Again the interesting thing is that a lot of other sites have a huge difference in numbers. But they are all saying the same thing, "Active" users are declining or getting close to equilibrium but number of users are increasing. Strange.

I personally think that piefed/mastodon/other servers federating with lemmy might be messing up the numbers in some way. Both pumping up the numbers and making others "go down" in different sites and how they are pulling the data. Like if I respond via my mastodon account, is that a "new" account? Does that make it pop up as an active user? If I dont repost it via the mastodon account for a while, will I now be an inactive account, even though I still look at lemmy with it? Im not sure.

Yeah thats another good one. Its almost like it would be useful to see what each tracker would do in the following scenarios:

1. Create a persona instance with a couple of accounts (like 3)

2. See what each site says

3. Create a post/ create comment/ upvote sample post.

4. Ban an account (How many active users are now being counted? How many comments? Did that comment/post go away retroactively?)

5. other such experiments....

6. Let everyone know the results.

Wish I had more time.

The interesting thing to note is each website I go to that looks at the total number of lemmy users is wildly different. Im wondering if there is some sort of blocker/defederated instance occurred a couple of months ago? Im not sure.

Either way, number of users are up.

Whats some good IPTV channels?

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats

Code behind the site: https://gitlab.com/diasporg/poduptime

Your probably right. And if an instance defederates with others, it may look like the number of users dropped without actually dropping.

I have one running on the equivalent of a pi. It works no problem. The biggest issue is the constant io and network traffic but it's not terrible.

I wish there was a only poll once every x amount of time instead of the constant polling, but it's a good solution. I use lemmy.world as the main account and the other account when I need to post under my real name with some projects I run. Plus it makes for a good development instance since I work on lemmy from time to time

Yep just putting rails and COBOL will get you loads of contacts. Not good ones but you'll get them.

Ive been enjoying Good Boy Galaxy. Its a new GBA game that is also going to hit steam soon. Its a fun little platformer/metroid lite kind of game.

Ive put in an unhealthy amount of time playing Peglin. Its a peggle rouge like game. I didnt think I would like it, but I ended up getting it after seeing Many A True Nerd play it.

I just beat Cobalt Core. Its like FTL but has its own charm and playstyle.

Try this: https://itch.io/games?exclude=tg.horror

It excludes the horror games.

I agree. I want something that can replace (or enhance) my monitor. Thats it. Looks like it could be a quick win for companies that do it. Ive seen a couple but they all have very big downsides...like price (like you said).

Wow this article goes into the nuance. And it terrified me.

Itch.io has some great games. Steam has an entire section. Totally agree with you.

I just got Good Boy Galaxy. Awesome game.

Im waiting for it to come out! Looks like a fun game.

Tilvideo and makertube are great.

This game looks just like lightning force. I'll be getting it. Thanks!!

There is a lot of surface level stuff going on in software development now days. It's great for getting the job done, but just learning to solve a problem ends up being very difficult for developers. It will be an interesting 10 years with the invent of AI.

I remember those days. I used mercurial and svn. And file locking in other solutions.

I'm so happy with git.

Neat! Ill give it a shot.

Games:

• Annalynn
• Let's Build a Zoo
• Super Kiwi 64
• Nuclear Blaze
• Retro Mystery Club
• Unsighted
• UnderHero
• Potato Flowers in Full Bloom
• PowerSlave Exhumed
• Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore

That's big news! Wow. This whole saga is getting to be a big deal.

A company called Clearview AI broke that unwritten rule and developed a powerful facial recognition system using billions of images scraped from social media. Primarily, Clearview sells its product to law enforcement. Clearview has also explored a pair of smart glasses that would run its facial recognition technology. The company signed a contract with the U.S. Air Force on a related study.

Just another reason to not post all your images to social media. Share with family/friends who care but thats it.

I've used gnucobol before for testing out some rm COBOL that was extremely costly to a company. Ended up saving the company around 40k worth of licencing fees per year with my work before moving on.

"According to an official statement on Ryujinx's Discord server, developer gdkchan was contacted by Nintendo and they were offered an agreement to stop working on the emulator project, and while the agreement wasn't confirmed yet, the organization has been entirely removed."

See ya space cowboy.

Now the only place to get things are on not github. Some kind of berg with code in it. Either way GL to anyone using emulators.

Nintendo seems to be going after everything emulator related. You can't even talk about were to get emulators/roms now days because they will most likely go after that resource.

Given that videos are currently getting copyright stuck if just having screenshots of over 10+ year old games....yeah its relevant.

Im loving the steam deck and the amount of options we have now-days. But yeah lots of litigation.

What does the article say? Its asking to sign up.

NVM got it: https://archive.is/a2VYP

I have the same phone stock os. How's graphene?

I wonder if it has anything to do with the hurricane.

"Earlier this week, Reddit disclosed in a corporate filing that CEO Steve Hoffman sold 500,000 shares, and Reddit COO Jennifer Wong also disclosed that she sold 514,000 shares."

If they believed in the platform, they would hold. Yeah looks like they are looking for bag holders.

Yeah its really too bad. I used to love the company but now I just don't see them making things for hobbies. Anyone know of some good alternatives? Ive heard good things about lepotato?

Repairable earbuds are now here, so that's pretty cool. https://shop.fairphone.com/fairbuds

It's not for me because I like wired but it's much better than apples.

Or give them the password. They aren't going to check if your still alive.

If it doesn't goodbye Youtube. I love the creators, but hate you as a platform.

They do, take a look sometime on GitHub. There's just not a lot of traction when the big players can run on so many other platforms. And often faster than the hobbies counter part.

All three big oses are also made by a staggering amount of people that all worked together. And even in the case of BSD/Linux/minux/ect, lot of people worked on it that made money off it. Temple OS is probably the only exception as it is well known and mostly(?) made by one person.

It's an interesting field that is still being worked on.

It's kinda funny on Reddit, you would have had to pay for your picture comment. I'm happy to donate to lemmy, but putting features like this behind paywalls is silly.

No removable battery.

I'm excited about salt batteries taking up the slack on a lot of this infrastructure in the future.

Any way to turn that off? Bluetooth is very insecure.