Rentlar

@Rentlar@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Turning to the sun: Solar rise in Central Europe⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s energy that is basically “free” with no artificial inputs needed and only a little bit of maintenance! More and more it becomes practically a no brainer compared to fossil fuel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US officials plan to punish foreigners ‘making light of’ Charlie Kirk death⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

  Oh, someone forgot to unfurl the rest of the amendment’s parchment with Sharpie writing, apparently:

  …but the President can make any decree respecting the establishement of religion, prohibiting the exercise of other religions, or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble; for any reason the Government finds convenient.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨if charlie kirk is so pro life then why is he dead?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Has anyone (in Utah) asked: What was he wearing when this happened to him????????

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too soon?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  From NYT (cw: gift link to live report with details of shooting):

  “Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America in the last 10 years?” a person asks. “Counting or not counting gang violence?” Kirk responds right before he is shot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3139: Chess Variant⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The greatest minds of the Internet are assembling at !anarchychess@sopuli.xyz to create the best variant of this game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Our fediverse conversations are gonna have the context they have been missing!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  AFAIK, It’s to solve or mitigate the “Replies from other servers may be missing” issue.

  Essentially imagine you are signed in on server A, responding to or looking at a comment from server B. But people on servers C, D and E have faved, boosted or replied to that same comment. Unless you or someone on your server had followed people on the other servers, you can’t see those comments or their contributions to the boost count, unless you go to view the comment on server B’s site.

  Backfilling means server A fetching those other actions from other servers somehow, so that they will show up when you view it from your own server reliably. Examples of that somehow could be, obtaining all the info from server B (localized single source of truth), it could be collected individually from other servers, from a centralized server, or other means.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3139: Chess Variant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If I were to make up the rules:

  • Black gets to select at the start, which of the 8 empty tiles of the board should be voided.
  • Pieces can move and capture across, but can’t land in the void. It is an invalid move when considering checkmate/evading check.
  • Black or White can choose to move an adjacent tile into the void regardless of what pieces are on it. This uses their move.
  • The tile can be moved to get out of check or avoid checkmate or stalemate.
  • You cannot put yourself or both players in check with the tile move.
  • The tile cannot be moved if you are in check and moving the tile doesn’t get you out.
  • The space between where a king starts and ends when sitting upon a sliding tile does not count as a vulnerable space, unlike the normal rules for castling.
  • The king can castle under otherwise normal rules, if it and the target rook are in the original position even if the tile that they sit on had moved away then back, so long as those pieces were never moved normally. (To prevent the king being forcibly moved by the opponent solely to deny castling opportunity)
  • Moving a tile causing one’s own pawn to bypass an opponent pawn’s attacking space (anywhere on the board) only triggers the en passant rule if there is a valid space where the opponent’s piece would capture. No en passant for moving backwards or moving your opponent’s pieces past yours.
  • Pawn Promotion doesn’t happen even if a pawn moves backwards to the player’s own end row.
  • It would be rare, but en passant could capture a newly promoted piece if someone had moved their pawn one row backward and their opponent used the tile move to try to bypass it.
  • Two promotions can happen in one tile move.
  • The opponent chooses the piece(s) to promote if you move their pawn(s) to your end row.
  • You cannot move the tile if a resulting opponent’s promotion(s) to queens and/or knights would cause a check on you, even if for whatever reason the opponent would not choose that promotion.
  • No prohibitions on causing stalemate through tile moves. Though it is more likely to cause a repetition draw due to the trapped player being able to simply reverse it.

  Did I forget to cover anything?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Lemmy much better with telling a user why they were banned?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I grant you that it’s not perfect and it doesn’t prevent the abuse in the first place, but calling it out is important. There are still plenty of drama about people DMing each other, but there’s less hearsay involved, and appropriate suspicion is cast upon any mod that’s too vague with their ban comments or any user that doesn’t want to reveal their old banned username.

  In terms of what users can do about mod abuse: There have been coordinated community shifts in response. A couple examples:

  !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone was created because the !196@lemmy.blahaj.zone mods wanted to forcibly move the community to !196@lemmy.world, but most users didn’t like that because BZ has more LBGTQ+ friendly policy. So the new community got set up with new mods.

  !risa@startrek.website more or less moved or splintered to !tenforward@lemmy.world after some mod beefing and people getting banned for some rules even though it was a “no real rules” community.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Lemmy much better with telling a user why they were banned?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The public modlog is one of the best features of Lemmy, IMO. When a Lemmy user appeals to the public of stuff mods/admins have done, we can call BS on them since we can read through stuff if they’ve been toxic, or if it’s the mods on a power-trip, or if it’s controversially borderline but reasonable discretion given the circumstances.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Instead of sneaker-net it will be rocket-net… and at a certain point you need an on-prem on-planet support team to just figure things out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mass migration to Piefed for various history and meme subs!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for going through the effort to make the links instance-agnostic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨18% of people running Nextcloud don't know what database they are using⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. I have used that. And I’m sure most with personal instances that just pressed the “Install NextCloud” button have no clue, including me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YAYAYA CONGRATS!!!!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A series of Taylor Series

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump says China has to give US magnets or face 200% tariff⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Gimme! Gimme!

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The internet kind of sucks right now⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That is definitely a problem that needs to be dealt with, since AI scrapers hogging bandwidth or making sites inaccessible means it is hampering equal access to everyone. Ignoring conventions and not rate limiting itself are harmful to the open internet.

  So yes, those kinds of AI scraping behaviours should be mitigated, but on the principle of AI ingesting my public data, I’m not against it, if it can access it reasonably and fairly like anyone else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The internet kind of sucks right now⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If I’m going to share my information and knowledge publicly on an Internet site, I’d like everyone to have fair and open access to it, not at the whims of a multinational corp to gatekeep for me. So the fact that AI can access it too doesn’t discourage me.

  You have information from me because I choose to share it, not because a site has demanded I give it up without a clear benefit to me in return.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Seriously. I’d be somewhat less concerned about the impact if it was only voluntarily used. Instead, AI is compulsively shoved in every nook and cranny of digital product simply to justify its own existence.

  The power requirement for training is ongoing, since mere days after Sam Altman released a very underehelming GPT-5, he begins hyping up the next one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the amount of Lemmy activity declining?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Perhaps the closure of Lemm.ee took away some of the quantity and variety of posts and communities?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have tomorrow off :)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  General Reposti! You are a bold one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'I'm right here': Trump struggles to find foreign leader sitting in front of his face⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Caught him having daydreams of his boyfriend, Vladimir Putin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Love in a cold climate: Putin romances Trump in Alaska with talk of rigged elections and a trip to Moscow⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How to “negotiate” with Trump:

  1. Flatter Trump with some nice words or a bribe-y thing.
  2. Trump will agree with your suggestion.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vampire Survivors is getting an official board game⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m just imagining one person moves a character around while the others move pieces with ten fingers and ten toes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Ice alert app founder sparking fury in Trump officials: ‘Pam Bondi said I better watch out? Please.’⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, my whole thing is very, very privacy-focused. I don’t use Gmail. I run my own mail servers. I run my own web servers. I have always done that because I just don’t trust these companies who are reading all of your messages, and they’re doing it to harvest your data and market to you. I want myself to be private. I’m an individual. I think that lent quite a bit to the way that I thought about IceBlock.

  Heck yeah, our self-hosted hero!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The New Yorker Asks: Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, now my mental image of the AI bubble is now shit-coloured.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Dollar Down 10% Since Trump Took Office — Paul Graham Warns 'You've Become Poorer' Without 11% Net Worth Gain⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn… might be as close to a 10% US wealth tax as we’ll get for now (unless your wealth is in CHF-denomination).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How does it compare with this ramble from July 2016? (video)

  Transcript

  > Look, having nuclear—my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart —you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world—it’s true!—but when you’re a conservative Republican they try—oh, do they do a number—that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune—you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged—but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me—it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are (nuclear is powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right—who would have thought?), but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners—now it used to be three, now it’s four—but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years—but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fr Lemmy really do be like⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  help I don’t know which upvote button to click

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Net neutrality advocates won’t appeal loss, say they don’t trust Supreme Court⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Knowing this Supreme Court, it could totally be worse than the same outcome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK about Changing your Profile Picture to Clippy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Kinda bad example: the server you are posting on (lemmy.world) literally started during the time of the subreddit blackouts, and other servers’ user count shot up 5x, 10x or more. It’s likely the surge would be muted without it, and even if more than half left Lemmy and returned to Reddit, it was still the first time it could even be considered a competitor. Its a positive and concrete resulf that came of it.

  I dunno what changing a profile pic can do, without more of a goal than, “get a CEO to look at clippys and think its funny”. It would have a positive effect if it was even something small like telling people to change the profile and donate $1 to EFF.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Society needs to keep score on positive impacts⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It already exists, in places. You’ve probably written a review for private businesses, but how many commendations have you submitted to your transit worker, city service worker or politician?

  You can file compliments in the same place you file complaints, via phone, paper form, web form, e-mail or snail-mail. I’m sure these people would be pleasantly surprised to receive your positive feedback.

  Commendations are brought to supervisors, and sometimes they even make the agency’s public newsletter. They cost nothing but a bit of time and thoughtfulness to give, so I’d say give it a try.