Ephera
@Ephera@lemmy.ml
- Comment on What's going on with imgur right now? 1 day ago:
Isn’t that the joke? That Imgur was basically just infrastructure for Reddit, until people started to live there…?
- Comment on Is This Social Media? 5 days ago:
There’s somewhat of a historical context, where there were forums at first, where people generally used pseudonyms. Then the broad wave of webpages originally dubbed “social media” happened, which wanted users to use their real names. In that context, Lemmy doesn’t feel like social media.
But the strong distinction for platforms to either be pseudonymous or prefer real identies somewhat seized to exist, because it’s not anymore novel to use your real identity on the internet. For example, TikTok has a mixture of folks showing their face, as well as completely anonymous uploaders.
Instead, the definition is becoming more about: Do you interact with other humans? Which is a definite yes for Lemmy.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
This might fix it on some clients (but probably breaks it on others): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.zip_(top-level_domain)
- Comment on Speeding overtaking driver who left cyclist with life-changing injures in “horrendous” hit-and-run crash jailed for four years 1 week ago:
Man, this feels in the ballpark of an appropriate punishment, but with how often you see far too low punishments for crimes like this, it also feels like a case of:
Racism. - Comment on What foss MP games are still active? 1 week ago:
Haven’t checked in on it in a while, but I’d be surprised, if Teeworlds wasn’t still going strong.
- Comment on What foss MP games are still active? 1 week ago:
Hmm, are you on an up-to-date version? Could also be a timezone thing, though, like maybe there’s an active community in India, which plays when you’re asleep or whatever.
- Comment on Fairies 🧚♀️ 🧚♂️ 1 week ago:
I’m guessing, it’s this species: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemaris_thysbe
(Apparently, this species is also referred to as “hummingbird moth”: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hummingbird_hawk-moth )
- Comment on Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act verification rules 2 weeks ago:
I hear, you have to get married before you’re allowed into the presence of the other gender. And don’t even think about showering without the cone.
- Comment on The Minecraft-like free and open source game VoxeLibre v0.90 brings dynamic settings and new fire spreading 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, Luanti is moreso the content distribution platform and game engine.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I feel like the big name titles are all headed in a similar direction (realism, large open world, story-driven), because they need to differentiate themselves from the indie titles that cover the other bases for cheaper.
So, if that direction isn’t your jam, I can certainly see that you’d feel that way, because you need to inform yourself more actively to learn about those indies.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
To be fair, the kids are just a pretty good indicator of where this whole boat is headed. Someone who’s been adulting for a while probably has savings and is willing to burn some of those to keep doing the hobby they like, especially when they’re invested with hardware or friendships that exist through gaming.
- Comment on Is it okay to eat after brushing in the night 2 weeks ago:
I heard on the radio at some point that it’s not great to eat after brushing, but it’s more important to brush your teeth at all. Unfortunately, they didn’t explain why, but from what I can tell, brushing your teeth with (normal) toothpaste does two things:
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Removes the plaque from your teeth, which is basically a layer of bacteria, which can damage the enamel, since they can produce acids. Or if you don’t brush for a longer time, they can form into hard layers which cannot be brushed away (so-called calculus/tartar).
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Repairs the enamel by providing fluoride molecules, which stick into places where the enamel is missing molecules. This is important in particular, since the places with missing molecules are more likely to get further damaged by the acids.
So, if you eat after brushing, you’re providing new food to the bacteria, which allows them to form into a new layer of plaque.
But it’s gonna take a few hours to re-form the new plaque, during which your teeth won’t get damaged as much anyways. And the new plaque sits on top of freshly repaired enamel, too.This is definitely simplifying it, too, like apparently plaque can also affect the gums and obviously different people have more or less problems with teeth in general, but it still seems plausible to me…
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- Comment on What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you? 3 weeks ago:
For me, it was Skyrim. It was one of the first games I bought with my own money and certainly the first where I followed the news before the release. I did not know that Todd Howard was a notorious liar and that ruined the game for me. Like, the game itself was probably fine. It was an upgrade in some ways and a downgrade in various other ways. But having been promised that it would be so much better than Oblivion and Morrowind, when it was simply not, that just robbed me of the fun I could have had with it.
- Comment on Whatever happened to the blockchain/smart contract 'revolution' we were told about? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, there’s this whole concept of “Oracles”, which were supposed to be trustable sources for facts, but they can mainly deal well with things like stock prices or weather data.
It would also have been possible for these Oracles to employ people to fact-check things in case of a dispute. So, user30000004 might claim that the pizza has been delivered and wants their money for it, while user9000005 says nothing got delivered, so then you have someone physically drive out to user9000005 and see if there’s pizza there or not.
But yeah, you still have the problem that a pizza isn’t hard to hide/eat, so you’d need to do some expensive detective work to try to figure out the truth. And that just isn’t worth the cost…
- Comment on Whatever happened to the blockchain/smart contract 'revolution' we were told about? 3 weeks ago:
I’ve also heard the theory before that even GPUs went pretty much straight from mining cryptocurrencies to then be used for training LLM models.
- Comment on quick thinking 4 weeks ago:
Oh man, I thought “AF” meant “as fuck” like it usually does on the internet.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
You do have to look for ones made out of wood/bamboo and plant fibers, yeah. Wasn’t too hard for me, but mileage probably varies, depending on where one lives.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Auf Deutsch heißen sie oft “Topfbürste”. Nur dann nicht beim Handwerksbedarf bedienen… 🫠
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Pretty sure, I’m not the same people that condemned sponges as unsanitary…
I do think brushes are more sanitary (on average probably even more so than a launderable cloth), but hygiene isn’t my problem with sponges.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
You can also get small dish brushes like these:
ImageThey’re better at scrubbing stuff, and for the rest, you can use a normal washing cloth.
- Comment on Is there a alternative platform to roblox for players and gamedevs? 4 weeks ago:
If you tie yourself to a commercial platform, it’s gonna take advantage of you. That’s how they make money. So, I would also recommend using an open-source game engine like Godot and then distributing on multiple platforms.
The closest open-source thing to the Roblox model, that I can think of, is Luanti, which is basically a game engine and distribution platform for Minecraft-like games. Don’t expect to make money off of it, though.
- Comment on Which of theses games should i play? 4 weeks ago:
I like Luanti, because it has a more mature community and more extensive mining gameplay.
- Comment on Super Meat Boy 3D - Official Gameplay Overview Trailer 4 weeks ago:
Man, I wish them all of the luck in the world, but I have never seen a 3D platformer with tight movement and you do need tight movement for a brutally hard game, otherwise it just feels brutally bullshit.
- Comment on Microsoft concedes that 'The Outer Worlds 2' retail price was too high — Xbox says it "will keep our full priced holiday releases at $69.99," with refunds incoming 5 weeks ago:
I was just wondering that, too. Wasn’t the first one almost like an indie title? Not sure, how much I’m mixing it up with Outer Wilds, but Wikipedia tells me their teams were around a similar size anyways…
- Comment on kingdom come 5 weeks ago:
I believe, that’s mostly a US thing, where the government classifies them as vegetables…
- Comment on kingdom come 5 weeks ago:
Is that like an official definition for vegetables from some government? Because I don’t feel like there is a particularly good definition of vegetables. People mostly wouldn’t refer to apples as vegetables, for example.
- Comment on kingdom come 5 weeks ago:
Hmm, is it really that little? The stats look devastating, like e.g. 3 grams per 100 grams, but mushrooms also consist out of 90+ grams of water.
For example, the button mushroom has:
100 g total - 91.8 g water - 1.7 g fiber = 6.5g nutrients
2.89 g protein / 6.5 g nutrients = 44.4% proteinComparing that to e.g. canned black beans:
100 g total - 70.8 g water - 6.69 g fiber = 22.51 g nutrients
6.91 g protein / 22.51 g nutrients = 30.9% protein - Comment on Let's get Physical 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think about affairs a lot…
- Comment on Let's get Physical 5 weeks ago:
From those two stills, you’re not gonna guess their reaction. I feel like lots of people have seen the video, but here on Lemmy, you always just get the stills…
- Comment on Let's get Physical 5 weeks ago:
How the hell did your autocorrect turn that into “WorldCom”? Is that something you type out a lot? 😅
