Auster

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[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 1 points 32 minutes ago

On Lexaloffle, under the web player of each game, there's a pink cartridge icon. The image that opens is the cartridge - download it and load onto your favorite emulator.

Itchio also has a bunch of those games, and iirc they have a tag for PICO-8 games as well.

Also also, iirc the cartridges can be converted to Android's native format. And I'd need to confirm, but maybe HTML too, which if possible, would probably let for the game to be run on JoiPlay.

[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 2 points 58 minutes ago

By the by, there's also the RSS tracking bot @bsky.app.profile.delistedgames.com@rss-parrot.net for those interested. Also those and others I may find I post to !gamedelistings@thebrainbin.org.

[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 39 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Checked the user's account. In lack of more info, it looks suspicious, as it only has a handful of posts, all article links, and no comments to show it's an actual human. Perhaps it is a bot grinding trust more slowly, to not be burned too quickly. Or maybe it's just an user that seldom logs in here.

And borrowing this comment to opinate on the article itself, it still sounds relevant as the technologies the article's OP proposes only got more powerful. Bet now we can even use LLMs to do that, no coding or research needed on the attacker's side.

[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 2 points 1 day ago

Sorry. I guess the miserable part sounded different than what I meant. I some times mix the meanings and usage of words, even in my mother language. That part was meant as an extension of the "be nice" part from a previous comment.

[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

About size, Lemmy and Kbin (RIP) were pretty slow 2~3 years ago. Now, even though I block most generalist, region-specific and news communities, I still struggle to keep track of my feed.

And if someone tries to build something good as a job, I don't think this job of his should be turned miserable either.

[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 4 points 1 day ago

Also an idea that requires more patience, share posts from here to your contacts elsewhere. That's specially practical if it's some image post (like memes) and the platform has good link preview display.

Also also, not ideal and much more of a slow process, but if someone from your contacts is on Threads or Bluesky, respectively suggest to him/her to activate ActivityPub integration, and suggest to follow Fedi Bridgy. Both would be microblogging-oriented, but there should be some degree of propagation from threaded posts over to microblogging platforms.

Also³, as I suggested in a separated comment, integration between ActivityPub-compatible platforms varies depending on each engine involved, so in Lemmy for example, if something is seen as a channel, maybe people could seek to follow and interact with it too?

[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 2 points 1 day ago

By the by, Peertube channels are treated as communities on the threadiverse, and iirc Wordpress blogs too (though I'd need to confirm that one), so maybe people could subscribe to such communities through their threadiverse accounts to help with engagement?

[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 7 points 1 day ago (12 children)

Places like Lemmy, PieFed, Mbin and Friendica, the "threadiverse", from my understanding are slower to grow, as their community system is meant for specific niches.

Places for microblogging (e.g. Mastodon) and for videos (Peertube, Loops) should be steadier to grow, the former for being more engagement oriented, and the latter as most popular video platforms end up being discount-Youtube or TikTok, or even those two themselves, and specially for Youtube, it seems every few months there's a blunder there that could incentivize migration.

Also the amount of options to join in can be rather off-putting. Even if the person is hellbent on joining some server, if he/she stops to check the rules of each potential server instead of picking the biggest one, he/she's in for a long read.

And about sharing Reddit content, a tip, Old Reddit has open RSS for communities and profiles and you could see if the Lemmit or Ibbit administrators would be willing to track more feeds on their instances.

[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 5 points 5 days ago

Han formas de hacerlo ads sin sonar como a un bot. Además, ¿quizás lo quiera cambiar la lengua al español en las configuraciones de su post?

[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 1 points 1 week ago

Hadn't thought about the priority of information which needs to be reserved in mind either. 😯

[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 2 points 1 week ago

Sounds possible, if not the issue, at least as an aggravation of it.

(Also a note, Portuguese is my mother language "<.< )

 

Recently, by accident, I set the subtitles of some anime to Spanish, and to my surprise, for the first time in who knows how long, I could focus fully on an episode. Tested over the days, and indeed it was helping.

After that, it got me wondering why.

Being able to understand some Japanese, the impression I get is that it's in a weird position where it's too straight to the point and too verbose at the same time. Meanwhile, in languages like Portuguese and English, it seems to me as if the speaker needs to walk around ideas a lot to explain them. And almost like they'd be in the other side of the spectrum, languages like Spanish (oddly enough despite being Portuguese's sister language) and the Scandinavian ones feel very straight to the point.

Perhaps then, less information added in helps at not straining one's focus, specially when the person's focus is already on the weaker side?

And going by that, it makes me think, if the person is struggling at focusing at something, despite the medium, maybe changing to a less verbose language (when possible and the person knows the language) could help?

[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 22 points 1 week ago

From what I remember back when EGS started appearing in the headlines, its main intention was to replace Steam. Besides barely delivering anything relevant other than freebies, and I could argue what people would want/expect after being fed so many "treats", but something born only to destroy is fated to destroy itself. Perhaps due to being stores from other times, but even places like GOG and Itchio understood engagement is important (even if execution is not always pristine).

 

Been reading some docs and felt like drawing to get a better picture.

Some things to note:

  • Parenthesis indicate bridges
  • Fed Bridgy and Mostr appear twice because I don't know if they allow cross-communication
  • One-way arrows (→) indicate one-way communication, and two-ways arrows (⇄) indicate the two sides can talk with each other
  • Threads to/from Facebook and Instagram communication appears with an interrogation mark because the information I could find didn't feel conclusive and I don't have an account to test myself
  • Maybe I missed some bridges and protocols, but that'd be more of a lack of knowing; also intentionally ignored X/Twitter > Nitter > RSS > ActicityPub bridges because it felt too much of a stretch.
 

Must've been a recent change because somewhat frequently I'm using it on the go and just now it started appearing for me.

Also banners appear on the top of communities now too. =D

 

Still 19 days to go if anyone's interested.

And to the the emulation folk, lowest tier (10 USD) gives a copy of the finalized ROM sent through email.

 

Iirc, in one of his last public appearances before abandoning Kbin was commenting he had health issues.

Just noticed he has a blog where he occasionally posts, latest post being from September, and in the "about me" section, he also mentions about having to drop Kbin.

Going by his posts and his repositories, he doesn't seem involved with ActivityPub anymore, at least in a public manner. But sharing in case someone worried about the person.

 

Accidentally found earlier today you can follow communities/magazines as "group"-tagged users in Mastodon, e.g. https://mastodon.social/@fediverse@lemmy.world

The problem is that posts in the community appear as boosts on Mastodon, and even replies are treated as posts. So if you follow a community with high engagement there, your feed easily gets flooded by replies people make to a given post.

Hope that helps ^_^

 

Besides lemmy.eco.br, feddit.it and lemmy.pt? Tried looking for but information seems scarce.

Also asking for someone who doesn't speak English, and no need to be Reddit-like instances specifically, so Mastodon, Peertube, BookWyrm, etc. work too.

Thanks in advance!

 

On another post, an user had asked for the filters I use, so pasting them below to make usability in Mbin better.

Some notes:

  • From what I checked from page sources of a few instances using Mbin, and considering a few of those filters were for kbin.social (RIP) and then repurposed without major adaptations, those filters shouldn't break on most Mbin instances, at least as the engine and its implementations are now.
  • Using thebrainbin.org as the site for the filters to check, but that can be replaced with the site you may be using, like fedia.io, kbin.earth, etc.
  • For disabling a given filter, or to add comments on Ublock Origin's filters page, add a ! to the beginning of the line.
  • Worth noting those filters also make the title and body of posts disappear in the posts' respective pages when active.

The filters:

Hiding specific poststhebrainbin.org##a[href="href_here"]:upward(article[id^="entry-"])

Explanation:
href_here is what appears after the domain name, so for example:
https://thebrainbin.org/m/fediverse@lemmy.world/t/545669/This-is-not-a-complaints-forum
What you want is /m/fediverse@lemmy.world/t/545669/This-is-not-a-complaints-forum, which turns the filter into this:
thebrainbin.org##a[href="/m/fediverse@lemmy.world/t/545669/This-is-not-a-complaints-forum"]:upward(article[id^="entry-"])

This filter needs to be repeated for each post you want to hide.

Probably could replace href= for href^= (matches anything that starts with what comes after it) or href*= (matches anything that includes what comes after it), if this is faster for anyone, so for example:
thebrainbin.org##a[href^="/m/fediverse@lemmy.world/t/545669/"]:upward(article[id^="entry-"])
thebrainbin.org##a[href="/545669/"]:upward(article[id^="entry-"])

Hiding communities already subscribed to or that you blocked on the Magazines pagesthebrainbin.org##span:has-text(Unblock):upward(tr) thebrainbin.org##span:has-text(Unsubscribe):upward(tr)

Hiding posts upvoted and downvotedthebrainbin.org##form[class="vote__up active"]:upward(article[id^="entry-"]) thebrainbin.org##form[class="vote__up active"]:upward(blockquote[id^="post-"]) thebrainbin.org##form[class="vote__down active"]:upward(article[id^="entry-"]) thebrainbin.org##form[class="vote__down active"]:upward(blockquote[id^="post-"])

Some filters for the defunct instances kbin.social & kbin.cafe I forgot to delete in case they're useful! Kbin Cafe - hiding liked posts: kbin.cafe##form[class="vote__up active"]:upward(article[id^="entry-"]) kbin.cafe##form[class="vote__up active"]:upward(blockquote[id^="post-"])

! Kbin Social - hiding specific posts: kbin.social##a[href="/m/memes@lemmy.world/t/951126/Totaled-Eclipse"]:upward(article[id^="entry-"]) kbin.social##a[href="/m/kbinMeta/p/6372596/at-ernest-I-m-up-to-cut-down-the-spam-from-all"]:upward(blockquote[id^="post-"])

! Kbin Cafe - hiding specific posts: !kbin.cafe##a[href="href_aqui"]:upward(article[id^="entry-"]) kbin.cafe##a[href="/m/linux@lemmy.ml/t/216192/What-is-wayland"]:upward(article[id^="entry-"])

! Kbin Social - hiding my own posts: kbin.social##a[href="/u/Auster"]:upward(article[id^="entry-"])

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