freamon

@freamon@endlesstalk.org

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pluralistic, to beer
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Cyberpunk was a warning, not a suggestion

freamon,

From his Mastodon, it looks like OP (Cory Doctorow if it’s not showing in whatever app you’re using) is doing talks in Serbia at the same event as Bruce Sterling, so it’s as likely that he wrote the ALT text for the image himself.

freamon,

It’s partly an issue of keys. Every fediverse actor has a private key and a public key. When my instance sends this to fediverse@lemmy.world, it’s signed by my private key, and lemmy.world uses my public key to verify it. When fediverse@lemmy.world sends this comment out, it uses it’s own private key to sign it. It can’t just re-transmit my comment, because it doesn’t have my private key. All it can do is Announce that I’ve made the comment (and sign the Announce).

Mastodon treats Announces as Boosts, so every post/comment is interpreted as a thing that fediverse@lemmy.world has boosted, so you get all these un-connected posts appearing. I think it’s mostly up to Mastodon to remedy.

It works better if a Mastodon actor posts into a Lemmy community, then you get the mix like you imagine. e.g.: mastodon.world/ (this particular post was crowbarred into Lemmy via !tails, but it would be the same if the author had done it.)

freamon,

I don’t think it’s technically impossible - all the information that another site needs to properly interpret some activity is in the JSON that’s sent. I get the sense that it might be unrealistic to expect Mastodon to make the necessary changes though. It seems more of a political issue than a technical one.

freamon,

Lemmy doesn’t seem to get much recognition in the wider Fediverse - it tends to get bundled as part of ‘other apps’. Mastodon is much bigger, so better integration with Lemmy probably gets deprioritised below their own issues and feature requests (e.g. I was reading today that Markdown support is often requested, but the base version still doesn’t have it)

What are your opinions on Slashdot style nuanced voting system?

As a community grows in popularity, it often shifts from hosting insightful discussions to attracting memes, funny, and low-quality content. This change appeals to a larger audience interested in such content, creating a vicious cycle where valuable discussions are overshadowed and marginalized by the platform's primary...

freamon,

Oh right: tildes has a system like this - I didn’t know it was (probably) inspired by Slashdot.

Adding federation into the mix certainly complicates things though.

freamon,

One of the reasons it’s inconsistent is that Lemmy tries to balance the media it serves locally vs. the media it lets remote hosts serve. Also it’s a bit naïve about image conversion. So if you link to an actual GIF at giphy.com (for example), it works consistently across the most the most platforms if Lemmy leaves it alone. If it doesn’t, it’ll bring it in and convert it to a WebM file, which not all clients know what to do with. Even if they do though, looping isn’t always on by default for video, so the effect of a GIF that relies on looping might be nullified.

It’s probably best to focus on the clients with the biggest user-base, rather than try to target them all. For lemmy.world/c/gifs, the most popular posts have been uploaded to imgur.com - which convert most GIFs to MP4s - and the post’s author has linked to the inline version at i.imgur.com.

freamon,

No settings page (as far as I’m aware), but you can use the API to get everything (posts, comments, etc):

step 1: get login token -


<span style="color:#323232;">curl --request POST 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">     --url https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/user/login 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">     --header 'accept: application/json' 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">     --header 'content-type: application/json' 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">     --data '
</span><span style="color:#323232;">{
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  "username_or_email": "2br02b",
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  "password": "YOUR-PASSWORD"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">}
</span><span style="color:#323232;">'
</span>

step 2: use login token (big long string starting with ‘ey’) to get data -


<span style="color:#323232;">curl --request GET 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">     --url 'https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/user?username=2br02b&page=1' 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">     --header 'accept: application/json' 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">     --header 'authorization: Bearer YOUR-JWT'
</span>

Increment page number until you have everything. source: lemmy.readme.io/reference/get_user

freamon,

Voyager has a setting for “No subscribed in All/Local” that does this. It’s better on than off, obviously, but it doesn’t turn All or Local into some kind of goldmine.

I get the sense that, unless you’re willing to do it yourself, feature requests for Lemmy don’t have much chance of being realised.

You guys should check out the reddit clone I've been working on (matrix.gvid.tv)

It’s sort of a different concept. Posts and users also have position in addition to age and score. The sorting algorithm gives you complete control over how much to weight each one. It’s like if new and hot existed on a continuous spectrum. It’s sort of like what Aaron Swartz initially wanted to do with Reddit where what...

freamon,

Wait, what? A user posts a thing to a server, and that thing isn’t then duplicated to 50 other servers … yeah, I don’t see how that can work.

(I’m just kidding - your site looks neat.)

MeanwhileinCanada, to random
@MeanwhileinCanada@ohai.social avatar

There are a lot more...

freamon,

As another Brit, it’s not, no. It’s too good a word for any country to keep to themselves. On Mastodon someone suggested Chinook was British too, but I only know about that 'cos of the helicopter.

freamon,

(sorry to intrude). This has had a few cross-posts on Lemmy. The link that goes to !tails is attributed to the author of the image, so you can reply to them via that community if you wish.

freamon,

These are pretty neat. Considering that close-up shots of hands are usually filmed separately (often with someone else’s hands*), you can probably do similar things with lots of other movies.

  • my favourite one is in an Avengers film, where Black Widow presses a button, and the close-up is clearly a man’s hand.
freamon,

Errr … I want to say it was in Captain America, but I was being vague 'cos I can’t really remember. I wasn’t expecting to be quizzed on it tbh.

freamon,

This was always an impressive emulator - it was originally made for the Open Pandora (an ARM-based mini-computer not much bigger than a DS). It’s always been free for that - it’s just, you know, you’d have to own an Open Pandora (I do!)

freamon,

Yeah it was pretty nifty in lots of ways. Loads of emulators, of course, and doing stuff like compiling apps directly on the device itself was neat.

Frustrating in lots of other ways too, though. I don’t think the Pyra ever really got off the ground, unfortunately.

freamon,

In my mind, ‘Ripley’ is Sigourney Weaver in Alien. Whereas I don’t think this guy will stand a chance against a Xenomorph.

freamon,

I’m gonna find this guy’s image …

monero.town/…/00000000-0000-0000-0000-00000000000… … nope
monero.town/…/00000000-0000-0000-0000-00000000000… … nope
monero.town/…/00000000-0000-0000-0000-00000000000… … nope
monero.town/…/00000000-0000-0000-0000-00000000000… … nope

Mmm, I’m sure it won’t take long. Just have to remember to do it all again for .jpg, .webp, and .png.

Anyway, I’ll let you know when I get it.

freamon,

Not quite, no. I know what it isn’t at least.

I’ll keep going - I’m sure the article’s author is someone who genuinely uploaded some confidential info and then became really involved with privacy/GDPR etc, and not someone who was always been really involved with privacy/GDPR issues and now has a story to fit.

freamon,

4 floppy disks: 1.44 MB x 4 = 5.76 MB for 2 versions of a web browser
This image: 12.7 MB

This post neatly replicated the one-line-at-time loading of a pic from back then, though!

freamon,

I didn’t include ‘export FLASK_ENV=development’ in the post because I wasn’t sure it made a difference. It still said ‘debug mode = off’ when running flask either way. I’ve since added ‘FLASK_DEBUG = 1’ to the .env file, and that’s given me hot reloading.

freamon,

Informing a human that their work has already been done for them by a bot is oddly appropriate for this post.

freamon,

It’s been censored out, but it looks like it’s heading for Shit Creek, appropriately enough.

freamon,

Not that I’m aware of, just communities that seem like they might fit, but don’t quite:

!communitypromo
!communityspotlight
!newcommunities
!newcommunities

I’m sure you could make a more meta-type post in one of these though.

freamon,

Bit mad, as in a bit strange - e.g. “it’s a bit mad to take a single word out of its obvious context for such a desperately cheap shot”.

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