ElectroVagrant
@ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world
Another traveler of the wireways.
- Beyond sycophancy: DarkBench exposes six hidden ‘dark patterns’ lurking in today’s top LLMs | VentureBeatventurebeat.com ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 0 comments
- Comment on Trust me, it's a great read 3 weeks ago:
Desktop friendly link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drugstore_beetle
That aside, you’re not kidding:
It belongs to the family Ptinidae, which also includes the deathwatch beetle, furniture beetle and cigarette beetle.
Talk about a wild family.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to animemes@ani.social | 6 comments
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Some apps (e.g. Voyager/Thunder) and web frontends (Tesseract? not sure which tbh) enable keyword filtering.
In the case of the apps, it’s found in settings under filters & blocks or filters, respectively. Unfortunately I can’t recall which web frontends enable it for sure, but I do remember there seemed to be fewer of them that did last I checked.
- Comment on What should the subset of the Fediverse that is Lemmy + Mbin + PieFed be called? 4 weeks ago:
Personally I dislike anything with -verse involved because big companies have run it into the ground and then some.
The boring, dry ways of describing them work best in my opinion.
Federated forums is the driest, most technical and to the point but not very telling.
Swap out forum for link aggregator and you have similar, arguably even more technical (certainly more of a mouthful).
Connected/linked forums might be more approachable, more readily conveying how these are separate forums but networked together.
Cross-forums may work as well to the same end, but not sure how immediately understandable cross may be in this context and outside of gaming spaces.
Whatever the case I kind of think this has things backwards. What’s more important than describing and talking about the backend tech is pointing people to any of the sites built with them that have anything of interest to them to bother with. I can’t think of anything online I’ve ever gone to or used because someone told me it was using Apache, Nginx, phpBB, or like an Open Source Web Server or using such and such CDN.
The reason why is simple: next to nobody talks like that. The only people that might are deep in web dev.
- Comment on Wheeling wheels in a wheelbarrow is weally wonderful. 1 month ago:
RIP, take my wheels away, I wiped out on the wheelie!
- Comment on Wheeling wheels in a wheelbarrow is weally wonderful. 1 month ago:
It weally was, I can’t believe I whiffed that wheelie
- Submitted 1 month ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 6 comments
- Comment on Whiplash from bouncing between shows 1 month ago:
Honestly that’s one of my favorite parts of anthology/episodic shows. You get a loose theme of what to expect but each episode can pleasantly surprise you.
- Submitted 1 month ago to anime@ani.social | 11 comments
- Comment on is there a community for asking specific questions such as “is this user a troll”, “why do people act this way,” “what should I do”, etc.? 1 month ago:
I don’t think so. The largest ask communities, according to their own descriptions, say they’re for more open-ended questions, for AskLemmy@lemmy.ml seems to be more lax about it (and it seems like maybe AskLemmy@lemmy.world has kinda relaxed on it too).
There’s the newer !ask@lemm.ee that doesn’t have the open-ended part to their description, so might be a good fit.
- Comment on Meet Neptune, a TikTok alternative where creators can hide likes and follower counts | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
Personally not much into short form video, but thought I’d keep people in the loop on new entrants to the field. From the sounds of it this is still very early in development given the various missing features mentioned at the end.
- Meet Neptune, a TikTok alternative where creators can hide likes and follower counts | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 8 comments
- Comment on Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version 1 month ago:
Ubisoft cannot complain when gamers “pirate” their games then.
If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t theft and all that.
- Comment on YSK: If the frontpage constantly looks like the same 5 - 8 posts, try sorting by "Hot". 1 month ago:
Also if you don’t want to manually switch it all the time, go into your account settings and change the sort type to whatever you prefer. Similar should apply in apps, with a bonus: some apps will let you change default comment sort setting as well.
- Comment on Mastodon to Lemmy post formatting rules questions 1 month ago:
Oh, at the time of writing I wasn’t sure if the thread title would display in their notifications with the mention, so I wrote that just in case.
- Comment on Mastodon to Lemmy post formatting rules questions 1 month ago:
Meant to comment this earlier. On your last point so far as I’m aware there’s currently no way to create a link post (direct URL lemmy link as you say) from Mastodon/microblog to Lemmy. The reason your test post is linking back to the Mastodon instance is because of the image attachment, because you can create image posts between the two.
If you drop the image attachment, while it won’t look as nice, you can get the separate title, link, and body text without it looking too bad. Unfortunately it will lose the visual draw in the process, but that seems to be the workaround for the time being.
- Comment on Mastodon to Lemmy post formatting rules questions 1 month ago:
The main ones would be @nutomic@lemmy.ml and @dessalines@lemmy.ml, which I just mentioned so should be no need to mention again I think.
Btw for their benefit, adding the context: post with feedback and questions on Lemmy-Mastodon interoperation.
- Comment on The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind* 1 month ago:
It may not do much depending on the mods/admins, but it never hurts to report and downvote comments or posts like that.
Emphasis on reporting there, as I think sometimes that stuff lingers around because people have made a habit of only downvoting and blocking those doing that regularly. I realize in your examples it’s more likely bias or bigotry respectively, but still.
Report first, then downvote and block. Doing only the latter only makes your experience a little better, the former may help the community.
- Comment on Nintendo is Bringing Us Kicking and Screaming Into the $80 Game Era with the Switch 2 2 months ago:
Remember: $80 from the big companies is only the starting price given the various editions and other monetization schemes they may push.
Also the scale and technical demands of their games, and thus their cost, have in large part been pushed by them, despite their attempts to turn it around and say it’s all organic consumer demand.
- Comment on What features are missing from piefed, or, why aren't we reccommending piefed instead of lemmy? 2 months ago:
For those that may only vote and otherwise lurk, there’s a decent amount.
The inability to create multi-communities/reddits (or feeds as Piefed calls them), the absence of post-folding/deduplication for when someone posts the same article to multiple communities (sometimes similar, sometimes distinct), the absence of keyword filtering to automatically filter out stuff from local/all feeds one’s uninterested in, and these are just a few from the top of my head for those that mostly lurk.
- Submitted 2 months ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 3 comments
- Comment on Privacy disaster as LGBTQ+ and BDSM dating apps leak private photos. 2 months ago:
In other words, vibe coders are today’s technologically accelerated script kiddie.
That’s arguably worse as the produced scripts may largely work and come with even less demand for understanding than a script kid’s cobbling together of code may have demanded.
- Comment on A digital desktop toy shredder/incinerator for writing out and promptly destroying one's thoughts would be nice some days 2 months ago:
Huh, that’s cool! Thanks!
p.s. I meant a digital widget/thing, but it’s cool to know this tool exists!
- Comment on Looking for simple self-hosted image editor / resizer app 2 months ago:
Was thinking the same and you can.
Minimal fucking around needed too, just pkg install imagemagick then navigate filesystem to images ya want to adjust and magick however desired to reduce the file size.
- Submitted 2 months ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 7 comments
- Comment on I have a bunch of questions: Whats the best way to get this platform's feed to compete with reddit? 2 months ago:
No, sorry. To put it in your terms Lemmy would be a “platform” like how you describe Mastodon/Pixelfed.
The reason I suggested mentioning feddit.org instead is because it’s what you’re using and where someone else could sign up and join easily.
Mentioning Lemmy (or Mastodon/Pixelfed) doesn’t tell people any site to sign up on, just what tech they’re built with.
- Comment on I have a bunch of questions: Whats the best way to get this platform's feed to compete with reddit? 2 months ago:
Focus on making posts you want to discuss or would want to see in communities that interest you and you want to see active.
While I’d argue it’s better to shake off the platform thinking, the simple way to put it would be that you simply refer to the site you’re using, feddit.org, when mentioning it to others. The umbrella term for these connected sites is either fediverse or the open social web, whichever you prefer. Each site like this connects with one another, but given formatting differences (Pixelfed is more image-focused, Mastodon is microblogging), posts shared between them try to display in ways fitting one another’s format which can sometimes look rough.
You may see content from these other sites when browsing the main feed/front page set to All, which displays content from elsewhere that others on your site (feddit.org) have subscribed to.
- Comment on Is anyone else getting failures to generate reports when reporting the constant spam from "Nicole, the Fediverse Girl" which originates from a different, new instance every time? 2 months ago:
May want to cross-post this to !lemmy_support@lemmy.ml.
- Comment on What about AT protocol? 2 months ago:
There’s also this:
frontpage.fyiNot sure which of the two has been around longer, but looks like frontpage is also pretty slow going.
