yote_zip

yote_zip, 5 months ago

Hello Mastodon’er! I sometimes wonder how Lemmy content looks from a Mastodon instance, and how it gets found.

yote_zip, 5 months ago

It’s a result of Lemmy being too small to exist without using the “all” feed. Non-furries get your content across their feed and have the ability to vote on it. It might be worth disabling downvotes while the instance is small, since it’s especially prone to outside vote manipulation.

yote_zip, 5 months ago

It has 34 users/week, and 12/day. I don’t think that many people are seeing the post to begin with. Those people are also not subscribed to every community and won’t see every post that comes through Yiffit unless they’re watching the All feed.

yote_zip, 5 months ago

There are so few votes on even chat topics and the general /c/furry community, which are subscribed to by people not from Yiffit. I think Lemmy is just dead in general, and that doesn’t favor niche communities that some people have a vendetta against. I think it’s worth asking Wander and the community what their thoughts on disabling downvotes are. This was previously discussed here, but the community and climate was different at that point. It’s demoralizing to try to support a small community while hecklers are allowed to interfere - I suspect some people even subscribe to those communities to downvote every post.

yote_zip, 5 months ago

I agree, I’m sick of Puritan attitudes about sex and sexuality. They pass hateful laws at lightning speed at the mere mention of “protecting the children”. This usually ends up being about ways to selectively target the LGBTQ+ anyway. Anything LGBTQ+ was until very recently seen as a disgusting kink, and in many places those attitudes haven’t changed. The tracking is especially nefarious because they’re likely biding their time until they can make such things a crime, then use all the data and tracking systems they’ve set up - this happened immediately in the US after making abortions illegal.

It’s nice to briefly hang out online among people who aren’t sexually-repressed, but then I look outside and see my neighbors flying Trump flags and remember that many people IRL would love for me to be punished or disappeared for who I am. I’m tired of fighting just to exist in this world. If we survive climate change and the far-right I can’t wait until all these old bigots die off. I’m a millennial but still got death threats and into fights for being gay when I went through school. One generation later and being gay is something to be celebrated. The youth can’t take over soon enough.

(Special shout-out to lemmy.ml for defederating everyone from Yiffit because their admin couldn’t handle seeing a properly-tagged penis)

yote_zip, 5 months ago

This is what I’m getting out of it. No idea what the purple bit is.

yote_zip, 5 months ago

Medieval furry artists were still learning anatomy I guess.

yote_zip, 5 months ago

This has been happening for a little while now. I’ve started cloning repos and using local searches instead.

yote_zip, 5 months ago

I think about half a year, assuming that’s what they mean in this blog post: github.blog/…/2023-06-07-code-search-now-requires…

yote_zip, 5 months ago

they don’t let you have multiple accounts to separate your professional life from your cringe life

Can you post more on this? I found this article that seems to recommend you only use one account, but doesn’t seem to suggest that they enforce it. I have like 8 GitHub accounts with a cringe/professional mix, so hopefully that’s not something I need to fix. (Ironically I usually stay logged out anyway)

yote_zip, 5 months ago

Ruh roh. Yeah I’m involved with several projects that I’d rather not trace back to my other identities, and I make a new GitHub account per job. Even if they start enforcing it I imagine it’s quite hard for them to actually figure out what’s all connected without amping up their identification schemes with mandatory phone numbers and etc. I guess we’ll burn that bridge when we get to it.

yote_zip, 5 months ago

They just replied with this link, which has it listed as the third bullet. I suspect they don’t actually care enough to do anything, but I had no idea that it was in their ToS.

yote_zip, 5 months ago

Garf

yote_zip, 5 months ago

Horny brain is bad at estimating what can or should fit in a butt. Luckily I have a powerful frugal brain that can sometimes defeat the urge for more colorful silicone. I suspect the good portion of horny brain has migrated and is busy getting aroused by tax evasion and compression algorithms.

yote_zip, 5 months ago

Those two look crazy and crazy expensive. I don’t think I could spend that much money when silicone is like $50-100 - you could buy a whole hoard of sculptures for the same price. I’d maybe consider it if the price went down to like $100-200, but I’m guessing that’s not happening anytime soon. Maybe when I’m 80 we’ll achieve affordable stroker technology for the masses.

yote_zip, 5 months ago

It has a very high opinion of itself.

yote_zip, 5 months ago

Yes it’s lossless. JPG->JXL lossless compression is generally 20% savings for free.

yote_zip, 5 months ago

JXL is the best image codec we have so far and it’s not even close. I did a breakdown on some of its benefits here. JXL can losslessly convert PNG, JPG, and GIF into itself, and can losslessly send them back the other way too. The main downside is that Google has been blocking its adoption by keeping support out of Chromium in favor of pushing AVIF, which started a chicken and egg problem of no one wanting to use it until everyone else started using it too. If you want to be an early adopter you can feel free to use JXL, but just know that 3rd party software support is still maturing.

Something you might find interesting is that the original JPEG is such a badass format that they’ve taken a lot of their findings from JXL and made a badass JPEG encoder with it named jpegli. Oddly, jpegli-based JPEGs are not yet able to be losslessly-compressed into JXL files, per this issue - hopefully that will be fixed at some point.

yote_zip, 5 months ago

I would prefer to have only one of the options in the menu - the one I want to use. I’m not going to change my mind on whether I want trackers stripped on a day-by-day basis, and I think having both taking up space at the same time is bad UX.

yote_zip, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

I assume they’ve modeled it after ClearURLs, which exists as an addon here, and as a uBlock filter here. The short answer is it’s a ton of whitelisted regex.

yote_zip, 5 months ago

I took the interview to get into What.CD a zillion years ago, but assuming it hasn’t changed much the interview prep is all useful knowledge for how RED works. IMO the one exception is the exact frequencies at which every lossy bitrate’s spectral shelf starts at, which is useful knowledge to know but not memorize - IDK if interviewers are mean enough to ask you about those or not.

yote_zip, 5 months ago

You can circumvent this by connecting to a router that has no access to internet. It will connect to the router, fail to connect to the internet, and then you can tell it to skip the initial setup and enable sideload mode.