Wow, New Zealand too! Except our extra day was Friday, and we live in the future, so back to work already.

Stardew Valley is casual, low stress, with heaps of content.

For quick few minutes I've recently been into Pirate Solitaire which is on F-Droid.

Nah, this is a relatively new public holiday that we've only been observing since 2022. It's called Matariki. Here's the summary:

Historically, Matariki was usually celebrated for a period of days during the last quarter of the moon of the lunar month Pipiri (around June). The ceremony involved viewing the individual stars for forecasts of the year to come, mourning the deceased of the past year, and making an offering of food to replenish the stars. Some Māori use the rise of Puanga (Rigel) or other stars to mark the new year.

Celebration of Matariki declined during the 20th century, but beginning in the early 1990s it underwent a revival. Matariki was first celebrated as an official public holiday in New Zealand on 24 June 2022.

It was originally proposed to replace our Queen's Birthday public holiday, but in the end we got both.

Plus, salads can be calorie dense too!

If you're not drenching it in home made cheese sauce, then you have given it a real try.

There are more possible chess moves (estimated at 10^120 for an average game) than there are atoms in the observable universe (estimated at 10^80). That is to say the number of possible chess moves has 40 more zeros on the end than the number of atoms in the observable universe.

Can you point to some souce showing how modern hardware can work these out easily?

Me as an instance admin sitting here reading about how Lemmy doesn't have trolls and Russian bots, while I'm in a chat with other instance admins and mods where we need to actively coordinate to fight the trolls and Russian bots 😐

From what I've seen, they aren't building the games, they are licensing existing ones. There are decent games in the mix.

I am convinced this is already happening. One example is the endless new accounts posting ibtimes links.

There are also propoganda websites posted regularly by new accounts (especially sowing disinformation about Russia's war on Ukraine).

Basically be wary of anything posted where it's their first post. Often they make accounts and don't use them for months so they look older.

I also think astroturfing is happening but at lower rate than reddit.

Like you, I have no idea how we can counter this at scale.

That's honestly pretty amazing that you've been here a year and haven't seen a troll! Though you're on an instance with a very active and determined admin, there is definitely a difference in how much you see between instances because of how removals work.

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The matrix one

Haha I remember the days of downloading random EXEs off the internet and running them to see what they do (also the days of CD-rom drives).

My auntie somehow managed to get a virus that played Für Elise through the motherboard speaker and never stopped so long as the thing was on. I don't think they ever solved it, in the end they just got a new PC.

Hey ChatGPT, how can I ...

"Locking as this is a duplicate of [unrelated question]"

Reddit must share IP addresses of piracy-discussing users

Uh oh, some sort of court ruling?

film studios say

Oh right, nothing to see here.

I can't believe Eric stole years of my life!

If he thinks all these free content updates will make up for it, well he's probably right.

It is illegal where I live. I imagine it's illegal in most developed countries. Bills can only have one purpose, they can't combine unrelated things.

I love how Outlook opens your links in Edge and gives you a little message about how it knows it's not your default browser but it thought you'd like to open in Edge anyway.

I'm gonna take this opportunity to mention LemmyAutomod, for Lemmy instance admins.

This massive spam attack was unrelenting, but it came in the form of a large number of spam posts that had a small amount of variation. Using the above tool, it really helped to catch most of the spam within seconds or minutes of being posted.

The dev is really helpful, which is good because I needed some hand-holding, but it has been a fantastic tool with this latest spam wave being the first true test of it. When the spammers started posting images of URLs instead of links, the dev added functionality to detect images that were the same or similar to a reference image.

In addition, there's also a Lemmy spam defense Matrix chat set up by Lemmy.world where instance admins post spam accounts so others can ban them on their own instances (and add them to their automod).

I mean, there was all that drama where the board formed to prevent this from happening kicked out the CEO trying to do this stuff, then the board got booted out and replaced with a new board and brought back that CEO guy. So this was pretty much going to happen.

I have seen critical enterprise applications run in VBA in excel. Removing VBA would cause global economic ruin. I'm pretty sure that's the unspoken backstory for the Fallout series.

Here's a list of 130: https://the-federation.info/#projects

One I like not mentioned so far is bookwyrm, which is like a federated goodreads (track books you're reading, review them, read other's reviews).

Edit: the flagship instance is https://bookwyrm.social

I think it's worth noting that Mastodon is by far the most mature. Everything else is buggy and may not always work the way you might expect but I think many are still worth using if you can put up with the quirks.

Why block everything except the few you like, when you could just subscribe to the things you want to see then stay out of /All?

I've heard some people take the approach of "merge everything". Whatever people contribute, merge it. People like to feel like their time is valuable, and that their work is valued.

You can follow up the merge with polish or tweaks but if you merge contributions you're more likely to see more.

I'd guess that $19 billion is the value where if someone bought it and did their best to undo everything and get it back on track, that's how much it would be worth.

The problem with measuring value is you have to quantify what that $19 billion actually is. Like you could say it's the share price times the number of shares, except now twitter is privately owned we don't have a market share price anymore.

Holy shit, TIL!

I'm an instance admin and see heaps of the same stuff being posted. Pretty sure it's one lonely troll not lots of people. Even in this thread, it's all one user account not lots of different people, but we see the same stuff posted across lots of brand new accounts in a very similar way.

Holy hell, I didn't think it would ever happen! I wonder what new mechanics they can add that no one else has done.

For reference, World of Goo was released the year after the first ever iPhone. MySpace was the most popular social network at the time.

It's funny when people on lemmy complain about this, when a month ago everyone on lemmy was deleting their reddit post history.

It's nice to imagine but it was probably a copyright bot that logs automated DCMA complaints. In fact I think this might be functionality YouTube provides to large content providers.

Noooo, EU! You were the chosen one!

What's the licence? It doesn't sound like "open source" and sounds more like "source available".

I mean I guess you are supposed to take it to your computer repair shop and tell them it won't stop playing Für Elise, and the shop is supposed to recognise it as a failure of CPU fan signal. If it just beeped a few times on startup then people would ignore it, and if it beeped constantly then well maybe Für Elise is nicer.

I think concerns come in two flavours:

1. Privacy/security: Cloudflare terminates HTTPS, which means they decrypt your data on their side (e.g. browser to cloudflare section) then re-encrypt for the second part (cloudflare to server). They can therefore read your traffic, including passwords. Depending on your threat model, this might be a concern or it might not. A counterpoint is that Cloudflare helps protect your service from bad actors, so it could be seen to increase security.
2. Cloudflare is centralised. The sidebar of this community states "A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don’t control.", and Cloudflare is for sure a service you don't control, and arguably you're locked into it if you can't access your stuff without it. Some people think Coudflare goes against the ethos of self-hosting.

With that said, you'll find several large lemmy instances (and many small ones) use cloudflare. While you'll easily find people against its use, you'll find many more people in the self-hosted community using it because it's (typically) free and it works. If you want to use it, and you're ok with the above, then go ahead.

She was sitting there, headphones on her head, sound coming through the speakers, watching her soaps like this is how it’s meant to be done.

So we have to never do this to be considered tech savvy? Asking for a friend...

Are gamers getting older? It would be interesting to see how this breaks down by age.

I'm getting older. I have 3 kids and no time. 10 years ago I had no kids and 3 time. Now when I play, I just put it on the easiest setting and play it like an interactive movie.

Not only that, we want it to be slow. Being a server admin at the moment is racing from fire to fire. The Lemmy software needs to mature a bit before it will be ready for the less-technical users.

DNS is when your browser asks where to find a website. You enter Lemmy.One in your browser, and your browser asks the DNS resolver the address of the computer the website is hosted on.

Most people will use their internet company's DNS, and it sounds like France ordered these companies to block some illegal streaming sites by having the DNS server point to a page saying it's blocked instead of to the website server.

More technical users changed their settings to get DNS from google, Cloudflare, etc instead of the internet company, so now France is going to make those companies block the sites too.

ELI5: France is lying to your computer when it asks where to find the websites

I think the number is much higher if you consider all the people donating to their local server.

Plus your numbers seem off. For example, Librapay shows that there are currently over 300 people with weekly donations. Where are past or one time donors listed?

Patreon is paying out $2k a month, and has over 400 donors.

Your number seems much more like the number of regular donors rather than the total number of donors ever.

Are emojis considered emoticons? Call me old but I think this is an emoticon ;-) and this is an emoji 😉