KoboldCoterie

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

It's like a what?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Can you fix the quality, maybe? That image is pretty grainy.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 hours ago

"Gosh, I hope so, they were the whole reason I approached you!"

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (4 children)

He's defunding efforts to install EV chargers, but wants to outfit the state department in EVs?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm glad you thought of this, because I was very confused by this post. I thought the question was asking which group of countries you'd want to be allowed to visit.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

“The accounts are key components of the defendant’s popular and lucrative commercial enterprise,” Zlozower’s lawsuit states. “Defendant has over 12 million followers on [Facebook], and over 6 million followers on [Instagram], and over 5 million followers on [X] — all of which are monetized and provide significant financial benefits to the defendant.”

Among the images are some of Ozzy standing with Zakk Wylde and hugging the late Randy Rhoads, who died in 1982.

What an unbelievable shit-heel.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sure, will do. I'm always reluctant to tag people unnecessarily; I'm sure you get enough notifications as is, but I'll do that here in the future if this comes up again.

Are there any specific details we can include in these sort of reports that are helpful to you? Network logs, for example?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 days ago

"I reject and resent the implication that congressional Democrats are simply standing by passively," said Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.).

Well, maybe do something to show us what you are doing. My state's rep recently sent out a very encouraging email to his mailing list going into detail on what Democrats in general, and he personally, are currently doing to fight back. Is Richie Torres doing that? (Honest question, I don't know, not on their mailing list.)

[–] [email protected] 121 points 2 days ago (59 children)

Gender neutral pronouns are just so much more convenient; I tend to use them even when I know someone's gender. I do wish English had some common-use ones that were explicitly singular, though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I have a Kwain deck that has no win condition. The entire basis for the deck is to give everyone cards and life and mana and keep everyone alive long enough to draw, resolve, and protect a Divine Intervention. Typically by the time that happens, when I manage it, the entire table has drawn through their entire libraries at least once. I've never had anyone - regardless of the power level of the table - tell me they found the deck to be oppressive or unfun to play against. However, it has a Fierce Guardianship in it, so I guess it's degenerate now.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

What’s the criteria for game changers?

If that list is exhaustive, it seems to be "An arbitrary subset of powerful cards in each color, chosen more or less at random".

As an example, Trinisphere is on the colorless list, which is very good at slowing down degenerate decks and isn't really problematic in commander in decks that would fall into bracket 3 anyway, but Winter Orb, one of the more hated effects in the game, is suspiciously absent.

Edit: I guess they're excluding things that fall into the 'land denial' category (which itself is very weirdly laid out. What about Liliana of the Veil? It can destroy at least half of a player's lands, but only a single player, and it's not the primary function of the card. Their definition of land denial includes 'multiple players', so is that fine? Can you play the card if you're not using it for that purpose?). What if player A plays Enchanted Evening, and player B has Tranquility in hand - are they disallowed from playing it, because it would, due to the current boardstate, destroy all of the lands? What if you have both in your deck - neither card alone destroys lands, but together they do. Same goes for cards like Kormus Bell and Living Lands combined with e.g. Pyroclasm.

In that case, what about Nether Void? Having Trinisphere but not Nether Void is a weird choice. How about Humility, or Smokestack? If I was creating a list of cards that ruin the fun for some subset of the table when they're cast, those would certainly be on it. Mana Breach doesn't fit their definition of land denial; neither does Vorinclex, but Vorinclex is explicitly on The List, whereas Mana Breach is not. I'm curious where they got this list from.

My play group has a set of deck building guidelines that we all follow, and a prohibition on mass land destruction is in there. There's a couple people with lands-heavy ramp decks, which go basically unchecked, because the cards you'd typically use to keep such a strategy in check are disallowed.

 
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Furule (pawb.social)
 
 

I'm sure you know, but I haven't seen any communication about it, so I'm bringing it up just to make sure. Performance tanked abruptly a few days ago and has only gotten worse in the following days.

Is it helpful to bring this up when it's observed, or would you prefer we just chill and wait?

 

Hugely improved performance! Great work! Thanks a lot!

 

Rather than communities being hosted by an instance, they should function like hashtags, where each instance hosts posts to that community that originate from their instance, and users viewing the community see the aggregate of all of these. Let me explain.

Currently, communities are created and hosted on a single instance, and are moderated by moderators on that instance. This is generally fine, but it has some undesirable effects:

  • Multiple communities exist for the same topics on different instances, which results in fractured discussions and duplicated posts (as people cross-post the same content to each of them).
  • One moderation team is responsible for all content on that community, meaning that if the moderation team is biased, they can effectively stifle discussion about certain topics.
  • If an instance goes down, even temporarily, all of its communities go down with it.
  • Larger instances tend to edge out similar communities on other instances, which just results in slow consolidation into e.g. lemmy.ml and lemmy.world. This, in turn, puts more strain on their servers and can have performance impact.

I'm proposing a new way of handling this:

  • Rather than visiting a specific community, e.g. [email protected], you could simply visit the community name, like a hashtag. This is, functionally, the same as visiting that community on your own local instance: [yourinstance]/c/worldnews
    • You'd see posts from all instances (that your instance is aware of), from their individual /worldnews communities, in a single feed.
    • If you create a new post, it would originate from your instance (which effectively would create that community on your instance, if it didn't previously exist).
    • Other users on other instances would, similarly, see your post in their feed for that "meta community".
  • Moderation is handled by each instance's version of that community separately.
    • An instance's moderators have full moderation rights over all posts, but those moderator actions only apply to that instance's view of the community.
      • If a post that was posted on lemmy.ml is deleted by a moderator on e.g. lemmy.world, a user viewing the community from lemmy.ml could still see it (unless their moderators had also deleted the post).
      • If a post is deleted by moderators on the instance it was created on, it is effectively deleted for everyone, regardless of instance.
      • This applies to all moderator actions. Banning a user from a community stops them from posting to that instance's version of the community, and stops their posts from showing up to users viewing the community through that instance.
      • Instances with different worldviews and posting guidelines can co-exist; moderators can curate the view that appears to users on their instance. A user who disagreed with moderator actions could view the community via a different instance instead.
  • Users could still visit the community through another instance, as we do now - in this case, [yourinstance]/c/[email protected], for example.
    • In this case, you'd see lemmy.world's "view" of the community, including all of their moderator actions.

The benefit is that communities become decentralized, which is more in line with (my understanding of) the purpose of the fediverse. It stops an instance from becoming large enough to direct discussion on a topic, stops community fragmentation due to multiple versions of the community existing across multiple instances, and makes it easier for smaller communities to pop up (since discoverability is easier - you don't have to know where a community is hosted, you just need to know the community name, or be able to reasonably guess it. You don't need to know that a community for e.g. linux exists or where it is, you just need to visit [yourinstance]/c/linux and you'll see posts.

If an instance wanted to have their own personal version of a community, they could either use a different tag (e.g. world_news instead of worldnews), or, one could choose to view only local posts.

Go ahead, tear me apart and tell me why this is a terrible idea.

 

Kind of falls under the 'Too Afraid to Ask' category, I guess, but I've been curious about this for a while. Did something actually happen at some point, or was this just a procedural thing that wasn't ever followed up on?

It's mildly annoying given how large they are.

Edit: It's possible that this isn't a federation problem at all (as discussion is bringing to light) but something else entirely. Regardless, though, something is going on.

It's also possible that the site I link below is out of date, so maybe don't take that as gospel. I bookmarked it a year ago and just hit it up to check on this a few minutes before posting, so I haven't been keeping up with it.

Doing a little more digging in light of the above, it's possible this is related to this issue, and there's just an extremely long delay before we get content from lemmy.world. Weirdly, though, it doesn't seem to be the case with other instances - maybe because of their size? Either way, looking at the same posts on our instance and 3 or 4 others, we seem to be the only ones not getting the replies. So something's fucked, maybe.

If you're on lemmy.world and happen to see this, drop a reply in here, maybe - I'd be curious to see how long it takes for us to see it (or if we can at all).

 

Page load times have been very slow for some communities, especially those hosted on other instances, and especially over the past few days. Not sure if this was related to the maintenance over the weekend. Here's some quick examples from a sample of 3 communities. I'm listing them in the order that I visited them (I'm not sure if images et. al. are cached across instances, but just in case):



Of these three tests, we performed fine on one, but the other two were markedly slower. Refreshing the home feed (settings: Subscribed, New) has also been very slow (with load times in excess of 5 seconds being very common).

Is anyone else seeing this, or is this a 'Me' problem?

(I swear I don't only complain.) :D

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I'm sure there's a really simple answer to this, but it's a surprisingly difficult problem to search for.

I've got a RichTextBox control and I'm trying to write text that includes the letters "ff", but they don't show up. This is the specific code in question:

for entry in suffix:
  desc += "[color=darkgray]Suffix (Tier: %s, Quality: %s%%) 'of %s'\n[color=royalblue]" % [entry.tier, entry.quality, entry.mod.name]

This is what it ends up printing:

If I change one or both of the Fs to capitals, they both display fine; it's specifically two lowercase Fs that're problematic. They also display fine elsewhere in the same textbox; it's just this line specifically that's problematic. Even tried escaping it but it didn't like that, either.

Most of the settings on the RichTextBox are default; the font has a lowercase 'f' character; I haven't done anything weird with the font size, or style, or anything else.

I'm tearing my hair out here. Please tell me this is just some stupid bbcode tag or some such.

Edit: For anyone finding this later:

It's a ligature (ffi) that the font is missing a glyph for. To solve the problem: On the Import tab, choose the font you're using, click Advanced, and under Metadata Overrides, expand OpenType Features, click Add Feature -> Ligatures, add whichever option is appropriate (discretionary or standard ligatures), then disable the option. Reimport the font, and the issue is fixed!

 

Let's get some furry shit up in there. We can create / share a template so we're all working on something cohesive. Any interest / anyone have any suggestions for something to draw?

Community Link

 

The hacktivists, which describe themselves as made up of "gay furry hackers," usually target government orgs whose policies they disagrees with, and have a flare for political publicity stunts, also posted a link to the purported stolen files on their Telegram channel.

"The astonishing siegedsec hackers have struck NATO once more!!1!!!," the crew wrote, bragging: "NATO: 0. Siegedsec: 2."

The team is referring to its earlier NATO intrusion in July, during which it claimed it swiped information belonging to 31 nations and leaked 845MB of data from the alliance's the Communities of Interest (COI) Cooperation Portal.

 

"Some game developers are turning to artificial intelligence to make the creative process faster and easier—and cheaper, too. At Google Cloud Next in San Francisco, startup Hiber announced the integration of Google’s generative AI technology in its Hiber3D development platform, which aims to simplify the process of creating in-game content.

Hiber said the goal of adding AI is to help creators build more expansive online worlds, which are often referred to as metaverse platforms. Hiber3D is the tech that powers the company's own HiberWorld virtual platform, which it claims already contains over 5 million user-created worlds using its no-code-needed platform.

By typing in prompts via its new generative AI tool, Hiber CEO Michael Yngfors says creators can employ natural language to tell the Hiber3D generator what kind of worlds they want to create, and can even generate worlds based on their mood or to match the vibe of a film. [...]"

Once this is refined, this could be very neat! It's only environments right now, not characters and whatnot, too, but maybe eventually we'd be able to dynamically generate some anthro-populated worlds to explore.

 

Performance on Pawb.Social specifically has been degrading significantly; it often times takes a very long time (10+ seconds) to load a post, for example, with a noticeable number of time-outs occurring. Opening the same post via its home instance in these cases typically works much faster, leading me to believe the problem is here, not with the host instance.

This is the case even with local communities.

Hoping to hear from other folks - are you also experiencing this? Is it a temporary issue, or indicative of a growing server-side problem?

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