This vision often includes harnessing so-called blockchains, the technology behind cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, which is decentralized. In other words, no single entity has power over the system.

Mastodon, Lemmy, kbin and in general the Fediverse shows that no blockchain is needed to achieve that goal.

Digital Foundry did an analysis. It’s a mixed bag, some games may look better, some worse. The core problem seems to be the new upscaling technology PSSR from Sony (for haters its pronounced like “pisser”, oh I see in your other comment you are already aware of this lol).

Imagine paying a premium price of 800 Euros and then getting this. Fanboys will defend it no matter what, just like Apple fans defend if they purchase crap.

At the moment though, there is no single likely alternative to Chrome’s dominance. But perhaps that’s for the better.

First off, why is it for the better not having no alternative? Secondly Firefox IS an alternative to Chrome.

BTW, this Magic Lasso is an ad blocker for Safari.

Tomorrow a new block post: Magic Lasso suggests that Google might be the new AltaVista

Do not read if you like Ai. … or read especially, if you like Ai?

They promise this with every generation. Reality is that Ai and LLMs require human input. If more and more Ai is used, less human input is generated -> less growth and improvements for Ai. This is the chicken or egg problem, but in reverse, kind of. They can’t even count the R’s in “strawberry” in example. Not sure if ChatGPT can do it now, but this was a problem not long ago.

I personally do not want an Ai that does stuff like booking a flight for me. It starts with booking a flight, let it buy food automatically, do these, do that… lose your control of your own life. Do not learn to program, let it program for you. In the end you become a slave of the Ai. I know this is futuristic imagination, but so is the future of Ai promised with these posts.

Posting images on Reddit allow to add alt-text? And the user has to add the name as alt-text, otherwise it wouldn’t have one. I don’t remember that was even possible.

An absolute Legend! Here is a documentation from Karl Jobst, about Suigi almost having all 5 records from 2 weeks ago: https://youtu.be/zUn6HPwNk9k or same video watched through Invidious (a more private YouTube): https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=zUn6HPwNk9k

(Edit: rephrase as the previous statement sounded misleading)

Ah, I missed that comment. They even build an entire physics engine for this website, to resemble the physics in Half-Life 2. Objects like text and images interact with each other and stack on top. Love it!

I literally did that last night, playing Half-Life 2 the first time. Yes, its true, I never played the game before.

https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#Miscellaneous-Commands

Add to your .bashrc following lines:

bind '"\C- ":shell-expand-line'
bind '"\C-x":edit-and-execute-command'

• Control+Space: Now you can expand variables, aliases, !492 history commands, the tilde without executing the line. Now you can make changes to the command.
• Control+x: Opens the current command in an external editor (such as Vi, or whatever is setup for VISUAL or EDITOR variable). Now you can edit the command and if you save the temporary file and exit editor, the modified command will be executed. If you do not save, the unmodified command before launching the editor will be executed.

I’ve looked again and it’s probably one of the lists that contain hostnames to block. skimresources appears in all of these three, so enable them manually if they are not enabled: Dan Pollock’s hosts file, MVPS HOSTS, Peter Lowe’s Ad and tracking server list

Edit: In the addon menu you can enable or block the domain dynamically when you are on the page. Unless you save the setting this is only temporarily changed.

Yes, I have uBlock Origin and uMatrix active at the same time, on Firefox. Maybe if you are using a Chromium based browser, it does not work the same? After all Google made changes. Otherwise, I’m not sure which setting in uMatrix will cause to block this. Therefore I’m not sure how to help with that at the moment.

Yes, the DRM free games is a huge win for preservation. I’m not discounting the value of GOG. But that’s something we had already. My critique was about the focus on Windows only, which is not the best idea if games should be preserved “forever”. Because Windows 11 will be the only supported one soon.

But any efforts trying to make games work forever is always good. At least they didn’t rule out other OS in the future. While my initial reaction was a bit negative in the nature, because I was very disappointment, I’m still happy they do something about it. It’s even more bitter because they supported Linux in the past… But let’s see how this is going. I don’t want to end this in a negative note. I mean it can only get better with such a goal.

https://www.gog.com/en/gog-preservation-program direct link to GOG, because the link provided in the The Verge article is goskimresource that is blocked by my browser extension uMatrix. From the original articles FAQ at GOG:

What about macOS and Linux?

The GOG Preservation Program is currently Windows-only. Our priority is to preserve as many games as possible under the Program, before expanding to other operating systems.

Sad. How about supporting Linux? This would be the right direction to preserve games, as they are no longer tied to the Windows operating system. That’s why I use Steam and do not buy on GOG.

Because they aren’t hyperlinks to a website. When I click them, a popup window opens on the same page. I assume this is something done with JavaScript. But I have some addons and not sure if this is the intended behavior or not.

Or do not allow AI controlled cars in the city. Maybe its okay on longer roads without traffic.

“Taylor Swift Fans Are Leaving Twitter for Bluesky After Trump’s Election”

Oh really? I didn’t know that. Why would they remove Xwayland? Oh that’s not a good idea. Which distro plans it?

But Krita works on Wayland session. So what’s the issue?

It is.