Kushan

Kushan, 19 days ago (edited 18 days ago)

It’s incredibly difficult to read the captions on this meme, there’s not enough contrast with the white text on the light backgrounds.

Kushan, 1 month ago

People make mistakes, even intentional ones. I’m a big believer in recognising when people admit to their mistakes because otherwise why even bother to right any wrongs you have made?

Kushan, 2 months ago

And to top it all off, it didn’t help his body odour at all. He stank.

Kushan, 3 months ago

If I’m buying a sword, even if that sword is going to spend 99% of its time on a wall or in a display case, I still want to know that it feels good to hold, otherwise what’s the fucking point of owning a sword.

If I see a sick in the street, I’m going to do the exact same thing, I ain’t no expert, I just like to experience a little joy in my life where I can.

Kushan, 4 months ago

I’ll bite: most people don’t give a fuck about the fediverse and the hassle of having to understand it all in order to navigate it is only a barrier to entry that will slowly drive away people until the platforms die a slow, painful death.

Everyone on here saying they like it this way and prefer it over the mess that is Reddit or X are completely missing the point that negative growth will only lead to a failed platform.

Kushan, 4 months ago

tachiyomi

Free and open source manga reader for Android.

(For those wondering what this discussion is about)

Kushan, 4 months ago

The witness told investigators the victim was the reason “her divorce was pushed through” and that “Hailey had wanted a divorce due to her husband only wanting to ‘do butt stuff,'” the court document revealed.

I know this is terrible and child endangerment is no laughing matter, but that last bit caught me completely off guard. “I became a paedophile because my husband only wanted to fuck my ass” is a new one on me.

Kushan, 5 months ago

It’s easier to remove a king because a king is a single person, easily identifiable, tangible and living.

An establishment is none of those things, it’s murky and unclear, it’s lots of different people and nobody all at once.

Kushan, 5 months ago

This needs to be higher for visibility. The story of Google killing XMPP is a good one but it’s utterly bullshit. XMPP was a mess, Google didn’t kill it, it killed itself by having fucked ecosystem that didn’t do anything better than numerous proprietary standards at the time.

It’s not like XMPP was EVER dominant, nor was Google talk - even man messenger was more popular at the time and that’s also dead.

Kushan, 5 months ago

There’s a lot of people in this thread that are either slightly delusional or utterly gaslighting themselves.

Reddit is not going to die over this. Reddit was always full of bots and shills astroturfing, none of that was new. And while many great contributors have left the site for good, the traffic to the site hasn’t really dropped. The vast majority of (actual) Reddit users were using the main site and app, despite how terrible both are.

Sure the quality of content has objectively dropped, but do you think Reddit cares as long as traffic doesn’t?

We’re all here talking about Reddit and saying how shit it is now, how spez can go fuck himself, having ourselves a great little circle jerk, but Reddit gives no fucks.

It’s time to get over our ex. She’s moved on, she doesn’t miss us and it’s time we moved on too.

Kushan, 6 months ago

They were already at 283k followers when they said they’d add it in if they hit 300k. Sounds to me like they wanted it to happen.

I’m pretty sure the developers have already planned this out and that “the sex update” isn’t going to be anywhere near as hardcore as the article implies. The Sims had sex, remember.

Kushan, 7 months ago

We desperately need a company like Mozilla to take the reigns of something like Lemmy. The original developers are far too biased and short sighted to see the bigger picture, it needs to be an independent group that promotes more open source development.

Kushan, 7 months ago

I don’t think anything she does is behind his back, I think he’s fully aware of it. I’m not saying he agrees with it or anything, just that their relationship is pretty fucked but their reasons for staying together is between them.

Kushan, 7 months ago

Oh I completely misunderstood this one. I thought the joke was that the age difference was borderline problematic so the guy was trying to eek out a few extra hours to make it less bad.

Nope, turns out it’s just astrology bullshit.

Kushan, 7 months ago

In 99 cases out of 100, you won’t be able to hand craft assembly better than a good compiler can - partly due to compilers being much better and partly due to the skill level required. 20 or 30 years ago compilers weren’t as good and a reasonably competent person could craft more optimised assembly but these days compilers are pretty damn good and you need some extra level of ability to best the compiler.

However, there’s still that 1 time out of 100 and given how resource intensive ffmpeg is, it’s worth spending that extra time to hyper optimise the code because it’ll pay off massively.

Kushan, 8 months ago

Is that something to get fired over though? There’s still context missing here - assigning a non-approved book alone seems like something you reprimand someone over, not fire them. Was there something particularly egregious about that particular version of the book?

Kushan, 9 months ago

I switched to using wireless headphones a good decade ago and I’ve never had a set die die to the battery going.

I’ve had plenty of wired headphones die bectthr cable became frayed or loose though.

I am still surprised at the lack of a headphone jack in the Fairphone, but I don’t agree that wireless devices are somehow more prone to becoming e-waste.

Kushan, 9 months ago

I’ll never understand why people put Steve Jobs on a pedestal. He might have been a very astute businessman , but by all accounts he was a horrible human being and a colossal prick.

Kushan, 9 months ago

Yeah, it’s not a good thing and I’m getting sick of people on here trying to gaslight themselves into thinking it is. The same people saying that this is good are also mocking X and threads for losing users. Nobody’s claiming that’s good for those platforms.

We want growth, more users and more instances is better for Lemmy overall.i don’t buy this arguments of “people are just not using their alts”, I mean fuck off, that statement was pulled from OP’s arse with nothing to back it up.

Kushan, 9 months ago

I know this will get hate, but I still enjoy LTT.

Kushan, 10 months ago

Lemmy’s userbase is currently skewed very left wing, many people on the left are vegan or vegetarian or at least care about climate change enough to see reduction in meat consumption as a necessity to fixing it.

So it shouldn’t be too much of a surprise that you see more anti-meat discourse.

Disclaimer: I eat meat

Kushan, 11 months ago

It’s nice, but keep in mind that it’s largely unsustainable without some form of revenue. Reddit didn’t turn evil just because of a bunch of shareholders, it went that way because the money was drying up and they weren’t making any money. They’re still not making money.

As lemmy grows and server costs increase, especially for the larger instances, more will be asked of the community to help foot the bill. This current server has a good breakdown in costs for those curious and while it doesn’t seem like a lot today, it’ll start to jump quite considerably as you hit certain thresholds on database sizes and whatnot. If you like this server, please by the admin a coffee to say thank you :)

(I’m not affiliated in any way with aussie.zone, it’s not even my home instance).

Kushan, 11 months ago

At this point, it should be open sourced officially. Look at all the good that came from ID open sourcing the doom and quake source code.

It’s not like Far Cry is a particularly advanced engine with tonnes of secret sauce by today’s standards.