This is absolutely brilliant! I’ve tried to get results like this With starter images, but I have gotten nothing as nuanced and subtle as this! Great work!
My purpose in life is to be happy. My primary challenge in life is to find the things in life that make me happy and try to find ways that those things can make other people happy.
I’m a 15-year user of Reddit. Lemmy right now is very similar to very early Reddit. Reddit’s users were more technical back then, too. I’m betting the early adopters of places like this are usually the technical types.
Another nice thing about Lemmy is that a lot of the low-effort, casual users on Reddit haven’t gotten here yet. Interaction here is definitely a lot more pleasant.
It's so amazing to see a comment like this. For years and years, the tech industry workers were heavily anti-union. I'm glad to see the sentiment turning around.
Our system of measurement. There can be only one!
I’ve just spent a few weeks continually enhancing a script in a language I’m not all that familiar with, exclusively using ChatGPT 4. The experience leaves a LOT to be desired.
The first few prompts are nothing short of amazing. You go from blank page to something that mostly works in a few seconds. Inevitably, though, something needs to change. That’s where things start to go awry.
You’ll get a few changes in, and things will be going well. Then you’ll ask for another change, and the resulting code will eliminate one of your earlier changes. For example, I asked ChatGPT to write a quick python script that does fuzzy matching. I wanted to feed it a list of filenames from a file and have it find the closest match on my hard drive. I asked for a progress bar, which it added. By the time I was done having it generate code, the progress bar had been removed a couple of times, and changed out for a different progress bar at least three times. (On the bright side, I now know of multiple progress bar solutions in Python!)
If you continue on long enough, the “memory” of ChatGPT isn’t sufficient to remember everything you’ve been doing. You get to a point where you need to feed it your script very frequently to give it the context it needs to answer a question or implement a change.
And on top of all that, it doesn’t often implement the best change. In one instance, I wanted it to write a function that would parse a CSV, count up duplicate values in a particular field, and add that value to each row of the CSV. I could tell right away that the first solution was not an efficient way to accomplish the task. I had to question ChatGPT in another prompt about whether it was efficient. (I was soundly impressed that it recognized the problem after I brought it up and gave me something that ended up being quite fast and efficient.)
Moral of the story: you can’t do this effectively without an understanding of computer science.
Thanks for posting this! I was going to buy this on blu ray very soon after launch, but now I think I'll give it some time. The only thing I worry about is that the incorrect version will be sold to retailers, who will just sell me that when I go to buy it next year.
Oh, man. Can you imagine the misery of being appointed to this post? Literally half of the government would hate and despise you and would look for ways to undercut you just to have an extra talking point while they stand in the hall talking to Fox News. And to top it off, what could you actually do to affect change? I sympathize with the poor workers of this office.
Have we figured out if this solves the Netflix password sharing limitation yet?
Thank you for posting this. I have been avoiding updating to synergy 3 and now I’m glad I did. I still like version 2. I would still recommend it. I even use it with gaming.
Season 1 has a couple fun extras on the disc. One in particular shows how they use the LED walls to create rich set environments.
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Going forward, the moderators of Community Search Tips will strongly encourage posts to use the URL of a community when linking to that community. We won't get upset at you for using the other methods; we just feel that the full URL provides the best user experience, especially for users of small instances.
This is a bit of a meta post, but please feel free to comment on it if you like.
Background
There are several ways to link to a community in Lemmy. The two most common you will see are these:
- URL Method. This involves using the URL found in your browser's address bar when you are visiting the community. For example, https://lemmy.world/c/transformers
- Shorthand Method. This method uses an exclamation point in the address, which tells Lemmy to load the remote community through the instance you are currently logged in at. For example, !transformers@lemmy.world.
We had previously thought that both methods were interchangeable, but we have since learned of some issues with each.
URL Method Drawbacks
You have probably already encountered the main drawback with the URL method. When you follow a URL to a Lemmy community, you visit that community at the remote instance. You can still see the content there, but you can't comment, upvote, downvote, or subscribe to the community from this page. To subscribe, you'd have to go back to your home instance and follow the instructions we've laid out here.
You can see an example of that below. Here I've folled the URL to https://math@lemmy.sdf.org, and I cannot subscribe to the community because there is no subscribe button present.
At most you can view the community and its content. You can still return to your instance, search for the community using the same URL, and subscribe to it there.
Shorthand Method Drawbacks
1. The Error Page
As inconvenient as the URL Method is, the shorthand method can introduce even worse problems. In Lemmy, a community isn't linked to your instance until at least one user has searched for that community on the search page. This necessary step causes a serious problem when using the shorthand method on a site where that search hasn't happened yet. If you try to follow a link that uses the shorthand method to a community that hasn't been searched for, you will receive an error response.
This is much less of a problem on sites like lemmy.world, where tens of thousands of users have searched for communities already. As you can imagine, however, smaller instances and newer instances haven't necessarily searched for the vast majority of communities out there, making this problem much more pervasive on those instances. To make matters worse, the error page is cryptic and doesn't explain what the problem is or how to solve it.
2. Incompatibilities with other services
This site is primarily focused on Lemmy, but other projects in the Fediverse, such as Mastadon, can -- and do -- interact with Lemmy communities. We can't test the shorthand method in all of these products, but we have received reports that it won't work for Mastodon users, and I suspect there are other projects out there that would run into the same problem. (Note that I did test this for kbin, and kbin can follow the shorthand method.)
Conclusion
We feel that the drawbacks of the shorthand notation have more severe consequences for user experience than the inconvenience of using the URL method. Neither approach is perfect, but a community link that leads to an error message completely defeats the purpose of the content in this community. We hope you agree.
We have confidence that the error will eventually get fixed. Until that time, please use the full URL when linking to communities when making posts to Community Search Tips. Thank you!
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I'm an admin on lemmy.ninja, a month-old Lemmy instance. Users are required to validate their emails, but the email sent to them to do this always ends up in the spam folder. There's nothing we can do about that. We've found, however, that if the users are told to go get it, they can find the mail and validate just fine.
What's the best way to get this message to users while they're creating their new account? Is there a file we can edit to add instructions about checking their spam folder while they're creating the "create" button?
I'm hoping someone has a creative solution. I know it won't be a 100% fix, but any little bit helps.
It's Friday, so today's Community Spotlight post is brought to you by Cats! No, it's not a community about the awful 2019 movie based on the Broadway Play -- yeah, that one -- with the infamous butthole cut. No, this is a community focused on the core purpose of the internet.
No, not porn.
Cats! Posting cat pictures and cat videos and cat-related content! Glorious glorious cats!
Now, granted: this community is pretty small right now. But if there's one thing I've learned in my years on the internet, it's that cat communities grow exponentially. So get in there and secure your spot as one of the founding members of Cats!
Part of making communities discoverable is making the posts in those communities stand out. If you're an admin, moderator, or even if you're a contributor who wants to draw in subscribers and increase engagement, you should always try to attach an image to any text-only posts you make.
Overview
Important note: This post applies to Lemmy 0.18.0. In Lemmy 0.18.1, you will see separate text boxes for the URL and the image of a post.
When you create a post that has a URL, Lemmy will try to grab a picture from the URL's destination to insert into the post thumbnail. But when you create a text-only post, you need to supply that image yourself. Luckily, it's very easy to do.
How To
In the image below, we have a post I'm writing for Lemmy.ninja's Boomer Shooter community. It's about a patch for Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun, a first-person boomer shooter game. As is often the case with announcements like this, there isn't a good web page for me to link to. Just an announcement on Twitter (ewww!) and a quick note in Steam. This is the perfect candidate for a text post with a picture!
Step One: Get a picture
Start by finding a good image to use for your post. You will need to download this image to your computer so that you can upload it to your post in a later step. For this example, I've selected an image from the news article about the patch. Another good source is an image generated by Stable Diffusion or another AI image generation system. AI-generated images are always different. Using them will give the posts in your community variety when viewed side-by-side.
Try to keep the image somewhat small. Let's say somewhere around 500 x 500 pixels or less. Larger images take longer to load, which can be especially noticeable on overloaded servers. They also take up a relatively large amount of space on the server.
Step Two: Write Your Post and Upload the image.
Once you have your image downloaded, it's time to write your post (if you haven't already) and to attach your image to the post. Attaching it is easy:
- Click the little image icon beneath the URL field.
Note: There's another, identical icon on the Body section. Don't use this one; it's used to upload an image in the body of your text.
- Select the image you want to upload.
When you click upload, the image will be uploaded to the server that the community is hosted on, and you will see the URL field is populated with a path to the image.
Note: You can also supply a URL to a remotely-hosted image in the URL field and get the same result. The bonus is that the image won't be taking up space on your community's Lemmy instance. This will make your administrators very happy.
And that's it! You can now submit your post and the post will contain a nice thumbnail. Users can click on the thumbnail and expand it if they want to see the image at full size.
Let's take a look at the final result!
This looks great! All of the posts in the community have a good variety of eye-catching images. On the All feed, this post will stand out among all the other posts from different communities, hopefully encouraging people to subscribe and participate. It's also a signal to others that the contributors care about the comment of their community!
I love how you completely disregard the people who actually work there and the people who actually run Thorn.