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Valve looking into 3D support for flat games on Steam Frame

This would be a dream feature for me as even many flat games become so much more visually impressive and immersive experiences when you are able to look at them in real 3D. Currently you can get a decent number of games displayed this way if you have a stereoscopy-capable device but it's just a royal PITA that involves lots of fiddling with config so having that be easy on very comfortable hardware like the Frame would be game-changing as far as I am concerned.

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Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse

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My understanding is that search on the microblogging side of the fedi is intended to be “broken” (from the view of someone expecting a Twitter-style search); hashtags are for opting-in to global discoverability whilst without them your posts are intended to be stumbled upon and/or passed around rather than sought out.

Well it's a bit more complicated. A really significant reason search isn't that comprehensive even on a big instance like mastodon.social is that Mastodon prioritizes privacy and has made it optional to be included in the search results with mastodon.social also opting to make it disabled by default when they added it.

A second problem is that if you're on a smaller instance you may not be seeing enough posts because they don't propagate there. This also affects hashtags. There's projects like Holos Discover fediverse search engine and Fediscovery that are addressing this problem but they won't change the fact that many users simply have indexing their posts for full text search disabled.

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Cuba buys more than 300 drones from Russia and Iran — report

Seems like blatantly obvious creation of a false pretext considering that we've known for a while the US is thinking of invading.

Axios has become a joke. They've been the admin's lapdog uncritically publishing their claims of negotiations going well with Iran etc. weekly and at the specific times possibly intended to influence the markets. It's become clear it's all just lies they're using Axios to lend credence to...

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Be Wary of Bluesky

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You're right that the issue isn't just trusting a third party in general, that's how it is for most users on Lemmy or Mastodon too.

The difference isn’t whether you personally run a server. It’s whether the network depends on a single company.

Bluesky operating basically all of the infrastructure on that network means:

  • they decide moderation policy and what content gets boosted or hidden for everyone
  • they alone can change the rules for access and in general (ads, pay to be seen etc.)
  • they can de-prioritize or cut off third-party infrastructure
  • if the company fails, pivots or is pressured legally (I'm sure the current US government could never do such a thing), the network can effectively collapse

Here on Lemmy there is no single company that has all that power. If your admin goes bad there are real options to move to and the network will still exist even if they shut their service down. You also have much more leverage over here because you have those options and no operator is drawing in tens or hundreds of millions from investors who get to make the decisions.

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Smart glasses and socializing

Having seen what people now accept I would not want to bet that these will fail. Never thought people would be OK with Google using their phone to record their exact location 24/7 and save a searchable history of it for example but it seems that never was even controversial. Same with phones and other dedicated little devices that are always listening...

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Vance calls end of Ukraine aid 'one of the proudest' achievements of Trump administration

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they're not really breaking Budapest memorandum (not that they wouldn't break any treaty in a heartbeat) because it did not say the other signatories would have to defend Ukraine from anyone else. It's still a bad precedent for nuclear disarmament of course but then again the Trump administration has done every fucking thing they can to make literally every country in the world want nuclear weapons now because they've completely broken the old order where countries had at least some faith in USA mostly upholding and abiding by international law and supporting their supposed allies.