Auster

@ Auster @thebrainbin.org

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Other me's:@Auster | @Auster1(I have other alts, but if a profile claims to be me, doubt it)

2m ago

Hola
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Auster @thebrainbin.org 2m ago
saludo, gato amigo

9m ago

What happened to the girl in that video (featuring an adult interviewing two children - one has ADHD, one doesn't)?

Yet to watch, but regarding the title, something I learned back in elementary school, if the part in parenthesis is bigger than what's not, parenthesis shouldn't be used.

30m ago

Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?

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Auster @thebrainbin.org 30m ago

Ah, I see. Sorry for misinterpreting it.

7h ago

Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?

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Auster @thebrainbin.org 7h ago

Since you mention "without backwards compatibility", I guess you are preparing your own installers to run the game. If so, try to look if there are any known issues between the PS3's emulator and the game, and if there are, look for the patch to inject when creating the installer. And if you're running CFW, iirc you just need to place the patch file in the same folder as the ISO.

7h ago

Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?

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Auster @thebrainbin.org 7h ago

Played it before. Most non-horror horror game I've played yet. Pretty good though.

Also the extra scene at the ending from the remaster is very sweet, pun intended.

7h ago

Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?

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Auster @thebrainbin.org 7h ago

Nothing picked yet. Long weeks, those past few. ;-;

Maybe I'll play Eternal Arcadia Legend or some other GC game. Finishing franchises is fine and all, but the mood for starting something new is growing along the need to game. =)

8h ago

I like the Trump filter. Please include one that filters posts about so-called "AI". Or other hypes.

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Auster @thebrainbin.org 8h ago

Also, something else:The user wjs in another comment suggested custom keyword filters too. A similar thing can be achieved with Ublock Origin filters if you wish to use it instead.

8h ago

I like the Trump filter. Please include one that filters posts about so-called "AI". Or other hypes.

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Auster @thebrainbin.org 8h ago

Haven't checked much of PieFed, but if it has domain-blocking feature and you notice a given news site reports a lot on {current hype} and/or {current fad}, you could try blocking it too.

And if PieFed doesn't have the function, you could possibly still hide such posts with Ublock Origin. Did it with Lemmy when I used mainly it and it worked well enough.

10h ago

Not that I or anyone would ever have issues.

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Auster @thebrainbin.org 10h ago

Dunno the post you talk abiut, but usually I see in forums people that respond being pretty willing to help.

10h ago

Neocities deindexed from Bing

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Auster @thebrainbin.org 10h ago

So, going by the blog post, the entire domain got sanctioned due to a few (proportionally speaking) malicious domains?

If so, wtf 💩

Also, for things like this, I'd suggest linking to sites one uses (Neocities or otherwise) between one's friends and followers so discovery of sites flow through the chain of trust. Not as fast discoverable, but avoids algorhithm decisions like this, or shadow ban, or ill-intended sites paying to appear higher, or so on.

10h ago

Is there a way we can go back to the community spotlight where lets say weekly we find one and want to promote it? Sorry to bother.....no sarcasm in that.

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Auster @thebrainbin.org 10h ago

Just checked, 1909 communities blocked from my side. /All page doing wonders for finding what to follow and what to block. "<.<

14h ago

Spent more time looking for a game than actually playing one? Help me test Gamescovery, a recommendation engine built for your actual taste.

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Auster @thebrainbin.org 14h ago

When you add such login options, I mean.

Although, in this idea of leveraging public APIs, maybe database sites have them too? In all such cases, you could probably also already import useful stuff like tags, ignoring what's redundant and thus lessening the load on both your server and the API's server.

14h ago

Spent more time looking for a game than actually playing one? Help me test Gamescovery, a recommendation engine built for your actual taste.

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Auster @thebrainbin.org 14h ago

Can't test now, but an idea: as afaik EGS, GOG and Steam all have public APIs, maybe pull games to your internal database based on what is in the accounts of people joining in? As people likely have kilometric backlogs, it should already be useful for them, and it should help lessening the initial load as you wouldn't need to pull what probably is past 100k+ unique titles all at once.

17h ago

Netflix Animation Studios are now funding Blender development

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Auster @thebrainbin.org 17h ago

Even if they don't absorb Blender, who pays chooses the restaurant, adapting a local saying. The more a company or coordinated group injects moneys into a project, the more of a saying they have in the developments of that project.

17h ago

Is conversations safe?

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Auster @thebrainbin.org 17h ago

Iirc, I think it was the Terraria dev that got all Google services blocked from him for a ban in one service and that Google never explained what was the reason? Might've been some other bigger indie dev, but it served to show how, if Google wants, you lose everything for any minor misdemeanor, or if they think you committed any, and good luck with the right to defend yourself from accusations.

19h ago

Chinese propaganda is rampant on the fediverse

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Auster @thebrainbin.org 19h ago

I wouldn't say necessarily China controlled. Social engineering is great for making people replicate the engineering without noticing.

But indeed I notice a lot of posts that benefit China since I joined in some years back (thanks Spez), specially in news and country-specific communities.

20h ago

Forget emulators, native ports of PS2 games may be closer than ever

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Auster @thebrainbin.org 20h ago

Using the example of slow downs, some games even took that into account when being designed, e.g. Space Invaders and Shadow of the Colossus. While I don't think those two are easy to come by in their original versions emulated (at least I don't remember mentions about either), for those that would like to play through the original experience of a given game, emulation is the most guaranteed and accessible way to go. And though I can see the appeal of QoL changes, no change should disregard the original version of the game.

1d ago

Forget emulators, native ports of PS2 games may be closer than ever

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Auster @thebrainbin.org 1d ago

Any port is still a remake, and no remake is exactly like the original. Emulation still is the best we have to try to get to the original experience.

2d ago

Why do you need a launcher? (asking older gamers actually)

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Auster @thebrainbin.org 2d ago

90's kid myself so I probably don't fit into the old gamer category, but my grievance with launchers is the same with most UI systems: I must figure out how the author expected it to be used, and if there's something that bothers me, finding ways to circumvent or solve it is a quest.

At least with terminal-based tools, or very basic lanunchers, I can find far more easily ways to make launching games ideal, even by bridging to a program or the system's UI.

2d ago

Meet Roomy: An Open-Source Discord Alternative for the Decentralized Web

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Auster @thebrainbin.org 2d ago

Can't check much of it now, but one thing that concerns me in Discord, and that I've already seen happening, is entire chat histories getting nuked, either by accident or by moderation's dishonesty. With AT Protocol's middleman-style of delivery system, I don't trust it for preserving a chat history, but with ActivityPub and its nature of more easily being self-hostable, backing up suddently becomes far more reachable. So for that, I'll be waiting until ActivityPub compatibility is added.

Also, on a more positive light and pondering on design possibilities, I wonder how channels will look like for platforms not inherently compatible with such. Maybe Mastodon and Misskey will treat as private mentions? Also maybe Lemmy and Mbin will treat each channel as a separared DM? Also makes me wonder about other platforms within the fediverse. 👀