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Does anyone know why we’re defederated from beehaw.org? in c/main@sh.itjust.works
[–] PriorProject@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The Beehaw admins made this choice, and documented their rationale here: https://beehaw.org/post/567170

100% compatible way to get 2FA on Jellyfin Tutorial. in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] PriorProject@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

This is a great approach, but I find myself not trusting Jellyfin's preauth security posture. I'm just too concerned about a remote unauthenticated exploit that 2fa does nothing to prevent.

As a result, I'm much happier having Jellyfin access gated behind tailscale or something similar, at which point brute force attacks against Jellyfin directly become impossible in normal operation and I don't sweat 2fa much anymore. This is also 100% client compatible as tailscale is transparent to the client, and also protects against brute force vs Jellyfin as direct network communication with Jellyfin isn't possible. And of course, Tailscale has a very tightly controlled preauth attack surface... essentially none of you use the free/commercial tailscale and even self-hosting headscale I'm much more inclined to trust their code as being security-concscious than Jellyfin's.

Removal of piracy communities in c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world
[–] PriorProject@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

... advertisement and push they did on sites like reddit...

The lemmy world admins advertised on Reddit? Can you link an example?

... their listing on join-lemmy.org...

Until recently EVERY lemmy instance was listed on join-lemmy.

And with the name Lemmy.world they did nothing to dissuade anyone from thinking that.

They run a family of servers under the world tld, including at least mastodon, lemmy, and calckey. They're all named similarly.

I also saw nothing from .world not claiming to be the bigger instance(super lemmy)

They ARE the biggest instance, but that happened organically. It's not based on any marketing claims from the admin team about being a flagship/super/mega/whatever instance. People just joined, and the admins didn't stop them (nor should they). It's not a conspiracy to take over lemmy. It's just an instance that... until recently... happened to work pretty well when some were struggling.

Removal of piracy communities in c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world
[–] PriorProject@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I think the issue is that .world has put itself forward as some sort of super lemmy.

Citation needed. All the admins of lemmy world ever purported to do was host a well-run general-purpose (aka not topic-oriented) lemmy instance. It was and remains that, and part of being a well-run general purpose instance is managing legal risk when a small subset of the community generates an outsized portion of it.

Being well run meant that they scaled up and remained operational during the first reddit migration wave. People appreciated that, but continuing to function does not amount to a declaration of being a super lemmy.

World also has kept signups open through good times, and more recently bad. Other instances at various times shut down signups or put irritating steps and purity tests along the way. Keeping signups open is a pretty bare-minimum bar for running a service though, it is again not a declaration of being a super-lemmy.

Essentially lemmy world just... kept working (until recently when it has done a pretty poor job of that). I dunno where you found a declaration that lemmy world is a super-lemmy, but it's not coming from the lemmy world admins, it's likely randos spouting off.

I understand close to none of the comics in here. in c/thefarside@sh.itjust.works
[–] PriorProject@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I think a couple things are in play:

  • Very few people consumed these comics as we are... reading each one in sequence. You'd more likely sporadically encounter them in the funnies section of a physical newspaper. Which was a pretty hit/miss proposition to begin with. No one expected every one to be a winner, and people would routinely skip over stuff that didn't interest them without thinking about it too hard. You're operating under the assumption that Far Side is a classic, but at the time people would just cruise by and think "that comic is stupid, just like 60% of the other stupid comics on this page". And folks were pretty happy to have 40% of comics be a bit funny.
  • What made Far Side a classic was not its consistency. Rather, there were a few strips that became cultural phenomena. Basically a handful of hits that were breakout memes of the 80s and 90s. Colleges used to sell t-shirts of the school for the gifted strip with the kid pushing on the door that says pull, which is pretty accessible and one of those breakout hits.
  • Because of those breakout hit strips, some folks got into Larson's style of humor enough that fewer of his strips were inscrutable to them and he had a lasting market.
  • Other comments point about topical references and those are also a big deal. If someone sees a beans meme with no context 30y from now, it ain't gonna be funny. But a few weeks ago on lemmy, it was part of a contextual zeitgeist that was more or less about "these idiots will upvote anything, I'm one of the idiots... I'll upvote this!" and it kind of captured the exuberant excitement of not knowing what lemmy was but wanting it to be something. Similarly, these strips often weren't intended to last multiple generations. They assumed you were reading the newspaper RIGHT NOW... and so could reference current events very obliquely and still be accessible.

TLDR: Like a stupid meme, many Larson comics require shared transient context we're missing now. Some are also just fukin weird, like cow tools. But some were very accessible and became hugely popular. These mega-star strips cemented Far Side's popularity, and which gave Larson the autonomy to stay weird when he chose. Now we waste time trying to figure out what they meant.

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Trying to fix a lack of Sci-Fi battlemaps on the web (lemmy.world)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/3817793

I don’t see many Sci-Fi battlemaps being posted so I thought I would help out a little bit. I have been running 2 sci-fi rpgs concurrently for 3 years and have amassed quite a few decent maps that I have made in DungeonDraft. They are nothing special, but considering how rare sci-fi maps can be, I hope someone finds them helpful. These were all made for 40k or SWN but feel free to use them wherever. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/ewe4a3qi083phftrz4f0r/h?rlkey=76c1aogifucbbds47u8fms7eh&amp%3Bdl=0

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Release 11.306 | Foundry Virtual Tabletop (foundryvtt.com)
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Version 12 Feature Preview | Foundry Virtual Tabletop (foundryvtt.com)
 

The Patreon votes are in, and the roadmap priorities have been set for the Foundry v12 series.

  • In the Patreon vote, it was close overall. Event triggers by by a single vote over terrain and cover.
  • Both event triggers and terrain and cover will get their foundations laid in v12.
  • There will also be work on Canvas and Vision improvements, including improvements to global illumination, elevation, vision/senses, and token animation.
  • There will be work on the form/html rendering to support per-world themes.
  • There will also be under-the-hood work on a third iteration of the dice-rolling API, improvements to the Prosemirror text editing widget, improvements to the websockets API, and DB optimizations.
What are your thoughts on the state of native Linux games? in c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
[–] PriorProject@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Here's a potentially unpopular opinion... Games that target the Proton API are actually native Linux games. Proton isn't virtualization or emulation, it's just an API that happens to be mostly compatible on both Windows and Linux. Other than the kernel itself, Linux has never had one true API to do anything... there's always more than one option to target (as you note with your Wayland/x11 example, but also pulse, alsa, pipewire, the list is endless). Proton is an API that's available on Linux, and programs that target the Proton API are Linux programs in every way that matters.

The question isn't native vs proton. The question is whether proton is a good API. At the moment, it's an API that offers pretty good cross platform compatibility with windows, which is hugely valuable to developers and they're using Proton for that reason and even testing against it. That's good for us as users and for gaming on Linux.

If Windows evolves their versions of the proton APIs in ways that break compatibility and are difficult to fix, we may find that game devs complain on our behalf to avoid breaking their Linux builds. If Proton begins to suck compared to alternatives, and enough people are playing games on Linux with Proton, devs will organically start to look at other porting options more seriously. But Proton is both a way to kickstart the chicken/egg problem, and itself may just actually be a good API to develop Linux games against.

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New Pathfinder/Starfinder Focused Lemmy Instance (pathfinder.social)
 

There's a new instance at https://pathfinder.social/ that calls itself "A place for people to discuss Pathfinder and Starfinder tabletop RPGs".

It has a [!pf2general@pathfinder.social](/c/pf2general@pathfinder.social) for PF2e discussion similar to this community. I'm not sure which will get more traction, but I'm subscribing to both for now. There are also lots of other granular roleplaying communities for pf1e, starfinder, art, and general discussion. They're all pretty empty so far as it seems very new, and I suppose the danger of all that granularity is that each community individually seems dead. But it also feels like a nice topic layout and maybe the topic-oriented instance will make it feel like a community of communities where people sub to a bunch of them all at once. That's what I just did.

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TV Show Episode Names and Filename Sorting (lemmy.world)
 

This post is a lament about how episode names and file-name conventions interact to result in horrible sorting of tv-show filenames in the filesystem.

The Jellyfin TV Show docs show a preferred filename format like Episode S00E01.mkv. The docs aren't really clear about what the string Episode is supposed to represent here, though. Is that the show name, the episode name, or something else?

  • The example in the multi-part episode docs gives us a hint a hint that it's really intended to be the series name like Series (2010) S02E01<separator><parttype><separator><partnumber>.mkv.
  • The tests in the source code make this even clearer with examples like the_simpsons-s02e01_18536.mp4 and the.series.name.s01e04.webrip.x264-Baz[Bar].mkv. Plus the variable is called SeriesName in the tests.

Interestingly, that string shows up in the episode name in the Jellyfin UI if your series isn't in tvdb. So it can be very useful to set episode-names. But if you do this, the filesystem sort order gets pretty miserable, like:

$ ls 'my show (2023)/'
'bar - S01E02.mp4'
'baz but this episode name is longer - S01E03.mp4'
'episode foo - S01E01.mp4'

If there are 10 or more episodes, and the episode names vary in length so the season/episode strings don't line up vertically, it's very difficult to read the episode order. It would be so nice if S01E01 My Episode Name.mkv was supported. And this is even nodded to in the tests, but commented out as it apparently does work. And in this case the show name is pulled from the directory and the episode is ignored.

I guess maybe this is lamenting the lack of proper episode name support in tv show filenames. Though abusing the current SeriesName works... it makes the filesystem sorting gross.