Fylkir

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[–] Fylkir@lemmy.sdf.org 34 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Throwing a tantrum about what exactly? They're one of the oldest-running Lemmy instances. Until now they were running a fork based on a pre-Federation version of the codebase.

You believe they did a bunch of work migrating their database only to then negate that work by destroying the community they wanted to Federate with?

[–] Fylkir@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's not radically different from what happens with other abandoned subs, except that usually they are actually abandoned and there has to be more talk about who should take over.

Reddit's policy has always been that subreddit requests only apply if someone actually goes vacant. The only reason XKCD still doesn't have holocaust denial in the sidebar is because the guy who owned the sub disappeared. The XKCD case is especially egregious because I'd argue that associating a public figure's webcomic with a horrendous opinion he doesn't hold is something that would actually open you up to a lawsuit.

[–] Fylkir@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It's a lot more nuanced than that. The Chapo mods wanted to follow site-wide rules but reddit refused to explain what was in violation of them.

Reddit actually has a weird history of flipflopping with the banhammer.

Back in the day, the XKCD subreddit was run by a guy who linked a Holocaust denial subreddit and the red pill in the sidebar. Reddit didn't do anything about this. In fact The Red Pill still exists.

But then when the subreddit owner closed KotakuInAction, suddenly reddit doesn't mind interfering with the free market of ideas.

[–] Fylkir@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago

The only context I heard this term in was to refer to the people who got made a career out of replying to Trump.

[–] Fylkir@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is it my fault if my coworker decides to live twice as far as I do?

I'd rather just let them sit in traffic thinking they gamed the system.

[–] Fylkir@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Might be a bit heavy, but assuming you have a good upload/GPU: Jellyfin.

[–] Fylkir@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago
  1. You could trivially verify an emulated game with a checksum

  2. If a game is released on GOG, there are Checksums that are hidden from the user. GOG games are DRM-free, so there's no reason anyone would modify the installer.

[–] Fylkir@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago

How would this even be enforced?

[–] Fylkir@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's kinda historically illiterate. The reason people tolerated Capitalism in the first place was that it smashed old forms of oppression and replaced them with less bad forms of oppression.

[–] Fylkir@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago

Except h265 is only ever used for 4k outside piracy. This is because Codec licensing issues.

Once it's conceivable to do so, it would make sense for Netflix to announce it won't make new Netflix ports for TVs without AV1.

[–] Fylkir@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The issue is more political than technical. Hopefully AV1 will fix that.

[–] Fylkir@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 years ago

I still see a legacy of that when a forum for game modding requires you create an account to download.

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