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e0qdk, 3 days ago

Shouldn’t that be Seibaa (セイバー)?

e0qdk, 3 days ago

No; I just thought it was probably a typo but wanted to make sure I’m not missing a pun or something.

e0qdk, 4 days ago

A fairly vocal portion of lemmy is AI-hostile, and even for the people who aren’t outright hostile to it, it can be annoying at times – AI content does tend to drown everything else out when it’s permitted, so making a community explicitly for it would probably work better.

lemmy.dbzer0.com might be a good place to host a community specifically for exploring AI generated music if you’re interested in running one. That instance is explicitly open to AI gen and already has several image gen communities, but I don’t think they have a music gen community yet. (Double check though before making one in case I just missed it.)

e0qdk, 4 days ago

Now imagine if to buy a car you had to tolerate cameras and other forms of tracking your telemetry just to get to work and feed yourself.

Sorry to be the bearer of depressing news, but that’s basically already happening in new cars.

…mozilla.org/…/privacy-nightmare-on-wheels-every-…

jacobin.com/…/car-spying-insurance-surveillance-d…

e0qdk, 5 days ago

I wonder what cuil things it will say if you start asking questions about hamburgers instead…

e0qdk, 9 days ago

I think “an RTS” is fine. The ‘n’ is added to an indefinite article if the word after it starts with a vowel sound, not just if it literally starts with a vowel letter.

e0qdk, 9 days ago

I recognize some of the characters:

• Akiyama Yukari from Girls und Panzer (top left corner)
• Oumae Kumiko from Hibike! Euphonium (center – brown hair and yellow eyes)
• Kuriyama Mirai from Beyond the Boundary (right – with glasses)

but I don’t recognize the others.

e0qdk, 11 days ago

That requires turning every read into a write – which is slow/expensive generally. (That might not matter much for Google – who try to record everything you ever do already, basically – but it matters for everyone else.)

Also, it tends to promote spam and offensive niche content. kbin’s got a sidebar that tries to promote random low activity communities and posts, for example, and it’s almost uncanny how much crap it pushes up…

e0qdk, 12 days ago

I took a look through your link briefly at some of the artist’s other works – it’s rather unusual how many of their pieces have the character facing away from the viewer or looking off to the side or otherwise obscuring their face.

e0qdk, 13 days ago

https://reddthat.com/pictrs/image/b7b49ed5-66bd-4152-981d-310fa15afc46.jpeg

e0qdk, 12 days ago

Mrs Bighead?!

…

hangs up the phone

e0qdk, 13 days ago

Can you run the DOS software under DOSBox?

e0qdk, 13 days ago

DOSBox runs on both Linux and Windows (and probably Mac too?); I was suggesting it since you might be able to replace the dying DOS computers with a modern system and just launch the legacy system as an application under it. (You might be able to do the same with a VM as well, but DOSBox came to mind first and may be easier to setup and distribute.)

Just a thought. If it’s not useful, feel free to disregard.

e0qdk, 13 days ago

Personally, I prefer it when people do one of the following:

• upload the file to catbox.moe and link it here (for clips up to 200MB)
• upload the file directly to their lemmy instance (if their instance allows it)
• self-host it on their own web server (with no bullshit crappy JS interface, please – just give me the file; I’ll play it with VLC if it doesn’t work in my browser)

PeerTube is also a reasonable choice – although I don’t like its UI very much.

e0qdk, 14 days ago

After I finished watching the series, I discovered that there is a movie version of the story that condenses it down to <2 hours. I haven’t watched it, but that might be a more approachable way for modern viewers to digest the story.

I have seen both (a long time ago), and from what I remember the movie was REALLY different – like, almost unrecognizably different. I do not recommend substituting one for the other.

e0qdk, 19 days ago

Right now I’m mostly using mlmym (the “old” interface on most instances that support it) because it doesn’t require JS for basic viewing.

It’s kind of buggy though, unfortunately – things like user history show up as a complete jumble, for example. :(

One of these days, I’ll probably get fed up enough to go write my own interface and set things up exactly how I want them to work… but I’ve got too many projects already so I’m just living with it for now.

e0qdk, 19 days ago

I haven’t had much issue with lag, generally, but I don’t get notifications any more – which is probably the most pressing issue. (I have to remember to manually check once in a while after I post since the envelope doesn’t light up.) That might be an issue with reddthat being on a recent beta version of lemmy – I don’t know.

We do have lemmy-ui-next over here too. Thanks for reminding me about that. I’ve been meaning to poke at it a bit.

e0qdk, 19 days ago (edited 19 days ago)

You can open any profile with multiple pages worth of posts or comments on old.reddthat.com and it’s jumbled. Even my own profile is jumbled: old.reddthat.com/u/e0qdk

The first page is mostly comments I made two weeks ago plus a thread from today and some very old threads. The second page has comments I made earlier today and during the past week. The third page starts with my most recent comment and then has a bunch of older comments.

The exact order might change after posting this, but my own recent comments mostly being on page two has been pretty consistent for a while.

If I look at a very active user’s profile (like MentalEdge’s), I see threads from today show up on page three(!) while there are threads from a week or more ago on pages one and two.

I’m not sure what’s going on exactly, but it basically makes user profiles pretty useless right now through mlmym.

Edit: I can’t even find this comment in my profile, but my other reply (regarding the envelope being fixed in 0.0.43) shows up on page 3.

e0qdk, 19 days ago

That’s great to hear!

e0qdk, 18 days ago

Thanks! I’ll go ask Tiff about getting reddthat updated later.

BTW, is there a community for discussion of mlmym itself somewhere on lemmy? I can’t participate on GitHub, but those aren’t the only issues I’ve found. (e.g. there’s also ?format=jpg&thumbnail=96 on non-pictrs links and a text handling issue with angle brackets…)

e0qdk, 18 days ago

I’m having trouble finding an example of the thumbnail issue again right now but I was seeing the pictrs conversion parameters passed to URLs from catbox.moe, i.postimg.cc, and other sources in the CSS for the thumbnail when I reported the issue to Tiff ~3 weeks ago. It’s possible that it got fixed/suppressed by another change since then though. (0.0.44 was deployed a few hours ago and I think there may have also been a beta patch bump for the lemmy backend at some point since I reported the issue originally in our local support community.)

I’ll let you know if I see it pop up again.

For the text handling issue, I was seeing text like “<thread title> by <username> in <community>” (i.e. “<thread title> by <username> in <community>” if it still happens) getting misinterpreted as raw HTML instead of being escaped. (i.e. <!-- raw HTML omitted --> was showing up in the HTML output for the page.)

You may recognize that text as the pattern for a recently fixed bug in the user profiles; I found the text handling issue while trying to explain the other issue to Tiff a few weeks ago.

Will edit this comment immediately after posting to let you know if I still see the text issue.

EDIT: I still see the text issue show up in this comment. old.reddthat.com/comment/10370610

e0qdk, 9 days ago (edited 9 days ago)

I ran into an example of the thumbnail issue again today – this time on a post from kbin: old.reddthat.com/post/19193476

The thumbnail looks like this in the HTML:

<span style="color:#323232;"><div class="thumb">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  <a class="url"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">     href="https://media.kbin.social/media/60/a4/60a45b8ff88b1b2e3a0f77b701feb323c5bbfb7ceeb75154ea7df5d6eea15ef8.jpg"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">     >
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    <div  style="background-image: url(https://media.kbin.social/media/60/a4/60a45b8ff88b1b2e3a0f77b701feb323c5bbfb7ceeb75154ea7df5d6eea15ef8.jpg?format=jpg&amp;thumbnail=96)"></div>
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  </a>
</span><span style="color:#323232;"></div>
</span>

Note that it’s making a request to kbin.social with ?format=jpg&thumbnail=96 parameters in the CSS – which results in the full image being loaded since kbin doesn’t run pictrs.

The versions in use on reddthat (according to the settings page) are:

lemmy: 0.19.4-beta.7

mlmym: 0.0.44

e0qdk, 19 days ago

Privacy-focused people of Mbin and Lemmy, do any of the third-party YouTube viewers support spherical video?

No idea, but if you put the video file up for direct download you can view spherical video in VLC. I'm not sure what the exact requirements are to make it recognize it, but I know it can do it. (I'd guess it probably just looks for a copy of whatever metadata that YT wants you to tag the video files with.)