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WhoRoger

@ WhoRoger @lemmy.world

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Everything on the Internet is public domain.

If I disappear for 3 weeks, assume I'm dead.

  • Irregularly Updated Community Feedback: PipedLinkBot Gone Rampant Edition

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  • I think the bot is fine in principle. The YouTube web site is fucking terrible and it's nice to introduce people who don't use automatic redirects or 3rd party clients to an alternative.

    My problem is that it would offer only piped.video links. We don't know how long the piped.video instance will work, but well that's the case for any instance. Ideally a bot would provide at least two links - piped and invidious, and maybe cycle or randomly choose instances. Perhaps under a spoiler tag.

    Of course it's up to community mods to choose, but I think bots like this or the tldr bot provide value even if they can cause that "Reddit moment".

  • No house Skywalker?

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  • but no one has bred for it

    Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Bred?

    The image doesn't load btw

  • Who wants more DS/3DS shooter reviews? Everyone? Cool, here's more (Star Wars Battlefront, Dementium, the last COD)

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  • Okay bro. As if I'm testing multiplayer on the DS in 2023 bro.

  • Patient Gamers @sh.itjust.works
    WhoRoger @lemmy.world

    Who wants more DS/3DS shooter reviews? Everyone? Cool, here's more (Star Wars Battlefront, Dementium, the last COD)

  • Fuck Subscriptions @lemmy.world
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    Subscription = addiction

  • Van poof! Dutch e-bike maker VanMoof goes bankrupt, leaving riders stranded

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  • the brand's engineers made it next to impossible to open the frame that contains all the parts

    VanMoof's creators fancied their company to be like Apple — creating unique products that would spawn its own ecosystem

    Well there we go, nothing to add that.

  • TIL Soviet cosmonauts carried a shotgun on space missions

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  • The attack in space angle was probably just to convince some manager.

    The survival in Siberia is completely valid. US retrieves their astronauts in the ocean, but Soviet Russia didn't/doesn't have such a worldwide navy, so Siberia it is. It could take days for the cosmonauts to be recovered, so it was expected they might need to defend themselves against wildlife or even hunt.

  • Fuck Subscriptions @lemmy.world
    WhoRoger @lemmy.world

    Subscribe! Subscribe! We'll pester you about our subscription until you subscribe! Subscribe!

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    Autoenshittification (article - Pluralistic)

    pluralistic.net /2023/07/24/rent-to-pwn/
  • Fuck Subscriptions @lemmy.world
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    Why Does Everyone Suddenly Want To Pay? (YouTube - Logically Answered)

  • Id Release of Quake II 2023 Source Code on Github under GPL-2

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  • Quake 2 has been GPL and had Linux versions since forever, even official ones from id.

    I assume this remaster uses the same engine. Maybe they used stuff from contributors/forks, that's why they kept it open.

  • Star Wars Memes @lemmy.world
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    Weekend caption contest... Who knows her parents? (Keep it sfw.)

  • Fuck Subscriptions @lemmy.world
    WhoRoger @lemmy.world

    Only Telegram Premium subscribers can protect themselves from unwanted voice messages

  • Here's all the source code

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  • I was a tech journalist in the early 00's and I remember writing about that story or one like that.

    A similar thing happened with Microsoft, who either delivered or was served the full documentation of some office format printed out. It's a pretty popular form of malicious compliance, also paying people in bags of coins.

  • Star Wars Memes @lemmy.world
    WhoRoger @lemmy.world

    Begun, the format war has

  • what are .webp files and why has my online experience been plagued by them?

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  • Midi is quite literally a text format, and you can open it in anything. It's just a matter of interpretation what comes out of it.

  • what are .webp files and why has my online experience been plagued by them?

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  • Webp is an image format.

    Jpg is ancient, and gif, holy shit gif is from stone age.

    I dunno, if you're playing a video, you probably want x264 or better these days, no? For music, we use some variant of mp4 or lossless at this point.

    Yet with pictures, for some reason we insist on the old shitty stuff.

    Using jpeg or gif is like using mp1 for music and VideoCD for video. Come on now.

    The only problem with webp is that there's quality loss if you convert an already compressed jpeg into webp with high compression rate, like some web sites do. That can suck, but I don't know how else to get people to use more modern formats. Otherwise we'd be using ancient formats into the 24th century.

  • Privacy with Google's Gboard

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  • It has regular emojis

  • Privacy with Google's Gboard

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  • Give OpenBoard with gesture typing a shot. No gifs and stuff, but gesture typing works together with suggestions, unlike either base OB or Floris. Someone casually mentioned it a few weeks ago and damn how much my life changed.

  • Fuck Subscriptions @lemmy.world
    WhoRoger @lemmy.world

    More people can now pay for Meta verified...

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    Google raising price of YouTube Premium to $13.99 per month

    9to5google.com /2023/07/19/youtube-premium-price-increase/
  • Fuck Subscriptions @lemmy.world
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    Well this is something new and different. Microsoft's AI for Office: $30/user/month

    www.theverge.com /2023/7/18/23798627/microsoft-365-copilot-price-commercial-enterprise
  • Fuck Subscriptions @lemmy.world
    WhoRoger @lemmy.world

    I understand this may make sense to some users, but the whole concept of subscribing to games just makes me... Very uneasy. You stop paying, and suddenly your console is an empty paperweight

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
    WhoRoger @lemmy.world

    I wish people would write some descriptions for their communities

  • A light of wholesomeness shining in a bleak dystopian hellscape

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  • It's actually been the case for 20 years now. Same with lots of other devices.

    Around 2008-ish I saw a Tesco-branded webcam for something like 5€. I was just in need of one, so I looked up if it's not, by any chance Linux compatible. It was, right out of the box.

    Same thing with Sony Ericsson phones of that era. Capable of lots of things, like Ethernet over USB or Mass Storage, but with Windows it all needed a massive and annoying driver package. Linux - plug and go.

    Same with Bluetooth and lots of other things.

  • I'm being harassed by mosquitoes, how do i kill them all?

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  • Yandex and Mail.ru have been removed as optional search providers in the drop-down search menu in Firefox.

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  • PSA: Yandex has the best reverse image search by a mile. It can even find Instagram posts.

  • Lemmy Just Reached 1 Million Posts

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  • Why people keep defending Meta/Threads?

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  • Meta: We're launching it now with no ads or plans, then we'll figure out what to do once we hit a billion users

    People: Ooh but Meta may not be all bad, let's just wait and see!

    I mean, Meta is totally freely admitting they're just playing the good guy now and will hit hard once they gain monopoly and can do whatever the fuck they want. How much more clear does it have to get?

  • How come there’s no big gaming community?

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  • The biggest c/gaming was on beehaw, but that's defederated. Maybe nobody else wanted to do it again and just stuck to smalller communities based on particular systems.

  • Rant: I hate the term “normie”.

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  • I just see the term to mean the opposite of specialist, or someone who is passionate about the topic.

    In internet terms, it generally means not a geek.

    It's a good distinction, because for geeks, internet is something inherently interesting on a technological and philosophical level. For, well, normies, it's just an appliance they don't need to know much about.

    Similarly if you go to a car show but don't really know shit about cars other than they have 4 wheels, you're a normie in that environment. Your requirements on what a car should be like, are fundamentally different from someone who likes to tweak and tinker.

    I wish the term could just mean that without any negative connotations, because I don't see anything wrong with that distinction.

    Ed/add: Nobody can know everything about every topic, so everyone is a normie in some category. Usually without realising it. So that's just it. Not necessarily an insult, and doesn't even make much sense as one, I think.

  • Spotube v3.0.0 for Android Release | Open Source Spotify Client

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  • Wait what, how does this work? Reverse engineering? Or is it one of those things that finds the song you're playing on actual Spotify on YouTube?