I don’t know if you mean “used to” as in years before, but recently every time i saw people talking about Deutsche Bahn it was to say “lol Deutsche Bahn is having a problem again”, so it seems to me their reputation is not (anymore) the reputation of a reliable service.

From what i understand, it is very easy to get the content of a Peertube instance from anywhere on the Fediverse, as a viewer. For example, i could subscribe to Peertube channels from this Piefed account and have their videos pop up in my feed, and i can subscribe to Peertube channels from instances that are not federated with the Peertube instance where i have an account (i’m on makertube.net, and even though they do not federate with video.blast-info.fr, i can still subscribe to channels there and have their videos pop up in my Suscribings feed in Peertube).

The federation point some people pointed out is about discoverability, not accessibility. If two instances do not federate, you cannot see the other instance content on discover pages, but you can still access it if you know the video or the channel URL. If you stumble upon another Peertube instance, you can use a neat functionnality to “Subscribe with a distant account”, where you enter your handle (username@instan.ce) and it will enable you to get access to this Peertube instance on your home account.

There is also the problem that you cannot create an account on a lot of Peertube instances, that are only there to display content (like the Blender instance) and not host users. You’d first have to find one that will let you create an account, most times manually (you fill a form and after a bit of time (hours or days) an admin validates it).

Now, for hosting video, it’s a lot more complex, most times you have to get approval from admins to host things, to avoid having too much video stored on their servers, and yes most instances are quite niche. If you’re a creator of anykind, makertube.net may interest you.

Yeah, really good point. I’d say it’s a bit peculiar with metalheads, since it’s a culture that revolves around dark and violent themes, so it makes its bigoted members a bit more visibly harsh or extreme, than other musical (or not) cultures. But this is just me nitpicking, you hit right in the center.

I care, thanks for sharing i’ll check that when i need to install windows game in the future !

and despite a tiny but vocal minority of them being bigoted assholes (for metalheads at least, don’t know enough about punks)

Tbf, my experience with Gog achievements has been quite bad even with paid games played via Galaxy. While most worked, some achievements triggered silently, some on the following game start, and some straight up didn’t work. Maybe it was a problem on the game side, but anyway if some games have bad Gog achievements, maybe it’s less worth it to get those working.

Currently, it only supports Goldberg Steam Emulator, as other emulators may use different achievement formats.

Very nice option, thx for sharing, but isn’t it limited to Steam games?

If i’m right, they backed down on that law, it has not been voted. It has been part of a series of “defeats” or “compromise” from the neoliberal government, but if you want my opinion, i think they were just doing dumb shit (like wanting to allow work on 1st of May) to stir up debate on this rather than the usual shit they’re doing.

Yeah, it’s still something very dangerous, and i’m grateful for the info you shared, otherwuse i’d have no idea. I just wanted to share the “fun” maths behind those statistics.

Was curious about those numbers and ended up reading this article, which was quite interesting : https://ourworldindata.org/mortality-risk-covid

In short, i think the difference in death rate between covid and hantaviruses’ respiratory infections is probably smaller than 40 to 1 (though still presumably high). This is because (i suppose) both number are a ratio of confirmed death to confirmed cases. As the article points out, the number of confirmed cases can fluctuate depending on how much you test people : for covid, this kind of mortality rate (CFR) was higher at first because few people were tested. Once a lot of tests were made, it diminished. I guess (and from now on it is 100% my uneducated take) that the respiratory infections due to the Andes variant are not well tested, and the high mortality rate is partly due to the fact that it’s more likely to test people dying or nearing death because of it, than people who had less or no problems but got silently infected.

Still, had no idea death rates were that high, thanks for sharing this ! I’ll be more careful about this issue now.

Oh, yes quite smart and maybe also computing the distance between the player and the object, to avoid making transparent objects that are in player’s sight but very far away

A hint i found on Reddit (yikes, i know) from someone who made a nice github with their solution.

Their idea is to pass the player position to the objects shaders, and then to get 2 differents normals : from object to player, and from object to camera. Once you have those, you can make a dot product to tell if they are in the same direction or not (>0.0 if their angle is less than 90°, <0.0 if it’s greater, 0.0 would correspond to a 90° angle). Beware, i believe it’s best to normalize both your vector to a length of 1, before using dot product if you want to get accurate results.

So once you have a negative dot product, you know both direction are opposite, so the object is between the camera and the player, and should be hidden.

On top of that, they limit that effect to a small circle around the player, to avoid making objects transparent all over the screen. You’d have to find out how to limit that effect to the field of view of the player, and i sadly have no real idea about that.

On one hand i clearly agree with you about the overmedicalization issue, on the other hand there also was an undermedicalization going on for centuries, especially in the autism/ADHD/etc fields. It’s a tough balance to get, cuz the rise of diagnoses may not indicate an overmedicalization, but rather a correction of the undermedicalization (though the risk of overmed. is real, clearly).

And on the medical condition being part of an identity, i also get your point, but it’s also important to consider that making your differences part of your identity makes perfect sense, and for a lot of people their differences come from medical conditions. Conflating the two may be slightly unhealthy, but far less than repressing it as non-subject.

As others said, there are some good GUI if the command line is a bit too hard for you as it was for me. I use Parabolic and so far it’s working like a charm (i only do officials video sites though, don’t know for streaming services)

Heh, debatable. Depends on the surface available, how many of them are already organized in campers groups, the definition of formal, etc. But i’ll concede you the point, for it’s not the matter here anyway, neither in the meme nor in the comment.

Hint : the important part here is deciding, instead of imposed. If i go camping in a field, there is no border between me and my neighbor, but we will tend to hang around our own tents more. This is built on nothing more than will, as opposed to borders.

I think the harder to read are “tribalism and fundamentalism in global foss communities”, as well as “federal laws requiring age verification for every os connected to the internet”, if that helps.

On calling fascists people also advocating against government, I mostly agree with you, but not in this case. Because while some of them are effectively libertarian, so at first different from fascism as a strict ideology, their views and goals require use of authority, like “anarcho”-capitalists who seem to fight against authority of the state, but in the end would recreate it one way or another in corporations. This specific goal of reducing population to a set number is also something that, even if it’s peaceful, implies control over other individuals, which is to my eyes the main premise of fascism, state over individual. You can argue that it’s not a state but a company or a group of company, it’s all the same to me : it’s about controlling individual via artificial entities. The fact that in this goal of reducing population, they target third world countries specifically, is to my eyes the nail in the coffin : controlling every people lives to reach a specific goal, insisting specifically on third world countries, is a fascist stance. Maybe you got there with a non-fascist mindset, maybe you will forget it and evolve, but it perfectly aligns with fascist theories.

On purity of fascism and absence of clear organisation, yes, it’s not strictly fascists as in italian far right parties during the first half of 20th century, but it’s fascism as in controlling the lives of third world people for reasons filled with paternalism and eurocentrism. You can argue that water tinted with a bit of dirt is not yet mud, but i think it’s still pertinent to call it mud when you want to encompass all water contaminated by dirt.

Overall, i really dislike leftists afraid of using the word fascism : to me, it’s a spectrum, like most things, there is no clear definition, and you can get stupidly exclusive if you want a strict definition. Plus we have to get rid of it at first sign, not when it’s a full grown organisation, rather whenever some movements or peoples begins to stir in this direction. You’re not having an accident every time you let your car going slightly off course, but by thinking about the accident and correcting trajectory, you avoid it.

And lastly, nitpicking fascism is a game played by fascists themselves : “Oh, we’re not fascists, we’re not advocating for mass murdering explicitly. Oh, we’re not fascists, we’re not advocating for a single party yet. Oh, we’re not fascists, we still want elections.”

I heard about this around Paul Watson, who is accused of “eco-fascism” because he claimed we should reduce our population by billions, and his close friendship with David Foreman, who is both very implicated in environmentalist actions and has harsh conservative views. Overall, i’ve heard that there are quite a few similar thinking individuals in Sea Shepherd.

In an interview, Paul Watson said that “rich people just want to get richer, and poor people just want to get rich”, implying that the over-consumption by the richest parts of populations does not mean we should focus our efforts there, because “it’s human nature to consume and destroy”. I don’t know if that’s eco-fascism, but that’s precisely what this meme denounces, and it’s held by a quite important figure.

I also heard of Edward Abbey who doesn’t promote violence directly but combines a very conservative and very environment first ideology, same as this Garrret Hardin. Both are quite influent in environmentalist activism.

Please, light our darkness. What does indigenous means and why does this meme seem to misunderstand it ?