I joined when it was for students only and quit sometime around 2007. There was a "quit Facebook day" once a year that was for raising awareness about how evil Facebook was even back then. I quit on one of those days. At least that's part of the reason why I quit. Also the only Facebook friend I really interacted with abruptly got extremely fundamentalist Christian and started posting stuff that I couldn't stand to be assaulted with.
Jean-Luc Picard is entirely too classy to snore.
Wait until you hear about the Fifty Corners.
Yeah, it's like prosecuting women for miscarriages. Oh wait.
Yeah, it seems like the U.S. 2nd federal circuit ruled in 2001 in Universal City Studios v. Corley that the DeCSS algorithm itself could not be "trafficked in" without running afoul of the DMCA's anti-trafficking measures. Not just the DVD private keys. (Which I guess DeCSS doesn't strictly need in order to remove DVD DRM? I'm not sure I fully understand exactly how DeCSS works. But anyway.)
Yeah, this unfortunately can only be addressed by fully blocking her in every way you can. Phone, social media, everything. Never agree to see/meet her in person even in public. If you run into her in person, say only that you're no longer in a relationship and then walk away and ignore her entirely.
Last time I made a post on Reddit, the automod hid and locked my post for advocating something my post wasn't advocating and then responded to my post saying my post was a duplicate, which it was not. The automod also DM'd me to tell me I would be banned shortly if I didn't take action quickly. I messaged a(n ostensibly) flesh-and-blood mod who agreed with me and unlocked/unhid my post, but by that point, the post was old enough that it wouldn't get any significant amount of responses.
I'm not necessarily entirely against automods, but if we do end up with automods, they definitely need to be more judicious than the ones on Reddit. (And they are, from what I've seen. I don't think I've ever seen that an automod on Lemmy has done something and thought "that automod is out of line."
Maybe just as a rule of thumb, I'm thinking maybe automods shouldn't delete/lock/hide posts. The whole automatically responding saying "your post is a duplicate" is pretty infantalizing as well. But I could certainly see use in an automod that flags any posts for review that mention such-and-such keywords.
And maybe I could even be convinced that automods actually deleting/locking/hiding posts (or even banning users) could be a good thing in some cases as long as they err on the side of false negatives rather than false positives.
Anyway, I guess all that to say that I'm broadly sympathetic to having concerns about automods. Though "it's lazy" isn't really my objection to them. And I don't think talking smack about mods is exactly good PR for your opinion. (The communities I mod are all pretty chill and modding really doesn't take up any significant amount of my time, but I'm all for making mods' jobs easier.)
I think you're misunderstanding octopus_ink's comment. Are you thinking octopus_ink is a 4chan refugee? I think they're just a Lemmy user hoping we don't get flooded with 4chan assholes.
Yeah, I think the actual content of Revolutions was strictly the Wachowskis's way of protesting being forced to make another one. I think they made it as bad as they possibly could on purpose. I think we'd have gotten a "better" movie had neither of the Wachowskis been involved with it. (Not that we'd have gotten a "good" movie, but it wouldn't have purposefully ruined everything.)
Both Daemon and Freedom by Daniel Suarez.
I mean, as long as they don't butcher them like they did to, for instance, Ready Player One.
My place of work used to have a fairly large "data entry" department until they... did... something to make that job kindof unnecessary. They laid off pretty much all of that department. And I'm told the boss who was over them before they were laid off returned to his office to find a sizeable human shit directly atop his desk.
Another story. My own boss (actually my boss's boss) was a massive asshole. Committed the team to a completely unreasonable deadline in conversations with the C-level folks above him, and then threw temper tantrums when the deadline wasn't hit. He turned the daily standup into a 7:30am (in-person) daily demo to prove we were making progress and weren't... I dunno... slacking off or whatever. Many a temper tantrum was had in those demos as well.
I quit and made no secret of why. After I left, I heard through the grapevine that in a meeting with the CTO, the asshole boss accused the CTO of being incompetent and said that he was gunning for the CTO's job. The CTO, sensibly, told the asshole boss to do not pass go, do not collect $200, security will escort you out of the building and we'll ship you your personal effects from your office.
And then I quit the place I'd gone to and went back to where the asshole boss had been and I'm still working there. Definitely would not have considered coming back if he was still there.
Ok. One more story about the other place. They switched from one chat provider to another. But they never actually shut down the one they were migrating away from. Several folks never left the old chat. When it was discovered that on the old chat service, said folks were trading really really inappropriate holocaust jokes, the whole office got a talking to in very vague terms. It wasn't until like a month later that someone explained to me what had precipitated that.
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One more question if you don't mind. Do you plan to attend college? (If you haven't settled on a plan, I'd highly recommend it. I definitely believe homeschooling has the potential to position a student very well to excel in college.)
Finally, just to say it, I definitely see some red flags regarding your family's dynamic in your responses. I know it can be hard to see those red flags when you're so embedded in the family itself. But... be careful. Do what you need to to protect yourself. Don't let yourself be guilted into living with them and catering to their needs forever. If you find yourself wishing you could move out after you're 18, don't ask permission. Make a plan and execute it. Get help from outside if you have to. (And yes I received similar advice when I was young and homeschooled, and yes I resented it at the time, but yes it was what I needed to hear, and yes I wish I'd followed it.)
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I had a friend who homeschooled his kid for a while. He did express frustration that seemingly everyone in the homeschool community (at least the local one) was "either a hippie or a fundamentalist Christian." And "there aren't any normal homeschoolers".
So, my question is: does that jive with what you've seen? And if so, which is your dad? (Or at least which is your dad closest to?)
Finally, definitely don't answer anything you don't feel comfortable answering, but what country are you in?
(Also, just to mention it, I was homeschooled from 4th grade through highschool. I didn't have a lot of contact with any hippie homeschoolers, but my entire peer group was fundamentalist Christian.)
Let's be real. Reddit has had AI integration for a good while now.
4chan and Jira too. It does seem like a lot of things have had outages lately.
I really can't overstate how much respect I have for Kuhn and the SFC. If RMS and the FSF are the Free Software movement's past, Kuhn and the SFC are it's future, and I can't imagine anyone better to carry that particular torch.
Why wasn't I told that was an option sooner?
Khi Lémi íu: uá síkheén óno síkheén, ian-núe khéen auá uá síkheén nimi.
Khía uá síkheén óno síkheén khin!
Personality Disorders
Do you suffer from a personality disorder, suspect you might, know someone who does, or simply wish to engage on the topic with others?
That's what [email protected] is for.
Can I connect to an instance on my LAN?
I'm writing a Lemmy bot. (No spoilers. I'll publish it one day.) To test it, I'm running a local Lemmy instance (via Docker) on a computer on my LAN and pointing my bot at it. That method works great, mostly. I can use Lemmy-UI just fine on my computer. I can also connect to that computer from a browser on my Android phone via http://192.168.1.199:1234/. I can also connect to Lemmy directly from my browser on my Android phone via http://192.168.1.199:8536/ and get a JSON payload (rather than an HTML page) with some information about the instance. So I'm certain I can connect to both Lemmy and Lemmy-UI from elsewhere on my LAN.
I also want to see exactly what posts made by my bot look like in Jerboa, but I haven't been able to figure out how to connect to it from Jerboa. On the "add account instance" interface, you can select an instance from the dropdown, but you can also type whatever you want into the dropdown field.
I've tried typing in:
192.168.1.199 Xenomorph
Xenomorph XX121,[3][4] commonly referred to as simply the Xenomorph[5], known colloquially as the Alien, and classified as XX121, is a highly aggressive endoparasitoid extraterrestrial species. The Xenomorphs are vicious predatory creatures with no higher goals than the propagation of their species ...
This is for testing purposes, I promise.
What good communities are blocked by some instances that I might be missing out on?
I learned just recently that dbzer0 has a great piracy community that is blocked by lemmy.world . I'm not saying I'm looking to switch instances or anything, but it did get me wondering what else might be blocked by my instance that I wasn't previously aware of.
While we're at it, I'm curious what communities might notably be blocked on other instances as well. So we might as well just make this a question about what might be blocked by any particular instance, not just my instance.
So, what's blocked on some instances that folks might not have realized is blocked?
What are some things a conspiracy theorist has told you?
Coworker. I told him to fuck off with his conspiracy bullshit. But back when I patronized him, one thing he said was that he didn't consider belief a binary as in that you either believe something or don't. He viewed all beliefs as a continuum. You can believe one thing 10% and another thing 90%, but he wouldn't let me pin him down as to whether he "believed" any particular thing or not.
All while trying to convince me "tall white aliens" run the U.S. government and Sandy Hook was faked by a bunch of actors and the U.S. military had invisibility technology and planes that aren't dumping weather-controlling chemicals don't leave trails in the sky. Pretty standard QAnon-level bullshit. But if I asked him if he believed any of those things, he wouldn't answer. Honestly, it makes sense as a dishonest rhetorical tactic.
Dude also literally drinks borax in his juice cleanse drink.
What piece(s) of pop media have you not consumed that people would think you weird for not having consumed yet?
Just as examples:
The store was out of dried chopped onions, so I got onion flakes.
I think I like the flakes better, actually. I microwave-bake bread with onion in it daily and the flakes are nicer.
Minced? Pure madness. Let alone powder.
Hulu appears to be having a major outage right now.
Another source: https://isdown.app/status/hulu
I was logged out of Hulu on my streaming box and can't log back in on any device. I don't know if this is all of Hulu or just in certain regions or what.
Any way to do a "pillowing" effect?
We all know about the linear_extrude(...) function that turns 2d things into 3d things.
I sometimes have found myself wishing for a similar function which could make a more rounded, result.
Just to illustrate what I'm hoping to achieve, my dream solution would, given this 2d outline:
would give me something like the following:
 contributes a card from their hands face-down to the center of the table and the dealer shuffles them together and reveals them all at once without revealing whose card is whose. Then p
A Short One About My First DM
This is one I've posted in a comment on Lemmy before. Originally in this thread.
But it got a lot of upvotes and it's apropos to this community so without further ado:
I remember something my first DM did.
Player: Ok. I'll open the door.
DM: You're turning the doorknob?
Player: Wait. Never mind. I'll search first.
DM: Too late. Which direction do you turn the doorknob?
Player: Sweating. Um... clockwise?
DM: And which hand do you turn the doorknob with?
Player: Ri-... Left.
DM: And do you push or pull the door?
Player: Push...
DM: The door swings open.
The entire table was dead silent for a full 30 seconds. Nothing ever happened. Or if it did, we never made the connection to the door.
That DM was a joker. Lol.
A Nautical Mini-Dungeon
Yaaaaaaaaaaas! I'm excited for this community to exist on Lemmy.
I'll be happy to kick it off with a nautical campaign mini-dungeon concept from a PF1e campaign I DM'd many moons ago.
PCs found a map with an "X" on it. And you all know what an "X" means. It also had a password printed on it. They didn't yet have a ship, so they rented a ship to get to the "X". It was in a fjord with huge, tall straight-vertical cliffs around it.
They spoke the password and the cliff face opened into a massive 50-ft wide, 100-ft tall doorway.
The whole dungeon from enterence to the end was the same width and height as the doorway but ascending the whole way with a trench running down the middle of the floor. Old half-rotten barriers with doors divided rooms from each other. The creatures there were mostly slimes/oozes/jellies.
The final door had a puzzle to it with keys they'd picked up on the way.
The final room held an ancient, legendary schooner in dry dock. They boarded and the ship itself cam
(Solved) How Does YouTube Know Where I Left Off On A Video?
Yesterday, I started watching a video on YouTube but closed out of my browser (Firefox) only a few minutes into the video.
I've got my Firefox set to delete all cookies, history, form data, etc on every close. (Pretty much everything but bookmarks.) The image on this post is a screenshot of my relevant settings.
Today, after having exited my browser and fully shut down my computer for a while, I remembered the video and decided to continue watching it.
In Firefox, I searched for the video (I used the search term "gnu taler" -- something worth looking into especially for folks interested in this particular Lemmy community by the way). In the search results, the video I was searching for showed the red bar at the bottom indicating I'd watched only the first few minutes of it.
Which seems weird given that I'd cleared all my browser data
Washington Post: Leaked documents reveal patient safety issues at Amazon’s One Medical
I linked to MSN because (at least for me) it wasn't paywalled. The original source for the article can be found on the Washington Post's website here but is paywalled.
Animutations
Please tell me I'm not the only one still obsessed with these things.
Edit: Woah. I am the only one still obsessed with Animutations, aren't I? They're mine! All mine!
What linguistic constructions do you hate that no one else seems to mind?
It bugs me when people say "the thing is is that" (if you listen for it, you'll start hearing it... or maybe that's something that people only do in my area.) ("What the thing is is that..." is fine. But "the thing is is that..." bugs me.)
Also, "just because
<blank>
doesn't mean<blank>
." That sentence structure invites one to take "just because<blank>
" as a noun phrase which my brain really doesn't want to do. Just doesn't seem right. But that sentence structure is very common.And I'm not saying there's anything objectively wrong with either of these. Language is weird and complex and beautiful. It's just fascinating that some commonly-used linguistic constructions just hit some people wrong sometimes.
Edit: I thought of another one. "As best as I can." "The best I can" is fine, "as well as I can" is good, and "as best I can" is even fine. But "as best as" hurts.
