FarraigePlaisteach
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- Comment on I'm NOT affiliated with this project. I just came across them in the Fediverse Subreddit, and I thought that it was interesting. Project Name - The Indie Beat TV - The Indie Beat Radio 4 days ago:
I just came here to post the same thing haha. It’s very cool! Reminds me of when MTV started. I’ve only watched about an hour of this station but it appears that:
- Live stream music video format
- Independent musicians feature
- There is a schedule you can view on the site to see which genres / shows you want to tune in for
- There are no presenters currently
- There is a group chat feature which sometimes opens for some viewings
- There is a follow button that lets you get notified of broadcast. It works via your fediverse handle.
Personally I think this is among the coolest things to happen online in some time.
- Comment on Artists dump X as launch of new AI image editing feature sparks outrage - Cryptopolitan 1 week ago:
Damn. Disappointed in Ubuntu and I’m not motivated to distro hop. But maybe it’s time to bite the bullet. It’s tricky because I also avoid software hosted on Microsoft services such as GitHub. Ubuntu being hosted on Launchpad helped there.
- Comment on Loops publishes their recommender algorithm 2 weeks ago:
Hold on: isn’t it a smear to say someone has a bad reputation and not supply a reason? Because you’re basically giving me your interpretation and no substance.
He is hard working. It’s difficult to build and communicate and do open source but all of those things are happening with regards to Loops. Nobody is perfect and a label like “bad reputation” is very subjective.
- Comment on Loops publishes their recommender algorithm 2 weeks ago:
Somewhere between being a hater and a fanboy, there’s basic respect. And it’s a one-person project for now, not a big company, so the words we choose should reflect that.
- Comment on Loops publishes their recommender algorithm 2 weeks ago:
You’ve expressed my feelings about it exactly. It’s very easy to criticise things that aren’t custom made to our individual preferences. But every time we do that we short circuit our capacity for reflection and empathy. I wonder if developers are so often a target of harshness and abuse because software users are used to instant gratification.
It’s a monumental job he’s doing and open sourcing it is basically a gift to the entire internet. The new features keep coming and with video being so expensive to host, it’s a very different undertaking to non-video social media.
- Comment on Loops publishes their recommender algorithm 2 weeks ago:
I suppose that by using the word “publish”, I made it sound like the algorithm had been private until this point. I could probably have chosen a better phrasing like “published breakdown illustration”.
- Comment on Loops publishes their recommender algorithm 2 weeks ago:
Not that I know of, but you could make a feature request if one doesn’t already exist github.com/joinLoops
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- Comment on What would community moderators want in an automod for the Fediverse? 2 months ago:
I would like to be notified when users who are on a warning post or comment.
- Comment on What would community moderators want in an automod for the Fediverse? 2 months ago:
In the mean-time this works schedule.lemmings.world/auth/login
- Comment on LBreakout2 level 19/37 - How the hell do I get past the unbreakable bricks? 3 months ago:
Welcome to the club :) I used to play it in the 90s. Then I got distracted my more flashy games. I just rediscovered it recently and I really enjoy the polish and graphics.
- Comment on LBreakout2 level 19/37 - How the hell do I get past the unbreakable bricks? 3 months ago:
Thanks for this. I tend to avoid power ups if it means I might lose the ball. That strategy obviously isn’t a good one here :) I appreciate it very much! This is one of my favourite games so thank you again!
- Comment on LBreakout2 level 19/37 - How the hell do I get past the unbreakable bricks? 3 months ago:
I’m assuming it’s the default in LBreakout2HD. I just installed the game and started playing.
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- Comment on Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit after Kimmel suspension 3 months ago:
I don’t see lookmovie2.to there. That’s another one.
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 3 months ago:
Some pretty serious things going on in the world today that need our support and therefore attention. I consume less entertainment as a byproduct.
- Comment on Yes, you can store data on a bird — enthusiast converts PNG to bird-shaped waveform, teaches young starling to recall file at up to 2MB/s 4 months ago:
I would have understood this quicker if the picture wasn’t of a bird.
- Comment on If Lemmy disappeared tomorrow, what would you use instead ? 4 months ago:
Mastodon or Tildes.net
- Comment on Germany's Ecosia, a nonprofit search engine, said on Thursday it has submitted a proposal to assume a 10-year stewardship of Google Chrome 4 months ago:
Thanks. Yeah I think if a company like Ecosia is involved it could be win-win. But if it’s another purely capitalist outfit then it’ll probably be business as usual.
- Comment on Top 50 news websites in the US in July: BBC drops five places as paywall introduced; Most report traffic declines. 4 months ago:
I forgot about the paywall and assumed this was due to their international reputational damage, over things like their pro-Israel “reporting” of the occupations in Palestine.
- Comment on Germany's Ecosia, a nonprofit search engine, said on Thursday it has submitted a proposal to assume a 10-year stewardship of Google Chrome 4 months ago:
That sounds clever. With a stewardship, a company without the obscene wealth that Google has could actually adopt a project normally out of their reach and influence it for good.
I wish the article went into more detail though.
- Comment on In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses 4 months ago:
Microwaves are very energy heavy. This isn’t very reassuring at all.
- Comment on Jimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia' 4 months ago:
As long as billionaires are campaigning to destroy it, there is no place for that comment you made.
- Comment on [Video] Cops not sure whether to arrest man with "Plasticine Action" shirt for supporting terrorism 4 months ago:
The ‘tism can be a great asset for seeing through BS, along with education.
- Comment on Taylor Swift’s new album comes in cassette. Who is buying those? 4 months ago:
I don’t like touch screens, or screens in general. I miss Minidisc so much. It was and is the absolute best for me.
The iPod with the click wheel would be my next choice but they’re too expensive now. CD cases were cumbersome, and when lined up it’s hard to read the spines. They skip too when I’m walking.
I’d go back to cassettes again if they were released to the same standard as back in the day (Dolby NR, etc). I like handling the cases and they look better lined up on a shelf.
- Comment on MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing 4 months ago:
I want to start using your “PBBM” instead of “LLM”.
- Comment on [Video] Cops not sure whether to arrest man with "Plasticine Action" shirt for supporting terrorism 4 months ago:
I can’t argue with anything you’ve said. Indoctrination is very hard to break out of, and it starts at a young age in the USA (if the people I followed when I was on TikTok are accurate). Singing the anthem at school, hanging the flag (we never saw flags at school here until St. Patrick’s Day), being told USA is the greatest and that other countries want to be like the USA, that it’s the land of the free … all indoctrination. I’d go as far as to call it brainwashing.
We’re fragile creatures (Fragile, by Sting, since we have a musical theme going!). It’s hard to content with such an onslaught. I don’t blame people for that. I’m curious, what did it for you? How did you begin to see the wood from the trees?
- Comment on [Video] Cops not sure whether to arrest man with "Plasticine Action" shirt for supporting terrorism 4 months ago:
I know (and like) the David Bowie one partly for that line. Thanks for the Rammstein recommendation, I hadn’t heard it. It feels apt for Europe, which seems increasingly Americanised.
When I was growing up there was a song called “In American” by British band Red Box. But looking back, I think it’s hypocritical to criticise America if we don’t also acknowledge our own comparable problems here. We’re not dealing with the same scale of predators you have there because - at least in Ireland - there was less for the ambitious and power-craving individuals to aspire to. Those people usually left for America for that reason, where they could be their unbridled, exploitative selves and make more money than they ever would have here.
So I don’t see Americans as the problem, but the systems and the difficulty in changing them. Many problematic people have simply been exposed to unimaginable amounts of disinformation and cults. It’s a difficult problem but if anyone can overcome it I think you can.
There are more decent people in the USA than the news cycle and online grift-fluencers make it seem.
I think we’re all the same. I despair too, but each population grows up in its own Petri dish. Depending on what attention your resources have attracted and how corrupt the news cycle is, different traits will be evoked in society. So while it’s bad, and seemingly getting worse, I have a bit more hope in people wherever they’re from.
I feel for you. I’m not even based in the USA and I find it impossible to avoid US news of the latest political vulgarity. So I follow the good people who lift my heart - whether that’s Project Pink!, Mumdani in NY or anybody who gives me hope. We can’t let the despair get us, because that’s the real war that’s going on here. Once we let despair reign inside us, they’ve won. Keep the faith!
- Comment on Why do i tip my bartender $2 per drink and per bar food order but 20% when I order food from a waitress? Am I tipping wrong? 4 months ago:
For anyone who mightn’t know, tipping culture is rooted in slavery and exploitation. It existed in Europe to an extent but really spread its wings - like many awful European things - in the USA.
I support workers rights, but I don’t tip. The way I see it, if the place requires tips for their staff to get by, then the staff are being financially abused and I would be propping up a system of exploitation. Prioritise places that pay their staff above the minimum wage.
- Comment on Matrix out of context, for screenshots of funny matrix messages. 4 months ago:
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