Comments like this really don’t add anything to the conversation

I’m sorry you had to go through that. Reddit really is a shadow of its former self these days.

Hi beeple,

I wanted to get my hot water heater fixed with a $50 thermostat, but the plumber wouldn’t touch it and wanted $3000 to replace it. Ouch! I might try to find a replacement thermostat via Google, but it’s an ancient model and the part numbers don’t turn up anything. Really don’t need more bills right now!

It is starting to heat up in Australia, and the bushfires have already killed 2 people in my state in the last week. I’m not looking forward to another black summer. However, on the bright side, there seems to be a shift in the views of our Nationals party regarding climate change - they’ve always been conservative but now it seems they’re getting on board with climate action, since they’re being affected by the heat, droughts etc. I wish people would take action for things before it affects them personally, but hey, I’ll take what I can get.

I hope everyone gets through their struggles and has some time to relax and enjoy themselves this week.

The keying will continue until parking improves.

I mentioned this in discord a while back, but there are image-matching databases for known instances of CSAM that you can apply for access to, as an admin of a forum or social media site. If you had access, you could scan each image uploaded or linked to in a post or comment, and compare to the database for matches. I think that mastodon is adding some hooks for this kind of checking during the upload phase, but I’m not sure what the status is with Lemmy.

I’m happy to help facilitate a solution like this, as it’s something I also care about. Feel free to find me on discord if you want to talk.

Also, as others have said - I’m sorry you had to go through that. The same thing happened to me many years ago and it definitely affected me for a long time.

Impossible Creatures - an RTS where you slurp up DNA from local wildlife and use that to create weird hybrids of multiple animals, then produce those as units that you control to complete missions. Great concept but I think it ended up being a bit unbalanced.

Papers Please - pretty unique gameplay in that you had to literally read through paperwork and approve/reject people at a border crossing. Good social commentary.

Someone also ported it to the browser, just saw it on mastodon: https://wavacity.com/

Linus is responding to this video from Gamers Nexus: https://youtu.be/FGW3TPytTjc

It’s a long video, but the tl;dr is that LTT are getting sloppy in their reviews, making mistakes, and not fixing them in a clear manner. Additionally, there are some larger issues around a recent review of a gpu heatsink.

Putting communities into discord also destroys search engines’ ability to find them and their content - isolating the web. Reddit was heaps better because you can find stuff via Google.

I think discord is better than irc (although I’d rather use something non-commercial, like mattermost or matrix, but those aren’t as easy to set up), but it’s not a good place to base a community out of, as you’ve said.

Hope the trend moves away from discord and back onto the indexable web, either into lemmy or good old message boards (some of which are still kicking around - whirlpool and OCAU are still active)

That’s not why Google is harmful though - they’re harmful because almost all of their revenue comes from advertising - everything else they offer is just a funnel to gain data on the worlds population in order to better target advertising.

As for cloudflare - they showed their true colours last year with kiwifarms. They’ll happily host the worst websites in the world as long as they don’t get bad press.

Very nice, and I’m so sorry to hear about your cat. I’ve seen a few vanlife videos on YouTube recently, and while I don’t think I could give up some of my hobby-related possessions and stick everything into a van, it does seem like both a refreshingly minimalist and financially sound decision.

Are you going to get a storage unit for stuff that won’t fit in the van, or are you planning more of a nomadic lifestyle?

“Only” citalopram? Missing more then a day of that used to mess me up, hated those brain zaps!

I hope you get your refill soon! Also I’ve run out of Ritalin and have been in a rut all day, thanks for the reminder to go to the pharmacy.