wanted to make something like this for a while. so now since i’m on a throughput train, i made it. horray.

* inspired note

• the visuals are heavily inspired by the style and abstractions used in rational animation videos. their king and the golem vid is fantastic

now it’s too late, i did it, i posted this and you cannot stop me.
no thoughts, just post. made a related pres on the topic yesterday so i’m in that headspace

i wish you a wonderful day where you are allowed to show nuance.

Hi there! My name is Alina, I’m Ad Monetization Manager from Dsail.

Saw your comment about HTML5 games and monetization. I manage H5 publishing and ad monetization, and we’re currently looking for new web games and domains to partner with. If you have a live demo or domain ready, drop me a link! I’d be happy to run a quick monetization audit to show you what kind of ad revenue it could generate, and see if there’s an opportunity for us to collaborate.

Artist: Narue | fediverse | pixiv | twitter | linktree | danbooru

baby.

* edited note

• the original product image was taken from here

this kind of “editing a product to be something else” thing is really fun. i like the process of covering up the original and putting new things on there. it’s a relaxing workflow. airbrush go “pff pfffff”

i have to make four posts today. this is the first. i really REALLY gotta get back up to speed. also today an order of 40 buldak spicy noodles arrives, it was on big sale. sub 80 cents per pack wowie that’s okay pricing.

this has the record for lowest resolution post yet. okay there are also posts on other communities with lower resolutions, but it’s the lowest on 196 for certain.

i wish you a wonderful day where you can be just as vulnerable as you would like to.

Straight Girl Trap

Because that image gets more beautiful every time it gets reposted

The Swedish Transport Administration was recently revealed purchasing Microsoft services and discarding their own regulations and any Swedish or EU laws in the process. The following text is a translation of news article by the Swedish public broadcaster Sveriges Radio. “Ekot” is one of their programs and “P4 Dalarna” is one of their regional stations. Minor edits were done to the raw translation for clarification.

The Tech Giant opposed the Demands – The Swedish Transport Administration signed anyway

• The Swedish Transport Administration released all requirements in negotiations for an agreement with Microsoft, requirements that the lawyers at the authority considered necessary.
• Among other things, it was about the fine, the principle of publicity and data transfer to other countries, shows Ekot’s and P4 Dalarna’s review.
• Because the tech giant’s delivery was considered crucial for the business, the Swedish Transport Administration signed the agreement despite Microsoft rejecting all demands in three rounds.

When the Swedish Transport Administration was about to sign a license agreement with Microsoft last year, the agency’s lawyers discovered several problematic points in Microsoft’s standard terms.

They entered into a negotiation that is described in detail in a service note that Ekot and P4 Dalarna have seen.

The lawyers identified 18 conditions that needed to be in the agreement – as minimum requirements.

The demands were brought up in negotiations with Microsoft, which responded that it was not willing to meet any of them.

Demand for fines and compliance with the law

The points were then whittled down to a shorter list, which included, among other things, that Microsoft, like all other suppliers, would have to accept that the Swedish Transport Administration may have to release information in accordance with the public disclosure principle.

And also that the storage, processing and transfer of data must comply with Swedish and EU legislation, and that Microsoft would have to pay a fine in the event of deficiencies and would not be able to terminate the agreement without reason.

But the slimmed-down list of demands was also rejected, and after Swedish Transport Administration’s stripped down its list again, there were only three demands left, which were described as “absolutely necessary”.

But Microsoft also said no to them, and had thus finally rejected all minimum requirements.

“Crucial”

But despite that, the Swedish Transport Administration then decided to accept the agreement, because the tech giant’s delivery was considered crucial for the business.

According to the IT researcher Björn Lundell, it is difficult to gain insight into how this type of negotiation takes place, and it is unusual for it to be this clear how authorities choose to accept the terms of the tech giants.

– I would say that is unusual. It’s not what you usually see.

Shall assess suitability

The Swedish Transport Administration does not agree to an interview, but states in a written comment that it cooperates with both suppliers and other authorities to ensure that cloud services meet all requirements for both security, legality and digital sovereignty.

Suitability assessments will also be carried out, to prevent security risks, before introducing cloud services. But they don’t want any further details around that so as not to “expose vulnerabilities”.

Microsoft declines an interview and writes in an email that it does not comment on individual customers, but that it works together with customers to find opportunities and risks and that it has all protections in place for data.

This is my full interview with Geekstrada and Helaas, the two developers behind Leaf, the custom firmware for the MINILOONG Pocket 1 (which you might have seen Russ cover a couple of weeks back with a video, if you’re into the retro handheld scene).

We chat about how they came together, why Leaf exists, the thinking behind its development, the Colorway Studio you might have used when buying Retroid’s Nova, and the community growing around the project. It’s a long one, but there’s plenty in here about the people, ideas and tinkering behind Leaf.

I know these kind of interviews can be a little niche, but I think that so often people use these apps, programs, projects and builds without knowing the people behind them. I think I’m up to over 60 interviews now, so this is my tiny project of remedying that. Hope some enjoy it :)

Update your Keycloak

For community, version 26.7.2 has the fix:
www.keycloak.org/2026/08/keycloak-2672-released

cross-posted from: feditown.com/post/3464667

Update your Keycloak

For community, version 26.7.2 has the fix:
www.keycloak.org/2026/08/keycloak-2672-released

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1357320/songs-created-by-ai-banned-from-australia-s-music-charts

cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/28095114

Vapor World: Over The Mind is a Soulslike Metroidvania with an evocative, painterly art style reminiscent of Lies of P and the narrative platformers of Playdead. According to Korean studio Alive Inc, the game had 100,000 wishlists just before its early access launch on August 19, mostly on the strength of a demo available since January 2025.

But what should have been a triumphant early access launch went pear shaped very quickly. At launch, few talked about the quite distinctive worldbuilding or the parry-heavy combat. Instead, all focus was trained entirely on something absent from the popular demo: very obvious AI use.

Today’s game is Old School Runescape. I got approached by a wizard who asked me to solve his maze. I love mazes so i figured why not. I have to admit though it threw me for a loop with how trippy the walls are. It made navigating it difficult. I managed to make it through though with around 60% rewards left so not too hard.

Honestly, that brings me to my main point. I love how Runescape isn’t really grounded. They’ll just throw shit at you and i love it for that.

I’ve spent the last few days just running quests and trying too get my levels up. I hope to take on the Dragon Slayer quest next. After that though i’m not really sure what my next goal is. Maybe i’ll travel somewhere i havent been yet.

Anyways, a lot of these quests have kept me hovering around Lumbridge. I neglected a lot of my earlier skills so these are perfect for leveling up everything i had ignored.

That’s probably all i’ll end up doing for the rest of the evening. Tomorrow i think i’ll go back to control. I finally caught up to my save last time i played and i don’t want to let that go to waste.

Edit: After reading the recommendations & arguments at arkenfox, I have opted to remove CookieAutoDelete as well as PrivacyBadger and CanvasBlocker. Instead I have:

• set Enhanced Tracking Protection to “Strict”;
• setup uBlock Origin to level “medium”;
• tweaked some extra about:config entries as recommended here and here, except for privacy.resistFingerprinting.

I’ll also consider setting network.cookie.lifetimePolicy to 2 for having all cookies session-only (apart from whitelisted ones).

I observe a much faster loading of the pages now!

cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/69883263

My preference is to immediately remove cookies from domains, as soon as (or just some seconds after) a tab with that domain is closed. Except some whitelisted domains specified by me.

To do this, I’ve used – for years – Cookie Autodelete. But I’ve discovered now that it doesn’t work with Firefox’s Strict Mode (the extension says “strict mode is not supported”).

All in all I think my understanding of Firefox’s capabilities and policies regarding cookies and similar extensions is outdated. I’d be grateful to anyone who can offer insights or links to well-informed sites about this.

Edit: After reading the recommendations & arguments at arkenfox, I have opted to remove CookieAutoDelete as well as PrivacyBadger and CanvasBlocker. Instead I have:

• set Enhanced Tracking Protection to “Strict”;
• setup uBlock Origin to level “medium”;
• tweaked some extra about:config entries as recommended here and here, except for privacy.resistFingerprinting.

I’ll also consider setting network.cookie.lifetimePolicy to 2 for having all cookies session-only (apart from whitelisted ones).

I observe a much faster loading of the pages now!

My preference is to immediately remove cookies from domains, as soon as (or just some seconds after) a tab with that domain is closed. Except some whitelisted domains specified by me.

To do this, I’ve used – for years – Cookie Autodelete. But I’ve discovered now that it doesn’t work with Firefox’s Strict Mode (the extension says “strict mode is not supported”).

All in all I think my understanding of Firefox’s capabilities and policies regarding cookies and similar extensions is outdated. I’d be grateful to anyone who can offer insights or links to well-informed sites about this.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/jrpg@lemmy.zip/p/2313898/terranigma-announced-for-ps5-xbox-series-switch-2-ps4-switch-and-pc

Clear River Games, in cooperation with Square Enix, has announced Terranigma, a revival of the 1995 action RPG, for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, Switch 2…

Didn’t think this would ever happen, but one of my favorite childhood games is coming back to modern consoles, and for the first time released in America.

Judging from the trailer, it seems to be a straight port with only the soundtrack touched up and some artwork extras. Which is a bit disappointing, as much as it’s a genuinely great game, it had flaws even back then and the textures don’t really hold up that well. I was hoping for more incentive not to simply emulate it.

Edit: Turns out the “touched up soundtrack” in the trailer was an unattributed fan work and the trailer has been taken down. Ugh, that feels scummy.

This is different from tech corpo mass surveillance since the government has the authority to imprison, silence or kill dissidents (while Palantir doesn’t have that power since they’re a company, not the federal government). Put it this way, Palantir can only spy on people harvesting their data but cannot arrest them since they are not cops nor the FBI, meanwhile the government (via FBI, NSA or CIA) has the leverage to detain people.

Instead of Palantir harvesting people’s data, it’s the FBI or NSA themselves doing that building a profile based on the people they’re “keeping tabs” on, what would it be like if mass surveillance is endorsed by the government rather than tech companies in a dystopia? That data gets shared with state authorities (police or sheriff) in which they one day visit your home just because of the content you posted online.

Here, using high-resolution satellite-retrieved data and interpretable machine learning techniques, this study quantified the impact of NEVs on atmospheric pollution, specifically particulate matter particles with an aerodynamic diameter of 2.5 μm or less (PM2.5), nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide and particles with an aerodynamic diameter of 10 μm or less, and evaluates the corresponding health benefits. By 2023, NEVs led to reductions of 23.80% in particles with a diameter of 2.5 μm or less (8.97 µg m−3) and 30.67% in carbon monoxide (0.26 mg m−3), resulting in the prevention of approximately 262,000 non-accidental deaths and 75,000 all-cause deaths, respectively.

an appreciation