PonyOfWar

joined 2 years ago
[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 20 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (2 children)

I don't want to debate your diet, just want to add my voice of disagreement to it (i.e. downvote). There was nothing systematic about any of my votes. I came upon your posts without seeking them out, read them and thought they shouldn't be promoted, so I downvoted them to reduce their algorithmic visibility and voice my general opposition. I upvoted people who argued against your points, as I agreed with them and wanted to promote their viewpoints. In my opinion, that's quite a normal way to use this platform. Otherwise, do you also ban people who only upvote you without stating why they agree with your points?

[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 17 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (14 children)

I also got banned from some communities for "systematic downvoting". I'd estimate I've downvoted maybe 5 or so posts by a moderator promoting a harmful diet, which was apparently enough for being "systematic". The mod also banned me from other random communities I had never interacted with in the first place. But oh well, nothing of value was lost for me. Just kinda sucks that mods can use this to make it seem like their statements are less controversial than they are.

[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 36 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Always good to let this kind of drama develop for a couple weeks before passing any judgement. Not to say I fully believe the publisher's narrative either. But maybe it's not the time for grandiose proclamations of a boycott yet.

[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 2 points 2 days ago

Nope, that was 18 years before I was born.

[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social -1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It was already clickable for me on the web UI, but apparently the correct formatting depends on the client as it doesn't work in voyager.

[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 7 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Community link for people from other instances: /c/Metroid@lemmy.dbzer0.com

[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 27 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It seems useful to me. When you've installed a new application you can immediately see which category it was put in. That said, glad it can be turned off for those who don't like it.

[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

No not really, games like the mainline Zelda and Mario titles have really long development cycles.

[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Pick any of the mods from the sidebar, send them a DM. This isn't a support community btw.

[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I guess I was thinking about civilizations that practiced human sacrifice (e.g. in Mesoamerica) and generally civilizations where outsiders were not welcome (e.g. Edo-era Japan).

[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (6 children)

Assuming I could go back at some point, ancient Rome in its heyday would be a sight to see. I'd love to go sightseeing to almost any ancient civilization really. At least the ones where I wouldn't immediately get killed.

[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

They absolutely had music, which we know both by paintings showing people playing instruments and also the instruments themselves which survived as grave goods etc. We roughly know what these instruments sounded like but what we don't have is any surviving melodies, as they didn't use written musical notation. We really have very few melodies from before the middle ages, a short but IMO very nice melody with text from Ancient Greece, which was found on a tombstone and some religious hymns from bronze age mesopotamia which was found with notations on cuneiform tablets.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by PonyOfWar@pawb.social to c/pawbsocial_feedback@pawb.social
 

So I'm sure some of you have also gotten the spam DMs supposedly from "Nicole, the fediverse chick". She is notorious enough across Lemmy to even have her own community now. I think I've gotten like 6 Nicole DMs. While those may seem amusing on their own, there is the worrying suggestion that they might actually be a deanonymization attack. In light of that possibility, are there any measures the admins here could consider to prevent this kind of attack from happening? Other instances' solutions include for example rehosting external embedded images, filtering out external images from DMs entirely or trying to implement filters for preventing spam DMs from being sent. Especially one of the former two solutions would in my opinion be quite good options to protect the privacy of pawb.social users.

 

I've started to get into Pixelfed these past 2 weeks but one thing I don't quite understand yet, is what content is getting federated and what isn't. Under "Discover" I can see some trending posts from other instances but most are from the one I'm on and most have barely any interactions in terms of comments etc. I'm a bit surprised, as it's supposedly bigger than Lemmy now but I can see much less content and interactions than on Lemmy. So am I actually getting all the content from instances my instance is federated with, or is it maybe just the specific accounts being followed by members of my instance? And are interactions like hearts getting federated or are they just local?

 

I feel like the Linux Handhelds made by GPH in the 2000s are a nowadays almost forgotten piece of history, even though they were in some ways the predecessor to today's Steam Deck. So I wanted to create a bit of an appreciation post for this chapter in Linux Gaming history. Did any of you use a GP2X back in the day as well? For me, it wasn't just my introduction to Linux gaming, but also game development, as I programmed my first games for it using GLBasic. It was a fantastic machine for emulation as well, got introduced to many old games from the 80s and 90s through it.

 

I'm currently waiting for all the components for my PC upgrade to arrive. Got the motherboard today and immediately upon opening, I noticed that the CMOS battery was not in its slot but just kind of next to it loose on top of the board. The slot seems fine, it seems to fit securely in there. No scratches on the board either. But now I'm a bit worried - could the battery have shorted something on the motherboard? It holds a charge after all. What do you think - should I return it for a new one untested or are the chances of the battery harming anything so miniscule that I should just go for it and use it in my build?

 

The Steam Deck's multitouch screen might be its most underutilised feature. Until recently, I wasn't even sure whether devs could use it for anything more than simple mouse emulation. But I've just started playing "Sky: Children of the Light" on my Deck (which is generally a great experience on Deck, especially on the OLED with 90Hz HDR) and I found that when using a musical instrument, you can actually use the touchscreen to play up to 10 notes at the same time.

This got me curious: Do you know if there are any other games on Deck using multitouch, or is Sky the first one that does it?

 

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That would explain why I didn't have any problems with Youtube and uBlock Origin.

 

I've noticed that Pawb no longer seems to receive any new posts from any feddit.de communities. For example, if I view the "DACH" community through Pawb, the latest post is from 7 days ago, while on feddit itself, there were many posts in the last 7 days. Both instances still seem to be federated and aren't on each other's blocklists. Any idea what is happening here?

 

Hi everyone! I've noticed for a while now that I can't reply to comments made by kbin accounts using my account here. Not even talking about kbin threads, but for example if I reply to any kbin-made comment over on feddit.de, once I click submit it just keeps spinning without ever posting the reply. I often see users from other lemmy instances replying to them though, so it doesn't seem like a general lemmy problem. Does everyone else here have this problem as well?

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