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andrew_s

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aka freamon

Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/freamon?tab=activityhttps://codeberg.org/freamon?tab=activity

Anything from https://lemmon.websitehttps://lemmon.website is me too.

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Quentin Tarantino (pick whatever film you like. I think he's great as a writer and director, but a terrible actor).

InternetIsScary, to fediverse French
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The fediverse is amazing!

I can’t get over how cool it is to view my posts from any server. I’m definitely going to use activitypub for my social media I’m planning on making. I was going to use @Discourse , but considering it’s like where you are only able to self host and each instance of discourse can’t interconnect makes me kinda sad. But activitypub seems like the only way I feel happy in both ways.

@lemmy

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I think they were asking if you were a bot because your account has been set up as one: your profile on mstdn says 'automated', and if you do curl --header 'accept: application/activity+json' --location <a href="https://mstdn.social/users/internetisscary" rel="nofollow ugc" target="_blank">https://mstdn.social/users/internetisscary</a> | jq . then it says your ActivityPub 'type' field is 'Service' rather than 'Person'.

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I've worked this shift pattern before, and found it very difficult. They call it a 'continental' shift pattern in the UK - it's not a new thing, 'cos the job I'm thinking of was 30 years ago. Switching from sleeping during the night to sleeping during the day is okay if you're on permanent nights, but trying to change every couple of weeks can be impossible (I remember once failing to get any real sleep during the day, having to spend the next 12 hours at work, and then collapsing on my way home the next day.)

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This feels like an impossible combination, where your local instance doesn't have data from other instances, but also knows that they are out there. When a user searches their instance for something, the answer comes from local storage, in the same way that google responds by looking at its local cache of a webpage, not the webpage itself.

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Yeah, I know what you mean. I originally typed out a reply based on that assumption, but then re-read the post, and decided against it, in case I was assuming the wrong thing.

Currently, if you bring in a remote community, your instance fetches the details of: the community; its moderators (including their avatars and banners); the instance the community is on; the admins of that instance (including their avatars and banners); and the last 50 posts.

If you separated that into tiers, tier 1 could just be the community details (inc. the sidebar), and the instance name, and you could maybe skip the rest until someone subscribed to it. I don't think you'd want to bring in every available community, even for tier 1, because of the 29k communities listed on lemmyverse.net, at least 20k are completely dead (about 6k of that is just spam from a disgruntled lemmy.world user). The advantage of this is that a local user could find the community based on a local search. They'd be greeted by an empty-looking community though, so they'd have to know that subscribing to it would be worthwhile (probably by visiting it on its host instance, although apps can make that process difficult by being a bit too clever for their own good).

There's an Issue for PieFed that been raised about using something like lemmyverse to 'know' about remote communities. I'm 'freamon' in that discussion, but neither me or PieFed's developer have pursued it much further.

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I don't personally, but I've read that the appeal is that sometimes you want to play a game, and sometimes you want to watch television, and sometimes you don't want to do either but vaguely want an experience that's halfway between the two (i.e. watching someone else play a game).

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I haven't paired genres, but I like listening to Ambient music when I read. Typically something by Carbon Based Lifeforms (and even more typically, the album 'Derelicts'). I tend to read sci-fi stuff anyway, so it usually matches anyway.

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Love this. Found it oddly hypnotic.

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It's usually just because they have to pay an on-going licence fee to keep using it, and after a certain amount of time, the revenue that a particular game is expected to bring in isn't worth the fee.

What is the name of the actor from Breaking Bad who had the A- tattoo on his arm?

I have been searching for this person’s name for years, after people have pointed out my own blood type tattoo. Mine is for medical reasons. Anyway, after having people jokingly reference the scene where Jesse says, “A minus? Why not an A plus?” I haven’t been able to find the scene online, or the actor’s name on any...

andrew_s,
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If you can remember some dialogue, but not much else, then usually the best thing to do is download/rip the subtitles, and search them.

I did that for Breaking Bad, and found nothing:

$ grep -in plus *.srt
Breaking.Bad.S01E01.2160p.WEBRip.DTS-HD.MA5.1.x264-TrollUHD.srt:463:what, Plus P Plus loads
Breaking.Bad.S01E01.2160p.WEBRip.DTS-HD.MA5.1.x264-TrollUHD.srt:1496:Fourteen dollars plus shipping. Yes.
Breaking.Bad.S01E07.2160p.WEBRip.DTS-HD.MA5.1.x264-TrollUHD.srt:417:{an8}Plus, there's an extra 15 in there.
Breaking.Bad.S02E01.2160p.WEB-DL.5xRus.Ukr.Eng.TrollUHD-ULTRAHDCLUB.srt:147:Plus 360, plus 137.
Breaking.Bad.S02E04.2160p.WEB-DL.5xRus.Ukr.Eng.TrollUHD-ULTRAHDCLUB.srt:1687:plus the 500 you already owe me,
Breaking.Bad.S02E05.2160p.WEB-DL.5xRus.Ukr.Eng.TrollUHD-ULTRAHDCLUB.srt:518:Inside, padlocked, plus gate privileges.
Breaking.Bad.S02E06.2160p.WEB-DL.5xRus.Ukr.Eng.TrollUHD-ULTRAHDCLUB.srt:1303:plus an extra round for your cranial,
Breaking.Bad.S02E06.2160p.WEB-DL.5xRus.Ukr.Eng.TrollUHD-ULTRAHDCLUB.srt:1345:your money, man, plus interest.
Breaking.Bad.S02E06.2160p.WEB-DL.5xRus.Ukr.Eng.TrollUHD-ULTRAHDCLUB.srt:1349:You're damn right, plus interest.
Breaking.Bad.S02E07.2160p.WEB-DL.5xRus.Ukr.Eng.TrollUHD-ULTRAHDCLUB.srt:1654:Plus he's married with a family.
Breaking.Bad.S02E08.2160p.WEB-DL.5xRus.Ukr.Eng.TrollUHD-ULTRAHDCLUB.srt:1560:Plus, he's scared shitless of me,
Breaking.Bad.S02E09.2160p.WEB-DL.5xRus.Ukr.Eng.TrollUHD-ULTRAHDCLUB.srt:1030:Plus the genny needs gas,
Breaking.Bad.S03E01.2160p.WEB-DL.3xRus.Eng.TrollUHD-ULTRAHDCLUB.srt:902:Plus, neither plane was full.
Breaking.Bad.S03E10.2160p.WEB-DL.3xRus.Eng.TrollUHD-ULTRAHDCLUB.srt:1576:And plus, my daughter wasn't born yet.
Breaking.Bad.S03E11.2160p.WEB-DL.3xRus.Eng.TrollUHD-ULTRAHDCLUB.srt:1050:Plus, they got bumper boats, so...
Breaking.Bad.S03E13.2160p.WEB-DL.3xRus.Eng.TrollUHD-ULTRAHDCLUB.srt:629:- Plus, there's that big nose of his.
Breaking.Bad.S03E13.2160p.WEB-DL.3xRus.Eng.TrollUHD-ULTRAHDCLUB.srt:1361:Plus, you get to shoot at kids.
Breaking Bad S04E04 Bullet Points (2160p x265 10bit Joy).srt:849:and plus-seven...
Breaking Bad S04E04 Bullet Points (2160p x265 10bit Joy).srt:858:But its most stable state is plus-two,
Breaking Bad S04E08 Hermanos (2160p x265 10bit Joy).srt:922:Plus there's a little extra in there
Breaking Bad S04E08 Hermanos (2160p x265 10bit Joy).srt:1031:Plus, it shows our crew
Breaking Bad S04E08 Hermanos (2160p x265 10bit Joy).srt:1748:We add a plus douche bag
Breaking Bad S04E09 Bug (2160p x265 10bit Joy).srt:867:-...plus five years in prison.
Breaking.Bad.S05E11.2160p.WEB-DL.3xRus.2xEng.TrollUHD-ULTRAHDCLUB.srt:357:{an8}Plus
Breaking.Bad.S05E11.2160p.WEB-DL.3xRus.2xEng.TrollUHD-ULTRAHDCLUB.srt:1650:and, plus, he was acting kind of shady.
Breaking.Bad.S05E13.2160p.WEB-DL.3xRus.2xEng.TrollUHD-ULTRAHDCLUB.srt:1591:Plus 5, that is 20.
Breaking.Bad.S05E15.2160p.WEB-DL.3xRus.2xEng.TrollUHD-ULTRAHDCLUB.srt:1165:Plus you can cook on it.
Breaking.Bad.S05E15.2160p.WEB-DL.3xRus.2xEng.TrollUHD-ULTRAHDCLUB.srt:2472:[HTML_REMOVED]- Black plus white makes gray.

$ grep -in minus *.srt
Breaking.Bad.S01E06.2160p.WEBRip.DTS-HD.MA5.1.x264-TrollUHD.srt:689:minus 25 bucks for that phone.
Breaking.Bad.S01E07.2160p.WEBRip.DTS-HD.MA5.1.x264-TrollUHD.srt:849:Minus the half for wasting my time.
Breaking.Bad.S02E03.2160p.WEB-DL.5xRus.Ukr.Eng.TrollUHD-ULTRAHDCLUB.srt:2010:minus cash on hand...
Breaking.Bad.S02E09.2160p.WEB-DL.5xRus.Ukr.Eng.TrollUHD-ULTRAHDCLUB.srt:229:minus my fee, which is 17 percent
Breaking.Bad.S02E09.2160p.WEB-DL.5xRus.Ukr.Eng.TrollUHD-ULTRAHDCLUB.srt:935:minus distribution charges...
Breaking.Bad.S02E12.2160p.WEB-DL.5xRus.Ukr.Eng.TrollUHD-ULTRAHDCLUB.srt:2134:he gonna do, give you a B-minus?
Breaking Bad S04E04 Bullet Points (2160p x265 10bit Joy).srt:222:Zero, minus one, 0.6.
Breaking Bad S04E04 Bullet Points (2160p x265 10bit Joy).srt:848:...of between minus-three
Breaking Bad S04E08 Hermanos (2160p x265 10bit Joy).srt:1749:to a minus douche bag...
andrew_s,
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Sync seems to have it's own convention where you just search for the community name, and click the one you want from the results.

If the one you want isn't coming up, you could make a comment somewhere using the '!' format, and then click on that to force it to resolve.

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I think I'm using ChatGPT because that's what Bing's chatbot is. I've searched for some many dumb Python questions that it started promoting paid-for courses at one point. It gave me exactly what I was looking for the other day, but that doesn't mean it never hallucinates answers, or provides the answer to the question it assumes I must be searching for (rather than the one I am searching for).

andrew_s,
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Crikey, it's a long way down to the sofa for these guys.

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This screenshot is a WEBP file.

I image it started life as JPEG, and then lost pixels every time it was re-uploaded. At some point, it was either converted into a WEBP file and uploaded to Lemmy, or Lemmy converted it into one. Either way, it always uses about 70% compression for WEBP files, so you end up with already compressed file getting compressed again.

I just tested uploading a WEBP file to Lemmy, and the picts-rs backend made it a) bigger and b) worse.

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I think so, yeah. That sad face looks oddly familiar from some Windows error or other.

andrew_s,
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Not much for beets. My config.yaml is just:

library: ~/.config/beets/musiclibrary2.db

import:
    move: yes

terminal_encoding: utf8

plugins: fetchart embedart

(so fetchart and embedart are the only plugins)

(from then on, a Navidrome server hosts the music, and I tend to use a Windows app called 'Feishin' to play it)

andrew_s,
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'Tap to get up'

If only real life was that easy.

But yeah, impressive stuff.

andrew_s,
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Not much. They collect household rubbish once a fortnight round my way, and I don't typically need to put my bin out every time even for that. Probably going to have to start doing it anyway now there's some sun, so things don't get stinky.

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One could argue that it's the same nerds. The difference isn't generational, it's the forums for discussion. Modern platforms offer more validation (in the form of echo chambers) and monetisation in response to over-reacting to this kind of stuff.

andrew_s,
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I didn't read that thread as indicating hostility, more like he noticed a pattern of users being banned from a community on .ml and being confused as to why, so stuck a warning on it. One community on .ml has a warning, in the same way communities on beehaw have a warning that the instance has higher standards.

It's not like they refuse to co-operate (e.g. PieFed already has a place to put image alt texts, but will move it when Lemmy releases support for them; and it uses the 'audience' field that was originally proposed by Lemmy Devs)

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"So the choice is ... or bees?" (which is two Eddie Izzard references in one)

andrew_s,
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Moist is down at the moment, so - in true Reddit fashion - maybe Lemmy just hugged it to death.

andrew_s,
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From Rolling Stone:

With the addition of the bonus songs, The Tortured Poets Department now clocks in at 31 tracks (that’s 13 backwards)

well, of course.

Looking forward to getting a chance to listen to this.

andrew_s,
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Now that most (all?) instances have switched to 0.19

Beehaw are still on 0.18.4. If/when they make the planned move to Sublinks, they'll effectively be on 0.19 in some ways I suppose.

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