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chinese.lol does seem to be a real instance from a quick glance, albeit one which is clearly being weaponized thanks to lax moderation.

lemmy.doesnotexist.club is weird, there are literally zero posts or comments in the Local tab, so it may specifically exist for this purpose.

Now we know who dropped the bombs.

!theyknew@lemmy.sdf.org

I've heard about this, but can anybody who's gone through it describe how much effort it was? Do you have to do a from-scratch Windows install? Did you lose any of your stuff? What level of computer expertise would you say is enough to handle installing LTSC, e.g. could your parents do it?

Mate, wtf is an old carburator?

Our country’s gonna boom.

This one's not strictly enshittification-related, but I find YouTube Comment Search (Firefox, Chrome) extremely useful. YouTube videos frequently have way more comments than any sensible person is going to read through. By searching for keywords, you can check whether somebody else already said what you were thinking and 👍 that instead of posting another duplicate comment that will get buried forever.

Uhhhhhh, bem vindo a EasyList/uBO – Cookie Notices.

Sorry, can't speak Portuguese beyond the stuff out the front of Nando's. uBlock Origin includes two lists in the settings (both off by default) that also handle bypassing cookie notices. The other one is AdGuard/uBO – Cookie Notices, but I've been getting by with just the first one enabled. Useful if you want to keep your number of extensions down.

EDIT: Also just realizing this is not Portuguese. Told you I can't speak it.

It really whips the Lemmy's ass.

Which one is the wrong one?

That was an experiment somebody did on Twitch a few years back, although only with a single 32X. They posted their findings in this Twitter thread.

tl;dr: It works until it doesn't, each cart is adding some extra power draw and eventually there isn't enough juice for the whole stack.

Stuff that doesn't move. Like a terrestrial radio station, they have one big tower that broadcasts the station and it doesn't physically go anywhere. That's distinct from mobile radios like phones, CB radios, etc. which are always moving around all over the place and potentially causing interference. Fixed radio, you generally have a license for a specific geographic area and only you are allowed to use that band in that area. But then they can license it to somebody else at a distant location where it won't interfere.

Not that I'm aware of, but Lemmy-compatible fediverse server software like Mbin does calculate a Reputation score for all threadiverse users, including people from Lemmy. I went into a bit more detail about it in this comment. Mbin users can see Reputation scores for other fediverse users, but because this whole system is decentralized, it's only the score as known about by that server, so it's not a complete picture of the "real" score.

You're probably somewhere in the high 600s, but I am estimating. I think the info exists in the backend, but Lemmy deliberately doesn't make it available anywhere because of the things it encourages--stealing and reposting content for karma farming, judging which people are worth talking to by how well they conform to the dominant opinions, etc. Admittedly, that second one is exactly what I used it for earlier, but -11,000 is a lot so I'm not too worried about it.

The scores used to be accessible via the API, so some Lemmy apps used to show them, but ultimately the feature was removed on the Lemmy end, i.e. Lemmy servers no longer provide that data to apps. I'm not aware of any way to see karma totals within the Lemmy interface today.

That said, the threadiverse is made up of more than just Lemmy: you can interact with Lemmy users and vice versa from other federated sites running Mbin, PieFed and eventually Sublinks when that software is ready. I'm not sure about the other two, but Mbin sites support a Reputation count which is the karma equivalent, so it is possible to see a user's Reputation from an Mbin server. Here's a link to your profile as viewed from kbin.earth, a popular Mbin server.

Boring technical "Well actually" stuff: The nature of federation means that the scores visible from remote servers are incomplete: what you're really seeing is the user's Reputation based on posts the remote server knows about. e.g. Somebody looking at your profile from kbin.earth will see your Reputation as 664, but somebody looking at you from fedia.io sees you with 609.

This probably means something pretty simple, like that you comment in more communities followed by kbin.earth users than fedia.io users, so the kbin.earth server has "seen" more of your posts in order to calculate a higher Reputation score. Alternatively, you might have one super unpopular post that fedia.io saw and kbin.earth didn't, which got -56 points. But the first guess is more likely, unless you know otherwise. :P

I know Lemmy doesn't support karma scores for a reason, but in case it helps you decide which people you want to continue to hear from, the commenter you're replying to would have almost -11,000 (negative eleven thousand) karma, were Lemmy to support such a thing.

I don't think that's quite what the situation is. "Creator" is a tag you can set when uploading something to Archive.org. People have uploaded things that are tagged with BBC as the Creator, but that doesn't necessarily mean they are either from the BBC or got their approval.

Clicking on a couple of uploads at random from the above link, they don't seem to have obvious corporate names for their accounts. Not going to list any real uploaders because I'm not a snitch, but they have names in the realm of SherlockXWatsonLover1998, which probably indicates they're not official.

I like the idea that these were your first impressions of China, as in you stepped off a plane, had one look around and thought "Wow, this place seems like a ruthlessly effective technocracy that has achieved very impressive outcomes for its citizens but it's certainly a cultural-slash-societal system I never want to live in."

If you follow any open source projects on GitHub, it's useful to know that you can get an Atom feed of most pages (e.g. the commit log or releases tab), by adding .atom to the end of the URL.

Atom feeds are not the same thing as RSS feeds but any halfway modern RSS reader should be able to handle both. Feeder for Android, mentioned by ElectroVagrant (twinsies!) elsewhere in this thread is an example of an "RSS reader" which also supports Atom.

Here's an example Atom link for Interstellar (a cross-platform Lemmy/Mbin/PieFed app) releases: https://github.com/jwr1/interstellar/releases.atom

This is a handy way to get notifications when things update, especially useful if they have no internal update mechanism. If you can navigate your way to the Releases tab, then you can turn it into an Atom feed and you're done.

He prefers to groom Ivanka anyway.

This article sucks horrendously. The Japanese PM was asked about Assassin's Creed Shadows by a member of the House of Councillors, which from a quick search is roughly like the Senate in many western governments.

Prime Minister Ishiba responded to the questions by Kada, saying that if such actions were carried out at real-life landmarks in Japan, he would oppose them. He said that acts such as shrines being graffitied are completely out of the question, which was in reference to a real life act from November 2024.

Holy fuck, the PM doesn't want people to vandalise shrines in real life. He's so mad about Assassin's Creed Shadows, everybody point. Also, the writer doesn't know how to spell feudal ("fueduel") and that's probably the worst part.