[–] 2 points 17 hours ago

Like I said, it's a perception of mine. But if total numbers are stagnated, it may be worth for people to try to bring others in, like by direct invite (do keep explanation when inviting simple though!), or by simply attaching your fediverse profile/profiles to your other social medias where possible.

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  • [–] 3 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

    I've been trying to help on that for a while. Boosting, commenting, posting/crossposting... At worse, I just like/dislike since I can use that to make Ublock Origin auto-hiding posts on instances whose software doesn't have native hiding. And I'd incentivize others to do so too, to ensure the network doesn't whither.

    But still, patiently being around for some 3 years now, my impression is that it's growing quite nicely and quite fast too. Even more so if compared to the competition which's been around for much longer. Iirc Reddit, Facebook, Twitter and Youtube, for example, are some 20 y.o. already. Discord I find suspicious how fast it grew, but even then it's older than most fediverse softwares too afaik, the oldest ones to my knowledge (not counting retrofitting ActivityPub) being Mastodon and Lemmy circa 2016~2017.

    Still, having learned not to take things for granted, even if I don't find it barren, I'd again incentivize others that see potential in this network to keep helping it stay relevant.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Worst comes worse, one could install a VM with Windows. And for the edge cases where neither VMs or compatibility layers suffice, the user can install Windows on a different physical drive and plug it in just when needed.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 day ago

    The fediverse seems rather active though, specially if comparing to similarly niche communities on Reddit, Facebook, Discord, etc.

    Besides, the fediverse becoming the main platform would both mean the problems of other platforms are attracted here, and that we'd be making a new standard.

    Alas, the saving grace of the fediverse is that any group of instances and/or actors can either interact or not with each other if they so desire without compromising the whole network. Though that is bound to create feuds, it's still far better than the addiction-oriented walled gardens that are the major platforms of today, while this bilateralism allowing for instances to choose who they interact ensures a healthier growth.

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    The 4 OG Xbox releases for Win11 seem to be emulated indeed and XWine1 already found a way to play more games with the embedded emulator

    #emulation #xbox #xbox360

    Source: https://x.com/XWineOne/status/2080172284422029742

    Nitter bridge: https://nitter.tiekoetter.com/XWineOne/status/2080172284422029742

    On a side note, I guess this answers my previous post. But now it makes me wonder how to rebuild the ROMs from the provided files. e.e"

     

    Are the games for the OG Xbox on Win11 emulated?

    #xbox #emulation

    Saw someone post this article elsewhere: https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/07/22/xbox-backward-compatibility-on-pc/

    In short, BLiNX: The Time Sweeper, Conker: Live and Reloaded, Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge and Fuzion Frenzy were made available to "purchase" (likely a glorified rental considering Microsoft's history, thus the quotation marks).

    But also saw someone commenting "will be interesting to see if they're native ports or if this is the emulation thing that was rumored", this rumor of which I am not familiar with.

    Still, in the possibility of that, I ask, is it?

    I don't have Win11 myself to check. But if someone's digging to do it, from my experience with the Microsoft Store on Win10, people may need to mount the Windows install as a file partition on Linux to see the files Microsoft Store installs, so it may be needed on Win11 too.

     

    Se alguém não conseguir usar alguma função do Portal do Importador dos Correios, tente usar em outro/outros navegadores

    #Brasil #Correios

    Acho interessante mencionar porque agora em julho, a função de gerar o boleto para pagar taxas parou de funcionar na mesma instalação que uso há anos e que nunca deu problemas no site dos Correios.

    Não sei se foi alguma atualização do site ou do navegador que quebrou a funcionalidade, mas precisando pagar para liberar uma encomenda, só consegui acesso à opção no quinto navegador que testei. E nem parecia ser VPN, porque testei com e sem VPN e nada mudava.

    Até, uma coisa extra que sugeriria, o que me ajudou nessa situação para não ficar entochando o PC com navegadores, é ter alguma máquina virtual disponível onde possa botar esses programas. No meu caso foi pelo Edge do Win10 por máquina virtual, mas estava prestes a instalar outros navegadores seja nessa VM ou em alguma usando outro sistema.

    Enfim, espero ter sido útil. o7

     

    GBAtemp's RSS feeds seem to push posts whenever they get new replies

    Testing around with the forum's multiple #rssfeeds, I couldn't help but to notice how older posts, and even a same post multiple times, would appear as I opened posts en masse from newer to older.

    After investigating these posts as they popped up, the dates of the newest comments were all within the time frames of the posts I'd been opening with my reader. So as mentioned in the title, it would seem the feeds are picking posts by the ones most recently commented on.

    Could be a bit spammy if one's just looking for new posts, but if interested also in following discussions of the posts, it could turn useful instead. Though for that use, RSS per post similar to NodeBB would be better imo.

     

    "RSS愛好会" ("RSS Fanclub"), a RSS bridge for sites without RSS, to stop providing RSS for Reuters

    #reuters #rss

    From a quick machine translation:
    "Reuters has strengthened its anti-bot measures, making it difficult for crawlers to retrieve articles. Therefore, we will be discontinuing our feed distribution. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause."

    Source: https://rss.wor.jp/?ref=crawler&dt=260718H

    Found by @oricon_news@rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com: https://thebrainbin.org/m/random/p/812005

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