dbread @dbread@qoto.org

Is there a term for a video game that’s free to play, but algorithmically manipulates players to lose if they don’t pay for premium features?

Hell yeah, mechanical numpad.

If you listen closely to the Starlink satellites as they go overhead, you can hear them cry out “nationalize meeeeeeeeeee”

@dbread I don't know, but have you looked at FluffyChat? Source code is hosted on Github and is available from F-Droid too. See here: https://github.com/krille-chan/fluffychat and other client alternatives here: https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/

@MikaKpk yeah.
That's because of Apple's Assholeism!

Otherwise shit like #Dropbox would've never been founded or funded at all!

#Wormhole tries to do a direct #P2P connection but it still needs some #Internet and is also #centralized #SingleVendor / #SingleProvider and thus bad.

#software #unexplained

Introducing Bark! Low-latency multi-receiver live-sync lossless audio streaming for local networks. It's like Sonos, but open source, so nobody can brick your devices remotely. It's also written in Rust :)

It sends 48khz uncompressed float32 data over UDP multicast. It can achieve playback sync to within hundreds of microseconds in ideal conditions, and usually to within a millisecond.

I've been working on it in my spare time over the past week, and I'm pretty happy with how it's shaped up. I have three receivers setup and it works remarkably well at keeping everything in sync as I walk around my house. For now it only really works on Linux, and supports Pipewire (and Pulse in theory), but there's no huge impediment to making it truly cross-platform.

It also features a fancy live stats subcommand, which can used on any computer in the same multicast domain to watch the status of the stream cluster:

Starting with version 116, #Firefox will drop support for macOS versions prior to 10.15 as well as Windows 7, 8 and 8.1. This has understandably annoyed a few users so let me explain why we're taking this step: the maintenance burden of supporting several versions of each platform is very significant. I'll show you how much by citing three platform-specific bugs I've worked on over the past two years. 🧵 1/13

@gabrielesvelto Being a Firefox user since eons ago I pay respect to the dedication of the team that builds it. Thank you for sharing!

Today in 1993, 30 years ago: in the United States, Ian Murdock announces, through an email, the Linux distribution of the Debian project.

#OnThisDay