ZombiFrancis

@ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Israel’s Genocide Has Reportedly Killed More Journalists Than WWI and WWII Combined⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe these would be documented direct killings of journalists while doing their jobs. Not civilians who were journalists killed in indiscriminate bombing campaigns and death squads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  These folks include presenting a false person as being of age, then switching to underage at the time of meetup when the target shows up.

  A group descends upon the target who is now told they’re a pedophile.

  Then the group tries to kill the person who was trying to meet what they thought was an adult.

  And the perpetrators think this is justice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It isn’t the medical definition at work, here. It’s the legal one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Ding ding ding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I believe the next step in this process is to make the easy jump into hunting all those people expressing ‘Pedo apologia’. Half this thread suddenly is fair game to ‘investigate.’

  It’s a bottomless well, really.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hell, KiwiFarms style tactics is becoming more and more common and mainstream. It’s on Lemmy too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Virgin Physicists⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Eyeball it. Gotta squint right tho.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is content like this banned on .ml for being "political"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the kind of content instance admins are and need to be concerned with on the topic of defederating instances. However most of the time it’s over whether some user in a shitposting thread was unfairly moderated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is content like this banned on .ml for being "political"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Instances are servers that host communities.

  Instances are servers that host user accounts.

  Federated instances allow users from one instance to view and post in communities on other (federated) instances. If the instances are defederated there is no connection whatsoever being made between the users and communities.

  Now, there are communities that have very strict and often very political moderation policies. Technically only the instance administrator has the power/authority to override communities, but only on the instance they administrate.

  This can become an issue, especially when people who get moderated run to the admin demanding to talk with who is in charge. The netKarens get really mad if the admins back up the community, so they’ll start these instance crusades demanding defederation and such.

  So as a result there are some natural divisions across the major instances based on how the admins tend to back up community rules.

  So for a rough examples: .ml communities have zero tolerance for American Liberalism. Lemmy.world allows communities to be heavy handed against criticism of NATO or Israel. Blahaj.zone has zero tolerance for transphobes gatekeeping. My instance, sh.itjust.works, allows for combat footage and communities dedicated to documenting(harassing) the .ml instance, their admins and the lemmy devs (who admin .ml).

  The average user need only pay attention to the communities they post in. The instance of the user is mostly irrelevant, nevermind the butthurt individuals who want a worse and fragmented Fediverse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'An Insult To Life Itself': Hayao Miyazaki’s AI Criticism Resurfaces As OpenAI’s Ghibli-Style Image Trend Takes Over Social Media⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That isn’t really what he means though. Miyazaki knew this was AI generated and knows what it means. They explain the machine which they sought to create art like humans do ‘learned’ how to move and that ‘it doesn’t feel pain’ and called it ‘dancing’. Then they say it is creepy and could be used for a zombie game.

  Miyazaki then states ‘whoever creates this stuff has no idea what pain is’.

  That is the criticism he appears to be levelling. The demonstration of such horror without an understanding pain robs it of human connection.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Tossup between 2 and 5. Forever locked in competition with their strengths and weaknesses perfectly inverted to each other. I used to use 5 for lineart and then shade with 2.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I get you. For me after my grandparents passed I realized I wanted to be a grandparent. So I gotta play by some of society’s stupid rules to see if I can see that through.

  Careerwise: biggest thing for me was jumping into public service and working in local government–in America, no less. Now I work remotely and have a well-compensated union-represented government job with a pension that doesn’t require me to do management or have a medical or law degree.

  I knew to steer clear of the Fed too, and that’s paid off in spades.

  All in all though as a former kid and current parent: kids need their cool aunts and uncles, related or not, out there having fun not making them cousins. So there’s zero shame in having no rush or desire for trying to strike that balance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I did a lot of the fun in my teens and twenties, and then realized I wanted a family and was lucky to find a career that fit.

  It’s definitely a challenge to find a balance though so it can often feel like a trade-in. But if you’re honest with yourself it doesn’t have to be nor an unwanted change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Similar. I had a community from 2001 onward where I was variously an admin and a mod over the decades. A lot of us drifted apart from being kids exploring the internet to adults with families and careers.

  But mainly the guy that took over the code maintenance became the sole admin in 2018 and he just chased everyone off the site debatebroing with increasingly racist and misogynistic rants. Dude I played games with and talked with online for 20 years started calling me a genocidal enslaver for trying to explain CRT and want solar power in America.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Justice Department asks judge to order Google the "immediate" sale of Chrome⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  ByteDance shell company Chrome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm gonna need more red colored crayons⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Turkey just eliminated outright.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why aren't there mass protests in the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Europe has roughly the same land mass as the United States and less than half the population. The population density and urbanization is even lower.

  So for the USA it’s actually quite a bit to have protests of hundreds in smaller towns and state capitols.

  Major cities can muster the large groups, but the consistent and widespread nature of the protests should not be discounted.

  Incidentally I am also not seeing counter protests or demonstrations of support.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Harry and Ron were always bored in class because Rowling's magic system is boring as hell⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “all magic in Harry Potter comes from the divine tree, at the beginning the tree blessed few people with its world bending power of imagination, this is how wizardry began, the tree spoke latin btw.”

  It’d be right up her alley since the books nor movies allude anything whatsoever to a divine tree that spoke latin.

  If the books had a divine tree that spoke latin then there’d be some framework and substance lending credibility to the explanation, which would be different.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Classical Meme⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The loss game. When it isn’t loss, you lose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are modern Final Fantasy games bad?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Modern”? I don’t know.

  Final Fantasy 10 was the last game that fit the ‘traditional’ turn based (active or not) gameplay. Since then there’s been less consistency between iterations.

  Final Fantasy 11 and 14 are MMORPGs and are just fundamentally different games as a result. The latest is essentially Devil May Cry gameplay.

  A lot of people enjoyed DMC and DMC is not inherently bad, but it may not be what people expect.

  But the spinoffs using the Final Fantasy name have always been pretty damn hit or miss. (Compare Mystic Quest to Tactics.) This just now applies to the whole series.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A funny thing in Iran is how they repackage old PlayStation consoles⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know it is likely just the nostalgia, but the PS1 startup sounds really were the best.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seattle homeless population: nearly half are outsiders⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A stunning 86.6% of the homeless population was born outside of Seattle or King County. Nearly 67% of the homeless neither currently have, nor ever ever had, family living in Seattle or King County. Even more telling, 80.2% of them didn’t even attend high school in the area.

  Jason, you’re from New York.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve adds "all the Team Fortress 2 client and server game code" to its Source mod tools, letting modders "build completely new games based on TF2" and publish them on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Natural Selection was a quality one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A single tuna (once canned) will be eaten across the world at different times, potentially years apart⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  When I was in fisheries the tuna boats would bring the haul of frozen tuna into port where they’d be weighed, counted, and transferred to a cannery also in port.

  A lot were fileted and cut right there too, so not all was straight to can.

  Now a lot of the cans stayed fairly together by shipment. So I imagine where a lot code was split across separate pallets or shipments might a single fish be sent to different locations in can form. So I would wager the ‘rest’ of the tuna is at least on the shelf next to… itself.

  As far as waste though? Some companies are super diligent about their waste streams. Fish meals and such have resale value. Others leave large amounts of parts and material in their shop floors and just power wash it back into the marine waters even while being fined and penalized by regulators. So mileage varies there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China renewables capacity additions soared in 2023, growing more than four times faster than the G7⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Classic nefarious communist strategy, damn. Next they’ll be after their purity of essence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China renewables capacity additions soared in 2023, growing more than four times faster than the G7⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “establish [new systems] before breaking [old ones]” (先立后破)."

  Compared to the whole “move fast and break things” mantra thats migrated to the US government, this seems like a wise move.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China renewables capacity additions soared in 2023, growing more than four times faster than the G7⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to tell people the proper response to this stuff would be for western industries to do the free enterprise thing and compete in this market. But the rebuttals always just devolved into prejudiced xenophobia instead of any genuine opinion or belief in green energy, infrastructure, or patriotism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I miss myspace⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I lost the music I made in college to the MySpace database loss/crash/whatever.

  Upside: the music I made in college is forever lost.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Tesseract Lemmy app shows a news source ranking from MBFC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  MBFC does the opposite of elevate conversations. It’s quite frankly a poison pill for conversations. People will apply their prejudices and alter their interpretations based on the ‘bias check’, typically before or instead of any critical thinking or ant article.

  The last time the MBFC bot was going the user pushing it was very clearly aware of this dynamic. They also knew it was lumping everything to website source, despite authors and opinion pieces, for maximum damage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The first year after the api debacle in 2023 was rife with culture class of redditors tromping through anarchist and communist communities and instances and freaking the fuck out they’re allowed to exist.

  Those instances have resulted in defederations or there’s been enough fatigue and migration that these days its really just down to like 3 chronically obsessed users variously spamming about it.