@yngmar
Here you go...
Andy Taylor (?) and Simon Le Bon are both wearing your style of wellies. 😃

So! #blender 5.3 is out. Gaussian splats, DLSS denoising, Cycles light disperson, Eevee custom lighting, much more ripple in video editor, a bunch of compositor updates, Projects system, etc. etc. Is a good release! https://www.blender.org/download/releases/5-3/

It reminds me a little of the old internet. I like how relatively small it feels, and that people post content for the sake of the content, not to promote themselves. I haven’t found my usual corners yet, the ones I used to hang out in on older platforms, but I figure that’s just a matter of time. I’m not super nostalgic for the old internet or anything, but it’s nice to find at least a hint of something human-centered somewhere.

I hope it doesn’t fall apart and that it keeps growing.

I was skeptical when I switched to Linux, but then I ditched Windows on my dual boot for good. It was a hugely positive experience, and it really felt like freedom. I’m hoping this will be the same.

And don’t be mad at me if I act totally clueless here sometimes 'cause all that is new to me.

Even if size does become a problem (SufferringFromSuccess.meme), we can always defederate a smaller Lemmy/Piefed network and call it Fedi Classic.

reddit got bad because spez (the reddit admin) restricted API access to the platform for third-party apps, such that people would be forced to use the official app or web UI, both of which display advertisement and collect user data (e.g. scroll behavior).

Reddit got bad long before they restricted API access. That's what was the final drop for many people, but it wasn't the beginning at all.

I agree that growing would be a benefit for Lemmy though. While I wouldn't dismiss the dangers of a growing community entirely, we can just defederate from or block problematic parts in theory. So I wouldn't say we're in quite the same danger as centralized platforms.

@onepict @nlnet @librecast Woo, thank you! Honestly it's such an honor to get feedback like that.

It's been an intense learning curve, but a rewarding one. As a true, concrete example, I got to spend a decent chunk of time yesterday getting to better understand how Linux TUN/TAP works - something I've kind of known existed for years, literally since back in my meshnet days, but never needed to explore the details of. I've ended every day for awhile now feeling a good kind of tired, with a map of the world that's a little more fleshed out. I missed that. It is *good* to be here.

@ai6yr
We're gonna need lots of pictures of that, for future use as metaphorical illustrations 😃

@gamingonlinux Neat news in a scene surrounded by ai dogshit

No, what made Reddit bad was incivility, bots, trite comments, and theme accounts (and my axe!). It was massively popular, which exacerbated this stuff, and it incentivized upvotes.

Lemmy has upvotes but people seem less interested in them.

Here, we have the ability to mute toxic groups (defederate). We are decentralized, so it’s not just one dickhead in charge. Our users are, for the most part, civil and somewhat intelligent and funny.

I was with Reddit from 2012-2015ish and then lurking on and off until the API shit storm, and we are nothing like Reddit in my opinion - not that that was the intent of the original post but still

Lemmy.ml and even more so lemmygrad.ml (the latter is defederated from by most sane instances across the Threadiverse) are tankie platforms. Tankies believe in alternative facts, such as the fact that nobody died in the Tiannamen Square Massacre. Or if they did then they deserved it. Or if they did not then it was necessary. Or if it wasn’t then… - I am saying that you should expect arguments to shift goals moment to moment, based on the personal biases and need to appear right on the Internet, regardless of any need to actually be thus.

And don’t even get me started on hexbear.net, which has no real beliefs at all beyond the raw need to troll people incessantly (this one is also defederated from by nearly all sane instances across the Threadiverse).

So, you are missing out on nothing important whatsoever. Consider yourself fortunate that you discovered this early on.

Okay, neue Angst freigeschaltet! Wusstet ihr das schon?😮

#mrwissen2go #wissen #info

here's mary beard's original article: https://web.archive.org/web/20200725191540/https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/what-does-the-latin-actually-say/

The difference in brightness between day and night used to be a factor of ~a million, now it's a factor of less than 1,000 because of light pollution and spending time indoors in daylight.

Cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, obesity, sleep disruption, hormone imbalance, mood disorders, are all demonstrated to be caused or exacerbated by exposure to artificial light at night. Blue light is particularly bad.

@Lone_wolf2 Штош. Этого следовало ожидать. Local Qwen goes brrrrrrrrr...

@fesshole I had a temp job for a couple of weeks at a dairy. Specifically unloading trucks after they came back from deliveries, with their refrigerators turned off, in Summer, in Alabama, and it included RETURNS.

Occasionally some of the returned cartons EXPLODED.

I didn't drink milk for a little while* after that.

*By which I mean a few decades.

For me reddit got bad because of grouphink and terrible moderation (you were not nice to some idiot? banned for life!). I never used any 3rd party apps (nor the official app for that matter, only the website with adblock).

@puniko yeah, I thought I was just a little tired...

@puniko yippi yayyy