Hey guys, a week ago I started working on a lemmy app like many others as an excuse to learn flutter. Along the way I found an old app that was abandoned but very well built....
Well, I'm not convinced that the C-suite at Snoo Inc aren't also co-signing this, but Hufflepuff McSpeztron certainly wants to play the big baddie, so the big baddie he shall be.
I wish all remaining redditors luck on making this #rexxit very painful for him.
The fanfiction is currently above 16,777,215 words (we don't know the word count because fanfic.net uses 24-bit integers to count the amount of words and this fic surpassed the computational limit), and is 2000+ chapters. It is written by Jamesdean5842 and is still being written to this day....
I really thought that the Sexy Times with Wangxian fic was the longest fic, but upon double checking it was only the most tagged fic on AO3 at a measly 1+ million words.
Just trying to comprehend 16 million words is just.. mind-boggling.
Fingers crossed that this will be implemented well, im tired of having sleek electronics be irrelevant in 2 years when the silicon could go for 5 or six
The subreddit r/steam, about the digital game storefront, received as many other subreddits a notice to open the community again, or else the mods would be replaced by those who abide....
I can't imagine a website so anti-CCP it utterly internalized the social credit meme (despite it being somewhat more nuanced in reality, I still don't approve of it, just learned it gets exaggerated in the west) would take well to an invisible 'reputation system' that demands data collection and punishes privacy actions.
Ethical/moral support gets thorny with open source software, and even more so with networks like the fediverse. There is a limit to how much you can impune the creators of a tool relative to its usage, and vice versa.
There's quite a few far-right and fascist Mastodon instances and forks (Gab, Truth, Parker, etc.) The creators of Mastodon can't really stop them from using the software with the license they initially have. But they wouldn't exist if Mastodon was closed source either (and perhaps neither would we). Is it morally better that no one use Mastodon because bad instances are able to exist because of them? I personally think not.
Now, fortunately, because of the federated ActivityPub system, servers can actively choose to cut off, and even hard block instances, and most have done so to these services. This also came up with lemmygrad, an instance that had worse tendencies with tankie concerns with lemmy/ml. Many have now chose to defederate with lemmygrad or are considering it.
Several communities have been established on the lemmy software, and those intermingle with kbin as well. They have been willing to defederate with problematic instances as well, despite the problems this poses in the threadiverse model vs the federated microblogging/social posting model (many times you have to isolate the entire instance instead of just specific communities, which means of you encounter bad actors you may be forced to orphan larger communities people from other instances participate in, etc; see the recent beehaw sijw/lw defed debacle). Does this mean that using the lemmy software, despite the instances' and users' opposition to the potential views previously discussed is morally bad? Again, I personally think not.
With situations like with GitHub employees protesting contracts with the DoD, the opposition to providing support on ethical grounds is understandable, as it's active, deliberate action that goes toward an organization that perpetuates violence. But for a system that can very quickly shun a project owner or section of a community or even fork just as quickly? I view it as no different than protest forks.
This type of food taxonomy is always fascinating and disturbing, as it tends to spawn even more unhinged classifications (ravioli is a dumpling. A bowl of cereal is a salad).
That being said, the most politically neutral take would be that tamales are a pie.
YouTube is running an experiment asking some users to disable their ad blockers or pay for a premium subscription, or they will not be allowed to watch videos.
The Android 12/13 UI really grinds my gears. Excessive amounts of whitespace, and the notification shade has become "kiddified" - Turning off wifi/mobile data now takes 2 taps, the icons are all ridiculously big and takes up so much screen space, etc....
Dear Red Hat: Are you dumb? (www.jeffgeerling.com)
Vladimir Putin is 'second king of antisemitism after Hitler,' says Zelensky (www.jpost.com)
Dogowner wants someone to pay to live in their house AND take care of their dog. (lemmy.world)
Reddit activated a word filter that whenever you say "fuck spez", your comment won't show up for anyone else. I just tested it on ModCoord. they're also deleting spez memes from the subs they nuked lol
r/ModCoord: The admins in charge of demodded subreddits are mass-removing images of Huffman previously shared on them...
what imgur alternatives do you use to share images?
drop em here!!!
YSK that you can follow peertube channels as if they're communties in lemmy (and presumably kbin)
I was waiting until I saw something show up in my feed to verify and I just saw it....
I've resurrected lemmur, a beautiful flutter app. Coming soon to an instance near you! (bigfoot.ninja)
Hey guys, a week ago I started working on a lemmy app like many others as an excuse to learn flutter. Along the way I found an old app that was abandoned but very well built....
Reign in your horse events
Entire mod teams of r/interestingasfuck, r/TIHI and r/mildlyinteresting KICKED out. Some even locked out of their accounts (old.reddit.com)
Florida Republican who voted for anti-immigrant bill admits it's doing harm (www.newsweek.com)
Rick Roth said the bill's passage had led to "unintended consequences" and that "farmers are mad as hell" after a mass exodus of undocumented workers.
Rule
Fun Fact: The longest piece of literature ever written is a Loud House fanfiction called "Loud House Revamped".
The fanfiction is currently above 16,777,215 words (we don't know the word count because fanfic.net uses 24-bit integers to count the amount of words and this fic surpassed the computational limit), and is 2000+ chapters. It is written by Jamesdean5842 and is still being written to this day....
Kremlin decides that goal to ''demilitarise'' Ukraine has largely been achieved (www.pravda.com.ua)
EU votes to mandate removable batteries in smartphones in a landslide; no more glued together junk! (www.youtube.com)
Reddit mods discuss forming a union and suing for back pay (old.reddit.com)
Dumb Questions From A Noob
First of all, I don't even know if this is the place to ask, but I couldn't find anywhere else that made sense......
r/steam (maliciously) complies with the call to open again (lemmy.world)
The subreddit r/steam, about the digital game storefront, received as many other subreddits a notice to open the community again, or else the mods would be replaced by those who abide....
how surprised should i be that lemmy.ml mods banned !ukraine@lemmy.ml?
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/e7c3f33b-d494-4e5a-b403-81b209094a13.png...
Lemmy reached a user base of 150,000 (discuss.tchncs.de)
The Lemmy user base passed 150,000 in total users....
Noodles: is a tamale a noodle?
I don't really have a question but I want to talk about noodles, please. Is a tamale a noodle or a sandwich?
r/Piracy has entered restricted mode and will open in two days
https://old.reddit.com/r/piracy...
YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
YouTube is running an experiment asking some users to disable their ad blockers or pay for a premium subscription, or they will not be allowed to watch videos.
Apple lock-in is feeling stronger than ever (www.androidpolice.com)
Thoughts on Android 12/13 UI and whitespace
The Android 12/13 UI really grinds my gears. Excessive amounts of whitespace, and the notification shade has become "kiddified" - Turning off wifi/mobile data now takes 2 taps, the icons are all ridiculously big and takes up so much screen space, etc....