Deebster

@Deebster@beehaw.org
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Joined 1 years ago

It's nice here, but a bit under-federated. Other @Deebsters are available.

False dichotomy (or is your logical fallacy the slippery slope? Anyway...) Someone saying that what's happening to Palestinians is wrong does not mean they're saying they want all Israelis killed.

Arguably, the fix should be to "it" since anon is a utility account, not a user.

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Good. To quote WarGames:

The only winning move is not to play

Meta is at best looking to profit from the Fediverse, and more likely looking to extinguish it. I think blocking them at the borders is the only solution.

TL;DR: the code/servers could be changed to use SSR, but that's more expensive to run.


Lemmy is written more as a web app than as a traditional webpage. This means that the website sends a partial page plus the code+resources needed to finish building the page and the browser builds ("renders") the final page.

This has advantages in that the server can send less data over time, cache more of that data, and overall has to do less work, plus also makes the site feel more snappy for the user, because their browser only needs to download the data that's changed (instead of a whole new page).

The disadvantage is that the browser needs to be more powerful, and older/simpler browsers (like IE6, some text-only browsers and some web spiders) won't apply the extra work to finish the page off.

The normal solution is called "server-side rendering" (SSR) where the server renders the full page, sends that over, then also sends over the code+data needed to run things more dynamically ("hydrating" the static site into an app-like experience). This means the server has to do a lot of work, but is often the best of both worlds; search engines see the proper page (good for SEO) but users get to have a nice experience (once that longer initial load is complete, anyway).

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I'm not sure what you're asking. Do you mean Lemmy communities, Lemmy instances, or something else?

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The fact that it's Nintendo's IP seems the key thing here.

So did Nintendo get Valve to do this, or is Valve just covering its back from the notoriously-litigious Nintendo?

[they] didn’t do anything wrong I just didn’t agree with them

And that's why it's disabled! That's not what it's meant to be for, it's meant to be for things that don't add to the conversation. If it's factually wrong then fine - downvote, but don't do it to suppress others' opinions.

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I was expecting an assassination, not a stupid gift and a terrible accident.

After a glance at others' answers, it's the same thing: the trend away from skeuomorphism.

I always think about the time I discovered an Android area was horizontally scrollable - with no scrollbars to clue me in, it was only the fact that the icon I wanted wasn't there that prompted me to discover the secret. I'm a software dev, if it's unintuitive even to me, how do non-technical people stand a chance?

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I noticed one of the Lemmy instances recommending everyone change their settings to use 'hot' by default in their site rules sidebar. Makes sense, the many instances look a lot more lively that way.

So many don't understand that the mods need those tools, and don't care about people who need the accessibility (although I suspect that argument is popular more for having the moral high ground).

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I'm happily oblivious much of to (I assume) US politics, so I'm going to read this as if you're talking about Magic the Gathering.

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I think part of the problem is that even when you're subscribed to the small communities, it's easy to miss the posts. Sorting by Scaled helps a little, but I still often find a post from days ago that I missed.

I'd like an option where you could "super subscribe" or something which makes those posts show up first, or even in the inbox.

Bad link 👎

This article seems to be an incomplete pasting of an old article: What Did Ada Lovelace’s Program Actually Do? I was suspicious when it said "A contemporary interpretation of Ada's punch card stack using JavaScript might resemble the following" but didn't have any code.

The real tl;dr is it calculated terms of the Bernoulli series.

This a great answer in a sea of slightly odd food choices. It's healthy for kids to do this, apparently.

Online it's even more annoying (to me, anyway), because we have the time element specifically for this kind of thing and no-one bothers to use it.

I'm another Kagi fan - after customising it a little it's just so good, and I haven't even played with features like lenses.

I really like the custom bang searches (e.g. I could make !ks gravity search on simple Wikipedia), especially on mobile since Firefox Android doesn't support the normal browser quicksearches (where you set a keyword for each search).

I imagine the devs have stats on uninstalls - I wonder what they show.

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No, it's just that @warboyziri@kbin.social didn't give the full link. It's happy and healthy at https://letterboxd.com

They sold that stuff to the Brits (the £27bn in today's money was only finally paid off in 2006).

If memory serves, the US were also supplying the Nazis at the start of the war.

I agree that US involvement was vital to winning WW2, but the idea that they won it themselves is pure American propaganda.

If you're on Windows, you can use Win + .

If you're on Linux, try ctrl + shift + e

Lovely stuff - and, looking at all the detail, this must have taken quite a while. Are you planning to do the full alphabet?

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That's interesting. The flaw with that logic seems to that there'll always be new users, and they'll be playing on hard mode since those vital clues have been removed.

I was thinking it just shows how well this whole fediverse idea works that you could even be confused in the first place 🤓

That was my first thought - if reddit doesn't want that feature, we'll take it!

I'm not a parent, but this seems like a necessary community, and Beehaw feels like a great place for it.

No, it'll be fine 99% of the time.

Nowadays, feature detection is done within browsers, and the differences between browsers are small enough that servers generally will serve the same version of a page to all.

It's a slightly clickbaity headline, since it suggests this was a worrying problem, as opposed to part of the plan.

the recent silent spell, which the two mission teams had expected: The rover had disappeared behind a hill from the helicopter's perspective, and it didn't come back into view until June 28.

I'm surprised you say you don't know what the 😭 face means, since it's just exaggerated crying. Is it because they're too small, or that you suspect there's some implied agreement/subtext you're not party to?

I can see why people wouldn't know what something like 🍆 is used to represent, since it's not for the intended (I assume...) use.

I'd rather see the second option - having a JavaScript-free solution is definitely more resilient than trying to detect and whitelist every archive service. As long as it works for wget/curl then it works for almost everyone.

footnote 3: And by extension: any feature that speeds up the audio or video we consume

I disagree that speeding up something is the same thing at all. Playing something at a constant rate (faster or slower) still maintains the editorial choices that the author was talking about.

I speed up plenty of things I listen to, and it's not (primarily) to get through them quicker.

Across the world it's the case that city folk tend to speak quicker than their rural countrymen. American speak slower, on average, than Brits. And that's fine! However, I find it hard to maintain focus when the speech is too slow - so speeding it up allows me to enjoy it like intended.

I definitely agree that the trim silence feature sound awful.

Haha, I think I just had a little rant at you there even though you were saying the same things I was saying. Bad habits... I don't think I'll be on reddit much now, hopefully enough people stay around to make this place quite active still.

It should be fine - it was busy enough before the blackout, and of course all the good apps will stop working soon, along with a bunch of essential tools for modding, etc.

I've just installed this from your recommendation and it's brilliant. I love the amateur graphics, it just adds to the charm.

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It's both, I believe, there are apps they use directly with more powerful tools than the site gives you, and bots like automod that can enforce policy (e.g. "title must include IRTR" or "image posts must also have a comment explaining ...").

I noticed maliciouscompliance appear here, welcome!

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I'm trying it now - I like it but there are a few confusing choices, like how you can only have one widget visible at once.

How do you access the shortcuts that would normally be placed on the home screen? I have some webapps and e.g. OpenVPN shortcuts that I currently can't see.

What features are you looking for? As others have said, if you just want somewhere you can store images yourself, you don't even need software aside from a webserver and something to upload with.

But there's also things like user accounts, tagging, browsing/discovery, plus whatever else gfycay does/did.

Anyway, just to actually give you a suggestion, chevereto is used by a friend and it's a lovely user experience (can't tell you about the admin side, though). [edit: This uses folders to organise - no tagging - so it might not meet your needs, which is why I was asking]

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You can add a title and description to images, folders, albums (what we've been calling folders), sub-albums, etc. You can search on those, but it's not a structured thing like tags. I guess you could just store some JSON in there but you might need to get smart with your queries to search. Afraid I have no idea if there's plugins, or even if what I've been using is a recent and/or unmodified codebase.

I think it's more designed for photo uploads, as there's an option to keep exif data, and it automatically makes images of different sizes (including your original, maybe massive upload).

Maybe it'll be like the final episode of Attack on Titan where the last season was split into multiple parts, and the final part was split into multiple chapters. Was it also a two partner? It got stupid, anyway.

It's not paywalled here, try using porn mode, clearing that site's cookies or something like archive.today.

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