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e0qdk , 2 days ago

That requires turning every read into a write -- which is slow/expensive generally. (That might not matter much for Google -- who try to record everything you ever do already, basically -- but it matters for everyone else.)

Also, it tends to promote spam and offensive niche content. kbin's got a sidebar that tries to promote random low activity communities and posts, for example, and it's almost uncanny how much crap it pushes up...

e0qdk , 4 days ago

https://reddthat.com/pictrs/image/b7b49ed5-66bd-4152-981d-310fa15afc46.jpeg

e0qdk , 4 days ago

Mrs Bighead?!

...

*hangs up the phone*

e0qdk , 5 days ago

Personally, I prefer it when people do one of the following:

• upload the file to catbox.moe and link it here (for clips up to 200MB)
• upload the file directly to their lemmy instance (if their instance allows it)
• self-host it on their own web server (with no bullshit crappy JS interface, please -- just give me the file; I'll play it with VLC if it doesn't work in my browser)

PeerTube is also a reasonable choice -- although I don't like its UI very much.

e0qdk , 6 days ago

After I finished watching the series, I discovered that there is a movie version of the story that condenses it down to <2 hours. I haven't watched it, but that might be a more approachable way for modern viewers to digest the story.

I have seen both (a long time ago), and from what I remember the movie was REALLY different -- like, almost unrecognizably different. I do not recommend substituting one for the other.

e0qdk , 11 days ago

Right now I'm mostly using mlmym (the "old" interface on most instances that support it) because it doesn't require JS for basic viewing.

It's kind of buggy though, unfortunately -- things like user history show up as a complete jumble, for example. :(

One of these days, I'll probably get fed up enough to go write my own interface and set things up exactly how I want them to work... but I've got too many projects already so I'm just living with it for now.

e0qdk , 10 days ago

I haven't had much issue with lag, generally, but I don't get notifications any more -- which is probably the most pressing issue. (I have to remember to manually check once in a while after I post since the envelope doesn't light up.) That might be an issue with reddthat being on a recent beta version of lemmy -- I don't know.

We do have lemmy-ui-next over here too. Thanks for reminding me about that. I've been meaning to poke at it a bit.

e0qdk , 10 days ago (edited 10 days ago)

You can open any profile with multiple pages worth of posts or comments on old.reddthat.com and it's jumbled. Even my own profile is jumbled: https://old.reddthat.com/u/e0qdk

The first page is mostly comments I made two weeks ago plus a thread from today and some very old threads. The second page has comments I made earlier today and during the past week. The third page starts with my most recent comment and then has a bunch of older comments.

The exact order might change after posting this, but my own recent comments mostly being on page two has been pretty consistent for a while.

If I look at a very active user's profile (like MentalEdge's), I see threads from today show up on page three(!) while there are threads from a week or more ago on pages one and two.

I'm not sure what's going on exactly, but it basically makes user profiles pretty useless right now through mlmym.

Edit: I can't even find this comment in my profile, but my other reply (regarding the envelope being fixed in 0.0.43) shows up on page 3.

e0qdk , 10 days ago

That's great to hear!

e0qdk , 10 days ago

Thanks! I'll go ask Tiff about getting reddthat updated later.

BTW, is there a community for discussion of mlmym itself somewhere on lemmy? I can't participate on GitHub, but those aren't the only issues I've found. (e.g. there's also ?format=jpg&thumbnail=96 on non-pictrs links and a text handling issue with angle brackets...)

e0qdk , 10 days ago

I'm having trouble finding an example of the thumbnail issue again right now but I was seeing the pictrs conversion parameters passed to URLs from catbox.moe, i.postimg.cc, and other sources in the CSS for the thumbnail when I reported the issue to Tiff ~3 weeks ago. It's possible that it got fixed/suppressed by another change since then though. (0.0.44 was deployed a few hours ago and I think there may have also been a beta patch bump for the lemmy backend at some point since I reported the issue originally in our local support community.)

I'll let you know if I see it pop up again.

For the text handling issue, I was seeing text like "<thread title> by <username> in <community>" (i.e. "<thread title> by <username> in <community>" if it still happens) getting misinterpreted as raw HTML instead of being escaped. (i.e. <!-- raw HTML omitted --> was showing up in the HTML output for the page.)

You may recognize that text as the pattern for a recently fixed bug in the user profiles; I found the text handling issue while trying to explain the other issue to Tiff a few weeks ago.

Will edit this comment immediately after posting to let you know if I still see the text issue.

EDIT: I still see the text issue show up in this comment. https://old.reddthat.com/comment/10370610

e0qdk , 1 day ago (edited 1 day ago)

I ran into an example of the thumbnail issue again today -- this time on a post from kbin: https://old.reddthat.com/post/19193476

The thumbnail looks like this in the HTML:

<div class="thumb">
  <a class="url"
     href="https://media.kbin.social/media/60/a4/60a45b8ff88b1b2e3a0f77b701feb323c5bbfb7ceeb75154ea7df5d6eea15ef8.jpg"
     >
    <div  style="background-image: url(https://media.kbin.social/media/60/a4/60a45b8ff88b1b2e3a0f77b701feb323c5bbfb7ceeb75154ea7df5d6eea15ef8.jpg?format=jpg&amp;thumbnail=96)"></div>
  </a>
</div>

Note that it's making a request to kbin.social with ?format=jpg&thumbnail=96 parameters in the CSS -- which results in the full image being loaded since kbin doesn't run pictrs.

The versions in use on reddthat (according to the settings page) are:

lemmy: 0.19.4-beta.7

mlmym: 0.0.44

e0qdk , 11 days ago

Privacy-focused people of Mbin and Lemmy, do any of the third-party YouTube viewers support spherical video?

No idea, but if you put the video file up for direct download you can view spherical video in VLC. I'm not sure what the exact requirements are to make it recognize it, but I know it can do it. (I'd guess it probably just looks for a copy of whatever metadata that YT wants you to tag the video files with.)

e0qdk , 11 days ago

https://reddthat.com/pictrs/image/5dcc7bd3-7e7b-4adc-b171-234edae27e5e.jpeg

e0qdk , 14 days ago

There's some notable differences with numbering -- e.g. lakh, crore, and where to put commas when writing large numbers.

e0qdk , 16 days ago

I wonder if this will actually cause an increase in the number of security vulnerabilities and breaches as there's now a fairly obvious way for employees to penalize their bosses financially for being assholes...

e0qdk , 25 days ago

I think this is just using SpeechDispatcher from the system – so it’s not a Firefox specific thing. I get a similar (but very slightly different) voice on my own system by default – which matches what I get when I run a command like spd-say --wait “Hello world” from the command line.

I’m pretty sure SpeechDispatcher can be configured to use a different synthesis engine – Arch’s wiki has some suggestions: wiki.archlinux.org/title/Speech_dispatcher – but I haven’t dug into it yet.

e0qdk , 25 days ago (edited 23 days ago)

Gundress (1999) is the most obscure anime movie I've seen and maybe also the most obscure movie overall -- of stuff that was actually professionally made and shown in theaters, anyway. I posted about it in one of the weekly anime threads a couple months ago with some screenshots and additional details.

Outside of anime, I've seen a number of cult films and non-English films that are probably obscure to English speaking audiences, but I have no idea how obscure they actually are. (The one above I know is obscure since it doesn't even have an English Wikipedia page -- unlike every other anime show and movie I've seen.)

Some examples are Wonderwall (1968) with music by George Harrison, eXistenZ (1999), Cemetery Man (1994), and I Served the King of England (2006). I know at least one other person on Lemmy has heard of Cemetery Man since it was brought up in a thread around Christmas, but they were surprised I'd seen it.

Primer (2004) and Dark Star (1974) also came to mind, but I don't think those are actually that obscure. They are interesting though.

Edit: rephrased for clarity

Edit2: typo in title fixed ("Kind" -> "King")

e0qdk , 27 days ago

Just the other day, I got a reply to a thread from ~6 months ago on kbin!

It was spam. :/

e0qdk , 27 days ago

I think the term would be “necrobump”

That’s from old school forums where posting to a thread bumped it back to the top of the feed and thus thrust old info prominently into everyone’s view again. You won’t get that same bump effect with most sorts on Lemmy. (“New comments” sort might work like that though? I’m not sure exactly how that’s handled.)

otherwise everyone has moved on

It’s pretty rare to get much of a response even after just 24 hours or so – not just in terms of comments, but even for upvotes. I think after that point, posts are usually so far down people’s feeds that almost no one sees it any more. That probably also discourages most people from replying since basically no one will see it. (Maybe the poster of the thread or comment you’re replying to will see it, but probably almost no one else will if it’s more than a day or so old.)

Some people do dig through community archives and/or user profiles – particularly after a new thread is posted – and they’ll occasionally upvote old posts, but they very rarely comment.

e0qdk , 27 days ago

Maybe you’d be interested in “kinetic novels”? They’re basically VNs without choices.

e0qdk , 1 month ago

I quit YouTube along with reddit last summer. I don’t use alternate interfaces. I haven’t found a replacement for most of the niche content I liked to watch there – and yes, that sucks.

I’ve mostly been watching offline content (like DVDs and things I downloaded years ago) when I want video entertainment, and doing other stuff with my free time.

You might think that’d mean more time playing games given my interests, but I’ve found I’m a lot less enthusiastic about playing through games if I can’t watch an LP or two of it afterwards. So, I’m actually playing (and also buying) less of those than I used to too.

e0qdk , 1 month ago

Wait. The author is 藤本 and the main characters are named 藤野 and 京本? I can guess where 京 comes from. Is there additional significance to 野?

e0qdk , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

The Japanese text on the bottom of the left image says: Sapporo (Draft) Black Label beer. I can’t tell what the four characters under 生 are though. (Too blurry for me to figure out.)

Edit: those characters might be 非熱処理 – meaning unpasteurized.

e0qdk , 1 month ago

https://reddthat.com/pictrs/image/46fc6649-a469-4e72-ad72-862d39f5c2bc.png

e0qdk , 1 month ago

This post made it over to reddthat, so your posts are federating out.

Checking over on my kbin account as well, I can see content in /newest from multiple sources. /sub returns 404 but I think that’s just a caching bug (adding ?p=1 to the end of the URL lets me workaround it).

e0qdk , 1 month ago

And I got the response from kbin back on reddthat fine. Seems like communication is working.

e0qdk , 1 month ago

Oh, so that’s how Genis was casting Fire Ball!

e0qdk , 1 month ago

I was following it casually last year, but haven’t really kept up. These are some of the communities I made a note of:

• !stable_diffusion
• !share_anime_art
• !imageai
• !ai_art
• !stable_diffusion_art
• !localllama

e0qdk OP , 1 month ago

Additional relevant discussion on HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39865810

e0qdk , 1 month ago

She’s a character from Persona 3.

e0qdk , 2 months ago

I didn't even post Hatsune Miku on 3/9

Huh. I probably should've picked up that 39 can be read as mi-ku in goroawase a long time ago, but I only realized the "thank you" interpretation and didn't realize it was also wordplay for Miku until just now.

I was literally sitting here wondering "WTF is the significance of 3/9?" for a half hour or so before it hit me. :p

e0qdk , 2 months ago

It’s often in comments in the JS file(s) – sometimes with the licenses quoted entirely and sometimes in a form abbreviated by an automated code packer. Probably a lot of sites aren’t actually compliant with the terms of the licenses doing things that way, but IANAL.

e0qdk , 2 months ago

I don’t know about KDE in particular, but I’ve had problems with USB mice waking various Ubuntu systems when they’re not directly connected (i.e. there’s a hub or KVM in between it and the computer). The workaround I used for that was to remove the mouse input (e.g. by carefully pressing a physical button on the KVM) – which was good enough for me – but I think there is a programmatic way to block particular classes of input from waking the system if some device is waking your system inappropriately.

Doing a quick search turned up this: askubuntu.com/…/how-do-i-prevent-mouse-movement-f… – I can’t vouch for any of the specific techniques there though.

Worth noting that while I had a problem with the mouse specifically, other hardware could be causing your system to wake up.