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Pretty much lol. If I remember correctly his reason for leaving was them adding moderation tools

he left Bluesky around 2 years ago

I think it comes from the fact that a lot of communities and projects use Discord basically like they would with IRC, with voice chats often not even existing in some servers. I have to assume the people who recommend Matrix are only ever in that kind of server.

I’m in 2 or 3 servers with different friend groups and of course each one is full of friends of friends of friends. Even the smallest is over 30 people, but I only regularly join VC with 3-4. If I had to call all of them to be in a voice call I would literally never do it.

Same goes for chats, in Matrix the closest things to channels and servers is rooms and spaces. The difference is that you don’t join a space, you just view rooms in the space and join them. Most of my servers have a ton of different channels for different things, I want to be able to see what happens in all of them without having to join each one, announcing to them that I’ve joined.

I like Matrix for FOSS project discussions, but I don’t think it’ll ever be the right pick for just hanging out with friends.

This is just a link to the branding repo. There isnt much to maintain in there.

Drop-in voice channels are a requirement for a discord alternative, Matrix does not have them. AFAIK you still need to call an entire channel to start a voice chat.

This is true that some blurs could be undone, but the ones used in the files are definitely destructive and cannot be undone. Grok and any other image generation tool is also definitely not capable of doing it. It requires knowledge of how it was blurred so you can use the same algorithm to undo it, models simply guess what it should look like.

This is very good, winetricks has been a great tool for Linux gaming but its a very slow 20000 line shell script, it definitely needs a replacement imo.

Hopefully this works well enough that Valve and Umu consider switching to it for applying Protonfixes.

Agreed, using a planning phase makes a huge difference. It will break the implementation into steps, making reviewing or manually refactoring parts of the code far more easily.

Exactly, it does nothing more than a regular code, except you cannot memorize it and it relies on your getting a good picture.

I also havent found clarification of what the QR would point to. One of the ideas I saw was a page with the agents name and other info, which means they would be able to collect information on people scanning these codes.

Such a stupid idea. Just give them a normal ID you can look up, why should it be a QR code?

Was it? I might be missing something but I dont know which part addressed that. You mentioned getting a steam controller and a mount if they need those features, but not any mention of remote play being why they’d need them.

The Steam Deck has touchpads because many games are optimized for keyboard and mouse, not touchscreens. Phone games are not.

I’d assume they want it for Steam remote play

Ngl I did not think about that at all. There are loads of sites with social in the name, like the flagship mastodon instance.

It seems kinda silly to stop using social as in the name for social websites because of them.

I’ve been playing since the minute the patch dropped and its been working fine

You can also set them to only show up when you click a button for them, which I always preferred.

Like the other US gov accounts that are on Bluesky, it sucks that they’re their and get verified, but Bluesky is a US based company. If they refused to verify or outright banned those accounts, I think its really likely they’d face legal threats from the Trump regime, similar to CBS. I dont think those threats would be valid, but that lately our courts do not care.

ICE is already the third most blocked account, with nearly 100k blocks and only 330 followers, the majority of which seem to be following so they can ratio them in the replies whenever they decide to post. I think this kinda supports my point that federating with Bluesky is definitely not going to be flooding us with pro ICE users.

Thanks to moderation lists they were blocked by a massive amount of users they even knew they had made an account, essentially leaving them with just a void to post into.

They could, but Heroic already does pretty much everything an official client would do, I don’t think it makes sense to create a new client.

I don’t think it really makes sense to create Proton forks for specific games outside very specific cases (like hacky fixes that break other games). Might as well just upstream whatever changes you make.

I’d honestly rather them not release their own Linux launcher. Heroic is fantastic, I’d much rather them contribute to that, either via development time or by sponsoring them. Some sort of official partnership with them would be cool.

I can’t find any evidence of that at all, but even if it is true, that still wouldn’t mean federating Bluesky has anything to do with a high demand to talk with ICE supporters.

What? Do you actually think Bluesky is full of ICE supporters? Most of my feed right now is full of support for protests against ICE, calls for it to be abolished, and hate towards democrat reps that are too cowardly to commit to abolishing it.

I just searched ICE and clicked top, the first two posts are some ICE Nazis busting ass on actual ice, and the third is just a post that says abolish ICE. The rest are all pretty similar.