GTA Online now has BattlEye Anti-Cheat and is no more playable(for now?)
like this
SoupGod228 likes this.
P/f Jokin är ett brittiskkopplat färöiskt fiskeriföretag som ägnar sig åt pelagiskt fiske. Det är ett av flera pelagiska fiskeriföretag på Färöarna med utländskt minoritetsägande. Några andra är P/f Næraberg, P/f Jupiter och Sp/f Ango.
Europol ska ha knäckt en ny krypterad app. Enligt uppgifter till i media handlar det om Ghost. Ghost började användas inom kriminella gäng efter att EncroChat, SkyECC och ANOM knäckts. Det handlar om ett internationellt samarbete där bland annat Sverige ska ha varit med.
blog.zaramis.se/2024/09/17/eur…
LibreQuake aims to create a completely free Quake alternative compatible with mods
All of the Quake data files remain copyrighted and licensed under the
original terms, so you cannot redistribute data from the original game, but if
you do a true total conversion, you can create a standalone game based on
this code.
As I understand it the engine is Foss but the assets aren’t, like the doom engine vs the doom wad.
copyright used to only by 14 years plus a one time extention of another 14 years. Since quake 1 was released in 1996, it would be free for all to play with. Imagine being free to play with our own culture without all these work around.
Imagine being free. I can't honestly. Like a fish ,whose entire life was in a bowel, trying to imagine a ocean.
like this
etai likes this.
Someone explain this to me—if I wanted to play free Quake in the simplest way, what exactly would I need to install?
Kriminell ekonomi kan beskrivas som ett ekosystem där brottsvinster genereras, hanteras och återinvesteras. I Sverige är den kriminella ekonomin beräknad att generera 100 till 150 miljarder kronor per år. Detta är nästan fyra gånger högre än Polismyndighetens budget och i samma nivå som Försvarsmaktens budget för år 2024.
Oh! I should get back to it... Togrther with the winamp skins I had downloaded from internet archive.
Plus projectM from Steam, and Spotube... I could stop using the month ly subscription for (*1) an ugly UI that barely handles drag-and-drop and is a mess to make my playlists with.
(*1) tbh, the recommendation engine got me hooked at first, but my interest has been fading away.
Is there a really complete Linux audio player? By complete I mean : shuffle, queue management and reorganization, cover support, sort by album, artist, etc... Have good tools, like eq or compressor.
One day I searched and tried many but didn't find a good one
Sly: Friendly image editor written in Flutter | Cross-Platform
GitHub - kra-mo/sly: Friendly image editor
Friendly image editor. Contribute to kra-mo/sly development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
reshared this
Tech Cyborg reshared this.
Is there a Windows 10 inspired launch menu?
I’m looking for a launch menu that has similar functionality as the Windows 10 Start Menu. While I don’t think Windows is the pinnacle of OS development, I did find the "Start" menu quite useful in organizing my apps by task group and importance. Specifically, I’m interested in the following features:
- The ability to resize the menu.
- The option to create my own application layout in named groups.
- The capability to create folders with applications.
- Optionally, the ability to resize various application tiles.
The Cinnamenu applet for Cinnamon comes somewhat close, but it isn't quite it. Does anyone know of an app, a DE or anything else on Linux that offers these features?
like this
ShaunaTheDead and Noxious like this.
github.com/tau-OS/tau-arcmenu?…
gitlab.com/arcmenu/ArcMenu
Thanks for the suggestion. I looked at it. It is basically a simplified Windows 7 menu. Decent, but it doesn't go far enough for me.
Gnome itself is actually not bad. It has a full screen menu and arrangeable application icons and folders, but I cannot group them the way I want, let alone resize them. I wish there was something for Gnome, but I don't see it.
Perhaps I am asking for an edge case. Even Microsoft has dumbed down its Start menu in 11 to essentially a mobile launcher. Too few people seem to want that.
I used to use ArcMenu back when I ran Gnome on PopOS and I remember you could switch the layout between a lot of different menu styles.
Wasn't just the Win7 style one.
Yep, ArcMenu (@ gitlab.com/arcmenu/ArcMenu which is the maintained one, last updated days ago instead of years ago) has a ton of different layouts which can mimic any version of Windows, and so much more.
When using GNOME, use the "Extensions Manager" app (from Flathub) to search for "ArcMenu" and install it, then you can configure it there in the Extensions Manager app as well. In the ArcMenu configuration, go to layouts and select the modern group to see something like the screenshot above. (The previews are generic wireframe sketches; the result will look much more high fidelity.)
Gnome itself is actually not bad. It has a full screen menu and arrangeable application icons and folders, but I cannot group them the way I want, let alone resize them.
I don't think resizing is an option, but isn't it possible to drag one app's icon on top of another app's icon to create a group?
On top of that, you can install further launcher menus, which will then appear in the Show Alternatives list.
I installed Simple Menu (from Eike Hein) that has categories, favourites and search. And let's you move the icons around. But its that easy to try out different launchers.
I hope you find a good one.
old windows -> xfce/lxqt/whatever
nuwindows -> kde
macos/phones -> gnome
KDE Plasma is the way to go if you're too used to the Windows desktop. Plasma 6 is out, and from what I ses it's more like Windows 11, though Plasma is so configurable you could definitely mimic Windows 10.
Kubuntu still uses Plasma 5, which was pretty much exactly like using Windows 10 when I used it, though more configurable and smoother to use. If you want stability and compatibility in your machine, with a DE that has all its issues ironed out, Kubuntu is a good choice.
Alla stora svenska medier Israel-partiska. Rapporteringen om Israels folkmord i Gaza är extrem partisk i svensk media. Dagens ETC visar i en artikel hur mycket mer Israelvänliga medierna är genom att jämföra hur ofta israeliska dödsfall uppmärksammas jämfört med palestinska.
Energimarknadsinspektionen (Ei) har fattat två beslut som försvårar nya installationer av småskaliga solcellsanläggningar i områden där elnätet kräver förstärkning. Två villakunder som ville installera solceller inom ramen för sina befintliga huvudsäkringar har fått besked om att de måste betala 50 000 kr respektive 94 000 kr för att mata ut el på nätet
After upgrading from Ubuntu Jellyfish to Numbat, my desktop seems broken? Super key doesn't open menu, dark theme/settings doesn't work. How can I fix this?
One of the wallpapers has XFCE on it, but I didn't change my desktop environment. Also of note, when I open the terminal it doesn't look the same as it used to. Instead of the dark purple window it's a black window with white text and the window's icon is a red "X" with a dark blue "T" on it.
This is a headless machine and I connect to it through remote-desktop.
If I go through the applications menu (manually clicking, the super key does nothing and my keyboard does not have a "Fn" key) and go to settings I get the window on the left. Changing the settings in this window does nothing. Right clicking the desktop and clicking "desktop settings" I get the window on the right. This window correctly changes the wallpaper.
When I open the home folder I get Thunar.
My guess is there are two desktop environments competing or something right now? How can I fix this?
Also, weirdly, if I click my name in the upper right I can "lock screen" and "log out..." but I can't "switch user," "suspend," or "shut down."
Thank you in advance for any help.
like this
KaRunChiy and ShaunaTheDead like this.
reshared this
Tech Cyborg reshared this.
Your problem is that you're still using Ubuntu, after Canonical started injecting advertising and wants you to pay for it now.
Try a different distro, like anything besides Ubuntu..
My primary machine runs Pop!_OS, but I've had this machine running for years. Back when I installed Ubuntu on it, Canonical wasn't widely known as a bad guy. I've got various services running that I would need to resetup if I started from scratch.
I get where you're coming from, but to migrate everything over would take so much time. For now I would really like it if my desktop just worked correctly. When I get the time I can look into putting mint or debian on it.
like this
RandomStickman likes this.
I feel your pain from a distance, I really do. ☹️
The best advice I have in the meantime is to prepare for a full backup of all packages and consider switching to a different Debian based distro..
That link seems to be filled with ways to clone drives, but if I'm migrating I wouldn't want to clone ubuntu and take it with me.
I know that your /home folder can be on a different drive/partition, but can you install files to a different location as well? Like install docker etc. in your /home folder or something and then if you switch distros just bring your /home folder with you and remake the links to the apps or something.
As user-focused as linux is (at least linux users), I wouldn't be surprised if there was some tool that made this easy. But idk.
I sorta had a feeling that wasn't necessarily the best link after I posted it. Check this for more info (I'm on my phone right now..)
Wanna hear a scary command I've used before?
sudo aptitude reinstall '~i'
Not for the faint of heart, nor meant for a fresh install, but that literally reinstalls every single registered package in Debian based distro.
Edit: If you ever dare use that command, you better make 2 pots of coffee and roll 3 joints, cuz it'll take a good while..
Have you not caught the recent news that Ubuntu is now plastering adverts on the desktop if you haven't paid for it?
Please kindly fuck off.
It looks like you are running XFCE instead of GNOME (the normal Ubuntu desktop). I'm not sure how that happened... but you an always just install another desktop.
For instance, you can try to make sure you have the ubuntu-desktop or ubuntu-desktop-minimal metapackage installed:
sudo apt install ubuntu-desktop-minimalAfter that, the login manager should allow you to select the Ubuntu session rather than the XFCE one.
Hey thanks. I had started following this guide right before I saw your post:
ubunlog.com/en/how-to-reinstal…
Essentially the same thing, except the guide uses "apt-get install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop"
I used "sudo apt install ubuntu-desktop" and it found stuff to install. The terminal is running now. I'll update the post once it's done. Hope this works!
Ok, so after installing ubuntu-desktop and reinstalling ubuntu-desktop the desktop hasn't changed.
Ctrl+alt+T brings up the familiar terminal now though, and I can open a nautilus window by typing "nautilus."
"echo $DESKTOP_SESSION" returns "xfce." I'm logging into this machine remotely. Since I'm remote, I don't think I can log out and still be "connected" to change the DE. Is there another way to change it?
If I connect a screen to the machine the desktop doesn't load, I had to change a setting (of which I can't remember, for a reason I can't remember - something to do with optimizing the machine for remote desktop) and now the desktop only renders on the remote session.
How are you using it remotely? VNC?
Perhaps the server config started defaulting to XFCE. Maybe what happened is entire XFCE DE got marked as a dependency, installed during update, and then when some config defaulting to XFCE thanks to this became valid, you ended up here.
If it's VNC, what do you have in ~/.vnc/xstartup? Maybe a line like xfce4-session &?
It's using RDP. I'm going to check out how RDP is configured on the machine and see if I can set it up "fresh" again. I think I went with RDP instead of VNC because I was connecting to it with a windows machine in the past and using RDP meant I could use the native windows RDP client.
Now that my primary machine is running Pop!_OS, I can check out whichever protocol has the better connection and re-set thing up with it.
You say this machine is headless. Is it at a remote location? If not, is it feasible to connect it to a monitor an keyboard for a few minutes? If so then you could logout, switch DE, and then log back in. That would hopefully set the DE you prefer as user default.
If that's not possible, then some of the solutions discussed here might be applicable.
I'll give that a try.
Back when I set this up, for some reason, to get RDP working I needed to disable the local video output and have the main desktop be funneled into the remote session. I don't remember the details of how or why. I'll figure out how to reverse it and log in locally and see what I can gather.
that terminal is xterm.
however, i suggest you log out and look for the session menu on the ligin screen. maybe it defaulted to the wrong session type.
My guess is that something related to the headless setup you had changed during upgrade - likely some package got obsoleted and removed. Then you got some default behaviour from the replacement package along with the rest of the setup.
If you don't get the help needed to resolve this here, you should also post in askubuntu.com.
That makes a lot of sense. I'll work on logging into the machine locally and see what I can figure out from there. Thanks!
EDIT: I can’t figure out how I set this up. Somehow I routed the main display to the RDP session, meaning if I plug in a monitor I get a black screen instead of the desktop. I have to figure out what file I edited to do that. None of the tutorials that I can find now use whatever method I used roughly 6 years ago.
sudo debsums -acNote that this won't catch all. There are files that packages install and don't touch afterwards. I my case for example it does catch that
/etc/gdm3/custom.conf was modified to enable autologin among other things.
Yeah I've been running this machine on ubuntu since Bionic Beaver in 2018. Cannonical wasn't such a bad guy back then, and migrating everything over to a new distro has always taken more effort than it's worth. This machine runs headless and for the most part I interact with it though portainer so it hasn't been an issue.
It's just with the occasional remote desktop login that things are broken now. Do you have a recommended distro for servers/remote desktop usage?
you're running xfce!
do you want to be running some other desktop environment?
if so, look at what kind of session your remote connection software is asking the remote machine to start.
I'm going to need to do a deep dive to figure out how I set up remote desktop on that machine. Log in locally, get it working locally correctly, then see if I can get it working over RDP correctly.
Oh man, I can't figure out what I did.
Somehow I routed the main display to the RDP session, meaning if I plug in a monitor I get a black screen instead of the desktop. I have to figure out what file I edited to do that. But searching online now none of the tutorials use whatever method I used roughly 6 years ago.
Oof. This is rough. What config files are you referring to?
There’s a bunch of dot files and directories in your home directory that are used to store configurations and presets and stuff.
It used to be that if you logged in without those files and directories then x, the display manager, the other software etc would copy over stub versions and that’s how you get “defaults”.
So when I have a hairy x session I used to delete the configuration files and directories and let it repopulate with defaults.
Nowadays I don’t do that anymore, but it used to be an issue.
E: try ctrl alt f1 or two or something and see if you get a terminal or login prompt.
Linux creator Linus Torvalds has released version 6.11 of the open-source operating system kernel. The new release, while not considered major by Torvalds, introduces several notable improvements for AMD hardware users and Arch Linux developers. ZDNet: This latest version introduces several enhancements, particularly for AMD hardware users, while offering broader system improvements and new capabilities. These include:
RDNA4 Graphics Support: The kernel now includes baseline support for AMD’s upcoming RDNA4 graphics architecture. This early integration bodes well for future AMD GPU releases, ensuring Linux users have day-one support.
Core Performance Boost: The AMD P-State driver now includes handling for AMD Core Performance Boost. This driver gives AMD Core users more granular control over turbo and boost frequency ranges.
Fast Collaborative Processor Performance Control (CPPC) Support: Overclockers who want the most power possible from their computers will be happy with this improvement to the AMD P-State driver. This feature enhances power efficiency on recent
Link to original post linux.slashdot.org/story/24/09… from Teknoids News
I gave a talk** at Berlin Fediday this weekend entitled A Bigger, Better Fediverse. I talked about what has been happening on the Fediverse in terms of growth, but also what’s been improving in terms of trust and safety. I also talk about why these two dimensions go hand-in-hand, and how we can’t have one without the other.
video.wordpress.com/embed/WqDx…
** Almost. There were technical issues, so I had to record the talk and then upload it. All the better for you!
evanp.me/2024/09/16/a-bigger-b…
reshared this
World Wide Web Consortium and Tim Chambers reshared this.
[SOLVED] Silent Hunter 3 & Living Silent Hunter 3 Supermod - Steam proton + JSGME question
Hello guys! Recently re watched Das Boot (amazing film btw for those who haven't seen it, highly recommend) and that inspired me to install my SH3 from steam. The thing is its the first time I'm going to be playing on Linux, and I'm a bit stumped on how I can install the LSH3 supermod. The instructions for the 2022 version of LSH3 state that you simply run the provided .exe (due to this being steam proton I placed it in the game directory but this doesn't seem to be required) and run it. However I can't seem to figure out how I can use an existing proton environment to run an executable which is not the actual steam game for that environment. Can anybody help with this?
As a bonus question, because this game is quite old there are quite a few mods available for it, and the best way to activate them after downloading (on windows at least) is through JSGME. However I also cant figure out how to install that in the game directory. I have downloaded its installer but dont know how to actually run it.
I have included the link to the LSH3 2022 install manual as well as a screenshot of my game directory with files related to this post circled.
Any insight would be amazing!
SteamTinkerLaunch worked like a charm! Here's what I had to do to get it to work, for anyone who stumbles across this post:
- Install the package pacman -S steamtinkerlaunch
- Run the command steamtinkerlaunch compat add to initialise it
- Add it as the required compatibility layer in the game I wanted (SH3) then restart steam
- Launch the game - the steamtinkerlaunch window opens. Click on the MAIN MENU button before it launches the game
- From the new steamtinkerlaunch window that opens, click on "One time run". This opens yet another window
- In the field "One time command" navigate to where I had LSH3_2022 downloaded, and select it
- Click on RUN COMMAND
- Follow the install steps in the LSH3 manual
- Repeat the steps related to "One time run" again but this time select the JSGME installer, and go through that installation
- Launch JSGME again using "One time run" and enable any mods I need (although LSH3 has a 1920x1080 widescreen mod included, this doesnt seem to work at least on my setup. I had to enable the Ahnenerbe WideGui 1920 x 1080 Final mod)
- Launch the game. It should work.
So far I completed the first training mission to make sure most things work. Hopefully there aren't any issues further on down the road. Thanks for the suggestion, I had no idea this tool existed, but now I will probably be using it quite a bit!
not to be that guy . but have you tried to search for an answer?
github.com/flatpak/flatpak/iss…
first hit on "flatpak question marks".. it's due to the font you use in the terminal does not support or not fully support Unicode characters or your locale settings are not correct.
hope this helps and answers your question :)
(edit, lost part of a sentence)
you're welcome :)
or since you probably are from Denmark since you mentioned Danish in your other comments:
🇩🇰 bare hyggelig, og håper du fikk løst problemet ditt 🇳🇴
Er jo en hel Lemmy instans for Danmark her, så det finnes nok flere av osw, og ja, jeg er fra Norge 🙂
Håper det ordner seg når du får installert ny font når du har tid og anledning til det 🙂
Relaxing treatment of non-notes by Mastodon
re: better handling of non-notes by Mastodon
Toward the end of a day 2 FediForum session, @pfefferle@mastodon.social, @manton@manton.org, and I sidetracked a bit and discussed once again the tendency for implementors to shift away from more suitable ActivityStreams Activities to as:Note.
Specifically, it was the demo/session by @samsethi@podcastindex.social re: TrueFans. Instead of federating out an as:Listen, they send as:Note, and it's a fairly safe bet that this is because the content cannot be richly represented in Mastodon. The same story played out with Mattias and the WordPress plugin, and myself with NodeBB.
Secondly, back in March/April and again in May, @renchap@oisaur.com mentioned that resolving this was of some interest to the Mastodon team:
We will work on improving the display of non-Note content in the next Mastodon version
To be clear, getting Mastodon to suitably process as:Article/as:Listen/as:Offer or any number of other activities is not what the ForumWG wants to accomplish. It's not up to Mastodon to adapt to the variety of content on the fediverse, but rather that its fallback handling needs to improve just enough so that its baseline rendering is acceptable to more implementors and their users.
As concise and actionable as I can make it:
- Mastodon allows a subset of HTML for
as:Note. This subset is good enough, butcontentin non-notes has all html stripped. Keep consistency here and allow the same subset of HTML. - Non-note
contentis truncated. This is no longer necessary due to the addition of the expand button. The wonderful thing is this standardization of behaviour actually simplifies Mastodon code. - Instead of appending the object URL to the status content, promote the "Open Original Page" button out of the overflow menu. It's more than okay to defer to the original site vis-a-vis presentation and allow the user a smooth exit if desired (
target="_top"would be okay too if you're worried!)
That's it.
You could even skip the third point, but even with 1 and 2 achieved this would sufficiently raise the baseline behaviour just enough that I would immediately update NodeBB to send as:Article for new topics, and I am certain @pfefferle@mastodon.social would adjust his defaults as well.
Lastly, @renchap@oisaur.com, I'm sure I can speak for everyone at FediForum when I say that it was wonderful to see representatives from Mastodon (that of course includes @andypiper@macaw.social as well) in attendance. It means a lot to me personally that you were there, and sends a signal that Mastodon continues to desire broader inter-compatibility.
reshared this
Tim Chambers reshared this.
Re: Relaxing treatment of non-notes by Mastodon
@renchap@oisaur.com it's an oft-repeated refrain that the Mastodon team has a lot of their plate. With bug fixes, existing feature pipeline, and now your funded work with fediscovery, issues important to other implementors might fall by the wayside or seem less important.
The easiest thing for us to do is to impress upon you and your colleagues the importance of this for the wider fediverse. You have @pfefferle@mastodon.social from WordPress, @mike@flipboard.social from FlipBoard, and @michael@newsmast.social from NewsMast, and likely others who would be on board (@hongminhee@fosstodon.org with Fedify/Ghost?) with switching away from as:Note (I can't speak for them, but probably?)
The second easiest thing here would be to have a developer make a PR against the Mastodon repo. I'd love to also make this happen (funding and such permitting).
Ghost already represents posts as `as:Article` objects. Interestingly, they put `as:Note` into the `as:preview` property of `as:Article` objects, which I don't think Mastodon utilizes.
@trwnh @thisismissem @hongminhee @mike @michael but one thing I'd note: I think objects should always degrade gracefully into something note like, but that's not the case for activities
Imagine I used a federated last.fm like application. If Mastodon converted as:Listen to a note, my followers would probably get pissed off about the "Now listening to: X" statuses every 2 minutes
@trwnh @mike @hongminhee @thisismissem @michael we don't really have a way of knowing what activities our followers are interested. In fact in the general case that's impossible; if I started using a music suggestion system based upon my friends listening habits today, I'd like to be able to use their historic listening data that they have been broadcasting to seed it.
Alternatively, consider that I decide to make my listening history public and it hits a relay. My as:Listen activities are going to absolutely carpet bomb the federated timeline.
Aside from the Annointed Two (Create, Announce) we really need to treat most activities as ephemeral and largely unimportant
This is why we need to allow people to specifically follow certain Collections which are exposed as streams. It’s also why we need to allow people to send activities to arbitrary audiences which might not include all followers.
If a relay is set up for the purpose of aggregating Listen activities and you follow it, that’s on you. You asked for it.
Create is the exception, not the rule
@trwnh @darius I actually think this demonstrates a fundamental flaw in the email model
There are times you want to be able to do endpoint to endpoint but potentially automatic message exchanges, and email doesn't really have a mechanism for doing this
The straightforward example is my client noticing your S/MIME or GPG key is expiring and asking if there's a new one
if the actor represents me, then it is "my" inbox.
the correct solution imo is to spin up more bespoke actors. i'd really like to build upon the concept of "programmable actors", i.e., actors that are automated to act a certain way with activities they receive in their inbox. for example, a Relay could be defined as a programmable actor that Announces the object of any Create it receives, or Announces any activity it receives, or whatever. and it should be a JSON-LD type
@trwnh @mike @hongminhee @thisismissem @michael therein lies the point - activities mostly *aren't* interesting. Create and Announce are interesting not in and of themselves but because of what they carry.
Things just work much better in many ways if activities can be thought of as largely ephemeral.
If the podcast listen is important enough that it's worthwhile keeping around in my feed - say, it has commentary or something like that - then perhaps it's better framed as commentary, not as a pure listen
@trwnh @hongminhee @michael @mike @thisismissem I think our fundamental disagreement here is that I think activities shouldn't have content; it really opens many cans of worms
AS1 had a much more robust activity/object distinction and TBH I'm still kinda upset at how much AS2 muddled every type of object together into sludge
@hongminhee @michael @mike @thisismissem @trwnh if you treat activities as first class objects indeed of second class, it really opens up various cans of worms. What does it mean to like a like? Can you reply to an EmojiReact? Can you Like a Listen?
The end result of dividing things might be some semantic overlap between "small" Activities and "large" Objects, but that's probably not the worst possible argument
I do think there's an argument for a world with an activity-object merge but it's probably the world in which the Create activity never existed
You can do all of those things and they mean whatever the negotiated meaning is between the human author and the human audience.
From an AP machine view, Liking a Like just means that your Like SHOULD be added into the `likes` collection of that Like. From a human view, it simply means “I like that you liked this.”
@trwnh @mike @hongminhee @thisismissem @michael and I agree, but I think this approach if actually implemented really combinatorially explodes the protocol. An implication of this direction of thought is that your like has a likes collection, and that likes collection has it's own likes collection, ad infinitum.
You really can express absolutely everything in ActivityPub/AS2 and it's it's biggest flaw IMO. The combinatorial explosion really paralyses implementers
Re: Relaxing treatment of non-notes by Mastodon
@thisismissem@hachyderm.io @hongminhee@fosstodon.org Yeah that's something I haven't seen before. Would love to get @johnonolan@mastodon.xyz's take on it.
Blog software has the concept of "excerpts", which I think fits well with that idea.
@pfefferle@mastodon.social is right though... this is likely only because an excerpt can't be sent in via summary, otherwise it gets treated like a CW.
but that's no longer completely true. You can send a `summary` if `as:sensitive` is false :)
only if `as:sensitive` is set to true, the `summary` will be used as content warning.
Separately, Mastodon are doing great work and have a non-stop barrage of feature requests (often: demands) from all sides, and everyone is convinced theirs is the most critical (ofc).
We've chatted to them about long-form, and they're well aware :)
They don't need importance impressed upon them, but they certainly do need funding and PRs — so I think you're very much on the right track there!
@evan @Gargron I 100% agree with Julian. We are new to AP development but very excited. I was surprised by the lack of AP vocab support in Mastodon given the AP vocab has not been updated since May 2017.
Being a podcast & music app we had hoped to use the LISTEN verb. Sadly we can't as there is no support? Equally we offer blogging and event ticketing in our platform, so using ANNOUNCE, ARTICLE and BUY verbs will hopefully work???
An issue we have with redirecting the user to the original post is that it makes it very hard for the user to interact with the post. We still want to improve this (in 4.4?) but are still very short on resources.
We discussed changing the "read more" button to open a modal, and (is this a good idea?) supporting an AP attribute with an iframe suitable for embedding the content, and changing the show more button to open a modal with this iframe
Re: Relaxing treatment of non-notes by Mastodon
@renchap@oisaur.com That is a valid concern. A basic tenet of growth hacking and increasing engagement is simply to not drive the user to another site.
There's an opposing viewpoint that states that you should trust your users enough for them to return on their own, hehe.
I know there's a strong desire to keep users on-platform, which is why I suggested using target="_top" to open a new tab. I hope that's a good enough compromise, but ultimately it is up to the Mastodon team as to what works best.
Users see some content, click on it, then end up with a new UI, see a reply button, click on it, and are asked to create a new account, or to sign up (but not with their initial account). Our user testing (and many feedback) points that this is a very common issue with AP federation at the moment, even between Mastodon instances.
Not many people understand what is the federation and how to work around it
I totally agree with @renchap that it is important to keep the user on the platform of his/her choice! I like the idea of having a better "read more" UX or maybe the lightbox idea.
But to have the best possible experience and to improve the engagement, you should not force the user to leave the platform.
Otherwise it feels very much like subscribing to an RSS-Feed with only excerpts, where you always have to leave the reader for reading the whole text!
This Week in KDE Apps
This Week in KDE Apps
Welcome to the first post in our "This Week in KDE Apps" series! You may have noticed that Nate's "This Week in KDE" blog posts no longer cover updates about KDE applications.This Week in KDE Apps
like this
ShaunaTheDead likes this.
LightTube, un altro front-end alternativo per YouTube
Viste le recenti, e speriamo temporanee, débâcle di Invidious e Piped ho aggiunto il front-end alternativo chiamato LightTube nell'articolo dedicato alle alternative a YouTube.
LightTube, un altro front-end con alcune caratteristiche interessanti. Permette di vedere i video senza pubblicità, attiva la visualizzazione dei "non mi piace" (da Return YouTube Dislike), ha il supporto a SponsorBlock, la possibilità di accedere ai feed delle sottoscrizioni senza necessità di un account Google, la gestione delle playlist e la possibilità di proxare i video. Attenzione: Google potrebbe bannare il vostro account se utilizzate LightTube per loggarvi, evitate di farlo.
Questa una lista dei server disponibili: lighttube.org/instances.
Come sempre è bene ricordare che la vera alternativa a YouTube è PeerTube 💛
GitHub - lighttube-org/LightTube: An alternative YouTube front end written in ASP.NET
An alternative YouTube front end written in ASP.NET - lighttube-org/LightTubeGitHub
The best times to view the event will depend on your location, but the lunar eclipse will peak at 10:44 p.m. ET, according to NASA. All of North and South America will have a chance to see the partial lunar eclipse and harvest supermoon depending on the weather. Europe and Africa will also have an opportunity to see the eclipse.This lunar eclipse will be a partial one, with only the upper portion of the moon being plunged into the darkest part of the Earth's shadow known as the umbra, Monsue said.
Join us for Sunnyvision, the summer edition of Lemmyvision!
I hope my post doesn't break the rules ; I'd like to invite as many people as possible to participate to Sunnyvision, the summer edition of the Lemmyvision song contest.
It's a fun way to celebrate summer, and discover new music, more info on the original post, quoted below !
TL;DR
- In ~~this thread~~ the thread on !lemmyvision@jlai.lu, in the comments, post a song that was released in summer of any year.
- Next week, you'll be able to vote for your favourite song from the songs posted here.Remember that time I wanted to set up a smaller scale Lemmyvision for summer? Yeah me neither.
But here it is, it's still summer for a week, so..
Welcome to Lemmyvision's summer edition, Sunnyvision!🌞If you don't know what Lemmyvision is, check out the sidebar!
The aim is to promote different languages and cultures from around the world, to share more between our online communities across Lemmy, and discover songs from lesser known artists.
The first edition concluded on April (jlai.lu/post/6041838) with 9 instances/countries/communities participating! The Northern Boys - Sexy Train (), the feddit.uk submission, won!
For this 'lighter' edition, the goal is to celebrate the last week of summer, with some summer related tunes. You do not need to bring your instance/community, everyone can share a song, no matter what instance they're on, as long as they can federate here!
Rules
- Just post a song that was released in summer, from any year you want
- At the end of the week I'll gather all the songs posted in this thread
- You'll then be able to listen to a playlist with all those songs, and vote for your favourite!Spread the word if you can, and I hope you have fun, and that everyone can discover new music! 🎶
ZeroHora
in reply to mr_MADAFAKA • • •Mactan
in reply to ZeroHora • • •moody
in reply to mr_MADAFAKA • • •Does installing the Proton BattlEye runtime do anything?
I don't play many games that use it, but for Ark you have to install a separate BattlEye.
Chewy
in reply to moody • • •Blxter
in reply to mr_MADAFAKA • • •Rockstar replied to someone's support request
Source reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comm…
AnEilifintChorcra
in reply to mr_MADAFAKA • • •support.rockstargames.com/arti…
Such a crappy way of wording it and trying to blame the steam deck when BattlEye has said that they have had linux and wine support long before the steam deck came out
What makes RP servers so special that they don't need BattlEye?
pcgamer.com/battleye-anti-chea…
λλλ
in reply to AnEilifintChorcra • • •Anas
in reply to AnEilifintChorcra • • •teawrecks
in reply to Anas • • •paraphrand
in reply to mr_MADAFAKA • • •Evolith
in reply to paraphrand • • •Big ol' cascade effect. Even back in late 2015, they made an update to old-gen release consoles (PS3, 360) that prevented users from loading directly into Online upon booting up the game. If you chose that option; endless load loop and an eventual crash. From that point on until forever, you had to load singleplayer and use the shoddy interface to select an Online game for your multiplayer character.
They have a history of ruining Online with every update. I can only imagine all of the problems that accumulated since then, if it is even playable at all on those consoles.
superkret
in reply to mr_MADAFAKA • • •Within 2 minutes I was killed by some dude in a flying motorcycle rocket launcher thingy.
He then proceeded to spawn-camp me and kill me every time I came back.
Haven't logged on since.
Eager Eagle
in reply to mr_MADAFAKA • • •"oh no, anyway..."
GTA online was fun from 2015 until a couple years later before flying bikes and sky races. R* kept pushing updates that appeal to teenagers and absolutely ruined it.