Hello, guys.

I have been tirelessly working on my MC competitive guide for the past few months, and have finally merged my own, 10th pull request, which has many, MANY improvements (20 files changed). Currently, I've managed to create 90% of all articles planned, with at least basic information. If anyone has additional information they'd like seen in this guide, please let me know! I am constantly listening, and have many ideas still.

The accusation to the Portuguese president was made by André Ventura on social media on Wednesday after his far-right party, Chega, voted in the parliament against Marcelo's trip to Germany for an official visit between this Thursday and Saturday, after an invitation by his German counterpart.

In a video posted on Instagram, in which he appears with a document in hand, André Ventura makes the accusation, referring to the Bürgerfest meeting as "a hamburger festival", when it is in fact a "Citizen's Festival" (the German word 'bürger' means 'citizen'), held at the presidential palace gardens in Berlin.

NOTE: Sorry for not being able to translate more, but I genuinely suck at it.

I am not quite ready to switch to a GNU/Linux yet, but I have live booted Linux Mint Xfce yesterday, with most things working, but much worse for launching times, etc. Would it be any different if I installed it on my eMMC drive? Since they are both based on NAND flash memory, I am clueless about it.

Amazing move from their part; they've also relicensed to the GPLv3. This happened a nearly week ago, but still a massive W.

I have thought about this a lot, and I came across this Wikipedia page about a Russian book today, and this book about China's plan, and it both terrified and enlightened me further. Based on these two pages (read them before reading this), I have a couple of additional thoughts (closer to conspiracy theories, but anyway):

• The Israel-Hamas conflict (and a genocide) is a distraction from Russia and Iran (yes, they disregard human lives that much), to avoid people from figuring out their plans, keeping a far-right Israeli government, and distracting from Ukraine. It also allows for Iran (and thus Russia) to test against missile and drone defense systems in Israel (that are the best anyway, therefore anything that passes will shred through any Western nation).
• Climate change isn't ignored; rather, it is done purposely. If farming fails, we will be in starvation, allowing them to take us out/dominate us much more easily. Additionally, there are studies that prove an increased temperature leads to lower productivity, thus proving this hypothesis further — and Russia won't feel as big of an impact there, especially in winter.
• The “AI” hype is being funded by both Russia and China, to lower our critical thinking, also allowing us to be tricked and attacked more easily. Furthermore, it increases the speed of climate change, and takes away even more clean water from us. This allows them to be able to poison our waters much more easily, since only a select few freshwater points will be out there,

So far, I have not heard opinions from Lemmy users about aim training, so I'm curious about that. If anyone has questions about it, I am happy to answer.

Reposted from the FOSS community @ Beehaw

Disclaimer: This project is not made by me, although I am an occasional contributor — it is made by Nokorpo, an indie Spanish studio. However, it is quite nice, albeit it still has a long way to go.

Background: As everyone here knows, I have been making a MC 1.8.9 guide. Today, I was gifted a lot of ranks in Hypixel, going from VIP to MVP++. The latter allows me to host private games, giving me the opportunity to coach using Bed Wars 1v1 matches. Furthermore, I notice consistent improvements in my gameplay, giving me more confidence, and a much better playstyle to teach. The question is, should I? If I would, I'd let people apply for it in my Revolt server. Additionally, I have been given positive feedback & results from teaching people a couple of things, similar to how I'd coach if I would make it through the previously mentioned way.

Hello. Over the past few months, I've posted about this project, and any major changes, along with asking for feedback. Anyway, I added a general tips page, an aiming guide, and have improved other parts. Please give suggestions, if possible. Thanks!

Before, I had a really messy repository, with a hard-to-use Table of Contents. Now, it's nearly complete, aside from some minor issues. A special thanks to Andre_601, for helping me set up the website!

I have been constantly looking for ways to improve my Minecraft competitive guide, but I have been stuck, and need some help from the community. You can help me out in the following ways:

• Add more guides, and improve the existing ones! The Table of Content has several “PLANNED” pages, which are a good starting place.
• Help me make a MkDocs (or similar) website, to have things further organized. This will be hosted through a Codeberg page, so I'll need help to make it work with that.
• If anyone here has a Reddit account, make a post at r/CompetitiveMinecraft, giving the link and a description + title of your choice. This is to gain more traction, therefore more people that learn from this guide, and potential contributors.

I've used Lemmy for quite some time, but I haven't found an Engrish community, other than the lemm.ee one, and the instance there died. Any alternatives?

Hello, everyone! Recently, I've been working on a guide to play Minecraft competitively (don't take it literally; it's just focused on gamemodes like Bed Wars, Bed Fight, etc). Anyway, here's the link for it: https://codeberg.org/mc-guides/mc-competitive-guide

If anyone has ideas, please tell me what they are — I might actually implement them!

I've been thinking about the best way to refer to systems that use the Linux kernel, whilst avoiding the confusions that come with using the latter for both meanings. Since there are GNU and non-GNU (e.g, Alpine Linux) systems, I assume that *Linux would cover both. However, for users without a technical background, the asterisk means much less than it does to developers — this seems self-deprecating, considering that the point of the suggested term is to avoid confusion for NON-TECHNICAL users. Am I overthinking?

Introduction & Notes

Hit selecting is one of the most powerful methods in 1.8 PvP, although it only truly became popular after 2022, mainly because of the Boxing and Ranked BedWars communities.

Do keep in mind that this is mainly taken from a GitHub issue I made for a cheat client — nonetheless, everything still applies perfectly.

Mechanics Involved

There are multiple phenomenons which make hit selecting exceedingly useful, so I'll start from that:

1: Due to how combat mechanics work, you can get free hits / combos if you hit at a different time than your opponent, given the correct distance.

2: Hit selecting makes you hit the ground earlier — this may lead to you being faster, which, combined with a sprint resetting technique, will make you deal more knockback than your opponent, potentially allowing you to initiate a combo. In many servers, there is also a Spigot fork that has custom knockback, perhaps including a ground and a sprint multiplier — making the advantage even greater.

3: Minecraft's attack range is based on a vertical beam starting from your eyes, and is not entirely consistent (by that, I mean that players lower than others will have a slightly higher range).

4: Players make lots of tiny calculation mistakes, and hit selecting takes advantage of that — since your opponent is not taking knockback right away, it'll briefly confuse that same opponent's aim, and you might be able to get a combo.

These advantages can (and should) be combined with multiple other methods, such as W-tapping, S-tapping (both variants), block-hitting, and strafing.

But, how do we use them to our advantage?

It's complicated, but there are several ways to do it, some that should be combined with others, and some that shouldn't.

1: Moving as if you're going to go for the first hit, but you pause hitting once you get in attack range, and you hit circa half a second after you get hit. Keep in mind that you cannot zigzag strafe whilst doing this, you can only either strafe and move forward in one direction, or move in a straight line.

2: Same as the first one, but you hit right after you get hit (circa 200 milliseconds), and you can zigzag strafe right before you do it. It's recommended you follow up with more of this hit delaying, to get enough, in order to achieve the same goal as in the first method.

What if someone performs this against us?

There are many methods to fight back against these methods, but I'll focus on the very first method (also called normal hit selecting), which is the most used on:

1: Hit select too — seriously, this can be extremely effective. However, this leads to a situation similar to rock paper scissors, except that both you and the opponent are trying to find the position most convenient to yourselves.

2: A well-timed, slightly longer W-Tap (takes lots of skill, not recommended for beginners). This makes you get the benefits of hit selecting, instead of your opponent.

3: Counter strafing, which is switching directions right before you can hit your opponent. This throws your opponent's aim off, allowing you to get free hits, and potentially start a combo.

I hope I managed to explain this properly. If any of you have questions, either reply to this post or contact me through my other social media accounts.

Background: I am a lifelong Windows user who is planning to move to Linux in October, once Microsoft drops support for Windows 10. I use a particularly bad laptop (Intel Celeron N3060, 4 GB DDR3 RAM, 64 GB eMMC storage).

I do have some degree of terminal experience in Windows, but I would not count on it. If there are defaults that are sensible enough, I'd appreciate it. I can also configure through mouse-based text editors, as long as there is reliable, concise documentation on that app.

So, here's what I want in a distro and desktop environment:

• Easy to install, maintain (graphical installation and, preferably, package management too + auto-updating for non-critical applications)
• Lightwight and snappy (around 800 MB idle RAM usage, 10-16 GB storage usage in a base install)
• Secure (using Wayland, granular GUI-based permission control)

I have narrowed down the distributions and desktop environments that seem promising, but want y'all's opinions on them.

Distributions:

• Linux Mint Xfce: Easy to install, not prone to randomly break (problems: high OOTB storage usage, RAM consumption seems a little too high, kind of outdated packages, not on Wayland yet)
• Fedora: Secure, the main DEs use Wayland (problems: similar to above except for the outdated packages; also hard to install and maintain, from what I have heard)
• antiX Linux (problems: outdated packages, no Wayland)

Desktop Environments:

• Xfce: Lightweight, fast, seems like it'd work how I want (problems: not on Wayland yet, that's it)
• labwc + other Wayland stuff: Lightweight, fast, secure (problems: likely harder to install, especially since I have no Linux terminal experience, cannot configure through a GUI)

In advance, I thank you all for helping me!

I appreciate any help, especially in things like:

• Neofetch screenshots, to showcase idle RAM usage on some DEs
• Experiences with some distributions

Is it a good idea to crank up the settings in Argon2id to max (20 iterations, 100 length, salted) for applications? I'm new to the cybersecurity subject, but I assume keeping the hashing as slow as possible (and a longer hash length = fewer chances of collusion) helps fight against brute-forcing. Is that correct?

Also, what is the security of having a password logging in system that: 1: Uses the max Argon2id settings, to make the authentication slow 2: Makes it take 1–2 seconds (in a circle loading style) for it to either fail, or succeed 3: Adds a 1-second cooldown, increasing by 0.5s by every failed attempt (any successful attempt in that cooldown is ignored, it just says that it's on cooldown nevertheless)

I'm open to suggestions! (I'm not implementing everything, but thought experiments are a good place to start, IMO)

As the title goes. This would involve turning the tax levels / brackets into an exponential mathematical curve. One of the benefits off of the top of my head, is that people wouldn't be scared of their salary increasing just enough, to actually lower their clean income. Another one would be that you can lower even further the tax rate for middle / low class, because you (the government) would receive more from taxes. Any opinions/ideas for this?