swizzlestick
@swizzlestick@lemmy.zip
- Comment on NPR Goatse 8 hours ago:
- Comment on It has been well iver 24 hours since this shit atarted. No reply from admkns anywhere 15 hours ago:
Very happy on zip. Made a lucky first choice!
- Comment on Is This How Reddit Ends? 3 days ago:
Reddit had an “exodus” last year (or was it two years ago?) and is still going as strong as ever.
The users are the product, and they banked on having enough newer, more impressionable users to make up for the ones they would lose. It was a good gamble that also binned many ‘savvy’ users that cut into their bottom line with adblockers and 3rd party apps.
Dollars to doughnuts that all the content that was ‘publicly’ lost was actually retained and continues to be a free resoruce for them. Very Land O’Lakes. Kept the land (content). Got rid of the Indian (users).
Now they have a bunch of oblivious users happily, or at least tolerably, being harvested and fed slop by their dogshit app. Based on that, I think this ‘AI’ thing of theirs going to do well for them.
- Comment on Is This How Reddit Ends? 3 days ago:
It’s getting hard to remember when Reddit was just that little weird link sharing icon on articles that few people (relatively speaking for the time) bothered with. Digg shitting the bed gave Reddit the push it needed to become recognisable.
Funny now that Digg exists solely as a ‘frontpage’ full of clickbait titles and a ‘community’ made entirely of comment boxes. Yet it perseveres in its own little corner.
Now we have Reddit in the place of Digg and the fediverse in the place of Reddit - history really does repeat itself.
- Comment on Lemmy.zip Server Update February 2025 3 days ago:
I am also not opposed to banning x links - appreciate wider feedback on this though.
Just had the survey from zippy.
Can’t fault that for community engagement!
- Comment on Lemmy.zip Server Update February 2025 4 days ago:
Given the principle, the used based preblocking + explainer will work better then 👍
I suppose nudging it on to the user also does a bit of self-filtering of good users from bad. Those who don’t use the tools aren’t really getting into Lemmy as it should be, are unlikely to contribute much, will probably have a bad experience, and then wander off. Vice-versa applies.
The pre-blocking itself pushes that principle, but in your position I think it’s a pragmatic choice and a difficult one to balance. Can’t say I envy your position!
- Comment on Lemmy.zip Server Update February 2025 4 days ago:
Thank you for all your work. I must remember to toss some coin your way.
improving Zippy to be much more talkative when something goes wrong with it
Crash recovery could be improved with a single flag/bool. Set when started. Unset as the last action before graceful shutdown. When starting, notify of crash if the flag is already set - or give normal start notification if the flag was flipped on normally by zippy.
That would make it less ambiguous.
blocking hexbear and lemmygrad (as two suggestions) upon account creation
I would wholeheartedly support a complete defed from hex, grad and ml if it’s possible. From what I have seen, their users bring little of value and much discontent.
Maybe even lemmit.online as well, considering it tends to just drive traffic away from Lemmy with no way for unified communication between Lemmy and what their bot has hauled in.
Make choices for the instance as a whole rather than per new user. Blunt, but effective. Would probably want a community vote - I talk a lot of shite.
There has also been talk of banning X links, another thing I would support.
- Comment on Scheduled Maintenance Wednesday 22nd Jan 18:00 UTC 1 week ago:
Best of luck :)
- Comment on My personal benchy: this one really tests a printer's capabilities 2 months ago:
You’re welcome - glad to see you have it really sussed out. Finding something that works for you and knowing it won’t just up and disappear off the market (as many fashion frames do) is excellent.
Can see the optician side as well - they have an established process and deviating from that is unwanted faff. However, they are perfectly capable of ordering a lens to a customer given spec. A short ‘if this doesn’t work then lol you suck’ disclaimer is all it would take to make the sale.
Resin is well within reach of the casual hobbyist now - we’re talking a couple hundred dollars to get an entry level machine, and a little extra coin for the materials/consumables. I have a (now old) Mars 3 that is ticking along beautifully.
Safety/PPE/ventilation is the main downside compared to FDM. It’s a stinky job but you can’t fault the results for presentable and functional parts. These things can print stuff like screw threads and other teensy features perfectly.
Offer always stands if you ever want something to demo and can’t get anyone more local to help :)
- Comment on My personal benchy: this one really tests a printer's capabilities 2 months ago:
A part like this is begging to be done on a resin machine. You can’t beat them for the kind of shapes and tolerances you’re working with here.
I’d give it a go on my FDM machine, but I have .8 nozzles loaded right now - no hope haha.
I’d be happy to turn a few of these out in resin if you don’t have a machine, would only ask for the freight cost.
- Comment on Classic shooters Unreal and Unreal Tournament are now free and preserved on the Internet Archive 2 months ago:
Instagib <3
- Comment on Lemmy.zip Updated to 0.19.6 2 months ago:
I almost died from stress
Thanks for your continued living, I imagine future updates might be more problematic otherwise.
Cheers for the update :)
- Comment on Sega are delisting over 60 'classic' games from Steam, including Crazy Taxi and Streets Of Rage 2 months ago:
Already is. See GeForce Now, which is already getting Grocery Shrink Ray’d come January…
- Comment on Sega are delisting over 60 'classic' games from Steam, including Crazy Taxi and Streets Of Rage 2 months ago:
They can keep it then.
The music really planted the game in its age and was half the bloody fun!
They did Vice City dirty this way too.
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2077 released in December 2020. Almost 4 years later, what is your opinion on it? 2 months ago:
The Revision mod made DE even better.
Worth a replay with it on if you haven’t already
- Comment on Black Mesa has a new Beta with 'WAY better' support for Linux / Steam Deck 2 months ago:
A blast to play though. Old memories with new twists.
Expanded Xen and shortened On A Rail perfected it.