denial subreddit and the red pill in the sidebar. Reddit didn’t do anything about this. In fact The Red Pill still exists.

But then when the subreddit owner closed KotakuInAction, suddenly reddit doesn’t mind interfering with the free market of ideas.

Fylkir,

That’s not radically different from what happens with other abandoned subs, except that usually they are actually abandoned and there has to be more talk about who should take over.

Reddit’s policy has always been that subreddit requests only apply if someone actually goes vacant. The only reason XKCD still doesn’t have holocaust denial in the sidebar is because the guy who owned the sub disappeared. The XKCD case is especially egregious because I’d argue that associating a public figure’s webcomic with a horrendous opinion he doesn’t hold is something that would actually open you up to a lawsuit.

Fylkir,

To an extent I sometimes agree with the complaints about playersexual, but in this instance it feels like they’re just grasping for a reason to not be called a prude.

Fylkir,

Sure, but that’s a separate argument.

Fylkir,

Is it my fault if my coworker decides to live twice as far as I do?

I’d rather just let them sit in traffic thinking they gamed the system.

Fylkir,

The problem with zip is that Windows can’t open every zip file.

Fylkir,

Might be a bit heavy, but assuming you have a good upload/GPU: Jellyfin.

Fylkir,

Lemmy.world is slowing to a crawl and barely working due to being overloaded.

I heard 18.4 has performance improvements.

Fylkir,

You could also share links in a Url shortened style and use that redirect to let someone select an instance or log in to another service to know where to send links. This also isn’t great.

The ideal would be a site that asks you for your instance once, saves it as a cookie, then automatically redirects you.

Fylkir,
  1. You could trivially verify an emulated game with a checksum
  2. If a game is released on GOG, there are Checksums that are hidden from the user. GOG games are DRM-free, so there’s no reason anyone would modify the installer.

What social taboos that exist today do you think will not be around in 100 years?

I was reading a book on social life of the upper-middle class and new rich of the American 1920s and realized so many things we now do proudly were considered socially taboo back then. This was especially the case for clothing, makeup, women in certain public spaces, etc. What do you think will be different in the 2120s? Or...

Fylkir,

I’d be surprised if in 100 years there’s not at least one place in the world where wearing a pet collar is considered socially acceptable.

Fylkir,

This song is almost 40

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Fylkir,

How would this even be enforced?

Fylkir,

I’d say neither car looks good.

Fylkir,

The last update to NTFS was in 2004.

The fact that ReFS doesn’t even support all the features NTFS does is pathetic.

Fylkir,

At the very least, better filesystem level compression support. A somewhat common usecase might be people who use emulators. Both Wii U and PS3 are consoles where major emulators just use a folder on your filesystem. I know a lot of emulator users who are non-technical to the point that they don’t have “show hidden files and folders” enabled.

Also your average person wouldn’t necessarily need checksums, but having them built into the filesystem would lead to overall more reliability.

Fylkir,

Which reminds me: never seen Polish or German sausage on a pizza.

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Fylkir,

That’s kinda historically illiterate. The reason people tolerated Capitalism in the first place was that it smashed old forms of oppression and replaced them with less bad forms of oppression.

Fylkir,

Why don’t they stop making education stupid, then?

Fylkir,

The school has an obligation to educate students to the best of their ability.

Good luck enforcing that.

Fylkir,

Just use a Degoogled Android phone.

We need a 4th emergency service for people in crisis to just evac them from bad situations, almost like the witness protection.

I don’t want to get too political in shower thoughts, but this would solve a lot of the hot button issues if more people just had safer and supportive environments to escape to and volunteers / paid professionals to help them on the other end.

Fylkir,

Biggest problem is that you’d need the services everywhere for a 3-digit number to make sense.

Now if there was a 3-digit number that’d connect you to all the misc government services in your area, that’d be another thing.

Fylkir,

“Oh but what about the criminals, terrorists and pedos?”

What about the Windsors?

Fylkir,

The solution is not personalized ads, but localized ads like what ExplainXKCD does.

Fylkir,

I think the problem is finding communities that are what you actually want. The killer feature of reddit was that you could find a subreddit for basically any niche.

Fylkir,

The issue is more political than technical. Hopefully AV1 will fix that.

Fylkir,

American here. Here’s the three common contexts for tipping. Everything else is something someone’s trying to make a thing rather than actually a thing:

  1. Restaurants: If someone is bringing food from the Kitchen to your table
  2. Delivery: If someone’s delivering food. Or they’re personally delivering groceries.
  3. Transportation: If someone’s driving you personally. Like a Taxi.

Some say you should tip bathroom attendants. I’ve never even seen a bathroom attendant, but that seems like such a bizarre job to tip for, even by American standards.

Fylkir,

Exactly. A lot of what the protests did was embolden Spez. He basically thinks he can do whatever he wants now, but the expression “the straw that broke the camel’s back” applies here. He’s gonna keep making unpopular decisions that eventually make the site unusable for even the casual user.

Fylkir,

I've had Mi Goreng before. The Indomie brand.

Fylkir,

These days, it's much cheaper to just have international friends online.

Fylkir,

In my house I have a coffee maker that probably just keeps enough water for a single cup warm. Otherwise it takes a minute to heat.

Fylkir,

Yup. That's what I like about the Fediverse.

Fylkir,

Methinks perchance they’ve been imbibing the 40-rod.

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