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[–] freamon 6 points 1 year ago

By 2023, "search engines" were no longer able to live up to their initial promise. Ultimately, they had lost their battle against the SEO Corps, and were instead used by the remaining humans as "tip of my tongue" machines.

Anyway, I was thinking "Assuming Direct Control" was from Upgrade, but it's from Mass Effect 2, of course.

[–] freamon 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Saw a slug in my kitchen the other night. I read a news article once about a boy who ate a slug as a dare and ended up dying a grim death, so now I'm paranoid that one is going to slime its way across something I eat (or eat from) and the same thing will happen to me.

So today, I need to look into how to deter the little fellows.

[–] freamon 23 points 1 year ago (4 children)

This data suggests there's only 20 hexbear subscribers to unixporn (if I'm reading it right), but I'm guessing the influx comes from their members browsing All by 'New Comments'. For me, the word 'brigade' invokes the idea of it being co-ordinated in some way, rather than that there's a lot of them, and the subject matter is close to their hearts.

Anyway, the Community rules have been updated to dis-allow the term, so drama over I suppose.

[–] freamon 6 points 1 year ago

The little dedication to Ray Stevenson at the end of the first episode was nice.

I'll watch the season, because it's only 7 episodes, but it seems like something that's more for the die-hard fans than me (any criticism I could come up with is probably true for any number of other Star Wars projects)

[–] freamon 9 points 1 year ago

Onion Rings from HOT STUFF may well give you a 'run through with a lightsabre' feeling.

[–] freamon 3 points 1 year ago

The data could be better if I used the API or added the information from lemmyverse.net on the total subscriber counts but I spent a lot of time on this as is and don’t know how to use the API.

Your approach may have ended up being for the best. lemmyverse.net can't index lemmy.world (broken DB => broken API => "well, we didn't want to be part of the fediverse anyway"), and if you'd tried to use their API yourself, it might have totalled your project the same way it did for lemmyverse.

[–] freamon 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The instance I'm on was down for scheduled maintenance earlier today. If you're on lemmy.world, and that phrase is unfamiliar, 'scheduled maintenance' is when your server isn't available, but you were given plenty of notice beforehand and it comes back better.

The admin mentioned that he's moved about 100GB of images over to a new service.

I thought I understood how images were federated. I thought that it was just text that was shared between instances (including a link to wherever an image was uploaded first), but it seems like many images are copied all over.

To use one 3.54MB example, uploaded by a sopuli.xyz member for a post to [email protected]:

original image
my instance
feddit.nl
lemmy.world
communick.news


Anyway, as to the main question, I believe that everything should be moved from lemmy.world in its current state, so 'yes'.

[–] freamon 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Lonely, I'd imagine".
"Since Lemmy died, yes"

(only joking, of course)

[–] freamon 9 points 1 year ago

They should post this on GitHub, with all the other "I've done the fun stuff, anyone else want to do the boring bits?" projects.

[–] freamon 2 points 1 year ago

So, anyway, speaking of Bots, my Little Computer That Downloads Things said there wasn't much today. There was The Thin Man (1934) and it's 5 sequels, but I have 'Thin Man Franchise Fatigue', sadly.

There was, however, Past Lives (2023), which has very positive reviews, so my day will hopefully involve watching that later on

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