kglitch 9 months ago • 100%
ooo, that does sound handy!
Looks like OBS is the goto. Thanks.
kglitch 9 months ago • 100%
Which app do you use for screen recording? That's the only thing keeping me on X11.
kglitch 9 months ago • 92%
I apologise for my dismissive tone earlier. Thanks for putting your idea out there 🙂
kglitch 9 months ago • 100%
...aaand this is why chatgpt is no substitute for expertise.
It's "generative" AI, in that it generates lists of words that fit together. But it has no actual understanding of anything so the stuff it generates is totally surface, middle-of-the-road whatever-you-want-to-hear.
kglitch 9 months ago • 67%
With some ways of looking at things, the world as a whole is getting better, rather than worse.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190111-seven-reasons-why-the-world-is-improving
I'm pretty sure long covid and climate chaos will put a stop to that soon enough but we'll see. For now, some stuff is getting worse and some stuff is getting better.
kglitch 9 months ago • 88%
If going vegan is too much for you, just stop eating beef and switch to soy milk.
The emissions per calorie from beef are way way higher than any other form of meat.
kglitch 9 months ago • 100%
The IPCC report must be agreed upon by representatives from every country. Including Saudi Arabia, and USA. So you can imagine how "conservative" it is compared to reality. Anything slightly uncomfortable gets negotiated down to the point where the oil-producing countries are fine with it.
The 195 member countries of the IPCC sign off on different parts of the report. The summaries for policymakers are “approved,” meaning that “the material has been subject to detailed, line-by-line discussion” between the member countries and the authors. The synthesis reports are “adopted,” which implies “a section-by-section discussion.” And the full report, which this year runs nearly 4,000 pages long, is “accepted,” which means both parties agree that “the technical summary and chapters of the underlying report present a comprehensive, objective, and balanced view of the subject matter.”
https://qz.com/2044703/how-governments-of-the-world-have-responded-to-the-ipcc-report
If people find the IPCC reports alarming as they are, imagine how alarming the draft from the scientists is before the Saudis, Russians and Americans get out the black markers.
kglitch 9 months ago • 91%
The article claims it's source is Euro-Med Monitor but https://euromedmonitor.org makes no mention of organ harvesting. No press release, blog post or anything.
Lots of other ghastly stuff though, holy shit.
kglitch 9 months ago • 100%
As long as a deleted post is no longer visible in the publicly-accessible parts of the site, that would be enough verification for me.
I don't know how the GDPR authorities verify compliance with mainstream proprietary closed source apps, do you?
kglitch 9 months ago • 100%
Yes, although the server will not ignore the deletion activity if that server is running Lemmy. We're talking about Lemmy here, not the fediverse as a whole. OP singled out Lemmy in the post title and said "lemmy devs are not concerned with..."
I'm sure there is more to be done in this area. It'd be great to know for sure which software treats deletion activities properly (I'm really unsure about Kbin, I think it does not) and which does not so instance admins can make informed decisions about who they federate with. Perhaps this information could be made available right within the UI that Lemmy admins use to control their instance, rather than an obscure documentation page somewhere...
IMO having deletes federate should be part of a minimum standard all fediverse software has to meet (plus mod tools, spam control, csam filters, etc) before it is allowed to federate but obviously we're nowhere near having that sort of social organisation.
kglitch 9 months ago • 100%
Near Ho Chi Minh city there are some tunnels like this which they let tourists go into and crawl along for a few hundred meters before coming up somewhere else. They were very very skinny, some of the tourists could not fit. Utterly terrifying places, when you think about the context they were used in.
Afterwards I paid $50 to fire a few shots from an AK-47. Surprisingly loud. Hard to imagine coping with several of them going off all around.
kglitch 9 months ago • 92%
OP is simply incorrect.
I'm coding a Lemmy alternative right now and have been testing this functionality out extensively. Deletes of posts and comments certainly federate, I've seen the AP traffic to make it happen. Also, the docs: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/contributors/05-federation.html#delete-post-or-comment
I haven't tested what happens when the 'delete account' button is clicked... Mastodon solves this by sending a 'delete this user' Activity to every fediverse instance so there's nothing about ActivityPub that makes removing an account and all it's posts in one go impossible.
kglitch 9 months ago • 100%
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Services_Act says that "Companies that do not comply with the new obligations risk fines of up to 6% on their annual turnover [i.e. revenue before expenses] in the European Union."
According to https://www.businessofapps.com/data/twitter-statistics/, twitters revenue was $4 billion in 2022. Let's assume it's $2 billion now. Also on that page, it shows half the revenue comes from USA, half 'rest of world', let's assume that means EU. So $1bn. 6% of that is $60 million. Per year.
Not exactly a killing blow, I guess. But paying that money has to come out of profits so this makes turning a profit significantly harder.
kglitch 9 months ago • 96%
Context:
Elon Musk’s X has instructed staff not to suspend users that post explicitly racist, sexist and homophobic content, or who send sexual material to another person, as part of a new policy that has radically stripped back the company’s moderation of abusive material.
X is so fucked.
kglitch 9 months ago • 100%
Never, I have Mastodon for that.
kglitch 9 months ago • 100%
Fair enough. I apologise.
kglitch 9 months ago • 100%
In the 5 months since you joined beehaw, you didn't make a single comment or post until now. And the first post you make is to defend literal Nazis.
Uh huh. Tell us more about your "concerns", please. You seem real invested in the health of beehaw /s
kglitch 9 months ago • 100%
If you turn off infinite scroll then this won't be a problem. Buuut then you won't have infinite scroll.
kglitch 9 months ago • 100%
Good ideas 👍
However due to the way activitypub works there is no way to know how many people on other instances are reading a post, only on the same instance.
kglitch 9 months ago • 100%
Lol we know they're problematic already tho.
kglitch 9 months ago • 100%
Meta has already pulled plenty of destructive shenanigans. What makes you think this time will be different?
kglitch 10 months ago • 100%
One of the limitations that people with Autism and ADHD often struggle with is that it is harder than average for them to imagine the future. Without that, it is more difficult to have a vision for oneself that is different from the present and consequently difficult to gain motivation to change. It's a form of mental blindness that is very subtle until you notice it.
Try to find ways to get really clear about the future. Define what your vision/goal is and then at the start of every day remind yourself what that is. You need physical reminders, in multiple places and forms. Objects that represent your goal, displayed in a prominent place in the home, pictures of the goal (or benefits of the achieving the goal) on your desk, a computer desktop background that is a collage of different facets of your future life, and so on.
Make it impossible to forget how awesome your life will be if you make the decision right now to open your IDE and do 5 minutes of study/practice (which will hopefully trigger your hyperfixation and turn into an hour or more). Getting started is the hardest part.
Find a way to hack your brain to make it do what you want.
kglitch 10 months ago • 100%
Hypothetically, if Lemmy analyzed your posts and comments for intelligence (without telling you your score, to avoid drama) and then weighted your up/downvotes accordingly, would that be cool with you?
kglitch 10 months ago • 100%
I got it to 47 KB after resizing it to 850px by 239px, heh
kglitch 10 months ago • 100%
I'm a web developer.
Lemmy does not use the entire screen width. The way it has been embedded in the page means that image takes up only 850 pixels of horizontal space so it could be 5x smaller and no one would be able to see the difference.
Lemmy really should be automatically resizing the images (on the server) when they are uploaded, not every single time the community is viewed (in the browser).
kglitch 10 months ago • 100%
Around that time was the Middle Ages. While paintings were starting to get more realistic (Dark Ages paintings were often pretty much 2D with little attempt at realism) they hadn't rediscovered perspective yet, which happened a century or two later in the Renaissance. Painters were getting really good at fabric & clothing in the Middle Ages but everything else was pretty damn rough.
kglitch 10 months ago • 100%
Have you checked your C:\windows\temp folder lately?
kglitch 10 months ago • 100%
As I build my fediverse software, I'm blogging weird ActivityPub corner-cases at https://join.piefed.social/blog/.
If you understand the fundamentals already, it'll make sense. I'm not an expert or anything, I'm making it up as I find things out.
Trove of combos is \>45 times larger than number unearthed in entire history of science.
kglitch 10 months ago • 66%
Mostly to avoid conspiracies. The intended users are people who want to protect vulnerable family members.
Another purpose is to demonstrate that the big social networks could get rid of disinformation if they wanted to - "look what 1 person can achieve, in their spare time", kinda thing.
kglitch 10 months ago • 56%
The only time I use ddg is to find conspiracy sites to add to the blocklist I maintain. All the trash rises to the top in that search engine. It's rubbish.
kglitch 10 months ago • 100%
But none of those things are important to Republicans. That's just stuff they say.
kglitch 10 months ago • 100%
The purpose of the base model is to make the more expensive higher end models look better in comparison than they otherwise would.
kglitch 10 months ago • 100%
More details here http://thechagosrefugeesgroup.com/our-history/
kglitch 10 months ago • 100%
How does the data throughput compare to cloudflare or wireguard?
kglitch 10 months ago • 100%
I love the programmable keys on my Logitech G110: https://www.cnet.com/a/img/resize/dac0a56fb144c6a27412bc2e0edfaca2a4dffd83/hub/2009/10/15/2ebd53d6-f0fe-11e2-8c7c-d4ae52e62bcc/4012919640_b45214b308_o.jpg?auto=webp&width=1200. I have them programmed to do select all, cut, copy, paste, launch terminal, close tab, quit app. The mic mute key is very useful and having a wheel to control audio volume feels nice and intuitive.
Not a mechanical keyboard, sorry.
kglitch 11 months ago • 100%
This was them
https://plane.so/
https://www.focalboard.com/
kglitch 11 months ago • 98%
You know how if your email app stops working you can just install another one and still communicate with anyone else with an email address? The fediverse is like that except it's not email it's twitter and reddit and YouTube all rolled into one. So if twitter was part of the fediverse when Musk bought it and destroyed it you could move to another server with a better moderation policy and pick up where you left off.
kglitch 11 months ago • 66%
You don't need to go that far back, 2015 should be old enough. Anything with 2+ GB of RAM, a 64 bit CPU and a SSD will be Ok for casual web browsing and email.
kglitch 11 months ago • 100%
whoa, so cool!
kglitch 11 months ago • 50%
You could use an app to create a chore schedule?
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