Auster

@ Auster @thebrainbin.org

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16h ago

I recommended The Fediverse over on Upscrolled
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Auster @thebrainbin.org 16h ago
Forgot to mention something:
Perhaps indeed not wanted by coders, but anyone can leverage the already existing code.

16h ago

I recommended The Fediverse over on Upscrolled

Copypasta of my comment to someone else:

They'd just need to find what links the multiple "you" though, like how iirc Facebook would use phone contacts to make a map of who's who.

16h ago

I recommended The Fediverse over on Upscrolled

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Auster @thebrainbin.org 16h ago

They'd just need to find what links the multiple "you" though, like how iirc Facebook would use phone contacts to make a map of who's who.

18h ago

I'm not sure who needs to hear this but get up and move today.

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Auster @thebrainbin.org 18h ago

Is it raining? Go reenact a famous old movie.Is it snowing? Find someone to throw snowballs with/at.Is it sunny? Go take a nap in a hammock or find an ice cream bar.

By experience, I totally agree, doing outdoors activities is great for the mind. Also, the same as darker seasons make people depressive, I'd imagine spending all of one's free time in a dark room has a similar effect. Furthermore, there may even be cases the source of the person's mental issues is within the walls of his/her home aside from the darkness, so taking strolls, doing activities, etc. may serve as a moment to take the mind out of such issues.

22h ago

Carl and his foster daughter

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Auster @thebrainbin.org 22h ago

Check if the orange next door borrowed their shared brain cell 🤭

22h ago

Ohio EPA weighs allowing data centers to dump wastewater into rivers

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Auster @thebrainbin.org 22h ago

The cryptids and end-of-world scenarios there must be out of control, so they must be going with the nuclear option:https://media.thebrainbin.org/74/62/7462bbd431d41e3d0ebbcea86713ccfec7d12bc6c4e9f9ce3c4d316a8be5130f.png

Jokes aside, it's a draft, so I wonder if they're proposing the absolute worse option so bad options sound acceptable. Wouldn't be the first time I see this sort of thing, specially with alarmist, sensationalistic and discreetly ill-intented news media aplenty as samples.

22h ago

Steam hardware survey for February 2026. What happened? Why did it lose such a big percentage?

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Auster @thebrainbin.org 22h ago

Two theories I saw are that it's an influx of Chinese machines, and/or it's natural fluctuation and the tendency is still of growth. I theorize it could also be most companies going back to being active by February and people including those without extra machines having to use Windows to do their jobs.

24h ago

Some asshole here just tried to Doxx me

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Auster @thebrainbin.org 24h ago

While the images are public and likely hard to see fully gone, maybe you can try to get a judicial order to get the IP of the poster, and through that find and sue whomever the individual is? (And if over VPN, I'd imagine VPN companies would comply if the order is sound)

Also for matters that involve delicated subjects, I'd suggest contacting relevant people by DMs/email, as to avoid unwanted attention to it/Streisand effect.

1d ago

Steam hardware survey for February 2026. What happened? Why did it lose such a big percentage?

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Auster @thebrainbin.org 1d ago

Maybe something to do with work? Afaik by February, most companies are back in action, and so maybe people are forced to switch back to Windows to do their jobs, including in some cases in their gaming rigs due to lack of work-exclusive machines.

Also the possibilities others already mentioned here sound as valid, and I second that months may have big fluctuations, but that may not relate to the growth tendency. And iirc GamingOnLinux has a graph on the growth tendency based on Valve's hardware surveys, though I don't have the link with me.

1d ago

I recommended The Fediverse over on Upscrolled

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Auster @thebrainbin.org 1d ago

Comments, boosts and timestamps of those can build a profile of the user. And the profile can draw the identity of the user.

1d ago

Another Quick Test (Disabled Federated Upvotes)

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Auster @thebrainbin.org 1d ago

@anthony@forum.unfinishedprojects.net did a like from an Mbin instance. 13 likes on my side.

1d ago

Linux gamers: Do you ever occasionally shut down your PC?

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Auster @thebrainbin.org 1d ago

Energy ain't free, the additional lights fuck sleep schedule, blackouts may happen, the computer produces heat which wears its own pieces, chances are it will be kept online meaning greater risk of being hacked, computer on means more read-write operations which wear the memory down as Nutin said, and so on.

At most, maybe it'd be justifiable if it's downloading/running something which can't be stopped. Or another possibility though not a justification, the person isn't responsible towards his/her machine. Otherwise, I struggle to think of reasons not to turn it off.

1d ago

I recommended The Fediverse over on Upscrolled

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Auster @thebrainbin.org 1d ago

raises hand

It's actually easier to mine data over on the fediverse.

2d ago

Twitch forces users to watch ads they can't click away from

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Auster @thebrainbin.org 2d ago

gets arrested for using ad-blocking technologies

2d ago

Lemmy.today is absolutely beautiful

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Auster @thebrainbin.org 2d ago

Neon blue/purple gradients, I've yet to find one that doesn't look good 👌

2d ago

Can/should I put Modding projects for closed-source games on Codeberg?

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Auster @thebrainbin.org 2d ago

I think you're best asking a lawyer, to be sure.

But from what I, random citizen, have looked into the matter out of curiosity, apparently they're a grey zone, usually overlooked, ignored or accepted. But while you'd be sharing differential code, not the protected code itself, you needed to break a patent by reverse-engineering the game, which for draconian laws like the DMCA, is potentially worth even federal prison. Plus for others to apply the mod, they'd need to break the patent too by using the tools you indicate.

And there are cases where the game has official modding tools or that the devs explicitly say they're fine with mods. In such cases, I'm fairly sure worrying isn't needed.

2d ago

How do you explain to your co-workers that you use Libre Office Writer and other Linux apps?

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Auster @thebrainbin.org 2d ago

But if the awkwardness question is something your colleagues asked, and/or they're genuine curious why you do, a more objective answer could be "I compared the two and for the reasons x / y / z, I decided to use LibreOffice / Linux stuff instead".

2d ago

How do you explain to your co-workers that you use Libre Office Writer and other Linux apps?

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Auster @thebrainbin.org 2d ago

If the colleague is provoking you, a dismissal answer could be a good call, like (hypothetical case) "you use iPhone and I use Android and I don't make a fuss about it".