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Non-Transitory Computer-Readable Storage Medium Having Game Program Stored Therein, Game System, Game Processing Method, and Game Apparatus

Why does their patent title sound like it's an Amazon listing from a company with an alphabet-soup name like BRENGSTAR?

Or perhaps you do not understand how Discord is commonly used.

People join dozens of servers. Maybe one for every game they play, every TV show they watch, every podcast they listen to. Everything has a Discord.

Even small Discord servers have many channels. Bigger ones will have dozens or hundreds of channels.

Some servers have millions of users. Most of the servers I'm in have thousands.

Many channels are default for all users in the server.

Not sure what the mathematical average is, but this is certainly common at least, and any alternative that can't handle this is no alternative at all.

If we're talking about Matrix as a Discord alternative, then that would mean thousands of channels, each with hundreds or thousands of users, many with constant activity.

I'm not sure if anybody actually uses Matrix at the scale of the average Discord user. Sliding sync is supposed to help, but I don't think the Matrix architecture can realistically scale that high.

I set up their accounts

Setup is the hardest part. Syncing multiple devices and device migration are also hard. I'll bet you're going to act as tech support every time they get a new phone. That's fine for your family, but it's hardly going to scale.

The performance issues show up when dealing with large groups syncing between instances. You might just not be using it that way, but that's what needs to work seamlessly for a viable substitute for Discord.

Matrix is notorious for its poor performance with large/numerous groups. They keep claiming to improve it, but it's still bad.

I mean, it's great that it works for you, but be honest: isn't your tolerance for technological friction a bit higher than the average bear's? People complain that Mastodon is too hard, and Matrix is ten times worse to sign up for and use.

I hate to say it, but Matrix is never going to be mainstream. Its UX is bad and it seems like it's too bloated to fix. If I tried to get people to move from Discord to Matrix, they'd never take me seriously again. It was hard enough getting people to move from Facebook Messenger to Signal.

Also interested in this. The ideal solution would stream to a private server for storage in real-time, with access control so you can grant trusted individuals access.

This would allow retention of evidence in a scenario where your phone is seized/destroyed/lost or you are detained, and would give you (and whoever you choose to grant access) the ability to control distribution, unlike a livestream to Twitch or YouTube or whatever.

What a bizarre headline and angle for an incredible news story.

FOSS projects are often labors of love.

Nobody who isn't completely deranged loves marketing.

SEO (search engine optimization) has dominated search results for almost as long as search engines have existed. The entire field of SEO is about gaming the system at the expense of users, and often also at the expense of search platforms.

The audience for an author's gripping life story in every goddamn recipe was never humans, either. That was just for Google's algorithm.

Slop is not new. It's just more automated now. There are two new problems for users, though:

1. Google no longer gives a shit. They used to play the cat-and-mouse game, and while their victories were never long-lasting, at least their defeats were not permanent. (Remember ExpertsExchange? It took years before Google brought down the hammer on that. More recently, think of how many results you've seen from Pinterest, Forbes, or Medium, and think of how few of those deserved even a second of your time.)
2. Companies that still do give a shit face a much more rapid exploitation cycle. The cats are still plain ol' cats, but the mice are now Borg.

Context: https://phys.org/news/2012-04-scientists-crab-powered.html

Well I’m sorry, but most PDF distillers since the 90s have come with OCR software that can extract text from the images and store it in a way that preserves the layout AND the meaning

The accuracy rate of even the best OCR software is far, far too low for a wide array of potential use cases.

Let's say I have an archive of a few thousand scientific papers. These are neatly formatted digital documents, not even scanned images (though "scanned images" would be within scope of this task and should not be ignored). Even for that, there's nothing out there that can produce reliably accurate results. Everything requires painstaking validation and correction if you really care about accuracy.

Even ArXiv can't do a perfect job of this. They launched their "beta" HTML converter a couple years ago. Improving accuracy and reliability is an ongoing challenge. And that's with the help or LaTeX source material! It would naturally be much, much harder if they had to rely solely on the PDFs generated from that LaTeX. See: https://info.arxiv.org/about/accessible_HTML.html

As for solving this problem with "AI"...uh...well, it's not like "OCR" and "AI" are mutually exclusive terms. OCR tools have been using neural networks for a very long time already, it just wasn't a buzzword back then so nobody called it "AI". However, in the current landscape of "AI" in 2025, "accuracy" is usually just a happy accident. It doesn't need to be that way, and I'm sure the folks behind commercial and open-source OCR tools are hard at work implementing new technology in a way that Doesn't Suck.

I've played around with various VL models and they still seem to be in the "proof of concept" phase.

I've been using cryptpad.fr (the "flagship instance" of CryptPad) for years. It's...fine. Really, it's fine. I'm not thrilled with the experience, but it is functional and I'm not aware of any viable alternatives that are end-to-end encrypted.

It's based on OnlyOffice, which is basically a heavyweight web-first Microsoft Office clone. Set your expectations accordingly.

No mobile apps, and the web UI is not optimized for mobile. I mean, it works, but does using the desktop MS Office UI on a smartphone sound like fun to you?

Performance is tolerable but if you're used to Google Sheets, it's a big downgrade. Some of this is just the necessary overhead involved in an end-to-end encrypted cloud service. Some of it is because, again, this is a heavyweight desktop UI running in a web browser. It's functional, but it's not fast and it's not pretty.

In the default Lemmy web UI, there's a report button (flag icon) in the messaging page, so it's not a problem with Lemmy in general.

The far right are well-practiced at co-opting and twisting concepts. It's classic doublespeak.

It's why you have "Christians" who are staunchly opposed to feeding the hungry, or treating the sick. (See: school lunches.)

It's why "capitalism" now represents the complete lack of meaningful competition, when that competition is the only thing that ever made capitalism worthwhile in the first place. (See: Microsoft getting away scot-free after being found guilty of illegal, anticompetitive business practices all throughout the 90s.)

It's why "free speech" proponents are laser-focused on creating new and terrifying mechanisms for censorship. (See: gestures widely)

I could go on.

It's sad how little resistance has been made against this corruption. How easily our natural allies have been turned into our greatest enemies.

Does it have access to the same filesystem as Android? I've been looking for Android apps that can do something like dropbox's "online only" feature. Most cloud storage providers offer that on desktop but I've never found one that works on Android. It's just photo syncing or nothing usually, and even that doesn't work like I want.

Also, can it run uninterrupted in the background or is android going to unceremoniously kill it randomly like it does with normal apps?

For instance, Mozilla said it may have removed blanket claims that it never sells user data because the legal definition of “sale of data” is now “broad and evolving,” Mozilla’s blog post stated.

Uh huh.

The company pointed to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) as an example of why the language was changed, noting that the CCPA defines “sale” as the “selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a consumer’s personal information by [a] business to another business or a third party” in exchange for “monetary” or “other valuable consideration.”

Yes. That's what "sale of data" means. Everybody understood that. That's exactly what we don't want you to do.

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FYI, Graphene just released an update that includes the new network location option I mentioned. See https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/114076777599414646

I'll try it and see how it works for me over the next week or two.

I wonder if the "never will" part is legally binding. Most companies bend over backwards to avoid making future-looking guarantees like that.

Question for those in the know: does it make sense to use LibreWolf if you don't want to operate in private browsing by default? In my primary browser, I want my logins and settings and browser history to persist.

I've always heard that as one of the big differentiating features of LibreWolf, but I've never really played around with it. Can you change those settings, and if you do, is it any different from stock Firefox at that point?

Considering how poorly their Switch games perform, this is probably the best-case scenario. Perhaps they can make a Switch game that will run decently on the Switch 2.