I was a long time Windows user, starting with XP. I only tried Linux a few years ago, and while I loved it, at the time I had to dual boot for a couple specific Windows only things (VR and flight/racing sim hardware)....
If I had to guess the reason they're going after yuzu so hard is that the Switch 2 is going to be architecturally identical and that you will be able to run Switch 2 games.
That's the problem, though, given the cost of indexing it. I'm not sure there's a single open source search engine that doesn't rely on some sort of proprietary software. My philosophy is that if the product is free, you likely are the product.? We would almost need a donation-based search engine to get around that, which would likely would not be sustainable.
I once had a dream about a self improving race of robots that started small and ended in a hellscape similar to this. People would (rightfully) find this series less stupid if it wasn't about toilets.
Ive had great luck with Elementary OS with pantheon tweaks to enable the minimize button. Now my family members are all asking my to swap out their windows.
Depends. Game controllers are finicky on windows. A lot of distros automatically map controllers to xinput. Ive also had better luck in linux with printers and Bluetooth dongles
I think it’s pretty safe to say that the majority of us are here to avoid another corporate takeover of our preferred platforms. It would seem to me to be a tad irresponsible to allow Facebook into our space with open arms, allowing them to hoover up our data. I would love to keep using Lemmy.world, but will happily change...
There actually is based on how Federation works. Federation only works by caching information between users that are interacting with each other. So the easiest way to do that is not by scraping, but by siccing their millions of users into the Fediverse.
It’s why not everyone’s lemmy pages look the same depending on the instance
I actually think this demonstrates the exact problem. The reason you can’t do that at the email level is because Google has taken over the entire email space. Ideally, we don’t let threads do that.
Nowadays you have services like Outlook blocking emails Tutanota for “spam protection”. I’d really rather threads not get so big that they can start dictating how the Feduverse operates in that fashion.
As I said down thread, the easiest way to get information with the structure of activity pub is to have a bunch of users and that is because the only way information gets transmitted to a server is by caching it based on post interactions.
That is exactly what millions of thread users in the Fedeverse would accomplish.
It would objectively be more secure in terms of data privacy.
Better, in that regard, is subjective. It sure wouldn’t be more convenient, but that’s why we left Reddit and came to Lemmy in the first place. It sure wasn’t because of convenience.
Are we being defeatist about it? Because I don’t think the solution to data privacy invasions is to just directly give them all the data straight into their servers.
By that logic, and I’m not disagreeing, then any time we defederate, like from explodingheads.com or hexbear.net, then we are just limiting options.
The flip side to Federation is defederation. It’s not Federation if there isn’t the option to defederate. It’s one of the core features of the protocol.
So my understanding is that the way Federation works in the activity pub standard is that information is not cached on a server unless it interacts with another piece of content. It’s basically a web of users, and one user cannot reach far on that web. That would mean the easiest way to collect mass amounts of data is to sicc their users over here by the millions.
Although if my understanding is incorrect, I would be happy for someone to educate me.
This is exactly the case. There are so many more users than threads that even though we aren’t directly being fed their algorithm, what makes it to the top of our posts will be content that are at the top of their algorithm.
Well, they could gather that, then skim through your posts, and then look at all the other ways they've gathered your data, like any of the Facebook trackers on various other websites, then create a shadow profile of you with all of the collective sum information they have.
And that's assuming you don't already use Facebook or messenger, in which case they basically have everything anyway.
It also assumes that they haven't purchased any data from data brokers to create these shadow profiles. Having an IP is actually pretty bad, all things considered, when you have a trove of information
That’s the thing, though, you can’t just quote-unquote “scrape activity pub.”
You have to pick every single instance. Believe it or not, not all data is just on every single instance. It’s usually cached by users connecting with different instances.
I don’t want everyone to defederate with threads, I just want my server to defederate with threads, or else I’ll leave and find another one. But it seems like looking at this post that there’s about 80% of people that agree with me here.
My worry with them is that they aren’t defederated from hex-bear, but I suppose that they’re already updated to version 19, then I can hop aboard and block the ibstance
Twitter/x.com is now forcing you to disable Firefox's Enhance Tracking Protection. ( lemmy.world )
Firefox’s Enhanced Tracking Protection (Strict Mode) is known to cause issues on x.com...
Microsoft wipes out evidence of real ads in Windows 11 Start menu ( www.xda-developers.com )
Linux is officially at 99% for me.
I was a long time Windows user, starting with XP. I only tried Linux a few years ago, and while I loved it, at the time I had to dual boot for a couple specific Windows only things (VR and flight/racing sim hardware)....
Replacement for Firefox? ( fedia.io ) German
Hey there,...
Tuxedo Laptops - Any good?
I’m looking at getting myself a new laptop to replace my Dell Inspiron. I’ll be using it for some on the go video editing....
Yuzu Nintendo Switch Emulator Lives On With The Nuzu, Suyu Projects ( wccftech.com )
Thoughts on Kagi?
I've been using this search engine and I have to say I'm absolutely in love with it....
Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI ( techcrunch.com )
White House calls for legislation to stop Taylor Swift AI fakes ( www.theverge.com )
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YouTube’s Skibidi Toilet series under investigation by Russian police - Dexerto ( www.dexerto.com )
When Windows 10 dies, I am going to jump ship over to Linux. Which version would you recommend for someone with zero prior experience with Linux? **Edit: Linux Mint it shall be.**
Whom also likes to game every now and then ;)...
I'm Done With Windows, Are you? ( youtu.be )
Linux reaches new high 3.82% ( gs.statcounter.com )
Lemmy.world Should Defederate with Threads
I think it’s pretty safe to say that the majority of us are here to avoid another corporate takeover of our preferred platforms. It would seem to me to be a tad irresponsible to allow Facebook into our space with open arms, allowing them to hoover up our data. I would love to keep using Lemmy.world, but will happily change...
The Linux Experiment Channel (From Nick) is on Peertube, and it federates right into Lemmy as a community
Really, how awesome is that?...