kbal

joined 11 months ago
[–] kbal@fedia.io 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's still operating for now, right? Because if I look at random government pages in a browser that profile that doesn't block the social media widgets I can see links to facebook, twitter, instagram, whatsapp, youtube, and threema. There seems to be no mention anywhere that a mastodon server exists.

They're complaining about the low number of users. Did they bother to tell people that it exists?

[–] kbal@fedia.io 3 points 4 days ago

The consequences for users of this thing in itself are fairly minimal for now. It's the consequences for Mozilla which are something of a disaster.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I am fine with that.

Okay, but I imagine that you being fine with it will have very little bearing on the decision of the Data Protection Authority as to whether or not it violates articles 5, 6, 12, and 13 of the GDPR.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 6 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Maybe some day after we're done replacing X11 people will collectively find the will to do something about systemd before it gets too much worse. I wonder which will be easier: Throw it all out and start again, or split it up into parts of more manageable size with well-defined interfaces between them.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 9 points 4 days ago

I'm expecting the alien space ships to land within 400 million seconds. We'll see which gets here first.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Dogshit, yes. Authoritarian, no. Word choice matters.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 12 points 4 days ago

As I’ve only just recently written here, blog comments are not social media, and I think such things should remain separate.

So it's definitely not social media but it is the social web? I don't see any comments section at all over there. Some of these "indieweb" guys are pretty weird.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 16 points 5 days ago

"more sympathetic" to conservative values than Europe

Oh look, it's another foreign land that hasn't yet developed any immunity to the infectious diseases coming out of Europe.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 14 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Okay, who's giving odds on this one coming anywhere close to living up to its billing?

[–] kbal@fedia.io 1 points 6 days ago

Self-censorship working a little too well.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 0 points 1 week ago

It can be done with simple regex of the kind proposed in various answers there iff the html is known to be limited to the subset of html where that sort of thing can easily be made to work. The question does not tell us whether or not that is the case, so everyone is free to make their own assumptions and argue as if they know what's going on.

 

This legislative triad would grant the government sweeping new powers to censor and censure, undermining privacy rights.

 

Update available! This version is very old.

Xscreensaver has apparently been checking for updates and is disappointed that it hasn't had one for 14 months because Debian is too stable. Can anyone recommend a linux screensaver which would work with xfce and can be trusted to never do that?

 

Oblivion remade in the Skyrim engine. Thats our goal. With our planned 2025 release date we’re showcasing gameplay systems, a part of the world map, a new city, Ayleid dungeons and much more.

Despite our progress, we can’t do this alone: we hope with your support to finish the final steps in completing Skyblivion. Does that sound like something you can do? Then please visit our website to apply: https://www.skyblivion.com/volunteer/

 

nexusmods.com is blaming their current outage on Fallout:

We are experiencing much more traffic than usual due to the popularity of the Fallout TV series [...] this extra traffic could cause a degraded experience across the website and our applications.

 

The upstream xz repository and the xz tarballs have been backdoored.

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(fedia.io)
 

you’re invited to a special program that lets redditors purchase stock

I loaded a page on reddit due to a search result and found out that I'm among the chosen few. Message sent yesterday. They must've gotten fewer takers than expected on the first round of invites if they're now offering shares to people who haven't posted, commented, voted, or done anything else on the site for the past 8 months.

 

Count Binface, intergalactic space warrior, democracy-lover, and croissant-price-cap crusader.

 

The bill, which is the brainchild of Senator Julie Miville-Duchêne, was supported by the Conservatives, Bloc and NDP with a smattering of votes from backbench Liberal MPs (the cabinet voted against, signalling it is not supported by the government). The bill raises significant concerns with the prospect of government-backed censorship, mandated age verification to use search engines or social media, and a framework for court-ordered website blocking

This bill passed second reading in the House of Commons. It is a serious threat. The age verification lobby is making its push, trying to bring this arrant nonsense to Canada before we and the rest of the world realise how little good and how much harm it can do.

 

I agree with Pierre Poilievre: The next election should be about the carbon tax.

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Enhancer for YouTube is gone (discourse.mozilla.org)
 

Yet another popular extension has disappeared under mysterious circumstances. It seems that its author might have requested its removal, but if so then even in that case the longstanding Mozilla policy of telling its users absolutely nothing about what happened applies.

It happened a month ago but it took me this long to notice since the feature I like best only recently stopped working. It's the sort of thing that requires periodic updates to keep up with changes to the youtube UI.

Does anyone know of another extension that can automatically resize the youtube player to fill the browser window? Or, for that matter, the invidious one?

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by kbal@fedia.io to c/skyrimmods@lemmy.world
 

I've spent most of my gaming time for the past year gradually applying more and more mods to Skyrim, and finally got around to trying Chanterelle last week.

It doesn't have much in the way of quests or npc dialogue, but everything it does have is top quality. Lots of wilderness to explore, a couple of dungeons to crawl. Somehow the landscapes feel more realistic than most of Skyrim. Recommended for those who enjoy walking around in the woods. There are many wonders to discover. Next new game I'm going to try starting there.

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by kbal@fedia.io to c/skyrimmods@lemmy.world
 

It allows older versions of Skyrim to handle files with the new plugin version number. Removes any temptation I might've had to install the update any time soon.

If you reverted to 1.6.640 for example and it was still crashing (as some reported) it's probably because they snuck a new .esl file in that you didn't notice, and this mod should fix that as well.

Even if we never get another Elder Scrolls game worthy of its legacy, Skyrim modding will continue.

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