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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seeking feedback: how should lemm.ee move forward with external images? (related to frequent broken images)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Frankly, one of the big reasons why I like the Fediverse is that you don’t have to depend on the source keeping up their stuff - we get our own copies. That includes both the text (the posts) and the media (the images), and to me, that’s one third of the point of the entire thing. If I wanted an image that can only be seen at the dumpster cage that is Twitter, I’d go over there shrug and move on.

  Of course that’s not always workable because storage is (despite everything) not cheap, medias grow large (I can eg.: understand saving pictures, but heaven forbid trying to save a video) and there’s still not a good way to deal with “”“problematic”“” storage. So, my recommendation and expectation would be something that functions like Option 2: Proxying Images. Basically, we download our own copy but only store it “while it matters”.

  How to Supplement Options

  Now, maybe some proposals I would lift to have their feasibility studied. Any combination of one or more of these could, if implemented, help in enhancing or even supplantting the chosen method for storing remote media. I personally see them more as a means to enhance Option 2.

  • Only save copies of images (perpetual or proxy) that are below certain thresholds: file size, resolution, trusted hosts, etc… Sure, that still means you have to download every image at least once to evaluate it, but at least we get some sort of automated guarantee that for “easy” stuff, we won’t be filing more connections than necessary. The big win of this option is that lemm.ee is not paying for the larger resource cost of fetching larger images after their post is made. I’m guessing the main drawback would be the bikeshedding required to decide which images get saved locally.
  • Related option to the above: only save (perpetual) thumbnails or smallened versions of images, never the real ones. Would pretty much instantly cover the case of eg.: most memes. The big drawback I can see to this is managing those images for deletions would be harder unless a Lemmy instance can keep a searchable map of hashes from each image to their thumbnail and vice versa.
  • Require that any image is linked from an imagehost or filehost that is trustable for durability. Big drawback: notoriously more effort (and potential loss of privacy) for users means this actually disincentivizes posting rich content.
  • Pool up resources and get some cooperative work going with some other instance(s) to set up a shared proxy agent that downloads the images for us, so that lemm.ee doesn’t have to host the images but can have the clients fetch them without sacrificing privacy. I feel this one incentivizes posting rich content because you can get some level of assurance that it’ll remain available and be “cheap” to access from across the Fediverse, but requires more instances to chip in.
  • Images? Pfff. Text is where it’s at.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's discuss: Monster Hunter⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A friend got me into Monster Hunter and now I have nearly 5000 hours split across various games, the bastard. I guess I won’t be doing cocaine or gunpla or toy car collecting anytime soon! XD

  It’s a really great experience, I often say good MH games (that is, MH games in general: bad games are a rarity in this franchise) bring out my three preferred Ms: music, monsters and marvels, the latter one meaning the landscapes, the maps, the exploration. You haven’t experienced what kind of comfy immersion can game developers go for until you wander about the Sandy Plains at night to bbq up some Aptonoths and Rhenoplos into steak, and you watch the shooting stars in the night sky. And then you get distracted from the bbq serial griller and you end up with 2x Burnt Meat instead…

  Started out with 3U. Underwater is great btw, don’t listen to people who say it shouldn’t return. The first time I tried the game I just Didn’t Get It and thought it was not for me… but man the music was so cool (the Sandy Plains battle music!) and the monster designs (Barioth!) insisted that I should make another try. Grabbed it back after a long break, followed the instructions this time, found a weapon that was to my liking (switchaxe, or as we call it, the Swag Axe), and haven’t really stopped much since then. I take good care to backup my saves often as well, juuuuust in case I don’t really like to grind hundreds of hours for the most random rewards on the double. By this point the only gen I have not played is Gen1, I’ve played Dos, FU, Tri, P3rd, 3U (1400 hrs), 4U, XX, Gen, GU (1200 hrs), Rise, Sunbreak and Stories 2 (800 hrs). Nowadays I can sometimes be found on the LanPlay network on MHGU and MHRS, and I’m waiting to get a better computer so I can try Frontier and maybe Iceborne.

  Now, everyone has an opinion and so do I, so I’m clear on a number of things. Starting with World the game has casualized so much. Some casualization is fine, as a treat, and I like some QoL such as the tree view for weapon upgrades as much as the next person. But sometimes a game can be casualized to the extreme, to the point even TDS and NCH have taken jabs at it at points, like getting you infinite Ancient Potions, or the loss of most technical inventory management or environment management in Rise. It’d be nice to see Monster Hunter come back to form, with a properly numbered game (Monster Hunter 5, maybe call it “Quinto” or smth!) and fights that are more about besting a monster in its own turn rather than simply hiding under a beast’s legs (or far away at a ledge) and spamming X or R (hey, gunners!) to win.

  But the music… oh, the music! And the ambience SFX. Now that has never faltered. Despite its many mishaps, World has some of the best and comfiest music in the series.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2024-07-18 lemm.ee downtime⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Totally healthy servers have a right to rest every once in a while too. Thanks for keeping us notified!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hes alive so this meme is OK right?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll give you one (1) pity point for jumping right to the low hanging tree category for personal attack.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hes alive so this meme is OK right?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  ¿Biden competent? He’s probably gonna die of old age by Jan 5, and if not, is going to be ordering who knows what crap with his dementia on Jan 6…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Don’t worry honey, I got this”⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t worry it won’t be a close call. Trump has this one in the pocket unless we change the democratic figurehead for someone who actually has some meat and spine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You cannot make any post/comment containing the string [slash]etc[slash]passwd on lemmy.world⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can only hope programming.dev of all instances doesn’t have this problem!

  (Also, I’m really wondering where does this error come from. It can’t be, in theory, from lemmy itself, right? One would think user input in posts is sanitized so that it’s not used as code, either raw or processed).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You cannot make any post/comment containing the string [slash]etc[slash]passwd on lemmy.world⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  /etc/passw[nothing]d blocked here at lemm.ee.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Donald Trump Movie ‘The Apprentice’ Shocks Cannes, Receives Nearly Eight-Minute Standing Ovation⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So this is how democracy dies.

  With standing ovation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’d be interesting to see this in the courts. Would lemm.ee stand as accused, facilitator, or witness?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Discord TOS binds you to forced arbitration - Opt-Out Now⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Negotiability, or more precisely offer and acceptance, are achieved by the simple “take it or leave it”.

  Maybe in the US, where that kind of this would honestly be expected. Here in more decent countries, Negotiability requires that both parties can exercise offer an acceptance to the contract. I consulted to our local digital ethics group about it and they are in accordance, at least to what pertains to my country.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Discord TOS binds you to forced arbitration - Opt-Out Now⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Any contract is legally binding

  Exactly. And a TOS is not a contract.

  If you go to law definitions, contracts have a number of requirements to be such, of which to my knowledge a TOS fails two (Negotiability and Certainty).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨tremendous⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I did say “coherent message”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨tremendous⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Other than “manufacturing them releases fumes”, I don’t see how any of these forms a coherent message.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  See, it’s the entire premise that voice conferencing is needed to have a replacement for “Discord is used for documentation”. It’s not. Almost by definition. If anyone wants videoconferencing there’s Jitsi. That’s the thing I’m aiming to: you won’t ever to get anyone to “replace” Discord if they have to replace all of it. Capitalism doesn’t allow for that. We are trying to do better here. Splitting problems into their component and significative parts makes them much easier to solve.

  The closest use case that in the case of these kinds of communities would even need videoconferencing would be something like “Discord is being used for live tech support for modchipping Switches” and for that case there’s also already established alternatives… and it would be wise to not implement for that anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In order to make it into a Discord or Zoom competitor you would need to solve far higher bandwidth things like HD video and low latency audio, and both of thouse are fundamentally very different things for a server to handle as compared to high latency short text messages.

  That falls into the same two fallacies as the ones of complainers against Youtube alternatives:

  • that in order to offer an alternative to a service you have to replicate all of it
  • that you have to provide an alternative to only one service

  Like, really, you don’t need to replace all of Discord, only the parts that matter. The alternative to build not to Discord but to “Discord is being used for documentation” already exists, it’s called web forums. Ditto, the alternative to “Discord is being used for communities” also exists, it’s called XMPP or IRC or Matrix depending on who you ask. The alternative to “Discord tracks user data” is simply called “you don’t do it”, etc.

  Like, we are literally on Lemmy. Just about the first thing that we Get It from the internet is that centralization is bad, be it Products or Services.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to mention Discord is not forced to take communities down. There’s lots of stuff like right wing nutjob communities that are still up no issues. Discord is just sucking Nintendo dick, just like the communities that host solely on Discord are sucking Discord cock.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can blame both corporations, you don’t need to suck any corpo cock. Nintendo sends the takedowns in the first place, which sure is Nintendon’t, and Discord heeds them despite otherwise profiting from those communities and without allowing any sort of measure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This laptop released in 2016 no longer receive OS updates. Which means I can't update Chrome Browser⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Linux and Firefox would get updates!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has a power fantasy⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a v fair point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has a power fantasy⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Imagine walking into a lemmy board on the internet and trying to tell people something doesn’t need fucking massive essays of worldbuilding…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unfortunately i understand⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  learn evil, love laugh

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Liking an OS isn't a personality trait ❌⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting. You could setup something like a linux VM (or an rPi) running a distro with privoxy to filter out mentions of Linux per domain(s)!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨suck it, math nerds⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Would go well with my former teacher’s point-shaped cows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The duality of particles⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think this is the part I’ve always have had issue trying to understand, thanks for helping clarify with an example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The duality of particles⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate that I understand all the layers of this one except the duality one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨gatekeeping⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It seems in your equations, you conjugated it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨gatekeeping⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  After reading how this thread is going I’m half expecting this to be a Kurzgesagt video or something equally “cutesy existential dread” inducing lol. Let’s see what do I find!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨gatekeeping⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So wait, you can’t have numbers larger than infinity, but you can order them “past infinity”? I’m trying to wrap my head around the concept, and the clearest thing I can get at the moment is that the "infinity+1"th number is infinity… would that be right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨gatekeeping⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Aren’t there numbers past (plus/minus) infinity? Last I hear there’s some omega stuff (for denoting numbers “past infinity”) and it’s not even the usual alpha-beta-omega flavour.

  Come to think of it, is there even a notation for “the last possible number” in math? aka something that you just can’t tack “+1” at the end of to make a new number?