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mesa

@ mesamunefire @piefed.social

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2 yr. ago

Im on the fedi doin fedi things.

2mo ago

Modern Gaming - Deathbulge
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mesa @piefed.social 2mo ago
Interesting! ill take a look.

2mo ago

Modern Gaming - Deathbulge

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mesa @piefed.social 2mo ago

Games that I have enjoyed that are indie:

Obligatory: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1083790/Deathbulge_Battle_of_the_Bands/

Its a wild ride I recommend!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1296610/Peglin/If you like peggle its a fun little game.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1218210/Coromon/Its like pokemon and amazing pixel art.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1082710/Bug_Fables_The_Everlasting_Sapling/If you liked Mario RPG titles this is a fun one.

What are your picks?

2mo ago

Facebook and Instagram down in mass outage for thousands of users

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mesa @piefed.social 2mo ago

Yep!

2mo ago

Facebook and Instagram down in mass outage for thousands of users

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mesa @piefed.social 2mo ago

I was just sharing hat would happen if whatapp and other services went down....Interesting. Guess we see what happends live!

2mo ago

Permanently Deleted

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mesa @piefed.social 2mo ago

My family does "digital detox" weekends before. Its made certain days more interesting and fun since we have to go out of our comfort zone to be entertained.

No screens are allowed.

2mo ago

A $150 Buttonless, Open Hardware Answer to Kindle is being crowdfunded by Open Book Touch

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mesa @piefed.social 2mo ago

Nice, glad you like the design. I do too.

I think in theory it would be easier to repair. But it is 250 which is quite a bit.

Ill know in a couple months!

2mo ago

A $150 Buttonless, Open Hardware Answer to Kindle is being crowdfunded by Open Book Touch

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mesa @piefed.social 2mo ago

If anyone wants to see the old project: https://hackaday.io/project/192688-the-open-book

Its been around for a bit. The newest iteration looks like its trying to be more like kindle.

GH page: https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book

I forget where but the developer goes over the cost of the physical hardware a couple of years ago somewhere. Its kinda expensive to make your own open source ebook reader from mostly scratch.

I like this version: https://www.oddlyspecificobjects.com/projects/openbook/

2mo ago

A $150 Buttonless, Open Hardware Answer to Kindle is being crowdfunded by Open Book Touch

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mesa @piefed.social 2mo ago

Very similar to https://diptyx.dev/

But its been around longer. Software looks really good for an esp32. Im hoping we see more of these open source ebook readers pop up.

2mo ago

Hyena power. [4]

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mesa @piefed.social 2mo ago

WTF did I read

2mo ago

Windows Drops Under 60% in Global Desktop OS Share for the First Time in Years

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mesa @piefed.social 2mo ago

We are seeing a general decline thats for sure.

2mo ago

A brewing battle: More IT workers want unions. The industry doesn’t.

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mesa @piefed.social 2mo ago

My union made my healthcare much better and is the reason behind my raise. Its great!

2mo ago

Microsoft Needs Windows Lite, No telemetry, no spying, no ads, no AI, no .NET, to retain gamers and developers

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mesa @piefed.social 2mo ago

Its been a couple of years. Is mono still a thing? Or was it eaten up by .net core? If its still a thing than Mono. We did that for a couple of one off apps back in the day.

If I had to redo it, i would probably just use core on Linux and call it a day. Maintainability is better than purism anyways. Again all my opinions.

Actually if you want my full opinion, I would probably use python to create a proof of concept real quick...then have it remade if it needs to be faster in go/rust/whatever the rest of the team knows :)

2mo ago

Microsoft Needs Windows Lite, No telemetry, no spying, no ads, no AI, no .NET, to retain gamers and developers

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mesa @piefed.social 2mo ago

I personally like C# and NOT .net...but im a weirdo.

2mo ago

Microsoft Needs Windows Lite, No telemetry, no spying, no ads, no AI, no .NET, to retain gamers and developers

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mesa @piefed.social 2mo ago

It used to be VB.net and other such stuff. It WAS pretty terrible. Ive had to pick apart some pretty horrendous applications. Then Mono/C# popped up and a lot of community effort went into making everything better. It helps that .net stole a LOT of functionality from Rails/Django/etc... and make it much easier for devs to do actual work on it.

The problem is when we talk about .net it could be a huge combo of tech from the last 10+ years. The newest iteration is fine. Its fast at least with C#.

2mo ago

Microsoft Needs Windows Lite, No telemetry, no spying, no ads, no AI, no .NET, to retain gamers and developers

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mesa @piefed.social 2mo ago

Its so nice C# can run in Linux :).

At work, we joke that MS will eventually get tired of the OS game and just throw Windows tools on top of Linux and call it. Then just become a SaaS provider for everything else. Not WSL like legit linux kernel with Windows.

2mo ago

What books are your favourite and what are you reading now?

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mesa @piefed.social 2mo ago

My favorite series is Dungeon Crawler Carl . Its so good. I have ALL of the physical books, the audio books (Jeff Hays is hilarious with his takes on the different characters).

My favorite book soap is The Wandering Inn . Its a free web serial and I find it VERY good. But it can have some lulls. I call it a "book soap" because if its size . I am a prolific reader and it took me YEARS to get though around 50% of the series. I have the ebooks, audio-books, and have enjoyed my forever book. The payoff is SO good. Tears of Liscor broke me. I had to take time off of reading for a while due to what felt like a bit of trauma.

When I was a kid, I loved the ring of fire series ( 1632 and such). I dont enjoy it as much, but the older books in the series I still enjoy re-reading from time to time.

2mo ago

How should I be describing or categorizing Lemmy to other people?

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mesa @piefed.social 2mo ago

I hated running into the "hidden" rules for communities by mods. You cant say certain words in certain communities as that would get you shadow-banned (you cant say meshcore in the meshtastic subreddit for instance).

And then reddit giving notices for up-voting certain content it does not want others to see .

They want conversions one way only. And supermods that have hundreds of subreddits under them like its a full time job....

Im glad im here.

2mo ago

Reddit's auto-moderation

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mesa @piefed.social 2mo ago

Yeah they just have an emoji at the beginning of the username. However the changes they made comics do actually benefited us all. Sometimes collective discuss can make good things happen :)

2mo ago

What's your approach to monitoring side projects without overengineering it?

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mesa @piefed.social 2mo ago

If i cant do it in a weekend i usually hire someone.

...unless it brings me joy. Then its fun like setting up my miyoo mini plus with a cystom pokrmon theme.

2mo ago

Be wary of spammy reposting bots

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mesa @piefed.social 2mo ago

I think thats why it would be an opt in or moderator service. Like a dropdown or something that a mod can pop in, set for a time, then remove when people behave.

If a subset of users are posting say once ever 10 minutes, it floods the system/community pretty badly. Regardless if its lemmy/piefed/etc..etc.. Ive seen comics get flooded a couple of times from people (probably in good nature) post the ENTIRE comic (hundreds of posts) in a couple days time. It makes new very difficult to manage until the mods would come in.

Comments dont typically have the same issues, so I think posts should be were we draw the line. But again the way I see it, it will be optional and a tool to mitigate a user from posting too many posts per day in one community.

An Auto-mod tool might be good to start with? Not sure. Last time I messed with piefed and lemmy, piefed was easier to hook into the code and lemmy was easier on the API side. So the auto-mod tool could possibly start working on lemmy? I dunno, its been a while. Im probably going to try piefed first and see what works on my small instance.

All conjecture until I find the time/motivation.