I have a pretty good guess. They were using ShellExecute or a similar API with only "notepad” as a name or “edit” as a verb. The search order would end up finding your shortcut first.
This would be odd behavior (the path should be be the full path and start at system32) but I don’t have IE6 and Windows 95 to find the exact API lol.
Each instance admin decides whether they require an email. Mine doesn’t, but it’s more important to choose an instance with admins you trust and not located in the US.
Don’t use your real email regardless of instance.
That’s how peertube works for streaming (not storage), with P2P
Not federated, seemingly vibecoded, MIT. Peertube exists, not sure this makes a ton of sense as an alternative but good luck otherwise.
I can’t believe North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has killed thousands of people for performing the Macarena!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_pricing this kind. It’s not unusual, although I never liked it either
The tool is “Steamless”. I think there was a misunderstanding, games without steam DRM don’t need an emulator. I never ran into one that lacked DRM but used the API with no fallback, thus requiring an emulator.
I am sure they exist though.
You are wrong, steam emulators are only necessary if the game uses steam DRM or relies on it for online functionality. You can try this with most indie games, or anything also sold on GOG.
You can remove the steam DRM wrapper as well quite easily if its the only one present.
This will go well. But some people want lemmy to be like reddit, shitty politics and censorship inclusive.
I believe I used it on reddit, long ago but there were no ads. I was surprised since no other client I know of has them (and no lemmy server has ads).
I use voyager, it’s great.
“This is going very poorly, we will pretend to listen to our customers so it looks like we are course correcting, winning favor with investors and customers (big businesses, not home users).”
They may even switch CEOs if the situation worsens, but the practices remain.
Yeah they will recall their plan soon enough
Why does your lemmy client have ads?
It was not meant to be as harsh as it came across. And yes, this function is for logged out users, was just trying to show that it ends up messy.
I assume you’re one of the devs? I can delete the comment if you want, but I think it would be worth fixing sooner than later instead of just adding features. A lot of the mechanisms are a bad idea even if it wasn’t a mess but you do you.
that it shouldn’t matter what client someone uses
There are a few implementation issues and incompatibilities I saw but not too confident in my knowledge of the protocols to say good fixes. Not sure what the Judas comment means.
I was curious so had a look around.
I assume it’s this https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/src/commit/cfc35b0e1b812d929d62aea87f47014f8ce845b4/app/main/routes.py#L131
if current_user.is_anonymous:
flash(_('Create an account to tailor this feed to your interests.'))
content_filters = {'-1': {'trump', 'elon', 'musk'}}
Some of the complaints about hardcoded values were fixed in the last commits, but the code is a spaghetti mess littered with ad-hoc hacks for random whims of the developers. This is bad software design and disrespectful to users imo, but to each their own.
I love your origin story so much