Omniraptor
@Omniraptor@lemm.ee
- Comment on Is there a name for the trope where a story is high fantasy at first glance, except for it's not fantasy and is actually set in a post-apocalypse dystopian future? 1 month ago:
Dying earth isn’t a genre it’s a specific set of books by jack Vance that popularized this trope and was also a major inspiration for DnD
- Comment on Is there a name for the trope where a story is high fantasy at first glance, except for it's not fantasy and is actually set in a post-apocalypse dystopian future? 1 month ago:
tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/…/TomatoSurprise is the wider trope
- Comment on I don't want to call Twitter X out of spite, but calling the travesty that is X Twitter is an insult to the people that made Twitter what it was. 1 month ago:
That was like the first year or two at most iirc
- Comment on Clipped it blud 1 month ago:
punctuation kinda takes away from this writing style imo
- Comment on I have the weirdest aesthetic preferences 1 month ago:
Any self respecting barcode scanner app should have a special check for that url and start playing the song immediately without asking for a confirmation
- Comment on Paralyzed Man Unable to Walk After Maker of His Powered Exoskeleton Tells Him It's Now Obsolete 1 month ago:
Presumably those failsafes can be circumvented and your character being a cool hacker applies those exploits to their hardware.
- Comment on After a year of operation, Switzerland's government closes its Mastodon instance 1 month ago:
I would assume they’d use syndication software that could plug into mastodon as well as the proprietary networks. If they’re already syndicating posts between twitter Facebook and Instagram what’s one more network?
- Comment on 2real4me 1 month ago:
Maybe we could do better with smaller ais that are fine tuned on a specific code base + documentation + topical forum
- Comment on Smart 1 month ago:
This new Yorker article goes into some more detail. Apparently there was some underlying conflict between rival Chinese academics over succession of university admin postings in Beijing.
According to the article it was one Chinese dude trying to hog credit and Perelman basically went “oh i’m not brave enough for politics” and bailed. If he accepted his choice was basically becoming a conformist or getting involved by trying to improve things. He chose not to choose.
Most problems require the insights of several mathematicians in order to be solved, and the profession has evolved a standard for crediting individual contributions that is as stringent as the rules governing math itself. As Perelman put it, “If everyone is honest, it is natural to share ideas.” Many mathematicians view Yau’s conduct over the Poincaré as a violation of this basic ethic, and worry about the damage it has caused the profession. “Politics, power, and control have no legitimate role in our community, and they threaten the integrity of our field,” Phillip Griffiths said.
- Comment on DeArrow is an open source browser extension for crowdsourcing better titles and thumbnails on YouTube. 2 months ago:
To be fair it’s not a mysterious “they”, it’s just an option available for channel owners to set alternative thumbnails and then check which does better.
- Comment on To take a step back and see how far we've gone, Discuit published their weekly report - 245 weekly active users (detailed report in link) 2 months ago:
Tildes is many years old, founded by a former mod who did a lot of good work in /r/games like 12 years ago and eventually got hired by reddit, then left to start tildes.
- Comment on Waveform Podcast: Protocol Wars - The Fediverse Explained 2 months ago:
Are there any that have a skip annoying laughter feature (/s)
Seriously tho that sort of thing seems like it would mess with use of pauses for narrative effect
- Comment on Tumblr to move its half a billion blogs to WordPress 2 months ago:
they’re just moving the tumblr backend into the WordPress software. No cause for WordPress.com to be involved
- Comment on Tumblr to move its half a billion blogs to WordPress 2 months ago:
somebody link that avenue q song please
- Comment on Tumblr to move its half a billion blogs to WordPress 2 months ago:
John green sends his regards
- Comment on Recommendation engine: Downvote any game you've heard of before 2 months ago:
This thread is very nice great idea op
- Comment on Use Zotero 2 months ago:
If anyone is choosing between them I’d advise going with Zotero because it’s an open source project. No chance of it shutting down or changing the terms of service.
- Comment on No one’s ready for this: Our basic assumptions about photos capturing reality are about to go up in smoke. 2 months ago:
The obvious conjecture is that they were trying to commit fraud and get free copper
- Comment on Why are so many leaders in tech evil? 2 months ago:
Richard stallman was right about everything
- Comment on Teens are making thousands by debating Trump vs. Harris on TikTok. 2 months ago:
It’s so fucked up how the know nothing anti-papist freaks turned out to be correct and we actually did end up being oppressed by an unaccountable cabal of conservative Catholics (aka the supreme Court).
- Comment on Looks like it was a ... boobie trap 2 months ago:
Your original comment was saying that the term is inherently derogatory and offensive. I’m trying to explain that in this case I don’t accept the framework of a derogatory terms but rather derogatory usages. That’s like, my opinion. As a self identified tranny, who still identifies as such in a non porn context. As do lots of my friends on twitter.
Feel like we’ve already been over all this back when some people online decided “queer” is always a slur and started aggressively trying to police people from using it…
- Comment on Looks like it was a ... boobie trap 2 months ago:
Hm it might be good to have a conversation about cw policy on lemmy actually
- Comment on Looks like it was a ... boobie trap 2 months ago:
there’s other trans communities and other social norms online than r/mtf on reddit. People should be allowed to call themselves what they like imo, and you should probably try to make sure of the user’s actual stance before policing their language.
- Comment on Looks like it was a ... boobie trap 2 months ago:
It’s weird, it’s like a four way conflict between trans women, cis crossdressers, well meaning cis allies speaking over the former, and transphobes.
- Comment on Healthcare 2 months ago:
Lemmy instances usually have a public modlog, you can look it up if you like
- Comment on If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"? 2 months ago:
Wait huge? Shouldn’t Prod be the last place any changes go ?
- Comment on Any “small-web” search engines? 2 months ago:
You can’t just index mastodon, they’ll kill you!
- Comment on Lemmy votes ARE public, should they be anonymous? 2 months ago:
Do you mean manipulation from the admins? Because from the spammers perspective not being able to see if your votes went through is pretty inconvenient
- Comment on Google threatened tech influencers unless they ‘preferred’ the Pixel 2 months ago:
I mean, if you want to withstand bumps and scrapes you need padding. But without a case you need the padding to be glued to the phone directly. The bulk remains the same no?
- Comment on Google threatened tech influencers unless they ‘preferred’ the Pixel 2 months ago:
Why? It’s better to have the part most likely to take damage be replaceable