Everyone seems to agree that getting your news from social networks is a bad idea.
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@christianschwaegerl I didn't ask anyone to do anything for free. You should read it again.
@evan But I’m confronted with that expectation a lot here. And while I think integrating micro-payments in social media could be beneficial for creators of all walks, resistance will be massive.
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@evan But I’m confronted with that expectation a lot here. And while I think integrating micro-payments in social media could be beneficial for creators of all walks, resistance will be massive.
1) That's not me. Go argue with those people directly.
2) One great part of the Fediverse is that you don't have to use anything you don't want to. Anyone who doesn't want to use subscriptions or ads or donations or whatever doesn't have to.
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I know that I'm a techno-utopian, but I believe that having more voices in the conversation is a net good, not a net evil.
Anyways, I think there is work to be done on making social network interfaces more conducive to good news reading. It's probably a reasonable research project for the Social Web Foundation and others.
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I think that public broadcasters can lead the way on this. If they don't rely on ads on their sites, they can include their full content in social networking posts -- not just a link.
@evan I like your analysis, but the social media UI I'm using is not adequate to read full articles (even short ones are painful). So not only the publishers need to provide the full article to the social media UI, that UI additionally needs to be improved accordingly.
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@evan I like your analysis, but the social media UI I'm using is not adequate to read full articles (even short ones are painful). So not only the publishers need to provide the full article to the social media UI, that UI additionally needs to be improved accordingly.
Also, sadly, many public broadcasters rely on ads.@monnier I agree about improving the UI!
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Likewise. Most of my "follows" on Mastodon are just various news junkies that summarize, link to and comment on breaking stories and broader investigations - with most of these drawing from numerous sources.
Gli ultimi otto messaggi ricevuti dalla Federazione
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Ditemi quello che sapete su/di Kid Yugi
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Il disagio causato dalle #campane rumorose oltre i limiti di legge è diffuso. Riceviamo tante richieste di aiuto da persone esasperate allo sportello SOS Laicità.
Per difendersi dalle campane "selvagge" 👇
https://www.uaar.it/laicita/campane/
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Restiamo uniti, per odiarci meglio
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@francina1909 mannaggia, io ho un maiale.
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since someone is assuredly going to say "but steam flatpak doesn't work with nvidia drivers" or something, i will point out that i am using an AMD card and none of these proprietary drivers work on alpine anyway
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Moving Mousepad Is An Elegant Aimbot
These days, it can be hard to remain competitive in online shooters without spending your entire life dedicated to the sport. This leads some to explore the world of competitive aids. (AKA: cheating.) A great example is [Nick], who built a mechanical aimbot to help in this regard.
[Nick’s] build moves a mousepad underneath the mouse opposite to the desired movement direction, in order to simulate the mouse movements required to aim at targets in game. This is achieved with the aid of a XDraw A4 pen plotter, which served as a cheap prebuilt X-Y motion platform. The plotter responds to simple serial commands, which makes it easy to control. The X-Y gantry was mounted underneath the desk so the mousepad sits seamlessly on top of the desk, sliding neatly on low-friction mouse skate stickers.
With the mousepad control system built, it was then necessary to figure out how to turn it into an aimbot. [Nick] already had a machine vision tool to detect enemies in shooting game, so it was merely modified to make the right mousepad movements to get the crosshairs right where they needed to be before firing. In testing, it proved more than capable at helping a new player achieve far superior aim, as a good aimbot should.
We’ve featured similar projects before that use complex mechanical contraptions to aim for you. Yes, it’s still cheating, but it’s a lot harder to detect than a traditional aimbot. That doesn’t make it right, per se, just more subtle. Video after the break.
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this is mostly because:
- i don't want to deal with multiple game launcher apps
- i can install steam on alpine through flatpak
- steam makes basically all windows games that i care about "just work" on my machine through proton
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honestly at this point, i am of the opinion that your game just does not exist if you are a non-indie studio and it is not on steam
