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@e0qdk@kbin.social

I write code and play games and stuff. My old username from reddit and HN was already taken and I couldn't think of anything else I wanted to be called so I just picked some random characters like this:

>>> import random
>>> ''.join([random.choice("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789") for x in range(5)])
'e0qdk'

My avatar is a quick doodle made in KolourPaint. I might replace it later. Maybe.

日本語が少し分かるけど、下手です。

Alt: e0qdk@reddthat.com

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It was so startled the spaghetti landed on the cat's head!

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I've shared my "MS Paint"-like sockpuppet parody impressions over at !sockpuppetsociety as well as my own twists on memes and anime screenshot comics and such in !animepics, !animemes, etc. If I can post this and this and this and this, you can post something you made too.

Just find the right community for your art and maybe some people will enjoy it.

Don't be surprised if people blow raspberries at your work though; that's just kind of what people do with art. :p

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It probably makes more sense to host your novel somewhere else and post links to it chapter by chapter.

I'd suggest doing one of the following:

  1. Host the images on a site that already supports image galleries and link to that. Most image hosts are kind of annoying, but this is an understandable way to do it if you don't want to run a website. (Maybe someone can chime in with a suggestion for whatever they think is the least annoying image gallery host in 2023.)
  2. Host the images yourself on a simple website. Webcomic artists have been doing that for many years, so there are lots of examples to draw from. (e.g. Gunnerkrigg Court)
  3. Zip the images up chapter by chapter and either self-host the zip or toss it on a file host like catbox.moe. If you structure it as a .cbz (i.e. zip up a folder with the images named in order like 1.jpg, 2.jpg, 3.jpg, ... and just change the extension from .zip to .cbz) then a number of document viewers (like evince) can be used to view the image sequence -- or people can just unpack the images and use their favorite image viewer on their computer.
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I'm now imagining some sort of Zelda/high school anime parody with Link at a desk looking out a window, Midna doing something mischievous, and Navi in front of the board yelling "Hey, Listen!" at the unruly class.

Can lemmy users see when they're mentioned in a microblog post from kbin?

I'm trying to contact a user on lemmy, but can't dm them (it's not clear to me if this is a bug or if dms don't work across instances or software, but either way it's not working). My next workaround would be to ping them in a microblog post, but lemmy doesn't have a microblog section. Would a lemmy user receive a notification...

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I think they're specifically wondering if using @<username>@<instance> mention syntax will result in a notification popping up for the user on Lemmy.

I've been wondering that too (in the context of threads though) -- and if it does work, are there limitations regarding visibility between instances that people should be aware of. e.g. what happens if I @ someone in a post to a community on a lemmy server that is defederated from their home instance? Or, in a community that no one on their home server has subscribed to? Will they still get a notice?

I guess I don't really have a good mental model for how @ works on the Fediverse.

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On the night of November 22, 1987, the television signals of two stations in Chicago, Illinois, were hijacked, briefly sending a pirate broadcast of an unidentified person wearing a Max Headroom mask and costume to thousands of home viewers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_signal_hijacking

Thank you @FlyingSquid for reminding me of this strange bit of broadcast history!

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Nicely done. I like your take better!

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Penguindrum had a lot of weird visuals.

Penguindrum screenshot
Penguindrum screenshot 2

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A line that is sometimes misbelieved to be a real-life response from Groucho Marx to reporters, but is apparently from the Marx Brothers movie "A Day at the Races".

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Day_at_the_Races

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No way is AI going to end capitalism.

In the medium term we will end up with AI corporations. I already consider existing corporations to be human-based swarm intelligences -- they're made up of people but their overall large scale behavior is often surprising and we already anthropomorphize them as having will and characteristic behaviors separate from the people they're made of. AI corporations are just the natural evolution of existing corporations as they continue down the path of automation. To the extent they copy the existing patterns of behavior, they will have the same general personality.

Their primary motive will be maximizing profit since that's the goal they will inherit from the existing structure. The exact nature of that depends on the exact corporation that's been fully cyberized and different corporations will have different takes on it as a result. They are unlikely to give any more of a damn about individual people than existing corporations do since they will be based on the cyberization of existing structures, but they're also unlikely to deliberately go out of their way to destroy humanity either. From the perspective of a corporation -- AI-based or traditional -- humanity is a useful resource that can be exploited; there isn't much profit to be gained from wiping it out deliberately.

Instead of working for the boss, you'll be working for the bot -- and other bots will be figuring out exactly how much they can extract from you in rent and bills and fees and things without the whole system crashing down.

That might result in humanity getting wiped out accidentally; humanity has wiped out plenty of species due to greed and shortsightedness. I doubt it will be intentional if they do though.

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Source: Shirobako

Posting a bit more today than I usually would to try to help debug thread visibility issues between kbin and Lemmy.

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Source: Wolf's Rain

Posting a bit more today than I usually would to try to help debug thread visibility issues between kbin and Lemmy.

Edit: seeing if I can get the comment to federate now that the magazine is sending data to lemmy again.

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I mentioned over on last week's discussion thread over on ani.social that the oldest anime I currently have access to is the Lupin the Third Pilot Film -- and so I dug it out and watched it! This version is from the DVD re-release a few years ago so I'm not sure if it's exactly the same as the one from 1969 or if it has adaptations from when it was shown on TV later -- thus the "?" in the title.

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Source: Paprika

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I'm not sure what ernest is referring to with that, but something definitely does seem to be up with federation of content from kbin over to lemmy.

e.g. in /m/anime_irl the last three threads posted have not federated out. I commented here with a list of 5 lemmy servers I checked on a 24 hour old post that hasn't shown up elsewhere (after noticing my own post wasn't showing up).

There's also something going on with comments added by lemmy users on threads that have federated not going out to other lemmy instances. e.g. on this thread from 5 days ago only my first comment has federated widely; the other comment chain (starting with the user from lemmy.world) are only visible on kbin.social and lemmy.world, as far as I can tell. Not sure if that's exactly the same issue or not, but seems plausible for it to be related if something isn't working correctly with federation right now.

Comments that I've made on lemmy threads have gone through today though.

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Thanks ernest!

A few more data points:

  • posting an image thread from kbin into a Lemmy community works. (example)
  • posting a new thread to a kbin magazine with a link to an image off-site (e.g. on catbox) does not show up on Lemmy. (example)
  • posting a photo thread directly to a kbin magazine does not show up on Lemmy still (example)
  • Comments posted on the latter two threads do not show up in my profile view on various Lemmy instances.
  • New threads to the anime_irl@kbin.social magazine are not showing up on fedia.io (link) either, so it's not just Lemmy.
  • If I check my profile on misskey.io, it shows stuff from a week ago and older (and also, somewhat disturbingly, messages I deleted weeks ago -- not really a big deal on those particular ones but a bit concerning in general). It's kind of hard to make sense of what's going on misskey at the best of times though. :p
  • My recent posts to anime_irl don't seem to be showing up on mastodon.social but my post to animepics@reddthat.com and older posts to animemes@ani.social do show up as well as my earlier comment on this thread in Mastodon's "Posts and replies" section. Note that directly going to https://mastodon.social/@e0qdk@kbin.social redirects to https://kbin.social/u/e0qdk instead of showing the profile via Mastodon, but searching e0qdk@kbin.social and then selecting my corresponding user gives my profile via Mastodon. (Seeing similar behavior for Lemmy users, so that's not just a kbin thing. I don't use Mastodon directly very much, and it confused me a bit so mentioning it here for others.)
  • If I go to other mastodon servers like mstdn.ca my profile shows basically nothing except some replies despite claiming I have 182 posts. Adding up threads, comments, microblog posts, and replies for my account gives 185 before posting this, so not far off in number.
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Trying to do a bit of detective work on the posts themselves -- it looks like recent posts aren't federating out to Lemmy? Your post has been up for 24 hours without federating to ani.social or lemmy.world or lemmy.ml or lemmy.dbzer0.com or reddthat.com (at least prior to making this comment). Some comments from lemmy.world made it to one of my posts (the rain one from ~5 days ago) including a back and forth with a response today (~10 hours ago), but those comments aren't federating to any other instances.

Hmm... I think something broke.

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FYI: I linked this thread on ernest's latest devlog in the hopes that it helps having a specific example for debugging.

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