ElectroVagrant

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world to c/animation@lemm.ee
 

Finished watching it the other day and if you're into scifi, or maybe more science-fantasy, it's well worth watching! Refreshing to see some new scifi, particularly with a focus on extraterrestrial ecosystems.

Saw by searching that there's nothing about another season for now, which is a shame, but I think season 1 stands up well even as it is.

 

With that convoluted title I'm making myself think about what we'd call the additional days on other planets or other different temporal circumstances.

Instead of ending them with -day you could end them with the planetary body name or circumstance name. Today might be Lajove on Jupiter!

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It's Pride Month~ (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world to c/general@lemmy.world
 

Remember: be gay, do crimes

The OwOs are in the jets

The thigh highs control the nets

Always been around, always will be 😎

 

I know next to nothing of hiking, so I'd be interested in hearing of your trips and tips and whatever else!

My limited knowledge roughly amounts to go with someone (genuinely) experienced, have more water (and probably food) than you'll think you need, good footwear, be wary of the mystery berry, and don't try to pet/touch all the wildlife (no matter how cute they may seem).

 

I've been bouncing between shows lately, binged through a few or what was available anyway.

Recently it's been more anime shows, but I binged through some live action stuff awhile back like Russian Doll, was also watching some of the original Quantum Leap for a minute, some Columbo, and dove into a select few old Outer Limits episodes.

What have been some of your recent binges and bounces?

 

I've revised the sidebar description to try to clarify what's okay to post here and encourage discussion.

Original:

This is a community for general discussion where you can get your bearings in the fediverse, discuss topics & ask questions that don’t seem to fit in any other community.

New:

This is a community for general discussion where you can get your bearings in the fediverse. Discuss topics & ask questions that don’t seem to fit in any other community, or don’t have an active community yet.

Technically the latter sort of posts have always been welcome here, but it struck me that as it wasn't written out, some may have been uncertain and opted not to post at all. With it written explicitly, hopefully that may put those uncertain more at ease to post.

Active is admittedly pretty vague, so I'm inclined to keep things lax on that. If you find a community for something but it's not seen any posts in months, don't feel too down! Try posting about the topic here for the time being, and hopefully you may find likeminded people that share your interest.

Somehow or other this community is widely subscribed to, so more people are apt to see posts from here than smaller communities, meaning better chances of finding others to talk to.

Once you've found your peers, feel free to work out the details for starting a community and link to it from here.

Hope this helps!

 

Comm-Ents running aerials in their uppermost branches of their head but nobody can tell 'cause they've made'em blend in. Paranoia's even harder to pin down when the "trees" can literally be listenin'.

[–] ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I am very good at being online so I am definitely not just getting around to mentioning that I cross-posted this to our peer community !casualconversation@lemm.ee where some others have responded with some of the active communities they've found: https://lemmy.world/post/14734186

If you've any you'd like to add, comments are open here as well!

[–] ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Pulling the background link here to save people some clicks: https://buttondown.email/ninelives/archive/the-coming-enshittification-of-public-libraries/

With a few quotes to highlight the frustrating situation:

That’s because OverDrive, a private corporation, has a monopoly on managing the availability and distribution of ebooks and audiobooks for government-funded public libraries in North America. (I looked for exact current numbers, but turns out that would require the time and resources of a professional journalist.^1^ Best I could do: as of December 2019, OverDrive controlled digital lending for “more than 95% of public libraries in the US and Canada”.^2^)

Emphasis added.

Right away I saw that in June 2020, OverDrive was sold to global investment firm KKR. [...] The private equity firm of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, I quickly learned, was either the inventor of, or an early pioneer in, basically all the Shitty Business Practices: leveraged buyouts, corporate raiding, vulture capitalism. They’ve been at it since the 1970s and they’re still going strong. [...] Even in the world of investment capital, where evil is arguably banal, KKR is notoriously vile. They are the World Champions of Grabbing All The Money And Leaving Everyone Else In The Shit.

[...]

And if OverDrive goes belly-up at some point in the future, crushed by KKR’s leveraged debt, it’s going to take down access to the digital catalogs of nearly every public library in North America.

Emphasis added.

 

Technical video, and interesting if you've ever wondered about some of the constraints game developers used to work with with some older hardware.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world to c/general@lemmy.world
 

Hey, so I know some of you may be new or may have never wrapped your head around what any of this federation stuff means regarding Lemmy, so I aim to keep this simple while linking to more detailed posts for those interested in more technical background at the bottom.

The short of it is, your posts and comments to communities hosted here on Lemmy World or elsewhere, or comments to posts from others on Lemmy World from elsewhere, may be taking awhile to be visible to others outside of Lemmy World. In other words, if you've posted to a community on say, Lemmy.nz or Aussie.zone (for the most dramatic examples), you may not have seen any responses until much later because it took that long for them to process & receive them.

This is a known technical issue with the present Lemmy version that is currently being discussed and worked on. As I understand it, this is in large part due to the concentration of activity on Lemmy World, while some other delays are related to geographic factors, both smashing together for one gnarly snag with the Lemmy software.

So what does this mean for you? Well, if you would like more timely communications with a variety of other Lemmy sites' communities, you may consider moving from Lemmy World to another Lemmy site.

Lemmy World is up to date with Lemmy, meaning you can export your settings (including user/community/instance blocks and community subs) and import on other up to date Lemmy sites. This tends to be easiest via the web interface so far as I'm aware.

Alternatively you may remain with an awareness of why you may not have seen many replies/comments to some of your comments/posts on other sites' communities, or suddenly see notifications for replies/comments to "old" comments/posts. People may only now be seeing them some time later.

Lemmy Federation Issue Discussion

Other Related Discussions:
Lemmy NZ Update on Lemmy World Federation Issues
Why do comments from lemmy.world users not appear until 4 days later?
Reddthat Update and Notice on Lemmy World Federation Issues
dbzer0 Federation Mishaps Postmortem

Communities Moving From Lemmy World Related to Delays
QuiteInteresting community notice
CasualConversations community discussion/notice


p.s. if I've misunderstood the issues in some way, please correct me in the comments. I've tried to avoid citing additional configuration hiccups besides dbzer0's (e.g. I think Sopuli's recent delays were something like this), such as World's own from around a month ago to keep focus on the underlying Lemmy issue.

[–] ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Thanks for this! I think I may have come across it at some point but never bookmarked it for whatever reason, corrected that now!

 

Image description:
A cartoon boy and his zombie friend standing in front of a surf shop in front of a crowd. The zombie friend is covering the boy from the waist down with his detached head because the boy lost his trunks and is embarrassed as the crowd seem to be trying to photograph him.

The boy is shouting, "I don't want to be internet famous!"

Meanwhile a zombie shark is stuck in the top of the surf shop with their head sticking out from where a wave smashed them into it.


Another silly moment from Zo Zo Zombie that makes for prime meme material.

 

Image description:
Woman wearing a giant hotdog headpiece while chewing on a banana hotdog looking toward you while saying, "Still weird, but at least it beats working."


From the silly series Zo Zo Zombie

[–] ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Locking this for similar reasons as I did another recent post, except this one is explicitly encouraging violent action. Further, MasterBlaster420, you seem unable to have this discussion without resorting to insulting people left and right.

See the following:


With this in mind, it would probably be wiser to permanently ban you from this community, but instead I'm giving a temporary ban. I'd encourage you to reflect on how you approach discussing this subject. Rather than suggesting general violence for enacting change, read further on the histories relating to the subject and really engage with them.

Recognize why there's an aversion to violence, who takes advantage of it to subvert its aims, and whether it may be better to help and organize those that align with you, than repel them into the arms of those you oppose.

[–] ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Ghost Commander may work for this. I've not tried sftp myself, but on opening it I do see the option there, so it might be worth a try.

[–] ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why would you reject free money?

Because it's as likely to be worthless as worth anything at all? One of the many problems with cryptocurrency is its volatile valuation...Which is a knock-on result of its failure to function as a currency at all for the most part. It's a lot less like free money and more like free arcade tokens to an arcade that's as likely to be shut down for health & safety as it is to have any functioning machines at all.

[–] ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I don't know if I could keep that vow.

[–] ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Piracy isn't piracy when it's no longer sold.

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