MHLoppy

joined 1 year ago
 

Original post: Mastodon

[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I regret to inform you that a billionaire stole your arm to help pay for their next mansion / yacht / social media site.

 

Useful context from @callouscomic:

Misleading headline.

From a different site:

with attackers demanding a $150,000 ransom in “baguettes,” an obtuse reference to the company’s headquarters being located in France. In reality, the attackers are looking for payment in Monero, a privacy-focused cryptocurrency.

https://cyberscoop.com/schneider-electric-energy-ransomware-hellcat/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

FSR 3.1 (specifically 3.1, not 3.0) added an optional decoupling of the frame generation and the upscaling, but yeah that would still need first party support from the game developer. I should edit my comment to explicitly mention the frame gen possibility, didn't realize that was something people were using this for!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's one of the program's common usages, yeah. Among other things (like integer scaling for pixel-based games), it can be used to:

  • render a game at a lower "internal" resolution and then apply one of several upscaling options to make up the difference, improving performance and hence "free FPS", and/or
  • generate intermediate frames between "real" frames, which I guess you could describe as "free FPS" (but the quality of the intermediate frames will be so-so - there's lots of tests and stuff of frame generation more broadly if you're interested!)

edit: added frame generation

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 week ago (9 children)

I've come across this utility before - using it seems to add input latency according to the reviews it has on Steam. So using it to increase performance isn't really better than not using it, it's just a tradeoff.

If you're not sensitive to input latency then that's likely going to be a good tradeoff for you, but if you are (or play competitively) it's not.

 

Games

  • Cassette Beasts
  • Garden Life: A Cozy Simulator
  • Hexarchy
  • KarmaZoo
  • Persona 4 Golden
  • The Bookwalker
  • The Lamplighters League
  • Warhammer 40,000: Darktide

Extras

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  • See Steamgifts for information on regional restrictions etc.
 

The ABC analysed the online prices of nearly 44,000 products at Coles and Woolworths, revealing a sales technique used on thousands of items.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

On the off chance anybody cares despite it being two days late, here's the original xeet: Xitter

 

This projection distorts both area and direction, but preserves Melbourne.

https://xkcd.com/2999/

 

Announcement: Firefish will enter maintenance mode

For those who have been supporting Firefish and me, I can’t thank you enough. But today, I have to make an announcement of my very difficult decision: As of today’s release, Firefish will enter maintenance mode and reach end-of-support at the end of the year. The main reasons for this are as follows.

In February, Kainoa suddenly transferred the ownership of Firefish to me. This transition came without prior notice, which took me aback. I still wish Kainoa had consulted with me in advance. At that time, some people were already saying that “Firefish is coming back”, making it challenging to address the situation. Also, since there were several hundred active Firefish servers at that point, I could not suddenly discontinue the project, so I took over the project unwillingly.

Over the past seven months, I have been maintaining Firefish alone. All other former maintainers have left, leaving me solely responsible for managing issues, reviewing merge requests, testing, and releasing new versions. This situation has had a significant impact on my personal life.

Frankly speaking, there are numerous bugs and questionable logic in the current Firefish codebase. While I attempted to fix them, balancing this work with my personal life made it clear that it would take ages, and I’ve started thinking that I can’t manage this project in the long run. Additionally, vulnerabilities have been reported approximately once a month. Addressing vulnerabilities, communicating privately with reporters, and testing fixes have proven overwhelming and unsustainable. Moreover, a certain percentage of users have made insulting comments, which have severely affected my mental well-being and made me fearful of opening social media apps.

I will do my best to refund the donations made to Firefish via OpenCollective, but that’s not guaranteed.

firefish.dev and info.firefish.dev will remain operational until the end of February 2025, after which they will return a 410 Gone status.

Server admins may downgrade Firefish to version 20240206/1.0.5-rc and migrate to another *key variant, or may fork Firefish to maintain.

Downgrade instructions: https://firefish.dev/firefish/firefish/-/blob/downgrade/docs/downgrade.md

Thanks,
naskya

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I feel like your preference makes sense when aligned from the perspective of a conventional forum-like platform. However I'd argue that that's missing a core part of what kbin is/was -- and by extension what Mbin is -- which is the microblog integration alongside the forum-like stuff. With that context in mind, boosts (or whatever term you want to use for "retweet") make sense to integrate imo.

Whether or not you think Mbin should try to integrate the microblog side of things is of course a subjective - I personally think it's a cool idea to try at least, but with how dominant lemmy has become it can be difficult to reconcile differences and incompatibilities between it and other software like Mbin.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Mbin has a specific and different meaning for the term "post" as used in the OP, so it's one place where translating from lemmy or other "generic internet forum" jargon doesn't work. It's for microblog posts associated with a magazine that are independent of threads in that magazine.

E.g.: https://fedia.io/m/firefox/microblog has "posts" in Mbin terminology -- though if I had to guess I think most Mbin users will use the qualified "microblog post" or similar if they actually mean to reference the Mbin meaning of the term.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What's up with the android beef? I hadn't heard about that one 😅

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Fair point, but I guess I would hope that the person being paid to write the copy would check it, since getting that right seems like it's part of their job description ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Or 53.6 degrees Fahrenheit if you believe whoever wrote the page for Nissan lmao. I guess they just typed it into a converter with no context, and the converter spat out an answer amounting to "if your thermometer says it's 12 degrees C, that would be 53.6 degrees F"... but without that context.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I'm saying you (as in "a person", not you-you) could pick a few from these 50 - I'm not saying start reading 50 books and only finish the ones you like lol. I'd guess "experts" might pick a few of the titles different from popular ratings so there's probably some meaningful differences vs "goodreads top 50 books by Australian authors", but I'm not an avid reader so idk, maybe you'd have a better idea 😅

 

We were dismayed to see no Australians on the New York Times Best Books of the 21st Century – so, with the help of 50 experts, we created our own, all-Australian list. You can have your say, too!

 
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