wizardbeard

Man, now I want to see a "cursed terminals" thing take off like the "cursed UI" stuff did.

There may be NSFW (18+) content on these sites

I didn't realize there were versions that attempted to be sfw!

Alternatively, they live in or near poorly designed urban areas. There are definitely some in my local urban city center.

Only if I can make "cute" faces at you and go pspspspspspsps

But if I can't get upset at things someone clearly didn't mean, why bother going online at all?

I'll stick to the oil, thanks. Maybe the chicken. Anything bigger and it just slides out that side hole! Talk about wasted calories.

Good news! There's a community open source project to port the engine used in Jak and Daxter to PC.

https://opengoal.dev/

Looks like the first two games are mostly playable, with their efforts focused on getting Jak 3 working now.

To summarize my comment on your post of this article on lemmy.ml:

Literally who?

How in the absolute fuck does any group not involved in hosting the largest fediverse instances even begin to justify looking for $1.3 Million in funding?

I have literally never heard of this group before now, and my immediate question is "What do they bring to the table? How important can they be if I've never heard of them? In what universe can any organization related to the fediverse justify looking for 1.3 million dollars in funding‽”

The two systems they offer (as listed in the article) Fedicheck and CCS, as far as I am aware, already have open source alternatives in db0's Fediseer and whatever his anti-CSAM tool is called.

They also offer... guidelines for fediverse moderators? Not frameworks for bots or automoderation tools. But their opinions on how others should moderate spaces that this group doesn't actually run.

Did anyone out there ask for an advisory group for something that thrives on it's individuality?

Maybe I'm too used to the old reprehensible internet. Maybe I'm too used to spaces that keep an intentional level of friction against new joining outsiders.

Maybe I'm missing something critical here and I've only been exposed to db0's work being on his Lemmy instance.

I would love to be provided with more information on this group, and direct examples of value they've provided to the Fediverse.

But at a simple gut check, this comes across like a group of self righteous people who rather than run their own instances, want to be paid to tell others how to run instances.

Anything this group is doing should be open source, should be well advertised, and should be well discussed Fediverse-wide. The fact that I'm only first hearing about this group during what is effectively an e-begging session sets off alarms.

Lemmy has just had it's first round of spambots in DMs. Does the fediverse now have a group of self righteous non-admin non-mods trying to make something they can make money from and put on a resume?

This would not be the first instance of resume stuffing "guidance organizations" to try and enforce themselves in an online space/open source project.

At absolute best, assuming this is a group known in Mastodon and the various non-lemmy fedi-spaces: This would not be the first time some group that is deeply invested and well known in Mastodon crosses the border to Lemmy to find that despite sharing protocol, there are differences in culture.

Just because your Scout Troop and the AA meetings use the same building, that doesn't mean that AA members have any interest in supporting the scouts, or in having the scouts tell them how they should run AA meetings.

Let me be clear: I want to be proven wrong and for this group to be a pleasant surprise of a worthwhile force for good and the continued growth of the Fediverse.

But I'm also being honest about my reaction to some group I've never heard of before claiming to be so vital to the Fediverse that them maybe not getting $1.3M is something that I should care enough about to donate.

Much like Epic, they also did free games for people with Amazon Prime, but they undercut that by offering free games on other platforms as well.

Not that I'm complaining, but nothing to make themselves stand out.

I've used Sardu on Windows for making multi-iso bootable USB sticks a long time ago in the past, but I'd admittedly never looked at their ToS or Privacy Policy. My use case was slapping some live boot antivirus scanners, data recovery tools, and one or two lightweight liveboot-Linux ISOs on one USB as a portable toolkit.

When I'm making anything else from Windows, I've always stuck with Rufus. Had never heard of BalenaEtcher before now.

I see you've met my toddler. She's a master of the scientific process.

By which I mean she will try something that caused her finger to get stuck three more times to check if her finger gets stuck every time.