Currently studying CS and some other stuff. Best known for previously being top 50 (OCE) in LoL, expert RoN modder, and creator of RoN:EE’s community patch (CBP).

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Cake day: June 17th, 2023
  • MHLoppy@fedia.ioOPtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•Buying happiness
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    8 days ago

    You’ve gotten a few replies from people who are talking about e-ink, which I can’t comment on without having used an e-reader, but I nearly universally prefer to read things on a screen bigger than a phone. I guess it’ll depend a bit on your phone’s screen size (mine is on the small side for recent phone generations), but it always feels like the screen is closer to my face than I want, the font is too small to be comfortable, and/or I can’t fit enough on the screen. Plus the aspect ratio of modern phones is very tall, meaning each line of text is pretty short which is kind of annoying for long-form content like books. If you have a big 6.5" screen that’s similar to a small e-reader’s screen size anyway then I guess it might not be as much of an issue though!

  • MHLoppy@fedia.iotoFediverse@lemmy.world•Fedi On Fire
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    12 days ago

    The feeling is that simply having it be public isn’t an automatic license to re-use or “re-appropriate” the content outside of what’s required for normal network functionality. From that perspective, federating a post to a normal Mastodon / fediverse server = OK, viewing that post in your browser = OK, but many other uses = not OK.

    This subset of the userbase want the norm for “extracurricular uses” of people’s posts to be opt-in only, even for public posts. I kind of envy the idea in some ways (aggressive requirement of consent), though in the world we currently live in, it does seem unrealistic without a team of lawyers behind it.

  • MHLoppy@fedia.iotoGreentext@sh.itjust.works•Anon's PC works
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    19 days ago

    It’s easy to go too far in either direction instead of just doing what fits your needs (which in fairness, can sometimes be difficult to precisely pin down). Blindly going “it’s old, I need to upgrade” or “it still runs, it’s not worth upgrading” will sometimes be right but it’s not exactly tailored advice.

    Someone I know was holding out for ages on a 4790K (2014), and upgraded a year or two ago to a then-current-gen system and said the difference it made to their workflow was huge - enough that they actually used that experience to tell their boss at work that the work systems (similar to what they had had themselves) should get upgraded.

    At the end of 2022 I had had my current monitor(s) for about 10 years and had spent years of hearing everyone saying “wow upgrading my monitor was huge”, saying that either 1440p was such an upgrade over 1080p and/or that high refresh rate (120+Hz) was such an upgrade over 60Hz. I am (or at least was in the past) a pretty competitive player in games so you’d think I’d be a prime candidate for it, but after swapping from a 60Hz 1200p screen to a 144Hz 1440p screen for my primary monitor I… honestly could barely notice the difference in games (yes, the higher refresh rate is definitely enabled, and ironically I can tell the difference easily outside of games lol).

    I’m sensitive to input latency, so I can (or at least could, don’t know if I still can) easily tell the difference between the responsiveness of ~90 FPS and ~150 FPS in games, so it’s extra ironic that pumping the refresh rate of the screen itself didn’t do much for me.

  • MHLoppy@fedia.iotoFediverse@lemmy.world•Corporate Social Media is Junk Food
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    1 month ago

    organic food for your brain

    High quality, positive content boosts mental health

    Browsing shallow memes and political outrage here is basically just home-made junk food instead of store-bought junk food. Likely less unhealthy, but that’s not exactly eating a bowl of vegetables lol - that would perhaps be reading a book or something. Not a great fit for the comparison imo.

    (as an aside, it seems plausible that junk food in small quantities as part of a balanced diet might boost mental health vs strictly never indulging)

  • MHLoppy@fedia.iotoFediverse@lemmy.world•If you use Mbin, what's the difference between a thread and a post?
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    5 months ago

    I feel like your preference makes sense when aligned from the perspective of a conventional forum-like platform. However I’d argue that that’s missing a core part of what kbin is/was – and by extension what Mbin is – which is the microblog integration alongside the forum-like stuff. With that context in mind, boosts (or whatever term you want to use for “retweet”) make sense to integrate imo.

    Whether or not you think Mbin should try to integrate the microblog side of things is of course a subjective - I personally think it’s a cool idea to try at least, but with how dominant lemmy has become it can be difficult to reconcile differences and incompatibilities between it and other software like Mbin.

  • MHLoppy@fedia.iotoFediverse@lemmy.world•Mobile App, redesign, new dev, promotion… let’s build a bright future for PeerTube!
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    1 year ago

    From the submission:

    Not a rival, just an alternative

    The realization that led us to develop PeerTube is that no one can rival YouTube or Twitch. You would need Google’s money, Amazon servers’ farms… Above all, you would need the greed to exploit millions of creators and videomakers, groom them into formatting their content to your needs, and feed them the crumbs of the wealth you gain by farming their audience into data livestock.

    Monopolistic centralized video platforms can only be sustained by surveillance capitalism.

    Even though we cannot pinpoint the exact budget Framasoft spent on PeerTube since 2017, our conservative estimate would be around 500 000 €

    With these two perspectives it seems to be doing well, even if it can’t / won’t entirely displace the major players.

  • MHLoppy@fedia.iotoFediverse@lemmy.world•Mastodon and today's fediverse are unsafe by design and unsafe by default
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    1 year ago

    Which is exactly how the real world works. Harm has to be identified to suggest solutions.

    According to the submission, some harms have been identified, and some solutions have been suggested [that could reduce the same and similar harms from occurring to new and existing users] (but mostly it sounds like a “more work needs to be done” thing).

    I imagine your perspective on the issues being discussed are different from those of the author. The helicopter parent analogy makes sense in a low-danger environment; I think what the author has suggested is that some people don’t feel like it’s a low-danger environment for them to be in (though I of course – not being the author or one such person – may be mistaken).

    Edit: [clarified] because I realised it might seem contradictory if read literally.