cypherpunks

Does that loop infinitely

yes and no; i've now edited the comment.

python -c 'import time as t; a="o"; all( (print(a), a:=a.replace(*["o","O","8","oo"][i%3:i%3+2]), t.sleep(max(.3,1-i/50))) for i in range(60))'

edited to make it stop after 1MB; notes here:

someone asked in a reply:

Does that loop infinitely

The first version I posted would loop infinitely... if you have infinite RAM, that is 🫠 (the length of the string will reach 1KB after 30 iterations, and 1MB after 60, 2MB after 63, and so on). Also, to keep the loop in a single line I had foolishly used a list comprehension which meant each previous iteration was also being retained.

Fortunately the rate of memory consumption is not too fast because python string replacement is very slow, but, thanks to your question making me think about it, to avoid eventually crashing someone's computer if they don't know to hit ctrl-c to kill it, i've now edited it so that it will stop after 60 iterations. I also made it use all() to consume a generator comprehension instead of a list comprehension, to avoid retaining the state of previous iterations.

here is my very inefficient list-comprehension-using original version which will run until it runs out of memory:

python -c 'import itertools as I,time as t;a="o";[(print(a),a:=a.replace(*["o","O","8","oo"][i%3:i%3+2]),t.sleep(max(.3,1-(i/50))))for i in I.count()]'

if you leave this version running long enough, you will be at the mercy of your operating system's out-of-memory-killer: if it decides to kill other things before it kills this python process you might have a bad time.

here is another version which will actually loop infinitely without consuming more RAM:

python -c 'import itertools as I,time as T; all((any(print(["o","O","8"][i%3],end="")for _ in range(2**(i//3))),print(),T.sleep(max(.3,1-i/50)))for i in I.count())'

this is technically not completely constant-space because i and 2**(i//3) are still growing... but it will run for a very very very long time before it needs to allocate a small amount more.

I'm leaving the space-inefficient now-not-infinite one at the top of this comment because using replace() is easier to read than this nested loop version.

moderator reports still don’t federate to other instances

you are mistaken. reports are federated from the reporter's instance to the community's instance, as well as to the instances of all moderators of the community, and to the instance of the user who posted the comment or post being reported.

some kind of driver problem?

a gif from Doctor Who series 4, iswydt

a gif from Star Trek IV, iswydt

"The eagles are coming!"

It looks like they have an AI generate all of the valid images.

Are you suggesting that the Voight-Kampff test is being administered by robots?

about their MDASH copilot model

that's satire, right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LEDivMfE6M the video this meme is based on, i think? (there are a few other variations too...)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IIsIwINBAA more voyager mahna mahna

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nMAbc2jftY Phenomahna Featuring Sandra Bullock & Kermit The Frog

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1qnzzuAWio The Strange History of Mahna Mahna

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kUib8lh168 Cake's cover

🤔 is this... dull? 🦋

amazing! it's great to see that is still being maintained after so many years.

you could try renaming sideloading to “freedomloading” or maybe “freeloading”

freeloading is already a verb in english, and not the one you're looking for

I was surprised to find that dbzer0 has 290 communities.

I guess they have 290 communities which are federated to the instance where you're collecting these stats; according to dbzer0's front page they actually have 332 communities. (Also your screenshot shows 1337 communities on lemmy.ml but we actually have 4.74K, and 3919 for .world which actually has 13.1K.)

also it's from the spammer's "staging" instance, so the payload is a URL with a staging hostname which doesn't even resolve 🙄