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Cake day: July 11th, 2023

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  • No it doesn’t? There is only one Lemmy implementation

    Beehaw is not very happy with the Lemmy project, and was looking for alternative implementations a few months ago. I remember to have read that they have found something written in Java, and maybe another one, that was basically a separate implementation of Lemmy.

    There is really no such thing as a “platform type” - it’s all ActvityPub under the hood.

    Try to view a Peertube stream on Lemmy, then. Or subscribe to a Mastodon user. There are platform types, and there will be at least until the platform has to implement its own way to interpret and render the content of an other platform that hosts content of a different kind. Even when a platform type implements full AP compatibility, there will often be things a specific platform won’t be able to display.






  • twitch - the gameplay streaming platform - limits 1080p streams to 8000 kbps at most, at 60 FPS. I think it exclusively uses H264 encoding. For most games this is plenty.
    There are some where it can be felt that it’s not enough, but in those cases it’s always the bitrate.

    these games include

    • escape from tarkov because of it’s environment, especially if the player has taken I think painkillers, and in turn has sharper/different vision. compression is really struggling there
    • no mans sky when traveling in hyperspace, this is the most extreme case I have seen so far
    • any games that have darker scenes (not necessarily in a “bright night” style) will have it visible

    unless you are playing a quick action first person shooter, 165 fps is totally unnecessary, 60 is plenty.
    1440p, I’m not sure. if thats your screen resolution, maybe it’s better to not lose quality to downscaling, more so because it can’t be done by just averaging every 2 pixels, it would bea weird ratio I think

    for encoding… what hardware you have?
    x265 is more efficient than x264, if you can afford the performance, but if you have a graphics card with hardware accelerated AV1 encoding, that may be even better. do some test recordings though.



  • it was mentioned in a This Week In F-droid blog post around September. basically google fucked up an important development library, and any firefox forks (possibly some other apps too) could not be built anymore normally. of course google was unwilling to fix the issue, so linsui (and F-droid member) fixed the build process somehow, possibly temporarily.

    you may ask how is this not a problem for the official release of the firefox app, and my answer is that they probably build this component for themselves, and fixed the problem in house (if they had it at all)



  • Fairphone 4 user here too. I also got it second hand, but immediately replaced the OS with CalyxOS. It seems fast to me. My last phone wasn’t.

    My only problems with it so far is the lack of a jack, that I need to remove the battery to remove the SD or SIM card, and the screen seems too easily scratched. It was scratched when I got it, but not this mutch. Its in my pocket with nothing else, but the screen is basically full of micro scratches while my previous phone of 8 years has (which was a very cheap phone even back then) almost no scratches at all.