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andrew_s , 9 hours ago

Oh this is one of those new-fangled 'immutable' OSs. I just watched a PeerTube Video from The Linux Experiment about it - it looks complicated but it's something I'd like to try out at some point in the future.

andrew_s , 19 hours ago

It'd be interesting if men took on their wife's first name, so it would immediately indicate to others if a man was married or not. And then there'd be pushback, in the same way there is to the 'Mrs' and 'Miss' titles, and parents would start naming their sons with female names to start with. (it works less well the other way around, because there's already girls called 'Dylan' and 'Taylor', etc).

andrew_s , 17 hours ago

Well, yeah. Dunno how popular those names still are though. There's also androgynous-sounding name like 'Alex' or 'Andy, of course, but I figured that the general idea was to take a flight of fancy and riff on it, not shoot it down from the skies.

andrew_s , 18 hours ago

This is from 'Shaun' btw, who I mostly associate with videos criticising JK Rowling and her controversial friends.

It's worth the watch, imo (though I can't claim to be massively informed about the subject, so I have nothing to refute what he is saying). From what I remember, the gist of the video is that Israel is colonial power in a post-colonial world.

andrew_s , 1 day ago

I bought the Last of Us 2 upgrade, so I can't really criticise anyone buying this, but I've played this game to it's absolute death - had every conversation, completed every mission, even played through on the hardest difficulty to get all the trophies - so I can't imagine ever playing it again. It's Guerrilla Games' own fault - if they hadn't made it so good, they could have had an extra tenner from me.

andrew_s , 1 day ago

Crikey - it was only added a few hours ago and it's already all kicking off on their GitHub's Issues page.

andrew_s , 4 days ago

It's perhaps worth mentioning that - unlike Lemmy - PeerTube makes subscriber info public. I mean, it's no great secret that I've subbed to your channel at !startgametrailers, but it's the kind of thing that some people care about.

andrew_s , 3 days ago (edited 3 days ago)

Yeah (well, nerds anyway). With Lemmy, if you do curl --header 'accept: application/activity+json' --location <a href="https://lemmy.wtf/c/gametrailers/followers" rel="nofollow ugc" target="_blank">https://lemmy.wtf/c/gametrailers/followers</a> | jq . it tells you there's 68 but not who they are. With PeerTube you can do curl --header 'accept: application/activity+json' --location <a href="https://peertube.wtf/video-channels/startgametrailers/followers?page=1" rel="nofollow ugc" target="_blank">https://peertube.wtf/video-channels/startgametrailers/followers?page=1</a> | jq . and it provides names (including me and you and a bot from leaf.dance)

(edit to fix URLs)

andrew_s , 5 days ago

I think I've finally fully mourned the loss of the 'Marathon' name to the clearly inferior 'Snickers' - bring 'em back at the size Marathons bars were, that'd be a thing!

andrew_s , 5 days ago

And, also unfortunately, he apparently has some fans here based on the downvotes.

Maybe, but every video (or any animated format, really), gets downvoted on Lemmy. At the minute, this vid has the same number of downvotes as 'Why Aren't Swing Wing Aircraft Made Any More?'. A link to a remote site, that's known for serving ads and for being a pain to get back from on mobile, is going to attract downvotes. Some of it depends on how engaging (or not) various front-ends make this kind of content - a comparison between what anyone using lemmy-ui sees and what I see:

https://i.imgur.com/Ic7DeOm.jpeg

andrew_s , 11 days ago

Chris Sawyer: I programmed Rollercoaster Tycoon in x86 assembly!
This guy: pfft, what a amateur

andrew_s , 14 days ago

Hey! This guy doesn't know about the three seashells!

andrew_s , 15 days ago

"Don't have anything monetary, per se" - I can relate.

andrew_s , 15 days ago

Wanting to end all text communications with ellipses ...

andrew_s , 14 days ago

I think it's just a desire to indicate some uncertainty about something (like - I'm not an expert, my opinion on whatever could change with time or new information). A full stop seems arrogant somehow.

I realise it's not a good impulse and mostly resist. Mostly ...

(that last one's nothing to do with the above reasoning, it's just a line from Aliens that's stuck in my head).

andrew_s , 15 days ago

This is why I always say 'thanks' to GPT when we've finished chatting.

andrew_s , 16 days ago

All the other comments except from that one are from alien.top (Reddit users turned into bots), which your instance is defederated from.

andrew_s , 16 days ago

Ha ha. This is like seeing Predators at a Disney theme park (I've no idea if they own the franchise - they probably do).

andrew_s , 18 days ago

Ranked by complexity:

1. Demystify the universe
2. Demystify the human brain
3. Demystify our sed scripts

Think we should maybe walk before we run here.

andrew_s , 22 days ago

I'm guessing it's an artifact of them supporting both platforms like Lemmy (who's users make Threads and Comments in Magazines) and platforms like Mastodon (who's users make Posts and Replies in Microblogs).

If you don't like that, you're really not going to like what they call downvotes ...

andrew_s , 22 days ago

They call them 'reduces'

andrew_s , 21 days ago

Yeah - if you don't like a post you 'reduce' it, and if you do then you 'thicken' it.

Only kidding: they use 'favourites'

andrew_s , 22 days ago

For the full Low Quality Facts Mastodon experience, please have every 3rd post be a nag about subscribing to your Patreon. Thanks!

andrew_s , 22 days ago

Doesn't look like it. There doesn't seem to be much of anything about discovering compatible things on other fediverse platforms (e.g. MBIN magazines, a.gup.pe groups, pixelfed groups [if they even exist], PeerTube channels, discourse / hubzilla whatevers, Flipboard thingies, etc).

For PeerTube, a good discovery tool is https://fedi.video, but that also involves tootling around on some other instance and copy/pasting handles back to your own platform, so it's not exactly that convenient.

andrew_s , 22 days ago

a.gup.pe is a 3rd-party effort to wrangle individual Mastodon posts into Groups, so that Group-based fediverse platforms can follow them (a more familiar term for Group is 'community').

Example: https://piefed.social/c/[email protected]

andrew_s , 22 days ago

Yeah - those individual Mastodon posts were tagged with @[email protected] by their authors, and a.gup.pe picked up in the tag and made it part of the Group so PieFed could display it in a community.

For example: an original post was https://mastodon.social/@zhhz/113068522102706157 and how it appears on PieFed is https://piefed.social/post/225229

andrew_s , 22 days ago

a.gup.pe tells us - they Announce the post the same way that !fediverse Announced this post. I'm subscribed to both !photography and !fedivere, so get content from both in the same way.

andrew_s , 22 days ago

What Peertube needs is for other Fediverse platforms to build in a filter so only posts which contain video are displayed.

Latest PeerTube vids available on PieFed - should be quite handy hopefully, because - as you say - they normally get buried by any sort method that isn't 'New'

andrew_s , 23 days ago

There's not much in the way of communities on PieFed yet. The list is here: https://piefed.social/communities/local?sort_by=last_active%20desc

Following communities from Mastodon works about as well as following Lemmy ones - this is something I'd like to improve, but it's only very recently that we got a community that wasn't a meta / testing one. Following users is less spammy, 'cos you'll get their posts, but not all their comments to other people's posts, so maybe you could try following someone like Rimu.

Either way, Mastodon doesn't process outboxes and backfill old stuff, so you'll have to wait for something new to be posted.

andrew_s , 23 days ago

It'd be every reply I think.

It's partially fixable, by interacting with Mastodon the same way PeerTube does and have the community Announce only the posts. For everything else after that, it depends on whether the user is local or not. Anything a local user does could be sent directly, and if a remote user replied to a local user's post, the local user could send a 'post update', for Mastodon to then retrieve the replies collection, circumventing the problem of us not having the remote user's private keys. But if a remote user replied to a remote user's post on a local community, they'd be nothing we could do about it (don't have the keys for the 'post update', can't Announce it without it being spammy either)

andrew_s , 24 days ago

Communities on feddit.de won't update 'cos the instance is kaput - the replacement is https://feddit.org/

andrew_s , 24 days ago

Most of their communities look to be German, but their biggest one - !europe - is English language only

andrew_s , 25 days ago

textiles/needlecraft combo projects: !bistitchual

andrew_s , 25 days ago

Trailers: !gametrailers

andrew_s , 30 days ago

In my experience it looks like a case of matrix clients not doing a good job of communicating that things happening in the background haven't finished yet, and throwing generic error messages (a bit like lemmy-ui does sometimes).

I've been able to join invite-only rooms on other instances - it said 'failed' at first, but when I went back later it turned out that I had actually joined.

andrew_s , 30 days ago

I've only ever used Element for Android. The source is here: https://github.com/element-hq

andrew_s , 1 month ago

I'll admit to assuming he must be kind of a cool nerd for naming some of his SpaceX things after Culture ships (from Iain M. Banks' novels), but now I feel sullied by association from having enjoyed the same books.

andrew_s , 1 month ago

Yeah, it's the strange thing about engaging post titles - people seem to be so busy answering them, they 'forget' to also upvote them. In contrast, a meme that's funny but about which there's not much to say, is more likely to get an upvote as some kind of compensation for the lack of discussion.

andrew_s , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Lemmy and PeerTube hasn't worked for a few months now - you'll have to fetch the vids manually if you want 'em.

There nothing wrong from PT's end - they fed with PieFed (e.g. the Linux experiment channel is here assuming your UI doesn't redirect you), MBIN (I believe), and Mastodon, but some change in Lemmy broke something.

Old post about it: https://lemmy.ml/post/15180175

andrew_s , 1 month ago

If they're just looking for the word 'lemmy' in the URL, link to the version of the post from an instance that doesn't have 'lemmy' in. E.g. for this post, instead of https://lemmy.ml/post/19458783, link to https://piefed.social/post/208919 or some even more obscure platform.

andrew_s , 1 month ago

I've seen 'Active / Passive' used, that seems alright. There's plenty of alternative terms to use without borrowing terminology from sexual roleplay.

Anyway, the Sub is supposed to be the one that's actually in control for this kind of thing (otherwise you'd just be in an abusive relationship), so that confuses things when you start trying to applying it elsewhere.

andrew_s , 1 month ago

Yeah, you're right, that was a clumsy word choice. My experience is mostly from watching The Duke of Burgundy tbh

andrew_s , 1 month ago

I seem to have stumbled into an argument that people are more passionate about than me. I mentioned I'd seen 'active/passive' used (in computer networking), and in that context, it 'seems alright' (in the sense of actively giving demands, vs. passively accepting them [and doing what it's told, of course])

If someone has made good-faith request not to use certain terminology (like Master/Slave), then I'm generally more interested in finding acceptable alternatives than I am in dismissing their concerns outright. If, at the end of a proper search for alternatives, nothing suitable can be found, then fair enough. I'd question the idea that it's really impossible to find something else though, but - for now at least - I'm sure that Dom/Sub isn't it.

andrew_s , 1 month ago

No, the other account isn't something you can log into or interact with. PieFed knows whether I've already voted on something, so it won't let me vote again by changing the 'vote privately' setting.

andrew_s , 1 month ago

Random string, yeah, like https://piefed.social/u/WYJH5o7OGkbgtxA

andrew_s , 1 month ago

The 'real user' and the 'private voter' are 2 different accounts as far a external instances are concerned, but only 1 as far as piefed.social is concerned. So if you banned either one, it would have the same effect, because PF would locate the same account from the information provided.

Likewise, a piefed user can't vote twice on something, they make one vote, and then the 'private voting' setting determines how it is sent out. The local system has tracked that they have voted, and changing the setting won't change that.

There's always more work to do of course, but piefed.social is a small instance, with manual approval required for registration, no API to script things like mass downvoting, and concepts such as 'attitude' which would prevent that anyway, so I can't foresee anything too disastrous happening from this little experiment.

andrew_s , 1 month ago

I saw that there's !chronicillness

Dunno if it's exactly what you're looking for - it seems quite memey

andrew_s , 1 month ago

On lemmy.ml, it's showing that your post has been made in the 'afaraf' language btw, so most people won't see it, and it's probably worth fixing with an edit.