Rottcodd @ Rottcodd @kbin.social

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Caught up with one I just stumbled across - Himegasaki Sakurako wa Kyoumo Fubin Kawaii! (Sakurako Himegasaki is Still Pitiably Cute Today).

It's basically a deconstruction of every romcom/harem trope in existence, all mashed together into one great big ball of stupidly funny craziness, and lots of fun.

And of course a bunch of updates to ongoing things, most notably the final chapter of Tugeneko's glorious Ueno-san wa Bukiyou.

It's not better than png.

It's smaller than png, but png is lossless and webp is very much not.

I find google works fine if I'm just looking for general information on a simple topic, because it will dependably return a link to the wikipedia entry and a few of the most popular sites.

And I find that it's pretty much useless for specific information about narrow topics, because it's still just going to return the same general shit.

I'm not sure exactly how the change worked, but some time back (it's been a year or two now, and maybe more - it's just something that I sort of slowly realized had happened), they shifted to a system that made Google Fu essentially useless.

It used to be the case that you could define the importance of search terms by the order in which you listed them and make some effectively required by putting quotation marks around them.

But starting a couple of years back, it's been generally ignoring search term order and quotation marks, and instead giving priority to specific common (and certainly not coincidentally common marketing) terms.

To anthropomorphize, it's as if it's developed a cripplingly narrow focus. So if, for instance, you're looking for the title of some specific movie, it doesn't matter how many other search terms you include or what order you list the terms in - if you include the term "movie," that's what it's going to focus on. So if you're lucky, you might get the actual movie you're looking for, but it's absolutely guaranteed that you're going to get streaming services and "18 movies with real blood" style clickbait.

Reminds me of a neighbor I had years ago who was an archaeologist.

He said once that archaeologists are basically cowboys with degrees - that the work they do is often just sort of a way to get out into the middle of nowhere and camp for weeks at a time and get paid for it.

And yeah - I can see the appeal.

Cowboy, no contest.

Samurai's lives belong to their masters. I couldn't live that way.

Pirates live by killing and stealing. I couldn't live that way.

That leaves cowboys. Certainly not the glorious and romantic life Hollywood makes it out to be, but generally honest work toward specific goals and freedom otherwise, which'd be fine.

This isn't science - it's propaganda.

looking through fonts to find an "X" he likes

So... you didn't read the OP.

Yes though - I really do believe that he personally chose it, or more likely already had it in mind.

And then he played some Diablo IV, then jerked off, then played some more Diablo IV.

That appears to be true, but I don't see how it matters.

If you don't have an account there, it doesn't matter at all.

If you do have an account there, it matters exactly and only as much as you think it does, and only to you. And if it comes to that, it takes mere minutes to open an account on a different and presumably better instance.

Makes sense.

Elon undoubtedly has folders full of cool images he's saved, so while he was still focused on the "X" idea, he rummaged around and found that one and thought, "Yeah! This is gonna be sick dude!"

Thus are decisions made by the world's richest teenage edgelord.

Yes - in the broadest, simply practical sense, there are always shoulds and should nots.

But just as you knew that I wasn't simply asking for a clarification regarding the makeup of that "we," I know that you don't actually believe that that broadest sense of the terms "should" and "should not" is the one I intended when I used them.

What authority does "the fediverse community at large" possess?

There's no central authority here who can allow or prohibit anything.

The highest authorities are the owners of the individual instances, so if any of them choose to allow it (which I'm sure some would) then they will.

can we defederate? absolutely… should we defederate? definitely undecided

Who's this "we" you're referring to?

In the fediverse, there is no should or should not. There's only can or cannot.

In the fediverse, there is no should or should not - only can or cannot.

I don't think I'd bother with a kbin app anyway - I'm fine with the way it is already.

Ah. Yes - I agree entirely.

I sure as hell hope it doesn't become mainstream - I don't think there's ever been a single thing that's benefitted over the long-term from mainstream popularity.

I understand that you don't want to be seen as gatekeeping, but I don't share that aversion. I overtly want the fediverse to remain somewhat confusing and opaque, and specifically so that dumb and/or impatient and/or lazy people will stay away. I think that every single person who gets confused and frustrated here and goes back to Reddit or Twitter is a net gain for the fediverse.

I want an echo chamber of users with empathy

Really?

I would think then that at the very least, you wouldn't be such an asshole.