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    JeffCraig
    10 months ago 66%

    I really don't think Gaza will be a defining issue in the 2024 election. It's already fallen out of the news cycle and Gaza city will be under full occupation by next Nov.

    Trump, however, will be in the middle of taking a huge beating by all his court cases. There's zero chance he ever gets more support than what he had last election. The best thing we can hope for is that the GOP puts him up for another election.

    Both parties have the same issue right now. Both candidates don't have great appeal. But there aren't any Democrats that have an issue voting for Biden. He's been fine as president. We don't have to worry about him going off half cocked all the time. The party will fall behind him. The same can't be said for Trump.

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    12 months ago 100%

    I really like when they actually share "insider" details with us like this. It's much better than just having bad performance and not knowing why.

    Graph is great in a lot of ways. I just hope they chose the right version

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  • technology Technology Facebook's VR Headset Not Selling, Literally Giving It Away
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    JeffCraig
    1 year ago 80%

    The main problem with the Pro is that it completely fails at the thing it was primarily marketed for: AR passthrough.

    The cameras are so bad that when you use video passthrough, everything is blurry. It's completely unusable. No one will ever use it for productivity tasks in its current form. Meta should have just focused on making a high end gaming version because they failed at making it usable for anything business related.

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  • news News Russell Brand Dropped by Agent After Rape and Sexual Assault Accusations
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    JeffCraig
    1 year ago 50%

    Someone who's innocent generally wouldn't be dropped by their manager either. They know something we don't and are jumping ship real quick.

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    JeffCraig
    1 year ago 90%

    Yeah, I was gunna say: this impeachment attempt is obvious political theater, but I'm not about to listen to anything CNN has to say about it.

    They're a major part of why politics are all a complete joke now.

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    JeffCraig
    1 year ago 100%

    Sugar is only part of it. Corn and wheat based products are just as bad.

    The truth has to do with food availability as well, not just what it's made of.

    Food availability has increased in the US over the past 50+ years, to where we have over 4000 calories per person a day now. Easy access to unhealthy food is a major contributor to our obesity. People don't even understand what a healthy diet looks like and have a very poor grasp on how much to eat. We just eat until we're stuffed and then wonder why we're fat.

    It's especially tough as people age. I've been tracking my diet for 180+ days, eating under 1800 calories a day, and I still struggle with losing weight. Without a lot of effort towards eating the right amount and the right foods, people get fat.

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  • workreform Work Reform McDonald's franchisee group says new $20 minimum wage California fast-food bill will cause 'devastating financial blow'
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    1 year ago 100%

    Feels like I haven't played a real good RTS like AoE in a while.

    I hope the new Homeworld is good!

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    1 year ago 100%

    Yes but turn rates and acceleration are very different. I don't expect it will feel anything like E:D, but I do think SCM should be raised to 350 or 400 m/s

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    1 year ago 100%

    This video is very informative. I'm really interested in how Master Modes are going to change combat in SC. This feels as big of a change as when supercruise was removed!

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    CitizensGaming is an official (unofficial) sponsor of the Terrapin for 2953 Ship Showdown winner!

    Make sure you get your votes in today! https://robertsspaceindustries.com/ship-showdown2023/live-showdown

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    Sign-ups and Verification

    If you're looking to sign up for an account at Citizens Gaming, we'd love to have you here! To avoid any confusion around the process, here are a few things to be aware of: - **We require email verification.** This is to make sure we don't end up getting mass spammed with bot account requests. - Lemmy can be finicky when it comes to the account verification process. **You will receive an email that you must check before we see your application.** If you mess up that step of the process, I have to go into the database and manually fix your account. - If you have any issues with this process please email us at contact@citizensgaming.com and we'll look into it. CitizensGaming is already federated with most of the major Lemmy instances. However, it's important to understand how the federation process works: - Before our instance knows anything about another instance, a user registered here must interact with that other instance in some way (liking a post, replying to a thread, subscribing to a community, etc). - If you find an instance that we aren't syncing too, let us know and we'll check it out.

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    1 year ago 100%

    I just want to fly around with my bros in this bad boy 😔

    I kinda regret not getting an Idris-M, but I guess that money was better spent invested elsewhere

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    JeffCraig
    1 year ago 100%

    Yeah if you look at the shield page, you can see that everything got normalized:

    There are minor differences when it comes to how much distortion damage it takes to shut them down, but the use of distortion is rare.

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    1 year ago 100%

    True!

    Generally for Size 1 people pick up an Atlas because it lets you go between planets without the need to refuel. Unless you're trying to intercept for PvP, it has such better efficiency than anything else that it's a pretty easy choice.

    For size 2, the XL-1 and Yeager have been clear fan-favorites, but with the stat crunch the Crossfield is also a good option. Those are the only three with sub-5min travel times from Crusader to Microtech.

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  • politics politics GOP Contender Vivek Ramaswamy Thinks 18 Is Too Young to Vote
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    JeffCraig
    1 year ago 25%

    I actually don't think most of our society is qualified to vote.

    Voter rights should be determined by whether or not you know anything about what you're voting for, not based on your age. People should have to pass a test every year.

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  • politics politics Trump Claims His ‘Seal of Approval’ Will ‘Protect Loyal Donors From Scammers’ — Here’s What It Looks Like
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    1 year ago 100%

    It's not trying to stop scammers. It's a way to stop other GOP super PACs from collecting money. He just wants to make sure his own supporters are only giving him money and not anyone else.

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  • general General Discussion Things I’m thankful for
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    1 year ago 50%

    I think there's a lot of people that still haven't gotten the memo that they shouldn't be using Twitter or reddit. People still need to be reminded of exactly why if we ever want to see a full shift away from those platforms.

    Unfortunately, those messages need to be posted elsewhere because they really aren't reaching the right audience here. We came here to escape those platforms so the constant shit posting about them is a huge annoyance.

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    starcitizen Star Citizen Fight or Flight 2v2 Tournament is live!
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    1 year ago 100%

    They're going to finish the matches on Sept 2 or something, so you will get to see a true winner. After the tournament, it's the top 4 that get to continue on to Citizencon, but an actual winner will be crowed in two weeks.

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    JeffCraig
    1 year ago 100%

    In 3.14 CIG standardized all component stats to help them collect stats and perform a balance pass for SQ42. Their goal is to create a rough balance for component archetypes as a whole, so they've reduced the overall variation in stats across all components.

    One of the CIG devs explained it in more depth on Spectrum.

    The result is that all components of the same Size and Grade are largely the same. If you look on SPViewer, you can see this clearly:

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    Almost all stats across the board are the same. There are only slight differences where CIG has tuned each archetype (Civilian, Competition, Industrial, Military & Stealth).

    This is even more visible when you look at weapons:

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    Weapons of the same size will share stats with all other weapons with that type (Laser Cannon, Laser Reapter, etc). Beyond choosing the weapon archetype, there is no difference in brands besides the color of the projectile and sound the gun makes.

    When CIG implemented this change (3.14 dropped in Aug 2021) we certainly didn't think it would take them 2 years to complete their balance pass... but here we are today.

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  • technology Technology It’s time for Americans to embrace small cars
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    1 year ago 40%

    It's more complex than that.

    The way the US is spread out makes public transit prohibitively expensive and difficult to achieve proper coverage. To make it effective, you would have to shift the entire way we live. Our entire society is built off the concept that everyone has a car.

    Add to the fact that building transit is extra expensive in the US and you arrive at the reality that we will NEVER have a working transit system. That's why the shift to small cars is needed. We don't have any more room for roads, so we need more cars to fit in the roads we have

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  • technology Technology AI-Created Art Isn’t Copyrightable, Judge Says In Ruling That Could Give Hollywood Studios Pause
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    1 year ago 100%

    Yeah while this suit covers a very specific scenario, a large majority of AI driven content does have human interaction and does qualify for copyright.

    Even just a draft, fed into an AI finishing system, has some human interaction. Nothing is going to stop the AI revolution.

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    1 year ago 100%

    Other journalists websites do this all the time now, and claim authorship. If they can get away with it, I don't see why we can't.

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    Lost In The Desert

    This week's sneak peak is a look at a new outpost.

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    1 year ago 100%

    One of the biggest things I'm looking forward to is just visiting all the solar systems. If we ever make it to 100 systems, it's going to be amazing!

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  • worldnews World News Revealed: WHO aspartame safety panel linked to alleged Coca-Cola front group
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    1 year ago 50%

    I moved to natural sources (sugar and stevia) and I only do half doses. All this stuff is way too sweet and it's crazy that the boomer generation just let things get so out of hand.

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    1 year ago 12%

    NFTs were doomed anyway because AI art can do such a better job than artists and completely flooded the market.

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    1 year ago 92%

    I don't really agree with this sentiment.

    Are they dipshits?

    Yes

    Should Sothebys lose all credibility and be fined for faking an auction?

    Also yes.

    Should Bored Ape owners get any of their money back?

    Naaaaaaaaaaaw

    This crosses certain lines that are beyond just: huuuur crypto dumb

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  • politics politics 64% of Americans say they wouldn’t support Trump: poll
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    1 year ago 80%

    You're saying that about a population that literally voted this guy into office just a few years ago.

    If people haven't realized how dumb our society is after that, there's not much hope.

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  • worldnews World News New Covid wave has begun and masks should be worn again, scientists warn
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    1 year ago 88%

    I really hoped that the mask stigma would change, but it's sad to see it go this way. I might just start wearing a mask again to do my part to normalize it.

    If people are sick, they should feel like it's the right thing to do to wear a mask. It needs to be a normal thing and people that make fun of it are pieces of shit .

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    1 year ago 85%

    Other studies show that in health-care workers, n95 vs medical masks made almost no statistical difference.

    However, the use of masks in the public is not necessarily to protect yourself. It's to keep you from spreading germs in a wide range if you cough. It's the same concept as herd immunity with vaccinations. We all help protect each other.

    So with that in mind: wear a washable cloth mask.

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    technology Technology AI bots are so good at mimicking the human brain and vision that CAPTCHAs are useless - The bots’ accuracy is up to 15% higher than that of humans
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    1 year ago 94%

    Adjusted for inflation, that $700 rent would be $1,242 today. Not quite enough to get it all the way to the $3,600 they are quoting today. There's something else very funky going on right now. A lot of cities are experiencing massive population loss... yet rental costs continue to rise. I'm sure the housing crisis has a large part to play in that, but it still doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

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    programming Programming Today, Reddit forcibly removed me (and everyone else) as mods of /r/iOSProgramming, a subreddit of about 130k users. I was keeping the sub private / NSFW | Tanner B 🦕🧁 (@objc@mastodon.social)
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    1 year ago 97%

    Not sure what he expected. I commend all the protesting, but we all saw how reddit responded. They didn't give two shits. Yet people stick around in a toxic relationship with the site until they get removed. It's weird. Why not just make the move to Lemmy before they take everything from you?

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  • science Science Dataset confirms that a vegan diet is dramatically better across a range of environmental measures
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    1 year ago 42%

    People don't want to be vegan for a variety of issues.

    My personal problem comes with things like not eating honey. Beekeepers keep bee populations healthy. Those bees pollinate the food vegans eat. But for some dumb ass reason vegans are against it.

    I'm all for moving away from meat, but exclusion shouldn't be the focus. The majority of people will never convert to vegan diet, but we CAN get them to replace some of what they eat with vegetarian alternatives.

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    1 year ago 100%

    Lmao I can tell you've never used Teams before.

    I work for MS and literally every MS employee hates Teams. I would cut off my tongue before I recommend it to a friend.

    The problem with Discord isn't the program, it's the fact that we have a million different servers now. People just don't like having to go to a new server for every different conversation, but that's the way they all chose to use it so it's their own fault.

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    1 year ago 100%

    Google left their "do no harm" motto in the dust long ago and is one of the largest internet monopolies of all time. Both companies suck in that regard.

    But yeah, google search is getting worse and worse every day.

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    Storage migration to S3 Object Storage

    While the VPS Citizens Gaming runs on has plenty of storage space, we've been working towards implementing migrating to object storage. Since SC content is generally image and video heavy, this will give us the expandability as the community grows. If you see any odd behavior around image content, this is why. Hopefully it will be a seamless migration.

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    The ship that won me 5mil aUEC

    I went to a random ship meetup in my server last week and won 1st place! This streamer is doing ship meetup contests weekly on Fridays if you want to try your luck, with prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd best ships: https://www.youtube.com/@Space_Bub https://www.twitch.tv/space_bub There weren't too many ships at this one, so chances were stacked in my favor :D ![](https://citizensgaming.com/pictrs/image/e1668213-ff87-4924-8136-cc81ac31586e.jpeg)

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    Thank you for doing your part

    You are the Difference – Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.

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    A list of all Star Citizen Lemmy communities

    I want to keep a list of all starcitizen communities here on Lemmy that people might want to subscribe too. Also make sure you subscribe to all of the communities here on Citizens Gaming so they will show up in your subscribed feed even if you are hosted on another instance: #### Citizens Gaming SC communities !screenshots@citizensgaming.com !videos@citizensgaming.com !issues@citizensgaming.com !community@citizensgaming.com !support@citizensgaming.com !off_topic@citizensgaming.com #### SC communities on other instances !starcitizen@lemmy.world !starcitizen@lemmy.ml !starcitizen@kbin.social If you find any new SC communities elsewhere, let us know where so we can add them!

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    Sneak Peak - Fury LX

    LX usually denotes a luxury model right? I'm not sure how you add luxury to a Fury 😀

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    Star Citizen - Community Farewell to Port Olisar www.youtube.com

    From inside the weekly update today, this is a really good fan-made production. Here's the text of the letter at the end of the video: >Port Olisar - The space station above Crusader with majestic views. >Over the years you have become more than just a space station. You have become a beacon of Hope, Dreams, and aspirations of what is to come. A launching point for our adventures and the beginning of an era. We will miss you and all the memories you bring every time we see you. >But fear not for us for we are moving towards the future on the path that you paved for us. And there will be a new angel in the sky watching over us - Seraphim >This is not a farewell, my old friend, for I will search pyro and beyond till we meet again. >When we do, I will be flooded with the memories of where this adventure began. >-The Community Go give Ezper a sub on YouTube and bump the post on the [community hub](https://robertsspaceindustries.com/community-hub/post/port-olisar-a-community-farewell-letter-Fb12qc3V3FiKX?utm_source=Star+Citizen+Supporters&utm_campaign=3f8b359213-cmty-weeklyfridaynewsletter7142023&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_607785b0c2-3f8b359213-28301701&mc_cid=3f8b359213&mc_eid=b88680977a). This content is worth it!

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    Share why you're still a Star Citizen

    Let us know why you're still a fan of starcitizen and/or CIG!

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    Turbulent acquired by Cloud Imperium Games robertsspaceindustries.com

    One thing of note from the announcement: >With Turbulent as part of the CIG group of companies, our headcount will be over 1,100, making us one of the largest independent game developers in the world! It's pretty insane to think how large CIG has gotten over the years. It makes sense to bring in Turbulent now. If everyone remembers correctly, they had spun up a team to make PU content last year, and many of us didn't really understand why that work would happen "out-of-house". I know that opinions have always been varied about the CIG website and Spectrum, but personally I think Turbulent has a lot of good talent. Whether they are just contracted out or owned by CIG doesn't make a lot of difference, but at least now we know their talent will be dedicated to the project and not split working on other things.

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    Lorville is ominous at night

    I get a much better Blade Runner feel from Lorville now and I'm here for it! ![](https://citizensgaming.com/pictrs/image/7aa38370-7cba-4f4e-ae5f-07fac1f6295f.png) ![](https://citizensgaming.com/pictrs/image/ea57a0e3-eeb3-471c-9ed0-52fdc0c553d2.png) ![](https://citizensgaming.com/pictrs/image/d84a27ce-1d5f-40c5-a6f9-222e84ebb473.png)

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    Star Citizen JeffCraig 1 year ago 100%
    Roadmap Roundup - 07/12/2023 robertsspaceindustries.com

    *The following cards have been added to Release View in the Alpha 3.20 column:* **Seraphim Station** A new fully-operational station positioned in the skies above Orison. This station houses multiple shops, cargo services, refuel and repair, and more. **New Crusader Platforms** Adding three new points of interest in Crusader's atmosphere, providing new locations for missions and loot. ➖ *The following features have passed their final review, therefore we are toggling their status to Committed.* **Arena Commander: Experimental Game Modes** These limited-time game modes range from simple twists on current modes to entirely new modes. This initiative will not only allow rapid iteration of game modes to be put in players' hands faster, but also allow all teams to gather vital analytic data for specific activities, equipment, vehicles, and in-development features. **New Missions - Salvage Contracts: Coverup** Players will be contracted to strip the gang markings and paint off a ship that was used in a crime that the gang doesn't want to get caught for. Security forces will also be searching for the ship to confirm and prosecute whoever had committed the crime. **MISC Hull C** Encompasses all tasks, including design, art, audio, and tech, required for the implementation of the MISC Hull-C heavy cargo hauler into the PU. **Wheeled Vehicle Handling Improvements** Updates and improvements to current ground vehicle movement parameters and simulation, allowing for more robust tuning and identity between various ground vehicles.

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    Support JeffCraig 1 year ago 100%
    Configuring 2FA: Please Be Careful!

    Lemmy's initial implementation of 2FA is not that straightforward and users can easily lock themselves out of their accounts. Please be careful if you decide to enable 2FA. I personally suggest avoiding 2FA for now until it's working more consistently. There are several [feature](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1544 ) [requests](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1559) to force 2FA code confirmation is working before it is enabled and those are a bare minimum before this feature is functional. If your account is locked out due to 2FA issues, please email [contact@citizensgaming.com](mailto:contact@citizensgaming.com) and include 2FA Lockout in your email subject. #### 2FA Setup Process DO NO LOG OUT AT ANY POINT DURING THIS PROCESS UNTIL AFTER YOU'VE VERIFIED THAT YOUR 2FA KEYS WORK VIA STEP #8! 1. Click your **Username** in the top right of the site and select **Settings**. 2. Scroll to the bottom of the page and check the **Set up 2-factor authentication** box. 3. You should see the following alert pop up at the bottom of the screen: ![](https://citizensgaming.com/pictrs/image/39c1291d-352e-4aad-bd64-2748ec96f833.png) 4. The page will not automatically refresh. You will need to refresh it manually. 5. After a page fresh, you will see a new button at the bottom of Settings: ![](https://citizensgaming.com/pictrs/image/34c701c3-415d-417a-a661-c54175fa44fd.png) 6. Clicking on this link does nothing. You need to right-click and copy the link to get your OTP secret key. Your clipboard should now have a URL in it that looks like this: otpauth://totp/Citizens%20Gaming:Test?secret=THISWILLBEWHEREYOURSECRETKEYWILLBE&algorithm=SHA256&issuer=Citizens%20Gaming 7. Depending on the app you use, you'll either need to paste the entire URL, or just the secret key, into the manual setup fields of that app. 8. Open an incognito browser and attempt to log into your account. You should be prompted for your 2FA code during login. If it works, you're good to go. 9. If 2FA is not allowing you to log in, go back to your main browser window and disable 2FA via the Settings page. Wait for updates and try again in a few months. #### 2FA Apps That Should Work **Android** - Oracle Mobile Authenticator - Auth0 Guardian - Sophos Authenticator - FreeOTP Authenticator - Google Authenticator - 1Password **iOS** - Oracle Mobile Authenticator - IBM Verify - Sophos Authenticator - FreeOTP Authenticator **Apps that appear to not support SHA-256** - Microsoft Authenticator - LastPass Authenticator - Duo Mobile - Authy - 2FAS Auth

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    Screenshots JeffCraig 1 year ago 100%
    The fleet arrives!

    It's always great to witness the Bengal in all it's glory, even if it's only at 10fps 😆

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    Star Citizen JeffCraig 1 year ago 100%
    Foundation Festival 2952 - Free Fly July 6th to 17th! robertsspaceindustries.com

    From July 6th through July 17th, all current, returning, and new citizens will be able to partake in the Foundation Festival. Full details can be seen on the [RSI Support](https://support.robertsspaceindustries.com/hc/en-us/articles/360037529633-Welcome-to-the-Star-Citizen-Free-Fly-Event-) website. The following ships will be available to all players during this event: - 600i Touring - Caterpillar - Cutlass Black - Cutlass Red - Freelancer - Gladius - Mercury Star Runner - Prospector - Razor - Starfarer - Valkyrie - Vulture Additionally, for players that partake in the [Guide System](https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/guide) (until the end of July) will receive exclusive rewards (in-game hats and ship paint jobs). More details have been posted in [Spectrum](https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/community/SC/forum/1/thread/foundation-festival-2023-reap-the-rewards).

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    Support JeffCraig 1 year ago 100%
    0.18.1 Security Vunerabilities and Breaches

    Last night, several Lemmy instances (including lemmy.world) were breached and defaced. More details can be found here: https://lemmy.ml/post/1901079 This breach only affected instances that had custom emoji configured. I hadn't gotten to setting those up yet here, so this instance should not be vulnerable. A fix for this vulnerability has already been created (https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/1897) and as soon as 0.18.2 is released I will upgrade to it here.

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    Support JeffCraig 1 year ago 100%
    Lemmy Server Changelog

    This post will help keep the community up to speed on platform updates as they get rolled out. Feel free to create individual discussions in the [Support](https://citizensgaming.com/c/support) channel if you are facing any issues with a particular build. **Current Lemmy version:** [0.18.3](https://join-lemmy.org/news/2023-07-28_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.18.3) **Version Changelog:** - 0.18.1 - Initial installation version. - 0.18.2 - Upgrade performed on 7/12/2023 without any issues. - - 2FA appears to be working fine on 0.18.2. If you want to use it please read [this post about it](https://citizensgaming.com/post/15). - [0.18.3](https://join-lemmy.org/news/2023-07-28_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.18.3) - Upgrade performed on 7/29/2023 without issues. - [0.18.4](https://join-lemmy.org/news/2023-08-08_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.18.4) - Upgrade performed on 8/11/2023 without issues.

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    Community JeffCraig 1 year ago 100%
    Federation / Defederation List

    Defederation is a hot topic in the fediverse, so I want to make sure cover it here appropriately. I personally don't have a strong stance on this subject. I believe that instances with a large population of bot users and ones that don't moderate illegal content should be defederated to protect the rest of the fediverse. Beyond that I believe it should be up to the individual communities to decide who they wanted to be connected too. To that end, here is the current process for putting an instance up for defederation: #### Submitting a defederation request To suggest an instance for defederation, respond in this thread with the following information: >Instance domain name: >Reason why it should be defederated: If the post receives a positive vote ratio, the admin and mod staff will have a discussion and decide on whether it should be defederated. Suggestions and improvements for this process are welcome, but please keep them to a single thread on this post so that it's easier to find the new instance reports. #### Current Defederation List You may check the [Instances](https://citizensgaming.com/instances) page for a current list of federated and defederated instances, but I'll also keep a list here for more details. The following instances are defederated for questionable (potentially illegal) content, an aggressive userbase or for being a large corporate entity: - Exploding-heads com - lemmygrad ml - burggit moe - lemmy burger rodeo - threads net The following instances are defederated due to inundated with bot accounts. These were detected with the [Lemmy Overseer](https://github.com/db0/fediseer) service, which I'll check weekly to see if instances need to be added or removed: - ttrpg network - lemmy shwizard chat - lemmy fyi - cubing social - fedit io - lemmy cloudsecurityofficehours com - dot surf - veenk help - clatter eu - lemmy easfrq live - mindshare space - news deghg org - lemmy primboard de - theotter social - thediscussion site - lemmy podycust co uk - narod city - wumbo buzz - lemmy jtmn dev - oceanbreeze earth - bolha social - bbs darkwitch net - lemmyunchained net - voyager lemmy ml - demotheque com - baomi tv - lemmy fedi bub org - granitestate social - lemmy tedomum net

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    Memes JeffCraig 1 year ago 100%
    Policy on reposting meme content.

    We'll have to have a community discussion around content reposting, but for now if someone isn't posting there own content to Lemmy as well then we consider it fair game. That being said, if you do repost someones content, make sure you provide credit and a link back to the original content.

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    Community JeffCraig 1 year ago 100%
    Suggest a sub-community!

    In order to ensure that this Lemmy instance is able to keep up with our necessary moderation tasks, community creation is restricted. For now, I’ve created a few basic and very general communities. If you have suggestions for additional communities, feel free to post them here! Before we create a new community, we will require that a certain number of ardent moderators have volunteered to handle that community. Keeping things moderated is one of the main tenants of keep the fediverse healthy. If any communities become unmoderated and unruly, they will need to be pruned from the instance.

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    Videos JeffCraig 1 year ago 100%
    Inside Star Citizen: Behold... Seraphim! www.youtube.com

    In the last ISC for this quarter of the year, CIG drops a massive drama bomb on the community with the reveal of how they will be replacing Port Olisar.

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    Star Citizen JeffCraig 1 year ago 100%
    Welcome to Citizens Gaming, a Star Citizen Lemmy instance!

    To get the best experience out of this instance, subscribe to the communities that you want to see content from. Here are some suggestions, but you can always see the full list by visiting the [Communities](https://citizensgaming.com/communities) page: !screenshots@citizensgaming.com - for in-game screenshots. !videos@citizensgaming.com - for video related content. !community@citizensgaming.com - discussion around this Lemmy instance. !support@citizensgaming.com - support for this Lemmy instance. !off_topic@citizensgaming.com - anything else unrelated to SC. In order to ensure that we can keep up with moderation, community creation is restricted. If you have a suggestion for additional channels, feed free to let us know in the [Community](!community@citizensgaming.com) threads. For support please email [contact@citizensgaming.com](contact@citizensgaming.com).

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