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Ask me anything.

I also develop Tesseract UI for Lemmy/Sublinks

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Thank you!

I knew that photoshop reminded me of someone, but I could not place it. Funny they're both con-artists 😆

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The entire Republican party needs checked for brain worms.

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Assuming $25 per meal, that $90M could have fed 1.2 million people for a day (3 meals/day). Or fewer people for a longer period of time.

Instead, it was spent on hate.

The wrong people have money.

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Took me a minute to realize this was in Dad Jokes. When I lived out in the boonies, that was, like, a Tuesday.

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That's literally how I got mine, though from Babbages when they were still a thing. I think I paid like $35 + tax for the unit (which came with Mario Tennis) and Wario Land.

Loved it, but I can see why it failed. Still, 3D Mario Tennis was amazing.

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Yeah, it was a cool concept, but the execution was terrible. For all its faults, the one I can't overlook is the fact that it required 6xAA batteries (that it would chew through in 2-3 hours). LIke, WTF? Its design literally required you to use it on a table/stationary location. They sold an AC adapter for it, but it was a separate purchase.

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Was it? The one I remember clipped onto the back of the controller in place of the battery box. Or did it have a power port on the unit itself ?(it's been forever lol)

My OG Game Boy had a 6v DC input on the side. My off-brand rechargeable pack for it plugged in there instead of clipping into the battery compartment.

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Olives are gross as a food/garnish. Their oil, though, is not. I will put olive oil, Parmesan, and basil on literally anything, and it comes out delicious.

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When they become climate change refugees, my worst impulses are telling me to treat them the way they treat other migrants.

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Sigh. AI has basically added a rocket booster to the enshittification train.

Hopefully this doesn't impact DDG.

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Same. I don't mind it as an option if that's what some people want, but stop "enhancing" the default experience with it and shoving it down my throat. No lo quiero.

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I fear that as well. I use Searx-NG at home, so am expecting that to start dying a death of a thousand cuts soon.

Was thinking about standing up (or contributing to) either YaCY or Stract, but you made a good point about the bot allowances for the Googlebot et al crawler UAs. Wonder how frowned upon it would be to spoof the crawler UA in a self-hosted one?

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s it because you expect other search engines to follow suit until there are no search engines anymore, only hallucination machines?

Basically, yeah.

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......yeah.

I had that thought after I replied when I realized that most of the reputable search crawlers will publish the IPs/ranges they use in addition to the UA. The disreputable ones (cough Bytedance cough Xiaomi cough) will just spoof Chrome on Windows 10 and flood you with requests from AWS datacenters in Shanghai or Singapore.

That said, I may still continue looking into working with one of the actual self-hosted search engines (vs meta search) and see how well that works.

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On the bright side, at least it wasn't labeled as "up to 10 bars" like ISPs get away with.

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If only this would remain within the idiot population. The increased risk of them getting infected and allowing the virus to mutate in a way that makes it more virulent/transmissible in humans is bad for everyone.

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I don't think it's that nobody cares. It's just outrage fatigue. There's so many things, as you listed, that it's just exhausting to be outraged about everything all the time.

Most of us are just trying to get by: pay rent, put food on the table, etc.

So it's not that I don't care about those, it's just that I don't have time or energy to (or at least not all of the things all the time).

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In a vacuum, I wouldn't consider "diversity hire" to be a slur. However, in colloquial use by racists and bigots, it is definitely used as such much in the same way they have appropriated "DEI" as a slur.

To clarify, I mean the terms themselves used in the proper context. Calling someone a diversity hire, DEI hire, affirmative action hire, etc is 100% appropriating those terms as slurs because it calls into question the target's qualifications by insinuating they were only hired to tick a box.

why don’t we question the competence or qualifications of non-POC hires? Like why are non-POC hires not “cronyism hire” or “familiarity hire”?

We totally do:

  • Familiarity hire: We call those 'nepo babies' or something related to nepotism.
  • Cronyism Hire: Not sure there's a single term for it, but I (and probably others I'd imagine) just literally call them "cronies".

Problems with creating my own instance

I am currently trying to create my own Lemmy instance and am following the join-lemmy.org docker guide. But unfortunately docker compose up doesn't work with the default config and throw's a yaml: line 32: found character that cannot start any token error. Is there something I can do to fix this?...

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Try this docker-compose file: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/main/docker/docker-compose.yml

Here's the docs for pict-rs: https://git.asonix.dog/asonix/pict-rs/src/branch/main/pict-rs.toml

Everything in the config file has an env var you can set. The most important one is the PICTRS__SERVER__API_KEY

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Yep, lemmy.sdf.org is on 0.19.3 so you're good (as long as you're using a frontend that provides access to the instance blocking option)

ptz ,
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You could fork and maintain it :)

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Will agree it's confusing, but pretty sure the "I" in the meme is not OP referring to themselves but rather a satirical first-person view of prominent conservatives.

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For those of you like me who never take claims made in memes like this as truth (good for you!), this is actually real:

https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/elderly-woman-arrested-florida/

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Meanwhile, the rest of us can be denied jobs or housing opportunities (e.g rejected rental applications) if we have a bad credit score.

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I wish it gave me hope. I guess the only bright side is "we're trying, maybe, a little".

In another post a while back, someone (may have even been OP), said something to the effect of 'carbon capture is just social permission to keep using fossil fuels'. I think about that a lot, and definitely agree.

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Is there a Wikipedia list of international incidents caused by inability to keep it in your pants? If not, there should be.

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TIL. Looks like a good read. Thanks!

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lol, right?

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Crossposting to !quite_interesting

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"Even though you just wished, on television, for my marriage to fall apart, I still consider you an adequate colleague"

😂

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I mean, they probably know there's no chance in hell of that bill gaining traction let alone passing (for so many reasons ‡). It's all performance / pandering to their base in an election year.

The scary takeaway should be that's what the Republican base wants to hear.

‡ The fact that you can't just "deport" a citizen to a random country is the least of the things logically wrong with this bill.

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Yep, there's two:

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In Lemmy-UI:

  • Click your username in the upper-right corner and choose "Settings".
  • In your user settings page, click the "Blocks" tab at the top
  • At the bottom will be a "Block instance" panel.
  • Click that, and a search box will appear.
  • Type the instance in that and select it when it shows up in the results list.
  • Save profile

Other UIs make that much easier, but I don't know which you're using.

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It's like a dark reprise of that gag where Homer keeps acting like a jerk but avoiding consequences because he keeps saying "Sorry, I've got a class to teach"

https://y.yarn.co/df1aabab-16cc-474d-9fb6-080b652924da_text.gif

https://y.yarn.co/d7d73d0e-8edf-4aa5-a254-c8bb574715cd_text.gif

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Assumed you meant !simpsonsshitposting

Subscribed!

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The rub is you have to opt out rather than in.

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Got a more credible source for that?

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/daily-mail/

Questionable Reasoning: Right, Propaganda, Conspiracy, Some Fake News, Numerous Failed Fact Checks
Bias Rating: RIGHT
Factual Reporting: LOW
Country: United Kingdom
MBFC’s Country Freedom Rank: MOSTLY FREE
Media Type: Newspaper
Traffic/Popularity: High Traffic
MBFC Credibility Rating: LOW CREDIBILITY
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if it helps him regain the White House, but that would be shortsighted.

Yeah, when I think of Republicans, sustainable, long-term thinking is what comes to mind /s

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Kinda feel like anyone who opposes that should immediately be put on a watchlist and their browser histories put under intense scrutiny.

ptz ,
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Riders are a whole other problem, agreed.

ptz OP ,
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That's basically my friend's argument. And I can see your/their point.

My argument against it basically boils down to the scope of what you follow. Following a group/community vs individual users. e.g. If I posted this on a forum back in 1997, we'd be having this discussion in a similar manner (though probably not threaded).

That, and "social media" carries a kind of stigma from the engagement algorithms they all use. Granted, that's not a requirement for something to be technically social media, but it's definitely something most people associate with it.

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Yeah, I agree it's likely just a matter of semantics.

Lol, what started this discussion was that I said I didn't use any social media and my buddy was like, "What? You're on Lemmy all the time".

ptz OP ,
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If I have to concede this argument to my buddy, that's how I'm going to do it: antisocial media 😆

ptz OP ,
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We need a cool new term for it, one that is easy to say and memorable.

Someone else in this thread used the term "nonsense aggregator" and I think that's my new favorite word for it.

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Wait, really? That movie is insane. Could not imagine it on TV lol.

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