Something tells me this guy could talk about dicks all night slong.

All night schlong XD

I’ve found myself on the “Let me evaluate this as objectively as possible and still I usually end up pretty left of center” camp, and yet I’m definitely not immune to it.

I’ve had a few run-ins, like one where I tried to de-escalate and respectfully critique a thread that was basically (smugly?) a “death to anyone who looks like they might resemble the other team” jihad , and boy, oh boy the hivemind got stirred.

It’s gotten so bad that merely suggesting temperance and moral consideration brands you a filthy both-siding liberal nazi-enabler or something.

I believe a successful resistance includes restraining unhinged extremists that would stab their fellows in the back for not being extreme enough, but some segments of Lemmy won’t hear it.

Obsidian and Bitwarden self hosted alternative that can be run in docker container.

Well not 100% sure about Docker but Tiddlywiki is pretty easily hosted! It’s got some quirks, but in the end it’s just an HTML file (or slightly more complex if hosted as a website), so it should stay relevant for a long time. I enioy making notebooks with it for various things!

Nextcloud has a pretty decent passwords manager and I think firefox plugins for it. I personally use SyncThing to sync KeePass databases and use the nextcloud passwords app for low-risk things we share, like streaming service passwords. :)

Bring back the sneakernet! 🤘

Finding former Pizza Huts in North America.

Wait, I have a meme for this! (Forgive the lack of crop lol)

This sounds like the entire premise behind the manga/anime Dr. Stone.

All humans on earth get turned to stone, and a young scientific supergenius teaches survivors how to essentially restart civilization from scratch.

It’s an absolute joy to watch. Maybe you’d dig it? :D

Oh man, Second Life! I remember being absolutely wowed by it even though I never made an account. Its heyday was very much before I’d be able or brave enough to use real money in a virtual social game like that. (That wasn’t WoW lol)

I always fondly remember the lovable antics of the legendary troll: Esteban Winsmore!

Gaia Online reminds me a lot of Ragnarok, visually. That’s cool it’s still around! I remember hopping around F2P MMOs like crazy just trying to find something me and my long distance partner could interact together and vibe with. There were a lot of oddball ones that are shockingly still around!

That is really cool! I too, miss when the bulk of the web was self expression rather than dollar-rustling.

The “indie web” is making a small but vibrant resurgence and I’m all for it!

Ha! COOL! I thought I was alone in this! Whenever I’m visiting a new place I love to examine and photograph the sticker bombs on the backs of signs and utility boxes and what have you.

I love that weird sense of culture and mystery wondering who placed it and what they’re about.

I remember while visiting the Pacific Northwest I kept seeing “Dingus” everywhere, and got a giggle out of one that said “Sorry I chazzed your banger.” Whatever that means LOL.

I’ve really wanted to try getting into this sometime! I just love nifty ways of hitting distant things with other things.

I’ve heard of people fashioning them outta paracord and using tennis balls to start with and thought that sounded cool.

Plus, something that looks like a weird belt could potentially hurl any old rock at dangerous velocities, and that’s gotta be worth something in this dangerous world.

How’d you first get into it?

This is so cool, thanks for sharing! I’m really excited about the “indie web”, being a network of expressive people being people rather than just a giant commerce machine.

Hey that’s super helpful, I really appreciate it! Thank you! I haven’t checked in on the project(s) in quite a while. :)

transformer models

Surely, more than meets the eye!

Minecraft is still the hardest thing to host lol

I’m actually considering hosting a Luanti / “MineTest” server for this experience, since my wife lost her Minecraft account / key thingy since the time we played in beta ages ago haha.

I wonder if it’s any easier to host or not. 🤔

I haven’t used it for a while, but I remember Spotify recommending some pretty neat and niche stuff. It just really depends what you feed it to begin with.

If you start with “Popular top 40 corporate-bred pop artist of the month”, it will swiftly taylor the algorithm to more of the same, and once it’s got an idea it mostly goes one direction and it’s really difficult to get it to recommend other styles that aren’t Harry.

Fun puns and anecdotal evidence aside: Spotify sucks especially because of how it pays artists next to nothing.

I personally skim Freegal from my local library, Bandcamp on Fridays, and buy MP3s from 7 Digital if I want to support the artist. (I don’t know 7 Digital’s revenue take, but I at least get to own the music forever, and in FLAC if I want!)

algos won’t show me Swedish power metal

Any algorithm that won’t let someone discover Sabaton, is a defective algorithm.

No idea about today, but Pandora used to be cool for this in the “Music Genome Project” days.

Oh wow thanks for the heads up!

It’s always such a bummer to see open source codebases close off. :(

I’ll definitely keep an eye on Gaggimate!

Gotchu Bro/Sister:

Wife’s already got Fellowship of the Ring Extended (of COURSE) ultraHD in the player.

I’ll pop us some popcorn, and gladly point out all the fun trivia, like how when Aragorn kicks the helmet in Two Towers it was so legit because the actor ACTUALLY BROKE HIS TOE.

Why did I mention Two Towers when Fellowship is in the player? Heh. . .you didn’t think we were stopping after Fellowship, did you?

The doors are already locked and planned bathroom / snack retrieval breaks are posted on the wall.

Whaaaaaat this is what keeps me addicted to Lemmy. This looks like a fun project.

Found a sweet HackaDay about it if anybody’s interested :)

https://hackaday.com/2022/11/20/homebrew-espresso-maker-modding-with-gaggiuino/

Also that’s the only way we’re saturating that 2Gb bandwidth LOL.