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

I use invidious for youtube watching. and I set the resolution to 480p (because of my internet) I have noticed for sometime that the video looks more smooth and less pixel-y than before. but when I used video snapshot (which take a frame) and I saw that the frame that firefox saved to my drive is pixel-y and less smooth and not like the video it shows to me.

I even checked with screenshot (which take picture of screen and not a direct video frame extract) and I can see that it is smoothed.

what is happening?

could it be AMD ? could it be my desktop KDE doing something?

it is a bit hard to show it but I can clearly see that the video frame I extract is less smooth that the video shown.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1356630/petlibro-cloud-outage-leaves-smart-pet-feeders-unable-to-dispense-scheduled-meals

FoodNeverComes is one of a growing number of fake online shopping sites where users can place a pretend food order. (CBC)

Rhia Catapano, an assistant professor at the University of Toronto who studies consumer behaviour and psychology, says online shopping simulators can activate “the same parts of our brain that doing the actual activity would.”

That’s particularly appealing for budget-conscious young people.

“Like playing a video game or dreaming about a vacation that you’re never actually going to take, we can imagine a thing,” she said. “In some way, it gives us some of the same psychological benefits.”

The sudden popularity of these sites, says Catapano, shows just how deeply consumerism has become integrated into our everyday lives, with people willing to spend time and effort browsing and “shopping” even when they know nothing will ever arrive.

But she sees a glimmer of resistance, too.

Some people, she says, are realizing through these sites that their shopping habits aren’t serving them — and are looking for ways to consume less and make more intentional choices.

“They recognize that what they’re doing is not good for them, so they’re trying to make changes.”

by Perry https://xcancel.com/pareinn/status/2091166472542228848

www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/148609990

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1356227/spy-device-detectors-fail-users-most-reliant-on-them-this-may-potentially-give-a-false-s

The study, presented at the USENIX Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), evaluated 19 widely available detectors using participants from a range of backgrounds to search for surveillance devices hidden in mock living rooms. The participants found the detectors were often difficult to operate and hard to interpret. As a result, they missed finding nearly 60% of hidden surveillance devices – only a slight improvement over participants using just their own eyes to search.

When I started college in '97, the only Windows option in the computer labs was NT 4. The awesome thing about it was that when you moved a window around, it would jaggedly render the contents in real time.

Black Clover - Ep 140

Artist: Nemu | pixiv | twitter | danbooru

Full quality: .jpg 13 MB (2277 × 4414)

Chainsmoker Cat

cross-posted from: ani.social/post/5909087

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/43600018