The tool pulls the socials that link directly to a specific post from saucenao. It's possible that someone else posted the art made my nanoless on twitter, and that is why there was an entry for it in the saucenao database. I would add some logic to ensure that twitter links found on saucenao are both live and by the actual artist account, but the "x" api is a complete shit-show right now, for self-evident reasons...

The rest which simply link to the artist profile on a given platform as a fallback, are pulled from the artist data on danbooru. This is also how I've begun including fediverse links :D

As this image is credited to Nanoless on danbooru, it is safe to assume it is indeed by them, though an actual source is not listed there either.

It's so that she can appreciate Bocchis music better.

A huge favorite of mine. So happy I got into horror games and didn't keep avoiding them.

ActivityPub unfortunately does need some work, and there's drama about properly following the protocol and not extending it with non-standard stuff that then breaks things when federating with stuff outside the given application.

I'm optimistic, but I'm also making sure not to put too much of a stake in it, as it may eventually become an inferior system when compared to some future hypothetical standard.

And other standards like diaspora and ATProto, are around, and seeing use.

Oh hell yeah!

What? It's a great umbrella term term for exactly this type of federated social media. Lemmy is just one application, and currently the biggest, but it already federates quite swimmingly with mbin and pixelfed.

What else would you even them all together?

Not that I'm aware.

But there are web UIs you can run that allow you to run a lemmy instance more like a forum, and that could of course be federated with other fediverse instances, including other forum instances.

But not existing forum systems. That's something they have to implement, not lemmy.

Behind the scenes Lemmy speaks a protocol called ActivityPub. It can't just talk to any other similar arbitrary service if it doesn't also support the protocol.

Edit: Apparently the forum systems you mention do/will indeed support ActivityPub. There would certainly be potential for interpretability with the threadiverse, then.

Steam doesn't do updates asap anymore.

Update downloads get scheduled for off-peak hours, sometimes leaving games un-updated for days. That means sometimes you go to play something, and it isn't up to date.

This isn't linux specific, it's like this for everyone. It prioritises keeping games you play a lot updated, and lags behind more on games you almost never play but just have installed.

There is no way to circumvent this. Steam wants to spread out when people download updates, so there isn't a giant spike in download server load whenever updates drop.

Updates only go out immediately to people actually playing the games, and then trickle out over time to the rest.

Also the constant "updates" that happen aren't game files. Steam is keeping up with the files it needs to keep shaders compiled for your games in advance (which has to be re-done every gpu driver/game update). If you don't want that, you can disable precompiling in steam settings.

Steam re-downloading these files constantly is a known issue, but to be clear, your game files are fine. Their updates work no differently from windows.

Some people post the whole comic as the main link, and then have a version using individual images in the post body.

That's been handy.

I don't understand people who "demand" things from volunteers. Open source devs, modders, and still recently content creators are/were treated like public service workers, by some.

Imagine if we went around treating artists as if they were obligated to please each of us individually with their every piece? I'm very happy to see this attitude improve with streaming and youtube, where creators are more and more met with care and support when they have to step away for a bit or retire entirely.

It sadly seems like this modder was eventually putting in tremendous effort, in a vain attempt to please absolutely everyone using her mods. But that isn't a good reason to work for free.

Any work I do for free, is something I do because I want to, but this modder explicitly says she did work she didn't want to do in order to please fans. And I can't help but ask, why? (I know why, but someone should have cared enough to show her she is allowed to just say no, and do whatever she prefers.)

The blurb about her doing music is how you're SUPPOSED to feel doing something for fun. I'm happy that she found her way to something that makes her feel that way.

Your cool person score just went up by a full point.

She's certainly having an effect on Misty back there.