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It's probably a more expensive domain and they might not have wanted to commit to that when it was still a small instance...

The admin vanished unfortunately.

If I remember correctly, he went on some vacation late last year and said he wouldn't have internet, so he gave someone from the community admin permissions. But he didn't give them full access to the server or something like that, so when one day the hard drive had filled up and the instance was quite broken, there was no way to re-install and restore from a backup.

For a long time, the instance didn't allow picture uploads and we just hoped for the admin to return like:

Unfortunately, he didn't. Pretty sure, we still don't know what happened to him.

Well, then feddit.de was completely offline for a few weeks, and when it came back online, the community voted on a new domain name to use and a few folks coordinated on a Matrix server to set it all up.
When feddit.org was all online, moderators of the feddit.de communities put up notices that the community migrated, in case anyone finds out later. Some communities also migrated to https://discuss.tchncs.de.

It was certainly an interesting stress test for this whole federation thing. In theory, everyone could've just joined any other Lemmy instance and in theory, we could've just set up the same communities elsewhere. But in practice, you're hardly going to get all the same people into the same place without being able to coordinate.
It would've helped to spread out the communities beforehand, but that's also easier said than coordinated...

Jeez, is this comic also doing a depressing comic week?

It annoys me so much, because it works.

There's more people who have a vague understanding that "open-source" is good than people who understand software licenses, and nevermind people who actually go to compile the supposedly-open-source software to see what's included.

And if multiple people tell you that LLaMA is open-source, at some point you're just gonna assume that's true rather than check the license/code yourself.

Hell, there's even absolute dickholes which post their own definition of "open-source" like they're the fucking OSI themselves: https://futo.org/open-source-definition/
But because a popular YouTuber is behind that scam, you now have fanboys putting into question whether the definition from the OSI, which literally coined the term by publishing the definition, is actually the correct one. Absolutely incredible.

Edit: While researching for the comment below, I found this page on the FUTO website, which says their open-source definition was just a very funny parody: https://futo.org/about/futo-statement-on-opensource/
Why they don't take that open-source definition offline then, or preface it with a disclaimer, I do not know. And I think their reasoning for the parody is shit, but make up your own mind.

Non-Youtube link: https://www.pbs.org/video/pbs-space-time-speed-light-not-about-light/

A distro is a complete installable operating system (+ a set of software repositories from which you can install updates and new software).
Many distributions (or their flavors/spins) will come with a default desktop environment and then usually also apply some distro-appropriate theming to that desktop environment.
If you look at screenshots of distributions, you're likely just looking at screenshots of their themed default desktop environment.

And a desktop environment is essentially the GUI of your OS.
It includes software such as the panel/taskbar, the application menu, the systray, the audio system, icons, a login screen etc.. It also typically comes with a set of default applications, such as a file manager, a terminal emulator, a text editor etc..
In a sense, the desktop environment contains essentially everything that differentiates a desktop OS from a server OS (the latter is usually just a terminal, without graphical interface).

I believe, knocking all the figures off the board is the only legal move...

Yeah, when I then used Visual Block mode to do the multi-line cursor, I realized I probably could've selected+yanked it that way, too.

But that is some good info nonetheless. I wasn't actually aware of the different Visual modes...

Well, I'm at least not surprised. They didn't achieve good face animations through technological advancement, but rather by throwing tons of money at the problem, i.e. hiring actors and motion-capturing them.

When it stops being your unique selling point, you're not gonna get as much budget anymore, at which point it's either scrapped or you might use worse equipment, worse actors and give the actors less time to practice and redo scenes.

In general, the problem with realistic graphics is that reality is your upper bound. It's difficult to inch closer to it and it's easy to regress when you don't pay as much attention to some detail...

That is a very good question. It all started as a dainty test setup, and I guess, we had lost the routine of always scripting hardware setups, because our previous project hadn't required it.

Obviously, the second-best time to start doing it is now, but I'd need to properly learn one of these first to be able to lead the way on that.
Which collides with me not really wanting to use any of the ones I've experienced so far (Ansible, Puppet) in my freetime. 🫠

Doesn't that just cut one line at a time? Or is this Emacs-like, where it buffers the lines?

That host doesn't have internet access, though, so installing a different editor wasn't really an option to begin with...

You see, the problem is that game publishers have been innovating hard...

...ly, so modern games are barely an improvement over old games, except in terms of graphics. In particular, they want to continue not innovating by re-releasing those same old games with new graphics slapped onto them.

If everyone could just play those old titles, then they wouldn't need to play the new titles, which would be very bad, because it would mean game publishers would need to innovate.