There are a lot of tanky posts coming from lemmy.ml. Their whole purpose seems to be to troll and spread their bullshit far and wide. They are nearly as bad as the alt-right. They argue in bad faith and celebrate authoritarian oppression. The beehaw mods might want to consider defederating.
Beehaw seems to lack the option (can block users and communities, but not instances, is it a recent Lemmy setting that isn't on the version on Beehaw?), then again Beehaw is very strict on who it federates with so i expect the worsening of that instance will inevitably lead to their defederation
My issue with these is that my use case is public transport, for that it seems like GMaps is still unbeatable, i hope to find an alternative as good or better based on OSM soon because it's the one tool i still have no alternative to
According to software engineer and blogger, Paul Biggar, however, one key detail on the methods employed by the Lavender system that is often overlooked is the involvement of the messaging platform, WhatsApp. A major determining factor of the system’s identification is simply if an individual is in a WhatsApp group containing...
So I joined a new gym last year and was pleasantly surprised. They gave me a smart card to get in and out, that's it, no app, no accounts, no nothing. Well, today I got to the gym and saw the announcement that they are phasing out the access with the smart card and starting to use, you guessed it, an app....
First time i hear of this, sounds handy, although I've seen some of those "loyalty card" thingies with chips for hands-free usage, i tend to avoid them as a general principle as they're the opposite of privacy-oriented but for the few that you do want (like the store where you always buy your groceries from, to get extra discounts) might be handy
Given that the XMPP contingent is around, is there a comparison between a typical 2024 XMPP server (with all the recommended extensions and whatever), and Matrix?
Gabe Newell has done a lot for gamers and SPECIALLY for us in Linux Gaming, but he's still a billionaire with a yacht collection , give him props for his contributions but i don't think adding him to a "Good people list" is quite on point
Yeah, i was not necessarily looking for a hosting by the project devs, just seeing if there was some company offering managed hosting like masto.host and others do for Mastodon and so on, i have a general idea how much would it cost to have managed Mastodon and was curious about other Fedi options for this
Looks like another Have I Been Pwned, at least at a glance they're looking for email addresses, and given that you have your email with them if you're using this service they kinda do have it already
Been following the manga, and he does reflect more and deeper on the thing about the brother a bit later in the story (even though it does take him somewhat little time to accept it), hopefully it makes it to the anime
Yeah it was fun in the beginning, after all who never thought about being transported to another world where you ate a big hero with swords and magic?...
You very much are not. However, that's how things always work out, a new theme appears and fascinates people, then everybody and their mom start using it for many years until it gets strip mined. Another comment mentioned zombies as an example, you can hardly see new zombie apocalypse stories these days because it's been overused already, before that i believe it was vampires, and other prominent themes have preceded those and passed. Isekai as a trope is still extremely popular to the point that stories that don't even need it get it tacked in as a prop to help it get popular. It's the way these things happen, and will continue until the next fun thing appears. Then it becomes just another trope to be used at the right time.
Thing is, considering he's a kid of a backwater noble and slavery clearly is legal in that world, i don't see any other way he could have rescued her, had he just taken her by force she could have been legally taken away, bringing all sorts of legal issues to his dad and family. We'll see if the story gets far enough, if he can manage to bring an end to legal slavery in that country/empire
KPMG surveyed U.S. CEOs of companies turning over at least $500 million and found that just one-third expect a full return to the office in the next three years....
All these discussions turn into that because WE KNOW that no one will convince MS to stop doing whatever they want, specially after investing literally billions on this kind of technology, the idea of MS "being held accountable" is something that realistically will not happen, and literally the only leverage people have against them is to just stop playing their game. Oh yeah, it's not easy, but given the fact that MS have made it so that you'll HAVE to fight the tech and relearn stuff every time they unilaterally decide to change things you might as well put effort where it will make a difference and free you from their BS
Oh yeah, this MUST be done too, but expecting that to be the solution to MS apps getting worse all the time is for the moment not a solution for the random user of the day complaining of yet another MS enshittification escalation.
Switching to Linux gets you completely out of that mess and has lasting results, continuing to participate in the MS market might change things if the anti-monopoly forces taking encouraging actions the last few years continue advancing but will take years IF it happens, along with any class-action lawsuit, anything else in the meanwhile (patches, debloaters, secret policy rules or registry entries, etc.) is nothing more than a band-aid treating the symptoms.
So, these discussions always devolve to this because it's a proven and effective solution that works today and lasts, unlike any other patch that can be broken next time MS forces an update or catches you unaware, it's hard and imperfect and "not the CORRECT way to solve the problem", but works.
HOWEVER, there's cases where you do want to be able to like and comment: My main use case for Youtube these days is following crafters, people who make awesome stuff. And i do want to like and comment on those videos, not just for the obvious feedback to them but also to give them a hand in spreading the word of their stuff.
If the owner of the standard notes will now be a proton, doesn't that contradict this principle? I have a proton email account but I don't want it linked to my standard notes account. I don't strongly trust companies that offer packaged services like google or Microsoft....
I've mentioned this issue a few times, then "But Proton has proven to be good! It's OK" is the usual response, that's when i remind them of how Google also used to be good. I don't really use a notes taking app, but in general after Google, the idea of "one login, a gazillion apps" is something i dislike in principle because even if the one central authority doesn't go evil, one login incident and you're locked out of everything you depend on.
Yeah, I'll continue using Protonmail but that's likely all I'll use from them and diversify on the rest.
Proton said the Standard Notes app, which is available for both mobile and desktop, will remain “open source, freely available and fully supported”....
Even from the "all your eggs in one basket" kind of perspective it does feel worrisome, not to mention that i am unsure about this dilution of their focus on many apps being helpful, I'd rather have them focus on very few but rock solid and maintained services instead of going with the Google "we do everything" way to do things
Bought by Automattic? After they non-consensually took all of Tumblr and hosted Wordpress to train AI? And after their big boss revealed his transphobia? I guess i'll skip this one
Had a longer answer that went away for some reason 😭
Your criticism is fair, but:
Using the email as a seed on the generator goes halfway there, here's an example, although of course it could never change
Centralizing the avatar opens that service up to be grabbed for tracking like Gravatar did, or breaking the security of a site by injecting code without the consent of the site owner. The usual tradeoff between security/privacy and convenience.
Would be good to have a good user-managed way to do the same (well, beyond using an image on your own hosting, i guess)
I understand your position and hate that we live in a shitty world where that choice is forced on people, but from what i see it from here, you guys have a choice between choosing the guy who's not good but is at least doing some good, and the active fascist idolizing Hitler, with every neutral vote being effectively helping the fascist.
Not much of a choice, yes, but that's where you are, and any vote not going to the not good guy will help the fascist. So that's your choice, will you choose to fly over the cliff along with everybody else in the rest of the car or help avoiding that?
Considering the mention of a party being recommended to be at least level 60 before fighting the Dark Lord, plus some of the things that happen on Book 3 without spoiling anything, the original boss-version Yumiella never was close to the level cap, so my guess would be:
Current anime party close to but not up to level 60
Dark Lord at about level 65
Game Yumiella at about level 70
So yeah, Our Yumiella should be able to easily defeat the Dark Lord at this point.
Now, entering Book 3 heavy Spoiler territory (don't look if you haven't read it) to further justify these numbers:
spoiler
Yumiella 2 was the only Boss Yumiella survivor on the multiverse branch beating the Hero party because she used our Yumiella leveling techniques, so she was much stronger than normal boss Yumiella, but was still weaker than OUR Yumiella, so she never broke the level cap. That leaves my estimate of her level on Book 3 at somewhere above level 70 up to 80, maybe something in the lower 80s, but lower than level 90.
Up to book 4 here. I BADLY want the anime to succeed at least enough to let them add two more seasons, JUST so that we see Book 3 adapted. I REALLY wanna see that animated, was my fav of the 4 we have translated so far. And as a bonus, S2 should have an episode where we will see drunk Yumiella, that alone makes it worth adapting the whole thing 😂
Still, until we have word that they have greenlit more seasons i recommend people to go to the books (the manga still hasn't finished Book 1 so the anime is further ahead).
As Yumiella herself explained i think on episode 1, you can beat the Dark Lord when you're after certain level with strategy and good playing, but Game Yumiella pretty much needed brute force. This pretty much reflects the experience on many JRPGs (most of my experience on these is with Final Fantasy where it amply applies), you can beat the Final Boss with strategy and the right combination of skills and whatever without needing to grind much, but when there's a hidden boss you goddamn better grind a lot and level up to even have a remote chance, damn your skills and all that. Game Yumiella seems to be in this exact spot. The things on Book 3 that i mention help in determining the levels but we just don't know for sure without the author explicitly giving numbers anywhere (anyone around with the right connections wanna ask for us? Pretty please? 😄)
Understandable. If/when we see Season 2, we will have A LOT more on Eleonora, i hope we do.
That's the problem with ongoing stories, it doesn't help much the anime-only people when told "Yeah, what you want to see is on Book X which might never be adapted to anime". And in this case it HAS to be on the books because the manga is behind the anime, the novels are the ones multiple books ahead of both.
I do still recommend going to the books though, up to at least Book 3 which is my favorite of what we have so far.
Heh, i might not be a nut like Yumiella but i do kinda enjoy all that 😄
As for the novels yes, there's 6 volumes published in Japan and ongoing, the J-Novel Club official translation is up to Book 4, with Book 5 to be released at the end of May. Beware because the book covers and descriptions themselves kinda are spoilers (more the descriptions, the covers are more like intense teasers 😜)
That's one of the problems of a global communication network. There was a quote i read some years ago (which i wish i could find again) that more or less said that people with some talent who in the past would have been the pride of their village now compete with world class in that skill and now are seen as "average", yet in reality they're talented, is just that the bar has been unfairly raised to "Beat the best in the world".
On the Reddit thread people, at least one of them tagged as a KDE dev, mentions that widgets NEED to be able to run arbitrary code. I am absolutely baffled by this.
A couple weeks ago Discord announced their plans to go down the IPO route. This means that there is now a ticking clock until the platform goes full-on enshittified like so many others before them....
Let's see, on one hand we have this list compiled by somebody on Mastodon:
mockup looks like they're pitching a device.
mockup is missing critical functionality (buttons)
infected with cryptocurrency brainworms
they haven't decided about open source yet
trash talking existing devices, yet being vaporware itself
grand claims that have no backing in reality (like Epic, Fortnite, Roblox)
And the article itself has this:
Update 13:34 UTC, 19/03/24: One of the videos Playtron supplied to The Verge, showcasing some tech used on mobile in the article linked below, wasn't even their own and was taken uncredited from another person on YouTube, who hit them with a copyright claim and had it taken down. Not a good look.
I'm betting this is either an outright scam, or some small project by somebody WAAAAY over their head that won't even see the light of day
Telegram Reportedly "Ready to Fight Piracy" According to Govt. Official * TorrentFreak ( torrentfreak.com )
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lemmy.ml Tankies
There are a lot of tanky posts coming from lemmy.ml. Their whole purpose seems to be to troll and spread their bullshit far and wide. They are nearly as bad as the alt-right. They argue in bad faith and celebrate authoritarian oppression. The beehaw mods might want to consider defederating.
Why Creators Shouldn't Own their Creations (And Why its Good for them too) ( invidious.perennialte.ch )
Telegram founder and CEO alledges signal has backdoors, they don't provide reproduceible builds, etc.
Here's what he said in a post on his telegram channel:...
Why people don't talk about Google Maps' privacy issues ( www.youtube.com )
Title is editorialized because the original is, frankly, clickbait garbage
we fell for the corporate propoganda rule ( lemmy.cafe )
Israel using Meta's WhatsApp to kill Palestinians in Gaza through AI system ( www.middleeastmonitor.com )
According to software engineer and blogger, Paul Biggar, however, one key detail on the methods employed by the Lavender system that is often overlooked is the involvement of the messaging platform, WhatsApp. A major determining factor of the system’s identification is simply if an individual is in a WhatsApp group containing...
Got annoyed by my gym
So I joined a new gym last year and was pleasantly surprised. They gave me a smart card to get in and out, that's it, no app, no accounts, no nothing. Well, today I got to the gym and saw the announcement that they are phasing out the access with the smart card and starting to use, you guessed it, an app....
epidemiology ( mander.xyz )
Bicurious ( mander.xyz )
any xmpp user ?
Started using xmpp recently because messaging apps sucks . I want to see if anyone use this thing .
[not a meme] anyone I should add? ( lemmy.dbzer0.com )
I'm sorry if this is not the best place for this, I couldn't think of anywhere better to ask about it...
GoToSocial is a new ActivityPub social network server for the Fediverse ( github.com )
This service is still in Alpha release but is already deployable and usable, and federates with other Fediverse servers....
if you know you know ( lemmy.ml )
Lv2 Kara Cheat datta Moto Yuusha Kouho no Mattari Isekai Life • Chillin' in Another World with Level 2 Super Cheat Powers - Episode 3 discussion
Lv2 Kara Cheat datta Moto Yuusha Kouho no Mattari Isekai Life, episode 3...
Am I the only one who's sick of the isekai?
Yeah it was fun in the beginning, after all who never thought about being transported to another world where you ate a big hero with swords and magic?...
Tensei Kizoku, Kantei Skill de Nariagaru • As a Reincarnated Aristocrat, I'll Use My Appraisal Skill to Rise in the World - Episode 3 discussion ( s4.anilist.co )
Tensei Kizoku, Kantei Skill de Nariagaru, episode 3...
Defeated CEOs are now conceding hybrid working is here to stay ( archive.ph )
KPMG surveyed U.S. CEOs of companies turning over at least $500 million and found that just one-third expect a full return to the office in the next three years....
Microsoft is silently installing Copilot onto Windows Server 2022 ( mastodon.gamedev.place )
https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/51faa0ca-2b47-4eba-bc8c-d9edabba5ca9.png
we live in an explosion ( mander.xyz )
Chromium Manifest V3 Explained for Toddlers ( youtu.be )
Most people still haven't heard of Manifest V3, so if you are one of those not using Firefox, this is for you....
Astrology Rule ( slrpnk.net )
I made this shitty meme myself!
Why did they move the comments to the right ( sopuli.xyz )
Enhancer for Youtube...
Standard notes: what about don’t put all your eggs in one basket rule?
If the owner of the standard notes will now be a proton, doesn't that contradict this principle? I have a proton email account but I don't want it linked to my standard notes account. I don't strongly trust companies that offer packaged services like google or Microsoft....
Proton picks up Standard Notes to deepen its pro-privacy portfolio ( techcrunch.com )
Proton said the Standard Notes app, which is available for both mobile and desktop, will remain “open source, freely available and fully supported”....
Beeper is now available, no waitlist! ( blog.beeper.com )
Are American progressives making themselves sad? ( www.economist.com )
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Holo from "Spice and Wolf: merchant meets the wise wolf" Plans to Make VTuber Debut ( animecorner.me )
From the article:...
Facebook snooped on users' Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal ( techcrunch.com )
rule ( lemmy.cafe )
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Akuyaku Reijou Level 99: Watashi wa Ura Boss desu ga Maou de wa Arimasen • Villainess Level 99 - Episode 12 - FINAL ( ani.social )
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Worst day ( lemm.ee )
Can I lick it? Yes you can. ( feddit.de )
Mozilla just ditched its privacy partner because its CEO is tied to data brokers ( www.theverge.com )
Malicious KDE theme can wipe out all your data ( www.reddit.com )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/13397700...
Current situation on FOSS Discord replacements?
A couple weeks ago Discord announced their plans to go down the IPO route. This means that there is now a ticking clock until the platform goes full-on enshittified like so many others before them....
Playtron plan to launch PlaytronOS, a Linux-based system for gaming ( www.theverge.com )
https://www.playtron.one/...