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Here to talk about fighting games, self hosting web apps, and easy weeknight recipes.

My mastodon account: @tuckermMy blog: https://tuckerm.us

  • As the Internet Gets Scarier, More Parents Keep Their Kids’ Photos Offline

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  • I haven't heard anything bad about Grayjay before; what's the issue with it?

  • As the Internet Gets Scarier, More Parents Keep Their Kids’ Photos Offline

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  • That looks cool, I hadn't heard of Circles before. I want to check it out now. I'm curious if it somehow keeps your data private from the server owner. That feels like the missing feature in most federated, privacy-focused social networks.

    Side note: looks like it's made by Futo; I hadn't realized they were working on something like that. I've been using another one of their apps, Grayjay for almost all of my mobile Youtube viewing lately. It works great.

  • Do you run anything on a RISC-V processor?

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  • A homemade RISC-V fightstick? This is combining all of my favorite things! I bought a leverless controller recently (an SGF Bridget).

    I'm only vaguely familiar with microcontrollers, but I know there are libraries out there for using an Arduino to make a mechanical keyboard or fightstick. Is there something similar for the CH32V305?

  • Do you run anything on a RISC-V processor?

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  • That is very cool, I hadn't heard of that before. I have never done anything with a microcontroller, but I'm thinking about it for RISC-V. It sounds like that might be one of the better ways of getting a RISC-V device in practical use, until more software packages become available for a full Linux machine.

  • [x-post @selfhost@lemmy.ml] Do you run anything on a RISC-V processor?

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  • is the mainline situation any better than with ARM?

    Unfortunately, sounds like "no" currently. The ones that let you install Debian usually provide some kind of custom Debian image for that specific SBC. Like you, I'm not really a fan of that. But apparently there are some desktop motherboards with RISC-V CPUs coming out. Hopefully that will increase the chance of things getting supported in mainline distros.

  • Do you run anything on a RISC-V processor?

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  • Wow, thanks! That's fantastic. I hadn't even thought about the fact that Docker images will have to be recreated for RISC-V, but it sounds like some of the most important parts of the stack are useable already. Nice to see that nginx works -- I was leaning towards moving my blog to a RISC-V SBC, and it's just a static HTML site.

  • Do you run anything on a RISC-V processor?

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  • That looks so cool. I was completely unaware that there were desktop motherboards with RISC-V CPUs. I thought they were all still SBCs.

  • Chechnya bans music that is 'too fast or too slow'

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  • Cultural crackdowns, motivated by religion or nationalism, are terrible. (In Chechnya's case, it'll be religion and nationalism.)

    That being said, this means they just created the genre of ILLEGAL BEATS, which sounds like absolute 🔥🔥🔥. Like, the illegal beats lineup at Chechella this year is going to be sick.

  • Penpot 2.0, a major milestone in our journey, is now yours to explore and enjoy!

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  • This blog post is pretty buzzword-heavy, but Penpot is a legitimately great tool. It's used for UI design and layouts. I've seen a couple of open source projects use a self-hosted Penpot instance for working on and discussing new designs.

    Figma would be the most popular, proprietary example of this type of tool. I'm not aware of any open source competitors besides Penpot.

    edit: It's like Google docs for web page layouts or app layouts. The animation on their homepage is probably the best way of showing what it does.

  • Missouri Gov. rejects prison guards’ calls to stop execution of Brian Dorsey

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  • From the article, emphasis mine:

    Dorsey, 52, was convicted and placed on death row in 2008 after pleading guilty [...]

    The governor’s decision to proceed with Dorsey’s injection comes after his legal team filed a clemency application, stressing Dorsey’s “extraordinary rehabilitation” behind bars, his apparent mental state on the night of the murders as well as inadequate legal representation at trial

    Sounds like there must have been inadequate legal representation -- how does one plead guilty and still wind up with the death penalty? What the hell was the plea deal?

  • Never forget

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  • I mean, I'm no Trump apologist, but "let he who did not try looking at the eclipse cast the first stone."

  • Where are places you see ads?

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  • The progress bar screen during an AMD driver update. Cycles between ads for video games, ads for CPUs, and a "how are we doing" survey.

  • Where are places you see ads?

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  • Basketball courts too, newly added in the last couple years. There's one sponsor logo physically printed on the court, and one that's digitally added for the TV broadcast (tailored to your location, of course).

    I was watching a game a few weeks ago and the superimposed logo kept screwing up. It was moving with the camera instead of being fixed on the ground, and sometimes it wouldn't be cropped around the players, it would just go on top of them. It was kind of amusing. They removed it after a few minutes.

  • Which Mortal Kombat games across the years should I start with?

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  • MK9 is also the start of the modern game mechanics, in addition to the story. They established the current gameplay formula in MK9, and have been iterating on it since then.

    Unless you really want to play the classic games, I think MK9 is the best starting point.

    edit: Wait wtf am I talking about you obviously start with the movie from 1995.

  • Where are places you see ads?

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  • I agree with your point, but I also agree with the parent post as well. Advertising and tracking can be considered separate issues while also both being bad. I'd also say tracking is almost always bad, whereas there are advertisements that I think are perfectly fine.

    People have been talking about how manipulative advertising can be long before targeting individuals was possible. (Like Joe Camel.)

    But I also think that there is a whole new level of maliciousness to these highly-targeted ad services that can show you specific content based on a personality profile, formed about you by aggregating data across many different areas of your life. It's related to advertising in general, but takes it to such an invasive extreme that it's worth singling out on its own.

  • Live action "Meet the Sniper" video, with the real TF2 voice actors

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  • The original video already had a bunch of quotes (like that one) that have lived in my head for years. This remake just added, "Mum pisses in jars!" to the list. :D

  • What are your favorite Dreamcast games?

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  • I like the fact that there are games that are still best played on the Dreamcast, or only played on the Dreamcast, since there was no follow-up console after it, or because the ports were not great. Today there's always a remaster, backwards compatibility with the next console, or at the very least a sequel, so games just move along with the hardware. But the Dreamcast had some games that just lived and died on that system.

    Weirdly, most of these turned out to be fighting games. Probably because Capcom liked the Dreamcast.

    My favorites that are still best (or only) played on that system:

    • Crazy Taxi (the ports don't have the original soundtrack, an absolute sin)
    • Power Stone and Power Stone 2
    • Marvel vs. Capcom 2 (literally one of the best fighting games ever, and it can't be purchased on any systems today)
    • Cannon Spike
    • JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
    • Project Justice

  • What are your favorite Dreamcast games?

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  • Wasn't Border Down the very last Dreamcast game? I think it might have been. (Well, the last official one, anyway. Homebrew games are still coming out.) I bet a lot of people missed it for that reason. I hadn't heard of it until a couple years ago. I hear it's good, though.

  • 8bitdo made a Commodore 64 variant of their keyboard

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  • Oh nice, that's good to know. I wonder if it's possible to run their remapping program in a Windows virtual machine. If it works, it still wouldn't be convenient, but you wouldn't have to do it often, either.