bigfoot

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[–] bigfoot@lemm.ee 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] bigfoot@lemm.ee 41 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (33 children)

Americans (especially non white Americans) tend to speak very frankly about race in a way that can make Europeans uncomfortable. In this context "white" is simply meant to conjure an image of someone with disposable income.

(See "black twitter")

[–] bigfoot@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

We agree that spending one's time typing internet comments is less effective than voting.

[–] bigfoot@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What people want will have little to do with it, unfortunately. The "hope" is that contraception bans combined with misleading/nonexistent sex ed will maintain a population.

[–] bigfoot@lemm.ee 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

~~Reddit~~ Lemmy users love their internet slacktivism. These mfers will type out a 10,000 word comment on a five year old post before they will vote.

[–] bigfoot@lemm.ee 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

Any discussion/advice community that allows low-effort meme slop will inevitably become choked out by it. I understand I am in the minority and the mods like having the memes, but eventually we'll need /c/piracydiscussion if content of this formatting is permitted.

Obviously 99% of people here would agree that Aaron Swarts' story is a tragedy. But simple low-hanging fruit content is not what I want this place to have. And like it or not this community is likely to become the single biggest place to discuss piracy as Reddit inevitably cracks down on it.

[–] bigfoot@lemm.ee 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I would transfer the playlist to Tidal (there are services out there that will import everything for a few dollars), then use Tidal-dl. The quality is much higher.

 

Has this ever happened before? I don't think I've ever seen Reddit "temporarily" ban a subredit like this.

[–] bigfoot@lemm.ee 11 points 2 months ago

"Money as a vestigial cultural relic" is a great concept. You're right, Latinum doesn't provide the Ferengi with anything but status.

[–] bigfoot@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think about this exact topic a lot and I think you are mostly right, but I also think that open source replicators would be an agent of change, especially if one could be used to manufacture parts to make another. Of course, without land to make things on conflicts will arise. But once the need for money is removed some people will choose to "opt out" of society and start building a parallel one similar to how the open source community exists alongside closed source software.

[–] bigfoot@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

Nerds like to argue but this the easiest set-it-and-forget it way is to get a raspi or old PC and put some home server OS on it like CasaOS, Umbrel, or TrueNAS. Then get the following apps:

  • Torrent app like Deluge or qBittorrent
  • Prowlarr - Searches torrent sites
  • Radar - Manages movies
  • Sonarr - Manages television shows
  • Plex - organizes downloaded media and streams to your devices
  • Overserr (optional) a friendly GUI for requesting media.

Trash guides are useful for getting it all set up. There is a learning curve but once it's up and running you don't need to think about it.

[–] bigfoot@lemm.ee 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Oster Fast Feed is not a "budget" pick, but then again, few BIFL options are.

Edit: 76023-510 is the corded model.

[–] bigfoot@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago
 

The Fediverse is a great system for preventing bad actors from disrupting "real" human-human conversations, because all of the mods, developers and admins are all working out of a desire to connect people (as opposed to "trust and safety" teams more concerned about user retention).

Right now it seems that the Fediverses main protection is that it just isn't a juicy enough target for wide scale spam and bad faith agenda pushers.

But assuming the Fediverse does grow to a significant scale, what (current or future) mechanisms are/could be in place to fend off a flood of AI slop that is hard to distinguish from human? Even the most committed instance admins can only do so much.

For example, I have a feeling all "good" instances in the near future will eventually have to turn on registration applications and only federate with other instances that do the same. But it's not crazy to imagine that GPT could soon outmaneuver most registration questions which means registrations will only slow the growth of the problem but not manage it long-term.

Any thoughts on this topic?

 

A lot of internet publications today have videos in the middle of their articles that have nothing to do with the actual content. Example in this WIRED article here.

I'm wondering if there is an active blocklist for this kind of content? I already have uBlocks "annoyances" all subscribed. These videos slow down the pages and are too numerous to block individually.

 

I want to use myanonymouse to download/seed books but it requires you to download from the same IP as you use to browse the website. My qBittorrent is in docker container on my home server, using gluetun with a VPN.

I tried both of these instructions to no avail I think there is something I'm missing. Shadowsocksqt5 latency just says "error" and using the chrome extension suggestion just simply doesn't load anything.

The reason I don't want to seed from my workstation pc is because myanonymouse requires you to seed to maintain your account and the workstation is mostly off. My home server is always on. Any ideas?

 
 

A search for this only brings up adapters to plug M.2 drives into a PCIE slot which is not what I want because I don't have a PCIE slot.

What I want is M.2 > M.2 (2x, 3x, etc). Does this exist?

 

Direct link to the original Tweet with some pictures a very impressive collection and sad story.

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