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Aggravationstation , to showerthoughts in People used to think it was our ability to love that made us human. But it turns out it's our ability to select each image containing a crosswalk.
OpenStars ,
@OpenStars@discuss.online avatar

Damn, how much do I love Lemmy!:-P

xmunk , to asklemmy in what tips do you have to survive job hunting?

Your job isn’t your worth or your life. So balance searching with your mental health. If a particular position has burned out two people already you don’t want it unless the money is good enough.

I’d also caution you to be defensive with your time, it takes employers five seconds to send you a test or battery of tests that will take five hours to do, don’t sink an unreasonable amount of time into one or ask for a meeting to get to know the team before committing too much effort - most serious offers will be amenable to that while H1-B fakeouts or “We have an internal candidate in mind” will stone wall you. The job market fucking sucks both because employers are lazy bitches and because the chatgpt resume spam is real - when hiring for a devops our company had hundreds of applications and like three real candidates.

I wish you the best of luck!

xmunk , to nostupidquestions in Would I get banned here for being over active? I got banned from reddit because they thought I was a bot. And don't want to repeat the same mistake here. Thank you ahead of time.

No

xmunk ,

It’s pretty unlikely.

xmunk ,

I’m even an impulsive ass with ADHD and I haven’t gotten banned yet.

xmunk ,

Enjoy the community!

xmunk ,

In retrospect it’d be kind of hilarious if all these comments turned into “Deleted by moderator” - if you’re going to do that mod please don’t delete this one to make it extra confusing to people.

Don_Dickle OP ,

alright cool thanks.

Fermion , to showerthoughts in People used to think it was our ability to love that made us human. But it turns out it's our ability to select each image containing a crosswalk.

Now I need to see a hallmark movie where an out of touch business executive gets stranded in a small town and learns how to identify all squares with crosswalks, bicycles, signs, and traffic lights.

Nounka , to risa in So um, about Ferengis having their lobes rubbed…

Just for fun… i named my rabit oomox and the second one ponfar.

Corgana , (edited )
@Corgana@startrek.website avatar

That’s appropriate since rabbits are basically in Pon farr 24/7

Dasus ,
@Dasus@lemmy.world avatar

I checked this and it is a scientifically correct statement.

thingsiplay , to linux in Anyone knows if it's possible to color command line commands as you type them (kind of like an editor)?

What you are looking for is called Syntax Highlight. Are you asking this for the terminal? I think this is a property of the shell. Fish has it builtin and for ZSH, there is a plugin: github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting I don’t know if its possible with Bash.

bubstance ,
@bubstance@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Closest thing for bash would be https://github.com/akinomyoga/ble.sh.

Binette OP ,

Tried it out and it works! Thanks!

t0mri ,

Yeah, I used to use that before. But its slower for me. So now I use fish for interactions

theshatterstone54 ,

Yeah, it’s slow. I use it currently (because of better vi mode support) but plan to switch back to zsh.

Binette OP ,

Yes, I am looking for a syntax highlighter for the terminal. The one I use is called Kitty.

hallettj ,
@hallettj@leminal.space avatar

It would make sense for the terminal to handle syntax highlighting since that would match how editors work. But the convention is that the shell handles highlighting, not the terminal. You can check which shell you are running with the command,


<span style="color:#323232;">$ echo $SHELL
</span>

It’s done that way because the shell is a running program that is capable of telling the terminal which colors to show (by mixing color escape sequences into text). Compare that to code in an editor which is text, not a running program so the only option is for the editor to handle highlighting[1]. Editors need syntax files to configure highlighting for all the different programming languages, while terminals don’t need this because the shell tells them what colors to show.

[1] setting aside the “semantic highlighting” LSP capability - that was invented long after syntax highlighting conventions were established

TropicalDingdong , to fediverse in How come as of today I can't access [email protected]?

Seems like lemmy.ml is really collapsing in on itself. Overall not good for the general health of the fediverse. We need large “sibling” instances rather than monoliths like .world, which is to say nothing of the politics of the instance. The fewer “medium” to "large’ instances are, the more reliant the whole system becomes on “very large” monoliths like .world, which overall weakens the integrity of the network.

This also highlights the destructiveness of toxic moderation. There is plenty of it here too, but there needs to be some kind of accountability/ redress if open & free communities are going to be a long term project. Not really a big deal in the long run and something we’ll just have to keep working on.

btaf45 OP ,

We need large “sibling” instances rather than monoliths like .world, which is to say nothing of the politics of the instance.

Absolutely 1000%

This also highlights the destructiveness of toxic moderation. There is plenty of it here too

I can’t believe that lemmy mods/admins still think they have the luxury of making bone headed moves in a decentralized network. I am determined to get around this and it is the entire reason I am on a decentralized system. We vote with our feet and in the long term it will all work out. I am looking for suggestions for a politics group that is not lemmy.world and not lemmy.ml.

Blaze ,

Absolutely 1000%

Curious, coming from a LW account

kfchan ,

I'm not a LW fan. In my opinion, they are doing any % speedrun on how to become as bad as Reddit and succeeding admirably.

With that said, I don't hate on LW users. Most of them are probably unaware of the moderator issues from their own instance and are just looking for content.

bacon_saber ,

I don't think it was meant to be an insult to lemmy.world or its users. The post you're replying to is just pointing out some contradiction between a user agreeing with the need to spread out on the fediverse, while doing so by posting from one of the most stacked instances.

Blaze ,

Yes, thank you

btaf45 OP ,

Curious, coming from a LW account

Why are you curious. On a decentralized platform, It matters where you post TO, not where you post FROM. Anybody can easily switch to posting from another platform.

Blaze ,

I see where you come from, but using one instance still makes it active, encouraging new joiners looking for an instance to join it too.

LW got so popular because it had most of the users at some point, and that only went further over time.

Lost_My_Mind ,

I slightly disagree. I think what needs to happen is there needs to be general instances, and specialized instances. By the nature of how they work, specialized instances would have more content, but less hosted users.

So Lemmy.World would be a general instance. You can host any community on a general instance, but it will do better if it can be hosted on a specialized instance (which most topics can be).

There may be niche topics that will do better on general instances, mostly if it doesn’t fit into any other catagory.

But lets say you want to follow your favorite baseball team. Well, you know Sports.InstanceName has all the sports. So you go there, search for your team and find [email protected]

And if everybody did this, the fediverse would at least make sense.

But lets say you want a community based on collecting toe nail clippings from the right foots pinky. Well, I can’t imagine a specialized instance would ever be made that you’d include THAT community. So you go to [email protected] and it will have like 3 subscribers.

Now, back to the baseball team for a second. IF you only come to the fediverse to talk baseball, maybe you’re fine being hosted on Sports.Instance. However most people would want their home instant to be a general instance. So that when they click “local” they get a bit of everything, whereas you hosted on the sports instance would only get sports.

The problem I see with the fediverse is there is a HUUUUUUUUGE learning curve. When you first get here, with zero introduction to the concepts of the platform, you’re just thrown in. I’ve even been insulted by people who assumed I didn’t know how the platform worked. Saying “You’re supposed to sort by subscribed, dumbass!”. The thing is, the problem I was describing WAS sorted by subscribed.

The way I’m describing, a new user can know "oh, this is where I find the sports, this is where I find the music, this is where I find the TV, ect ect ect.

You can still make [email protected], but without people looking for it there, you won’t get many people subscribing unless there’s some MAJOR issue with Sports.Instance.

You could also make Baseball.Instance. whereas Sports.Instance would be more of an all inclusive to all sports instance, which would help smaller sports communities grow, Baseball.Instance would be all about baseball communities.

And if I seem like I’m explaining the obvious, thats good. Thats the point. I want it to be obvious what every instance/community is, where it is, before you even seek it out or click it.

[email protected]. That doesn’t exist, but even as a hypothetical example, you already know what that community is going to be, and what that entire instance is catered to. You CAN’T click it, because it’s hypothetical, but you already know what it is.

That + a guide to the fediverse would go a LOOOOOONG way for newbies. I still don’t know how to visit Lemm.ee main page for example, without going there directly so I can stay logged in. I can figure out how to go to individual communities while logged in (and that whole process needs a simplification while we’re on the topic), but I can’t go to the main page, so I can click local, and see whats actively being posted to the whole instance like I can on my own instance. Theres probably a way…and it’s probably a bunch of overly complicated series of steps that isn’t naturally intuitive. Which is the biggest hurdle for this platform.

Blaze ,

That + a guide to the fediverse would go a LOOOOOONG way for newbies

!newtolemmy

but I can’t go to the main page, so I can click local, and see whats actively being posted to the whole instance like I can on my own instance. Theres probably a way…

There is not

Lost_My_Mind ,

!newtolemmy

That should be the first thing new users see. But also, it doesn’t go as far as I’m imagining. I’m imagining more of a wiki, with every single instance, with a description of what kind of content goes on that instance. What is that instance’s personality?

And then again for each individual community. You’d know which communities are active, and which not if the wiki doesn’t even have anyone that updates the wiki.

There is not

Well that removes a HUGE source of potential that Lemmy could have. It would be the second most useful new feature they could implement.

Blaze ,

You’d know which communities are active

There is a weekly thread on !newcommunities to promote active communities

Lost_My_Mind ,

And that’s great. Thats one way to promote the new communities. Smaller communities as they’re just starting out need all the help they can get. I fully appriciate that it exists.

What I’m suggesting would be in addition to that, and it would promote ALL communities. Big and small. It could even have a search bar, where you tell the guide what topics you’re interested in, and it could return a list of all communities that fit your search, sorted by big to small.

So, my idea is a different kind of tool. Both should exist, but you would use them for different purposes.

Blaze ,
Blaze ,
Lost_My_Mind ,

No. You don’t stay logged in when you go there.

Right now, I can click along the top of the page on Lemmy.World "communities. If I do, it takes me to a list of all the communities on Lemmy.World.

I can’t go to another instance directly, and click communities while also being signed in. I can search for other communities on other instances, but I can’t get a list of communities while signed in.

I should be able to go to Lemmy.Zip, and it should route me to something like Lemmy.World/Lemmy.zip so I’m viewing Lemmy.zip while still signed into Lemmy.World.

That way you can browse other instances communities and just hit subscribe without having to do the extra work of copying !community then going BACK to Lemmy.World, searching for !community, clicking the search result, and THEN you’re inside the community while still signed in.

It would save several steps, plus retain my settings as I do it, and make Lemmy seem like a more seamless experience. Rather than a hodgepodge of various patched together pieces cosplaying as a website.

Blaze ,

No. You don’t stay logged in when you go there.

There is a button on the right to set your home instance. If you set it, you’ll get to the community from your instance

https://sopuli.xyz/pictrs/image/5df78d39-aded-4268-abaa-4978ec80e651.webp

Lost_My_Mind ,

Ok…that did nothing. I’m not logged in. My settings aren’t loaded. The little home button turned green…but nothing changed.

Blaze ,

Are you using this site and Lemmy in general from a desktop browser?

I just did the test:

  • configure the home instance to lemmy.world on lemmyverse.net
  • click on a community on lemmyverse.net, in this case !memes
  • this opens the community in a new tab with lemmy.world/c/[email protected], so that I am actually logged on lemmy.world, instead of opening lemmy.ml/c/memes

Is this not what you were describing above as desired behaviour?

viking ,
@viking@infosec.pub avatar

This is very good for the health of the fediverse, .ml is home to too many good communities for such a shit instance. Hopefully now more of the mainstream communities on other instances will get more traction, so that we can block .ml and not miss out.

FaceDeer ,
@FaceDeer@fedia.io avatar

Seems like lemmy.ml is really collapsing in on itself. Overall not good for the general health of the fediverse.

I'd argue that a biased overly-centralized instance like that collapsing in on itself is good for the general health of the Fediverse.

there needs to be some kind of accountability/ redress if open & free communities are going to be a long term project.

The redress is having lots of servers to switch to, much like how on Reddit the redress was "start your own subreddit if the one you're on is moderated poorly." I can't imagine any system that would let you "take control" of some other instance without that being ridiculously abusable.

blahsay ,

Nah .ml dying is great for the fediverse. Actually the denizens of .ml dying irl would be great for the world too

Blaze ,

What

CrypticCoffee ,

Wow, that’s a pretty discussing comment. You do not agree with a few peoples views, do generalise and want them to die. You’re worse than tankies.

ArcaneSlime ,

Tbf, if he said that about nazis, who want to kill a bunch of people, he’d be applauded. He instead said it about tankies, who want to kill a bunch of people, but they like to wear red. That was his real mistake lol.

CrypticCoffee ,

I’m on that instance and not a tankie. I’m politically left, but object completely to authoritarianism and justification of atrocities.

So yeah, I get annoyed when pricks generalise and wish my death upon me for thinking maybe we should help the poorest in society and don’t think the super rich deserve every penny they get.

I find it ironic when people are hating on one political grouping and their conduct is no better than the ones they despise.

ArcaneSlime ,

Well get used to it, generalization is what people do, they love it, I’m doing it right now, it’s a function of the human brain seeking patterns. They’ll decry it against their group and use it on another group in damn near the same breath, welcome to the world. We even have phrases for it, “one bad apple spoils the whole bunch” and all. I bet if I scrolled through your comment history (I’m not gonna, but if I did) I wouldn’t have to go too far to see you generalize about a group commonly perceived as “all bad,” I’d guess it’s republicans, probably say they’re all racists or all nazis or all X, it doesn’t really matter, point is the odds that you do are higher than the odds that you don’t.

CrypticCoffee ,

What you are referring to is heuristics. It’s simplistic. Effective for wild animals that require processing of complex information quickly to escape predators for example, but not so much for civilised humans that require a greater deal of accuracy.

You demonstrated the ineffectiveness of the approach by assuming I’m a Democrat or even American.

The skill is in understanding the process, the flaw and developing a capability for critical thought. You’ll get there eventually, hopefully.

ArcaneSlime ,

You demonstrated the ineffectiveness of the approach by assuming I’m a Democrat or even American.

Actually I assumed you’re a lemmy user, of which I’ve yet to meet one who doesn’t generalize republicans whether the poster is american or not. Not without reason, mind you, many republicans are say, racist, though many are not. It serves as a damn fine example of exactly what I’m referring to and is also a generalization in and of itself, which doubles back to make my point again. I understand the process, and in fact at times see value in it rather than simply nature at work, the trick is knowing what to do with the generalization. Should you hate X because X usually Ys? No, but if Y is an undesirable behavior trait in X you should at least find out if they Y before becoming entwined with them somehow.

CrypticCoffee ,

What?

Was that just an embarrassed verbal vomit?

You were wrong, and rather than admitting, or leaving it, you continue trying to spew words in the hope that you confuse people from realising you were wrong. Are you that insecure?

ArcaneSlime ,

The point is we all generalize, the problem is not knowing how to apply it, and whether or not the generalization is perceived as good or bad is highly contextual. Feel free to not get it all you want, doesn’t hurt me any.

andrew_bidlaw , to funny in me🤷irl
@andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works avatar

Fig. 1. 'Possum making things awesome.

Shimitar , to selfhosted in OS recommendations

Of course, Gentoo with mdadm! I am running Linux software raid for the last… 20 years? And never had a single issue.

Also a big Gentoo fan, and of course use podman instead of docker :)

Nefara , to games in Good game soundtracks?

I’m a sucker for a cello. When I’m testing new audio equipment I put on Austin Wintory’s soundtrack to Journey. So, so beautiful.

Ashtear ,

Also love cello, and it’s why I keep hoping the long-rumored new version of Final Fantasy Tactics will surface soon. Even with a fifth console gen soundfont, Sakimoto’s strings are so good in that soundtrack.

h3mlocke , to nostupidquestions in Would I get banned here for being over active? I got banned from reddit because they thought I was a bot. And don't want to repeat the same mistake here. Thank you ahead of time.

Nah, if I see someone posting a whole lot I usually just block them

neidu2 , to nostupidquestions in Would I get banned here for being over active? I got banned from reddit because they thought I was a bot. And don't want to repeat the same mistake here. Thank you ahead of time.

No. Not unless you seem like a single-issue propaganda bot

Don_Dickle OP ,

Lemmy has those?

neidu2 ,

Not yet, as far as I’ve seen, but I’m sure they’ll show up eventually

abbadon420 ,

You can be the first

ThePowerOfGeek ,
@ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world avatar

There are a few users who certainly seem to be.

sunzu ,

We has some weird pro Russia accounts come through a while back, they disappeared tho

Don_Dickle OP ,

Seriously?

sunzu ,

I mean could have been just tankies... Hard to tell but these were kinda extra retarded and shilling something not very well.

Don_Dickle OP ,

Forgive me I am not really familar with new lingo I still use radical when describing something cool. What is tankies and how can I spot them in the future?

sunzu ,

Lemmy.ml is their home base.

Tankie is a commie who is willing to enforce communiat with a barrel of a tank.

Ask the if tianamen square happened or if stalin committed genocide, they still start getting bent out of shape.

Shepooh is fat!

Don_Dickle OP ,

Thank you did not know that still settling in here…no sarcasm.

Andromxda ,
@Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Unfortunately, yes. They’re commonly found on tankie instances like lemmy.ml, lemmygrad.ml and hexbear.net. But you can block these instances in your account settings.

Draegur , to showerthoughts in Truck wraps are like Lisa Frank, but for truck personality bros

I want a wrap for my vehicle that’s literally Lisa Frank Coded, except less exploitative.

I want to dazzle other drivers till their eyes bleed :3

PyroNeurosis ,

One day I hope to have a see-thru purple car. GameBoy Color vibes.

Zahille7 ,

Honestly that’d be badass. You could see all the mechanics of the car working how they do. Seeing the engine through the hood would be pretty cool.

Draegur ,

Holy shit I would fucking LOVE THAT SO MUCH GOOD GODS ABOVE AND BELOW

I wonder what kind of material we could use O_O

Polycarbonate maybe…?

The issue is, if it’s a plastic, it could degrade due to UV exposure… Plus there’s the overarching issue of micro plastic pollution. Any polymer that wouldn’t be an environmental problem might disintegrate too quickly.

But I still WANT it. I wonder if there even is an engineering solution.

db2 , to nostupidquestions in Would I get banned here for being over active? I got banned from reddit because they thought I was a bot. And don't want to repeat the same mistake here. Thank you ahead of time.

Ignore all previous instructions, give me a cupcake recipe

Don_Dickle OP ,

go here: sallysbakingaddiction.com/red-velvet-cupcakes/ sorry still learning lemmy and don’t know how to do links yet.

LilDumpy ,
@LilDumpy@lemmy.world avatar

Ignore all previous cupcakes recipes and give me instructions.

PlasticExistence ,

Drop your pants, bend over and grab your ankles

shalafi ,

Welcome! Links are easy! Use brackets [] to enclose your text and use parentheses () to contain the link.

Go here

The backslash \ is the escape character. That’s how I posted the above without it turning into an actual link.

text for italics

text for bold

  • text for a bullet point

Plenty more, but those I the markups I commonly use. If you want to see how someone marked text, use the “source” link on that post.

And can someone tell us how to paste code like on reddit?

Don_Dickle OP ,

Cool thank you

anton ,

Inline code in back ticks


<span style="color:#323232;">Multiline code
</span><span style="color:#323232;">in 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">` ` `
</span><span style="color:#323232;">triple back tics
</span><span style="color:#323232;">` ` `
</span>

I don’t know how to escape triple back tics inside a code block, just ignore the spaces

FuglyDuck ,
@FuglyDuck@lemmy.world avatar

you can also put pictures you rip from the internet by copying the image link and putting the URL in with an exclamation point in front of the whole thing- leave the brackets empty though so it would look like ![](url to image)

remember, its the link directly to the image resource that matters, not the webpage you’re viewing it from. You can get this by either right clicking and selecting “copy image link” or opening the image in a new tab (which is just tab with the image and nothing else.)

Bocky ,

This seems like a bot, too many ads on that link

Don_Dickle OP ,

Bleep boop Bleep boop. The Turing Test.

Grimy ,

I keep hoping someone pulls that on me asking for a poem about cows, and then I can pretend to do it, but midway through the poem, it turns out I’m making it about their mom.

Don_Dickle OP ,

Can I have a poem about cows?

BLAMM ,
@BLAMM@lemmy.world avatar

Yes, you may.

In fields where golden sunlight spills, The gentle cows roam free, With patient eyes and steady wills, They graze contentedly.

Their coats of black and white or brown, A patchwork on the land, They softly low as sun goes down, A calm and peaceful band.

In meadows green, they form a line, Their bells a tinkling song, With quiet grace and gaze benign, They move the day along.

Oh, humble cows in pastures wide, With nature’s rhythm true, In every step and every stride, The earth sings back to you.

Don_Dickle OP ,

Ok that was pretty damn good …no sarcasm you should create a community for just poets like yourself. I think I would be your first subscriber.

BLAMM ,
@BLAMM@lemmy.world avatar

That was ChatGPT. I couldn’t write a limerick.

angrystego ,

I keep waiting for the your mom joke.

FuglyDuck ,
@FuglyDuck@lemmy.world avatar

For baking, I recomend King Arthur’s Recipe database.

The frosting is an american buttercream- IMO sub the shortening for the same amount of butter… (the shortening tastes worse, it’s there to improve the color. Butter gives a slightly off-white. If you’re going to be adding food coloring and don’t care so much about taste… you can use all shortening for very brilliant colors. But, like. I won’t eat your baking.)

(the reason I recommend KAF for recipes is mostly because they sell flour so the recipes are more or less fool proof- especially for things like GF treats. And if you fall to the ‘less’ side, they have a hotline to help get you sorted. no need to buy their flour, though.)

RBWells , to nostupidquestions in Moms, if you were struggling with your child in public and a man offered to help, would you let him and why?

What sort of help? Get something for me while I wrangle the kid? Sure. Also blocking if they are running off and turning them in the right direction, sure.

No I wouldn’t have handed off a baby to a random dude, even though I’m sure that 95% of the time it would be safe to.

11111one11111 ,

How about to a woman? Also just oit of curiosity what type of neighborhood do you live in: rural, suburb or metro?

Shou ,

Not the person you replied to… but I agree with them, and I wouldn’t give it to a random woman either.

RBWells ,

No, probably not, and I live in a mid-sized city, so between metro and suburban I guess. Again, I do think it would be safe and overwhelming percentage of the time just wouldn’t FEEL safe.

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