i made it a new label ^_^

not the whole fleet of warnings thing but the rest

want to see if i can figure out how to make it into a 3D printable plate

#tools #3dPrinting

@mcc Is it related to the Soviet Onion?

(b) this is totally anecdotal, but as someone who has been teaching computer programming to adults for ~20yrs or so, the biggest obstacle that students face is not that the material is difficult (even when it *is* difficult), but that students are *culturally predisposed to a belief that they're not smart enough to program*, which acts as a permission structure for giving up. (this is peculiar, because no one having trouble in a knitting class thinks "i guess i'm not smart enough to knit")

Saw a post saying some shitty Christian lemmy instance was spamming bullshit on one of their latest posts, I said something along the lines of “probably Russians”. Come to find out my comment was removed and I was banned… then to find out they effectively have a CCP agent running town… lol.

I’ve seen people mention they were a garbage instance, now I know why! They said I broke rule 1 … this might just be the app I’m using but they don’t even have any fucking rules to look at lmao.

Glad they did the work for me and made it easy to avoid them.

.World and ML are still federated

(c) programmers are predisposed to convincing others that programming is too complicated for "normal people" as a means of job security and achieving social status; computer manufacturers and their software-making friends are predisposed to a marketing message that states: computers are too difficult for normal people, so buy this new machine/software, which is finally the computer/software that normal people can use! together both sides form a kind of mutual ratchet imo

@SallyMonster I am very thankful to be able to hang out with these feathered friends. Wedge tails are my favourite (I am moved to years every time I encounter one), but I love them all <3

this might be the first rpgmaker game that makes my list

"Londinium, in a world where Rome never fell..." THE COMPLETE HELL'S ACRE (Hell's Acre 1 & 2) is $9.99USD in ebook until 11/14!

https://books2read.com/completehellsacre

As the Fediverse grows, the amount and frequency of harmful spam also increases. The feudalistic structure of the network creates notable moderation overhead as every instance admin has to ban offending remote accounts and remove their content themselves, if the originating instance does not act quick enough or such delete actions are not federated properly.
An example (and my motivation for this post) are reports from the last days about accounts which post CSAM content. This is especially problematic, as media content gets duplicated to every receiving instance.

The following idea came to my mind: A software which sits on top of Activity Pub and creates a kind of court. Instances of this software are independent courts. All users can elect admins / mods of their home instance as judge. Everyone can post a case via normal Fedi posts to the court and the elected judges give a verdict via majority vote (votes are also normal Fedi comments with special formatted content). Once a case has a verdict, all instances should immediately apply the decided action against the offending content / account. This can be done via a bot which is set as an instance moderator and follows the published verdicts of a court instance the local admin trusts.

This way swift action can be applied through all instances which follow the court at once. By having periodic elections it is kept democratic.

And the task of the court is to defend universal rules all following instances agree on. Not to handle politics between instances.

What are you thoughts on this matter? Or do other approaches to solve this issue already exist?

Update:
From this came the idea that instances can follow mod actions of other instances and apply them if x% of other instances did the same.

I think this is an interesting approach which might be better than my proposal. So I would like to hear your thoughts about this too.

anyway, whenever someone says something like "LLMs have finally made programming accessible to normal people!" I try to remember that the Silicon And Fossil Fuel Pyramid Scheme Industry has spent literally hundreds billions of dollars in an effort to convince you that computers were *already difficult to use* (a grift that computer programmers are largely in on!) and to politicize LLMs as being "easy to use" in contrast

@chergert that totally looks like a music arrangement in a daw from the small thumbnail ;)

@tbernard unironically, yes

and the worst part? people are still giving it "the benefit of the doubt" and "doubting this is some sort of dogwhistle" in _some_ communities

guy who goes to a well to throw himself in but finds out that the well has magical water in it that makes you not have bad mental health and the water vapor stops him from throwing himself in the well and he's just kinda standing there not knowing what the next step should be because he kinda planned his day around this

Have you considered https://givin.gifts? They see themselves as the unofficial successor of redditgifts (they even let you import redditgifts gallery posts back when they were still online). They opened their Happy Holidays 2026 signups a couple of days ago and any premium user could also create a custom fediverse Secret Santa exchange.

I took part in every givin.gifts Happy Holidays exchange since redditgifts shut down and I’m happy with it. If there are any problems with your gifter, their team is really invested in smoothing things out and getting you a rematch if needed.

"About 30 percent of all detainees, more than 20,000 people, have disappeared from the database, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court in Boston last month by the National Immigration Law Center and several other groups, which assert that the change is unlawful."

In an overdue response to the slow demise of RSS, X, etc., I finally created a LinkedIn account where I will link to my blog posts. Weird place (image-related).

I'm on a short leash/quota for initiating connections, but happy to reciprocate: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjamin-mako-hill-132922444/

@dtauvdiodr lol oh definitely