Irisos

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[–] Irisos@lemmy.umainfo.live 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

No. Kbin is it's own seperate project and software https://github.com/ernestwisniewski/kbin

[–] Irisos@lemmy.umainfo.live 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How is that a rip off? You pay 20€ once and get the ability to sideload any UWP app and develop for the console.

Compare it to both Nintendo and Sony where:

  • You have to pay multiple times the price of the console for the dev kit
  • You don't own said dev kit
  • Their SDKs are not publicly accessible
  • You have to sign multiple NDAs on top of all those issues
  • Assuming you have no problem with all this, you can be rejected as a developer for any reason

Considering how locked consoles were and still are (Except for the PS3 "other OS") period. Being able to get a decent current gen console, that doubles as an emulator, with development capabilities for an additional 20 euros is a gift, not a rip-off.

[–] Irisos@lemmy.umainfo.live 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you for the information I'll definitely check that out.

[–] Irisos@lemmy.umainfo.live 8 points 1 year ago

In addition, Facebook already had support for XMPP at some point in time but killed it.

Why? Because they couldn't dry users off other platforms after Google closed their own support for XMPP.

Even if Meta "play nice", we already know their aim. Siphon users off mastodon and then remove activityPub support when most servers are on life support from loss of users.

[–] Irisos@lemmy.umainfo.live 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Show them this video and tell them this is what happens when you neglect your teeths. https://libreddit.domain.glass/r/popping/comments/py6qlw/teeth_cleaning_i_feel_this_was_the_most/

Nearly nobody will get a mouth that bad if they at least care to look at their teeths from time to time and have a basic hygiene, both dietary and oral.

But to at least get them interested, this video does the work really well.

(The video shows removal of a massive plaque of tartar. So I don't recommend anyone uncomfortable, with looking at the inside of mouths and with seeing some bleeding, to watch this video)

[–] Irisos@lemmy.umainfo.live 0 points 1 year ago

It's more that UBI is just not financially possible for any country.

I live in a country with the highest tax rate on the continent and with just 20% of our population as pensioners, the situation is just getting worse and worse even though 49% of the population has a tax rate between 25 and 50% (+13% from welfare taxes). Just with this small percentage, we are spending 20% of our budget in pensions. More than any other area by at least 5% of our national budget.

If the state now had to pay an UBI to 69% of our population on top of this, the very minimum to pay off the UBI without going bankrupt would be to sell off the free healthcare and public transport in their entirety. And I'm assuming a small UBI of 500€/month (Not even enough to rent a 1 room appartement with utilities in some areas).

UBI would destroy any country's budget for what? Landlord increasing rent to match the UBI, corporations increasing prices to match the inflation and people wasting that money when it could have been put to use to increase renewable energy production, improve education, ...

UBI is only a good idea in paper and you only need to look at the public expenses of most European countries + have a basic understanding of capitalist greed to see it.

[–] Irisos@lemmy.umainfo.live 4 points 1 year ago

It's really good. There are some issues here and there like some games not launching when using upscaling or some non default settings.

But otherwise, most games run on it and better than on PS3 with recent CPUs.

[–] Irisos@lemmy.umainfo.live 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The database isn't really the problem in the current state of things. The server is because:

  • Until 0.18 there was no caching (for the UI) and the poorly implemented websockets
  • The developers have admited that they aren't proficient in SQL, in which case, why not using an ORM instead? Sure, they aren't perfect but they will do better than the average developer at scale.
  • There is no queue system for activityPub requests
  • Because there is no queue, user requests and federation have the same priority when it shouldn't and one can bottleneck the other
  • Live inserts are used meaning that regardless of the DB used, performance is going to be killed since inserting data 1 at a time several times a second is a major waste of resource

Tl;dr: It's trying to do everything and not that well. So users suffer because they have to share resources with non-UI related tasks.

The database suffer because it has to do an insert of 1 object X 50 times in a second when it could do it once for all 50 items.

Federation suffers because you can't offload it to a seperate machine farm whose job will be to receive and send ActivityPub requests and send/read data from the correct queues to do so.

[–] Irisos@lemmy.umainfo.live 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

This feels like a very bad joke.

You could buy one of those embedded CPU/RAM motherboard, 3d print a tablet like case for it + design a screen for that case, install linux with a GUI supporting touchscreen and you created a much better product for the fraction of the cost.

How do they even find customers to buy this thing?

[–] Irisos@lemmy.umainfo.live 1 points 1 year ago

Not just posts. Any message you are sending to anyone is unencrypted and can easily be looked at by instance owners.

Unextended ActivityPub makes it so that everything is shared without privacy, any operation is "best-effort" and also depends on the goodwill of the target (ie: a server could refuse all delete on purpose or refuse to deliver messages/posts without any hints)

[–] Irisos@lemmy.umainfo.live 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Oracle Linux is 100% the cause of this change.

Imagine supporting 2 other distros to make your own enterprise linux that is your only source of money through optional subscriptions to it.

Then some other big unethical corporation (much like your own parent company) comes in, use the GPL license to clone it and slap an "Oracle db certified" sticker on it. Finally, they decide to use the same subscription model as you except they get insane margins since you did 99% of the work for them.

But looking at what Rocky Linux is saying publicly. It's not impossible that Red Hat won't levy their right to remove access to the sources to non-commercial forks of RHEL.

[–] Irisos@lemmy.umainfo.live 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Even if you own an instance, the tools are non-existent.

Some basics things that should be present but aren't:

  • A user directory for search and deletion
  • Possibility to block communities for your whole instance
  • Basic statistics. Both on the community and instance level
  • Possibility to mute a user without banning them
  • Allow creating a community but only after admin approval (right now it's free for all or admin only)
  • Easy access to server logs without having to dig directly inside the hosting server
  • Importing block/allow lists for federations using a file or url
  • Adding an administrator from the server admin UI

The API is also lacking in a way that some of those things are not possible without deploying your own API talking directly with the postgress database.

For example, if you wanted to see upvote/downvotes for each individual users, the data to calcultate it is in the database but the Lemmy API doesn't provide that functionality.

While Lemmy is great as a platform, the management side of is glueing everything together just enough to not let it implode.

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