ElectroVagrant
@ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world
Another traveler of the wireways.
- Comment on Don't you all get tired of the constant negativity? 3 weeks 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? 1 month 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! 2 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 months ago to videos@lemmy.world | 12 comments
- Comment on What is @automod doing? 3 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? 3 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] 4 months ago:
we should all be so lucky as to find our own buckets
- Comment on What does "araffe" mean? 4 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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- Comment on Socializing through VR 4 months ago:
Depends on the location and timing I think. Find a restaurant or a bar that’s okay with you lounging with your drink of choice and you might find yourself eavesdropping on some strange chatter
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- Comment on Anon is corrupted by Tijuana 4 months ago:
Tilt head to the side, drip in ear, let fizzle for a little bit (that’s it reacting with the ear wax) with head tilted, gently rinse out with warm water. Usually comes in kits with instructions for more precise time to let sit.
If after doing that a few times it hasn’t helped, you’ll want to see a doctor.
- Comment on Anon is corrupted by Tijuana 4 months ago:
carbamide peroxide
😎 No joke, I can’t remember exactly what they used on my ear (I think it may have been stronger than that, maybe just higher ratio of the same chemicals?), but that’s what you can get off the shelf.
- Comment on Anon is corrupted by Tijuana 4 months ago:
It’s genuinely such a relief to get your ear cleaned out when it gets all plugged up, undoubtedly more so when it’s hurting. I once had something similar happen somehow, just without as much of the pain. It started getting harder to hear out of one of my ears, and although I tried to rinse it out, it didn’t seem to help and I didn’t want to fucking pierce my ear drum trying something stupid. I held off but it finally got to the point that not only was I having trouble hearing out of the ear, my balance was being impacted.
I had started to notice I felt kinda wobbly, and so I was finally like fuck it, doctor time. Go to doctor, nice lady does like the doc in the OP poking a camera in, then has some other guy come in and he’s like, “You’ll wanna tilt your head to the side for this,” as he holds a small bucket to the side, below my head. Gets basically a spraybottle with some special ear-nozzle or whatever, squirts a warm stream of some solution (think it was carbamide peroxide) into my ear and dislodges this big ol’ glob of earwax that had inexplicably managed to build up in my ear despite me not wearing earbuds/headphones often.
I glanced at that poor little bucket now full of this nasty ass archipelago of earwax and felt fuckin’ great. Cost me a bit, but the doc saved me for the future telling me about some off the shelf stuff to help avoid a return visit.
If you’ve never had this done before but have been congested, and briefly cleared your nostrils with a good blowing of your nose or something, it’s like that but so much better because your ears getting plugged up sucks so much more.
- Comment on the meaning was *right there* dude 4 months ago:
we’re working on interuniversal contact here, one of these has to resonate!
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- Comment on How do you get the dry boogers out if you don’t pick your nose? 8 months ago:
Ah, thanks, those were our predecessors. We just go by people now. Appreciated all the same though!
- Comment on How do you get the dry boogers out if you don’t pick your nose? 8 months ago:
Sorry, I think I may have timeslipped, I take it this isn’t the stream of advanced face prostheses, my bad!
- Comment on How do you get the dry boogers out if you don’t pick your nose? 8 months ago:
Get a mirror that doubles as a sort of magnifier to view the area around your nose closely & carefully. You’re looking for seams around the nose with which to gain leverage to gently pry off the nose to get better access to the nostrils within & beneath. Once the nose has been popped off your face, you can rinse both it and the exposed nostrils out with some warm water, which should get rid of the dry, compacted mucus.
You may want to take a soft, thin brush while you’re at this for a more thorough clean. Once both the removed nose and exposed nostrils are cleared to your satisfaction, realign your nose with the seams you found at the start and gently squeeze & press your nose to reconnect it with your face. A light splash of warm water and a light scrub should help reseal the nose to your face and make the seams less noticeable.
Hope this helps!
- Comment on The Many Times The US Tried To Go Metric 8 months ago:
…I imagine you’re being serious, but as someone unfamiliar with this, it reads as almost being some kind of obscure joke. Gills?? Troy pounds??
This is some merfolk conspiracy to mess with landfolk, far as I’m concerned.
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- Comment on What are these things? I always see them in the sky 9 months ago:
The trails or the things leaving the trails? In either case I think they may be aircraft contrails, but I’m not sure going off the image alone.
- Comment on The truly stupid questions get censored by the moderators. Have you noticed? 9 months ago:
I think it’s less to do with tolerating stupid questions and more to do with the fact it was against their rules…Rule 5 in particular. If you waited, you might’ve been able to eke by on their joke/troll question day.
- Comment on Dead Leaves (2004) animated film is gnarly & fun! 9 months ago:
Thanks! I did look it up afterward and found that out, which explained a lot, as I also enjoyed Gurren Lagann prior to watching this.