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lvxferre, 17 hours ago

I had to websearch the term to know what they were talking about. Pfft, internet oddities.

Case in point. At least some side is lying here; either the people from r/gooncaves or the Reddit administration. And given their modus operandi I’m placing my bets on the admins lying.

Frankly, at this rate someone might end suing Reddit for libel in those ban messages. I think that it deserves it.

lvxferre, 2 days ago

LLMs can’t even distinguish properly between a fruit with green flesh and red skin vs. green skin and red flesh, and you expect them to distinguish between ads and content?

lvxferre, 2 days ago (edited 1 day ago)

My guess is that the ads in question are not the ones that Google wants, but rather LLMO (like SEO cancer, except for LLM results).

But yes, if someone paid Google enough, their ad “magically” becomes content, no disagreement.

lvxferre, 1 day ago

I read the article. My point is that the ads won’t be just the ones that the article describes, and clearly separated from the content; eventually they’ll become part of the content.

lvxferre, 2 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

Pickled eggs last a long time and they’re easy to prepare. Here’s a recipe.

Notes:

• The recipe claims that they last for one month, but from experience it’s more like 2~3 months as long as the jar is closed. Just make sure to keep them in the fridge.
• Don’t feel afraid to use more or less sugar or salt than in the recipe, depending on your tastes - they’re conserved by the vinegar. You do want some sugar though, to make them taste less sour than they actually are.
• Seasoning is up to you. The recipe that I’ve linked has a few ideas; personally I like to use turmeric (for the colour), peppercorns, dill, and a few drops of my homemade habanero sauce.

lvxferre, 3 days ago (edited 3 days ago)

I’ve mentioned this two days ago. I didn’t test it because I don’t have an account there any more, but I’m predicting that they’ll slowly remove functionality from old.reddit by redirecting it to the new one.

And, really, in another context getting rid of the old interface would be sensible. Because you expect the newer one to be improved. You got to be dumb as a snoo to do it like Reddit did, where the newer interface isn’t just markedly different from the old one, but crappy.

(inb4 yes, the admin said “nooo we aren’t removing old reddit lol”. And my cat said that she wouldn’t scratch my furnitures.)

lvxferre, 2 days ago

She doesn’t, but she damn tries.

lvxferre, 4 days ago

I think that the EU is fully aware that what makes those extra powerful is network effect. And, once they’re gone, something else pops up in their place. The case of Germans using WhatsApp for example would become inconvenient for them for fifteen whole minutes, then they’d jump into an alternative, and business as usual, without Faecesbook/Merda meddling.

lvxferre, 5 days ago

Yes. And wikis, too.
We (people in general) have a tendency to share stuff in forums, like Lemmy. That’s fine in the short term, but in the long term this stuff should be sorted, organised, and preferably mirrored. Wikis are perfect for that, while the internet archive is more like “bulk” storage.

lvxferre, 4 days ago

There’s nothing intrinsically non-primary in the format. At the end of the day they’re collaborative writing projects, split into pages with internal and external links; it’s just that the biggest one out there happens to be tertiary.

And I believe that they could help a lot with this issue if people migrated/copied meaningful info from forums (like Lemmy) to wikis. Forums are good for discussion, but they tend to accumulate a lot of trash; having the good content sieved and sorted in a wiki makes it more accessible for everyone.

lvxferre, 4 days ago

Thanks for giving me another bone to pick against Discord ¬¬
Seriously. Fuck Discord.

lvxferre, 5 days ago

In a follow-up posted to social media this morning, NetEase went on to “apologize for any unpleasant experiences or doubts caused by the miscommunication of these terms…

Ooh, corporate gaslighting! “Your fee fees are hurt because you didn’t actually understand the message correctly!”

There is no miscommunication here. The message is clear as day - “don’t criticise our product”.

We actively encourage Creators to share their honest thoughts, suggestions, and criticisms as they play. All feedback, positive and negative, ultimately helps us craft the best experience for ourselves and the players.”

Given the content of the clause, NetEase is simply being liars…

NetEase says it is making “adjustments” to the contract “to be less restrictive and more Creator-friendly.”

…and they’re fully aware that everybody knows that they being liars, otherwise they wouldn’t be trying to make the clause less unpalatable.

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My sides went into orbit.

lvxferre, 5 days ago

It would be better if you shared a pic of that “ugly mess”. That said I think that it should be fine (rule-wise) to ask it here.

For now, tips that I can give you:

• Focus on a theme for that build. The simpler the theme, the easier to get.
• Find good combos of blocks, and use them somewhat consistently for a feature of your build. For example: I personally like building walls with stone bricks + wood (it’s cheap for survival, and it looks good), while the roof is mostly Nether bricks;
• Don’t fight against the terrain. Some terraforming is fine; but flatting it all out will make your build look out of place.
• Use pictures for reference. Copying is 90% of creating.
• Too much detail is as bad as too little. Find a good balance.

lvxferre, 5 days ago

It is not so bad that it’s an “ugly mess”. It’s simply cluttered. The shape looks good even if a bit weird, the issue are your choices of blocks, they’re clashing with each other, and you’re using a lot of different types so it’s really hard to combo them.

I’d suggest you to make a creative mode copy of your world and try the following, see if you like the results:

• Replace those birch logs with spruce, so they contrast better with the birch planks. Either keep them all with their bark, or remove it from all of them. If you feel that the build becomes too colourless, barkless acacia logs are also an option.
• Replace the yellow and red concrete with the same type of log that you picked above.
• Pick one between basalt, plain stone, or that white stone (I think that it’s modded marble?). The mix is fine in the right building because it’s just stone, but when you’re combining it with other elements it’s making it look too busy.
• I’m not too hot on the usage of concrete + bricks like you did in the right. Perhaps it would be better to stick to one or another.
• That amethyst doormat needs to go. It makes your sight gravitate towards the floor.
• Consider replacing those torches in the building with lanterns, hanging from the roof. The ones nearer to you are a bit trickier, I’d probably try to replace them with froglight or shroomlights.

lvxferre, 3 days ago

Sometimes less is more. (And sometimes more is more. It… depends, really.)

I like the shape, though. A lot of people struggle giving their buildings depth, but you did it rather well.

lvxferre, 5 days ago

People downvoting this post: don’t shoot the messenger.

I’ll copypaste what I said in !redditmigration about this topic:

As I mentioned in the kbin comm about redditfugees: I think that the platform stopped being sustainable, and that changes like this - either trying to increase engagement or appeasing power users - are only a symptom of that.

They won’t work, by the way, because of the trust thermocline (the impact of an act violating the users’ trust is considerably greater, if there’s a backstory of trust violations).

…excuse me while I grab some popcorn. I’m loving to watch this.

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Fun comment (from a user) in that thread:

Because it’s a Reddit Product Decision, you can always expect one step forward, two steps back, and four steps off in a random direction that makes no sense.
FAQ
Can people who used all their gold due to your short-sighted mistake get it back? Haha, no.
Are you offering any compensation? Sure, we’ll give you some free bullshit. And it expires, so make sure to Drive Engagement and Interact with Posts before the end of the year!
Wait, you’re replacing the stuff you made arbitrarily expire with a different arbitrarily-expiring currency? You know it.
Can you use Gold that people give you on other posts? Absolutely not. Gold you are given goes into a big pot where it will remain, serving no purpose, unless you’re like the 0.1% of people on this site who ruthlessly and relentlessly farm for gold and karma. If you’re one of those people, you can financialize your Reddit experience, earning upwards of, like, five bucks!
I run a subreddit that provides resources for people in mental health crisis or other major medical issues. Can I turn off gilding to stop people boosting bad or unsafe answers? At Reddit, we believe that consumers deserve choice, and in this case, the choice they deserve is to seethe and cope. You absolutely cannot turn this shit off.
You’re at least blacklisting the really high-risk subs from the new old Gold program, right? Yes. What happens when you inevitably miss a sub and end up causing massive headaches for mods? They can contact us at the Mod Help PO Box in Anchorage, Alaska. When the intern checks the mail in 6 months, we’ll get right on it.
What if I’m not eligible for the Contributors program? Go fuck yourself.
Does it work on Old Reddit? What do you think?

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Additional detail: did anyone notice that you can’t log through old.reddit any more? I don’t even have an account there any more, but if you try it, here’s what you get:

https://mander.xyz/pictrs/image/ed93becd-22a5-4973-899e-25d571b0eb53.png

They are already actively removing functionality from old.reddit!

lvxferre, 6 days ago

They take labour into consideration because less time spent serving a drink = you can serve more drinks = we can replace two of you with one.

lvxferre, 8 days ago

I got the same issue months ago, with Mint. I have a script to switch audio outputs, and it stopped working after… apt upgrade! Apparently what used to be called “hdmi-stereo” is now “hdmi-stereo-extra1”, no idea why.

In the case of my script, once I got what was going on, I solved it with a simple “if” statement:

<span style="color:#323232;">if [[ $(pactl list sinks | grep extra) == "" ]]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  then declare -g mainProfile="hdmi-stereo"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  else declare -g mainProfile="hdmi-stereo-extra1"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  fi
</span>

(My system uses pulseaudio. Don’t ask me why. I’m not touching it with a 3m pole.)

lvxferre, 9 days ago

• 2kg wheat flour
• 1kg cornmeal
• 1kg flaked corn
• 1kg chuño
• 1kg eggs (around 15 large ones)
• 1kg jerky
• 400g lard
• 400g grating cheese
• 400g powdered milk
• 300g tomato paste
• 200g sugar
• 1kg salt, seasoning, dry yeast, and vitamin C tablets (for the drinks)

Total: 9.7kg. I can comfortably carry 10kg just fine. The first four items already give me around 18 Mcal, enough for the whole week, the rest is just fluff to get comfy.

If the time period was longer I’d probably worry about vegs, but I’m not carrying something that is mostly water if I have water from the island.

Your list will be likely very different from mine as it’s for two people and you probably don’t go through tomato paste as quick as I do. Also 10kg is something to carry comfortably, if you aren’t picky on carrying a lot of weight for short amounts of time you could add way more food to the list.

lvxferre, 9 days ago

If you’re in doubt if some content violates the rules, report it, and let the mods decide if it’s okay or not okay. That is not abuse of the report function.

Include a short description on why you’re reporting some piece of content. Specially in larger comms, the mod queue can get really large. If reasonable mention the rule being violated; a simple “r1 off topic” goes a long way.

Context is everything. If what a user said only sounds bad in a certain context, say it. If the user is clearly problematic due to their profile, say it.

You’re probably better off not interacting with the content that you’re reporting.

Don’t boss the other users around. It’s fine to be informative; it is not fine to act as a moderator when you are not one. If moderative intervention is necessary, report it.

Stop giving shitty mods a free pass. Honest mistakes happen; but if the mod in question is assumptive, disingenuous, trigger-happy, or eager to enable certain shitty types of user, spread the word about their comm being poorly moderated. And don’t interact directly with the comm. I think that at least here in the Fediverse we should demand higher standards from our mods.

lvxferre, 9 days ago

I have definitely erred in this regard several times!

I think that everyone did this at least once, so don’t worry too much. Still, it’s less work for the mods if you don’t do it.

lvxferre, 7 days ago

If your description of the events is accurate: that’s a shitty mod, and a good example of what I wrote in the last paragraph. We should be denouncing this sort of crap, and avoiding comms where it happens.

It’s not always so easy to assume that mods are going to be fair. Reporting people comes with a risk.

I’m not assuming that the mods are going to be fair. I’m taking into account that shitty mods do a favour to you when they out themselves, as they’re basically showing you which comms to avoid.

lvxferre, 10 days ago

When I wake up I notice that I was dreaming once or twice per week. It’s always weird dreams. Weird as in:

• aliens spitting on trees
• tomato fighting in the library, killing and burying the old librarian, to resurrect a god
• using a rolled newspaper as a magic wand, triggered by the word "photon"
• a vulture digging gold nuggets from my liver, a la Prometheus
• a pig praying (stupid dream bilingual pun)
• my cats preparing popcorn (I don’t even like popcorn)

lvxferre, 10 days ago

This was in r/linguistics, by the way. And the moderators there were doing jack shit to inform the users. Even if one of them works with NLP, so you’d expect the person to be somewhat well versed in both Linguistics and basic programming.

The worst part? It wasn’t even the only time that I saw this conflation. I think that people get caught in the words, and miss that they’re referring to different concepts.