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e0qdk

@ e0qdk @reddthat.com

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Interests: programming, video games, anime, music composition

I used to be on kbin as e0qdk@kbin.social before it broke down.

  • Is there another term for crafted, interactive activities besides games/video games?

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  • Visual novels, and interactive fiction come to mind as things that are video game adjacent but aren't necessarily games. Most of the first category I've encountered are either porn, horror, or... both -- though they can be about anything the author wants to write about, of course, and the relative accessibility of the medium means people have pushed it in a lot of directions even though it's kind of niche.

    Interactive fiction includes things like text adventures and choose-your-own-adventure books. Most of the computer-based ones I've encountered involve traversing a node-graph of locations, manipulating items, and solving puzzles -- though the gaminess varies a lot depending on the specific title. They're even more niche nowadays, but people still make and play/read them.

  • i (r)eq(u)ire "anime imposed into real (l)if(e)"-genre images

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  • Edit: Not sure if this is quite what you were after or not, but it's what came to mind.

  • What are the things that makes a selfhostable app/project good?

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  • Do you agree with this?

    Yes, at least for hobby use. If it really needs something more complex than SQLite and an embedded HTTP server, it's probably going to turn into a second job to keep it working properly.

  • Trump administration wants to go on cyber offensive against China

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  • The point is deterrence. The Congressman is basically saying "Fuck off already, or ELSE!"

    Why in gods would you publicly state your intent to engage in such operations?

    They're announcing that they will pursue a MAD-style defense policy, and MAD doesn't work unless you make it publicly known that you can and will retaliate.

  • the ones in NaN were better in my opinion

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  • celeste rule

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  • I suggest using H264 instead of H265 for better compatibility. The video doesn't play in my browser, and I think it's likely because of that. The audio works but the video is just black in my browser. (I can play it with another player like VLC though, of course.)

  • What do you think about having a custom URI scheme for the fediverse?

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  • It's not a particular protocol right now, but it would be a URI that refers to a specific resource. A protocol could also be defined -- e.g. a restricted subset of HTTPS that returns JSON objects following a defined schema or something like that -- but the point really is that I want to be able to refer to a thread not a webpage. I don't think that's a silly thing to want to be able to do.

    Right now, I can only effectively link to a post or thread as rendered by a specific interface -- e.g. for me, this thread is https://old.reddthat.com/post/30710789 using reddthat's mlmym interface. That's probably not how most users would like to view the thread if I want to link it to them. Any software that recognizes the new URI scheme could understand that I mean a particular thread rather than how it's rendered by a particular web app, and go fetch it and render it appropriately in their client if I link it. (If current clients try to be clever about HTTP links, it becomes ambiguous if I mean the thread as rendered into a webpage in specific way or if I actually meant the thread itself but had to refer to it indirectly; that causes problems too.)

    I don't think lemmy:// is necessarily the best prefix -- especially if mbin, piefed, etc. get on board -- just that I would like functionality like that very much, and that something like a lemmy URI scheme (or whatever we can get people to agree on) might be a good way to accomplish it.

  • What do you think about having a custom URI scheme for the fediverse?

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  • Not that I'm opposed, but I'm not sure if it's practical to make a fediverse-wide link that's resolvable between platforms since there are so many differences and little incompatibilities and developers who don't directly interact with each other -- or even know each other exist!

    Even if it isn't though, it would be nice to be able to do something like lemmy://(rest of regular url) to indicate data from a lemmy(-compatible) server that should be viewable by all other lemmy clients without leaving your particular client and having to open some other website.

  • Average RPG item shop

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  • What fanart concepts to you have in mind?

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  • Looking back at my notes from the last several years, here's some of the ideas I wrote down:

    • Kray-On (K-On/Crayon)
    • "The power of memes compels you!" (someone's probably already done this one -- seems obvious enough -- but haven't seen it if so)
    • "Ani, are you OK? Are you OK, Ani?" -- FMA meets Michael Jackson, maybe?
    • Konata face on flatbed scanner (animation + output of scanner)
    • "Space and Wolf"
    • Azunyan-ga Daioh
    • (For FangMoe) "OnlyFangs" (note the 'g'), Fangsgiving, ... other silly puns
    • "Guns & Nurses: Your one stop shop for shots!" (DRIVE THRU) / Kino and Hermes: "What a strange country we've come to..."
    • "Hatsune Mikau" -- Miku/Zelda Majora's Mask cross-over
    • Ghost in the Shellfish
    • "Flan"-dre Scarlet
    • Weebdeluxe interviewing Shredder (Foot Clan) on his preferences about anime

    I've also got several others -- including one with a terrible pun related to Karakai Jouzu no Takagi-san, and another with a Lain + Futaba (P5) crossover -- that I'm still thinking of trying someday, but definitely don't have the skill for yet.

  • Rule Clarification

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  • I'm probably not going to watch anything hosted on YouTube (I blocked it completely a while back), but I don't think it's a big deal if someone links the first episode of something that's legit freely available (i.e. not pirated) as long as they're not being spammy about it.

    Edit: to expand on that, we're not exactly getting flooded with posts and that kind of restriction from reddit is more because of volume than anything, I think.

  • Offline Game Library?

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  • I just download the offline installers from GOG and keep those on my NAS organized into folders per game until I want to install them. Not fancy, but it works fine for me.

  • Migrating emails from Gmail to new email server

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  • You might consider using Google Takeout to export the emails to an mbox file, and then importing that into your new mail server.

  • My server won't turn on 🫤

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  • Did you flip a power switch on the PSU at some point, perhaps? (Done that one a few times myself...)

  • Is blahaj.zone dead?

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  • I was getting error messages when I first saw your post and checked a few minutes ago, but it looks like it's back online now.

  • Is there a way to promote a community you create without stepping on toes?

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  • Is there any proof behind the idea that "reddit is filled with bots"?

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  • I used to see bots posting comments that were copied verbatim from Hacker News -- which was really obvious because of the "[1]" style footnoting they do on HN that rarely made sense on reddit where you could just use markdown to add descriptive links inline.

    I reported a whole bunch of those, but no one ever seemed to do anything about them, and I eventually gave up. Been over a year since I've interacted significantly with reddit though, and I'm similarly in the "who knows what they're doing now" camp. Wouldn't surprise me if there are bots reposting comments scraped from lemmy to karma farm on reddit now too.

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  • The rabbit hole goes deeper than I realized!

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  • Most of the posts here are webcomics made by pmjv, the poster of this thread -- though other people can and sometimes do post their own art. pmjv makes a surrealist webcomic (see Analogue Nowhere) that incorporates various themes and imagery related to Unix-derived and Unix-adjacent operating systems.

    Note that the imagery drawn from is not just things associated with Linux (which famously has a penguin mascot), but also OpenBSD (started by Theo de Raadt and which has a pufferfish mascot), Plan 9 (which has a bunny mascot called Glenda), etc.

    There are elements from other fandoms (e.g. Cirno, who appears in some comics, is from Touhou and is associated with ⑨ because of an old joke -- which seems to have become entangled with Plan 9 in pmjv's mind), influences from tech politics, and whatever other crazy things are bouncing around in pmjv's head.

    It's good surrealist fun, generally.

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  • By Theo! The hidden truth is revealed!