forestbeasts
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- Comment on It seems that Valve is working on a "SteamGPT" feature that will apparently deal with Steam support issues and is somehow connected to Trust Score and CS2 anti-cheat 22 hours ago:
I mean, it’s not. GOG is pretty decent too, at the very least.
– Frost
- Comment on irony is pressing 22 hours ago:
Oh, you don’t need to go header-diving or anything. Just a client that lets you do that. Dunno if any browser-based ones do, but they certainly technically could.
- Comment on irony is pressing 23 hours ago:
psst, if you have a catchall like that, you can probably SEND from anything@yourdomain.com too! We sure can.
You just need a client that lets you type in the From field. Some do, some don’t.
– Frost
- Comment on "bird watching" goes both ways 4 days ago:
Oh yeah, hz and fps are the same thing here! I mostly said 24fps because you can display a 24fps movie on a higher refresh rate display and it’ll still be 24fps (hz is more usual when talking about what the display itself does, fps for the content it’s showing).
And yeah, I’m more targeting “minimum to look like motion” than I am “perfectly smooth looks”, heh. :3
- Comment on "bird watching" goes both ways 4 days ago:
To be fair, movies are 24fps!
So movies might be too low framerate for a chicken, but 60+ fps game footage’d probably be alright.
- Comment on One new message! 4 days ago:
wha-
wha.
– Frost
- Comment on Why does the colour blonde apparently only exist in human hair? 5 days ago:
This implies the existence of golden transmitters.
– Frost
- Comment on In this modern world of AI, with devices everywhere having microphones, is it even safe to satirically joke and banter with a friend anymore? 5 days ago:
Honestly, might not be.
Turning your phone off, and having the friend turn their phone off, probably helps. Computers are easier to put free/open, trustable OSes on, and easier to put into real sleep, unless it’s one of those newfangled laptops that don’t have a real sleep mode. Even for phones a degoogled Android like say Lineage should help, IF you have one of the (many) devices it’s ported to (and then don’t install proprietary apps on the thing – even if the app itself isn’t sketchy, they could include an SDK that does sketchy stuff; you’re not just trusting the app, you’re trusting its dependencies too).
That’s a bit much just for silly banter though. But probably worth it for serious conversations.
Then again, if you take precautions even for silly banter times, then it’ll be harder to tell whether you’re talking about something that needs to be confidential or not (like how everyone using encryption for mundane stuff makes it safer to use encryption). So yeah I don’t know.
– Frost
- Comment on can i still consider myself to be a valid asexual? 5 days ago:
Yes.
– Frost
- Comment on Ups and downs 1 week ago:
Sprinkle some cinnamon sugar on and pop it in the toaster oven for a couple minutes and now you’ve got cinnamon toast!
… Feet cinnamon toast.
– Frost
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I think they probably mean that voting for Trump precludes people from being good and kind?
– Frost
- Comment on How come if my dog is sick and I take him to get put out of his misery its ok? On a human its not? How come human laws don't apply to animals? I think of our dog as family and he's one of us? 1 week ago:
This is apparently an insane hot take, but personally, I don’t think it’s okay.
It’s okay to treat your dog as family and to reject the concept of “it’s okay to kill him if he’s in enough pain!”, same as they would never even think of suggesting doing that to a human.
– Frost
- Comment on Crypto as a Payment Method? 2 weeks ago:
Weapons? Money laundering? What I want untraceable transactions for is furry porn.
Like, there are other reasons to want privacy in what you’re paying for, too. Maybe Monero or something could come in handy for that.
How do they handle the traceability aspect? Like, if it’s a blockchain, that makes transactions public by definition right? I’m sure there’s ways to keep stuff private, I’m just curious how it works.
– Frost
- Comment on Is there a FOSS version of Waze or Google Maps? 2 weeks ago:
Oh goodness. I thought Organic Maps was itself supposed to be the more-ethical fork of maps.me or something… what are they even doing!
- Comment on Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field 2 weeks ago:
Finally, we’re not just the Crazy Weirdos anymore!
It’d be awesome to get alternate init systems on, say, Debian hammered out into a more user-friendly shape. It’s already fairly decent but feels a tad precarious and the initial setup is way too involved. (We’re running OpenRC personally.)
– Frost
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
re E: thanks!! *wags* My headmate Ylfingr drew it in Inkscape. :3
– Frost
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
It’s not about “the unix philosophy”.
It’s about how one project is trying to do more, and more, and more, and more, and trying to entrench itself as deeply as possible so you can’t just use something else if you don’t like it.
(Oh, and this new political stuff? Now there’s a concrete reason to use something else.)
The problem with systemd isn’t technical, it’s political, IMO. Oh I mean sure there’s plenty of technical reasons to hate it too (binary logs anyone?), but that’s not the main problem.
systemd would actually be pretty nice, if it stuck to just being a service manager. Unfortunately, yeah.
Oh, and everyone ALWAYS goes “oh but the only other option is a hodgepodge of scripts! you don’t want a hodgepodge of scripts! bow down and accept systemd”. Ever seen, like, any of the other init systems that are out there? We’re running OpenRC right now and it’s pretty fantastic. (Granted, sysv scripts are still the lowest common denominator, but there are other options. OpenRC’s got declarative service files too, and they’re actually way nicer than systemd’s service files when you need to break out of the declarative format and do a little script stuff. systemd made us stuff everything into one line.)
And before you dismiss me as Just Some Oldhead™, we actually moved to Linux (from Mac) well AFTER systemd was already entrenched. So this isn’t a “you hate change” thing.
– Frost
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I’m not straight or bi, but furry, and furry porn has none of that stuff (well, I’m sure it exists if you go looking for it, but it’s not like, plastered everywhere).
It’s weird hearing about the totally different norms of human porn!
– Frost
- Comment on wir suchen dich‼️‼️🗣️📢📢 3 weeks ago:
This is on the level of Fahrt jokes and I’m here for it. :3
– Frost
- Comment on Hairy heart 3 weeks ago:
┌────┬─────────────────┬────┐ │ 🐺 │ Unicode is fun! │ ✨ │ ├────┴─────────────────┴────┤ │ Never heard of ASCII art? │ └────────────────┬──────────┤ │ -- Frost │ └──────────┘
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
English, and trying to learn German! Haven’t gotten very far yet though. Did a tiny little bit of Japanese (before picking up German) but haven’t gotten very far in that either.
Yet.
– Frost
- Comment on 8 characters? How about we make it 16? 4 weeks ago:
16 🙼🙼 16 🙼🙼 16
- Comment on 8 characters? How about we make it 16? 4 weeks ago:
Also relevant: xkcd.com/2318/ :3
- Comment on Microsoft quietly retires 'This is an Xbox' marketing campaign 4 weeks ago:
Xboxen!
- Comment on Nippon Ichi Software announces Nippon Ichi PC Games service 4 weeks ago:
Yeah DRM would definitely get weird.
70% of the point of it would be to bring back actually owning your games, so as long as the DRM travels with the disc and you can resell it and the recipient can use it without being an EEEEVIL PIRATE!!!, it’s good.
Though it would introduce the weird issue of having to swap discs like you do a console.
- Comment on Nippon Ichi Software announces Nippon Ichi PC Games service 4 weeks ago:
Ooh, that sounds cool!
It’d be really nice if it could include the actual game on disc or whatever, but, that probably isn’t a thing they can easily do. It’d be cool if it was, though.
- Comment on Sony is testing dynamic pricing: one game - different prices on the PlayStation Store 5 weeks ago:
Oooh lovely!! We’re uh, pre-12.5 I think.
A DVD won’t work, right, it’s gotta be a bluray? Because if we can do this with a DVD-R and not need another reader, that’d be great.
- Comment on Sony is testing dynamic pricing: one game - different prices on the PlayStation Store 5 weeks ago:
Shoot, apparently it’s not open source. That’s not confidence-inspiring… but then again PS3 CFWs weren’t either (*sighs*)
Does that apply to PS4s running 11.something? I can’t remember what OS version our PS4 is on, but it’s new enough that a jailbreak only came out pretty recently. Needed a specific game disc to work.
- Comment on Sony is testing dynamic pricing: one game - different prices on the PlayStation Store 5 weeks ago:
Oooh awesome. I figured normal burned discs wouldn’t work.
We don’t have a bluray burner (only a CD/DVD drive) but have been kinda wanting to get one.
- Comment on Sony is testing dynamic pricing: one game - different prices on the PlayStation Store 5 weeks ago:
Wait, you can get jailbreak discs from aliexpress? That might be worth looking into…
(although, how do we know if it’s got malware on it?)