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Are there any decent, smaller, #Queer-friendly #Mastodon instances that don't block #Threads?
  • The real question is not what the algorithm pushes to you, but whether their moderation actually bans bigots and removes their posts. Any other instance would lose their "right" to federate with a queer-friendly instance if they didn't do that, so why would Threads get an exception?

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  • chitter.xyz Jess🌺 :itsfree: (@roxy@chitter.xyz)

    Attached: 1 image 🪐 We've been on Mastodon for many years, but I'm gonna go ahead and post this old Xenia drawing anyways, in case any of our followers from Cohost are checking these tags #hicohost #artistsoncohost #cohost #heycohost

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    Are there any decent, smaller, #Queer-friendly #Mastodon instances that don't block #Threads?
  • Isn't "queer friendly" and "federates with Threads" an oxymoron?

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    Peter Molyneux thinks generative AI is the future of games, all but guaranteeing that it won't be
  • ECS already makes it a hundred times easier for me to conceptualize game mechanics, modify and extend them. Giving AI the ability the ability to create data separate from systems that use them will make it much easier for it to build a game. I don't believe for a second it will be able to write functioning object-oriented game code for example. It will likely be best if it avoided coding via a text-based language altogether, and use visual scripting or another system based on chaining logic blocks together. But that still counts as the "system" part of ECS.

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    Peter Molyneux thinks generative AI is the future of games, all but guaranteeing that it won't be
  • There is a possibility something like this will be possible in the future, but it's not going to be an achievement of AI, it's largely going to be the achievement of regular developers creating a general-purpose game engine that can be used to put together a game block by block, which can be utilized by both human game designers and AI. (Likely to better effect by the former.) I can imagine Entity Component Systems will play a big part of that.

    One of the biggest blockers for AI making games is going to be testing it to select for better performance. With text it's relatively easy to see if some text an AI produced is plausible. Images are also plentiful, but that's a lot more subjective. With both of these it would also not take a massive amount of time to add a human element. It's quick to check if a paragraph or image looks like it is a good response to the input promt. A game, however? How long do you need to play it to see if it's fun? At best, perhaps, you can write an AI to control a bot character to see if it's technically playable.

    I don't want to even think about the electricity that wlll be wasted training such models.

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    TIL Gravity is not about mass pulling other mass. It's mass bending ~~time~~ spacetime that makes other mass get closer
  • Indeed, it's a neat way to visualize gravity, but that's it. It lacks any sort of explanation of why masses appear to be pulled towards one another. (I will point to the other person in this thread saying it "explains gravity with gravity".) This is why I think the metaphor you mentioned detracts from the original video.

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  • cross-posted from: https://pawb.social/post/13665271

    > Source: Furaffinity

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    Threads deepens its ties to the open social web, aka the ‘fediverse’
  • I don't think that's how it works and it would likely not be legal. By explicitly blocking Threads, you make a big statement about not wanting your instance's posts to show up there. Also from a technical standpoint, I don't think a "middle-man" instance will push posts from another instance to a third one. You'd have to explicitly scrape data that's not available via the API. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

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    Is there a way to make TNT explode if the "tnt explodes" option has been turned off?
  • Actually this is pretty easy. First of all you got to get a stack of exactly 1 TNT and place it down where you want it to explode. Be careful not to put anything else in the slot the TNT was in because that's now shadow-linked with the TNT you placed. You need to somehow get a redstone signal to activate in the same tick as you punch the TNT block. It'll take a bunch of tries. Be careful not to pick up the dropped TNT item, or it'll go into the shadowed slot. That part is pretty random. Next open up the chat and type "BOOOM!" or similar. It helps if you copied the text beforehand so you only have to paste it in. Log out of the server and never come back because you're a bad person.

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    Selfhost your own gitea instance - selfhosted, lightweight github alternative
  • Could you please provide some sources for that? I'd like to know more.

    First of all though, there is no such thing as a "hostile fork". Being able to fork a project, for any reason, is the entire point of open source. And to be fair, not wanting to continue working for a for-profit company for free is a very good reason.

    And yeah, when you suddenly turn a FOSS project that's been developed with the help of a bunch of contributors, into a for-profit company, without making a big fuss about it beforehand and allow the contributors and community to weigh in, then yeah, that's a hostile takeover of sorts, at least in my opinion. Developers gotta make money, but they could've done that by creating a new brand instead of taking over that of a previously completely FOSS project. Forgejo is preventing that exact thing from happening by joining Codeberg (a non-profit).

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    Selfhost your own gitea instance - selfhosted, lightweight github alternative
  • There's been a hostile takeover at Gitea and it's now run / owned by a for-profit company. The developers forked the project under the name Forgejo and are continuing the work under a non-profit. See also: Their introduction post and a page comparing the two projects. Feel free to look up more, since I haven't familiarized myself with the incident all that much myself. Either way though, maybe consider using Forgejo instead of Gitea.

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    Should one remove all Reddit posts and comments?
  • I did decide to delete all my comments and posts on Reddit. Sure, maybe I've posted some helpful comments, but why support Reddit with their continued existence? Remove content, and people might move to other sites to get their information.

    I also decided to keep my account. Turns out some content stayed around, because I could not see and therefore delete it in locked subreddits. So when they came back, the comments came back too, and I was able to delete them, still.

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    Problem displaying 'ff' in RichTextBox?
  • I'm unable to test this, but I was browsing around and found that in a FontVariation you add "Standard Ligatures" to "OpenType Features" and then disable it. Would that by chance help solve your issue? There's also a similar field in the font import options in "Metadata Overrides".

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    my thoughts after using arch as my first distro
  • I don't know how many years it's been, but I also have been driving Arch for a while. I might not recommend it to absolute beginners, because you do need some patience and experience (such as how to effectively google), but honestly besides some mostly self-inflicted issues, I felt like I had it all around easier than users of other distros (and Windows, of course).

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    Ada's actions are contributing to a hostile environment
  • My only experience with Mind Traveler was them engaging with almost every single comment in one thread, seemingly stirring up stuff. I'm not sure about others, but to me that's not how I want anyone to interact with a forum such as Lemmy. I don't want half of the comments in a thread to be from a single user trying to argue every single other person, being as noisy as they can be.

    Also, what is your stake in this? You aren't a particularly active user, at least from what I can see from my Lemmy instance. There might be reason to believe you're an alt account of Mind Traveler or a friend trying to push some narrative.

    Besides, if anyone is not happy with the actions of our Lemmy admins, which are unlikely to change, why not just move to another instance? That's the beauty of the fediverse, after all. Unless, of course, they aren't welcome on other instances either.

    Please, no more drama or attempting to discredit Blåhaj Lemmy admins.

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    Blahaj Lemmy state of the shark - Our goals, politics and recent events
  • Regarding what I called a "witch hunt", it seemed like some users quickly jumped on board accusing the previous owner of the libertyhub community of intentionally misgendering a user, when it appeared to be a singular slip up ("you" instead of "You"), that he quickly apologized for and fixed. Maybe there were valid concerns regarding the moderation of that community and it was indeed the right choice for the owner to step down – I am totally missing the context for this – but I felt like there was a large focus on the wrong issue that might've driven him away from Lemmy.

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    Blahaj Lemmy state of the shark - Our goals, politics and recent events
  • As a spectator with no stake in what happened, except of course wanting people to feel comfortable, I feel like two things were still left unaddressed:

    • It looked like the owner of the affected community was driven out by something that almost resembled a witch hunt, with accusations that appeared to be unfounded or even maliciously pushed by people opposing the views or moderation style of the community.

    • There was a particular user who stood out to me because they tried to respond to as many posts as possible, seemingly fueling the drama, or at least actively pushing their opinion on everyone. I feel like this is not the appropriate way to interact in such a forum, nor healthy for that individual.

    What did the admins do or are planning to do in regards to these concerns?

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    How transwomen/transmen dream
  • When you say "trans woman" you affirm that they are women, and trans is just an adjective. When you say "transwoman" it can imply that they are something different altogether, and TERFs have certainly used it as such. Like, I dunno, a carpark isn't a park? That's the first example that came to mind, anyway.

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    Blahaj zone is getting a new mascot and icon!
  • I believe "copyright free" in this case doesn't mean not protected by copyright, but rather that it was missing attribution, so they could not contact the original creator.

    Anything you create is automatically protected by copyright, whether you put a "© copygirl" or something to that effect on it or not. To use someone else's work, you either need to get permission from the author directly, or the work has to be available under a license that says you're allowed to (typically comes with some requirements or restrictions). One can also release a work under public domain, but that isn't legally possible in some countries. There's also some exceptions like fair use but that's another thing.

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    Question: Does the build number always increment no matter the version or does the build number resets to 1 for every new version?
  • Something else to consider in place of or in addition to a build number could also be using the git commit hash of what you're building. Though I would only use that for non-stable releases.

    For example, stable versions of Zig look like 0.12.1 and then there's in-development releases like 0.13.0-dev.351+64ef45eb0. It uses semantic versioning where the "pre-release" is dev.351, which includes an incrementing build number, and the "build metadata" is 64ef45eb0, the commit hash it was built from. The latter allows a user to quickly look up the exact commit easily and thus know exactly what they're using.

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  • toot.finfur.net Neotheta (@Neotheta@finfur.net)

    Attached: 1 image Introverts are hanging out 🐿️ 🦊 #xenia #linux #kiki #krita

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    I don't see a way to block individual users' posts from showing up in my feeds. There is no "Block" button on any user's page like there is for communities. For some reason I thought there was a way to do this before, but maybe I was just using another frontend? I see some users are blocked when checking my settings. I made sure to disable uBlock Origin to check if it could be an element hiding rule.

    For the record these aren't rule breaking users or anything, but instead bots that automatically post things, some of them pulling links straight from reddit. I prefer my Lemmy being populated by humans.

    Thank you!

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    meow.social RiniDisc (@rinidisc@meow.social)

    Attached: 1 image As per a request, human Xenia~ #art #furryart #linux

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    md.ilyamikcoder.com vectorassembly :pansexual:​ (@de_lysander@ilyamikcoder.com)

    Attached: 2 images Finished drawing Xenia, I adore her :neofox_aww:​ took me around 3 hours. (and yes, I reused the old room because i'm lazy) #vectorart #art #furry #xenia

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    meow.social RiniDisc (@rinidisc@meow.social)

    Attached: 1 image Got around to making an actual reference sheet for our favorite linux fox (at least, for how I draw her~) #xenia #art #furry #furryart

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    yiff.life ko 🦊🌸 (@koko@yiff.life)

    Attached: 1 image Xenia's Opinions - lined/shaded in Krita on Debian sid! [get this one as a sticker](https://www.redbubble.com/i/sticker/Xenia-s-Opinions-by-kokoscript/156393959.EJUG5) ([textless version available, too!](https://www.redbubble.com/i/sticker/Xenia-s-Opinions-textless-by-kokoscript/...

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    Create Aeronautics, along with other mods from the "Create Simulated" family, are addons for Create that push the mod into the realm of physics. This video talks about the state of the mods, what to expect, and some teaser clips and pictures.

    There was also a blog post by the creators themselves that contains some of the same information and teasers, if you prefer that format.

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    yiff.life creature_sp (@creature_sp@yiff.life)

    Attached: 1 image Xenia da Linux fox, what could she be buying? #furryart #mastoart #Xenia #blahaj

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    plush.city Tsunderdog (@tsunderdog@plush.city)

    Attached: 1 image xenia the linux fox, seen here cultivating inner peace in /dev/null :xenialinux: ✨💻✨ #xenia #TsunderdogART

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    toot.finfur.net Neotheta (@Neotheta@finfur.net)

    Attached: 1 image Assembly Summer 2023 Freestyle graphics entry 🦊 Placed 9th (second last).

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    mstdn.games VirtualRook (@VirtualRook@mstdn.games)

    Attached: 1 image Had to paint a Picture of #Xenia The original #furry mascot for #Linux , and #trans Icon <3 #furryart #furryartist

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    The Create machines are sneakily powered by a waterwheel, whose water source is dispensed / picked up with a button press, along with the one for bulk washing. And ooooh boy it was fun to figure out how to make it fit and look decent.

    Mods used:
    • Create
    • Farmer's Delight
    • Cooking for Blockheads
    • Botany Pots (for growing crops)
    • Croptopia (cooking utensils on oven)
    • Decorative Blocks (supports)
    • Another Furniture (shelves)
    • Supplementaries (cog blocks)
    • Quark (spruce chests)
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