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Sony Announces New Slim PlayStation 5 Models With Removable Disc Drives (www.gameinformer.com)
 

Nearly three years after the initial launch of the PlayStation 5, Sony has revealed a redesign. Both the disc drive model and the digital model will be updated, but these two models aren't…

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Final Fantasy 14 is getting an official tabletop RPG (www.polygon.com)
 

The hit massively multiplayer online game Final Fantasy 14 is to be officially adapted into a tabletop role-playing game.

Square Enix said that it would introduce the Final Fantasy 14 TTRPG with a starter set, and it’s already available for pre-order, with release set for May 2024. It costs $59.99…

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Terraria devs donate $200K to open-source engines in wake of Unity changes (www.polygon.com)
 

Unity might be facing the ire that comes with a near-universal condemnation of a new policy change, but at least things are looking up for two open-source game engines.

On Tuesday, the developers of Terraria announced that their team plans to donate $200,000 to two open-source game development engines: Godot and FNA. This announcement follows one made on Sep. 12 by the widely used game engine, Unity, regarding a change in its pricing policy that sparked outcry from game developers.

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Running a Social Platform as Someone Who Dislikes Them - Kev Quirk (kevquirk.com)
 

As co-admin of one of the largest tech instances on the Fediverse, it's ironic that I struggle with social platforms so much.

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You should take more screenshots (alexwlchan.net)
 

I’ve been using computers for about two decades. I still have some of my oldest files; the earliest I can definitively date are from 2003, but I’m sure they aren’t the first things I made on a…

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Hackers had access to UK voter data for over a year before anyone noticed (www.theverge.com)
 

A cyberattack that began in August 2021 exposed the personal data of people in the United Kingdom who registered to vote between 2014 and 2022. The attack wasn’t detected until October…

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Microsoft shortens its Xbox Game Pass trials just before Starfield’s release (www.theverge.com)
 

Microsoft has shortened its $1 Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass trials to just 14 days instead of a month, just weeks before the release of Starfield. After running for years, the $1 trial for new Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers stopped in March before returning last month after Microsoft adjusted its Xbox…

Mozilla shutting down Pocket app for Mac, recommends installing iOS app — 9to5Mac in c/tech@kbin.social
[–] asteroidrainfall@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I might have to look into it again. I’ve been primarily saving links using Obsidian synced to an S3 bucket. There’s a nice plugin that converts links to pretty markdown. I even made an iOS shortcut to automate the saving of pages. It’s nice and minimalist, but it does require Obsidian to view the pages (excluding just opening the bucket directly), so I can’t see my links on my work computer.

Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off | Hacker News in c/tech@kbin.social
[–] asteroidrainfall@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used Joplin for a while but found that it was a bit too clunky. Also, yes it does store the notes locally, but they weren’t in a plain text format. My notes were fragmented across different files.

I switched to Obsidian after that and will never switch back. Yes, people make Obsidian complicated, but it’s honestly only as complex as you make it.

For me, all it does is text and sync. All the files are stored locally in complete markdown format. That way I can read them in any program that can process text. My personal workspace syncs to an S3 compatible service, while work synced to Google Drive.

I loved Joplin and felt so conflicted when I found Obsidian. But now I would recommend it over Joplin any day.

Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads | Semafor in c/tech@kbin.social
[–] asteroidrainfall@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What if Zuck comes out of his lizard hole and utters the word:

FEDIVERSE.

to proclaim that Meta, formally known as Facebook, is now changing their name to Fedi.

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State Dept. cancels election meetings with Facebook after “free speech” ruling (arstechnica.com)
 

The Biden administration is appealing a federal judge's ruling that ordered the government to halt a wide range of communications with social media companies. President Biden and the other federal defendants in the case "hereby appeal" the ruling to the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, according to a notice filed in US District Court yesterday. The US will submit a longer filing with arguments to the 5th Circuit appeals court.

On Tuesday, Judge Terry Doughty of US District Court for the Western District of Louisiana granted a preliminary injunction that prohibits White House officials and numerous federal agencies from communicating "with social-media companies for the purpose of urging, encouraging, pressuring, or inducing in any manner the removal, deletion, suppression, or reduction of content containing protected free speech posted on social-media platforms."

Doughty found that defendants "significantly encouraged" and in some cases coerced "the social-media companies to such extent that the decision…

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Amazon’s iRobot Roomba acquisition under formal EU investigation (www.theverge.com)
 

European Union regulators have opened an official investigation into Amazon’s proposed $1.7 billion acquisition of iRobot, the company behind the popular Roomba lineup of robot vacuum cleaners.

In a press release, the European Commission said it’s concerned that “the transaction would allow Amazon to restrict competition in the market for robot vacuum cleaners (‘RVCs’) and to strengthen its position as online marketplace provider.” The European Commission is also looking at how getting access to iRobot users’ data may give Amazon an advantage “in the market for online marketplace services to third-party sellers (and related advertising services) and / or other data-related markets.”

“We continue to work through the process with the...

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Judge rules White House pressured social networks to “suppress free speech” (arstechnica.com)
 

A federal judge yesterday ordered the Biden administration to halt a wide range of communications with social media companies, siding with Missouri and Louisiana in a lawsuit that alleges Biden and his administration violated the First Amendment by colluding with social networks "to suppress disfavored speakers, viewpoints, and content."

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This London Bookstore Lets You Try the Recipes Before You Buy (www.youtube.com)
 

Finding a good recipe isn’t as simple as it should be. Photos can’t always be trusted and estimated cooking times can be a bit too optimistic for the everyda...

What I think kbin needs to do to survive, and why I think it has a better chance than any other Reddit alternative I've seen yet. in c/kbinMeta@kbin.social
[–] asteroidrainfall@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reddit also had an aggressive recommendation system, where posts from your most recently interacted subs would show up more often. I would literally only open one sub via a post on the front page and the next time my /all would be filled with trash for that sub.

What I think kbin needs to do to survive, and why I think it has a better chance than any other Reddit alternative I've seen yet. in c/kbinMeta@kbin.social
[–] asteroidrainfall@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That’s one trend I hope doesn’t spring up over here. I hated the fact that 95% of the subs on /r/all were literally the same thing. Like, what was the difference between MadeMeSmile, DamnThatsInteresting, NextFuckingLevel? Just all the same clickbait trash, and then, as you say, some “organic” marketing campaign for the latest Marvel movie.

Edit:
Mastodon handles this by not having an algorithm. In order for a toot to gain traction, it actually needs to be boosted around so that people can see it. A great example of how this prevented “organic” marketing was with @Raspberry_Pi.

When they first joined, their SNS team tried the same easy brand tactics that they used on Twitter, trying to force engagement. It had the opposite effect, and the community backlash was fierce. They have since changed their messaging and become more genuine.

Since link aggregators usually need some kind of algorithm for a “front page,” I think the most important thing is to have it be transparent and static. No changing it every 4 months to increase engagement.

Most importantly, the community should also have a shared opinion on what kind of stuff they are okay with, and this can be more localized per instance.

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Meta’s Twitter competitor, Threads, briefly showed up on Google Play (www.theverge.com)
 

Alessandro Paluzzi, a developer who routinely digs into app code to expose unreleased features, tweeted early this morning that Meta’s Twitter clone, Thread, had been released into the Google Play store. It appears as though that was a mistake, however, because the app is nowhere to be found now.

How do you think about Snap? in c/linux@kbin.social
[–] asteroidrainfall@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

I only use it for my #Nextcloud instance. #Snap does make it easy to upgrade or rollback and configure. That said I wouldn’t use it for anything else and would probably use the #docker image next time.

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