Nerd02
@Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.com
I’ve sort of built this place.
Father of @AutoMod and @flairchange_bot.
- Comment on No, not you. 10 months ago:
Yeah no thanks, you can post your pedo bullshit on rqd2, burggit or wherever but not here. You won yourself a ban and a place inside my woodchipper.
- Comment on i don't get it 10 months ago:
It might not be as weird as the bottom one, but I already find the top image to be pretty weird, especially their clothing. I also wouldn’t really describe it as “flamboyant”.
- Comment on Problems of Not Enough Centralization Today? 10 months ago:
Agreed, and since we are on Lemmy this easily makes me think of the Fediverse. Even something that is born to be decentralized, like the ActivityPub protocol, ends up having trouble scaling up properly because of blurry standards. Ever noticed how shitty federation is with Mastodon and other microblogging platforms? Or most other federated platorms that most people here haven’t even ever heard about?
And the reason for this is pretty simple too. Decentralization and open standards are hard to build. Centralized systems are easier and more profitable for the developer (it’s nice being the boss and being able to do whatever you please on your platform).
But at the end of the day most people value user experience the highest and that is why, I think, decentralized stuff tends to struggle. So, TL;DR, we don’t need more centralization but we do need for decentralized stuff to be as good as centralized stuff is.
Paging in @zeasided@lemmy.basedcount.com .
- Comment on Biden launches reelection campaign with fraudulent claim to defend democracy against Trump 10 months ago:
What a nice and unbiased source.
In fact, the “central cause” of Biden’s presidency has been the expansion of imperialist war. Even as he spoke, his secretary of state, Antony Blinken, was on his way to the Middle East to coordinate the ongoing US/Israeli genocide in Gaza and the expansion of the war into Lebanon, Yemen and Iran.
I am kinda indifferent to the outcome of the election, but all of this political popcorn is very enjoyable. Looks like we have some fun times ahead!
- Comment on The Feast of The Epiphany (January 6th) 10 months ago:
As a Catholic I have always celebrated the Epiphany but I haven’t met many Protestants IRL (they are rare beasts here in Southern Europe) so I’m left wondering. Do Protestants celebrate the Epiphany?
Some more info on the Epiphany. Here in Italy, even more so than the Christian Three Kings holiday, the Epiphany is looked forward by kids because of the “Befana”. This is a figure from the Italian folklore similar to Father Christmas / Santa Claus. She is portrayed as an elderly lady who will visit the homes of Italian kids between the night of Jan 5th and Jan 6th. Chidren will have to leave a sock hanging somewhere around the home. If they’ve been good the Befana will fill that sock with candy, dried fruits and nuts. Otherwise, if they’ve been bad, it will leave them either coal or garlic (depending on the regions).
This isn’t celebrated as an alternative to Christmas but rather as a “Christmas lite”. While for Christmas kids are likely to receive toys or clothing, the Befana will only bring you food.Traditionally, she has the aspect of a poor elderly lady, with few teeths, wears old and ragged clothes and skirt and often has a cold (cause it’s cold at night in January and her clothes can’t protect her well from it). Traditionally she is mean and bothered by adults but will show her kind soul to kids.
Most importantly, she always carries a broom with her and moves around by flying on it. Kinda similar to witches, but there are some important iconogaphical differences that help you clearly distinguish an image of a witch from that of the Befana.Apparently this used to be a Pagan tradition even older than the Roman republic. The Romans assimilated it within their religion and kept it alive. The Church at first opposed it but then became indifferent to it. But the reason why it’s still celebrated to this day is because of Mussolini who, during the Fascist Era rebranded it as “Fascist Christmas”, a non-religious state holiday opposed to the real Christian Christmas.
- Comment on The Feast of The Epiphany (January 6th) 10 months ago:
I wonder if we could somehow help you out in recovering your old account. Unfortunately we haven’t yet found a way to get the email service to work, so the “password reset” feature doesn’t work (as you probably have noticed yourself). But I wonder if we could somehow do it manually from the database.
- Comment on AIs on the political compass 10 months ago:
This is why the world needs ChadGPT, the only based Centrist flair AI.
Context: ChadGPT was an AI trained on r/PCM comments, created by us (the Based Count team) around a year ago. After little over 12 hours it got shadowbanned by Reddit. Throughout its period of activity it ended up spewing nonsense all across the compass, from hardcore libertarianism up to concerining nazi-adjacent points, with occasional left wing and right wing tangents.
All in all it was a good lesson on what happens when you train an AI on memes and don’t filter its output. Godwin’s law at its finest.
- Comment on Also applies to a bunch of other identities 10 months ago:
Yeah this is their alt, their main is on burggit. But of course we (as well as 52 other sane instances) defederated from them, so they needed a .world alt to post here.
Sauce (yeah it’s a burggit link but it’s safe)
- Comment on Also applies to a bunch of other identities 10 months ago:
It’s a pedo flag.
- Comment on Also applies to a bunch of other identities 10 months ago:
I thought I had seen that flag somewhere else, but had to go through a pretty long rabbit hole to find what it actually was. Let me save you all a google search.
That is the M.A.P. flag
The “MAP Pride” flag. Made originally likely as a prank flag by a Tumblr user, it is now adopted by MAPs. The term MAP, which stands for “Minor Attracted Person,” refers to any adult with an attraction to minors. Pedophiles, Hebephiles, Ephebophiles, are under this definition.
Fuck off with this pedo shit, OP. Should have seen it coming when you mentioned burggit.
- Comment on If your instance is defederated from another instance, would it be sockpuppeting to create another account to view posts from that instance? 11 months ago:
Sometimes it happens, yeah. Takes a while or multiple clicks to load. I built that site as a one afternoon project, it’s far from perfect.
Another thing you can do is going straight from the URL. For your instance that would be defed.xyz/check/lemmy.ca
- Comment on If your instance is defederated from another instance, would it be sockpuppeting to create another account to view posts from that instance? 11 months ago:
I get the vibe some instances just don’t want to share that information
Oh yeah, big time.
When I posted it to the lemmy admin chatroom, some admins who shall remain nameless commented saying it “gave bad vibes” and that wanting to know such information felt “toxic and gross”. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, of course, but considering the data is already available under the /instances page… well it’s just weird that anyone would have a problem with wanting to make it more accessible. - Comment on If your instance is defederated from another instance, would it be sockpuppeting to create another account to view posts from that instance? 11 months ago:
PSA: you can use defed.xyz to check which instances have blocked an instance (only works with Lemmy ones).
- Comment on Could we use AI to update 4:3 media to 16:9? 1 year ago:
Holy cow that is beyond impressive. Sure enough, sometimes it does hallucinate a bit, but it’s already quite wild. Can’t help but wonder where we’ll be in the next 5-10 years.
- Comment on Are metric measurements like decameters and hectometers ever used? 1 year ago:
Yeah I don’t think it’s very common elsewhere. Right over the border with France they were already saying “200 grams de jambon”.
But I think it’s convenient. Small number make brain hurt less, brain no need to think.
- Comment on Are metric measurements like decameters and hectometers ever used? 1 year ago:
In Italy we use hectograms (“ettogrammi”, “etti” for short) in day to day life when buying groceries. You don’t ask for 200 grams of ham, you just ask for 2 etti.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Oh no sorry I worded that incorrectly. I meant “Can someone translate this from [the language of] snowflakes to English?”
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I’m genuinely confused by what might cause one to get offended by this. Can anyone translate snowflake to English for me?
- Comment on That's my YouTube initial page now 1 year ago:
I think OP mostly views left wing content and is outraged by having that same content (albeit with a right wing twist) suggested to them.
I sincerely hope it isn’t just a “right bad” circlejerk.
- Comment on Every time i have to use windows again my IQ slips a point or two 1 year ago:
What’s funny is that this is exactly what I feel like any time I have to use Linux.
