Technology
Roku’s Ultimatum: Surrender Jury Trial Rights or Lose Access to Your TVs
csolisr 7 months ago • 80%
Yeah about that, I never really had any friends, and now it's increasingly difficult to make any if you don't watch movies or listen to music or follow sports or play the more popular video games. There's preciously little to talk about if you don't engage in popular culture out of ethical concerns.
Technology
Roku’s Ultimatum: Surrender Jury Trial Rights or Lose Access to Your TVs
csolisr 7 months ago • 81%
The problem with not being part of the problem is that, in many cases, it means no longer being able to be part of vast chunks of society. Take it from me - I've been boycotting Big Media and most entertainment platforms for about a decade, and now I genuinely can't have any hobbies, besides of maybe activism, to share something with friends to begin with.
Bitwardencsolisr 7 months ago • 100%
Oh so THAT is why the add-on defaults autocomplete to "off" and warns about the possibility of that exact attack as the reason why it's off by default.
No Stupid Questions
Just how the f*CK did Nintendo developed tears of the kingdom?
csolisr 7 months ago • 100%
There's also a nifty optimization detail that was included originally in Breath of the Wild to deal with memory constraints, and eventually weaved as both a core part of the plot and a balance mechanic: the Red Moon phenomenon, that resets the state of the overworld at regular intervals. The developers originally explained that at the first stages of development, they had to deal with the fact that the game would eventually run out of RAM while tracking the status of every single enemy, so they decided to add a way to clear the slate, and settled for one of the best ways to integrate it in the lore of the game - explaining it to be caused by the malice of Ganon making all the slain creatures go back to life. And in an open-world game with weapon degradation, it's highly appreciated to have a reliable source of additional weaponry, simply by waiting for the next Red Moon to defeat a few more enemies and take their weapons. I doubt that degradation would have stuck in the game if it weren't for the Red Moon making the pull-and-push of resource management balanced - without it, there would be a point in the game where Link would have exhausted all available sources of weaponry and be doomed to play the pacifist for potentially the rest of the game.
Technology
Passkeys might really kill passwords
csolisr 7 months ago • 100%
Can you use SyncThing along with Nextcloud? I currently use Nextcloud to store my data, but the one part where it still lags a bit behind is on Android specifically (you need to manually sync certain changes).
Technology
Passkeys might really kill passwords
csolisr 7 months ago • 100%
You can just use something like YunoHost, and synchronize weekly encrypted backups via Nextcloud or Syncthing to all of your computers. That way, if your server ends up busted for whatever reason, you can just restore it elsewhere and go back to business
Technology
Passkeys might really kill passwords
csolisr 7 months ago • 100%
VaultWarden user here - yes you can now use your own self-hosted server to store passkeys and that's a gigantic game-changer. Just install the BitWarden add-on on a recent version of Firefox and voilà
Memescsolisr 7 months ago • 100%
About the only palliative measure I can think about is to disengage from society completely, as it's no longer possible to correct it, and go live in the middle of nowhere until the planet eventually goes to hell. Or until society decides to go fully nihilistic and self-terminate.
Uplifting News
Ethiopia becomes first country to ban internal combustion engines: Only EVs allowed
csolisr 7 months ago • 100%
Tired: going EV-only because of the environment and future-proofing
Wired: going EV-only because the gas/petrol is so darnged expensive to import
techcrunch.com
Technology
‘Enshittification’ is coming for absolutely everything
csolisr 7 months ago • 100%
Paying for content: fair enough
Paying almost A THOUSAND DOLLARS A YEAR for content: barely worth it
Technology
‘Enshittification’ is coming for absolutely everything
csolisr 7 months ago • 98%
And not just any paywall, a NINETY-NINE CANADIAN DOLLARS PER MONTH ONE. Granted the first month is a single dollar, but still, that's a grand total of C$1090 A YEAR.
Not The Onion
‘Disturbed’ show postponed after singer comes down with a sickness
csolisr 7 months ago • 100%
Dan must have waited a lifetime to pounce with that pun and dear lord he finally did it
Greentextcsolisr 8 months ago • 100%
And in a game where ranged attacks are practically non-existent, save for a few ones able to spit venom or water under highly specific circumstances, the ability to just throw a rock and damage you while being out of harm's way makes the Homo Sapiens play literally a different game.
Fediversecsolisr 8 months ago • 83%
Not sure whether this implementation will be lighter on resources than what Lemmy currently uses. Given the overhead of the JVM though, it's unlikely it will be supported by, say, a single Raspberry Pi
csolisr 8 months ago • 100%
In a similar fashion, it would be great to find a way to migrate your post history, not just your followers, between one service and another. So far it's possible to request a backup, but only a few services allow importing said backup, let alone import a backup from a different provider (so far only Firefish, Pixelfed and its derivatives allow for the latter).
Steamcsolisr 8 months ago • 100%
For somebody specifically interested in the online competitive format of Pokemon - is there anything of the sort in Palworld? The last game that kind of scratched that itch for me was the Digimon Cybersleuth series.
Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ
"Piracy is a service issue.." (Image is a real story btw, link in post)
csolisr 8 months ago • 98%
If you want to read the gritty-nitty of how exactly was the Widevine blob patched and worked around specifically to not violate the DMCA, here's the specific article
Androidcsolisr 9 months ago • 100%
Either you plug a wired microphone each time you receive a call, or you explicitly do not receive calls with the device and use it as a tablet basically.
csolisr 9 months ago • 100%
GrapheneOS requires specific safety hardware that, as of now, is usually available only on the Google Pixel line of phones. If your standard smartphone doesn't include it, I doubt a car does.
csolisr 9 months ago • 100%
I'd love to move to mainstream Misskey, but there's a core reason why I'm using Firefish at the moment, namely the ability to actually import my old posts from Mastodon. To my knowledge, pretty much nothing supports importing posts in the Fediverse, except for Firefish and forks, Friendica and forks (to an extent), and PixelFed.
Gamescsolisr 9 months ago • 100%
It does have a specific niche: users of OLED models that just want to play "backups" and don't want to bother soldering chips to their products. A few people will like the hassle-free multicarts.
csolisr 9 months ago • 100%
Not sure if running from the cart slot is permitted to even detect anything not properly signed by Nintendo. Which means this one is squarely for "backups" and nothing else.
csolisr 9 months ago • 100%
Correct! The newer models (including all OLED versions) were already patched from the factory (or more accurately, redesigned to prevent the soft-mod from working).
Linux Gaming
"I would like to switch to Linux, but it's just not good for gaming"
csolisr 9 months ago • 100%
...and makes playing Destiny 2 impossible, unfortunately.
Linux Gaming
"I would like to switch to Linux, but it's just not good for gaming"
csolisr 9 months ago • 100%
I would have played on Linux a bit more if I had enough space on my partition. Good thing I recently updated to 2 terabytes!
Memescsolisr 9 months ago • 100%
What about the Vatican? Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition Roman Crusaders to just go and take a claim on the Land of Canaan!
Technology
Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight
csolisr 9 months ago • 100%
Problem is, ADB requires enabling developer mode, and guess what - my company also blocks access to devices with developer mode on! (Also, the fact that Shizuku doesn't work correctly over mobile because it requires stable Wi-Fi to fake a wireless debug connection doesn't help matters.)
Technology
Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight
csolisr 9 months ago • 92%
Amazon still has its own app store open - mostly because it's the one Microsoft used as the base for their Android compatibility layer. I expect this ruling to give Amazon a breath of fresh air as "the alternative app store".
Technology
Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight
csolisr 9 months ago • 98%
About the only benefit I can personally see from this is the ability to fully integrate F-Droid as an app store in my device, with proper automatic background updates, and without requiring root solutions that void my work's security measures for mobile devices. On the other hand, I can see Huawei, Amazon, and Epic jumping to the fray with their own app stores and system services, and maybe Google Play being far more lenient with subscription services like Spotify's in their own App Store. Altogether, I personally loathe Epic's approach, but appreciate the consequences of their lawsuit.
Not The Onion
Paraguay official resigns after signing agreement with fictional country
csolisr 10 months ago • 100%
At this point, some Capcom PR employee will be able to slip the Republic of Nayshall into existence as a prank.
Technology
Open extensions on Firefox for Android will be available from December 14
csolisr 10 months ago • 100%
Note to self, see if I can self-host Piped
Technology
Open extensions on Firefox for Android will be available from December 14
csolisr 10 months ago • 100%
In my particular case: because I still need to sync my subscriptions and playlists, as well as the support for adding comments.
Technology
Open extensions on Firefox for Android will be available from December 14
csolisr 10 months ago • 100%
Nightly user here, does this mean I no longer need to do the song and dance of manually adding my addons list to the browser anymore? Guess I can finally switch to stable!
Technology
Spotify will end service in Uruguay due to bill requiring fair pay for artists
csolisr 10 months ago • 100%
See, this is one of the reasons why I haven't listened to music in almost a decade. Paying fairly to artists is provably unaffordable for the average joe, unless a shady workaround like the streaming service subscription exists (and even then, that barely fills the belly of the artists that dedicate exclusively to art).
www.businessinsider.com
Technology
(3 Scenarios: 1. bug, 2. on purpose not likely during anti trust case, 3.screwing with adblockers so slow)Is Youtube making firefox load slow on purpose? [17:01 | Louis Rossmann]
csolisr 10 months ago • 85%
Google's Polymer library working better on the Chromium engine has been known for years, and Mozilla has been doing its best to keep up with Google's wrenches in the engine, this seven-year-old bug being one of many examples: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1367205
Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ
[Louis Rossmann] Piracy is COMPLETELY justified: Louis tries NetFlix and remembers why
csolisr 10 months ago • 100%
Personally, the current environment has led me to avoid most of the popular culture instead.
Open Source
FlorisBoard | FOSS keyboard that respects your privacy
csolisr 10 months ago • 100%
Can FlorisBoard implement the same thing? As a Spanish/English user, having both keyboard predictions available at once has become vital for my workflow
Linuxcsolisr 10 months ago • 100%
There are two options here, given that the OS seems to rely heavily on React Native to work: having the streaming APKs converted to React Native apps, or simply use the web browser and PWAs.
Androidcsolisr 10 months ago • 100%
At least it seems like you can still do a backup, re-lock the bootloader, apply for an upgrade, then unlock the bootloader again and restore the backup - right?
csolisr 10 months ago • 100%
Is there a way to lock the bootloader and keep a ROM different from the one the device shipped with? Or do I need to relock and reunlock every time I need to update the custom ROM, with all the data loss this implies?
www.independent.co.uk
www.theregister.com
A four-hour system interruption in September at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Kansas City, Missouri has been attributed to a cat jumping on a technician's keyboard.
So, I recently [requested](https://gui.fediseer.com/action-log/log?page=1&type=CLAIM&activity=ADDED&sourceDomains=communities.azkware.net) to add my single-tenant instance to the Fediseer catalog. I entered my community and user name in [the website](https://gui.fediseer.com/auth/claim-instance), and out of caution I chose to use the Mastodon proxy to receive the confirmation message. Over 24 hours later, the API code has not arrived. And when I try to request it again, I get the following error: > There was an api error: You have already claimed this instance as this admin. Please use the PATCH method to reset your API key. Problem is, [the PATCH method requires my API key](https://fediseer.com/api/) which, as discussed above, never arrived at all! Is there some mechanism for the instance claim to time out after a certain period so I can try again, or am I officially out of luck?
www.thedailybeast.com
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/8388296 > [https://archive.ph/gdSqI](https://archive.ph/gdSqI) > > > While Kim Jong Un is touring the land, state-controlled media is currently working to convince everyday Russians that instead of looking to the West, they should start emulating North Korea. > > > What can you forbid to North Koreans? To drink Coca-Cola? They don’t have it anyway! To watch Hollywood movies? They don’t have them anyway! You’ll turn off their Internet? They don’t have it anyway! You won’t import IPhones? They don’t have them anyway! You will forbid them to travel to Europe and America? They aren’t traveling anyway! There is no way to get to them.” > > Everything going ok, Russia? 😂🤣😂
latin-american.news
After the controversy that arose from the donation to Conamaq of a stolen vehicle in Chile, the director of the Vehicle Search Group (GBV), Hugo Bustos, revealed to this medium that there are at least 12 cars with reports of theft in Chilean territory that were donated to the governments of Evo Morales and Luis Arce.
si.cultura.cr
Ingredients: - Garlic - Onion - Celery - Oregano - Marjoram - Coriander - Onion chives - Finely sliced potatoes at your liking - 1 Kg. chicasquil leaves, previously washed and boiled - 1/4 Kg. hashed pork meat - One bit of salt - Pork lard Fry the seasonings up to the chives in the order listed above. Then add the potatoes, then the chicasquil, finally the pork meat, salt and lard. Serve in tortillas, for breakfast or the afternoon snack, or at lunch along with rice, beans and a boiled egg.
For those that didn't catch the last Direct, Super Mario Wonder has announced that it will feature two different kinds of online multiplayer, both very different to local multiplayer - one where you can see "ghosts" of other players currently online on a given level, which can't interact with you directly but can give you specific aids (such as reviving you when you lose a life, setting a checkpoint for you to revive, or handing you an item); and another where you can make rooms with your friends... but still can't interact directly with them, only allowing for speedrun-styled races. Sure it's a letdown to not be able to properly interact with other players online in the same way that you can do offline, but the problem is that the alternative has already been attempted... and the results are catastrophic. Remember Super Mario Maker 2? It included a mode where players could join an online room, whether with friends or strangers, to play courses among themselves. It's also infamous for the constant slowdowns that players experienced during the courses. Why was this happening, you may wonder? Well, because the players needed to synchronize their state between each other, and since the game was not designed with modern network tools in mind such as rollback (which would probably be too heavy for the Switch), the only way to ensure everyone was on the same lane was to wait for everyone to receive the input data from all other players. And in a game with up to four players at a time, things are absolutely going to get messy. And that's why the current online implementation of Super Mario Wonder is a decent compromise. If players are ghosts that can't interfere directly in the state of other players, that means that no synchronization of data is required, and a ghost can lag behind real-time as much as the network forces it to without needing to pause the game of all other users of the lobby. Sure, it's a shame that Nintendo still doesn't use rollback in the year of our lord 2023, but let's face it, the Switch was not the best of class back on release date, and nowadays even a smartphone has more memory and processor speed. That means that implementing rollback netcode into the game would require major gameplay sacrifices (such as capping the frame rate and the amount of items on screen, for example) in order to fit the limited capabilities of the Switch. If the choice was between having limited interaction between players and running at half the speed in the worst case scenario, I think Nintendo chose right.
For those that didn't catch the last Direct, Super Mario Wonder has announced that it will feature two different kinds of online multiplayer, both very different to local multiplayer - one where you can see "ghosts" of other players currently online on a given level, which can't interact with you directly but can give you specific aids (such as reviving you when you lose a life, setting a checkpoint for you to revive, or handing you an item); and another where you can make rooms with your friends... but still can't interact directly with them, only allowing for speedrun-styled races. Sure it's a letdown to not be able to properly interact with other players online in the same way that you can do offline, but the problem is that the alternative has already been attempted... and the results are catastrophic. Remember Super Mario Maker 2? It included a mode where players could join an online room, whether with friends or strangers, to play courses among themselves. It's also infamous for the constant slowdowns that players experienced during the courses. Why was this happening, you may wonder? Well, because the players needed to synchronize their state between each other, and since the game was not designed with modern network tools in mind such as rollback (which would probably be too heavy for the Switch), the only way to ensure everyone was on the same lane was to wait for everyone to receive the input data from all other players. And in a game with up to four players at a time, things are absolutely going to get messy. And that's why the current online implementation of Super Mario Wonder is a decent compromise. If players are ghosts that can't interfere directly in the state of other players, that means that no synchronization of data is required, and a ghost can lag behind real-time as much as the network forces it to without needing to pause the game of all other users of the lobby. Sure, it's a shame that Nintendo still doesn't use rollback in the year of our lord 2023, but let's face it, the Switch was not the best of class back on release date, and nowadays even a smartphone has more memory and processor speed. That means that implementing rollback netcode into the game would require major gameplay sacrifices (such as capping the frame rate and the amount of items on screen, for example) in order to fit the limited capabilities of the Switch. If the choice was between having limited interaction between players and running at half the speed in the worst case scenario, I think Nintendo chose right.
insider-gaming.com
insider-gaming.com
I really hope the developers weren't thinking about this pun while developing the plot...
www.ozarksfirst.com
"The report states that witnesses inside the house saw Williams pour gasoline from a soda bottle onto clothes and the floor of the laundry room. Williams then lit Takis tortilla chips on fire and tossed them into the laundry room."
"The report states that witnesses inside the house saw Williams pour gasoline from a soda bottle onto clothes and the floor of the laundry room. Williams then lit Takis tortilla chips on fire and tossed them into the laundry room."
github.com
Following a Lemmy community from an ActivityPub microblogging server such as Mastodon, Pleroma, or Misskey, sets the server to repost all messages sent to the community (whether original threads or their replies) as separate posts. However, both the threads and the replies to these have their ActivityPub privacy set to "public", instead of "unlisted". This means that on the home page, if you follow a Lemmy community, it will not only display the thread but also each individual reply in reverse chronological order. This generally pollutes the home page with more messages than required. While the main posts should remain with privacy set to "public", replies should be set to "unlisted" instead.
cross-post from https://www.reddit.com/r/wholesomememes/comments/154egtb/betty_anne_waters_a_high_school_drop_out_became_a/
github.com
When attempting to vote on any posts, my self-hosted site is unable to store the vote. Checking on the logs I get an error message that states `there is no unique or exclusion constraint matching the ON CONFLICT specification.` This points towards a problem with the database, but I'm not sure if it can be solved by rebuilding some index, or by fixing the upstream handling of duplicate data. I'm getting a constant barrage of errors similar to the one below: ``` WARN Error encountered while processing the incoming HTTP request: lemmy_server::root_span_builder: there is no unique or exclusion constraint matching the ON CONFLICT specification 0: lemmy_apub::activities::voting::vote_post at crates/apub/src/activities/voting/mod.rs:126 1: lemmy_apub::activities::voting::vote::receive at crates/apub/src/activities/voting/vote.rs:71 2: lemmy_apub::activities::community::announce::receive at crates/apub/src/activities/community/announce.rs:141 3: lemmy_server::root_span_builder::HTTP request with http.method=POST http.scheme="http" http.host=communities.azkware.net http.target=/inbox otel.kind="server" request_id=7e024b6a-3e4c-47b6-984d-0e2f04a52602 http.status_code=400 otel.status_code="OK" at src/root_span_builder.rs:16 ```
[I originally posted it here](https://old.reddit.com/r/sbubby/comments/uw5jmi/in_a_parallel_universe_where_duolingo_dropped/)
www.straitstimes.com
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1433287 > The trend has reportedly sparked a backlash from some in China due to safety reasons. Read more at straitstimes.com.
www.straitstimes.com
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1433287 > The trend has reportedly sparked a backlash from some in China due to safety reasons. Read more at straitstimes.com.
!costarica@kbin.fedi.cr [Follow from Lemmy](/c/costarica@kbin.fedi.cr) [Follow from Kbin](/m/costarica@kbin.fedi.cr)
Personally, my favorite is the gyro on button hold, bound to the aiming button, as Breath of the Wild originally did. I'm personally peeved about the always-on implementation on Splatoon though, because any slight tremor in your hand means your aim will suffer. (At least they had the decency of adding a dedicated recenter button.) And how do you go three games in a row not allowing the players to correct the vertical aim with the stick? What in the world is the rationale for that?
I haven't played the game since the update that removed several planets, and I'm yet to start the new content from that expansion and beyond. I would like to get back to date with the game (yes I know it's been years since), but since so many things have happened since then, the game assumes that I'm entering directly to the latest expansion and skipping everything before that. What's the "canonical" order of missions from Beyond Light onward to get myself up to date without accidentally spoiling myself?
