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MentallyExhausted , to science_memes in big bro jupiter
Gradually_Adjusting ,
@Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world avatar

Siblings, amirite?

The_Che_Banana ,
Dasnap , (edited ) to nostupidquestions in Who/what are racists according to UK protests? Why are they protesting?
@Dasnap@lemmy.world avatar

I read some protestors are protesting against racism.

There have been counter-protests which have vastly outnumbered the supremacist protest. It’s great to see.

Basically this was triggered by a false rumor that recent child murders were committed by a Muslim immigrant, where in reality they were an unstable 1st generation (so fully UK born and raised) and from a Christian family. It was basically the tipping point for a lot of pent-up racists. A former MI6 agent has pretty much confirmed this rumor was probably started by a propaganda group, likely Russian, and likely a response to a more left-leaning political party recently being voted into No. 10.

astrsk , to games in Balatro celebrates 2 million sales, will feature major gameplay update in 2025!
@astrsk@kbin.run avatar

For anyone interested in game development: Balatro is made with Love2D. Which means the exe you download from steam can be unzipped using just about any zip program (might need to change the file extension from exe to zip) and the whole source code and 2D asset files are available for perusing. Not even obfuscated, full variable names and comments available to inspect as a real world example of a working game that has sold like hotcakes because the end result is good. Let it inspire you, let it teach you :)

lanolinoil ,
@lanolinoil@lemmy.world avatar

VERY COOL! I have used Love for some simple stuff before but I didn’t realize balatro was built in it.

mikwee ,
@mikwee@thebrainbin.org avatar

Yoooooo awesome! Even source-available games are better than proprietary games.

drislands ,

Oh shit, that’s amazing! That could be a real learning opportunity for folks interested in starting game dev like me!

Daxtron2 ,

Thus also applies to many games made with Unity as well. It just requires a program like ILSpy to view it all.

OpenStars , to science_memes in Hermit Crab Housing Market
@OpenStars@discuss.online avatar

B-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-but tHiNk Of AlL tHe LoSt ShArEhOlDeR vAlUe ThO!?

frunch ,

🪙🦀📈

AFallingAnvil ,
@AFallingAnvil@lemmy.ca avatar

Crab coin, a crusto currency

Noodle07 ,

Even crypto achieved carcinisation

AFallingAnvil , (edited )
@AFallingAnvil@lemmy.ca avatar

Web 3.0? More like Wet 3.0 amiright people?!

Asafum ,

Seriously though, if crabs used currency this would never happen. There would be one crab with all the shells and the other crabs would have to bring food offerings or whatever their currency would be in order to get one.

the_post_of_tom_joad ,
@the_post_of_tom_joad@hexbear.net avatar

But how would the crab protect his extra shells?

Asafum ,

The US would use its navy to protect the wealthy crabs “important commerce lanes” lol

PhlubbaDubba ,

Mr. Krabs

ooterness ,
MarcomachtKuchen ,

Shellholder value

blanketswithsmallpox ,

Surprisingly they don’t have that much of the market.

fastcompany.com/…/how-much-of-the-housing-market-…

OpenStars ,
@OpenStars@discuss.online avatar

I counted the word “institutional” used almost once per sentence. There were a couple of sentences that didn’t use it, but there was at least one sentence that used it twice. Plus all the figures and captions for them too.

Though despite being not “institutional”, the market seems to have behaved a little as if it were, due to use of software to fix prices at what the landlords believed that the market would bear. So still price gouging, regardless of whether done by individuals or giant mega-corporations.

Though still a good point that the article makes.

AFC1886VCC , to lemmyshitpost in Ingredience
bitfucker ,

Did he taste good?

lath ,

The best!

abbadon420 ,

You’re not the same person. Your names may look alike, but you’re not the same.

lath ,

Indeed we are not. Human and cat combined, we are the next step in Pokemon evolution! Not just a lad anymore and no longer a kitty. Together as one, we are lath!

chemical_cutthroat , to nostupidquestions in Is this normal for girls or just a extreme edge case? (Serious question)
@chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world avatar

Any cucumber you handle for 3 hours for any reason is garbage. You wouldn’t put it in a salad because it would be mush. This is a BS post, obviously.

ByteOnBikes OP ,

her post may not be real, but is it a real thing?

chemical_cutthroat ,
@chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world avatar

Fucking yourself with a cucumber? Sure, if that’s all you got, get it, queen. I’d suggest something slightly more substantial, though.

meco03211 ,

The fuck you mean substantial?

AmidFuror ,

Watermelon.

chemical_cutthroat ,
@chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world avatar
ekZepp ,
@ekZepp@lemmy.world avatar

Anything can become a sextoy… if you’re brave enough.

ArcaneSlime ,

Watermelon would be the worst melon though, drill a hole in a honeydew instead lmao.

pete_the_cat ,

Eggplant, obviously

🍆🍆🍆

Mediocre_Bard ,

Oh … ouch.

southsamurai , to fediverse in Im counting the days for a Piefed app so i can switch over and be able to forget about ml drama and weirdness
@southsamurai@sh.itjust.works avatar

The only thing that surprises me is that anyone is surprised.

I don’t intend that to be snarky, more jokey. But, yeah, it’s pretty much common knowledge. Not the first time they’ve expressed unpleasant opinions on the subject, though not quite this bluntly. There was a minor kerfluffle over it not too long after the reddit exodus.

And it isn’t unexpected tbh, that’s a pretty bog standard tankie take, if perhaps a tad more trope filled.

To me, lemmy is kinda like a less important version of the Apollo missions. You put up with someone unpleasant because they can get the job done, until things get to the point it can be done without them. German scientists, tankie devs. Yeah, yeah, von Braun wasn’t a “real” nazi; whatever.

At some point, either lemmy gets enough movement to get a less extreme team on board, it gets forked, or something else comes along.

Quill7513 ,

I’ll keep posting about Sublinks as long as Lemmy is primarily developed by people whom suck

threelonmusketeers ,

How is Sublinks development going? Are they getting close to Lemmy as far as features go? Any stable instances yet?

I’m aware of the project, but haven’t been following it closely the past few months.

Blaze ,

I’m on the Matrix space, things are still moving.

No release date yet, and it’s summer so people are on annual leave

goferking0 ,

One instance admin said they were switching any day now like a month ago 😂.

Blaze ,

Ouch 😅

goferking0 ,

Oh my bad, was just soon

beehaw.org/comment/3690558

maegul ,
@maegul@lemmy.ml avatar

Genuinely curious … what exactly is the problematic stance here?

Is it that they think the boxer was a biological male and therefore trans female? Or is it referring to then as a biological male (which seems justifiably politically incorrect to me but not heinous in trying to point out that the Olympic/bougousie can’t be that transphobic, could honestly be a language problem).

Or is it the statement that the bourgeoisie aren’t trans phobic?

Sekoia , (edited )

“The transgender topic” is already weird as a statement (kinda like “the gay agenda”, it comes off as only considering it as a political statement?), and “clearly promoted by the bourgeoisie” implies it’s bad.

“As far as […] lgbt flags on government buildings”: it’s… not far at all? Again, weird statement.

“Biological male” is both wrong for the boxer (she’s cis) and generally used for transphobia (trans women on HRT aren’t biological males by any reasonable definition). It’s also generally conspiratorial.

Overall it’s not explicitly transphobic or bad to me, but it shows at minimum a very misinformed perspective.

maegul ,
@maegul@lemmy.ml avatar

Overall it’s not explicitly transphobic or bad to me, but it shows at minimum a very misinformed perspective.

Yea that was my impression too. AFAIU, they’re from Europe so there may be a language barrier too. Don’t know how true that is though of course.

Otherwise, tangentially, as far as all the anti-tankie sentiments that may have been prompted by this are concerned, I’ve only seen good culture from them on trans issues.

EDIT: and thanks for the reply!

Arbiter ,

The idea that trans rights are some kind of bourgeoisie conspiracy.

maegul ,
@maegul@lemmy.ml avatar

I personally don’t see that in the statement … at all actually. Maybe they believe that, I don’t know … but I’d need to seem more to believe that.

From the context of the conversation, it seems more like the inversion, where they doubt that transphobia is some kind of bourgeoisie conspiracy given that trans-rights are getting support from enough parts of mainstream society.

Which IMO, as I’ve said in other comments, is a rather superficial angle on the whole thing (from both sides of the posted conversation). There’s undoubtedly a lot of transphobic energy in mainstream society, with plenty of influential people being shitty people about it, but whether it is or isn’t some conspiracy or whatever doesn’t seem like a helpful way of looking at it.

I could of course be wrong and ignorant. It just seems to me like the malice v incompetence dynamic, where most people can be vile for pretty base reasons, without culture playing a big role but without it having to be some conspiracy or organised effort (as the person nutomic was responding to was claiming)

TORFdot0 , to asklemmy in What has been the worst church service you have ever attended?

When we were young and first married, my wife and I decided to try a church that we had saw online. The website and name made it seem like it would be alright and more modern thinking. We were wrong.

We pull up and the church building is a double wide trailer, a congregation of about 30 people. The preacher appears to be in his 70s.

He sees that he has guests and singles us out and puts us on the spot to introduce ourselves to whole congregation. He never refers to my wife by her name instead just calling her “Wife”. He prays for us multiple times during the service and bring us up during the sermon. (Still just referring to us as TORFdot0 and wife)

Speaking of the sermon, he begins the sermon talking about the gay democrat agenda and how the gays are ruining God’s institution of marriage and how it will soon be illegal to be married to a woman. This gets an audible sigh from the ladies in the front row.

He also preached to cherish our Bible before the black socialist devil in the white house takes them from us.

He compared the Bible to an old hound dog and started barking for going on two minutes. It’s like a dog because it warns us of things to come.

After what seems like an eternity of a sermon, he invites the kids up to the alter for some “Hallelujah” Candy (it’s the Sunday before Halloween). One child takes a second handful of candy and the elderly pastor chastises him and then bends him over his knee and starts spanking him in front of the congregation.

Needless to say we did not give that church a second visit.

pseudonym ,

I don’t know why but the more I read of your story, the more the pastor turned into Baby Billy in my mind. Perfect match.

moistclump ,

Strong baby Billy vibes agreed

TriPolarBearz ,

it warns us of things to come

Ezekiel 23:20

She lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose semen was like that of horses.

NauticalNoodle ,

Next time I’d recommend reporting them to the IRS for promoting political activity.

Mirshe ,

They likely won’t do anything. The IRS is extremely gun shy about enforcing that doctrine ever since the Church of Scientology thing.

Wizard_Pope , to pics in Olympic gymnast Giorgia Villa is sponsored by parmesan and takes many photos with a wheel of cheese
@Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world avatar

Why does the website have this section? I am dying of laughter.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/dc70d298-250d-4488-a02a-94149c6ca2c1.png

RadioFreeArabia ,

perfetta

xantoxis , to showerthoughts in There's more evidence supporting Biden not stealing the 2020 election than there is JD Vance not having a sexual encounter with a couch.

Well there were repeated, detailed investigations into the election to gather that evidence.

We just need to give the same amount of scrutiny to the question of whether JD Vance fucks couches. Let’s get a senate subcommittee and stuff.

NegativeInf ,

Let’s lube up a leather couch, put it under a crate propped up with a stick in his Senate office, and once we catch him, see if the trap is filled with little Ottoman Vances.

Mac ,

yeah but the problem is the red team continued to push dangerous rhetoric to the point that people still don’t believe the election was legitimate.

I cannot believe organizations like that are allowed to push blatantly false information that harm everyday people and this nation.

Ferris ,

wait, am i an everyday perspn?

are you an everyday person?

what is an everyday person?

formergijoe OP ,

We gotta get the Cyber Ninjas on the case!

Deceptichum , to world in Media Bias Fact Check - Automation
@Deceptichum@quokk.au avatar

What a terrible idea.

MBFC is already incredibly biased.

It should be rejected not promoted.

Rooki OP ,
@Rooki@lemmy.world avatar

Ok then tell me an alternative we can use in the scale for free.

None? Then pls dont just complain complain complain… And dont suggest improvements.

Deceptichum ,
@Deceptichum@quokk.au avatar

You don’t.

There doesn’t exist a site to magically do what you want.

Likewise it’s not needed. It doesn’t add to the quality of discussion on the community. All it’s going to do is cause conflict as we now have to constantly point out to people how garbage the source is so that they don’t let it influence them.

catloaf ,

So much for “feedback is welcome” I guess

goferking0 ,

Figured it would take more than a day for that response to happen lol

TrippyFocus ,

As the other poster says we don’t need to have something like this at all.

If you’re adamant about it then make a post where people can suggest which one we use and vote on it. We can also adjust the bots comment to clearly call out the chosen ones biases and methodology. As it is now it’s actively harmful as I mention in my other comment.

Hugh_Jeggs ,

I find the only people that say MBFC is biased, are just saying they themselves have biased opinions so they don’t agree with the MBFC rating

I’m 1000% with you on this

geneva_convenience ,
@geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml avatar

Every newspaper has its bias. MBFC heavily favors western liberal perspectives. It is often fine on domestic policy but not reliable when it comes to foreign policy.

As this is worldnews and not Americanews, MBFC ratings are not reliable. Articles should be judged by the evidence they provide.

AdmiralObesLol ,
@AdmiralObesLol@lemmy.wtf avatar

You are a disgrace

Maalus ,

Boooo. Running a community as a mod-dictator and not being able to hear feedback and react to it like an adult. Just because you thought of something, doesn’t mean it is a good idea or that people will like it. The approach of “better than nothing” is naive and plain wrong - misinformation isn’t “better than nothing” it actively hurts the community.

nia_the_cat ,
@nia_the_cat@lemmy.world avatar

Seeing as this is the stance the admins stance on decisions that are majority hated by the community, I’m just gonna leave this instance and go to one with admins that are more user-focused.

I expect community leaders to take reasonable feedback from the community respectfully even if they disagree, rather than doubling down on very unpopular decisions. Especially when said community funds the platform.

The majority of the bots posts have more downvotes than upvotes. The community has voiced its dislike for this bot as a majority.

AhismaMiasma ,

Please remove this bot.

Rooki OP ,
@Rooki@lemmy.world avatar

No we dont. We saw the expected “ReMoVe ThE BoT” comments, because MBFC did hurt their feelings by not rating their favourite newspage the highest creditability on earth.

And just block it, then you can imagine how it is without the bot.

AhismaMiasma ,

I don’t care what it rates a particular news page, I care that you’re treating this as an objective/unbiased authority on truth that you feel needs to be communicated on every single post.

You could take a moment to reflect on all of the responses you’ve received, but your comments make it clear that you don’t value other perspectives.

Boozilla , to nostupidquestions in what is with child names like Aiden, Braiden etc?
@Boozilla@lemmy.world avatar

There’s a well-studied phenomenon called “social diffusion”. People of higher socioeconomic status seek out novel, unique, or fashionable baby names and start using them. These names gradually get picked up by families of lower socioeconomic status. Eventually the names become mainstream, and then finally decline in popularity.

cannedtuna ,

Okayden

ulkesh , (edited )
@ulkesh@lemmy.world avatar

This deserves way more upvotes.

Edit>> Come on, you can do better than 6 downvotes.

superkret ,

We could, but we don’t want to.

DrBob ,
@DrBob@lemmy.ca avatar

Social diffusion is an explanation of how information spreads, not just names.

My understanding is that unique names and neologism have long been a feature of African-American culture where North American Caucasians followed a family naming tradition. I think what has happened is some celebrities have moved towards a unique name scheme. But it feels like a mainstreaming of AA culture more than anything.

The impetus has been there in Europe. Many nations have/had very restrictive rules about names. They’d only have rules against it if people were trying to do it. I had Swiss friends who were very excited that their daughter was born in Canada so they could name her “Sora” which wasn’t in the approved name list in Switzerland.

Anyolduser ,

“Approved name list”? What the actual fuck?

MrsDoyle ,

Same in France, though they’ve loosened up a bit. Used to be saints names only.

PrincessLeiasCat ,

I believe Iceland has this as well.

DrBob ,
@DrBob@lemmy.ca avatar

Lol. Check out Denmark. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naming_law

timmytbt ,
Hackworth , to asklemmy in How do I pronounce "Kamala"?

Pres·i·dent /ˈprezəˌdent/

OprahsedCreature ,

Eth·nic·Clean·ser /Ð-nik klėnzr/

Hackworth ,

You’re a moron.

OprahsedCreature ,

Your father smelt of elderberries

SaltySalamander ,

Block'd

OprahsedCreature ,

😱🤣

LarkinDePark ,

Genocidaire.

xantoxis , to selfhosted in Immich relies on a third-party service that seems shady to me
  1. Seems like a very reasonable objection to me. I’d guess that most of us Immich users are using it in the first place because it improves the privacy of our photos, and a third party seeing our location data certainly undermines that.
  2. I would have complained had I noticed, so you might be the first one to notice. Immich’s userbase isn’t huge right now, it’s definitely possible.
  3. Featurewise, I’d like: a) a clearly documented way to disable map data leaving my server; b) a set of well-integrated choices (maybe even just two, as long as one of them is something like openstreetmap); c) the current configurability to be well documented.
  4. I’d love it if all such outbound data streams are also documented. Many security and privacy-focused products give you a “quiet” mode of some kind, where you can turn off everything that sends your data somewhere else. It’s a requirement in many enterprise installations.
pcouy OP ,

Thanks for the detailed feedback. According to one Immich dev, they used to use OSM’s raster tile provider but switched away from it since they were causing too much load on OSM’s servers.

There does not seem to be any non-commercial vector-tile provider at the moment (though OSM seems to be currently working on it), and it seems really overkill to try and self-host a tile provider (at least with the default level of details). Maybe the way is to find a balanced level of details that makes it reasonable to self host

dan , (edited )
@dan@upvote.au avatar

they were causing too much load on OSM’s servers.

They could host their own caching proxy between OSM and their users though.

Also, Home Assistant uses OpenStreetMap and they have more users than Immich does.

Edit: Home Assistant does use OSM data, but they use it via another third-party called CARTO, who at least have a proper site: carto.com/basemaps. Tiles come from URLs like https://basemaps.cartocdn.com/rastertiles/voyager/12/657/[email protected]

xantoxis ,

Home assistant’s main use case is showing you where your house is on a single map, though. Not sure how immich works, but if it’s one tile per photo with location data, that would be a MUCH bigger ask.

dan ,
@dan@upvote.au avatar

Oh yeah, that’s a good catch. Hosting their own proxy/CDN in front of OSM should be doable though.

acockworkorange ,

I can see that as a paid premium feature. There are costs to host anything.

dan ,
@dan@upvote.au avatar

At the end of the day, someone has to pay for it. Either the users pay, or Immich’s developers pay, or a map provider pays (by offering it for free and covering the costs).

pcouy OP ,

Or you can quite easily configure nginx as your personal caching proxy with an arbitrarily long TTL/retention duration (you can check out my follow-up post for instructions on doing that)

lemmyvore ,

You could also start by denying any outside connection to anything except private IP ranges for any docker container, and only allow it on a need to have basis.

It’s not enough to rely on the the good will and savvy of whoever made the software, you have to make the restrictions stick.

pcouy OP ,

It’s the clients (web/android app, probably iOS too) that are making these requests.

To the best of my knowledge, the Immich server inside the container is not making requests to the outside. It is merely sending a style.json to the client displaying a map, which then fetches tiles from the Cofractal URL inside this JSON.

snausagesinablanket , to lemmyshitpost in A picture is worth 1000 words
@snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world avatar
Track_Shovel OP ,
@Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net avatar

I like to imagine a little guillotine on the other side

Fades ,

Sadly, I can all but confirm there would be FAR MORE BLOOD. Needless to say, the penis is a very vascular area and will bleed A LOT for AWHILE.

Track_Shovel OP ,
@Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net avatar

I believe you can easily die from blood loss if you get bobbitted

capt_wolf ,
@capt_wolf@lemmy.world avatar
Socsa ,

I’ll take two

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