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Mars2k21

Employee at the Black Mesa research facility in New Mexico. Recently we've dealt with 2 aliens trying to steal snacks.

Moved from kbin.social, here's my old account: https://kbin.social/u/Mars2k21

I moderate the AI community over there (infrequently).

Hope your day is going well.

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A TikTok alternative called Loops is coming for the fediverse | Users own their content, and Loops doesn’t sell or provide videos to third-party advertisers or train AI on them. It will be open source
  • It's just like Peertube. Cool concept in theory, but breaks down once you consider the less fun parts of it (storage volume).

    Gonna be really hard to figure out how to make solid Fedi alternatives to image/video-based social media.

  • asking lemmy to 'Draw a duck and share your art'
  • Nothing to contribute honestly, I just want to say that this is the funniest post i've seen on lemmy

  • What music do you use for concentration?
    • Lo-fi hip hop instrumentals. Think Nujabes and related producers or MF DOOM and Madlib beats.
    • Jungle/atmopheric DNB. NOT breakcore because I know electronic fans are rabid about genres and categories.
    • High paced rap and rock/metal. Counter-intuitive for studying but great for physical exercise. This is mostly newer style rap.
  • Newgrounds is considering adding activitypub support but is concerned about hosting fees for serving images to millions of people
  • Newgrounds would be awesome in the Fediverse tbh, would bring so much content (beyond politics and news).

    Image hosting seems to be super problematic with activity pub, especially with something pf Newgrounds' size. I'm super invested in this, can't wait to see where it'll go.

  • Thoughts Around KBin's Current Status and the Importance of Community Migration Features
  • Yeah I've pretty much accepted that kbin.social is just gone at this point. I also owned a community there (/m/ai). I didn't have any spammers appear, but it eventually just died since spam ruined the rest of the instance.

    The signs were already there months in advance, but most of us stayed on the instance in hopes that the dev would eventually take up one of the offers to help maintain the instance. Was fun while it lasted, and was the best alternative to Reddit for sure as a software. I don't even know how Ernest kept up with development during the initial Reddit exodus lol.

    Honestly, I'm not impressed with Lemmy so far and I don't really vibe with mbin for personal reasons even though the software is great.

    This whole kbin story has just pointed out a lot of flaws in the Fediverse as a whole for me. I still like the idea, but the execution needs improvement.

  • Researcher finds a way to invisibly reverse Windows updates
  • I literally cannot use Linux at the moment due to incompatible software, as much as I love Linux and use it on every other computer I own.

    These posts about Windows and other mainstream platforms are helpful or interesting for some of us, I wish people on Lemmy would stop shooting them down just because they don't like Windows/Micro$oft.

  • What's a perfect trilogy, Video Game, Movies, books, whatever.
  • Came here to say exactly this. My favorite video game trilogy of all time, played through each campaign countless times and multiplayer on MCC from time to time. Never gets old.

  • uBlock Origin developer recommends switching to Firefox as Chrome flags the extension
  • This has been a long time in the making...hopefully Firefox will see a market share increase. Google is doing this right as they get slapped by an antitrust ruling ironically lol. If you haven't already just go ahead and switch, if you like Lemmy you'll probably like Firefox as well.

    Side note: I try not to be negative here, but this would be a great time for Mozilla to get their act together as an organization. Love Firefox and the idea, but Mozilla has been pissing off the FOSS space for a while now with their decisions. If they've improved in recent years, disregard this.

  • Younger people of Lemmy. Would you buy a CD at a concert?
  • I know some people who will buy vinyls but that's as far as it goes for physical media in music. Music CDs are pretty much foreign objects in 2024 and people just stream instead.

    A CD would be cool, but where am I ever going to use it? I don't have a CD player at all...but I do have an Apple Music subscription. A vinyl at least is large and works better as a decoration. Don't really see the point in using a CD.

    If I want to support the artist I'm seeing, I just buy clothing instead.

    P.S. we don't know what a skibidi toilet is either. Ask gen alpha.

  • Elon Musk claims he is training “the world’s most powerful AI by every metric”
  • Eh this is the same guy who has promised real self-driving cars within 2 years....every 2 years. I'll believe it when I see it.

    (also why is OP being downvoted for posting the article, it's news and from a reputable site)

  • The word "slyly" looks very aesthetically pleasing. What are other handsome words (any language)?
  • Preposterous. Sounds hilarious, and looks/sounds very sophisticated in a good way.

  • When did Microsoft stop developing Windows to be good?
  • Windows 10 was half decent as an operating system to be honest, just doesn't stack up to 7. 8/8.1 is where the enshittification began and it continued with 11.

  • Have you ever been called a slur and how did you deal with it?
  • Somebody here on Lemmy sent me a message calling me the hard R (I'm Black) after posting a pro-LGBT comment.

    I read the message, marked the notification as read, and closed my Lemmy tab. Problem solved, no response needed. Just ignored them.

    This person was banned from their instance on the same day.

  • World passes 30% renewables milestone for the first time, decline of fossil inevitable
  • This lemmy community is a thing? Saw it on the front page, got me excited.

    As for the actual article, makes you wonder what the next 10-20 years will look like. We very well might be moving towards finally having the renewable-powered world we need.

  • Ex Redditors of Lemmy what made you come on over? What happened at Reddit that you made the switch?
  • Going to preface by saying I still use Reddit occasionally alongside Lemmy AND Tildes sometimes as well. I just like talking to people with similar interests.

    Most of us came over to Lemmy (in my case, originally kbin) because of the 3rd party app shutdown and API apocalypse. I still use Reddit since it has a lot more communities I'm interested in so I wouldn't be an ex-redditor per say. I'm not nearly as active as I used to before 3rd party apps got shut down.

    I was always indifferent towards Reddit as a platform since I mostly just felt connected to the communities there. I only use more niche subreddits related to my interests and was never active on any with over 400k besides from askreddit, so I avoided most of the stereotypical bad things about Reddit's community and the whole "Reddit is becoming like Facebook" stuff. If Lemmy gained these communities I love, I'd stop using Reddit completely.

    The community and content matters to me a lot more with link aggregator type platforms, the software less so than it does with microblogging platforms like Twitter and such. Spez sucks for what he did but I really don't care enough to criticize the dude one year after the Reddit migration and the failure of the blackout. I like Reddit's sheer amount of content available and don't care for the software/anything paid on there, and I like the technology behind Lemmy but the community offerings less so.

    TL;DR I halfway switched.

  • What would you like to see more of on Lemmy and/or the wider Fediverse?
  • A bit of a rant here.

    Recently joined the wider Lemmy community (coming from kbin.social, o7). I like it, but the constant negativity and fear mongering/bait in large communities keeps me from engaging more. I just kind of wish there were more relaxed communities like how niche subreddits can be. I've seen a lot more arguments here than the kbin-specific communities or even Reddit honestly.

    I'm going to continue using Lemmy at least for now, but I just hope this place can move past the negativity that plagues major social media platforms already. I get everybody has their views, but is it a requirement to share them every comment/post? It's all jokes and no seriousness on Reddit to all seriousness here. Not very enjoyable. Feels like a lot of the users who created cool niche communities after the Reddit exodus got driven away by the negativity and frivolous downvoting.

  • If you were a pasta, which one would you be and why?
  • If Lemmy has a million fans, then I am one of them. If Lemmy has ten fans, then I am one of them. If Lemmy has only one fan then that is me. If Lemmy has no fans, then that means I am no longer on earth. If the world is against Lemmy, then I am against the world.

    Edit: Is this not a "copy pasta"? Woosh

  • Which distro do you find the most visually appealing?
  • Really depends on the desktop but in terms of default desktops that are shipped with distros I'm picking Fedora's GNOME (pretty much stock) and MX Linux's XFCE.

  • What generation are you?
  • Gen Z.

    This place is a lot older than I expected.

    Internet generation, progenitors of current online brainrot. Came too early to experience the 90s in all its glory, and too late for running console-quality games on a 6mm thick mobile device.

    At least we have the 2010s to claim for ourselves. Those were pretty cool.

  • Paul George, 76ers Agree to 4-Year, $212M Contract After Clippers Exit
  • To be fair, MVPG on OKC was a thing (though very bad in the playoffs) and he nearly took the Clippers to the finals in 2021 without Kawhi.

    Though what I don't understand is signing him under a max...the guy will be 37 once it ends. Recipe for disaster if he regresses.