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Specific languages helping at focusing? in c/adhd@lemmy.world
[โ€“] Auster@thebrainbin.org 1 points 1 day ago

Hadn't thought about the priority of information which needs to be reserved in mind either. ๐Ÿ˜ฏ

Specific languages helping at focusing? in c/adhd@lemmy.world
[โ€“] Auster@thebrainbin.org 2 points 1 day ago

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

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

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Specific languages helping at focusing? (thebrainbin.org)
 

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?

Epic fails to compete with Steam because โ€œEGS is a shop, Steam is a communityโ€, says Witchfire lead, as Epic has โ€œnothing to do but to buyโ€ in c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
[โ€“] Auster@thebrainbin.org 22 points 3 days 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).

Linux Kernel Rust Code Sees Its First CVE Vulnerability in c/technology@lemmy.world
[โ€“] Auster@thebrainbin.org 20 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Surprised it took so long.

What is the best way to link to a podcast episode on the Fediverse? in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[โ€“] Auster@thebrainbin.org 9 points 4 days ago

If your podcasts have an RSS feed, you can set a bot to share them. Apparently you can configure that natively on Friendica for thread-based posts, and on Mastodon you can ping @birb@rss-parrot.net with the feed link for it to create a bot account for that feed.

Would this be possible with the fediverse? in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[โ€“] Auster@thebrainbin.org 2 points 5 days ago

GOG's site has no ties to ActivityPub, but one element from there may facilitate building on that idea.

There, they have a review system, but it's not locked to only buyers. As long as the page for a game, DLC, etc. is up, you can leave a review. And as a way to mitigate voting manipulation, you as an user can filter by owner reviews specifically (and iirc, filters are saved in the browser's session so you don't need to change all the time).

Now, into ActivityPub, two store projects exist that I know, Bandwagon and Flohtmarkt, respectively trying to mimic Bandcamp and Facebook Marketplace's experiences. Unsure how they federate their contents or how they work internally as I haven't tested them yet, but if a product listing gets propagated as a post to other social medias, people could comment on them. But if internally they can check who owns the product of the given listing, they could do so to filter out all non-owner comments.

And furthermore, borrowing ideas from yet another store, the smut manga store Fakku allows people to comment on product listings, and optionally leave a rating along with the comment. Again, if either Bandwagon and Flohtmarkt have a way to check ownership, or if another ActivityPub-compatible store engine is released which then could have such check, maybe the store/engine could make the rating part locked out from non-buyers.

And lastly, engine-specific functions don't seem far-fetched. From what I read, PieFed has things like community migration and Reddit-like flairs, Misskey has pretty powerful client-sided CSS capabilities, Mbin mixes microblogging and threads pretty organically, Minds, Wafrn and to an extent Friendica connect to multiple protocols, and Peertube feels like its own thing. So such proposed ideas, if not already applied, should be within the realm of possibility.

Instances for Portuguese and / or Italian speakers? in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[โ€“] Auster@thebrainbin.org 1 points 6 days ago

Esperanto isn't really useful for what I needed back when I made the post.

It's kind of funny how many late 90s games had at least one drum and bass track in c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
It's kind of funny how many late 90s games had at least one drum and bass track in c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
[โ€“] Auster@thebrainbin.org 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Haven't played many late 90's games, but I remember FFVII's Cosmo Canyon having a quite unique track in that sense, and Parasite Eve's opening being quite on the bass side.

I built an AI app that helps people choose what to watch in seconds in c/technology@lemmy.world
[โ€“] Auster@thebrainbin.org 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm not its target audience (not much of movies fan), but considering I made sheets for similar uses for music and games, it makes me think:

  • couldn't it be fully offline? More reassurance of no data collection and it should keep being useful virtually forever, specially if physical media and DRM-free movies and series get traction.
  • instead of an LLM, why not a local database with a tag or like/dislike system, with the system having a bit of randomness for suggestions to have an algorithm?
  • in line with the first point, if an LLM is a must, why not have a local one trained specifically on movies and series?
Looking for games to watch Let's Plays of: Recommend me something! in c/games@lemmy.world
[โ€“] Auster@thebrainbin.org 6 points 1 week ago

In the line of cinematic games, maybe Journey also?
Maybe Songs for a Hero too, but do mind it has two dubbings (Portuguese and English) and they sound different from each other.

Made a graph of the "wider" fediverse - is this correct? in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[โ€“] Auster@thebrainbin.org 2 points 1 week ago

Didn't know Friendica and Hubzilla are other protocols. ๐Ÿ‘€

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Made a graph of the "wider" fediverse - is this correct? (media.thebrainbin.org)
 

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 (โ†’) indicate one-way communication, and two-ways arrows (โ‡„) 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.
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Looks like now Mbin, at least on mobile, mixes threads and microblog posts (media.thebrainbin.org)
 

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

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Winsley's Guardian N64 port with additional contents funded on Kickstarter (www.kickstarter.com)
 

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.

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Ernest is alive (thebrainbin.org)
 

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.

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Beware when following communities/magazines on Mastodon (thebrainbin.org)
 

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 ^_^

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Instances for Portuguese and / or Italian speakers? (thebrainbin.org)
 

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!

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Some "quasi features" for Mbin through Ublock Origin filters (thebrainbin.org)
 

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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