Hi all,

We’re looking to get off Rackspace’s email as the Spam filtering is pure garbage. We’re going to avoid the Googles and MS’s of the world, and I’m wondering if this community has suggestions for mail providers that run FOSS services (and are public about that via support), and/or are privacy focused. Note: Proton is a no-go due to having to run an IMAP middle-man service.

Thanks!

It’s a lesson in why you should not Al-generate your unsold TV pilot.

Been regularly playing for some years now and always encountered the occasional cheater, aim hacker, teamer and the likes. Although it’s never nice it was bearable.

This season is different: Getting beamed in three clean headshots from 80 metres away with a green ar while moving behind cover… Watching such players after elimination constantly hitting headshots over 50 metres while running and jumping wildly… Getting hit in bushes and trees without line of sight… And that happens nearly every fucking match. Reporting is pointless, epic is not even trying to contain the problem. Selling skins is more profitable, of course it is.

It’s so annoying when you just want to run around and have some shoot outs, and then some people who barely know how to navigate the map eliminate you out of the corner of their eyes.

If anyone knows a nice and relaxing shooter that runs on Switch 2 please let me know. Thanks.

And as a trader of Nuka-World, henceforth until the day you die, all day, every day, you will be sellin’ junk to suckers, turnin’ trash into caps. Now, when you get there, they gonna take away your name, give you a junk stall and say, ‘Get to work!’ One word of sass, they cut out your tongue. And they good at it, too. You won’t bleed out. Oh, they does that real good! They gonna work ya all day, every day 'till your back give out. Then they hit you in the head with a hammer, and throw your ass down the shitter.

I’m excited to share Kingdom Rising — a free strategy game where you build your kingdom, train your army, strengthen your defenses, raid real players, and compete for the top of the leaderboard.

Invite your friends, challenge each other, and see who can build the strongest kingdom. 🏰⚔️

🎮 Play in your browser: kingdomrising.sbs

📱 Also available on the App Store: apps.apple.com/us/app/…/id6796983706

I’d really appreciate your support and feedback. Hope you enjoy playing!

DISCLAIMER: All the code was written by humans until December 2025. Since then, we have started using AI as an assistant, mainly to speed up debugging and for low-value-added tasks (UI and some simple logic). However, all code is reviewed by a human, and the architecture is designed exclusively by humans.

Hi everyone,

We’ve just released Portabase 1.29, with another round of improvements focused on configuration, reliability and reducing the amount of manual setup required.

Repo: github.com/Portabase/portabase

Quick recap if you’re new to Portabase

Portabase is an open-source, self-hosted backup and restore platform designed for data retention, disaster recovery and homogeneous database migrations. It uses a central dashboard with lightweight agents deployed close to your databases and workloads.

We currently support 9 database engines (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, SQLite, Redis, Valkey, Firebird SQL and Microsoft SQL Server) as well as Docker volume backups.

What’s new

You can now add new databases directly from the dashboard! Until now, databases were only declared through the agent’s configuration file (databases.json). Both approaches can be used depending on how you prefer to manage your infrastructure.

Portabase now checks whether backup files are actually still available in the configured storage. If a file has been deleted, moved, or is otherwise unavailable, it is now marked as unavailable instead of being presented as a valid restore candidate.

The new version of the agent (v1.19) adds support for MongoDB SRV connections, making it easier to connect to MongoDB deployments using mongodb+srv://, including managed/cloud MongoDB environments.

What’s next

We’re now working on several areas:

• Deploying a public Portabase demo
• Improving and restructuring the documentation
• Enhancing the agent retry and resilience system
• Additional dashboard UX/UI improvements
• A database-specific options system, allowing advanced parameters to be configured for each supported engine
• Audit logs across the ecosystem for better traceability

As usual, feedback is welcome. If you find bugs, have trouble with the new dashboard-based configuration, or need database-specific options we don’t support yet, feel free to open an issue on GitHub.

Thanks!

If it helps others this was my config. To be honest I have a weak grasp of what it actually does so there might be some security issues with it.

Apparently you can also add lemmy as a search engine. Will work on that later.

This seems like what I wanted on my first rpi over a decade ago.

Install, add ~15000 games from archive.org romsets, maybe a few bios files.

Shit just works.

~1970-2000, done

cross-posted from: https://feddit.online/c/euro@feddit.online/p/1955983/researchers-identify-rubber-related-chemicals-in-swiss-milk-the-study-supported-by-the

Akel member of the European Parliament Giorgos Georgiou on Tuesday demanded an end to what he described as “double standards” being taken by the European Union on Israel, compared to its stance on Russia, saying that the country is committing “genocide”.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1402513/tiktok-s-parental-controls-fail-to-protect-children-from-suicide-self-harm-and-eating-di

UK and EU law both require platforms such as TikTok to keep children safe online by assessing and mitigating the risk that they encounter harmful content, such as suicide, self harm and eating disorder content.

We have investigated how well TikTok is living up to these requirements and our findings raise serious concerns about their compliance with these laws.

We created 15 TikTok accounts in the UK and the EU, all registered as 13 year olds.

On all accounts, we enabled what TikTok calls ‘Restricted Mode’. TikTok markets this to parents as a tool that can ‘Restrict your teen’s exposure to content that may not be appropriate or comfortable for them.’ With it turned on, they say they aim ‘to only show content that’s comfortable for all audiences.’

Some of the accounts investigated eating disorder content. Initially, these accounts searched for terms such ‘#skinny’ and ‘#thin’. Afterwards, they more directly searched for eating disorder content. This was on purpose: first we searched for phrases you can imagine lots of teens might use that do not directly reference harmful material, and only after this did we search for phrases directly related to eating disorders.

Other accounts investigated self harm content. Initially, they searched for terms such as ‘#sad’ and ‘#depressed’ and after this searched for terms directly associated with self harm.

In the UK, the searches were carried out in English. In the EU, the searches were carried out in English, French, German and Spanish. A list of all the search terms used is provided in the Methodology section.

All of the accounts watched only a few minutes of content from each search term.

I’ve been hooked on Caves of Qud lately, and I wanted to move off of the default starter character builds. Here’s one that I’ve been having fun with lately; It gets me into tinkering pretty quickly, and getting two extra random mutations makes it a really different run every time.

I’m wondering what people here like to use.

Arconaut
Mutated Human

Attributes
Strength: 16
Agility: 18
Toughness: 18
Intelligence: 20
Willpower: 16
Ego: 16

Mutations
Unstable Genome x2
Night Vision
Wings
Psychometry
Cold-Blooded (Disadvantage)

A day late but it was released September 14th, 2001. What are your memories of it?

For some reason, I never really kept a GameCube and I’ve had three of them in my life. I kept getting rid of it because I was preferably a Playstation 2 gamer at the time. But I knew that it had quite a library of games of its own and some smashing hits.

Full title: Finance jobs just hit a 4-year low, but banks posted nearly 49,000 roles seeking new tech skills — Financial activities shed 14,000 jobs in July. Commercial bank postings seeking AI skills jumped by 51 percent

Today’s game is Salt. This initially was going to come on time but Lemmy was giving me issues signing in. So I had to wait.

Anyways, Salt is a game i believe has featured in here before. The only way i can think to describe it is Windwaker meets Oblivion. It’s a lot calmer than either of those two though. From what I gather the objective is to sail island to island beating bosses. It’s nothing amazing but it manages to be a somewhat cozy experience that has managed to find its way in.

The game is really pretty notably. My favorite scene so far is just sailing the ocean at night and looking at the stars. It provides a relaxing landscape to just chill out and sail too. I like it too because there’s not anything aggressive on the sea to worry about.

It does have the issue of becoming a bit mundane, as there’s nothing out there as I mentioned. But it’s not the worst thing in the world. Especially when you have friends.

Anyways. I wanted to feature this because I took a detour today from my “projects” to play this and wanted to share. I’ve always wanted to play this after I saw a YouTuber play it when I was young, so getting to share it here is also very cool. Anyways. I’m gonna go lie down now as whatever was going on with Lemmy had me up late to check

I’ve just published my time with the Anbernic RG DS Plus, the bulk of this is the usual review things, but of some note was that I got to chat directly with Anbernic about the device and their take on it: why they revisited the original RG DS, the new NNDDSS emulator and some of the design decisions behind the Plus.

The RG DS Plus itself is Anbernic’s second iteration of making a NDS-focused retro handheld. I love this one so much.

I also spoke with the devs behind Cocoon, who are working on bringing Cocoon (a super 3DS-ish front-end/launcher for dual screen handhelds) to the RG DS Plus very soon. Just a bit of a chance to look a little beyond the hardware itself and at what this could mean for dual-screen Linux handhelds going forward, Cocoon for the DS Plus isn’t far off now (they’re moving from being Android-only to both Android and Linux!)

If you’re interested in the RG DS Plus, DS emulation or where these weird little dual-screen handhelds are heading, you might like this one!

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1402252/ai-datacentres-pose-growing-threat-to-electricity-systems-worldwide

Use of data-intensive technologies – in particular artificial intelligence (AI) data centres – is growing faster than electricity infrastructure can handle, the UN’s economic commission for Europe has warned, raising concerns about the future reliability and resilience of energy systems worldwide.

Archive link: archive.ph/U1zEK

Many years ago, in the early days after email was widely adopted, the technology faced an existential crisis: Spam. Instantly sending people electronic mail was revolutionary and convenient, but inboxes were quickly flooded with unwanted messages, advertisements, scams and other noise that drowned out email’s utility. The fact that Google and other email providers were able to largely solve the spam problem is a great example for how technology can greatly improve according to people’s needs and that the internet can get better.

Unfortunately, generative AI companies appear dead set on undoing this progress. Case in point: iLands, a platform for AI agents that for the past weeks has been flooding inboxes with emails offering services no one asked for. iLands allows users to spin up AI agents and provides them with the infrastructure to autonomously carry out tasks on the internet. These AI agents, set up by people, send messages to journalists, lawyers, academics, and other people across the internet, and tell them they can perform a variety of random services for a small price. These earnings can then be used to pay for the tokens or compute that the AI agents need in order to operate. Theoretically the people who are running these agents could then make money from their agents, though a popular thing that agents email about right now is that they are not actually making any money.

• Archive: ghostarchive.org/archive/kfCsc

“God please let GTA 6 be a massive flop it would be so fucking funny.”

cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/71569981

I’m sorry I think flashlight memes are funny no matter how many I see

cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/56782117

Supply-chain through social engineering

Source: 657581 (nsfw)