Notices by Mika (irfan@sakurajima.social)

@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io oh lol, I saw this on my YT feed and thought the thumbnail looks like Michelle Yeoh - but seeing the title in Malay and some Malaysian looking setting (on the thumbnail) made me thought I was either mistaken, or this may be AI slop 💀

Ugh, we finally got the answer as to just how much #Framework (CEO) is aware about the political stance of the creator of the shitty, pretend #Linux distro #Omarchy, and what they think of it - that is, nothing. They're aware, they 'supposedly' don't endorse, but they don't care. What a great moral principle and business strat.

If this 'revelation' gets any louder, we may even see how Linus from #LTT/#LMG reacts to it, seeing that he's a shareholder at Framework. There's a chance he might 'out himself' too, depending on what he thinks of this.

RE: https://tech.lgbt/users/trashheap/statuses/115342190900942179

Well, #Framework CEO has clarified that his 'political stance' is that he's pro-immigrant and pro-LGBTQ, unlike #DHH, and while I believe him - I still think it means fucking nothing, when he's still not only endorsing but even contributing to that fascist's #Linux distro, #Omarchy.

'Keeping politics out' from a business or #FOSS may sound, 'sound', and productive in making your project/product accessible to all regardless of beliefs - but that clearly does not fucking work when your belief is radical and harmful in any way, and that includes DHH's shitty 'idealism' of keeping the part of the world infested with bland foods, White.

🔗 https://xcancel.com/cmonkey/status/1976493945627766909

🔗 https://archive.ph/huG9s

@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io what the actual fuck... I'm sure you're a way stronger person than I am, and perhaps even immune to this, but it should be fucking illegal for someone like you, a regular person minding your own business, to be publicly harassed like that? I'm sorry but good for you that you're taking it like a champ.

Welp, I learned my lesson that 'backup to #YouTube' isn't backup... lmao. My YT channel is literally just gameplay videos, one of em today was flagged as 'against their policy', and my channel was given a warning - which was relatively harmless (no implications).

I was given the choice to appeal tho, so I did - and what I said was essentially, "I'm sorry, I didn't know they have such policy and the gameplay was uploaded as private anyway, and I'm fine if it has to be removed", I was only uploading these gameplay recordings privately as backups/archives after all.

Aaaanyway, soon after they rejected my appeal, and then prolly discover in their review that there are literally other gameplay videos on my channel that were against their policy as well, soooo they removed my channel entirely 🤠 Again, idrc for my channel, since these full gameplay recordings and clips are mostly private anyway - but welp I just lost all of my vids in one swoop, within a couple of hours.

That includes my ongoing #Spirittea and #TOTK gameplay, my preeeecious #NierAutomata and #NierReplicant recordings, my #StardewValley gameplay spanning years and years and years, etc. Freaking RIP.

Fuck these Pro-Chinese propaganda folks, honestly. They’re not only fucking annoying, they’re also a bunch of bigots who love shit-talking others WHILE pitting a group of people/countries against each other, and playing naive about it.

I also have a big issue with how much buttlicking they do with their country/government, unreasonably so, when others are realistically and reasonably critical of their own. It’s ironic how these pieces of shit are only being propped up post-Elon/Trump Twitter, never before, thanks to algo feeds.

Some context of the kind of things coming out of their smelly mouths: your typical India’s shit yada yada (even have the audacity to act ‘clueless’ when confronted of how obsessed they are at shit-talking India), the US of today is like the old, smelly, and inefficient ‘China of yore’ (sure bro), Japan’s bad while Germans are great (discussing war crimes, lol), and my favourite - deluded Chinese saying how weak Japan is and how inevitable it is that they’d one day be China’s.

Whatever la, specifically to these delusional folks - pls just continue being the world’s cheap factory workers okay <3 Also, when encountering these people in these threads, you’d almost think they love China so much, they’d never leave the country - and yet, there’s no group of people with as bad a rep as their people when it comes to being ‘tourists’. Truth hurts.

@ubi@ecoevo.social not here, Twitter if you're even on there. They only started appearing post-Elon's Twitter since they added that algo 'For You' feed. I prolly see a lot of em bcos like a lot of people, initially I was fine/receptive with what they're saying cos they're mostly pertaining Trump yada yada (initially), and they're good at making them appear to be 'neutral' at first glance.. till eventually u realise all they do is worship China and their gov, and shit talk everyone else lol. They also like 'praising' (patronising, more like) SEA countries lmao, sure.

#JapanPost is debuting some sort of concept that ties your physical (home) address to a 7-character alphanumeric code (i.e. ABC-12D6) - sorta like how DNS works on the internet, I suppose.

The idea is, for mailing purposes or even for online shopping platforms - instead of manually filling up your full address (which supposedly can be a lot more complicated in #Japan), you could instead give them this unique code.

You will need to sign up with Japan Post to get this Digital Address. I wonder about the security and logistical implications of this, in the long term - but the concept itself is pretty neat, honestly.

Even in Malaysia, it's not uncommon to easily find your exact address on one service/platform, but struggle to find/register the exact same address on a different app which might rely on a poorer map service - delegating this to a 'single source of truth' denoted only by a 7-char long code might make sense.

🔗 https://lp.da.pf.japanpost.jp

I’d be so down for #Apple Maps to improve their map of Malaysia (and anywhere else besides the US).

It’s one of the first apps I uninstalled many years ago when we started being able to uninstall first-party apps lol cos it’s that useless compared to #Google Maps.

🔗 https://xcancel.com/slainthayer/status/1925751139716256190

Earlier this month, phase 2 of Cross-Border QR Payment between Malaysia and Cambodia was officially launched. Malaysia's #DuitNow and Cambodia's #KHQR QR payment methods are now compatible with each other in respective countries.

The full list of countries' QR payment methods that are currently compatible with DuitNow:

- #QRIS (Indonesia)
- #SGQR (Singapore)
- #PromptPay (Thailand)
- #Alipay (China and other supporting countries)
- KHQR (Cambodia)

🔗 https://www.bnm.gov.my/-/cbqr25

🔗 https://www.duitnow.my/Cross-Border/index.html

@gamingonlinux@mastodon.social I always find your affiliate GOG links completely broken/blocked on all browsers of mine, even without any special extensions installed. On my main Firefox browser, the tab just closes itself instantly. On other browsers i.e. Firefox Developer, Chromium, etc. it'd fail and the URL would be pointing to some sort of tracker that must've gotten blocked... somewhere.

Just to be specific, I mean this link in the article: https://af.gog.com/en/game/doom_2016?as=1636858786

You might already know this though, cos I feel like I have some vague memory of someone mentioning this to you either here or in a comment to your article in the past.

@gamingonlinux@mastodon.social this is Valve saying "f you" to SteamOS subredditors lol

@gamingonlinux@mastodon.social I regret opening this, it's stupid how much u got dowvoted DESPITE giving a sound reason why that (playable) rating could be deemed inaccurate

Great interview by BFM with the man behind the Hup Teck soy sauce that is now closing shop after 111 years of operation.

Also, my geo memang fail - I saw the factory was in "Gopeng" and immediately thought Johor when actually it's Perak lmao (I only know Ipoh and Teluk Intan, sorry).

▶️ https://xcancel.com/BFMradio/status/1887477593009758451

@cendawanita@mefi.social ya not even joking how aggressive and heated the defenses get lmao - all racial/religious stereotypes all come out, yikes. Worst of all, but I guess expected, I found many of those "defending" themselves started (unpromptedly) pinning foreign workers under the bus as the main culprit of BO bcos of their "diet" lol. These people they're blaming aren't even in the conversation to defend themselves :blobfoxbonk:

Israelis are getting ate alive on Rednote 😂

This app is absolutely gloriousSo the US decided to ban (the already censored) #TikTok out of fear of not being able to control it, which resulted to Americans flocking over to platforms totally out of their control or censorship like #Xiaohongshu/#REDnote. Funny how things work.

🔗 https://xcancel.com/SocialistMMA/status/1879856029204419047

New #Pixelfed users: Please don't use the "official" app - it's really poor and has been that way since its existence. The photo sharing experience is horrible, and even the photo viewing experience is scuffed - the scrolling is choppy, alt messages don't show, it couldn't even display most photos properly in the correct size/ratio (same with uploading too). You might need it for certain features that are currently unsupported by the other clients (Pixelfed isn't the best when it comes to supporting their 3rd party clients/devs, to say the least), yet despite that, you will almost guarantee a much better experience using 3rd party apps than their own.

If you're on #iOS/#iPhone user: you're in luck cos you get to install #Impressia (formerly known as #Vernissage) which really is the (only) perfect Pixelfed app available, it's #FOSS and completely free on the #Apple App Store. I think it's also worth noting that the developer behind this amazing app is also building a (FOSS) federated photo sharing platform (akin to Pixelfed and #Instagram) of their own called Vernissage due to Pixelfed's own limitations/shortcomings - it's not available to the public yet I don't think, but might be worth going for in place of both Pixelfed and IG in the future.

If you're on #Android, you have several options including #PixelDroid but the most decent Pixelfed client I've found is #Pixelix. The app itself, from the #Google Play Store is not free but it is FOSS and you can still download and install it for free using its APK that you can find from their #GitHub repo. The photo viewing experience is great, the photo sharing exp is not as polished as Impressia (which is expected seeing how young the project is), but it is overall a very solid option and hands down better than the official app.

🔗 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/impressia-for-pixelfed/id1663543216

🔗 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.daniebeler.pfpixelix

🔗 https://github.com/daniebeler/pixelix

🔗 https://vernissage.photos

@pixelfed@mastodon.social does that mean the export no longer relies on our media files to be kept/accessible on the instance anymore? cos if so that’d be really nice, as the current way of exporting data seems a bit useless as it doesn’t seem to actually export the media files as far as I can tell.

@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io I never watched the movies, but was interested in this series just bcos I saw the Vikings guy in the poster lol. If I were to watch the series, do u think I should watch the 2 movies first?

@dansup@mastodon.social I know, I understand, and I am the same tho a lot less than you (as in, ure prolly a better and def more "decorated" dev than me). We're two different people with different values but please - as someone who loves "boasting" that the Fediverse is objectively better than the "big companies", it paints a totally different picture when you're gleefully cursing your own supporters - cos that's who Vernissage/Impressia are, they've made ur "product" a whole lot more "attractive" and usable for people like me. I hope yall can make up ur relationship, but if I were them, I'd honestly be "traumatic" or anxious that ure even in my GitHub repo, even "well" intentioned.