Kichae @ Kichae @kbin.social

Astronomer & video game data scientist with repressed anger

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Yeah, I'm not sure where this attitude of "Fuck people who did work and developed skills in fields that employers thought were necessary, but now suddenly the new hotness is believing that they're not" is coming from. Smug superiority based on the avenue through which you allow yourself to be exploited is pretty fucking dark, and says nothing good about the people espousing that mindset.

Edit: Unsurprisingly downvoted by someone who seems to have mistaken themselves as smarter than the average bear and unreplaceable. "I was interested in a thing that turned out to be more lucrative than you" isn't a good enough reason to look down on other people, folks. None of us deserve more comfort than anyone else, especially not because we liked something other people didn't. Believing otherwise is just anti-social, sociopathic bullshit.

Loving BOTW [...] Bought Tears of the Kingdom but playing BOTW first.

You're in for such a treat.

I would love it if Lemmy adopted Misskey's 'Antenna' feature. It provides custom timelines based on saved searches.

Give us community and post tags, allow for custom timelines based on saved searches, and Bob's your uncle.

The mods decided to merge. Don't conflate the mods with the community. Plenty of members weren't interested in migrating and merging, and they shouldn't have to participate.

There's no reason they can't stay in the old community.

I actually think it's a sign of success, at least in one realm. We've been taking pictures of Earth from Mars for decades now. That it's a common enough thing that it could maybe be "mildly interesting" is an achievement.

I was looking for that article a couple of weeks ago, and for the life of me could not remember where I'd originally seen it. I didn't even notice it was there when digging this up. Amazing!

Going to bookmark that this time.

I'm not sure how lemmy or kbin handle instance-hosted media links -- whether they import the media and redirect the link, or whether they point to the original media object -- but otherwise, yes.

There are ways to access other websites directly from within a given website -- iframes and the like -- but that's not what happens here. Each website is independent of each other, and all text is locally hosted in your instance's database.

There are also (limited) copies of user profiles all over the place -- if you click on my username, for instance, you'll be taken to lemmy.world/u/Kichae@kbin.social. That's a local lemmy.world user address, even though I'm not on lemmy.world. I can't login to that account -- it's either credentialless, or has randomized credentials -- but it exists. And by going there, you get to see what lemmy.world knows about my activity across the fediverse. Without ever leaving lemmy.world.

I do wonder if the blockchain ... can be used here

In what way? To what effect? It's not like blockchain magically makes videos small.

Ok, but what you described is literally discrimination against americans. Just because they're american, doesn't mean its not discrimination.

Oh noes! Sumeting isn't abowt me! Dis must be wut discwiminashun is! Help! Help! I'm bean oppressed!

QQ all day long, I guess.

If you changed the word "US" to a middle eastern country, im sure that'd receive a lot of backlash, but since you mentioned the US its acceptable. /s

Your convenient and bad-faith lack of understanding of power imbalances doesn't make you not a giant crybaby. Go home. Y'all seem to love your isolationist imperial hellscape, just stay there and keep your nose out of what other people are doing. The rest of us don't want you around, anyway.

Most professional YouTubers survive primarily off of Patreon support and sponsored videos. YouTube ads provide only a small fraction of what they earn. If they could increase their Patreon or sponsorship income by cross-posting to PeerTube, then they could be enticed to do so. The current issue there is that sponsors are going to want accurate analytics, and PeerTube isn't going to be able to offer the kind of depth of audience analysis that YouTube can.

The problem is, the cost of hosting videos -- both in terms of storage and in terms of bandwidth -- is kind of prohibitive. That part needs to be solved.

Friendica, as others have said. Mobilizon looks good for less of the family-and-friends aspect of the platform.

Odysee/LBRY is just another bit of crypto crap. Another desperate attempt to create an off-ramp for people who have invested in digital trash actually cash out, by bringing in a fresh wave of lesser fools. PeerTube is the fediverse equivalent to YouTube.

Before playing Statele, I would have told you it was in the deep south, and on the Atlantic coast. I'm continually surprised both by how far north it is, and how not Tennessee it is.

They lost plenty of people, at least for now.

What none of these articles seem to want to highlight is that this is completely normal retention behaviour. 50% week 1 retention isn't excellent by any stretch of the imagination, but it's well, well within the span of what's normal.

And Threads is still half baked.

That's stage 3 enshitification for you.

It also directly goes against their rule 3 which is "no discrimination".

No, in a space that's dominated by Americans, and where the base politics forum is US-only, this isn't discrimination. It's carving out a space for everyone else.

You don't get to take over every space your eyes fucking see. You're not Mufasa.

I wouldn't be shocked if someone told me the front end was stolen, too.

Yes, indeed. And, in fact, it would probably make them happier if the bullshit commercial art that's bereft of meaning - a subset of commercial art, to be clear - was no longer something they had to concern themselves with in order to pay the bills.

If they - and the rest of us - could be granted the dignity of a good and comfortable life while perusing projects that were personally fulfilling, then there'd be little issue. But instead, their work is being used not only to line the pockets of investors and a handful of tech enthusiasts with the right connections (generative machine learning models aren't that hard for anyone with some programming skills and basic linear algebra to develop, the magic is in the money), but to directly undercut their paid work. And that's just not going to fly.

This is some of the rhetoric the Leave campaign used to garner votes, but none of it is what it was supposed to accomplish.

The architects of Brexit were proponents of William Reese-Mogg's ideology of the Sovereign Individual, which basically states that the wealthy should be above the law and outside the pervue of the state. It also calls for the collapse of democracy, via the withholding of the rich's wealth from the state via tax immunity.

It's still unclear whether the Sovereign Individualists will succeed in their goals, but they haven't failed yet, and Brexit was a necessity hurdle on their journey.

Alapalooza is "current" to me, along with Off the Deep End.

I'm stuck at 12 years old.

This is still on his new album in my mind.

As a result, I can never find it in my mp3 library.