Jayjader

@Jayjader@jlai.lu

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dwarf Tyrant vs Tyrant^2: Who would win?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So it weighs as much as a rhino, for small values of “a rhino’s weight”!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a very clever follow-up to their previous project, the fediverse schema observatory (also mentioned in the Last Week in Fediverse published October 30th of last year).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fucking math...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, a man of science!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Like father...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have no firm convictions towards or against theism, but learning this in school really made me go “I can’t believe God was this lazy”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Revolt became Stoat⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Syntax highlighting for code blocks is the reason I prefer discord over slack for collaborating and just chatting with friends who know how to code. I imagine some irc clients exist that so the same, but at least with discord I know my recipient is guaranteed to see what I see.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which game would you erase from your memory, in order to experience it fresh once again?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos (and it’s expansion, The Frozen Throne).

  The level of storytelling for a strategy game’s campaign completely blew me away at the time. The “good”-coded guys are haughty and rigid, the “bad”-coded guys are (mostly) just trying to get by in a world that rejects them at every turn, not to mention you play as the lovable young protégé and prodigy that slowly casts aside his humanity until he becomes a “big bad” for everyone else. The campaign has world-altering events take place, and you actually get to see the world altered after the fact.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I need someone to help me identify this shark plz. Spotted in the wild. Maybe a new species.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You ever seen a tumbleweed run for it’s life?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy being pinged each midnight⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like either federation working as intended, or some client app trying to cache info about your instance. Might be fedidb.com or fediverse.observer or some other service.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't think so⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I would love to troll them with some videos on people that are literally white as snow, either some kind of stop-motion or other approach. Then report all the Nazi shit as “this is peach/pink people, not white”.

  Not that it would do much good, but just maybe they would get frustrated enough to take the insurance down — or at the very least explicit that they use the unambiguously racist meaning of “White”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intent recognition for HomeAssistant without an LLM?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  From my understanding of word embeddings (as used by LLMs), you could skip the LLM and directly compare the similarity of what the STT outputs to each task or phrase in a list you have prepared. You’d need to test it out a few times to see what threshold works, but even testing against dozens of phrases should be much faster than spinning up an LLM - and it should be fully deterministic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance, 18 years old titan and still the greatest strategy game of it's kind⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Beyond all Reason also does this amazing thing where, once all players have joined the map in-game, you get up to a minute to plan out you build order before the game’s clock actually starts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance, 18 years old titan and still the greatest strategy game of it's kind⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Supreme Commander, especially with the Forged Alliance extension is a super-tight, supe-polished game! My biggest complaint is that the devs bet on CPU single core speed continuing to increase over the years instead of trying to make their game more fully multi-threaded; even on my 5950X it can stutter in the late game.

  I’ve been getting into Beyond all Reason recently, it’s coming along nicely but (to me) is more focused on emulating the Total Annihilation experience than the SupCom one:

  • 2 playable factions, the Armada and the Core (roughly map onto SupCom’s UEF and Cybran, albeit with less flavor and no lore)
  • T1 power generation in SupCom is via power generators (spammable) and geothermal plants (only on certain map squares). BaR has windmills, tidal generators, basic and advanced solar panels that are all spammable as well as geothermal on certain map squares
  • SupCom has land/air/sea factories, BaR has bots/vehicles/planes/hovercraft/seaplanes/amphibious/naval factories.
  • SupCom has 3 unit tiers that each have their own factory, plus a fourth “experimental” whose units are so big they are built as buildings from T3 builders. BaR has like tier 1 and 1.5 units that can be built from T1 factories, tier 2 and 2.5 units that can be built from T2 “advanced” factories, and T3 and experimentals are built from “Experimental” factories — and no T3 builders (!)
  • much less diverse experimental units; Armada has a big walker mech and a fat lightning tank equipped with tactical emp missiles, and Core has and even bigger walker mech and a tank so slow you’d think it was immobile (albeit equipped with a commander’s d-gun).
  • commanders can’t upgrade at all, and can’t even build every T1 building

  The dev team is currently working on a third faction (the Legion) that seems to be somewhat inspired by SupCom’s Aeon and Seraphim.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They say word-of-mouth marketing is the most effective form of marketing. What games did you (not) enjoy that came well-recommended by friends to you, and why did they recommend it to you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Time for some more word of mouth (potentially): have you tried Beyond all Reason? It’s more or less a modern open source remake of Total Annihilation. Runs like a dream even with tens of AI players and tens of thousands of units in-game.

  Compared to SupCom I would say there is more unit diversity but less wacky experimentals, and the commander unit cannot be upgraded. There are currently only 2 factions, that basically map to UEF and Cybran from SupCom (or rather SupCom derived those two from the 2 in Total Annihilation). The dev team is currently working on a third faction that, from the previews, seems to me to be a mashup of the Aeon and Seraphim from SupCom: Forged Alliance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are we living in a golden age of stupidity?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Empathy and intelligence are not the same. As evidenced by some highly intelligent people displaying a shocking lack of empathy, and some highly empathetic people not displaying the greatest intelligence.

  Personally, I’d rather talk about knowledge and behavior. Intelligence and empathy are hard to quantize.

  Leaning into natural selection, proposing we need to let it “run it’s course”, in a way, to “weed out the weak traits” is eugenics. So is thinking that some traits are “good” and others “bad” without qualifying “for the current social/environmental context”. Stupidity might be a good defense against existential depression.

  Why do you yourself call the thought “scary” if you don’t think it’s eugenics? What exactly is scary about letting “weak traits perish” if not that it’s inviting a certain form of eugenics to decide who gets to reproduce and/or be born?

  You’ll note I didn’t claim you advocate for it directly, just that your arguments are eugenics-flavored.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are we living in a golden age of stupidity?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Wealth inequality is returning to pre-WW1 levels and climate change’s effects are becoming visible to the average person, making people desperate for a way out. Education budgets in the US have been steadily slashed, far-right agit-prop by people like Steve Bannon has flooded the internet while the political class that could oppose it are pacified by corporate donors.

  No need for social darwinism or sketchy eugenics-flavored arguments to explain this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How should Lemmy sort posts so small communities can compete?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “Top over the last 6 hours” can be a decent middle ground between “new”, “scaled”, and “active”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I getting this right? The vibe of different lemmy instances⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The only drama I’m aware of (beyond the small spat with hexbear I mentioned) is how feddit.org’s admins were extra cautious regarding discourse on Israel/Palestine in the wake of October 7th. Given the the servers are physically located in Germany (and as such apparently the admins can go to jail over their content) it was disappointing but understandable to me, and pissed off a lot of the more audibly anti-genocide and anti-imperialism users.

  I think, sadly, this kind of tribalism is part of the growing pains for federated online communities, especially the more “Western” ones. Instances behave like villages or city-states towards each other, while in physical space we’ve all grown up and been socialized inside (comparatively) huge nation-states.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I getting this right? The vibe of different lemmy instances⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  anything else: either nazis or tankies depending on who you ask.

  I’m curious what you’ve heard of jlai.lu, feddit.org, and/or sopuli.xyz. I suspect that, being more geographically-focused than the topic-focused or mindset-focused like most of the instances you’ve listed, they don’t as easily fit into one box (other than the obvious france/germany/finland boxes).

  Here on jlai.lu, we had a bit of a spat with hexbear a while back because we’re too reactionary for their tastes, but even that feels mostly irrelevant nowadays.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for bot-friendly Lemmy instances/communities for RSS reposting⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I see, thanks for the explanation!

  I’ve been working on a frontend/browser client for “exploring” activitypub instances in my spare time, and CORS basically requires me to have some sort of separate server process that can fetch and auth using my account(s). I’m unsure of how much sense it would make to try to bolt my client on top of your software, but at least now I know I can try without needing to involve a Microsoft account.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for bot-friendly Lemmy instances/communities for RSS reposting⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ASP.NET Core Identity is backed by an in-memory database (since 11.1.0); the only allowed login method is via Microsoft account, but DeviantArt and Reddit accounts can be added in user management (which will connect these accounts to Pandacap’s main database).

  Does this literally mean I need a Microsoft account to run this on my own machine, or is that only for deploying on Azure?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  According to my father, who is an absolute Epic Wizard level computer programmer consultant, Factorio teaches you the basics of computer programming.

  Someone wrote a whole article riffing off of that idea (checks date) 4 (!) years ago: erikmcclure.com/…/factorio-is-best-interview-we-h…

  (Apologies for replying to a 6-month old thread)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry for necroposting, but OP linked your reply in a recent post and I wanted to directly respond to it.

  You might enjoy The Ellimist Chronicles, a companion book to the Animorphs series. The novel’s protagonist has a similar interest in getting things done with the minimum of direct intervention.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I also like to try to determine before hand what I want them to do, like becoming emperor of brittania or whatever, and see how close I can get from just 1 or 2 interactions with them.

  Reminds me of the beginning of the book The Ellimist Chronicles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Using Termux to create a tiny selfhosted hidden chat server with E2EE.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Kudos for developing this on your phone! I’ve played around with termux, even have a Bluetooth keyboard, but I’ve never had the courage to actually code through it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everyone should have a home server (or a friend that has one)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I often see LogSeq, and to a lesser extent Silver Bullet, mentioned as self-hostable alternatives to Obsidian that people actually appreciate using.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the activity_id formats for various platforms?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  From my own experience querying public mastodon timelines via API:

  • Mastodon user accounts have an ActivityPub URI of https://<instance.domain.tld>/api/v1/users/<username>
  • Mastodon posts have an ActivityPub URI of https://<instance.domain.tld>/api/v1/users/<post_author_username>/statuses/<post_id> (they also have a url property of https://<instance.domain.tld>/@<post_author_username>/<post_id> but that tends to serve the html view of the post)

  To see for yourself, pick an instance that allows viewing their public timeline without logging in (mastodon.social is perfect for this) and follow the “Playing with public data” section of the docs. That page ellides most of the info you’re looking for in the example payloads they give (as the JSON payloads themself are quite large and nested), but I can assure you that AP_IDs for user accounts and posts can be found pretty quickly from a single timeline query.

  I don’t think Mastodon has any notion of community, nor does it distinguish between posts and comments (when following a lemmy community, both posts and comments show up in my masto feed as “top-level” statuses (ie posts)).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nightmare blunt rotation... or killer rotation?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Chatting about video games seems to be the best chance at having a fun convo that doesn’t turn into dehumanizing groups of people. If we can pull that off, given Luigi’s supposed internship at Firaxis, the rotation could scrape by a passable 7/10.

  More realistically, a 2 or 3/10 if the weed is really good. Otherwise I don’t know if I would even bother.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[fluff post] If lemmy users are Lemmites, what would we like to call piefed users?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If we want to keep it silly, then "pie-munchers’ gets my nomination.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🦈🦈🦈⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And that ant’s mouth parts/muzzle really does look like a Hork-Bajir’s mouth does on the covers that feature them!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Fediverse Permaculture⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Op, I appreciate that you seem to be genuinely interested in these topics, and are not just farming engagement (which is kinda meaningless here on the Fedi, anyways…). If I may offer a suggestion, try to find a tone that doesn’t sound like a roadmap for some corporate brand strategy. Most of us that are here and would be interested in a “fediverse permaculture” are severely put off by the structure of your post, not to mention it lacks in depth for most suggestions to be directly actionable (for example, the merch you would sell to support the insurance still needs to be made somewhere, by someone, who either needs to be paid for their time or are already independently wealthy).

  Have you taken a look around !permacomputing@slrpnk.net ? Permaculture is not just about principles of mutual support but also a long process of experimentation to see which combinations of which plants and practices works out “for the best”. You might foster more of the conversation you’re looking for if you can bring some more concrete examples or proposals to serve as topics instead of an all-encompassing manifesto post.