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on Youre In Prison Right Now Rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2d ago
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on MMO Quests Rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2d ago
Ah, that makes more sense. 😂
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on MMO Quests Rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2d ago
Main side quest?
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on Quality Software in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 4d ago
Ah yeah, that makes more sense, thanks!
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on Quality Software in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 5d ago
Anyone using the national domain registrar? Does it only resolve nationally, if you buy from there, as the article implies…?
But you want your domain over the world. Cool, do you have enough clients to need this? Then you can hire a person in each country to buy you a domain from the local registry.
I’ve been interested in getting a domain name, but it always just felt like a scam to pay a monthly fee for an entry in a database. If the national registrar is good enough, that would be cool.
Although, I guess, if it is not, I’d at least still be somewhat more at peace with that, since it would mean the intermediate company actually does something…
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on It's a long ruledown in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6d ago
Acne studies?
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on Flashlights IRL vs flashlights in games [meme] in c/gaming@lemmy.world · 17 Sep 2026
Eh, you could fake the above with global illumination.
To my knowledge, they don’t do that, especially in horror games, because there’s no real way to know how bright the players’ screen is. It would kill any tension, if you could clearly spot the monster out of the corner of your eye/view.
And similarly, it would kill horror moments, if another player never sees the monster at their screen edges. By narrowing it down to just the circle, you can control a lot better whether the player sees the monster or not…
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on Programming languages are unconvincing (atleast C++, Java and its ilk, Smalltalk, Lisp) in c/programming@beehaw.org · 13 Sep 2026
You picked out my one argument where you have a (weak) counterargument and then declare there’s no other arguments. Does not sound like you want to understand…
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on Wiki Documents at Least 44 Instances in Which Sony Says You Own Your Games in c/games@lemmy.world · 13 Sep 2026
GDPR says that data should only be kept as long as necessary for the fulfillment of what the user requested or consented to. So, I would say automatic account deletion after inactivity is a good idea for complying with the GDPR.
But you would typically implement that by sending out an e-mail before the deletion, to give the user a chance to keep their data. The GDPR does not block you from implementing that.
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on Programming languages are unconvincing (atleast C++, Java and its ilk, Smalltalk, Lisp) in c/programming@beehaw.org · 13 Sep 2026
Just as an example, neither the C++ documentation nor its sagely bloggers have ever shown why it is a good fit for, say, systems programming. A really neat way of handling bit-level data is actually in Erlang’s bit syntax.
Erlang requires a runtime environment, which disqualifies it for situations where you don’t have a filesystem to load the runtime from, like developing a kernel or for microcontrollers.
Of the popular languages, your choices are virtually just C, C++ and Rust for that.More towards your general question: Not needing a runtime environment also means you can use C, C++ and Rust for cross-language libraries. For example, SQLite and OpenSSL have just been implemented once in C, and then you simply have a thin wrapper for Java, Python etc…
If you are looking to build a library that can be used by as many devs as possible, that’s a selling point which is hard to ignore. -
on It's all about those little file mode bits in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026
Yeah, not only does
+xleave read/write permissions untouched, it also only makes it executable for the user, not for everyone and their cat. -
on finger food. DAY 59 [OC, brainmade] in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 Sep 2026
Cool post. 🙂
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on finger food. DAY 59 [OC, brainmade] in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 Sep 2026
Yesterday, I made hokkaido pumpkin with chickpeas, rice noodles and a spicy sauce. I forgot again that my new sriracha sauce is like twice as spicy, and I decided while cooking that I had to add some curry paste as well.
So, my mouth was most definitely on fire.
But also, I still have half left for today’s lunch. Can’t wait. 🙃
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on Random ancient image in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 Sep 2026
Peruvian hat…
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on Stealth Games Are Flawed (And Hard To Fix) in c/games@lemmy.world · 6 Sep 2026
While watching, I was thinking that roguelike could be a solution here. Cool to see that it’s actually working out.
If I remember right, Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead is also stealth-y + a roguelike. Gonna have to try that again. I believe, I actually found it too tense last time around, but might’ve just been past-me. 🫠
I also have to say, I really hate that mark-enemies-manually feature. As the wisdom goes: “Given the opportunity, players will optimize the fun out of a game.”
SourceI’m that player. I will spend far too much time trying to mark any pixel of any enemy that shows up on my screen. It’s not fun, but I’ll do it anyways, because the game is telling me this is the big mission, this is where the prep work is important.
It also never made sense to me lore-wise. How can you be able to track people once they’re marked, but you can’t detect them without marking? Whatever technology you use to track their movement after marking, it has to be able to detect that movement without line of vision. If anything moves in the area, just show me that. 🤨
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on audacity is a very versatile program in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 Sep 2026
On Linux, I’d use Okteta: apps.kde.org/okteta/
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on Xbox imposes harsh new time limits for Game Pass game streaming in c/gaming@lemmy.world · 4 Sep 2026
the company says the change will only impact “4% of Game Pass subscribers.”
I bet, they averaged the play times and that’s how they came up with that figure. I can believe that only a small percentage of their customers average more than 15h per month.
But you know how these things go.
You start playing a game that you really enjoy and suddenly you’re binging that for the whole weekend. That’s your 15h for the month gone.Or you’ve got your two-week vacation in a particular month and suddenly you’re playing multiple hours each day. Don’t even need math to figure out that 15h are not enough for 14 multi-h sessions.
There’s just going to be variations in playtime and now you’ll have to pay up for that.
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on Flour Rules in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 Sep 2026
Yeah, we don’t make companies recycle/reuse the trash that they wrap around food and it’s dirt-cheap to produce more plastic trash, so somewhat unintuitively, it’s not really cheaper to buy food without packaging.
And at that point, you need to have customers that are willing to bring their own containers, just because they themselves want to reduce trash. Those kind of customers will also want organic, so now you’re more expensive. 🫠
Welp, if you’re willing to buy organic anyways, it’s kind of cool, because it’s a selection of food worth buying.
One time, the guy also let me try unroasted peanuts, which I probably would not have bought otherwise. Like, that’s also kind of cool, that they can have more exotic foods, because you can just try a nibble of it, or buy like a single portion, if it needs to be cooked/prepared… -
on Flour Rules in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 Sep 2026
Here in the Germanies, we have these Unverpackt (“non-packaged”) shops which do this: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unverpacktladen
Unfortunately, these are also mainly just a thing in larger cities.Although, here in town, we have like a weekly farmer’s market where a guy shows up with a truck that has a shopfront in the side, and you just hand him your containers, then he fills them up with what you want and weighs them. Always feels a bit like buying sweets at a fair, and not just because the guy also has sweets. 😅
One time, a family was ahead of me and the mum had brought a glass jar for each child. And then the kids got to pick what sweets they wanted, like one scoop of jelly worms and one scoop of sour things and one scoop of …I don’t what sweets are called. That was also really fun. 🙃
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on Flour Rules in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 Sep 2026
I just fold it over twice and put a clothes peg on it.
It’s more or less like a double seam, which is surprisingly effective at closing something off. Like, if you do that with a plastic bag, it’s close to airtight…
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on Beautiful. in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026
That would have also been my intuition, but apparently the driver is involved. At least, unloading the driver solved it in this case: bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=269796
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on Beautiful. in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026
This sounds exactly like your problem: bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=269796
It’s quite a lot of detailed technology talk, which I don’t expect you to understand. The main takeaway should be this:
So the problem is [temporarily] solved by running:
rmmod hid_appleThis command unloads a driver that’s potentially interfering here. The driver will be loaded again on next reboot.
Which is useful, because you can just try it out and if it doesn’t work (or if it breaks something), you can just do a reboot and everything is back to normal.You will need admin/root permissions to run this command, so the real command you need to run is:
sudo rmmod hid_apple
It will ask you for your login password to confirm running the command.If that does fix it, then we can look into making it permanent.
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on Beautiful. in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026
my kb Fx keys are unusable for almost a year now and i exhausted all possible way to fix it.
Unusable as in nothing at all happens, or do they do things like volume up/down when you press them?
If the latter, there may be an “FnLock” key combination you have to press. Usually, it’s something like Fn+Esc. Or Fn + whatever key has a lock symbol or “FnLock” written on it…
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on Blur your house in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 30 Aug 2026
Not everyone’s in the US…
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on German LibreOffice has a message for me in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 30 Aug 2026
Lemmy uses Markdown for storing/displaying comments, specifically the CommonMark flavor with some extensions, as documented here: join-lemmy.org/docs/users/02-media.html
And yeah, no, that doesn’t have a way to underline,
except
maybe
one
of
these
here,
depending on the Markdown implementation in the client. Some clients might also choose to underline the highlighting, that’s normally 𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘤.
Links may be underlined as well.
Well, and then you’ve also got this thing, which is certainly a line under this text:
On Lemmy, we also got strikethrough. Priorities, I guess. 🙃
But yeah, no proper, consistent underlining in Markdown/Lemmy. 🥴
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on German LibreOffice has a message for me in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 30 Aug 2026
Oh man, I just checked what it looks like in Firefox:
I had written that comment in the Jerboa app (and fiddled with it to make it look reasonable):
when the software (in this case, lemmy’s md to html engine) tries to do the rendering instead of the browser.
And nope, in this case I added the Unicode for the underline myself. Well, I used this app. That passes straight through the MD→HTML conversion without being touched.
And it actually is rendered by the browser, but yeah, by the browser’s Unicode+font rendering, not the CSS engine. Or in case of Jerboa, by Android’s Unicode+font rendering.
Would certainly be nice, if these would look the same. 🫠 -
on Feudal Tactics is awesome! in c/games@lemmy.world · 29 Aug 2026
Tried it by now and I have to say, it is a lot tenser than it has any right to be…
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on Feudal Tactics is awesome! in c/games@lemmy.world · 29 Aug 2026
It’s on F-Droid: f-droid.org/packages/de.sesu8642.feudaltactics
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on German LibreOffice has a message for me in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 29 Aug 2026
Yeah, it’s just your usual buttons:
- Bold → Fett
- Italic → Kursiv
- U͟n͟d͟e͟r͟l͟i͟n͟e͟d → U͟n͟t͟e͟r͟s͟t͟r͟i͟c͟h͟e͟n
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on You'll never guess what will happen if you try to print out a shell script! in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 23 Aug 2026
Looks like a Logo script to me…
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on the ultimate age verification implementation!!111! in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 23 Aug 2026
Alternatively,
elifandelse… -
on Software For(ule)ge in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 22 Aug 2026
Their FAQ kind of covers this where they talk about private repos (which your homepage doesn’t have to be, but it’s still not particularly useful as an open-source project):
If you are a contributor to free/libre software projects, we allow up to 100 MB of private content for your convenience. Use it for your personal notes, your side project or any other you want to keep private.
And then somewhat further down:
If you do not contribute to free/libre software (or if it is limited to your personal homepage), and we feel like you only abuse Codeberg for storing your commercial projects or media backups, we might get unhappy about that.