Venia Silente

Which of the infinities? There are many, many :D

Oh no! Please don't tell me there are infinity infinities!

I mean, whoever gets to declare a "last number" that works certainly will get some bragging rights. After all, you can only ever declare one.

...Right?

(I know math is very weird)

Aren't there numbers past (plus/minus) infinity? Last I hear there's some omega stuff (for denoting numbers "past infinity") and it's not even the usual alpha-beta-omega flavour.

Come to think of it, is there even a notation for "the last possible number" in math? aka something that you just can't tack "+1" at the end of to make a new number?

It’s 100% possible to put pirated games on the Switch - in fact, it’s as easy as it could reasonably be.

I wish it was that easy! So far, the only way I know of is a hardmod, which already DQs for any remotely sensible form of DIY, and means a very real possibility of turning the Switch into a fancy paperweight.

As if you were speaking for me.

Would you work for free for your workplace without a compensation beyond a $5 bill and a pat on the back at times because your boss felt generous?

Misleading question. These kinds of communities are volunteer-fed, so you are basically asking me if I would work for free for a charity, which is the point. Things change notoriously when the boss then decides to monetize the entire thing for themself and not for you.

Finally, even OpenSubtitles gets enshittified.

Most major Linux distributions use systemd-resolved for DNS but there is no utility for changing its configuration.

Because it's systemd. You take it or you take it. Brought to you by the same people who brought PulseAudio and GNOME 3.

The average user would still try to change DNS settings by editing /etc/relov.conf (which is overwritten and will not survive reboots)

True, but at least by this point it is documented everywhere (at least on Arch and Debian) and if you want to play around with resolv.conf their go-to interface is to install resolvconf and edit only the base or head files.

How do you think it should be fixed?

IMO people should just install and learn to use dnsmasq / bind9. They're there precisely to cover most cases (including forwarding local DNS queries to DoH, or having your own intranet, etc).

Even worse for privacy, it uses the Chrome engine.

Sorry, I unfortunately am not yet furry enough.

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in 2023

hella sus

Probably not saying anything new here, but my impression is that there's two different problems, or rather levels of problem, to deal with:

For one point, Lemmy still does not have the level of activity that Reddit has, nor the types of content; this is particularly relevant for more niche subjects. I already made two magazines ("communities but on kbin") for example and I'm still the only poster. It sucks, and it disincentivizes posting more. Discoverability and migrability are two aspects that a repost bot can help with, because if you have an interesting subject to discuss that's already come up on Reddit (because, simply statistics, it's so much more likely that it'd come up on Reddit), you can still have the content here and discuss it here. It can, eventually and hopefully, help bootstrap the local community to the level that a repost bot wouldn't be needed.

There's also the issue that for the above to have value, a repost bot has to actually repost not just the opening post but also enough comments to open up a subject of discussion. So less "repost", more "mirror". A bot that only posts a link to a Reddit thread, or a copy of an opening post that usually only has a link to an external site anyway, such as news posts or art posts, is of not much help for anything.

Ironically, this means (to me at least) a repost bot needs to be more active to be useful.

Now, can people just crosspost or repost manually? Sure, but a bot helps with that. Not everyone is that invested on having to start conversations, not everyone has to be a "content generation soldier": when I go to a library, 90% of the time is to read a book, not to make annotations on their books (before I get kicked out) let alone to write my own book.

What does that mean for the lemmy perspective of things, from my end? Well, I don't think defederating from an instance that also happens to repost Reddit (or whoever else, say, Wikimedia) content as part of their normal operations is a good idea, because by definition you are closing down to much more than that. Someone somewhere else can have come up the idea to discuss subject A; and we should not punish our own users for not having had the idea of doing so ourselves. Defederating from an instance that is dedicated to reposts, and that only does that, however, would have more sense, the more if they also engage in other spam behaviour.

I think personally a better solution, if Lemmy can implement it or already does, is to de-prioritize link posts in the All and Local views, and have the option in searches to sort or categorize posts by the level of interaction from local users (eg.: ratio of local users discussing a post that has been made to the local instance) besides the "best of" options (which I assume are valued merely by upvotes?) in search.

Any working nitter instance for seeing this unfold?

Wasn't the admin of .world one of the ones who went into the NDA'd cocksucking meetups with Meta?

Under capitalism, a petty company with money can do anything.

On the question of "should it be able"? No. Even if reusing the """assets""" such as the graphics of the mons, they are postprocessed and converted for usage in a project like pixelmon to adjust for the visual style ("cubemon" style), which any pregraduate lawyer can identify as a Transformative Work.

I'm hoping for the minetest version of that, it'd be impressive.

One would think the rational response from a development perspective is to make fewer releases but just as regular (ie.: change the release freq from "one per year" to "one per three years").

It's perfectly possible: they just need to reduce the frequency of that "regular" to eg.: regularly once every three years.

F* "lol here's Yet Another Raikou" legendary giveaways tbh. Just give me a 2v1 or 3v1 fight against a Legendary that has multiple health bars / phases, enrage timers, can use two moves per turn, and glorious cinematic attacks for their signature moves, à-la Final Fantasy or similar game superbosses.

2DHD style à-la-Octopath is where it's at. Would have helped much the general vibe of the regions that has a lush world but where you are still free to "fill in the blanks" the way you want.

Besides, 3D is too much for a small indie developer like Gamefreak.