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There's a work-in-progress effort called tafkars to create a hostable API relay which Reddit apps can talk to to have it relayed onward to the Lemmy API. If completed, it should allow anything that uses the existing Reddit API to talk to Lemmy with a small app modification. It seems like a bit of a stop-gap solution to me but it's a cool idea.
Just took a look here, and yeah. One of the headlines they ask you to rate is "Hyatt Will Remove Small Bottles from Hotel Bathrooms". It's the kind of thing that's basically a coin flip. Without having any context into the story, I have no opinion on whether it's fake or not. I don't think guessing incorrectly on this one would indicate somebody is any more or less susceptible to miscategorizing stories as real/fake.
The term unicorn refers to a privately held startup company with a value of over $1 billion. It is commonly used in the venture capital industry.
In case that helps anybody else as much as it did me.
I know there was some occasional friction between the fans on the old site, but I'll also throw in a recommendation for The Orville as modern Trek that's worth seeing. It does a great job capturing the spirit of the second-gen era presented for the current gen, with its cautious optimism pricked once a week by reminders of challenges yet to be resolved.
The first season is slightly rough (more proof it's a real Trek show?), as they figured out the ratio of comedy to drama, but by season three it's about as jokey as TNG. Fox did a bad job promoting it, it's definitely not Family Guy in space, which I think was probably what the network wanted it to be.
There's tons of Trek people both behind and in front of the camera, so while there's obviously no ties to the Trek canon, it's the closest anything has ever come, stylistically.
That's so cool. It's crazy how many bootleg NES/Famicoms there were targeting all the markets Nintendo couldn't or wouldn't sell them. Did you know they were NES games as a kid, or were they just Micro Genius games to you?
Notably, the NES port of Joust was programmed by future Nintendo president Satoru Iwata. The game was developed in two months, for release in September 1983, but was ultimately shelved. With his Joust seemingly not happening, Iwata developed Balloon Fight instead, which saw release in 1985. Eventually, his Joust was also released, in 1987. For what it's worth, I love them both.
Looks more like 17 minutes after launch.
I'm doing my part.
You need to juice the numbers by posting each paragraph as a separate comment, otherwise you'll never hit your daily 120.
- SNES
- the Donkey Kong Country trilogy, just good platformers; first one hasn't aged as well as people think, if you don't enjoy it skip ahead to 2 and come back later if you feel like it
- The Lost Vikings 1 and 2, fantastic character-switching co-operative (but playable solo) level-based puzzle-platformer; don't play the sequel on newer platforms like PlayStation, they tried to modernize the graphics and only succeeded in making them hideous, stick with SNES
- Star Fox 2, as long as you enjoy dated 3D and poor framerates, this is the most ambitious 3D game on any 16-bit console, with a very replayable campaign full of hidden unlockables that differs on each play
- Super Mario All-Stars & Super Mario World, just an enhanced compilation of 4-5 seminal 2D platformers; while you could use save states on the NES versions, the SNES versions all support native saves, so easier to pick up and play
- Tetris Attack, nothing to do with Tetris, just a match-three puzzler with deep, engrossing mechanics that can keep you interested long-term; also Panel de Pon with a translation hack if you want more
- Top Gear, fantastic competitive racer with the line-scroll road effect you know from classic arcade games like OutRun and a killer soundtrack; pick the white car
- Yoshi's Island, another classic platformer
- Mega Drive/Genesis
- Gauntlet IV, better than the arcade original, this is M2 (now known for developing emulators for many classic systems) flexing with some RPG mechanics added to the traditional Gauntlet gameplay
- The Lost Vikings, SNES version is better but there's a few brand new levels in this one if you want more
- Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles, basically the first Sonic that noticed it's a home game, so it has saving and improved replayability with multiple characters, paths and unlockables
- Game Boy
- Donkey Kong, this is not a port of arcade Donkey Kong, it's a full-blown puzzle platformer you can play one level at a time
- Kirby's Dream Land 2, easy-to-finish platformer but with tons of content if you're playing "properly", using the sort of rock-paper-scissors logic to use the right powers to enter the secret areas
- Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins, just a proper "mid-period" (SNES-esque) Mario platformer which you can play over as long as you like
- Game Boy Color
- Balloon Fight GB, predates Flappy Bird by literal decades but like if that was a proper game with a campaign
- The Mummy, based on the Brendan Fraser movie and an awesome Konami puzzle-platformer with short individual levels and password save (use save states on emulator), super underrated
- Pokémon Puzzle Challenge, Tetris Attack but with Pokémon if you prefer that theming
- Wendy: Every Witch Way, based on some kind of comic book I think, developed by WayForward who developed the Shantae games and then branched off into Yacht Club Games (Shovel Knight), Wendy is a gravity-flipping platformer where you're in control of which direction is up or down
- Game Boy Advance
- Advance Wars 1 & 2, adorable turn-based strategy war game with a campaign based around small, self-contained levels, except for a few huge ones
- Drill Dozer, developed by Game Freak (Pokémon), is a sort of level-based Metroidvania platformer with lots of backtracking to older levels as you unlock new abilities
- F-Zero: Maximum Velocity, the only true sequel to SNES F-Zero, don't at me
- Game Boy Advance Video: Shrek, endlessly replayable
- Metroid: Fusion and Zero Mission, they're Metroid games
- Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 e-Reader version, I think you can get this officially on Switch somehow, but you've been to the Internet before; this officially-released modified version of the original game includes a bunch of brand new levels previously distributed only on scannable cards, I'm not telling the whole story but they remix elements from the first four mainline Mario games into basically a whole original game. This is New Super Mario Bros. this is Super Mario Bros. 5, still don't at me
Sega World Sydney. It was a whole theme park based around Sega properties in Sydney, Australia. Rides themed around classic Sega arcade games, Sonic paraphernalia everywhere, a huge arcade and overpriced Sega merch shop. One ride entirely took place in virtual reality, with headsets for everybody. I wasn't even a Sega kid, but it was amazing.
I actually forgot that it's more complicated than I made it seem, that's on me. Firefox does make it pretty difficult to add unsupported extensions.
First off, it's not possible on the stable Firefox Android; officially, it's a feature that's currently only available in the Beta or Nightly Firefox branches, which are provided as separate apps in the Google Play Store (or wherever you get your apps). Personally, I'd recommend the Beta build over the Nightly since it's less likely to have severe bugs. Even if you're just using Firefox Android "normally" and don't need it for this purpose, I still think the Beta is an improvement over the stable version because it enables access to less user-friendly parts of the Firefox interface like the about:config page, where you can mess around under the hood. Alternatively, you could use Fennec F-Droid, which is a fork of current Firefox Android which supports the same feature.
If you want to personally pick and choose which extensions you're able to install, there's a solid guide to the whole process you can follow, but you need to register a Mozilla account, create a custom add-on collection and add all of the addons you want to that list, then switch from Firefox's official approved extension list to your personal custom one, at which point you can start installing any of the addons from your list.
If that's more of a hassle than you're prepared to deal with, you could use somebody else's ready-made custom add-on collection to skip out the part about registering an account and building your collection. You don't have to trust me if you don't want, but I just put together a collection of all the officially supported Firefox Android extensions plus Stylus, which you can see here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collections/17632282/Plus-Extras/
To add this or your own custom collection to Firefox Beta/Nightly/Fennec, you'll need to
- open to the three dots menu in the browser (next to the address bar)
- open Settings
- scroll all the way down to "About Firefox Beta" or similar and open it
- tap on the "Firefox Browser" logo/text 5 times
- hit back
- scroll back up a little bit to the new (!) Custom Add-on collection button
- enter your custom collection, e.g.
17632282andPlus-Extrasif you want to use my setup from above - press OK, the browser will now restart
The next time you go to the Add-ons page and forever until you change it (you can make both fields empty to go back to Firefox's official list), it will populate the available plugins list from there instead of Firefox's.
Of course it's subjective. The terminology of the left-right political divide originally referred to 18th-century France. In the 21st century, we're usually not defining the political center of a nation by how it compares to the French Parliament of 250 years ago. The center moves over time and space, and the left and right are relative to that center.
I do think this comment thread is confusing people, though, as noted in an above edit. For clarity, nobody is saying neoliberalism is a center-left movement.
Same situation here. Firefox PWAs are already frameless and full screen. Your Firefox extensions remain active within PWAs, so you can use your ad blockers, user CSS or JS, etc. The only feature from that list that Firefox seems to be missing is any way to add bookmarks.
Can we not bring this energy over from Reddit? You're arguing with something I didn't even say. We both agree, neoliberalism is not a left wing ideology. I didn't say that, the OP didn't say that, I don't know who you're even talking to with that remark.
What the OP said is that American center-left and center-right parties have both been proponents of neoliberalism. The only part of this that's remotely controversial is whether it's accurate to describe any American political parties as "center-left". From a global perspective, you can easily argue that that's not accurate. Go for it. From an American perspective, there are parties who are to the left of the (American) center. The Democrats are both center-left from the American perspective and proponents of neoliberalism. To restate: That does not mean that neoliberalism is a center-left or any other kind of leftist ideology. It only means what it says.
This isn't a hill I'm willing to die on at all, but it does mildly annoy me that The Open Source Definition is used by proponents to mean the same thing as "open-source". For anyone not familiar, The Open Source Definition is a document used to determine whether code should be certified by the Open Source Initiate as "OSI Certified". Proponents argue that anything which does not meet the OSI's definition is not open-source, while I think there's room in the language and the mind for disagreement on whether "open-source" and "eligible for OSI certification" are synonyms.
The OSI was originally founded with the goal of registering a trademark for "Open Source", but this was unsuccessful as the term is too broad and descriptive. Failing that, the OSI decided to instead register the trademark "OSI Certified", which can be applied to works which meet their Open Source Definition. Ultimately, what this means is that nobody owns the phrase "open-source" and it's an organic part of language which is not strictly defined by the specific terms of any certifying documents.
Over the years, there have been plenty of non-commercially licensed software with source available for use: a popular example is video, computer and arcade game emulators. The MAME emulator was for years released under its own non-commercial copyleft license before eventually being relicensed under BSD (which meets OSI's Open Source Definition), and popular SNES and Mega Drive/Genesis emulators Snes9x and Genesis Plus GX both continue to be released under similarly "open but non-commercial" licenses.
I'll happily agree that none of those are eligible to bear the "OSI Certified" trademark and that they don't meet OSI's Open Source Definition. But when people start saying they're "not open-source" it rubs me the wrong way, because we're just talking, not trying to achieve trademark certification. Not to mention that the whole nature of software licensing is to note what restrictions there are on the use of the code, e.g. most open-source, copyleft licenses deny you the right to use their code without attribution. However, we basically all agree that that's fine and you can still call a license open-source if it includes that restriction. It's a shades of gray situation that people are treating as black and white just because a definition exists which they can refer back to, with the assumption that all people must subscribe to those specific terms.
There's entirely valid counter-arguments, of course. It's useful to have strict definitions of nebulous concepts like open-source because it could cause confusion, and you have to draw the line somewhere or else the term becomes completely meaningless. e.g. You risk people referring to things like source code leaks as "open-source". There are frequently cases of people ignoring non-commercial license terms and selling those softwares (Snes9x and Genesis Plus GX are often bundled with commercial retro emulation hardware), which you could argue stems from confusion about whether or not commercial use is allowed. But the same devices often violate the licenses of OSD-compliant software as well, so it seems more likely they just don't care about open-source software licensing terms.
So anyway, Genesis Plus GX is open-source but I'm not willing to fight you about it.
All left-right political terminology is inherently subjective, so you can argue neoliberalism is promoted by center-left parties as long as you're defining the center as being to the right of that. Since this post seems to be about the United States, that center is already pretty far to the right as measured from, say, Denmark (picked a name out of a hat). I think the bigger argument here is about US-defaultism rather than whether or not it's OK for Americans to describe things in terms that relate to their political climate.
For me, it felt really easy to leave because I had zero social connections on Reddit. I'm not sure if I'm the weird one, but I never learned any individual users' names or felt ways about stuff, except in the rare case that they became a meme, like shittymorph. I was there for like 12 years and nothing tied me to it. Moving to the threadiverse was as easy as changing a bookmark.
That's not how taxes work.
tl;dr: You are still the one making the donation and eligible for the charitable deduction, not the business through which you donated. Businesses like it because they can say things like "Walmart facilitated donations of $n to agreeable charity in 2023." It's a company exploiting your generosity for good press, not for a tax scam.