From a6303c49934596d537bb1f4538e23df2f3da4769 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lynnesbian Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2020 02:57:54 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] video player integration updates, rewrite old s3 URLs to cool new ones --- _includes/video.html | 16 +++-- ...019-07-17-the-fediverse-tribune-issue-1.md | 8 +-- ...019-08-14-the-fediverse-tribune-issue-2.md | 22 +++--- _posts/2020-01-03-xbox-one-woes.md | 67 +++++++------------ ...ression-in-the-information-age-part-one.md | 6 +- ...ression-in-the-information-age-part-two.md | 6 +- .../2019-05-08-using-an-eeepc-in-2019.md | 12 ++-- .../2019-05-13-fediverse-survey-summary-1.md | 26 +++---- .../2019-05-17-fediverse-survey-summary-2.md | 4 +- ...-05-17-some-android-app-recommendations.md | 22 +++--- .../2019-05-19-a-simple-glitch-soc-tweak.md | 10 +-- .../2019-05-20-fediverse-survey-summary-3.md | 4 +- assets/js/post.js | 8 ++- assets/style.css | 4 ++ 14 files changed, 104 insertions(+), 111 deletions(-) diff --git a/_includes/video.html b/_includes/video.html index 7a062ac..273698f 100644 --- a/_includes/video.html +++ b/_includes/video.html @@ -1,13 +1,17 @@
{%- assign mime_types = "mp4,webm" | split: "," %} {%- if mime_types contains include.extension %}{% assign type = "video/" | append: include.extension %}{% endif %} - {%- assign qualities = include.qualities | split: "," %} -
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/_posts/2019-07-17-the-fediverse-tribune-issue-1.md b/_posts/2019-07-17-the-fediverse-tribune-issue-1.md index cce4d44..6c4b1f5 100644 --- a/_posts/2019-07-17-the-fediverse-tribune-issue-1.md +++ b/_posts/2019-07-17-the-fediverse-tribune-issue-1.md @@ -15,22 +15,22 @@ knzk.me The most prominent event in recent memory is knzk.me's closure. -![](https://wasabi.lynnesbian.space/bune-city/2019/07/369455ef26b48884ddbbc4ec485e8382/knzk-bg.png) +![](https://cdn.bune.city/2019/07/369455ef26b48884ddbbc4ec485e8382/knzk-bg.png) knzk was a popular instance with thousands of users. Its closure was announced on the first of June and it shut down on the first of next month. Many memories and (in)famous posts are now only kept stored in the caches of other instances, as well as the personal archives of those who chose to download them. For [reasons previously discussed](https://bune.city/2019/05/archive-team-and-the-fediverse/), knzk was not archived by any archival team (at least, none that I'm aware of). Users were given a month's warning, providing ample time to download personal archives and move to other instances. -![knzk.me's closure notice, posted by the admin.](https://wasabi.lynnesbian.space/bune-city/2019/07/8b44d66fbe2bcb7421085c9d1ba96739/Screenshot_20190601-014259_Fedilab_1.png) +![knzk.me's closure notice, posted by the admin.](https://cdn.bune.city/2019/07/8b44d66fbe2bcb7421085c9d1ba96739/Screenshot_20190601-014259_Fedilab_1.png) knzk.me was one of the most popular instances for users migrating from Twitter during the August 2018 influx. At its peak, it had over 3000 users. -![Many instances have the knzk logo as an emoji.](https://wasabi.lynnesbian.space/bune-city/2019/07/c1f2ba111b8c1be425947d74af5bcfe0/image-768x382.png) +![Many instances have the knzk logo as an emoji.](https://cdn.bune.city/2019/07/c1f2ba111b8c1be425947d74af5bcfe0/image-768x382.png) "Women are Stupid" Spammer -------------------------- For months now, a spammer has been spreading a misogynist message on the Fediverse. He does this by manually (yes, manually) creating new accounts on as many instances as he can, and then copy and pasting a message as a reply to as many users as he can before he's banned. -![The spammer even replies to bot accounts.](https://wasabi.lynnesbian.space/bune-city/2019/07/d2f692a2660eb6c4e52acfdd1bd073ed/Screenshot_20190721-103040_Fedilab-498x1024.png) +![The spammer even replies to bot accounts.](https://cdn.bune.city/2019/07/d2f692a2660eb6c4e52acfdd1bd073ed/Screenshot_20190721-103040_Fedilab-498x1024.png) The spammer owns the domain "womenarestupid.site", and makes posts like the one above repeatedly. The current wave of posts are about this so-called "don't marry movement". To avoid seeing these posts, users need only filter out the phrase. While I don't know much about Pleroma, from what I understand, it is possible for admins to block all incoming posts that contain a phrase, which could be used to stop this spammer. Instance admins should consider either closing registrations or using Mastodon's new feature that allows you to ask new users to complete a form explaining why they would like to register. diff --git a/_posts/2019-08-14-the-fediverse-tribune-issue-2.md b/_posts/2019-08-14-the-fediverse-tribune-issue-2.md index bd41a70..ce42564 100644 --- a/_posts/2019-08-14-the-fediverse-tribune-issue-2.md +++ b/_posts/2019-08-14-the-fediverse-tribune-issue-2.md @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ This has lead many to criticise the developer of Fedilab, with one user opening Kiwi farms, a site where users harass and dox vulnerable people, recently joined the Fediverse, as mentioned in [the last issue](https://bune.city/2019/07/the-fediverse-tribune-issue-1/). They recommend Fedilab as an Android app, almost certainly because of this issue. Again, it's worth noting that Fedilab is not the only Fediverse client not to block Gab, but it is the mostly publicly well known for doing so. -![](https://wasabi.lynnesbian.space/bune-city/2019/07/8b3884b494969b54551e51c8a200960c/image-768x244.png) +![](https://cdn.bune.city/2019/07/8b3884b494969b54551e51c8a200960c/image-768x244.png) ### F-Droid's Response @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ The developer of Fedilab does not take an explicitly pro-Gab stance, and instead On the 29th of July, an app named "Free Tusky" was added to F-Droid. Free Tusky is a modified version of Tusky that is nearly identical to the original, save for one small change - the removal of the implemented blocklist. -![The description is copied from Tusky's description, save for the last two lines.](https://wasabi.lynnesbian.space/bune-city/2019/08/3fd58d1ca8b82554d5aa9f6556f42301/freetusky.png) +![The description is copied from Tusky's description, save for the last two lines.](https://cdn.bune.city/2019/08/3fd58d1ca8b82554d5aa9f6556f42301/freetusky.png) Some people saw the existence of this app as contradicting with F-Droid's public statement, due to this line: @@ -150,32 +150,32 @@ So much needs to be done due to the way federation works - servers don't say who It's worth noting that Eugen, the lead developer of Mastodon, has expressed his disdain for Fedichive. -![](https://wasabi.lynnesbian.space/bune-city/2019/08/b936a1ab8f3232a4116b43c0485e3053/fedichive.png) +![](https://cdn.bune.city/2019/08/b936a1ab8f3232a4116b43c0485e3053/fedichive.png) Much of the Fediverse had an averse reaction to Fedichive's presence, and this was apparently enough to drive the admin into a frenzy, posting a tirade of slurs and directed insults while stating that the users of the Fediverse as a whole are "bitchy babies". He repeatedly insulted one of my partners, Zoe, with misogynist slurs and degrading comments. *Content warning: I'd like to restate that the following screenshots contain various slurs.* -- ![](https://wasabi.lynnesbian.space/bune-city/2019/08/1cfc4352d4f64e346920cdc5c3e72b9e/sshot_2019-08-17_at_14-57-24-1566017844.png) +- ![](https://cdn.bune.city/2019/08/1cfc4352d4f64e346920cdc5c3e72b9e/sshot_2019-08-17_at_14-57-24-1566017844.png) -- ![](https://wasabi.lynnesbian.space/bune-city/2019/08/2a13ee0b9db9cb24716b92dd1f65c2b3/sshot_2019-08-17_at_14-43-45-1566017025.png) +- ![](https://cdn.bune.city/2019/08/2a13ee0b9db9cb24716b92dd1f65c2b3/sshot_2019-08-17_at_14-43-45-1566017025.png) -- ![](https://wasabi.lynnesbian.space/bune-city/2019/08/4bc848d7ab792a14c1e320ac9ad6bc71/sshot_2019-08-17_at_14-49-23-1566017363.png) +- ![](https://cdn.bune.city/2019/08/4bc848d7ab792a14c1e320ac9ad6bc71/sshot_2019-08-17_at_14-49-23-1566017363.png) []{.wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_button-prev .swiper-button-prev .swiper-button-white}[]{.wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_button-next .swiper-button-next .swiper-button-white}[]{.wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_button-pause} The admin also admitted to being behind the weedislife and freefedifollowers instances, two instances known for follow spamming and scraping lists of accounts. -![The last post is particularly concerning.](https://wasabi.lynnesbian.space/bune-city/2019/08/c502542f06bf3fc4e92b0934b7d852f1/sshot_2019-08-17_at_15-02-31-1566018151.png) +![The last post is particularly concerning.](https://cdn.bune.city/2019/08/c502542f06bf3fc4e92b0934b7d852f1/sshot_2019-08-17_at_15-02-31-1566018151.png) Finally, the admin decided to shut down the "project". -![](https://wasabi.lynnesbian.space/bune-city/2019/08/90f8b103b844698419f88a48ee775023/sshot_2019-08-17_at_15-26-30-1566019590.png) +![](https://cdn.bune.city/2019/08/90f8b103b844698419f88a48ee775023/sshot_2019-08-17_at_15-26-30-1566019590.png) The final post on the instance was the admin claiming that they were going to sell the "data" obtained to Facebook and Russia. -![](https://wasabi.lynnesbian.space/bune-city/2019/08/d6c541ad4b4f8e34a9fba69172712b85/sshot_2019-08-17_at_15-29-30-1566019770.png) +![](https://cdn.bune.city/2019/08/d6c541ad4b4f8e34a9fba69172712b85/sshot_2019-08-17_at_15-29-30-1566019770.png) Overall, this was a complete mess from start to finish, and rather entertaining to watch it unfold live. @@ -186,11 +186,11 @@ Every issue, I'll take some time to spotlight an interesting account, service, o [Birdshite](https://birdsite.monster) is a tool that can be used to bridge Twitter and ActivityPub accounts, meaning that you can follow Twitter user from Mastodon, Pleroma, et al. **Note that as of 2020-04-02, Birdshite no longer functions.** -![You can now follow the official Twitter account from Mastodon, although I don't know why you'd want to :mlem:](https://wasabi.lynnesbian.space/bune-city/2019/08/49f973dd639d800401a8615231d32a0f/image.png) +![You can now follow the official Twitter account from Mastodon, although I don't know why you'd want to :mlem:](https://cdn.bune.city/2019/08/49f973dd639d800401a8615231d32a0f/image.png) Using birdshite is as simple as replacing `twitter.com` in a given Twitter URL with `birdsite.monster`. For example, if you want to access [this](https://twitter.com/MastodonProject/status/1079196084059205632) tweet from your Mastodon instance, you just need to replace `twitter.com` with `birdsite.monster`, and paste it into your instance's search bar. -![The same post displayed on Mastodon and Twitter.](https://wasabi.lynnesbian.space/bune-city/2019/08/e065e47e5633dbc4e927953ffc79dc05/posts.png) +![The same post displayed on Mastodon and Twitter.](https://cdn.bune.city/2019/08/e065e47e5633dbc4e927953ffc79dc05/posts.png) Birdshite allows you to follow Twitter users and interact with their posts, and integrates cleanly and simply with the Fediverse. diff --git a/_posts/2020-01-03-xbox-one-woes.md b/_posts/2020-01-03-xbox-one-woes.md index 4c31092..ede4c68 100644 --- a/_posts/2020-01-03-xbox-one-woes.md +++ b/_posts/2020-01-03-xbox-one-woes.md @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ categories: [Reviews, Technology] tags: [Review, Technology, Xbox] summary: My experiences with the Xbox One, and why I really don't recommend getting one (unless you really want to play the exclusives) subtitle: Xbox? XBox? XBOX? Whatever. -images: [https://wasabi.lynnesbian.space/bune-city/2019/12/87d5da711b729344f9cc19b78a7b581f/IMG_20191205_092046-1024x768.jpg] +images: [https://cdn.bune.city/2019/12/87d5da711b729344f9cc19b78a7b581f/IMG_20191205_092046-1024x768.jpg] --- So my wife and I recently made the decision to get an Xbox One, because there were a few games I wanted on it, mainly the Rare Replay Collection for its Xbox 360 titles. I could have got an Xbox 360 and a copy of the games instead, but hey, may as well buy a current gen console, especially since we managed to find a cheap second hand Xbox One on eBay. It came with the Kinect (joy of joys), a copy of Kinect Sports Rivals, Lego Dimensions and the requisite pieces and scanner (the eBay listing didn't mention it but sure), the Xbox itself, and a controller with headset. A headset that only works with the Xbox One controller. Neato. @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ So my wife and I recently made the decision to get an Xbox One, because there we The first thing you notice when you see an original model Xbox One is that it's enormous. As big as a VCR. -![This is ridiculous.](https://wasabi.lynnesbian.space/bune-city/2019/12/87d5da711b729344f9cc19b78a7b581f/IMG_20191205_092046-1024x768.jpg) +![This is ridiculous.](https://cdn.bune.city/2019/12/87d5da711b729344f9cc19b78a7b581f/IMG_20191205_092046-1024x768.jpg) I can only assume they made it so big because of the [issues](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360_technical_problems#General_Hardware_Failure_errors) caused by making the Xbox 360 so small. The Xbox One S is 40% smaller than the original model, which is nice. @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ The Rare Replay collection consists of 30 games, 8 of which are Xbox 360 titles. This was going to take a while with my internet, and the Xbox One only has 500GB of internal storage space, so I decided to cancel them all and individually install Trouble in Paradise once I realised that was possible. However, I then realised that I was installing the wrong Trouble in Paradise. -![There's two of them!!](https://wasabi.lynnesbian.space/bune-city/2019/12/07120691d3969c54d14d8fe001c8bcd5/image.png) +![There's two of them!!](https://cdn.bune.city/2019/12/07120691d3969c54d14d8fe001c8bcd5/image.png) See, I was installing **Viva Piñata: TIP** when I *should* have been installing **Viva Piñata: TIP**. Yes, those names are the same. The difference is that one of them has "RARE REPLAY" on the box art. They're both the same game, but Rare Replay won't recognise that you have the game installed if you install the non-Replay version. This doesn't really matter all that much, but I decided it was worth cancelling the download and starting the other one to have things integrate a little better. @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ Because the Xbox One runs the games off of the hard drive (whether or not you ha Let's say you're playing Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise (good taste, by the way), and you want to delete one of your gardens. The Xbox One menu offers you two options: Delete the "Reserved space", which contains nothing but will be recreated by the game when you next open it, and delete all save data. -![Sorry for the poor quality, but the Xbox One doesn't let you take screenshots of the home screen.](https://wasabi.lynnesbian.space/bune-city/2019/12/e51a152d06158b245116e0c97d899cf6/IMG_20191212_143006_1-1024x599.jpg) +![Sorry for the poor quality, but the Xbox One doesn't let you take screenshots of the home screen.](https://cdn.bune.city/2019/12/e51a152d06158b245116e0c97d899cf6/IMG_20191212_143006_1-1024x599.jpg) At first, I thought I was stuck with this, but after looking around online, I found out that there *is* actually a way to delete individual save files, but it's really counterintuitive: @@ -90,11 +90,11 @@ Finally, the weirdest issue of all - sometimes games will fail to open. A messag While writing this blog post, I even got a brand new Backwards Compatibility error that I'd never seen before! -![For some reason it has taken Microsoft too long to get their shit together.](https://wasabi.lynnesbian.space/bune-city/2019/12/eedf15657fbe6fd48df69f5d5c8dfac2/IMG_20191212_163730_1c-1024x632.jpg) +![For some reason it has taken Microsoft too long to get their shit together.](https://cdn.bune.city/2019/12/eedf15657fbe6fd48df69f5d5c8dfac2/IMG_20191212_163730_1c-1024x632.jpg) For the most part, the games run fine, although the Klungo's Arcade minigame in Banjo Kazooie Nuts & Bolts has some weird graphical glitches going on that weren't present on the Xbox 360. -![It even covers the amazing "cabinet" art on the sides of the screen...](https://wasabi.lynnesbian.space/bune-city/2019/12/ed1fd1436cfdaea4812e0294a1592836/cap_13-12-2019_2-49-37_AM-ek00ojvs_000001_01-1024x576.jpg) +![It even covers the amazing "cabinet" art on the sides of the screen...](https://cdn.bune.city/2019/12/ed1fd1436cfdaea4812e0294a1592836/cap_13-12-2019_2-49-37_AM-ek00ojvs_000001_01-1024x576.jpg) I also experienced moments in Nuts & Bolts where sound effects would stop working occasionally. I don't remember if this occurred on the Xbox 360 version of the game, but I'm fairly certain it didn't, or at least not this badly. @@ -109,18 +109,7 @@ Xbox Store Issues For whatever reason, you need to enter your password to see the prices of 360 games in the store. Instead of the usual "\$xx.xx buy" button, there's a "See the price" button that prompts for your password because you're "accessing sensitive info". -
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- -Maybe it's because they don't want you to see how much they're charging for decade old games. - -
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+{% include video.html name="secure_info" extension="mp4" qualities="480,360" caption="Maybe it's because they don't want you to see how much they're charging for decade old games." %} I can understand needing a password to buy games, but needing a password to see the price of games is just silly. I have no idea why this is needed, but it just makes the whole experience more clunky. @@ -132,7 +121,7 @@ There are three main ways you can format a date. You can use day/month/year, lik I bring this up because of the Xbox One's subscription management screen. -![Duck themed measuring spoons for scale.](https://wasabi.lynnesbian.space/bune-city/2020/01/1532ba6849c5f384f5b3531fb81d532f/wp-1577943431917-1024x768.jpg) +![Duck themed measuring spoons for scale.](https://cdn.bune.city/2020/01/1532ba6849c5f384f5b3531fb81d532f/wp-1577943431917-1024x768.jpg) It look like my EA access subscription will automatically renew on the 1st of the 7th, or July 1st. But that's not the case - it's *actually* renewing on the 7th of the 1st, which is four days from now. @@ -140,11 +129,11 @@ Microsoft is a US company, sure, but my Xbox's locale is set to Australia, and t The system clock settings use an unambiguous format, using the word "January" instead of the number one. If Microsoft believed the month/day/year format to be unambiguous, why didn't they use it here? -![](https://wasabi.lynnesbian.space/bune-city/2020/01/d71e21d8e20e40b461a73fee20b3f8a6/wp-1577943431891-1024x768.jpg) +![](https://cdn.bune.city/2020/01/d71e21d8e20e40b461a73fee20b3f8a6/wp-1577943431891-1024x768.jpg) Even worse, the game recording filenames use day-month-year - the standard format for my locale. (they're using dashes instead of slashes because you can't use a forward slash in a filename - try it for yourself!) -![](https://wasabi.lynnesbian.space/bune-city/2020/01/7dfad4ae36c3ef34c1a0ab950a098180/image.png) +![](https://cdn.bune.city/2020/01/7dfad4ae36c3ef34c1a0ab950a098180/image.png) So if the Xbox uses day-month-year for game recordings because I'm in a non-US locale, then why does it use the US format for subscription expiry dates? Microsoft is aware that people in my locale put the day before the month (of course they are), and yet they don't do it for the subscription page, and *only* the subscription page. All they had to do was say "January 7th" or even just "7/1 (in 4 days)". @@ -167,13 +156,13 @@ Also like the PS4, the *entire* game needs to be installed. On the Xbox 360, som The back of the Halo 5 box states that "up to 60GB" of storage is required to play the game. -![Cropped and edited from [here](https://imgur.com/a/CeNPs).](https://wasabi.lynnesbian.space/bune-city/2019/12/7ca55343ce9a9f548d69a44538ad6841/halo5-1024x432.jpg) +![Cropped and edited from [here](https://imgur.com/a/CeNPs).](https://cdn.bune.city/2019/12/7ca55343ce9a9f548d69a44538ad6841/halo5-1024x432.jpg) From this alone, I'm sure you can see the issue with giving the Xbox One a 500GB hard drive. This 60GB install requirement has since changed, though. It's now 100GB. -![Halo 5's install page on the Xbox One, showing a size of 100GB](https://wasabi.lynnesbian.space/bune-city/2019/12/ac3b4d6592667504a5fa8579025e8964/IMG_20191212_151142_1-1024x596.jpg) +![Halo 5's install page on the Xbox One, showing a size of 100GB](https://cdn.bune.city/2019/12/ac3b4d6592667504a5fa8579025e8964/IMG_20191212_151142_1-1024x596.jpg) Halo 5 is "Xbox One X Enhanced", and it comes with higher quality textures on the Xbox One X. I don't have an Xbox One X, so I get the non-4K install size. The install size for Xbox One X consoles will be even higher than this. @@ -209,23 +198,13 @@ It's hard to state how horrendous the load times are on the Xbox One. I ran into Here's a video of me recreating this. Even after the loading screen, characters still pop in right in front of you. -
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- It's kind of surreal. They don't just fade in or blit into the world, they sort of rise from the floor like a sci-fi holographic projector turning on. -
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+{% include video.html name="ow-streaming" extension="mp4" qualities="506,480" caption="It's kind of surreal. They don't just fade in or blit into the world, they sort of rise from the floor like a sci-fi holographic projector turning on." %} + + Meanwhile, there are loading screens between areas, as there are in pretty much every open world game. I timed one of the loading screens I encountered on the Xbox One - *forty nine seconds*. -
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- Here's a video so you can watch it in real time, if you really want to suffer through that. At least Fallout 4 gives you a model to spin around while you contemplate the nature of your own existence. -
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+{% include video.html name="ow-load" extension="mp4" qualities="506,480" caption="Here's a video so you can watch it in real time, if you really want to suffer through that. At least Fallout 4 gives you a model to spin around while you contemplate the nature of your own existence." %} Like I mentioned before, The Evil Within also has long load times, but not as bad as this. The Evil Within was an early title and also came out on Xbox 360, so this has been an issue since day one. @@ -238,7 +217,7 @@ I miss PlayStation 1 load times. This is the home screen of the Xbox One. It has four ads. You cannot turn them off or dismiss them. -![](https://wasabi.lynnesbian.space/bune-city/2019/12/1171200932365a1449d2b50d46835052/sketch-1576130164202-1024x599.jpg) +![](https://cdn.bune.city/2019/12/1171200932365a1449d2b50d46835052/sketch-1576130164202-1024x599.jpg) Every time you go to choose a new game or exit the one you're playing you get this shoved in your face. @@ -252,7 +231,7 @@ Speaking of the tabs, the second tab is "Game Pass", which is one big ad for Gam There's also a small ad that appears at the bottom of the guide that pops up when you press the Xbox button on the controller, which means you're never more than one button press away from being advertised to. -![Ads being shoved in your face to an almost comical degree? It's like I'm still playing The Outer Worlds!](https://wasabi.lynnesbian.space/bune-city/2019/12/ff714d71f87b62245df80cd00e0a3881/img_20191212_1610014367524193402917152-768x1024.jpg) +![Ads being shoved in your face to an almost comical degree? It's like I'm still playing The Outer Worlds!](https://cdn.bune.city/2019/12/ff714d71f87b62245df80cd00e0a3881/img_20191212_1610014367524193402917152-768x1024.jpg)