I know they had QC issues with their dpads on their earlier controllers

Anecdotal: I just had a trigger on an 8BitDo Ultimate Bluetooth fail. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a button or trigger fail on any other gamepad I’ve ever owned, so that was a bit disappointing.

I am not familiar, but, cutting the “changes” section out of a review:

https://www.rpgland.com/games/hoshigamiremix/review.html

Remix adds various, easier difficulty levels, new character art, redone music, a new character, and an overhauled localization.

Another problem with the game is the extreme lack of portability. It is a DS title, and as such should be capable of being played for small amounts of time at once. Unfortunately, there is no suspend feature to allow for saving while in battle. Factor in that the average battle can take 20-40 minutes and that sometimes one battle immediately follows another with no break for saving, and here’s a game that is not at all good for playing on the move.

So going entirely off that, it sounds like the remake is probably preferable, but it might not be a good idea if you plan to play the DS game as a “mobile” game — dropping into the thing for a few minutes while waiting in a line or something.

rsync is a fine tool, but it’s not really for backups. It’s for unidirectionally syncing data, which is part of a backup.

There are tools that use librsync to do a backup system, like rdiff-backup or duplicity.

I have used rdiff-backup in the past, but restic supports deduping data keyed off content rather than filename, which is functionality that I rather like having. I drive a restic job from backupninja, which handles doing things like notifying you if a backup has failed.

Instead of using fbcon (the default, in-kernel framebuffer-based terminal emulator), use fbterm (a userspace framebuffer terminal emulator, which supports backgrounds) with fbv as specified in the fbterm man page.

It looks like there’s also a patch, fbcondecor, to add background support to fbcon, but it’s not in vanilla kernel.

goes to lemmy.sdf.org, which until something like yesterday had been saying that it was down until they could get more storage

top post is from pmjv

NOW I AM BECOME THE MODERATOR OF FUNHOLE, THE ALABASTER HAND OF CONTENT ON YOUR COCK

Might be Liberian dollars.

FWIW, Windows — assuming that that’s where you’re coming from — has a PATH environment variable too. It’s just less common to invoke things directly by executable name on Windows in 2026, or to modify it, so it doesn’t come up much. If you type echo %PATH% in cmd.com on Windows, you’ll see something similar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PATH_(variable)#DOS,_OS/2,_and_Windows

I’m not personally familiar with Synology’s products, but if what’s going on is that you’re using some built-in feature of a Synology NAS to copy files from a USB drive to the NAS and seeing an error, I’d probably try copying that particular file to somewhere else on a PC, cutting the NAS out of the loop, to make sure that you don’t have, say, a corrupt filesystem where attempts to read the file contents are failing.

Context: it sounds like OP is probably using Windows; he mentions using diskpart, which is a Windows utility.

untested

Require new contributors to add test code with their patch that hooks into your continuous integration system, and have part of that CI path use a code coverage tool to validate that their test code is actually executing the patch in question?

I mean, that:

• Creates a speedbump that I’d assume that low-effort patches — LLM-generated or otherwise – won’t get past.

• Shouldn’t obstruct someone willing to put effort into their patches.

• Doesn’t affect long-term contributors at all.

• Ensures that at you have at least some level of minimum test coverage. Yes, theoretically they could have not actually run their test code themselves and only have it running as part of your CI path, but even then, at least something is running it, and it’s probably going to be pretty obvious if they keep pushing a PR many times until it passes.

• If you can get some LLM to generate test code that’s actually being run, good (well, okay, it might not be sufficient, but it’s at least clear that it’s not crashing the program or similar).

It doesn’t seem like a crazy idea to me to have some “second tier” of packages that undergo a higher level of scrutiny and have to pass that before they are released in that tier.

Maybe an arbitrary set of security endorsements would be more flexible.

That permits retaining a low bar for just making the stuff initially-accessible in packaged format, but also helps developers in raising the floor.

Like, okay. Say I have something like:

$ cat .config/npmrc
required_security_endorsements=["npm_auto_audit", "maintainer_id_validated", "european_cybersecurity_competence_center_tier_1", "nsa_tier_1"]
$

An attempt to install a release of a package without those endorsements fails.

That’s going to always create pressure to get something a security endorsement so that it can be used by people who only permit packages with some given security endorsement, but it lets parties start running security endorsement projects to improve the situation without excluding any existing projects from pushing stuff to npm.

EDIT: Also, I’ve not done much node.js development, but assuming that the dependencies in a package manifest default to the newest version unless specific frozen versions are mandated, a la PyPI, it might reasonably be able to fall back to versions with the required security level automatically, if they’re available. If the dependency format permits specifying optional dependencies, a particular dependency could be automatically excluded to conform to the security endorsement requirements list.

“Zbijgl, my old fart, my favmamort n n n n number is 183442356742255214676213566873225566333543”

https://www.workableweb.com/_pages/tips_how_to_write_good.htm

How To Write Good

Lesson 1 - The Grabber

The “grabber” is the initial sentence of a novel or short story designed to jolt the reader out of his complacency and arouse his curiosity, forcing him to press onward. For example:

“It’s no good, Alex,” she rejoined, “Even if I did love you, my father would never let me marry an alligator.”

The reader is immediately bombarded with questions, questions such as “Why won’t her father let her marry an alligator?” “How come she doesn’t love him?” and “Can she learn to love him in time?” The reader’s interest has been “grabbed”!

Looks like that’s GTK 3-based.

$ apt depends cinnamon 2>/dev/null|grep libgtk
  Depends: libgtk-3-0t64 (>= 3.9.12)
$

I was going to say “this should really be cross-posted to !unix_surrealism@lemmy.sdf.org or the artist explicitly credited or something,” but then I realized that it was in fact pmjv who posted it, so…

Some YouTuber: “I wish I got to fuck GTK2 when it was still young”

Well, this is git, so the past is as accessible now as it ever was.

$ git clone --single-branch --branch GTK_2_0_0 https://github.com/GNOME/gtk.git

The limiting factor is in significant part memory and to a lesser degree storage, and while in some cases, there are options for PCs — like using scavenged DDR4 DIMMs — that aren’t available for consoles, PC prices have also generally been hit by the same factors that have driven up console prices.

Sure, I’d like that, but I’m not going to keep personally fighting to make life better for that manufacturer’s customers. Not when there are other car manufacturers that aren’t pulling that stuff that people can be directed to.

Is the message you want to send “if you buy product from a vendor who actively goes out of their way to dick over open-source developers, it probably won’t matter for me as a customer because those developers will keep expending time and accepting legal risk to try to improve the situation for those customers”? Or do you want it to be “you probably want to look for open-source friendly manufacturers”?

I don’t really see the point. I mean, why bother to try to do something that just makes the company’s printers more desirable? Even if you “win”, the company is going to be a pain in the ass. Do you really want to waste time and financial resources on improving the company’s product?

Just don’t buy Bambu Lab printers. Don’t recommend them. And don’t support them with software.

If this was a world in which there was one 3D printer manufacturer, it’d be different, but it’s not. They have competition.

but it literally is just Thacker Pass.

This isn’t Thacker Pass.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thacker_Pass_lithium_mine

The Thacker Pass lithium mine is a lithium clay mining development project in Humboldt County, Nevada

The location being discussed:

McDermitt Caldera in Oregon

It looks like there was some discussion that there might be lithium there a bit back, like in 2023, but this is not decade-old news.

For example a lemmy-like, threaded interface with interactivity?

I don’t mean to be rude, but surely you’ve used an email client that supports threading before?

I think I used elm at one point. (checks) Yeah, it doesn’t support threading. But everything after that that I’ve used for any length of time has.