So basically anything that makes it more useful than just doing it yourself.

Not even close, but okay.

Dude fuck off.

The great thing about RISC-V if you care about sovereignty in an age where CPUs run the world is that it’s an open standard. Contrast this with x86 which is owned in some part by US-based Intel and some part by US-based AMD as well as ARM which is owned by Japanese-owned, UK-based Arm Holdings. If you want to use x86, you’re shelling out license money to Intel and AMD, and if you want to use ARM, you’re shelling out license money to Arm Holdings. You never truly “own” what you’re producing.

Bruh what? 💀 I chose the highest-profile and arguably best emulators for each major system, let alone that almost every other modern one uses GitHub too. If all of these emulators are flying under the corporate radar, I will deliberately inject myself with rabies and die a slow, agonizing death. I couldn’t come up with this shit if I got cross-faded on meth and fentanyl.

Legitimately shocked that this abject fucking nonsense got three upvotes. Want to know how I know Sony knows PCSX2 exists? Two former PCSX2 developers are working on “ports” (read: shitty, subpar emulation) of PS2 games to the PS5. They got their jobs because of their work on PCSX2.

Edit: I’m going to go off a bit more, actually, because I’m sick of living in an era where zero-information dipshits can just say any unresearched, unsubstantiated bullshit online and put it into immediate contention with obvious, demonstrable facts presented with sourcing by a subject matter expert:

• I’ve included a Wikipedia article where applicable; these articles will often have links to these emulators being discussed in popular gaming outlets.
• This doesn’t even count emulators like Snes9x, PCSX-Reloaded, and Project64 which are no longer top-of-class but which have their own Wikipedia articles, were wildly popular in their day, and host their code on GitHub.

Just a reminder don’t have emulators on GitHub.

I don’t like GitHub, but this is simply untrue. We host the PCSX2 project on GitHub, and GitHub even donated some amount at one point to the project. The following major, top-of-class video game console emulators (non-exhaustive) are officially hosted on GitHub:

PlayStation:

• DuckStation (PSX/PSOne)
• PCSX2 (PS2) (Wikipedia article)
• RPCS3 (PS3) (Wikipedia article)
• shadPS4 (PS4) (Wikipedia article)
• PPSSPP (PSP) (Wikipedia article)
• Vita3K (PS Vita)

Xbox:

• xemu (Xbox)
• xenia (Xbox 360) (previous Wikipedia article deleted)

Nintendo:

• Mesen (NES etc.)
• bsnes-hd (SNES)
• Gopher64 (N64; recently started as a successor to simple64)
• Dolphin (GC/Wii) (Wikipedia article)
• Cemu (Wii U) (Wikipedia article)
• SameBoy (GB/GBC)
• mGBA (GBA)
• melonDS (NDS)

Sega:

• Genesis Plus GX (libretro core for multiple)
• Flycast (Dreamcast)

Atari:

• Stella (Atari 2600) (Wikipedia article)
• Atari800 (Atari 8-bit/Atari 5200)
• A7800 (Atari 7800)

Misc:

• BizHawk
• MAME (Wikipedia article)
• ares
• higan (Wikipedia article)
• libretro (Wikipedia article)

Keep in mind that I’ve only chosen what I believe is the top one or one of the top ones from major consoles. If I could pick multiple per console, this list would be a mile long.

Yeah, to me, the PlayStation might seriously be one of the ugliest major home consoles of all time (beaten out by the PSOne which looks like a cheap toy). And this isn’t even a generational thing: a grey N64 and Sega Saturn stand head-and-shoulders above the PlayStation in terms of looks. Cool how compact it was, at least.

A comment that says “I know not the first thing about how machine learning works but I want to make an indignant statement about it anyway.”

Obviously the newest Intel is the 13th generation

Erm

You understand why advertising when it isn’t clearly labeled as such is worse, right?

Whoops! I didn’t even notice the Modlog because (at least for me) it’s tucked away at the very bottom of the sidebar and nestled between the list of mods and some statistics I don’t really care too much about. :P Genuinely my bad, though; I should’ve looked harder. Appreciate it now that I can finally see it!

I can’t emphasize enough how bad Lemmy’s moderation tools are. It’s not just that they’re abysmally anemic (including that you can’t perform moderator actions on someone in your community without a comment of theirs to click the context menu on? what??). It’s not just that reports don’t synchronize correctly across instances (i.e. if you want to moderate a community on another instance, you’re at a severe disadvantage). It’s that they’re wildly fragmented, presented just all over the place like some kind of scavenger hunt.

• As I said previously, the context menu of a comment is the only way you can ban and unban users (except that you actually can ban them if you use the API directly).
• Moderation has zero hierarchy, so 1) any moderator if they want to can perform a Night of the Long Knives and become the sole moderator (fine for now when admins can quickly intervene, but impossibly stupid if Lemmy ever became bigger), and 2) every moderator has access to all of the tools (including appointing other mods).
• You can’t view a list of banned users and unban them from there; this gets back into point 1 where you need to dig up the last comment on your community (not easily if you removed it) to unban them.
• On Voyager (third-party mobile app), I have more tools than I do on desktop, which indicates to me that the tools are there in the API but just aren’t exposed on desktop for some god-forsaken reason.
• I literally can’t even view a per-community modlog on desktop. I have to go out and find the Lemmy.World modlog (usually from a search engine) and then filter by action and pray that it was recent enough that I can find it in the rest of the heap.
• Oh, but don’t worry. There’s a third-party tool for viewing the modlog, which is just ??? What the fuck?? How is this in some random tool you have to go searching for instead of in Lemmy proper? And even then, this tool has its flaws.

Edit: obviously no automod either, although I know that’s a much larger undertaking than any of the things I’ve listed thus far.

Not only can they not be trusted to leave money on the table, but they can actively be trusted not to.

Yeah, it’s called switching away from these shit-ass invasive products wherever possible.

in order to promote the growth of the fediverse, we want to merge these two communities from two different instances into a third one.

Feels weird.

The ship hasn’t sailed; the more countries you let do that, the more problematic the precedent becomes. This isn’t a binary thing.

Betcha PixelFed isn’t. Weird how that works out.

Issue requests or pull requests?

How dare you!! Here’s why you need to be vegan right now by the way grumble grumble grumble

My point being I see no reason why Kickstarter can’t be for kickstarting the rapid scaling of a free, available-to-all project when it can be for rampant, unadulterated scams. This is easily within the spirit if not the letter of Kickstarter, unlike the scams which fit the letter but not the spirit.