Audiobooks are great for commutes. If you got the version narrated by Andy Serkis, be prepared for him to really dig deep into the songs and rhyming.

Currently reading A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine. Liking it so far.

Last finished A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers. Didn't enjoy it as much as The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet.

Yep, love it. https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/hybridhavoc

Yeah I'm trying to look at this and understand almost anything from this and it's actually impossible.

I think I found the solution but I don't like it. I signed in to the Xbox app for Xbox Cloud Gaming. After doing this, the Gaming page in the hub no longer shows my recently played Xbox games in that place. This means I still don't get the Apps and Devices row to be the default row. Plus that Xbox app is terrible for me, the cloud gaming literally unplayable in that the Play button for any given game stays disabled even after taking like 10 seconds to just "load" the button.

I did manage to trick it into having my Xbox Series X source on the main home page instead of the Game page though so that's close to a win.

Some good titles in this batch. Started playing Lightyear Frontier last night.

Sadly it has been more than 12 years we've been waiting for the next book. 🙁

Great recommendation. Extremely easy to get into, great compelling character voice, and most of the entries in the series are very quick reads.

IMO this is a wild recommendation to give to someone that doesn't do a lot of reading.

Looks interesting, but of course we all want to see more.

I feel the need to be pedantic here: the first amendment has nothing to do with speech on private platforms.

It's a sandbox. My prediction is that it could be fun for up to an hour.

Back in 2001 the recruiter at my high school very nearly convinced my girlfriend at the time to join up. She was not cut out for that life, and did eventually back out.

Clark was raised on a farm. It still checks out.

If you enjoyed The Expanse then I would recommend Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds.

Nah the last thing these shows need are a bunch of armchair experts chipping in.

I think there may be some room for improvement on messaging there.

That's true and fair.

... I feel like you can do this with the Mastodon admin already. Preferences > Administration > Custom Emojis. Enter in the domain whose emojis you want to see / get, search. Click the "select all" checkbox at the top, copy. If there are multiple pages, go to the additional pages.

Nothing actually. Faircamp is not actually inherently related to the fediverse.

Here is an explainer on architecture. It might be helpful. https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/5-5-2023-federation-architecture

Seems like there is a lot of people in this thread that are confused about BlueSky federating even means. BlueSky's plans for federation have nothing to do with the fediverse. It's about enabling federation with other AT protocol services, including self-hosting a personal data server.

The path forward I think would be some sort of a bridge service. Think of it as a translation layer that could take in updates from both ActivityPub and AT, and present to the opposing side like it were native. Something similar was developed for nostr to communicate with the fediverse, and it seems at least feasible in this case as well.

Unfortunately it seems like development on Tumblr has been reduced to a skeleton crew. I wouldn't hold my breath for ActivityPub integration on that front now.

I would like to see some sort of bridge built to allow communication between AT protocol services and ActivityPub protocol services.

Would love to see them come to the fediverse, even if it was just something as simple as a bot. Their site is all RSSed up though. Can sub to the whole site here: https://aftermath.site/feed

Or just the Video Games category here: https://aftermath.site/category/video-games/feed

Played Just over the weekend. Good, short game.

Seems like it almost has to have some sort of a carve-out for itself.

According to numbers shown on https://fedidb.org it basically already has. Monthly Active Users is only about 17% of total users.

This kind of retention rate is not uncommon in free social services.

Very cool to see this on the screen. As the admin of https://darkfriend.social, I was really hoping we'd get some version of it. Plus there are lots of other details in it.

I wouldn't say it is "packed with action" but I have to recommend the Revelation Spaces series by Alastair Reynolds, just because I think more people should be reading these.

I would usually recommend some Alastair Reynolds to anybody into science fiction. I always suggest starting with House of Suns because it's a stand-alone novel that is really good and will give you a pretty good idea of what to expect from his writing. But his Revelation Space series is where the bulk of his writing is. However, I wouldn't call his work fast paced. So you might not get into it.

I have recently been reading the Murderbot Diaries. They are extremely easy and enjoyable reads. Could definitely give those a try.

If you enjoyed Recursion, you would probably like another book by Blake Crouch, Dark Matter.

Children of Time is a must-read IMO

That theory will be wild if true. Looking forward to seeing what is going on with Liandrin.

I had a theory and meant to call in, but was busy setting up a new phone. Was still a fun live stream though.

That's a theory I don't think I've heard before. What gives you secret daughter vibes?

Edit: replied from notifications without looking at context. That's an interesting idea. Could be the child of anyone present though, doesn't have to be Liandrin specifically.

Well put.

No theories on that one.

Very excited for this season.