blaise

@blaise@champserver.net
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Joined 10 months ago

Kbin allows user-level instance blocking, so that functionality should be feasible to implement in lemmy eventually.

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!reuse
!freecycle
!thrifty
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The link mentions that it is only ran as part of a debian or RPM package build. Not to mention that on Arch sshd is not linked against liblzma anyways.

Also, the reason people throw out the 90% figure is because that's about what it was at the time. Granted most of the rich still managed to only pay ~70%.

Here's a couple jumping points: Historical chart, US tax history on Wikipedia

I came to the harsh reality and conclusion that when it comes to platform maturity and stability, Kbin is years behind thanks to constant errors across the website sometimes, bugs and other instabilities, this also lead me to reconsider supporting and coming back to Lemmy

I started running my own personal kbin instance in June and had to face that realization a few months in. I just recently (~2 weeks ago) took it down and started up a lemmy server instead. It's something I should have done months ago because it requires an order of magnitude more resources to run kbin compared to lemmy. I guess it was too appealing to have both mastodon and lemmy in one place, but neither of those things worked well enough to be worth the trouble.

At any rate, your thread on reddit about kbin was one of the reasons I ventured out into the fediverse as well as one of the reasons I chose to run kbin over lemmy. Thanks for the time and effort you put into doing all that!

Farmland birds declined by 56.8 percent between 1980 and 2016, he and his colleagues estimate. The next most quickly declining group, urban species, fell by 27.8 percent.

Not enough people have given consideration to the possibility that their grandchildren could grow up with the perspective that birds are fairytale creatures. We have people alive today with that perspective for fireflies, so it's a scary thought.

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In one of Ernest's posts last week he mentioned that account deletions need to be handled manually for now. I'm not sure how long it takes him to work through through the queue, but he mentioned in the post that if for some reason you need that done sooner you can send him an email through the contact form starting with "DELETE MY ACCOUNT" so he can prioritize that.

Offtopic, but I really like the Atkinson Hyperlegible font and I'm glad to see it being used here!

Unfortunately Mozilla doesn't seem to be opposed to the attribution, only the implementation. They have their own proposal called IPA:

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/privacy-preserving-attribution-for-advertising/

https://github.com/patcg-individual-drafts/ipa/

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They're fine for now, though we're making things tough for them:
https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/70/2/157/5715071

Their population has been dwindling to such an extent I've encountered people that have never seen them before and assumed they weren't real. You must live somewhere nice if you get to see lots of them!

My account was 14 years old and I had that same feeling. I've been pretty disgruntled with Reddit for nearly a decade, so I'm more surprised that I managed to stick with that site for so long.

I'd consider all mass shootings as terrorist attacks. We used to be so scared of the idea of attacks like this after 9/11, I guess people don't mind as much when they are being carried out by our own community instead of ones that can be more easily dehumanized.

Unfortunately they seem to have already been doing that as well. There was a thread in r/programming before the blackout where people were commenting about the number of other comments that were in opposition to the blackout. The whole thread was filled with people finding that most of them were LLM bots:
https://i.imgur.com/4e9jO7P.jpg

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pcpartpicker is a fantastic resource for putting together a new build.

As far as lemmy communities go, there's also !buildapc and !buildapc

There's some decent explanations in this thread: https://lemmy.world/post/1097946

A group of friends and I had a blast playing this all weekend. The game and that website are both really well-made!

If you want a diablo-esque ARPG check out Ghostlore. It has some really cool mechanics with the glyphs, skill grid, and food. Oddly enough, the only multiplayer it supports is local co-op.

Edit: It should be noted that I haven't tried the co-op yet and after looking at the steam page again there's a review saying that it's buggy, so take this recommendation with caution.

The closest I know about are:
https://wiby.me/
and
https://search.marginalia.nu/

It should, but the quality of the image would be lowered doing it that way.

@danQuix0te sorry, I shouldn't have deleted my comment. Still trying to get the time thing sorted out.

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I had it set to localtime instead of UTC, which for me is -5 hours. Caused me a bit of grief earlier today after making a new post that started out already five hours old!

It seems like a real pickle though. What if I set my time to a year in the future and make a post? Would that post stay at the top of new all year? I guess lemmy should use the received date rather than what is sent but that could be problematic when things are bogged down or having federation issues.

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UTC now. Am I still the ghost of federation's past?
Edit: seems so?

One more try. I sure hope you don't have notifications enabled for all replies...
Edit: well now I'm stumped

I made a post yesterday about this: https://lemmy.world/post/1065037

The TLDR is that your apps are not showing the real rotation of the image. Get an image editor app to fix them before submitting.

I'm taking this opportunity to test my timezone config

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Thanks for the heads-up, I've had this one on my wishlist for a while! Yasunori Mitsuda is involved with the soundtrack from what I've read, so there's lots of potential.

You might have better luck using sites like:
https://lemmyverse.net/communities
or
https://browse.feddit.de/

You know, the funny thing is that might actually work! There are things that LLMs are made to censor that real humans would still be be able to talk about. Granted, most those things would probably get us in trouble or put on a list, so I'm not sure how feasible that would be Maybe a decent idea would be if we could all pick a 'safe-word' out of those things that could be used to tell humans from bots.

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For some reason kbin uses @ instead of !
Try @ttrpgs@lemmy.blahaj.zone