Steve
@Steve@communick.news
- Comment on Do you read analog clocks to the exact minute? How do you do this quickly? 2 days ago:
Smarter than you look 🤪
- Comment on Is it realistic to hope that lemmy grows to the size of the bigger social media platforms? 2 days ago:
I think that depends on your time horizon.
In the next 5 years? No, not realistic. In the next 50? Nearly certain I expect. 15-20 years? Maybe? - Comment on If copyright on a work expired immediately after death, would be that a bad or good idea? 3 days ago:
Not when they’re profiting off the copyrighted work.
Regardless of being owned by a person or corp. A specific copyright will reach a point where it’s not bringing in enough money to justify the expense of renewal. Corps aren’t in the habit of holding onto things that aren’t profitable. People tend to do so longer than corps. - Comment on If copyright on a work expired immediately after death, would be that a bad or good idea? 3 days ago:
Registering doesn’t need to cost much. It could be largely automated.
And the government will get plenty of money later on from the big ticket copyrights.
And the government isn’t supposed to be profitable in itself any way. So that doesn’t matter much. - Comment on If copyright on a work expired immediately after death, would be that a bad or good idea? 3 days ago:
How’s it do that?
- Comment on If copyright on a work expired immediately after death, would be that a bad or good idea? 3 days ago:
Anything to shorten it sounds like a good to me.
My idea has been that copyright isn’t automatic. It needs to be registered, and renewed every 2 to 5 years. And each renewal costs twice what the last one did. Start off super cheep maybe even free. Then $5 for the first renewal, doubling each time. Eventually it becomes too expensive to bother; Even for billion dollar franchises.
- Comment on Is "AI" the end of truth? 4 days ago:
Some people ‘believe’ aliens to be true. believe in a truth.
They believe in an idea. They believe that idea is true.
In my experience, when people talk about some subjective Truth, they say things like “my truth” or “feels true”. They aren’t making a claim beyond their subjective perceptions. And while their perceptions are true, (meaning those perceptions happened to them), those perceptions aren’t necessarily an account of real external events. That’s how stage magic works. It looks like one thing, but what it looks like isn’t reality.
And saying you shouldn’t be able to believe in something because it’s real, sounds very strange. Maybe you mean, you shouldn’t need to believe in something because it’s real?
- Comment on Is "AI" the end of truth? 4 days ago:
Nobody defines reality. We discover reality. Reality defines us.
Reality doesn’t care about any idea, hypothesis, or theory.
Reality is ignorant of courts, votes, or opinion.
Reality is what is, and we just make up stories that may or may not agree with reality. Makes no difference to reality. - Comment on Do you read analog clocks to the exact minute? How do you do this quickly? 4 days ago:
You might look into getting a slow watch.
It doesn’t really matter exactly what minute it is mostly. - Comment on Is "AI" the end of truth? 4 days ago:
The common definition of Truth is along the lines of “That which matches reality”.
It doesn’t matter what’s popular, or common knowledge. Sure humanity learns more about reality as time goes on. What people believe to be true changes. But that doesn’t mean what we believe is true. Something doesn’t become true because enough people believe it. Peoples beliefs simply get closer to the truth as more is learned about reality.
- Comment on Is "AI" the end of truth? 4 days ago:
That’s not a widely used definition of Truth.
At the very least, it’s one I’ve never heard before. - Comment on Do we need a crawler to load content from other lemmy instances? How are we supposed to federate without one? 5 days ago:
Right now, it looks like the only way users on my instance will get to see content from other instances is if I manually search for just about everything they’ll get to see.
They can do that themselves.
- Comment on If your happiness is derived from your enjoyment of a false (i.e. fictional) stories, is that truely happiness, or is that technically a delusion? 1 week ago:
Are you suggesting delusions can’t make one happy?
- Comment on Why is "mythology" in the public domain in the first place? 1 week ago:
Age. Copyright only lasts for a certain amount of time. In the US it’s around 70 years after creators death, if I remember correctly. Everything goes public domain after that. And most mythological stories are a few centuries old at least, some thousands. So copyright doesn’t apply and they are by default, considered public domain.
- Comment on [Inverse Thinking] How do I make sure my place gets messy again after I thoroughly cleaned and organized it? 2 weeks ago:
Don’t pay attention to, or care about, where things go when you’re done with them.
- Comment on How abnormal is it for a mother to be her son a fleshlight for his 18th birthday? 3 weeks ago:
It’s certainly abnormal.
But abnormal doesn’t mean bad. At all.I actually think it’s a thoughtful honest appropriate gift. That kind of thing should be more common.
- Comment on Lemmy User Feedback and Improvement Thread: Share Your Complaints, Suggestions, and Ideas 3 weeks ago:
Agreed.
Until people started following hashtags. Then they were trying to be about more than just people, and doing it poorly. Kind of like wanting to subscribe to people on Lemmy. That’s not what it’s for, and just shouldn’t be an option, so people know that. - Comment on Lemmy User Feedback and Improvement Thread: Share Your Complaints, Suggestions, and Ideas 3 weeks ago:
They really aren’t.
They’re a user created workaround, attempting to fix the structure-less, findability problem. Twitter embraced and officially incorporated them, because they had no better solution that wasn’t completely rebuilding the entire system. They rightly new everybody would hate that. - Comment on Lemmy User Feedback and Improvement Thread: Share Your Complaints, Suggestions, and Ideas 3 weeks ago:
Yes exactly! It’s just like Twitter or Blusky. It’s 99.3% people just shouting into the void, without form or structure. You’re not confused.
- Comment on Lemmy User Feedback and Improvement Thread: Share Your Complaints, Suggestions, and Ideas 3 weeks ago:
also if it uses a common input name (which it would because it’s the same Lemmy software) then your webbrowser would suggest/autocomplete it
That’s exactly the local software I’m talking about! Now we’re on the same page.
- Comment on Lemmy User Feedback and Improvement Thread: Share Your Complaints, Suggestions, and Ideas 3 weeks ago:
The All feed is for All. If you don’t want All don’t use All.
It’s designed as a White List system, with subscriptions. You pick the things you want to see. You’re asking for a Black List system, where you see everything accept what you don’t want. That only works while things are small. As they grow, Black Lists become much larger, and more difficult to manage. When you get to the point where their are thousands of communities with tens of thousands of posts every second, they become useless.
- Comment on Lemmy User Feedback and Improvement Thread: Share Your Complaints, Suggestions, and Ideas 3 weeks ago:
You’d have manually enter your home instance on every site you visit. Super annoying. Not a solution.
- Comment on Lemmy User Feedback and Improvement Thread: Share Your Complaints, Suggestions, and Ideas 3 weeks ago:
That would require some kind of local client side software.
- Comment on Lemmy User Feedback and Improvement Thread: Share Your Complaints, Suggestions, and Ideas 3 weeks ago:
Now here’s the bigger issue. Lets say I can click a button, and now a home instance, and all its communities could be saved to a special drop down tab that replaces the local. Your instance is always the default, but the rest are alphabetically listed.
You mean choose a local view of a different server? That would require every instance to duplicate everything on every other instance. Not possible.
What makes Communick.News different from Lemmy.World?
It’s a paid instance. I pay a subscription fee to ensure to won’t die do to lack of resources.
The idea isn’t to centralize the instances. The idea is to theme them.
What benefit would themed instances have. You can’t follow an instance…
Oh! That’s what your trying to do! You want to be able to see some logical grouping of related communities, and follow that! Now I get it.Yah. That’s not the way to do that. The “MultiReddit” concept is what you want for that. A shareable list of related communities. That’ll work regardless of what instance they are hosted on.
- Comment on Lemmy User Feedback and Improvement Thread: Share Your Complaints, Suggestions, and Ideas 3 weeks ago:
Lemmy privacy isn’t a joke, because there isn’t any. It’s 100% public by design.
If you want to keep something private, don’t post it publicly online. - Comment on Lemmy User Feedback and Improvement Thread: Share Your Complaints, Suggestions, and Ideas 3 weeks ago:
Use Mastodon. Lemmy is built around topics, not people.
- Comment on Lemmy User Feedback and Improvement Thread: Share Your Complaints, Suggestions, and Ideas 3 weeks ago:
That’s exactly what the Local feed is for.
If you don’t want All, don’t use All Because All will give you All, not Local. If you want Local use Local. - Comment on ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Showunners Talk 32nd Century Setting And How The Ship Is Part Of The School 4 weeks ago:
It seems like doctors. 4 years of classes, 4 years of hands on residency in hospitals.
- Comment on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 4 | SDCC Surprise 4 weeks ago:
Most of that, yes. And it’s great
- Comment on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 4 | SDCC Surprise 4 weeks ago:
It really is some of the best Star Trek that’s been done.