early_riser @ early_riser @lemmy.radio

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Definitely let me know if this is off topic and I should shut up or whatever, I just figured there would be some overlap and people would want to know. Anyway, the site is above 2000 concurrent users as of 7 PM CDT.

Yup. It's definitely happening again.

Seems like another attack may be underway.

Does fldigi do SSTV now or am I not getting the joke?

Depending on how big the island is, and how the gas is stored, I don't think it would drop like a rock, I think it would slowly drift down as gas escapes. This reminds me of Laputa from Gulliver's Travels. Perhaps residents could weaponize the islands by selectively reducing buoyancy to crush cities below.

I have a setup involving floating cities in the upper atmosphere of a gas giant, but instead of using a lifting gas they use Flanar pontoons.

Where possible I use an Anglish (YouTube Link) translation convention for alien words since their languages are unutterable by humans (and vice versa). As for how they sound, imagine the quiet yipping and growling made by a dreaming dog. The word in the OP is Romanized (if you can call it that) as GJbfrMr, and is pronounced /long rising weak growl, short rising strengthening whine, chuff, long low strong grunt, chuff/. The root word is the verb GJ meaning to work or to make and the suffix -bfr, which forms nouns from verbs or adjectives with a meaning of a software program or digital service described by the root. -Mr is an 3rd person proximal noun suffix roughly meaning "this..." or "this is a..."

I post my worldbuilding stuff mostly on the CBB conlanging forum, and there's a comprehensive grammar for Commonthroat--the most widely spoken alien language--on FrathWiki. Sometimes I put stuff on a worldbuilding community here on lemmy !worldbuilding@lemmy.world.

*edit: got my own grammar wrong.

Thanks! Here are a few more samples:

Part of the livery of a particular spacecraft, spelling out the craft's name, Dewfall.

The word for 'Mech hangar' (Every sci-fi setting needs some big ol' stompy walking war crimes).

Another attempt at a glowing CRT aesthetic. This is the name of the worldbuilding project as a whole "The Lonely Galaxy".

And here's what the writing system looks like when hand-written. The word is "egg eater", which is a very vulgar insult among these oviparous aliens. The aesthetic of the script leans toward the Brahmic writing systems of South and Southeast Asia.

Tattoos aren't a thing since most of the population is covered nose to tail in fur. Perfumes are the primary means of personal adornment. The only visual decorations are designs painted or scored onto the writing claw (done by both men and women) and tail rings, which are usually cloth sleeves worn around the tail rather than rigid metal loops.

The anti-baldness laws aren't heavily enforced, and even when they are, it involves preventing the balding drugs from being leaked to the public rather than punishing possession and use. Perfumes are a more salient way to communicate status and rank anyway, and healers supplement their baldness with specific scents.

They also didn't always have germ theory, so they weren't always aware they needed to take these precautions.

I've backed myself into a corner somewhat regarding commercial cooking. In theory deliberate baldness would also be prevalent among cooks since they also have to meet sanitation requirements, but I've made baldness such a distinct indicator of the medical profession that in some jurisdictions it's illegal to shed one's fur as it's considered impersonating a healer [^1].

For now cooks use bunny suits or glove boxes, though the use of a mobile assistant who carries tools on the back as described above is also common in kitchens. There's even a Commonthroat word for the job qgkNPqg that carries secondary meanings of someone who is made to do someone else's dirty work.

[^1]: This becomes a problem after a fad for emulating human hairlessness arises after First Contact. These so-called "skinnies" would steal the balding drugs used by healers to achieve the desired look.

Yes, very much so.

I've never heard of a sport where you can lose points, but I'm also not a sports guy.

At the time of the OP I was testing federating two nodeBB instances. ActivityPub requires HTTPS AFAIK.

Are the sugar gliders more like familiars/companions for the wizards or do they have their own society and stuff? Is dancing something sugar gliders are known for?

OK. NOW email is working properly. Turns out my own email provider is more permissive about random email servers. Gmail won't even put it in the spam folder. I had to switch to a 3rd party email provider. Before I was using sendmail built into the server. I can confirm Gmail is receiving the verification emails now.

"succeed" perhaps isn't the right word. I like the CBB and have no intentions of leaving. My only gripe is that it runs on a rather old platform. The problem I have with social media is that it doesn't foster long-lasting conversations. Ironically you CAN achieve a traditional forum experience on Lemmy simply by sorting posts in a community by latest comment and choosing the "chat" option within a thread, but even though they're trivially easy to select, since they're not the defaults nobody will bother. The default options favor novelty, so older topics get buried quickly.

But there are lots of ideas that social media brings to the table that I think enhance the forum experience without robbing it of its more cozy character.

In the end, though, my motivation is 80% wanting to improve my sysadmin skills and 20% wanting to create a community. Like how do I manage software updates, backups, migration, provisioning more resources, etc. Since I'm so green when it comes to administration, I'd suggest not using an email address or using a throwaway, and of course using proper password hygiene goes without saying.

Regarding tags, my intention was to start out with a single category and let community usage dictate which topics deserve their own categories. When I was on the Minecraft forums back in 2011, I was annoyed by how granular the forum structure was.

Upvote for the Dark Crystal reference.

Tiny furry human! The adults are quite striking as well.

I searched for “monkeys” and this is the first post across all the instances I have access to that’s just a nice picture of a monkey and not a rant about NFTs or similar.

I'm curious about the white hole. That was something I played around with, that the central light was spewing out matter and had a negative gravitational field that pushed people toward the surface since you don't experience the gravity of a sphere if you're inside it.

I'd also like to know more about the clouds.

I’m always a sucker for giant cosmic space god heads.

I based the idea on Unicron from G1 Transformers. For the longest time I called the structure in my conworld Yinrihcron in want of a better name. Now the name is used in-universe by humans.