Xylight

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Photon frontend for lemmy.world is slow and often gives 503 service error in c/support@lemmy.world
[–] Xylight 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Photon on lemmy.world also hasn't been updated for almost 1 year now, if you want to use your lemmy.world account you can use https://phtn.app/ which lets you use any instance and is always up to date

"Google AI summaries" in c/comicstrips@lemmy.world
[–] Xylight 20 points 1 week ago (4 children)

while it's not great, a ton of websites did this to themselves by turning every 1 paragraph piece of information into a 5 page listicle with ads splattered all over the place. I don't think AI search stuff would be nearly as popular if websites didn't make their content impossible to view.

your ai slop bores me in c/coolwebsites@lemmy.ca
[–] Xylight 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Cloudflare stuff has broken for me when I had a user agent switcher enabled. maybe that's it?

Already heared of Genshin but I didnt play it in c/fedimemes@feddit.uk
[–] Xylight 1 points 2 weeks ago

how tf do you activitypub live multiplayer games, separate http request per packet?

I Can't Use Photon with RethinkDNS in c/photon
[–] Xylight 1 points 3 weeks ago

In the main menu > accounts, try adding a guest account for some other instance like lemmy.zip. does that server work?

I Can't Use Photon with RethinkDNS in c/photon
[–] Xylight 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

This looks like a problem when it tries contacting the Lemmy instance. Is there any rule in Rethink DNS that is somehow preventing API calls to lemmy.dbzer0.com?

The Lemmy userbase isn't much better than that of Reddit. in c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world
[–] Xylight 3 points 3 weeks ago

Local is just communities from your server. You'll see comments and posts from other servers, just not communities from other servers

The Lemmy userbase isn't much better than that of Reddit. in c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world
[–] Xylight 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

It doesn't depend on your server. since lemmy is federated, you're gonna see the same content and people no matter what server you're on (subject to maybe defederation and things like that). There's still a general Lemmy "community" that spans across every instance.

Voters Increasingly Use AI as Political Advisor. A New Study Shows the the Risks. in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] Xylight 1 points 3 weeks ago

@grok is this true

Empty main feed in c/piefed_meta@piefed.social
[–] Xylight 1 points 3 weeks ago

Cool

Did phtn.app got hacked? in c/photon
[–] Xylight 2 points 3 weeks ago

this happens every april 1

Empty main feed in c/piefed_meta@piefed.social
[–] Xylight 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

This seems like it was broken in a recent update since this issue just popped up (i think)

thanks for letting me know, i fixed the problem

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Photon v2.3.0 (self.photon)
submitted 2 months ago by Xylight to c/photon
7 comments fedilink
 

What's Changed

  • design: make the signup page look slightly less atrocious
  • feat: add keyword and URL filtering for posts by @Kehet and @Xyphyn in https://github.com/Xyphyn/photon/pull/711
    • only for posts for now, by default it will minimize the post in your feed to let you know it was hidden while still being unobtrusive. if you want to completely hide them, that's still an option
  • feat: automatically retrieve cross-server content
    • previously this would require an extra button press. this is much more transparent
    • also this makes photon links a lot better for sharing with frens
  • feat: completely rewrite the api adapters to not be absymal trash
    • if an employer saw that i wrote the old api adapter i would be fired on the spot
  • fix: Missing escaped text by @sevonj in https://github.com/Xyphyn/photon/pull/706
  • upgrade: svelte -> 5.49.1, sveltekit -> 2.50.1, vite -> 6.4.1, tailwindcss -> 4.1.18
  • misc: improve settings reachability by making a categorized page on mobile
  • design: make button presses react more frequently to just make things feel nicer
  • design: lots and lots of design tweaks like a new loading animation (massive changes)
  • refactor: authentication logic
  • fix: remove useless sveltekit __data.json blocking calls, speed up navigation within layouts (and make everything work without the photon server)
  • feat: make it impossible to use the app if you have a certain username because funny

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Xyphyn/photon/compare/v2.2.2...v2.3.0

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You can disable the settings app from the settings app (f004.backblazeb2.com)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Xylight to c/softwaregore@lemmy.world
1 comments fedilink
 

Being grayed out means nothing

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Qwen 3.5 is coming (github.com)
 

Looks to be 35b MoE and 9b dense

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photon image proxy (self.photon)
submitted 2 months ago by Xylight to c/photon
1 comments fedilink
 

Very few lemmy instances actually proxy images, and this makes it impossible to run image transforms (compression and resizing). this leads to a lot of scenarios where some profile picture that gets rendered at 24x24px is actually downloading a full-size 4K image. additionally, you've connected to hundreds of domains in the process of scrolling your home feed, leaking your IP address to all of them.

i'm working on a centralized image proxy that solves these problems (though it's not locked into photon, it depends on environment variables). it'll roll out on phtn.app for now.

Comparison

Compact mode, loading 1 page on home feed

  • Unproxied: 836 KB downloaded, 30 domains
  • Proxied: 76 KB downloaded, 1 domain
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Add a post title (f004.backblazeb2.com)
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Merry Christmas (self.justpost)
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Photon v2.2.2 (self.photon)
submitted 4 months ago by Xylight to c/photon
2 comments fedilink
 
  • design: use common components for administration pages
  • design: use common styles for vote buttons
  • impr: add proper pageination to messages page, fix diffing desync
  • feat: add autosubmit to URL autofill
  • design: use Materials for highlights in comments
  • fix: piefed poll vote api schema changes
  • fix: markdown tables re-enable
  • feat: add custom thumbnail option to PostForm
  • feat: add piefed metadata generation
  • design: redesign the profile block pages to not look awful
  • fix: post polls causing a scroll to top
  • feat: make comment guide borders clickable to collapse (like reddit)
  • misc: skip client validation for linked instances
  • feat: make command palette more obvious with a button in profile picture (ctrl + k guys) (or right click/hold on photon logo)

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Xyphyn/photon/compare/v2.2.1...v2.2.2

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[2018] Web Reading Mode: Determining the main page content (www.ctrl.blog)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Xylight to c/webdev@programming.dev
1 comments fedilink
 

How do browser reading modes determine what is the main page content? They use different approaches and there’s no defined standard.

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Is the steam client absolutely messed up for anyone else? (self.linux_gaming)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Xylight to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
25 comments fedilink
 

I'm using Arch currently and the following issues have been present on every install of Steam I've had:

  • Controller inputs break constantly. If I use big picture mode, the games will be in some quasi state where it both detects my controller and doesn't.
  • The menus take like 3 seconds to open.
  • The right click menu in the system tray does not work 30% of the time.
  • Worst of all, when I close a game, steam will not detect that it closes. Once this happens, no other page will load, no menus will open, and i have to killall steam -s SIGKILL, since no other signal works. It's also survived SIGKILL multiple times. How?
  • In game, the shift+tab menu does not work; half the buttons are unresponsive and the game will crash upon closing shift+tab

The arch wiki had nothing on this.

Flatpak and native installs have the same problem, reinstallation does nothing, steam --reset does nothing.

These issues occur across multiple games with different engines.

It's very strange since I have a very generic system and most people seem to have great experiences.

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[Poll] What Lemmy/Piefed client(s) do you use? (strawpoll.com)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Xylight to c/lemmyapps@lemmy.world
42 comments fedilink
 

Curious on the usage statistics.

Should I make a full survey asking about granularity so that app devs can see what to focus on?

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Photon v2.2.0 (self.photon)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Xylight to c/photon
1 comments fedilink
 

It is recommended to install this update as soon as possible, it contains important security fixes.

What's Changed

  • feat: add piefed polls and events
    • only supported on piefed v1.4.0 which isn't out yet
  • feat: add piefed user notes
    • ditto
  • feat: auto-detect server software type in login form
  • impr: optimize theme css handling, decrease stylesheet size
  • design: revolutionize modal animations by making them zoom out instead of zoom in
  • feat: add a share target to the PWA
    • you can share a link with the app. it won't start a discussion with you unfortunately, instead it'll automatically convert the link to a photon compatible link (so you can open lemmy posts in the app)
  • misc: enable sourcemaps in production for Transparency™
    • no security risk. in fact it improves security because you can see if the source code matches the actual photon source
  • performance: optimize the virtualizer resizeobserver
  • design: use EntityHeaders for instance and community cards
  • design: make toasts look anywhere between 0% and 200% better
  • design: improve the comment context UI, showing a +x more button and an all comments button
  • fix: loading logo not appearing on firefox
  • fix: separate password lengths on piefed and lemmy
  • fix: make PostListShell parameters reactive to fix stubborn sorting
  • impr: various behind-the-scenes improvements in codebase
  • misc: make postbody collapse/expand button sticky so you dont have to scroll toe the bottom
  • fix: moderation report id collisions

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Xyphyn/photon/compare/v2.1.1...v2.2.0

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It's your fault my laptop knows where I am (www.amoses.dev)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Xylight to c/technology@lemmy.world
13 comments fedilink
 

Interesting article shared with me about the way Wi-Fi location services work.

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