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I’m making a 5e setting inspired by Ancient India!
  • Will you be able to make it available on D&D Beyond like MCDM did with his recent releases?

    It's really nice to be able to have everything in D&D Beyond since there are so many extensions, tools, etc. integrated with it. For example, anything in D&D Beyond just works with Beyond 20, Discord, Owlbear Rodeo, Roll 20, and can be imported into Foundry VTT or Obsidian. That really makes prep easier as a DM and simplifies things for the players as well.

  • Google Messages RCS Chat colors
  • My family and friends primarily use Messenger, and we like the chat themes and custom like buttons and gifs and nicknames and other silly features. People are allowed to like different things.

  • What do Threads, Mastodon, and hospital records have in common?
  • As a federated learning researcher, I love to see articles introducing the public to the idea. But this article is really drawing a comparison between the fediverse and federated learning that doesn't make sense (to me).

    Beyond the fact that data and compute are stored on separate servers, they really aren't similar. Federated learning avoids sharing data by sharing gradients or model updates with a central aggregator; raw data does not leave your device. The fediverse enables easy sharing of data between servers and avoids a central server.

    Additionally, this article makes it seem like medical researchers were inspired by the fediverse, but the FedAvg paper was released in 2016—two years before ActivityPub was introduced in 2018.

  • Google could make the Pixel Watch 3 buttonless - Android Authority
  • I agree. The System UI has been crashing hard on my S23 Ultra recently due to the One UI 6.0 Beta, which means I can't open any app or even shutdown—nothing happens. Thankfully, you can force a shutdown by holding Volume Down and Power for 15 seconds.

    There should always be a hardware force shutdown option.

  • What made you choose your instance?
  • Same. I chose programming.dev because it was close to my interests and seemed less likely to be drawn into federation drama. Losing Reddit already made me feel "homeless." I was worried about choosing a home instance, and then being forced to create a new account all over again because of admins squabbling amongst each other and instance drama.

  • Now that Sync and Infinity are out, which do people prefer? Also, how do they compare to the existing lemmy apps?
  • I've tried Connect, Liftoff, Thunder, Voyager, and Infinity. It's just bugs galore. The back button will take you to the wrong activity, comments won't post (due to the app not the instance), some instances or accounts won't load, and a laundry list of UI or functionality bugs. Liftoff gave me the fewest issues of all of them, apart from using Lemmy in the browser.

    But Sync really is polished, and the experience is night and day. I'm a big FOSS proponent, but I don't think it's wrong for a developer to want to make money when their income source suddenly disappears and they need to pay bills (and region-specific pricing is coming soon). The level of customizability, spit and polish in the other apps doesn't even come close. I'm sure they'll get there eventually, but I think it's a mistake to drive away passionate developers who want to help Lemmy succeed.

    I've given pretty much every app or browser front-end a fair shake at this point, and I'm gladly choosing Sync for now.

  • Lets-Plot: An open-source ggplot-like plotting library

    I just found this plotting library by JetBrains that has a grammar of graphics interface (like plotnine). This will make a nice alternative for matplotlib for my research.

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    What's your favorite way to brew iced coffee in a Chemex?

    Typically I'd make a pour over or espresso, but my A/C is out and I can't even think about hot coffee. What is your favorite way to make iced coffee in a Chemex? I've got light roasts from Costa Rica, Burundi, and Ethiopia right now.

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