I’ve focused a bit too much on films here, so thought I’d throw in something on British horror books and Clive Barker seemed a bit too obvious, so I was fishing for some kind of documentary on Ramsey Campbell and found this, which also includes Clive Barker as well as Peter Atkins (wrote Hellraiser 2) as well as American...
The Crooked Forest (Polish: Krzywy Las) is a grove of oddly-shaped pine trees located in the village of Nowe Czarnowo near the town of Gryfino, West Pomerania, in north-western Poland. It is a protected natural monument of Poland....
How it this technology related? Is it because the person of interest is a tech exec? I don’t think a person’s diet (or their oddly justified and unfounded blood transfusions) really counts as tech news
Russia has taken to chemically lowering its soldiers’ inhibitions to guarantee these ill-trained civilians and convicts continue to fight no matter the odds in the ongoing war in Ukraine, according to a UK defense think tank.
When we go out of our comfort zone, go for some new adventure or new challenge, we will naturally pay more attention to what happens in our minds as we’re going through this new experience....
I came to contact with the darker side during my teens (nothing too extreme), and the moment when I woke up from it and realized what I was doing was one of scariest moments of my life. In a weird way, it also gave me a bit of confidence as “awakening” was something that I felt with such a clarity. I really felt the wrongness, the empathy and the disgust, and I really felt the immeasurable (both tiny and large) gap between my “normal” self and my “darker” self.
On the other hand, playing violent games like Doom, Duke Nukem, Mortal Kombat was just fun, and being attracted and fascinated with the violent parts was somewhat weird but not so serious as in real life.
In the end, teens are age of self-discovery, and correlation is not causation.
Teenagers are kids and kids need to be watched over. Not just directly, but by equipping them with the right tools, a bit of wisdom and the knowledge of being loved. They know too little of the world to be left alone on the journey. What are the odds that they will deal with the necessary horrors of live, let alone the unnecessary ones, in a healthy way?
The fact that one of my parents made it impossible for me to respect him, and thus impossible to be really watched over by him (except for some twisted form of “reverse psychology” which I had not even realized) was not a cause, but a poor setting in which I, as any human ever, just had to meet my darker side and learn to manage it. (Not that he had any better equipment than me, probably even worse!)
When I tried Mastodon, I found I couldn't get the content I'm interested in there. I'm not really interested in following specific people; instead I want to see posts that fit my interests, regardless of who made them. Hence (apparently very unpopular on the Fediverse), I actually want an algorithm that can create a personalized...
As a point of pedantry, “show posts in timestamped order” and “show posts ordered by vote popularity” are both algorithms. Algorithm doesn’t have to mean “mysterious and nefarious Facebook feed magic”. However posts get picked and sorted for your feed, that’s the algorithm… even if it’s as simple as “pick random posts”. You got at a better name at the end of your post which is personalized recommendations. They typically require fairly exotic analysis pipelines that are much more computationally (and consequently financially) expensive to run than feed generation algorithms that are powered by the global/shared sorting criteria that are popular in the Fediverse.
But as others have noted:
Mastodon uses a people-focused approach. If you want a topic-focused approach… you found it in Lemmy. Sub to topic-based communities here.
Mastodon does have hashtags to represent topics, and those can be subscribed to just like people. Hashtags don’t have moderation teams to keep them on-topic though, so it can be a bit of a grab-bag of content. I find the result inferior to Lemmy, personally.
By curating your list of Lemmy communities or Mastodon hashtags, you can create a topic-oriented feed that caters to your interest. Tag/community discovery takes more work than a recommendation engine that tosses ideas your way autonomously, but also gives you more control. Either way, I don’t think you’ll find systems in the Fediverse that do personalized recommendations. In addition to the ideological opposition to them, they’re very complex and pricey which puts them a bit at-odds with volunteer run/funded infrastructure.
A lot of debate today about “community” vs “corporate”-driven distributions. I (think I) understand the basic difference between the two, but what confuses me is when I read, for example:...
openSUSE is an odd mix because they have a very good relationship with SUSE and Tumbleweed and Leap have different hierarchies. As a result, openSUSE is both upstream, apart from, alongside, and a derivative of the corporate distro.
openSUSE Factory is where development happens that eventually becomes openSUSE and SUSE Enterprise Linux (snapshots of Factory make up Tumbleweed). SUSE stabilizes a core system for their corporate customers and shares those binaries (as of 15.3) and source with openSUSE for Leap. openSUSE maintains a larger number of backports packages that are shared with SUSE as as community supported software repo.
Are the same petty mods running this show? If so, please ban me immediately. I don’t see how you can reconcile claiming to fight labor exploitation while at the same time giving away your labor for free to a billion dollar company.
I just use Photoshop CS6 (cloud subscriptions can get fucked) through wine the odd time I need it and so far I haven’t encountered any problems. Fusion360 is still super janky though, and I don’t know visio.
Alien, extra terrestrial life? Odds are yes. Sentient extra terrestrial life? Odds are slimmer but I’m guessing we’re less unique than we are on this planet. Extra terrestrial life with the technology to visit this planet? I’m not so sure about that one. Extra terrestrial life with the technology to visit this planet that still wants to after seeing what we’ve done with it the last few years? Yeah no.
There were, I had every odd Samsung flagship phone since the S3, and two of them (S5 and S7 or S7 and S9) were waterproof with removable backs to change the battery (and SD card)
Despite being right handed, it feels more comfortable to place my phone in my left front pocket. Maybe because having a wallet in my right pocket predates using mobile phones. What feels most natural for you?
I’m an odd one, left back pocket with keys in back right pocket. Although in my defense part of that is because girls pants/jeans typically don’t have front pockets or are so small you can’t put anything bigger than a quarter into them.
I usually try to stay out of the whole snap vs flatpak discussion. Although I am just really confused as to why flatpak just does not seem to care about usability. You’re trying to create a universal packaging format I would think the point of it is that a user can just install an app and after reviewing permissions it should...
I use DuckDuckGo. Oddly, though, I find that results on searches for specific Linux issues I may be running into are almost better on Google. Given the number of people here saying they get better results with something other than Google, I’m curious if anyone else has had similar or contradictory experiences with Linux troubleshooting searches.
It feels like every time I find a podcast about security/networking/technology the hosts end up saying some pretty off-color stuff, or I look them up and they also host right wing podcasts. Are there any that are more leftist, hosted by LGBT peeps, or at least not actively bigoted ?
I don’t listen to tech podcasts at all, but now that you mention it, the concept seems odd to me, too. Tech involves objective facts, scientific reasoning, and logic, which are three things I definitely don’t associate with modern conservatism.
Most of lemmy’s community mods thus far are just passionate pioneers who want to refound their favorite subreddits here and then invite people over and demote interested people to mod to make more entirely-new moderators, if the migrated subs are big ones, then odds are the actual mods for the originals are the powertripping, far-left and probable-chomo type who don’t wanna give up the powertrip they enjoy on reddit for a small refuge that nobody posts on in comparison.
From the Steam Sale, some casual games about playing with the odds:
Peglin is quite fun and short. The more pegs you hit, the more it damages an enemy. Highly replayable with all the modifiers making each game unique.
Roll is similar, modifying dice to get the highest score in 2500 rolls. There is way more complex calculations, but I like how messy it gets.
From the ones already on the library, just Hollow Knight which has been a delightful yet frustrating experience. The soundtrack is stunning, and I love me some platforming challenge.
So your argument is repeating and agreeing with what I just told you: that a malicious act is malicious regardless of how many people do it. Thank you for conceding that point, however odd it is to frame my argument as your own argument. Given you’re still taking my side, I’m fine with it…
And then right after that you vaguely argue against yourself that because one country commits corporate espionage, it’s okay that other countries commit corporate espionage.
You’re making a case in support of my argument that malicious acts are malicious regardless of how many people commit them, and then subsequently arguing against yourself, which I do appreciate, so thank you for your support!
Protip: try not to precisely paraphrase the argument the person you’re arguing against has put forward, including their example, and then agree with their point and example; this will usually lead to you losing the argument.
I can wear a dress to work and nobody criticizes me. I’d be really sad if I had to wear pants all the time, they’re just not as comfortable. Let’s normalize pretty dresses for dudes!
It’s not like OP is saying you have to wear a skirt, just that they personally feel bad for men who have to wear pants. No one is forcing you to wear a skirt, lol.
I like the customizable LEDs on my razer mouse mat, except when my PC (2021 15.6-inch razer laptop) decides that since I just went 6 hours without installing what are now almost daily win10 patches, it’s time to fuck up my drivers- and then it exits sleep mode despite the lid being closed and there being nothing wrong with my power settings, causing my fans to jet-engine, the logo led thing to come on and the mouse mat to shine brighter than a sun with its default color-cycle thing. And for bonus points, sometimes it even tries to address the problem by actually auto-updating at the time I told it to (1 AM or something), so I get startled by the “du dun, duh dun doooooo” which always seems louder at night.
And I dare not switch to linux, as razer laptops are not a common laptop choice and therefore it’s unclear how I’d be able to keep all its complicated and already-buggy drivers and proprietary software up to date so they don’t make it overheat within the first week, especially since the odds of me finding any help online for converting such an exotic rig to ubuntu are minimal to none.
BBC 2's Horror Cafe (September 1990) with Clive Barker, Ramsey Campbell, John Carpenter, Lisa Tuttle and Peter Atkins (onion.tube)
I’ve focused a bit too much on films here, so thought I’d throw in something on British horror books and Clive Barker seemed a bit too obvious, so I was fishing for some kind of documentary on Ramsey Campbell and found this, which also includes Clive Barker as well as Peter Atkins (wrote Hellraiser 2) as well as American...
The Crooked Forest (www.weirdworm.com)
The Crooked Forest (Polish: Krzywy Las) is a grove of oddly-shaped pine trees located in the village of Nowe Czarnowo near the town of Gryfino, West Pomerania, in north-western Poland. It is a protected natural monument of Poland....
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Russia is sending 'disposable' soldiers to fight Ukraine high on amphetamines to ensure they 'still run at machine guns,' military expert says (www.businessinsider.com)
Russia has taken to chemically lowering its soldiers’ inhibitions to guarantee these ill-trained civilians and convicts continue to fight no matter the odds in the ongoing war in Ukraine, according to a UK defense think tank.
Going out of comfort zone is good because it can help catch our "inner demons" at work
When we go out of our comfort zone, go for some new adventure or new challenge, we will naturally pay more attention to what happens in our minds as we’re going through this new experience....
Microblogging Platform with an Algorithm (kbin.social)
When I tried Mastodon, I found I couldn't get the content I'm interested in there. I'm not really interested in following specific people; instead I want to see posts that fit my interests, regardless of who made them. Hence (apparently very unpopular on the Fediverse), I actually want an algorithm that can create a personalized...
Can someone explain to me the difference between "community-driven" and "corporate-driven" distributions and its implications?
A lot of debate today about “community” vs “corporate”-driven distributions. I (think I) understand the basic difference between the two, but what confuses me is when I read, for example:...
What's your uptime record? (lemmy.world)
Mine is in the picture: 1544 days and counting!...
Any good alternatives to browsers?
I’ve just been looking for a replacement for Firefox Beta.
I got banned from the Reddit sub for asking about union related materials for distribution.
Are the same petty mods running this show? If so, please ban me immediately. I don’t see how you can reconcile claiming to fight labor exploitation while at the same time giving away your labor for free to a billion dollar company.
why did you switch?
Hey everyone,...
Do Aliens Exist?
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Into which pocket do you place your phone?
Despite being right handed, it feels more comfortable to place my phone in my left front pocket. Maybe because having a wallet in my right pocket predates using mobile phones. What feels most natural for you?
Why can't flatpaks just work
I usually try to stay out of the whole snap vs flatpak discussion. Although I am just really confused as to why flatpak just does not seem to care about usability. You’re trying to create a universal packaging format I would think the point of it is that a user can just install an app and after reviewing permissions it should...
Does anyone use Bing for their search engine?
I feel like it’s dying and the people I know say they use Google or duck duck go.
Non right-wing tech podcasts?
It feels like every time I find a podcast about security/networking/technology the hosts end up saying some pretty off-color stuff, or I look them up and they also host right wing podcasts. Are there any that are more leftist, hosted by LGBT peeps, or at least not actively bigoted ?
Why would anyone want to be a moderator?
Are moderators just purely altruistic? Or do they have an ulterior motive?
Weekly "What are you playing" Thread || Week of July 9th
Hey all!...
China raises five demands during Yellen’s visit (asiatimes.com)
I feel sorry for men who have to wear pants
I can wear a dress to work and nobody criticizes me. I’d be really sad if I had to wear pants all the time, they’re just not as comfortable. Let’s normalize pretty dresses for dudes!
Everything has LEDs now and they drive me nuts
Why does every small appliance or useful home electronics item have the BRIGHTEST LEDs in them?...
This was the last drop, i'll start avoiding Reddit asap