A comment on a Hacker News thread on a Business Insider article titled It’s not just you — no one is posting on social media anymore got me thinking about my experience with switching to Mastodon and why I have found it a refreshing experience.
Carbs, Fats, and the Mortality Maze: What Your Diet Means for Your Life Expectancy Grandma used to constantly say, "Eat your carbs, they give you energy!" but now, personal trainers are encouraging you to stop eating carbs and switch to keto. What gives, then? I stumbled uncovered an intriguing cohort research that may or may...
Japanese gamers have continued to embrace the PC as a platform at staggering rates, jumping up 43% from 131.3 billion yen to 189.2 billion yen in 2022. That's a total size of about $1.3 billion US. The data comes from the latest report by Kadokawa ASCII Research Laboratories, an industry think tank which compiles yearly material...
While Baldur’s Gate 3 takes place in the land of Faerûn, Dungeons and Dragons is home to a whole multiverse of lands, characters, and history. This means that the Baldur’s Gate 3 races you can play as focus on the Sword Coast, but not anymore, as a colossal mod for the RPG game gives you over 50 races to choose from across...
Similar opinions as for lemmy tbh, it's basically an inferior reddit for now. Fewer active members, fewer tools, features and customization options, worse stability and performance. The idea is sound but the implementation is far from ideal, but it works well enough for now.
And before everyone goes for my jugular, yeah I know. FOSS, early development, few people working on it, new experimental tech, etc etc. That doesn't help with any of the actual issues or widespread adoption though.
Integration with mastodon is a neat idea but nobody really uses it, if it even works. Some posts are visible from there but most aren't, some communities have like a dozen people checking microblogs but most people have no idea that it exists... or it's unusable if it's a generic hashtag like gaming, full of foreign submissions because language filtering doesn't work, and breaking conversations because it can only render first-level reply.
So I dunno. I hope it takes off and gets better but it will be quite a while until that happens I think.
Collecting profile pics, posts, likes, and so on, is basically what is needed to federate. If they don't collect that, they can't display things from other instances.
And guess what our instances will collect the same data from Threads to be able to display stuff from there...
The ruling, which is yet to be finalized, would dramatically reduce potential damages facing Alphabet Inc. over claims that Google Play abuses its control over Android mobile applications
US District Judge James Donato in San Francisco canceled his class-status order after he concluded that testimony by an expert for consumer plaintiffs “is based on assumptions about the Play Store apps that are not supported by the evidence.”
The erosion of consumer protections in action. Toss out the entire order because of one expert witness? I guarantee he didn't think twice before accepting all of Google's statements and witnesses as fact. "Thank you your honor, your check's in the mail."
I know we've had cases like older GTA or NFS titles removing songs from the game in updates because the licenses ran out. I wonder if the same thing is going to happen to Hi-Fi RUSH eventually?...
The project will see Rubi Laboratories, a California-based startup, capture carbon dioxide gases created in Walmart supply-chain factories, then turn it into yarn to use in a brand-new clothing line....
"Roman texts convey little meaningful information about Indian political dynasties and offer even less about the practical operations of Indo-Roman trade. A series of Egyptian documents has recently revolutionised understanding of the logistical and political requirements for moving bulk goods from India across the Sahara and...
Mastodon is Rewinding the Clock on Social Media — in a Good Way (chrlschn.medium.com)
A comment on a Hacker News thread on a Business Insider article titled It’s not just you — no one is posting on social media anymore got me thinking about my experience with switching to Mastodon and why I have found it a refreshing experience.
Severely limiting your intake of carbohydrates and fats, you may be shortening your lifespan (www.theinnovativehorizon.com)
Carbs, Fats, and the Mortality Maze: What Your Diet Means for Your Life Expectancy Grandma used to constantly say, "Eat your carbs, they give you energy!" but now, personal trainers are encouraging you to stop eating carbs and switch to keto. What gives, then? I stumbled uncovered an intriguing cohort research that may or may...
Botchamania 479 (youtu.be)
Japanese PC gaming saw another year of explosive growth (www.pcgamer.com)
Japanese gamers have continued to embrace the PC as a platform at staggering rates, jumping up 43% from 131.3 billion yen to 189.2 billion yen in 2022. That's a total size of about $1.3 billion US. The data comes from the latest report by Kadokawa ASCII Research Laboratories, an industry think tank which compiles yearly material...
You can now play as a Minotaur, Kobold, and even FFXIV races in Baldur's Gate 3 (www.pcgamesn.com)
While Baldur’s Gate 3 takes place in the land of Faerûn, Dungeons and Dragons is home to a whole multiverse of lands, characters, and history. This means that the Baldur’s Gate 3 races you can play as focus on the Sword Coast, but not anymore, as a colossal mod for the RPG game gives you over 50 races to choose from across...
Valve bans thousands of Dota 2 smurfing accounts, threatens greater future punishments (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
"Smurfing is not welcome in Dota," say Valve, as they ban 90,000 alt accounts and say they've traced the main accounts …
How are you using or hoping to use kbin? (kbin.social)
With Twitter and Reddit the way that they are, many people are turning to federated servers as their online home, kbin among them....
X sets its sights on LinkedIn with a job listing feature | Engadget (www.engadget.com)
The social network X plans to compete with LinkedIn by offering job listings and more, CEO Elon Musk said in a new post.
Threads' New Terms & Conditions Affects the Fediverse (wedistribute.org)
Threads, Meta's new microblogging platform, is updating its terms to focus on data collection from "Third Party Users".
US Judge cancels class-action lawsuit won by users against Google (mybs.in) Japanese
The ruling, which is yet to be finalized, would dramatically reduce potential damages facing Alphabet Inc. over claims that Google Play abuses its control over Android mobile applications
Will Hi-Fi RUSH be unplayable with the original OST in few years due to music licensing? (kbin.social)
I know we've had cases like older GTA or NFS titles removing songs from the game in updates because the licenses ran out. I wonder if the same thing is going to happen to Hi-Fi RUSH eventually?...
New GPU Power Connector Eliminates Cables, Delivers More Than 600W (www.tomshardware.com)
No more 16-pin 12VHPWR issues.
Dark and Darker wiped player progress today due to an influx of cheaters (www.pcgamer.com)
The PvP dungeon crawl wiped progress today but also brought back voice chat.
Sleep can be most restful for older adults when nighttime temperature range is between 68 to 77°F, study finds (medicalxpress.com)
New research finds that sleep can be most efficient and restful for older adults when nighttime bedroom ambient temperature ranges between 68 to 77°F.
Woman’s mystery illness turns out to be 3-inch snake parasite in her brain (arstechnica.com)
It's the first time the snake parasite has been seen in a human, let alone a brain.
The end of the Googleverse (www.theverge.com)
The last 25 years of Google’s history can be boiled down to a battle against the Google bomb. Is the search engine finally losing to its hijackers?
Walmart is rolling out a new, sci-fi-sounding product: Clothing made out of air pollution (news.yahoo.com)
The project will see Rubi Laboratories, a California-based startup, capture carbon dioxide gases created in Walmart supply-chain factories, then turn it into yarn to use in a brand-new clothing line....
Elon Musk appearance at Valorant Champions tournament met with boos, crowd chanting 'bring back Twitter' (www.pcgamer.com)
Well well well, if it isn't the consequences of my own actions.
TIL passage of merchandise over the Silk Road was a mere trickle compared with the maritime flow of goods between India and Rome during the first-millennium CE (scroll.in)
"Roman texts convey little meaningful information about Indian political dynasties and offer even less about the practical operations of Indo-Roman trade. A series of Egyptian documents has recently revolutionised understanding of the logistical and political requirements for moving bulk goods from India across the Sahara and...
India’s lunar mission beams back video and images from the Moon’s south pole (www.theverge.com)
The mission’s rover is roving and its sensors are sensing.
BigPEmu v1.08 (www.richwhitehouse.com)
BigPEmu, an Atari Jaguar emulator.
Stepping back from the Tusky project (nikclayton.writeas.com)
I discovered severe lapses in how the Tusky project's donations (received via OpenCollective) were being handled. When I reported those t...