Changes to Reddit Privacy settings detested by userbase, 27% upvoted by [deleted] in MeanwhileOnReddit

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I love how most upvoted comment is negative, from a guy who plans on implementing an addon to reverse reddit's bs and also he got banned from the sub :D

Why hasn’t Jack Dorsey been arrested for lying under oath about Twitter’s censorship policies? – NaturalNews.com by EvilNick in SaidIt

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website is well-known for spreading disinformation

and a source is https://en.wikipedia.org? You realize that description fits wikipedia too (e.g. gamergate). Just checked the first linked article what were the basis for Google to ban the site, and its snopes, another politically biased entity. I stopped wasting my time at that point.

Mozilla No Longer Supports A Free Internet by enefi in censorship

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I have been using FF for like 15 years now. I don't understand their decisions at all. It started as the most customizable and open browser, but now, it's hardly recognizable. They killed so many useful extensions when they "upgraded" to electrolysis. Extensions can no longer be installed (and kept enabled) unless they are approved by Mozilla (even if they are not installed from their store). And they are ramping up anti-freedom rhetoric past few years (maybe more, it's possible I was just not paying much attention). Yeah, I should start trying alternatives :/.

Toying with vote icons by enefi in SaidIt

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So, do you like it or hate it?

I remember when seeing first time SaidIt to be put off by those smudged icons (and not really stunning overall visuals). It discouraged me from even trying SaidIt and I ended up on other alternative forum. So, here I am trying to (hopefully) improve it.

Made in Inkscape, had to tweak styles a bit. Currently I don't plan to release it. It has a lot of issues, e.g. only compatible with light theme and default styles (pretty sure it won't play nice with most subs' custom css), it's injected via an unsigned browser extension so only few users could actually use it (Vivaldi and maybe Chromium supports that).

If devs are interested, I can send the svg files.

Edit: Wow, I wasn't expecting such interest (remixing?) nor a response from the devs. Spent some time with readme, polished icons a bit (I might give the bulb another pass to be properly lid), added I think pretty free license, so there it is: https://gitlab.com/enefi/pyramidion . svg files are in src/assets. The project is a bit messy (e.g. the build configuration is all over the place), so please don't judge too hard :D.

Perma links:

Hello? (・_・)ノ by enefi in Introductions

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You don't seem to be the usual "got banned from Reddit for saying gas the jews" type

Yeah, I haven't been banned from Reddit nor Ruqqus. I just didn't like admins' actions and the direction of those platforms, I felt like I should try something else. I sometimes enjoy reading conspiracy stuff or dark/edgy memes, but I guess it isn't in my nature to troll or post too offensive stuff.

You seem like the kind of guy who actually contributes

I don't usually write/post that much. I was a little bit more active on Ruqqus, creating some fanart 1 2 and was developing a userscript (something like browser extension) named RuqES similar to Reddit's RES (a bit simpler). It started with me missing an expando button and infinite scroll, but since than I added a lot of features, I didn't even use all of them :D.

posting Chinese vacuum pump ads (true story)

o_0

Your English is actually pretty good, so don't worry about that.

I am glad it's understandable. I wasn't sure if it isn't a bit long, but it looks like at least few people read it, so I call it a success. :D

Didn't know about the Magnora history. To the Ruqqus bias, it has become a bit complicated, because admins seem to push against more extreme right - e.g. they virtually quarantined many their subs with first version of categories, only after public backlash admins were forced to modify categories, undo hiding of those guilds (subs). You simply can't do such things when the slogan of your platform is "without censorship".

I ain't noticed the graphics, since they're small on my screen

Yep, it depends on scaling from OS and zoom in browser. It's too small for me on 100% (browser) zoom, so I am usually using 133%.

but somebody (u/JasonCarswell ?) should make them into SVGs, so they can work at any size.

If nobody else is interested, I could try to vectorize it. I have some limited experience with Inkscape (not a pro, but I did few simpler logos). I wanted to learn grease pencil (2D drawing tool) in Blender, but I think currently svg export is broken, so I am using Inkscape for vector graphics now.

like how Mexican Spanish has words in {curly brackets} all over the place

Maybe missing translation files, or in incorrect version, or new strings were added but not translated to all languages? I think internationalization (translations) are done on the backend (the server part), I am more of a front end guy and also don't like python that much, probably won't be able to help with this.

I was asking about the mascot because I really enjoyed making those ruqqies (the ruqqus mascot). Working on something I can share later (even if it isn't very good) gives me motivation to learn/practice in Blender (it's just a hobby).

My major problem with the site is that there's no political content. There are non-political subs, but they're mostly dead. If you want to revive them: make sure to post there. People mostly come here because they're banned from somewhere else, and want to talk politics, which really drowns out everything else.

Yeah, that's a common theme on platforms like saidit. On Ruqqus I really missed multireddits, I like when I can categorize subs as I want, e.g. hobbies and politics apart. It seems multireddits on saidit are implemented, will have to try them later :). I am planning on posting at least videos I find interesting (mostly gaming, tech, sometimes programming and math).

Have a good time!

Thanks, so far I like it here :).

Have you noticed the huge number of new users we have? by hennaojichan in SaidIt

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... but the people complaining about bannings make a lot of nonsensical arguments. They inject nonsense into any conversation that gets interesting. They behave like shills, create alternate accounts, and when asked "why did you get banned" they lie. Expect to see a lot of claims of censorship, don't take it too seriously.

And usually on free speech platforms there is also a group of defenders who has no problems labeling anyone a shill. I saw it on Ruqqus. Even with clear evidence (public logs, public comments and posts, confirmed [by admins and other users] screenshots from discord) there was always a few users blindly defending admins. On Ruqqus at least admins in the case of bans usually eventually did the right thing, making those blind defenders look stupid in the end.

I am speaking generally. I saw some long time saidit users complaining about it, so I have my doubts about them being shills, but I don't really know what is happening currently on saidit, I am not that invested (got burned by Ruqqus, I have no intention of investing hundred+ hours of my free time and then finding out admins lied in their official statement what the platform is supposed to be about, and their actions and inactions are in direct contradiction with their supposed believes/goals; I am taking it slow this time).

Google bans Parler app after users flock to it to avoid censorship by Drewski in censorship

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Unfortunately it was to be expected. I remember Gab getting axed from app stores, even Mastodon clients who didn't block Gab had a serious problem. Nice double standard there with Web browsers.

Same thing with browser extensions which are actually more controlled than Android apps. An Android app can at least be installed from a 3rd party app store (e.g. F-Driod) or totally manually after a user enables it in settings, but extensions in FF and Chrome cannot (if it's not cryptographically signed by Mozilla/Google then it will be disabled on a next launch of a browser regardless how the extension was installed, there is no off switch to disable this).

I can't tell when I vote anything insightful anymore by [deleted] in SaidIt

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They [svgs] look about equally blurry compared to the png versions

If you have a system (scaling in OS/DE) and a browser set in a way, that it renders 1:1 (pixel size of the rendered image is same as virtual pixel size of a page in browser), then they should look pretty much same. But I think QHD, 4k and other higher resolutions on desktop are becoming more common; on mobile icons and graphical elements are usually bigger naturally. Maybe I could increase stroke width slightly (rays of a bulb look a bit thin/dark)?

  • Alter the existing CSS background colors of div.arrow. unfortunately this covers both the button and the score that displays beneath it for post/link voting buttons
  • svgs with colored backgrounds depending on vote state, the old saidit approach*
  • voted and unvoted svgs

I think combining those approaches would work fairly well - a voting "box" (including score) changing background color and different on/off svg pictures.

adding another div or span to hold just the vote icon, to more cleanly style it with CSS. I opt out of this, it's at least an 8 hour project requiring javascript changes. but I can guide anyone interested in going this far

It's cleaner (personally I would use just img tag), but in itself it doesn't bring much value. Unless those svg files are inline (svg tag with all its data inside), I believe insides cannot be styled, meaning it cannot be animated (only inline svgs can be; either inserted directly to HTML by backend, or later by frontend).

I am willing to donate more free time. I think making those static (non-animated) svgs shouldn't take too long, I'd guess 1-2 hours?

I could try setting up local instance of saidit and try to integrate the animated icons, but a result is not guaranteed (I am not proficient in back-end stuff and never done anything in that templating thing which is used). That would most likely take much longer (because of the setup, I don't think the modification of styles and templates would take longer than 2-4h, I should be able to reuse a lot from the browser extension). But as I wrote earlier, I am not sure if admins/devs/users actually want those animations.

I can't say when I could get to it, at soonest Thursday afternoon (CET), but more likely on the weekend.

I would like to avoid an awkward situation of making something which in the end wouldn't get used. Can I get an official word on how should I proceed? (To be honest, I am not entirely sure who calls the shots, m7?)

Animated vote icons? by enefi in SaidIt

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I have made another pass on the images (tweaked eyes, lighting up of the bulb, separated elements in SVGs) and made two simple animations in CSS. Not sure, if people of SaidIt would want this (I know there is a lot of folks who prefer simpler UI). Nevertheless, if anyone tech savvy wants to try, head over to the gitlab repo (browser capable of loading non-signed unpacked extensions is required).

I hope I managed to address all the issues of the previous version :).

perma link to images

PS: It seems SaidIt doesn't support gifs in preview, so you have to click on the image to see the animations.

I can't tell when I vote anything insightful anymore by [deleted] in SaidIt

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I am sorry, but I am only the author of the images (in their base form, they both have color), not those css styles currently being used. I made one newer attempt with animations and I used grayscale in off state, because the effect was already used on the site and I thought it looks kinda good (you can see at a first glance if you have voted just by the yellow). I believe d3rr is still working on the styles.

Toying with vote icons by enefi in SaidIt

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I am afraid I don't understand :D.

I am working on minor fixes and simple animations, hopefully later today (it's morning now for me) I'll share results.

Edit: Oh, I see. I don't think png or jpeg will cut it, for the extra crispness it has to be svgs. Well, maybe overscaled bitmap (png) versions would help a bit (e.g. 2x times resolution and downscaling it to half in css).

Mozilla No Longer Supports A Free Internet by enefi in censorship

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They have been "woke" for some time, but now they are planning on censoring content of their browser (at least that how I read the article): We need more than deplatforming. They have shown a bias in curating censoring which extensions you are allowed to install and use into FF (e.g. the Gab extension; not only they kicked it from store, they also revoked the dev account for signing the package, so the extension cannot be installed and kept enabled between Firefox restarts; essentially killing the extension for normal users).

Animated vote icons? by enefi in SaidIt

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Yeah, they are unfortunately still bitmaps, not vectors :_( I guess that's what d3rr meant by

mistakes were made.

https://saidit.net/s/SaidIt/comments/7i8v/toying_with_vote_icons/saig

How do I use the API? by 64-bit-programmer in SaidIt

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Here's a blog post about HTTP basics (or this article on MDN, it's a bit more techy though).

I am not familiar with Rust, but from a quick search it looks like there's a lot of libraries you can choose from. I would recommend picking some popular, simpler and alive (updated in last few months) one.

Firefox introduces extension that automatically censors "hate speech" by scrubking in censorship

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WTF? So instead of actually doing something, like fixing sluggish dev tools or implementing new tech (to lure back lost core users), they made a sexist cheap extension, just to score some political points? And if their description is accurate, then it's cheap not just figuratively, but literally as well, couldn't took more then 1 work day.

What is this world, why me, a FOSS fan, ended up using a half-proprietary browser? Why can't big tech companies stay away from censorship, virtue signalling and politics in general? -_-

10 Suspected Conspiracy Theories That Oddly Turned out to Be True by enefi in videos

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That hearth attack gun is pretty scary.

Please, for the love of fuck, use something other than Cloudflare for DDoS protection by marmorsymphata in SaidIt

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CF does it on a large scale (many servers around world) and I am pretty sure they have much, much more bandwidth and faster hw to fend off majority of attacks easily. On the other side is saidit - I think they have some cheap hosting/server, so you can't really expect to build their own infrastructure which isn't cheap at all (I am not that knowledgeable, but my guess would be few servers, some heavy duty switches/routers and tons of manhours to make it work, and then someone would have to watch over it constantly).

TubeShift helps you easily find an alternative to YouTube for the video you are watching by [deleted] in Internet

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Too bad it's not FOSS (I'll wait with trying the extension). Not sure who is behind it, if the party is trusted. If I understand correctly, then it works by sending links of all visited YT videos to their server(s) which could be a privacy issue.

Enemy Territory: Legacy 2.77 released! - open source game based on the code of Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, fully compatible Wolfenstein Enemy Territory 2.60b client and server by Pis-dur in Gaming

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Wow, had no idea ET is still alive and kicking. And under FOSS license? I am tempted to try it, I guess it's nostalgia (how long has it been, 15 years?). Thanks for sharing.

Hello? (・_・)ノ by enefi in Introductions

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Eh? Have no idea what you mean 😳

Gatekeeping! Is It Really So Bad? Or Is It In Fact A Natural And Desirable Defense Mechanism? by enefi in KotakuInAction

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I am a fan of older Star Treks and kinda like older Star Wars movies. I tried watching those new ones (half season of STD) and saw two or three SW movies and it's just so bad. Why so much lore needlessly rewritten? Why the change of genres? Why are main characters so often bland and mery sue? What the hell is wrong with writing? Those new shows and movies are ST/SW mostly, if not only, by name, and only good quality IMO are effects, but that alone can't save it. 😞

At least there is Orville...

Slax is a small and fast Linux operating system with modular approach by [deleted] in Linux

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Isn't Slax no longer maintained?

Simple Pyramid of Debate Wallpaper 4k [OC] by enefi in SaidIt

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Made in Blender + Sverchok, took around 4 hours (wasted over half an hour because of the stupid buggy Vertex Color node not working properly and throwing unhelpful errors). It was a blazing fast render (despite some reflections and high resolution, but very simple geometry), just over 2 minutes.

Why hasn’t Jack Dorsey been arrested for lying under oath about Twitter’s censorship policies? – NaturalNews.com by EvilNick in SaidIt

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You have no evidence of pollitical bias.

Just read http://www.historyofgamergate.com or watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wt8k-3xD5s, and then read what's on wikipedia. Another example of a wiki page with strong bias is Nazism - they (left) didn't like that people were pointing out striking similarities to far-left/progressivism, so they removed offending parts and I believe even redefined some terms. It's still available on archive sites for comparison. If that isn't political/ideological bias then I don't know what is. Even the founder of wikipedia was disgusted with how the site turned out (I think he left and now he's working on an alternative to wikipedia, something which is supposed to be more objective and not so easily manipulated by wikipedia <-> msm circlejerk).

Parler accuses Amazon of breaking antitrust law in suspending hosting services. by [deleted] in corruption

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dissenter is based off chromium, which is just a free open source framework. It doesnt mean its based off chrome

Yep, it's based on open-source parts of Chrome (= Chromium). I am not that familiar with Chrome-based browsers, but I was under the impression they follow Chrome very closely (each release is based on Chromium and they add [reapply] their custom parts).

youre not actually supporting chrome or google since its not harvesting your data

That's true, but you are still supporting Google indirectly (and I admit to a lesser degree than running vanilla Chrome) - you are using a browser with Google's core, you are using their rendering and JS engine (and probably more) thus maintaining their grasp of market share. This is giving Google more power over the internet (dictating standards [like trashing new svg], aggressively pushing their new tech [like their spying amp or DRMs]).

So yes, running an alt. Chromium browser is slightly better than running Chrome, but it's incomparable to an ideal scenario of having one or more fully open-source browsers (each with their own code) whose owners/maintainers don't try to limit/censor users' of these browsers and operate in the spirit of open-source.

Parler accuses Amazon of breaking antitrust law in suspending hosting services. by [deleted] in corruption

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But which browser? It's either Firefox (which has major issues too) or some Chrome-based browser like Brave or Dissenter. You would still be supporting Google or Mozilla.

Well, that is unless you want to go with some slow and incomplete "alternative" (majority of people use sites heavy on JS with new CSS), I don't see much of a choice.

Why CD Projekt Red launched Cyberpunk 2077 broken and buggy, lied to gamers by enefi in Gaming

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Don't get me wrong, I quite like CP2077 (despite the bugs and major instability on Linux). But the hype, promises, launch and other problems surrounding this game should be talked about. I hope CDPR is taking steps to fix all their issues (with the game and in the company), I hope they will learn from their numerous mistakes.

Animated vote icons? by enefi in SaidIt

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I fucking LOVE them!

Thanks!

Sorry I'm late to chime in. I don't expect many to notice or care.

I noticed ;). I always check back at least few days when posting something I made. Also I never was/am very good at these "social" networks, so I am happy for any comments/votes my work gets :D.

Toying with vote icons by enefi in SaidIt

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Yeah, the bulb is just one image and I used invert filter from css (was a bit lazy), that's why it isn't lit up 😅. I consider this just a prototype, didn't expect such positive responses. I already made another pass (shortened "stem" of a bulb and slightly moved face to the left so it's closer to the original)

By the eye shapes, you mean rotate them a bit so they point more at a nose area or something else?

Have you noticed the huge number of new users we have? by hennaojichan in SaidIt

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but don't assume that shills don't exist

My point was to also not assume anyone being against censorship or other actions of admins must be a shill. (After all shills may be, and I would guess are, on both sides of a drama. Furthering suspicion, distrust, trying to stoke the flames, increase division of userbase.)

Certainly take any claims with a grain of salt

Yep, that was what I meant. :)

What Linux distro do you use and why? by burnt_match in Linux

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I am currently using Manjaro on a desktop for over a year and I was/am pleasantly surprised - I expected it to break more often while in reality it breaks less than Ubuntu did. I used Ubuntu on a desktop for I think 4 years, but old versions of software, GPU drivers and tangled web of dozens of PPAs pushed me to try Manjaro on a new pc. I have to say, it's pretty good for dev (mostly web) and gaming. AUR is great, like 98% of all software I wanted to install is either in Manjaro repos or AUR.

I am running CentOS on a home server, for I think 5 years and I was satisfied with it (previously ran Debian for over 10 years, but for me its releases weren't supported for long enough time). Since CentOS got killed, I'll have to migrate to something else - I'll probably wait how Rocky turns out.

Andrew Torba on Gab: "We are going to make the legacy media irrelevant. \ Visits this week: 46 million \ Page views this week: 80 million \ Sign ups in the last 48 hours: 1 million" by [deleted] in SocialMedia

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I don't think I agree with

eventually they'll turned nazi

but yeah, everything else is pretty spot on.

I left Gab after Torba had a fit on Twitter about porn (non stop posting for hours, constantly insulting, even Gab users), how it should be censored everywhere. That's not what I imagine under free speech, I want less content banned/illegal, not more. Sure, if you don't want porn on your platform, just say it's too hard to manage and not worth the risk, you don't have to alienate half your user-base and make yourself look like a nut. He made a few enemies which managed to troll him on Gab so well, he have banned them even though they didn't break ToS. IIRC Gab had issues with free speech when it came to other religions, I believe they banned a few people (muslims?) because of that.

https://i.ibb.co/JqLgDdZ/gab-porn-censorship-03-merged-lower.jpg

Hello? (・_・)ノ by enefi in Introductions

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Thank you for sharing, didn't know about this page. Started reading and wow, it's quite detailed, that must have took a lot of time to put together.

Over 432,000 Votes Removed From Trump in Pennsylvania, Data Scientists Say by Trulytimes in politics

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But ... I thought Trump was anti-China, why would China pay for articles casting doubt on vote counting when pro-China candidate won?

Valve is making a Switch-like portable gaming PC by Drewski in Gaming

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Remember SteamOS? Valve has been pushing linux gaming for years, but it's only as a response to business threats. The windows marketplace, if it had taken off, would have destroyed Valve's business model.

That was quite some time ago. If it was only as a response to the threat, I wouldn't expect Valve to continue to work on Linux stuff as much as they do. They made a lot of work with Proton which pushed Linux from being able to run few percent of games to tens of percent. And it's not only Proton (DXVK, Wine), they are making contributions to graphic stack and I think even kernel. As far as I know they are the only VR that supports Linux (not perfectly, but it's usable). I believe they have further plans for Linux, either another attempt at Steam Machines, or some console like those rumors mention, I don't think their long term Linux support is only to keep MS in check.

Their 30% cut is obscene.

When Steam started it was very cheap compared to physical distribution which was what, 80%? Feature-wise, for users and developers, Steam has no competition, everything else is barebones and/or anti-consumer garbage (e.g. Epic Store - last time I checked it had no basket, no community tools, publishers could disable scores, bribing publishers to move games from other stores to be exclusives on ESG and the list goes on). Since Steam is large, even with that cut I am pretty sure it's still worth it to release on Steam just because of the sheer number of users and if you do your store front right, you could get a lot of advertising by algo very cheaply. Sure, Steam/Valve is not perfect either (e.g. few questionable bans of games or "off-topic" periods in reviews), but compared to everything else it's damn near close and currently is the best, miles ahead of competition.

Valve is making a Switch-like portable gaming PC by Drewski in Gaming

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Could be huge for Linux gaming. If the rumor is true and would get some adoption, this could actually be the tipping point of AAA publishers to start taking Tux seriously.

Why Do So Many Games Have Tanks, Healers and DPS? by enefi in gamedev

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DPS is from "damage per second" (most important stat of that role), aka DD = "damage dealer", sometimes just referred to as "dmg" or "damage". It's a role that focuses on bringing health of enemies down, killing them.

Just to clarify, holy trinity is not only used in RPGs. For example it's used in Overwatch which is a hero shooter - a multiplayer team PvP (player vs player) game with heroes (classes) without any progression giving you power (no increasing stats or more and more powerful items) and virtually no story.

Why is Communism STILL Debated? by scrubking in politics

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I'm a gay liberal atheist so im practically an alien here and what you people would most likely consider a demon. im assuming white christian male??

According to several political tests I am a (classic) liberal with a bit of nationalism. No, I am not a Nazi as "enlightened" twitter users would instantly write (on most tests just 5-10% off center), I am just not a fan of open borders, uncontrolled immigration and my country losing its identity. I am not a christian, but yeah, I am a white heterosexual male.

Im assuming most people here are so fucking poor they dont even have access to "real" white western culture and some liberal monkey with rainbow clown hair acted so retarded that it pissed you off and now you're here.

I am not wealthy, but I wouldn't say I am poor. I am here, because I believe in free speech and strongly dislike censorship and manipulation which currently overflows on mainstream "social" networks like Reddit, Twitter or YouTube and spills into fields and hobbies like software development, series and gaming. No, no "liberal" pissed me off, I am mostly a lurker (most negative experience was someone calling me evil because I used a clown pepe as a test image in a documentation of my tiny application, that was pretty mild and I am still unsure if it wasn't a troll). I was born into a communism and while I don't remember much from it, I learned a lot about it from older relatives, in school and from documentaries. I dislike how authoritarian are becoming countries in EU and US, so I am here to see how things really are, reading news and opinions of others without filter forced by big tech. My opinion of the future has become a bit more negative, seeing how many "conspiracy" theories turned out to be true, seeing how much information is being twisted if not outright suppressed.

When i look at this site, i see anti vaxxers, retards, christians... no, your alternative is POOR, degenerate, POOR, christian, POOR, dirty, POOR, uneducated right wing republican POOR people culture easily manipulated by corporations by paying someone like ted cruz to lead you.

When it comes to rushed covid vaccines, I think a healthy dose of skepticism is warranted (it's not just "conspiracy theorists", many doctors are recommending to not get the vaccine unless you are in a risk group). By retards I guess you mean trolls, who are everywhere on the internet. This site is virtually moderated by enthusiasts, they are not getting paid and are nowhere near the level of power tripping of reddit moderators (who most likely live from it, and unemployment benefits). I personally prefer this freer model of moderation. As I wrote, I am neither christian, nor uneducated (I hold a degree from STEM university, so at least at something I should be educated), nor republican, nor a fan of corporations (especially big tech), maybe a degenerate (definitions of that word differ a lot)?

Many, if not all, "social" media alternatives have similar problem with content - it's usually dominated by politics, because that's the thing which is being so heavily policed in mainstream. Sadly, more and more things are getting kicked into the politics category (e.g. in large tech and hobby subreddits political posts and comments are very highly upvoted and removed as off topic only if they support the "wrong" side). I don't know a solution for it (while I was on Ruqqus I tried to foster few non-political guilds without success, here I am not posting much, but I try to share non-political stuff every now and then). Maybe as more "normies" are fed up with censorship on mainstream platforms and start trying alternatives, hobby, tech and other non-political subs could start to grow?

Toying with vote icons by enefi in SaidIt

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I have added a link to repo to my original comment, you can get icons there and look at the style hacks I did. But I am not sure how easy it will be to integrate. I am more of a front-end guy, that's why I went with a browser extension (setting up local instance of saidit seemed daunting and I was unsure if saidit devs would welcome my changes, so going the extension path was a safer option). If you have any front-end related questions, feel free to ask :).

PS: If you think older version were better, they should be in a git history in the repo.

Edit: Forgot to write: styles generation is in src/content.ts.

Banned From Mastodon? #MeToo by enefi in censorship

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TLDR: He got kicked from main (?) Mastodon instance after in one of his latest videos he said that Trump is not a white supremacist (which I believe is factually correct).

Hitler reacts to functional programming by enefi in ProgrammerHumor

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I personally happen to like pure FP (much more composable, testable and reusable compared to OOP in my opinion). But yeah, there are other ways. I was recently reading about Scala 3 and there was a bunch of new interesting things I quite missed few years back when I was writing in Scala, e.g. export clauses and context functions.

10 Video Games BANNED in ENTIRE Countries by enefi in Gaming

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even though I ain't a gamer

I can see why - the video is somewhere between s/gaming and s/censorship (or tiny s/freespeech). I have to say, some of the cases were to be expected (China), some were to me a bit funny (Fallout's brahmins), and some look arbitrary and inconsistent (push from high places or competition?).

Outriders REVIEW - A Balancing NIGHTMARE by enefi in Gaming

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I wish AAA companies would stop putting in overly-aggressive DRMs/ACs. In popular games it never stops pirates/cheaters and only brings tons of downsides, like security and privacy concerns, and incompatibility with Linux.