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  • Then you make a “no politics” rule, after which the very respectable debaters show up to tell everyone that everything ultimately is political, and therefore their ragebaiting, trolling, cancel culture, and general toxicity is totally acceptable! Unless you want an entry in the powerhungrybastards community, ofc.

    Anyway, I’ve generally had a positive experience on the fediverse (compared to Reddit, etc.). That said, I’ve blocked and avoid most, if not all, right wing extremists, though I’m having a harder time with the left extremists since we seem to have a lot of interests in common. ,



  • I’d love to see a modern mmofps, I can’t think of anything coming close to Planetside on that front.

    That said, I mostly did TR flash zergs when running solo, and VS C4 fairies when my friends were online.

    We all kinda dropped the game after the Combined Arms Initiative was rolled out and removed the need for vehicles, as heavies were stronger than MAXes and could solo pretty much all armor without breaking a sweat, and we could break up a hours-long tank line stalement using a sunderer and 3 Archer-equipped engineers. (Multiple tanks and some infantry peeled off to stop us, but we could kill pretty much anything with 2-3 salvos, usually before they found us. The sunderer was mostly just to get there).


  • Ekky@sopuli.xyztoMatrix@lemmy.mlScreen sharing
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    I tried installing Matrix with the Element web interface a few days past, and was positively surprised by the VoIP and screenshare.

    I always thought that Matrix was this dusty old legacy from times long forgotten, but once the images were spun up and the reverse proxy configured, it didn’t take long to setup a small test community and invite a friend.

    There’s a beta option to enable screenshare in a room, but we found that you can screenshare in any voice room despite the setting. We only tested with simple visuals like videos and text documents, where we got small amounts of artifacting, so I’m not sure about the compression and throughput, but I hope it’ll be enough for gaming.





  • Ekky@sopuli.xyztoFediverse@lemmy.worldAnother random blip in the stats
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    8 months ago

    And the above was literally how I was thought to represent data in university. Maximize the areas of interest, make sure to properly label your axes (lest they become misleading), and remember to trim empty space where relevant.

    But it appears that proper graphs for science and engineering reports may not be used for representing data to the common man, as it must be assumed that, even for the most simple of graphs, the common man will only look at the funny line, but not the graph itself.




  • Ideally, a .mp4, or any other non-executable file format, would not be able to execute rogue code on your computer, but the programs you use to open the files with might have security flaws which allow rogue code execution if done right.

    You might have a hypothetical file, which might not be dangerous if opened with VLC, but which exploits a flaw in, say, Windows Media Player version x.y.z to execute a payload.

    Sorry, for not including any examples, I’m currently not at the PC.





  • A new “fuckcars”-like community whose name doesn’t even target the source of their frustration? Neat.

    Gamedevs, researchers, and factory engineers sitting in a corner mumbling something about “appropriation”.

    I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Microsoft’s and OpenAI’s hijacking of the term “AI” to mean “LLM”, and those who just blindly follow along and thereby help alienating those who work with AI (not LLM), are a sickness.






  • Haven’t heard about that one, thank you for the heads-up.

    First impressions:

    • From top 10 artists i follow:
      • 5/10 have profile and uploaded at least one song on Bandcamp.
      • 3/10 have an account on Audius (possibility to donate).
      • 1/10 has uploaded at least one song on Audius.
    • One MUST upload a profile picture to create an account.
      • About 1/3 of proposed artists during account creation have uploaded <5 songs, most seem to be remix and cover artists.
      • Didn’t figure out how to search for artists during account creation, ended up choosing 2/3 artists I’ve never heard of.
    • Not immediately apparent whether I can download bought music to a lossless format.
    • Not sure how to buy album or individual song at first glance.
    • LOTS of remixes and covers, not so much original songs (this is both good and bad).
    • Nice that you can donate arbitrary amount without buying anything, in case you already got the music from… other places…
      • I didn’t find anyplace where “$AUDIO” is explained, how much the artist receives, or what you receive if anything.

    Less relevant observations:

    • weird pause/play button, sometimes there’s just a loading wheel spinning where it’s supposed to be, not really functional.
    • Slightly intrusive, had to disable some plugins (Javascript (obviously it’s playing music) and fingerprinting (cloudflare?)) for the site to load. Not relevant to music, but just a general observation since we’re in the piracy community.

    Not much going on by now, but it probably just needs some time to grow and assimilate the likely soon-to-be-migrating Bandcamp user base. I’ll keep an eye on it, and probably revisit it once more artists have migrated to it.