ElectroVagrant
@ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world
Another traveler of the wireways.
- Comment on you can say segs on the internet 3 weeks ago:
fwiw this is poking more fun at the other person that said this in reply to you, which is why I spelled it yours (and another person’s) way
- Comment on Stop whining. Do it yourself. 3 weeks ago:
Hey speaking of, while !games@lemmy.world is a great example, if you’re not finding similar communities for your interest, feel free to post over in !general@lemmy.world for what Zombiepirate’s describing.
Hobby without a community around here? Just not really sure if an existing community is open to non-news posts? General’s got ya covered.
- Comment on Stop whining. Do it yourself. 3 weeks ago:
Going against the post’s spirit, but…If you’re not finding a community for your interests (or only finding abandoned/inactive ones), and don’t want to create one (or try to get existing ones going), you’re welcome over in !general@lemmy.world. Post about whatever, find likeminded folks, then if ya think there’s enough of ya, you can make a separate community without it being one person posting into a void.
Also there’s !justpost@lemmy.world. Similar vibes.
- Comment on Stop whining. Do it yourself. 3 weeks ago:
Their other comment elaborates on this more:
Until the link /c/books shows any user, with only one click, the aggregate of all “books” communities in a single place, without subscribing or even logging in. Then lemmy will stagnate because it is failing to live up to its promise of federated decentralization
They want a link like /c/books to work like multireddits did on reddit to collect together books-related communities for improved browsing and discovery.
- Comment on you can say segs on the internet 3 weeks ago:
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- Comment on U.S. Copyright Office rejects DMCA exemption to support game preservation 3 weeks ago:
When preserving culture is criminal, or punishable, ya might want to reevaluate your laws
In the meantime, people are gonna do it anyway 'cause why ask permission to back up and preserve your own stuff? And when the law finally catches up, some will be grateful to those that did so despite the earlier wrongful laws that tried to discourage them.
- Comment on tall, dark & handsome 1 month ago:
Walnut a.k.a. Nutcracker
- Comment on Unicycling, Hulahooping, playing the Ukelele and playing the Kazoo at the same time. Absolute madlad. 1 month ago:
Unilulalezooing is truly an art.
- Comment on How can I unmod a user? 1 month ago:
If the option isn’t appearing, it likely means the user created the community. In that case you could try DMing them and sorting out the matter if they’re still active or, in the event they’re not, contacting the admins and I think they may be able to handle it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
There’s also some of their business strategy, e.g. Super Mario 3D Stars limited release, low production runs of Amiibo, and so forth.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
There’s this for corporations across the board:
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- Comment on Something sticky has invaded my life 1 month ago:
But isopropyl alcohol and enough elbow grease will get it off, if it’s just a coating on plastic.
Do beware, however, that you may want to dilute the alcohol to some degree, or simply use a lower concentration form of it. Too strong and it may eat at the underlying plastic just as much as the coating and ruin it.
unrelated
are you getting a cut from kagi for writing that instead of search? gimme the deets on that deal if so! 😛
- Comment on Something sticky has invaded my life 1 month ago:
If the Otterbox case had a rubberized coating on it to try to improve grip, and with it being 6 years old, there’s a possibility it’s the culprit. You could try ditching the case for a little while, and/or getting a new case and swapping them out, clean the surfaces again and see if you feel the stickiness again after handling your phone and other stuff.
However, normally with those rubberized coatings, the degradation is more immediately apparent and you’d be more apt to avoid touching anything else afterward. Also in my experience I don’t recall it transferring to other surfaces much, but then again when I dealt with it I noticed ASAP and cleaned my hands right away.
- Submitted 1 month ago to workreform@lemmy.world | 9 comments
- Comment on Twitter's UK userbase has been absolutely decimated since Musk took over 1 month ago:
From login/paywalled Financial Times article that this is citing:
Data from Similarweb shows active daily users in the UK have dropped from 8mn a year ago to only around 5.6mn now, with more than a third of that fall coming since the summer riots.
- Comment on Don't you all get tired of the constant negativity? 5 months ago:
I think while some of this may be people being people (i.e. tendency to only discuss issues/problems vs accomplishments/solutions), I think there’s also a technical element to it as well in Lemmy’s case.
Up to the latest release of Lemmy (as of writing this is v0.19.4), admins couldn’t adjust the default sort setting, which was Active. Read the docs on the sort setting and Active does what it says, surfaces those posts with recent commenting activity (taking into account score as well).
So you get this unfortunate mix of: people gravitate to discussing negative stuff, people tend not to change default settings (since despite defaults being Active, we can change these if so inclined), and the default sort settings surface whatever is being most discussed/commented on, resulting in this sort of negativity feedback loop you’ve observed.
I noticed and posted about this a few months ago, have tried to upvote and comment on less negatively-focused posts occasionally, but I think this may be an interesting example of a small scale systemic issue as it takes more of us doing similar to address what’s being encountered. However, as more instances update to v0.19.4, I’ll be interested in seeing if admins decide to switch away from the Active sort setting to try to address this in their own way.
I don’t know what sort setting may be better for instances to run with instead, but I’m glad they now have the option. In the meantime I think it’s worth reminding people that they currently have the option to change their default sort settings to something different to try to see different kinds of posts. Personally I switch between New and Scaled to see a variety of posts beyond many of the regular doom and gloom posts.
- Comment on Whatever happened to lemmy.film? 5 months ago:
I don’t know the specifics of what may have happened with Lemmy.film, so we’ll have to see if someone else may know.
As to what happens to posts to “their” communities, my rough understanding is that with the host server gone, federation either doesn’t occur or maybe attempts to reach the host but simply stops after some number of attempts. Upon failure I think it simply collects the posts on your home server/instance’s copy of the community.
Not sure what would happen if a new instance was spun up of Lemmy.film either from a backup or in general, but I’d imagine there’s some settings/adjustments that may be calibrated to prevent it getting a backlog of posts dumped on it causing it to get bogged down or crash.
As to questions specifically about the Lemmy software, you may try !lemmy_support@lemmy.ml or !lemmy@lemmy.ml, think either one would be okay for this.
- Comment on If you find a way, please tell us! 7 months ago:
i’ll tell ya how to undo this, but it’ll involve going over their heads, and you won’t believe this but then you’ll be…
you ready? you really can't undo this one
sturgeon general’d
- Comment on "Learned Helplessness" & the Tech Literacy Crisis | Internet Analysis [25:54] - TiffanyFerg 8 months ago:
Thanks for elaborating!
I think I better see what you meant now. Potential degradations in processing ability possibly from a combination of cognitive overload and exhaustion from the volumes of information encountered, both of which may be more quickly reached from a mixture of a lack of self-regulation, not knowing & exceeding one’s limits, and inadequate education and practice regarding the former two alongside reasoning abilities to more effectively navigate info without as often being overloaded/exhausted.
- Comment on "Learned Helplessness" & the Tech Literacy Crisis | Internet Analysis [25:54] - TiffanyFerg 8 months ago:
This is just a hypothesis, but I believe that one of the roots of the problem is a lower ability to retrieve information, caused by increased exposure to advertisement.
I’m not sure I follow where you’re coming from here. Is the idea that over-exposure to advertisement is processed the same as being provided general information, reducing people’s inclination to seek out information independently, despite the fact that advertising is only the provision of specific, narrow information?
- Comment on "Learned Helplessness" & the Tech Literacy Crisis | Internet Analysis [25:54] - TiffanyFerg 8 months ago:
Yeah, some interfaces have somehow contorted themselves to being utterly inaccessible in efforts to be maximally accessible.
Whether that’s removing any immediately visible buttons whatsoever, only displaying vague icons (with no text labels) only to be seen in that software, or weirdly expecting a certain degree of old/new tech familiarity that may be too old for younger people or too new to make sense for many to be that familiar with yet.
- Comment on "Learned Helplessness" & the Tech Literacy Crisis | Internet Analysis [25:54] - TiffanyFerg 8 months ago:
Thought this was interesting coverage of a mix of different issues from inattentiveness, prompt resignation at slight effort, and tech and media illiteracy. It’s difficult to determine what all the contributors to these behaviors are across different age demographics, as you see it both with the young and the old in different forms.
There’s a sort of expectation from some of both to operate software more like simple machinery (appliances, more than applications) where you tap or click the buttons and it promptly and predictably responds (ideally), and when it doesn’t…To simply give up and try to find a different app that works as desired, or a person to help them.
- "Learned Helplessness" & the Tech Literacy Crisis | Internet Analysis [25:54] - TiffanyFergwww.youtube.com ↗Submitted 8 months ago to videos@lemmy.world | 12 comments
- Comment on What is @automod doing? 8 months ago:
I don’t know why you would say this. Here is a screenshot I took yesterday.
Mainly because I’m one of the moderators of the community, and so can see some more detail on what happened. I wasn’t aware that AutoMod is set to notify people when their posts/comments have been moderated, which is why you received that message.
As you can gather, AutoMod isn’t something community moderators have deployed themselves (which is why I’m as unaware as you are of some of its functions), but is something from the admins in an effort to help moderate the instance as a whole.
- Comment on What is @automod doing? 8 months ago:
I’m pretty sure Automod still needs some fine-tuning, as I also found myself recently caught by it for making a post with a bunch of community links in !general@lemmy.world, which I happen to moderate. 😅
It was resolved quickly and I understood why it may have flagged it (lots of links! that’s sus!), but that was enough of a tell to me that it’s still being worked on. Your experience also suggests as much I think. Due to the nature of it I wouldn’t expect too much clarity since they don’t want to enable evading it, but hopefully they at least drop by to be like, “Yeah sorry, still a work-in-progress.”
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
we should all be so lucky as to find our own buckets
- Comment on What does "araffe" mean? 8 months ago:
This is a longshot and may be wrong, but as I didn’t find the other replies here (nor on Reddit, where a similar question was asked) satisfying, I did some digging and found this paper that relates to something called CARAFE, which seems as though it may fit as it relates to image processing and improving image resolution.
Although arrafe or arafe have dropped the c, perhaps it still relates to this? That seems to make more sense at least in terms of image generation, and maybe in descriptions it’s meant to indicate that this was used, like to improve the quality or something. For anyone interested, the paper linked to isn’t paywalled, so you can check it out and see if this makes sense in context.
From my limited knowledge of this subject, I think it does, but 🤷♀️
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