Don't know if you've tried this before, but there at a few guides for getting the mod working on Linux. This might help?
ModDB runs a Mod of the Year contest every year, and Discovery Freelancer has made it into the Top100 this year for the first time since 2012!
First releasing in 2005, it's been consistently developed since, releasing incremental updates to continue a real time story for its hosted multiplayer roleplay server.
As one of the mod's writers, getting into the Top100 is a really happy moment for the dev team and the wider community. I put together this compilation of clips from the last month or so as a celebration.
We get to find out where we ranked after voting closes next week.
https://www.moddb.com/groups/2023-mod-of-the-year-awards/top100#vote8017
The mod has been consistently going since 2005, so they've had a lot of time to build up assets! There's a lot of snazzy new features, but everything still aims to integrate with Freelancer's original setting and lore. Mixed success, but it works more often than not. There's a community Discord if you wanted to take a look around or ask questions.
I posted a trailer for Freelancer's Discovery mod relatively recently, and since then I've got into some very basic video editing myself.
This is a compilation of a few of the more eye catching fleet battles that happened on the official server over the last month. Hopefully I'll be a bit less amateurish by the time November's is due.
Also if seeing these clips starts getting repetitive, by all means let me know and I'll tone it down. :)
Do you know where that link happened to be? I'm wondering if it could be dredged up with the Wayback machine.
We've got a Discord server if you want to drop by and take a look around. :)
Yep! Discovery alone has been going since 2006, and has had a 24/7 multiplayer server running consistently that entire time (barring minor outages from faults and attacks). Pretty incredible really.
I also don't like thinking about it because I first registered an account on their forum in 2007... really puts the inexorable march of time into perspective.
You can host your own server too, although there's a few steps you need to follow to get FLServer working properly. There's instructions on the Discovery forums for that.
Freelancer is one of my favourite games, and Discovery is my favourite Freelancer mod. Thought you fine folks might want to take a look at the trailer they've just put out.
Freelancer is effectively abandonware at this point, so... free. It's definitely worth a look, and Discovery is an amazing pick if you're interested in a sci-fi RP server.
Freelancer is 2003 Microsoft abandonware which still has an online mod community. Most prominent is probably the Discovery mod, which hosts a 24/7 RP server.
I'd just suggest that this is a defacto ban based on the current requirements.
If bots are going to be command triggered and require pre-approval by individual community moderators, I think it would be prudent to include an index of registered bots + commands in the community info pages.
Currently I can't think of any reasonable way for a Beehaw user to know which bots are operational and what their commands are. If bots need to be command triggered but there's no way to find out which ones are functional, why approve them to begin with?
BBC Good Food is quite good. The website is basically a big book of recipes, but tailored to all levels of experience.
When they ask you to do something, there'll usually be a hyperlink to an article covering that particular thing.
Often there will also be demonstration videos as well, which can be handy.
It's an unmoderated kbin magazine. Nothing to be done but block it and move on.
Officers say it is likely the bees were taken late at night and urged people to get in touch if they are aware of somebody who has a sudden influx of beehives - or someone who's starting to sell them.
Seems pretty unbeelievable. If you've seen an apiarist behiving suspiciously, consider giving the police a buzz. If it leads to the missing hives, maybe you'll hornet a reward.
That's a hell of a nostalgia trip. Freelancer is probably my all time favourite game, and I had literally a decade of fond memories of Disco before I eventually drifted off.
What's it looking like these days? The pop count and surviving factions were looking a little sad the last time I checked in a year or two ago.
The two YouTube links from Haelian in my summary set up the context for why this is really hard, and then commentary on the actual run itself.
Those last few seconds were absolutely hair-raising, even if we already knew how it was going to end!
See you in 200 hours, enjoy!
Also, if you're playing for the first time maybe don't watch those videos until you've completed at least one run for spoiler reasons.
This Hades player has accomplished what no one could in three years
Haelian published a video a week or so ago setting out the probabilities for why it was so unlikely that this difficulty configuration would ever be beat: https://youtu.be/S-VUzcJHWF0
Which of course was taken as a challenge, with runner Jade clearing heat 64 yesterday, using an unseeded and unmodded run: https://youtu.be/0mo-kXjasZs
(For context, the seed is the way a particular run is generated, and players can meticulously generate seeded runs to ensure certain things do or don't spawn by taking very specific sets of actions. Dying and respawning - rather then reloading from the menu, which is quicker - resets the seed. That's why challenge runs always start with a death and respawn to show that a pre-configured seed isn't being carried over from previous runs.)
Here's Haelian's reaction to the whole situation: https://youtu.be/5L7_3MrG_08
Insanely impressive, and I don't know if we'll get to see it again.
Bots can be extremely useful and the flexibility of where and how bots could work was one of the things that made Reddit popular. Before, well, y'know.
Bespoke bots can also allow particular communities to develop local features or functionality. I assume Lemmy's mod tools are fair bare bones right now too, so I suspect someone, somewhere is probably working on an automod toolkit.
Bots should be allowed, but must be flagged. I don't know if it's a default lemmy option, but the app I use has a toggle to hide bot accounts if you don't want to see them.
That said, I would very much prefer if bots were restricted to just making comments rather than posts. Certain communities have bots that automatically post article links and they completely blanket feeds sorted by new until you block the account.
Unless I'm missing an obvious option, it doesn't seem like there is a way to check where a post hyperlink is going to send you without clicking on it.
It'd be great if long pressing or clicking on a hyperlink would open a text box that previewed the link URL and let you click through to the site, copy the URL, or share it.
RIF on Reddit had a similar feature which was extremely useful.
It just blows my mind to see all the different ways people will bend over backwards and then contort into a pretzel to try and blame the US for causing and perpetuating a war that Russia is exclusively culpable for...
https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/discover/why-are-artificial-lawns-bad-for-the-environment
Minimising the objections down to that and then writing them all off as NIMBYism is such an absurd strawman.
I agree that non traditional lawns are better, but that definitely does not include artificial pitch.
since C2PA relies on creators to opt in, the protocol doesn’t really address the problem of bad actors using AI-generated content. And it’s not yet clear just how helpful the provision of metadata will be when it comes to media fluency of the public. Provenance labels do not necessarily mention whether the content is true or accurate.
Interesting approach, but I can't help but feel the actual utility is fairly limited. For example, I could see it being useful for large corporate creative studios that have contractual / union agreements that govern AI content usage.
If they're using enterprise tools that build in C2PA, it'd give them a metadata audit trail showing exactly when and where AI was used.
That's completely useless in the context where AI content flagging is most useful though. As the quote says, this provenance data is applied at the point of creation, and in a world where there are open source branches of generation models, there's no way to ensure provenance tagging is built in.
This technology is most needed to combat AI powered misinformation campaigns, when that is the use case this is least able to address.
In the EU and UK, public bodies contribute to mapping data by publishing large amounts of geospatial data using interoperable standards that can be commercially exploited.
This is set in the EU through the INSPIRE Directive, and while the UK is now off doing their own thing, they still use the same standards.
https://inspire.ec.europa.eu/inspire-directive/2
https://guidance.data.gov.uk/publish_and_manage_data/harvest_or_add_data/inspire/
So conspiracy probably isn't the right term, although there are common factors that are causing - or at least influencing - a lot of these trends.
With inflation being a major issue, central banks are reacting by increasing interest rates. These rate hikes have the effect of making credit and borrowing more expensive.
This is significant because central rates had been low (nearly 0%) since basically 2008, with quantitative easing (cash printing) pumping billions of additional dollars into the stock markets in particular.
The effect of loaned cash being effectively free is an explosion of activity from investor hedge funds who were willing to take huge risks on speculative projects. This fuelled the massive boom in tech startups across the 00s.
The trouble is, many of those startups weren't profitable, they were 'potentially profitable' and fuelled by credit. Or they had the underpants gnome model of profit where the means and mechanism of the '????' stage would be figured out later (WeWork).
Investors were happy to fund those losses to create products that controlled markets (Uber) or amassed huge userbases that could be flipped from potential to profit in the future (Reddit).
Only now the rates have gone up, and credit is suddenly expensive. Business models that rely on running at a loss suddenly aren't viable, and those startup investors that owns chunks of those businesses are now insisting on actual returns on their investments.
You can see the effects all over social media and tech, but Reddit (urgently need to get profitable for a stock launch, need the stock launch for funding) and Twitter (basketcase debt load at the worst possible time for debt) are the most obvious examples.
Techbro austerity means worse products for consumers or aggressive monetization policies which users will likely dislike. So not a conspiracy, but decades of reckless investment by hedge funds that have been caught with their pants down by interest risk.
Traffic was stopped on the Russian-built Crimean Bridge due to "an emergency" situation, Russia-installed officials said on Monday, while Ukrainian media reported blasts on the bridge.
The Kerch Bridge connects Russia to the Crimean Peninsula. The Russian military is heavily dependent on the rail link that crosses it to supply the illegally occupied territory in southern Ukraine. It's not currently clear how it was hit and to what extent it was damaged.
I suspect Russia is probably going to use this as a pretext to refuse to renew the Black Sea grain deal that expires today.
