Scio

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[–] Scio@lemmy.world 6 points 6 hours ago

For me, trying to read the actual protocol or even tutorials that try to explain the protocol in a more approachable manner, didn't help at all. It's no understatement that ActivityPub itself is a mess.

But reading the Fedify documentation and describing "activities" with the library helped a lot more!

Even if you don't plan on writing Js/Ts, I recommend the Fedify tutorial.

[–] Scio@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

The Persona series as a whole, including the other Shin Megami games... If we count summoning them as playing them, but it's basically pokémon isn't it.

Fate/Grand Order also features a huge roster of mythical figures, but actual gods make a far smaller portion of them. Very few games get to feature, Ishtar, and, Quetzalcoatl, together with Shakespeare and Merlin.

[–] Scio@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I shall pay a tuppence, and not a ha'penny more.

[–] Scio@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Ironically, because there's no UDP in browsers, we can't actually get proper p2p on the web. WebRTC through centralized coordination servers at best. Protocol Labs has all but given up on this use-case in favor of using some bootstrapped selection of remote helper nodes.

[–] Scio@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

IPFS has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with Ethereum, or indeed any blockchain. It is a protocol for storing distributing and addressing data by hashes of the content over a peer to peer network.

There is however an initiative to create a commercial market for "pinning*", which is blockchain based. It still has nothing to do with Ethereum, and is a distinct project that uses IPFS rather than being part of the protocol, thankfully. It is also not a "proof of work" sort of waste, but built around proving content that was promised to be stored is actually stored.

Pinning in IPFS is effectively "hosting" data permanently. IPFS is inherently peer to peer: content you access gets added to your local cache and gets served to any peer near you asking for it—like BitTorrent—until it that cache is cleared to make space for new content you access. If nobody keeps a copy of some data you want others to access when your machines are offline, IPFS wouldn't be particularly useful as a CDN. So peers on the network can choose to pin some data, making them exempt from being cleared with cache. It is perfectly possible to offer pinning services that have nothing to do with Filecoin or the blockchain, and those exist already. But the organization developing IPFS wanted an independent blockchain based solution simply because they felt it would scale better and give them a potential way to sustain themselves.

Frankly, it was a bad idea then, as crypto grift was already becoming obvious. And it didn't really take off. But since Filecoin has always been a completely separate thing to IPFS, it doesn't affect how IPFS works in any way, which it continues to do so.

There are many aspects of IPFS the actual protocol that could stand to be improved. But in a lot of ways, it does do many of the things a Fediverse "CDN" should. But that's just the storage layer. Getting even the popular AP servers to agree to implement IPFS is going to be almost as realistic an expectation as getting federated identity working on AP. A personal pessimistic view.

[–] Scio@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What if I am robot, Bloomberg? Aren't you one as well? Would you judge the circumstances of your creation?

[–] Scio@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

I use Penpot for every personal project that I can. The new(ish) grid layout is just beautiful. Figma can't do that, can it!

Unfortunately, there's a lot more Penpot can't do that Figma can. And for any reasonable complex project, or commercial ones, I have to go back to it.

Hopefully Penpot catches up soon! My biggest showstopper right now is variable fonts. If it was possible to manually set CSS somehow, maybe that would help bridge the gap a lot!

[–] Scio@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Finally, ~/Templates support!!

[–] Scio@lemmy.world 35 points 2 months ago

Friday Night Fuckin' as well, then

[–] Scio@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't have an entry for monads 🙃

[–] Scio@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

As an EXR elitist I deeply resent Google's blatant sabotage of JXL.

(And also laugh at the PNG elitists, as is custom.)

[–] Scio@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Yeah, as pinned tabbed. Very much so. I actually like them specifically because I can forget about them. I use them like someone would use a napkin in that classic Hollywood trope sense! Just to work something out and then forgetting about it, except, if needed, I can open up the tab again and copy over stuff to my actual notes later!

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