You're welcome. I don't use mobile myself : do you use an app, or it's just about opening your Lemmy instance url in a browser? If it's the later, you can go in the settings and there is a "Show Scores" checkbox. Just uncheck it, hit the "save" button and you're done. :) This is also where you find the "Sort Type" select box which allows to define default sorting and put it to "New". It only works for posts on the homepage, though, you have to take the habit to manually click "new" after reading a post to sort its comments (I could have swear it was using the "Sort Type" option before, or maybe just remembering last sort, but it's not the case anymore).
Anafroj
joined 2 years ago
😂 No worry, I would not have seen it anyway. :)
Keep in mind that not everyone is using the upvotes weighting, so it's not just about "those who allow downvotes and those who don't".
Personally, I find the whole upvoting/downvoting thing to be a very toxic feature that encourages hive mind and blaming divergence, so I hide scores and I sort posts and comments by chronological order. I would not use Lemmy if I was forced to be under the influence of social scoring, so defederating from instances which do not apply the same rules on downvoting would feel very detrimental to me.
Upvotes/downvotes were implemented by websites like Reddit as a scaling trick, so they can get millions of users without the need to hire hundreds of thousands of moderators. But it turned out that adding subreddits with volunteer moderators worked better anyway, and this is already what we have on Lemmy, with instance owners and community moderators, so there is really no need for some dystopian scoring of everything someone says.
Anyone heard of them being DDOS'd? This certainly sounds like ongoing DDOS and protections kicking in (assuming that by "verify my account" you mean "having to solve a captcha").
Indeed, that sounds like something worth sharing. Although, writing a blog post would be a bit weird for me, as I don't have a blog and it would be a single article. I think I'm going to do what I do best : publish an open-source project based on that idea. That way, it will serve as an example about how to implement this technique, and those who can't do it themselves at least will have a generalist version that may work for them. I can't publish my Traveller app as is because it's full of copyrighted content, but I'll extract something from it that will allow users to fill their own tables for generated content.
Oh wow, I realize from your description we did have an exact translation, actually! It was the word "attardé". I don't think I heard it used in this millennium, though. :) I guess the difference is that it didn't make it into an insult. Thanks for the detailed explanation!
Oh I see, thanks. The word looks like "arriéré" in French (which means, from wiktionary : "backwards (behind current trends)"), I thought they had the same meaning. It's worth mentioning what "retarded" means, when you ask someone not to use it, they may have similar assumptions.
That's impressive. And also, I don't think I would have the patience to do a quarter of the preps the author did. :D
In navigating the city, I want my players to feel as if nothing is being invented on the spot – the setting should feel as if it exists independently of them, and they are exploring its secrets
I found a middle ground to allow that without getting into that level of preps - although, it requires some programming skills. I use the same technique that the No Man's Sky videogame used to build a universe with a quintillion systems : geographically seeded procedural generation.
The thing with the random number generators we use on computers to replace dice roll is that they basically are prestidigitation : they make you think they give you a random result, but it never is, because randomness does not exist in computing. Instead, they are elaborate mathematical functions to which you give a seed number and who give in return a series of generated numbers which you can't predict. The interesting part in that being : if you give the same seed number, you'll get the same series of result numbers. When simulating dice, you don't want that, so you'll use something like the current date and time as a seed.
But that also mean we can use that to deterministically setup a whole universe before the campaign starts : we can use the coordinates of a hex as seed. I use that in my hexcrawl in the Traveller rpg, where each hex is a planetary system. Traveller already provides a mean to randomize what there is in a system, based on your usual tables and modifiers. I wrote code to implement this generation, and I seed my RNG with the coordinates of the hexes. And just like that, I have a universe of billons of randomly generated places that all exist from the very start of my game. I can explore them on my map, see what there is in a given region, imagine relations between them and their neighbors, it's there from the start and I know it won't change : provided the coordinates and the generation function do not change, the exact same content will always appear in the exact same place.
In most languages, the random function allows to provide a seed. It's not the case in javascript that I used to make my app, I can provide the functions I used, if anyone is interested (but really, they're just pasted from StackOverflow).
I'm a non native English speaker, could you please explain the link between "retarded" and disabled people? I've always seen it used as an insult.
selfhosted ebook library
Is that what we call hard drives, now? :P
I have two android tablets, one 7" to read small books, and one 13" to read US Letter format books, I took the cheapest ones I found, disabled Google Play and installed F-Droid to install FOSS readers, and it just works perfectly. You really don't need anything specific to just read text, you just want to make sure that you can display an entire page on your screen in a size you're comfortable reading, otherwise PDFs becomes quickly insufferable.
Great job! Maybe it would be worth putting it on the Gentoo wiki?
Sadly, denigrating other people work is a good way to look smart without having to create anything ourselves. That's why I always measure a new software through the question "what new thing it allows me to do or what does it make simpler?" rather than "what are other people thinking about it?". In the case of the fediverse, the value proposition is quite clear : it allows to have a social life online without being at the mercy of BigTech, through interoperable softwares. And in the case of Lemmy, it allows to do that to replace Reddit. So yeah, some people don't like it, whatever. :)