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barsoap

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  • Mastodon Now Sends Referer Headers! Hurrah!

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  • There's legitimate interest in knowing where people come from, though, and asking on your own page "how did you get here?" is hardly going to work. Personally I don't think it's much of an issue if some random commercial site sees that I got there via lemm.ee, it's not giving away much at all, not even whether I have an account here and certainly not as much as tracking cookies. OTOH I also think it could be done better, wich tech similar to Mozilla's aggregate (i.e. you're just a number in an anonymous mass) ad clickthrough thing. Sites would see "yep we got a number of visitors from lemm.ee, and that number from lemmy.world" but wouldn't know which of their site impressions corresponded to which origin.

  • Mastodon Now Sends Referer Headers! Hurrah!

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  • Users can disable referer headers in their browser settings which overrides anything the instance operators can do.

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    Gumroad PSA

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  • Lots of blender extensions are on gumroad, especially "pay what you want" ones.

  • Do you think the mostly limited range of political views is a strength or a weakness of Lemmy? (For example, in terms of attracting new users.)

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  • Brazilian, eh? You mean the country with higher GDP/capita than no less than nine European countries?

    Stop pretending to know, in any shape or form, what it is like to be born in Burundi. And don't pretend you're not a colonial state, you're barely better than the US when it comes to fucking over the indigenous population and that's not a high standard.

    Stop pretending that 7:1 is an everyday occurrence and count those stars on your jersey.

  • Do you think the mostly limited range of political views is a strength or a weakness of Lemmy? (For example, in terms of attracting new users.)

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  • Congratulations, you found a very novel thought-terminating cliche. I'm impressed by your creativity.

  • Do you think the mostly limited range of political views is a strength or a weakness of Lemmy? (For example, in terms of attracting new users.)

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  • lalalalalalalala I can't hear you so I won't respond to your argument (if you even made one)

  • Do you think the mostly limited range of political views is a strength or a weakness of Lemmy? (For example, in terms of attracting new users.)

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  • You may want to have a look at the definition of "sarcasm" and "rhetoric".

    I explained, in detail, why you're getting ignored. You still refuse to engage with the topic. Try to not ignore me, ignore others, maybe then you'll understand why what you say you simply doesn't resonate. It takes more than one person to vibe.

  • Do you think the mostly limited range of political views is a strength or a weakness of Lemmy? (For example, in terms of attracting new users.)

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  • So... you're banned here? Why then do I see your posts?

    Cut that victim complex and actually engage with what I said instead of complaining that noone's listening when you say shit 99.99% of people here already know, providing not solutions but analysis that is so undercomplex it barely qualifies as soundbites.

    You're not being a revolutionary, here. You're an angry kid taking their first breath, loudly screaming as to the sudden incursion of the real-world into your sheltered life. Plenty others have been taking breaths for long enough to not be screaming, but scheming. Get to that level instead of having the gall to say "when people ignore me then that must be because they're billionaires". Too easy. Suspiciously easy, don't you think? How many people ignore you, downvote you, how many billionaires are actually on lemmy?

  • Do you think the mostly limited range of political views is a strength or a weakness of Lemmy? (For example, in terms of attracting new users.)

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  • People that shy away from this stuff are almost always rich people that are intentionally unsympathetic to the plight of poor people.

    [citation needed]

    If you lose your shit when you hear about politics, you simply don’t care about helping others. Period.

    Now listen here whippersnapper I've been around too long to not know that it is, in fact, helpful for your praxis to touch grass. Declare it political if you want, but don't bloody talk about politics while doing it.

    Read Clausewitz: Absolute war is impossible because for a people to turn all its efforts to war, it would have to give up the things that it is fighting to defend. War being nothing but the continuation of politics by other means, this also applies to politics.

    It is you, here, who is trying to make politics an absolute war, you're the one barging into a bar where people are singing the people's songs and dancing the people's dances and say "up, to arms! what are you dancing, what are you singing, you need to fight for your right to sing and dance!".

    In short: Your praxis boils down to party pooping. Don't be a party pooper. Party with the people, then go back to your politics as others go back to their looms and mills.

  • As an average OG ex-redditor, Lemmy needs to move away from it's base barebones UI to something like Photon by default, here's why.

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  • No forum,

    I already mentioned reddit. bbcode does it differently, yes.

    email

    Random mail off the LKML. What you see there is standard formatting established back in the days of 80 column terminals. Also have a (not so random) RFC.

    or word processor (even WordPerfect for the c64)

    Inherently wysiwyg.

    or Notepad uses this,

    Is a text editor, not a format.

    so my guess is your experience is in some niche technical field which does not apply to what the general population expects.

    Reddit, discord, discourse are neither niche nor aimed at a techy audience. Markdown is everywhere nowadays. It's a standardised, machine-readable format picking up all those conventions of ole. It's 20 years old by now.

    Most UIs don’t even have a preview option, let alone need one, because they don’t require you to have a stick up your ass to ‘get’ using them.

    The standard lemmy UI does. Those wysiwyg-style UIs also require you to point+click a thousand times to get what you want because there's no way to markup your text by typing -- because the markup is not textual. Have you ever tried doing actual formatting by using those formatting buttons in the lemmy UI. Do you select a word, then hit "bold", or, noticing that all it does is put asterisks around the word, type word instead?

  • As an average OG ex-redditor, Lemmy needs to move away from it's base barebones UI to something like Photon by default, here's why.

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  • This needing double entry is unintuitive and wrecks many new user’s first hundred post’s appearance.

    It's been standard since the late 70s. Markdown inherited it from TeX. Actually the convention should go back even further, roff etc. and of course plain text files themselves. It is perfectly intuitive if you understand what a text file is. "Text file", not "word document". What's next, using > to indicate quoting is suddenly unintuitive? Again: That convention is older than the internet.

    It also works exactly like reddit. They use a slightly different (and I think non-standard) markdown version over there. If you want to change anything about it then you'll need to write a whole wysiwyg thing because otherwise everyone that's perfectly used to and comfortable with markdown, me included, is going to be utterly, utterly, confused.

    ...if you want, you can now imagine a rant about the youth nowadays with their smartphones and tablets unable to understand markup languages or type. On a keyboard. With ten fingers.

    Btw have you noticed the "preview" button? The ?⃝ symbol on the top? There's even a bloody tutorial.

  • As an average OG ex-redditor, Lemmy needs to move away from it's base barebones UI to something like Photon by default, here's why.

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  • I mean, yes. And I also like the oldschool interface, it does have its iffy corners but the overall layout and UX is great.

    That said, there's a difference between "avoid (success at all costs)" and "(avoid success) at all cost". We should be making lemmy better for the purpose of making lemmy better, we shouldn't be changing it just to please random people so they come over.

  • Itch.io games site taken down

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  • I guess it depends on the game, extremely so. Two main factors I can think of: Whether or not the game has been picked up as an object of hate by the "anti-woke" content mill, as well as the average age of people who play the game.

    Just for kicks I skimmed the BG3 forum and indeed there's this recent post. Apparently unwanted exposure to Gale's gayness can be solved by not interacting with Gale, who would have thought and that's a perfectly valid solution for OP, but some users in the thread are clearly out for blood. Not getting terribly much resonance, though.

    EDIT: Apparently OP has changed the "accepted answer" to one of the worst comments in the thread. SMH. Comments proceed to tell OP they're confusing friendship scenes for romance ones.

    And that's like one thread in pages upon pages of threads. People predictably talk about general gameplay stuff (The Gale thread can actually be considered a gameplay question), mechanics, bugs, the usual.

    Bonus: A thread on Musk wanting to buy Hasbro for D&D. Now there's plenty of stuff D&D players have to say and criticise about Hasbro, them having clear language about the misogyny etc. in the first edition is not among it. Licensing terms are a thing which can get the community riled up, but the "backlash" against inclusivity is, as usual, manufactured, and from what I see the thread is mostly Musk bashing. Thinking of, Shaun recently published a video on the manufactured outrage around Stellar Blade.

    Oh, the average age thing. Yeah don't go to the LoL forums or whatever though without checking I expect them to be full of talk about the current meta. And people unironically using "gay" as an insult in

    <currentyear>

    , presumably because they're too young to even know their sexual orientation.

    Overall trying to portray steam like some kind of second kiwifarms falls flat on its face for a very simple reason: Even if (and I don't think that's the case) there would be no moderation at all, the majority of users on steam will be talking game mechanics, about bugs, because they're there to play a game and the reason you find yourself interacting on those forums is because you have something to say, or ask, about the game. That kind of talk will always drown out the angry goblins.

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    The Rise of Digital Currencies: What It Means for Traditional Banking

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  • The US dollar is backed up by you have to pay your taxes in US dollar so the US economy is going to accept US dollar, thus, if you have dollars, you can buy shit in the US. In effect, thus, the US dollar is backed by the US economy.

    There's no such mechanism for crypto coins. If you now say "well the Fed can just print money", that's US policy. The Euro works differently, there price stability reigns supreme, in any case the policies of both Fed and ECB are well-known and people trust that they don't change willy-nilly because neither the US nor the EU has any interest in the fallout that would cause. That trust is in no way weaker, less of a guarantee, wrt. giving a hint at the future value of the currency as the collective faith that props up crypto coins as a unit of account.

    And gold, btw, is practically useless as a commodity. Jewelry? Literally only used for that because it's expensive. Technical applications? Do exist, but the amount needed is negligible. The value of gold relies on the existence of a luxury market.

  • The GPT Era Is Already Ending

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  • Showing the most played songs and artists is not really a difficult analysis task that does not require any machine learning.

    You want to dimension reduce to get that "people who listen to stuff like you also like to listen to" recommendation. To have an idea whom to play a new song to, you ideally want to analyse the song itself and not just people's reaction to it and there we're deep in the weeds of classifiers.

    Using LLMs in particular though is probably suit-driven development because when you're trying to figure out whether a song sounds like pop or rock or classical then LLMs are, at best, overkill. Analysing song texts might warrant LLMs but I don't think it'd gain you much. If you re-train them on music instead of language you might also get something interesting, classifying music by phrasal structure and whatnot don't look at me I may own a guitar but am no musician. And, of course, "interesting" doesn't necessarily mean "business case" unless you're in the business of giving Adam Neely video ideas. "Spotify, play me all pop songs that sing 'caught in the middle' in the same way"... not a search that's going to make spotify money, or anyone asked for.

  • Moderators Across Social Media Struggle to Contain Celebrations of UnitedHealthcare CEO’s Assassination

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  • You just reminded me of a movie and let's just say I highly recommend it.

    On yet another front, the Greek resistance would kill Nazis. In retaliation, Nazis would kill whole villages. Enraged, more Greeks would join the resistance and kill more Nazis. Net result: Towards the end pretty much every Greek was in the resistance and Greece was the only (IIRC, or at least the first or something) country to free itself from Nazi occupation. (Then they became a dictatorship different story).

  • Microsoft closes the door on Windows 11 supporting older hardware

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  • Just a heads up while the look might be easy to emulate the feel part will at best be close. Which is actually good because a lot about that is rather shoddy in windows... and focussing on getting what you had with windows might make you miss stuff you didn't think you wanted. Like MMB click on scrollbars, or dragging and resizing windows with Super+LMB/RMB

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  • They're all PCs they just aren't IBM (compatible) PCs. Anything from a Workstation to a Smartphone is a Personal Computer.

  • Smug Viruses

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  • I'm not contradicting anything, I didn't even use the word "life". I'm simply taking the perspective of the genome, and fighting against the notion that viruses would act as mechanistically as prions.