Kinda sounds like Munchhausens by proxy, but it’s also very possible she’s just a disturbingly shitty human being in a normal way. Normal being a relative term.

You can also patch Duolingo with ReVanced manager to remove the third party ads and long animated ads for Duolingo premium or whatever

The creator of Fortune’s Run, who goes by Dizzie on Steam, announced Tuesday night that her past had caught up with her. “I’ve been sentenced to prison for the next 3 years,” she wrote on the game’s Steam page. “It’s a long story, but I’ve lived a very different life before I was a game developer, and I wasn’t living very well. My case is about 5 years old now, I have been going through the legal process the whole time I’ve been working on this. I have finally been found guilty and sentenced, and I’m going away next month.”

“It’s a shame, but it’s the consequences of my actions,” the developer continued. “I was a very violent person and I hurt a lot of people in my life. Unfortunately, the sentence isn’t going to help with that at all, but I guess we all know that. So the game isn’t TOTALLY dead, but unfortunately due to even further bad things happening, it’s unclear what will happen.”

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That’s super interesting, thanks for chatting about miskey, reading through your comments I learned a lot about miskey as a platform, it sounds really neat in the ways it differentiates itself!

Are there English miskey instances? I know it’s primarily big in japan

Yes, and my impression is that there are also a ton of people who very much don’t want to be indexed or findable through inorganic means

I don’t disagree about implementing it and letting instances decide, but they’ve opted for a different compromise of letting people opt in. Having opt in vs opt out be an instance option would be nice, but open source projects aren’t always gonna align 1000% with the priorities that you have personally, unless it’s personally your project

Oh neat!! I thought that idea had been shot down, that’s cool to hear

Thanks for letting me know :) Hope you have a lovely day

That’s a strange take… But even if that logic follows, it’s pretty disingenuous to suggest that’s what ALL users want, and Eugene is the sole opposition. You and I may want global search, but lots of Mastodon users actively loathe the idea.

Personally I think it’d be a better platform for it, but I get why there are folks who don’t like the idea. I also wish they’d implement quoting people, but again, I understand why some folks don’t like that idea. Downvotes don’t really make sense on microblogging to me.

That’s certainly a cool thought!

As someone who doesn’t follow this stuff closely, I appreciate the clarification!

Its nice to hear from someone with more hands on experience. Hope you have a good one :)

Man, I completely forgot about that. That’s honestly wild to think about in retrospect…

This makes me so happy, thanks for teaching me a word

Honestly I feel like a fair part of the problem is just that very few resources for helping people pick an instance are any good. And they’re especially important for a service like Friendica, where if my memory serves, you don’t see activity on the server when you go to their page until after you’ve signed up, so there is no preview of the culture

I think the tools for picking an instance for most fediverse platforms really need to be improved.

I’d love to also see instance reviews, which is a fundamentally flawed concept that could easily be abused, but would still be massively valuable to people in navigating the Fediverse

Thats fucking kick ass!

There’s an open source dating app, I think its called alovoa? I think I remember seeing discussion on the subreddit about activity pub but I haven’t followed it or used the app for quite a while

Pretty sure it’s on f-droid though

I’m not sure if cosmic will really be the right fit for me, but man am I excited it exists

Can’t wait to see what the first really usable build for average end users looks like!

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Heh…

I know people hate bots because they can sometimes be irritating, or pass themselves off as people, but there are a lot of useful functionality they can implement, or use cases where they make sense

It’s always cool to see people working on fediverse stuff!

Meant to reply to this but it got burried-

Oh I fully just gave up 😅 the reason I didn’t get it figured out is cause I didn’t stick with it lol. My previous laptop had broken and I decided I wanted to just go ahead and be up and running on the replacement rather than tinkering with void setup. I might come back to it at some point, but it’s definitely beyond my competency. Especially since ideally I’d like to have luks encryption, which I know you can do, but not from the more basic install process if I remember right.

Network manager (so I could use GNOME settings to change networks), and audio through pipewire were the two remaining things. I gave setting up pipewire a try following a YouTube tutorial, but it didn’t work properly, and at that point I decided I just wanted to have a working laptop again after a couple weeks without. But I did learn a bunch! and got a lot more comfortable with the command line!

Package kit is what allows graphical software stores or graphical package managers to integrate with the native package manager backend if I understand right. I’d miss being able to browse native packages along side flatpaks.

I found that fork, but yeah I don’t think it works. There were also one or two graphical software stores specifically for xbps, but I don’t recall if they’re still maintained, and I don’t think there was a GTK option. Part of me desperately hopes someone will make a simple distro based on void that functions as a customized install, kinda like spiral linux or gecko linux, for debian and opensuse. Until then, I know that my perfect distro might be out there, if I can just successfully get everything initally set up 🥲

Maybe I’ll make an IRL linux friend I’m close enough to harass into helping me with it at some point lol. Hope you have a lovely day!

Huh, that’d be super interesting, given that’d be a complete about face!

And I think from a technical perspective it’s actually not one? I’m not totally positive. I’ve usually heard it called an compatibility layer, which I think would be different from the way an emulator typically emulates a piece of hardware and its firmware

Could also have something to do with not wanting to draw the ire of Microsoft? “Emulator” kinda feels like it’d come with different implications or connotations than calling it a compatibility layer 🤷‍♂️

Thats pretty sick!