VinesNFluff
@VinesNFluff@pawb.social
Nerd|Furry|Linux User|Ace|BiRomantic|Taken <3
Leftist with an incorrigible love for fancy aesthetics (mostly Renaissance Italy/Victorian England) that might be incorrectly read as a monarchist because of that.
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Unicorn, but also occasionally gryphon.
- Comment on Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option. 1 day ago:
I ask friends who are more intelligent than me
And if they don’t know I assume it is forbidden knowledge that would drive me mad to know
(I am only half joking)
- Comment on What really separates a PC from a server? Mainly the hardware, but I guess software too. 1 week ago:
A server can just be a PC left working in a corner, depnding on what specifically you’re doing with it. Hardware designed to be a server tends to have more power in the places that matter for that job and less (if any) power dedicated to home use stuff like graphics.
I have a server for my family (WELL mostly me and my father). It consists of an old gaming PC with Linux Server Stuff installed on it. Doesn’t need to be anything more, it’s just Emby (media, mostly films) and NAS stuff.
It’s mostly intent and what you run on it.
- Comment on Why does most religion talk about their GOD being male? Especially Christains and Muslims. Is there a prominent female god that as big as the other two that I am missing? 1 week ago:
Shinto’s “head god” was Izanagi, who was very much a man.
- Comment on why do transphobes mention pedophiles/compare them to pedophiles when most trans people (as do most people) hate pedophiles? 2 weeks ago:
People who bitch about being banned/blocked are always the most blockable/bannable human beings imaginable, istg.
- Comment on hexbear.net comically loses its domain name 3 weeks ago:
And now you know why I just said “ok neolib”.
- Comment on What are some of the non-technical parts of the fediverse that appeal to you? 3 weeks ago:
A cheap hotel, usually.
More generally “cheap housing inhabited by people who are down on their luck”
- Comment on What are some of the non-technical parts of the fediverse that appeal to you? 3 weeks ago:
Doesn’t feel like I’m constantly being sold shit while I’m here
The corporate web feels like a shopping mall, the indie web feels like a flophouse.
- Comment on hexbear.net comically loses its domain name 3 weeks ago:
Ok neolib .
- Comment on hexbear.net comically loses its domain name 3 weeks ago:
Trash.
- Comment on hexbear.net comically loses its domain name 3 weeks ago:
I think saying Tankies aren’t Communists is a bit like saying Sword Art Online isn’t an anime.
Just because they suck doesn’t remove them from the category. In fact acknowledging the sucky parts of a <thing> is part of being grown up about that thing.
- Comment on hexbear.net comically loses its domain name 3 weeks ago:
Communists (internet troll-ish)
As opposed to Communists (just-- communists) from lemmy.ml and Communists (Spicy Communists) from lemmygrad.ml
- Comment on Does anyone actually know what MAGA all agree they are getting out of all this? 4 weeks ago:
“We made people we don’t like fucking miserable for a bit”
Ultimately the kind of person that goes all in on a cult like MAGA could lose everything to shitty policy or because their great leader started a war or smth – But they’ll still reason it was worth it because all those <Slur>s were put in their place.
- Comment on DOOM® CAPTCHA 2 months ago:
The awkward controls make it unfair.
… But then, IDKFA works
Which MEANS
An AI could totally cheat this.
- Comment on What do you like/dislike about lemmy? 4 months ago:
Asshole (but left wing)
- Comment on Why does the media print rags to riches stories? 5 months ago:
Propaganda.
That’s it
That’s literally just it.
- Comment on How is Lemmy better than Reddit? 6 months ago:
Decentralization.
That in itself is a huge advantage. Otherwise it’s just Reddit 2.0
- Submitted 7 months ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 17 comments
- Comment on Are jabronis a necessity for a social media platform to be successful? 7 months ago:
Not “need” insomuch as “can’t avoid having them due to how humans human”
- Comment on Are jabronis a necessity for a social media platform to be successful? 7 months ago:
As I understand it the jabronis/jobbers are like mooks whereas the heel is the antagonist
- Comment on I think we have technology sufficiently advanced for me to have an Iron Golem follow me around and bash my enemies. 7 months ago:
Best we can do is a remote controlled plane with guns.
- Comment on How do y'all feel about using summons in Soulslikes? [Lies of P endgame spoilers] 7 months ago:
People who treat single player/pve games as if they’re competitive hobbies are really weird. Their talk of “honor” and of not using mechanics (that are in the game to be used, because the developers want you to use them) because they’re “shameful” is extremely silly.
In other words: fuck the gatekeepers, do what makes YOU feel good.
- Submitted 7 months ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 26 comments
- Comment on Steam summer sale is on now! What games do you recommend? 8 months ago:
I got Okami HD and Crash Bandicoot 4 for real cheap
- Comment on Would America be as divided if Trump lost to Hillary in 2016? 8 months ago:
I mean if you wanna dive that deep, it started when some religious extremists got kicked out of England for being too extremist (for the british empire!) and moved to the new world, killing the people who previously lived there.
… But up until 2008 shit more or less held together? Not pretending 'murica was ever good, but it was the 2008 recession that caused its structure, however fucky it had been from first principles, to really break down.
- Comment on Would America be as divided if Trump lost to Hillary in 2016? 8 months ago:
Yes and no.
Without Trump fucking shit up on a government level (the Supreme Court in particular), there would probably be less scary shit happening on that end.
But the radicalisation of the Americans began before 2016. Trump is a symptom, not a cause. The disease started spreading as early as 2008.
That’s the thing people don’t realise. Even if Donald J. Trump didn’t exist, the underlying social tensions mean that inevitably someone would show up to galvanise far right sentiments, and the political estabilishment would have boosted them, whoever they were, because when the common folk are getting angry about their lot, then to the people actually in charge, a fascist dictatorship is preferrable to the alternative.
- Comment on If a universal basic income started today with the stipulation that you had to put 40 hrs/wk towards making the world a better place or solving societal problems, how would you spend your time? 10 months ago:
Volunteer at a school/daycare for poor kids. My (retired, formerly college professor) mother already does. I’m sure I could teach them some stuff. Maths or history or how to work computers.
- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 10 months ago:
I see someone watches tasting history
My favourite is when the book told him to put on a “good amount” of something
- Comment on Lemmy.world seems to have banned the largest piracy community on Lemmy. 11 months ago:
“No! I refuse to open more than one site! If it’s not on this one site that I have decided amounts to the entire threadiverse then it doesn’t exist, how dare people make me think? The absurdity of it all!”
- Comment on Lemmy.world seems to have banned the largest piracy community on Lemmy. 11 months ago:
You being incorrect and stupid is not bait.
- Comment on Lemmy.world seems to have banned the largest piracy community on Lemmy. 11 months ago:
The problem with this is that it isn’t really decentralized equally. Lemmy.world has most of the users and getting defederated from them is essentially a death sentence in terms of content and engagement.
Self-resolving issue here. If people hop away from LW due to LW making decisions they don’t like, LW will cease being the one-go-to-place for stuff.
Also also – Defederation is a far more nuanced thing than just “is block”. There is more than one tool that can be used by an ActivityPub admin.
If LW defederates from your home instance – You can still manually follow communities that are in LW AND interact with them (unless the admins go out of their way to ALSO block USERS from your home instance), as “defederated from the instance” just removes it from the global timeline.
What happened here, though, wasn’t defederation, it was a block, and a block on two specific communities, which brings me to: LW’s block on the piracy communities from dbzer0 doesn’t stop LW users from interacting with dbzer0 as a whole. Or vice-versa.