Defederation is weird and I don’t fully understand it. For example, the community will still exist on a server after defederation, and people can still post to it (albeit now there’s no moderation, and that’s a separate problem). Maybe feddit is pulling in posts from users outside of dbzer0, linking it to the orphaned comm, and populating the posts that way.

Feddit and dbzer0 have (mutually?) defederated, so you’ll only see posts there from your own instance users.

I kill the protagonist in act 1 instead of letting them go.

Dave said he entered the company card himself to buy Robux for his son, and it then sat saved on the Google account that also carries his work email, calendar, and files. Dave did not say why he used the company card for that purchase.

I use DaVinciBox (linked below by another user) with podman on Arch. It works pretty well, but I’m disappointed that it doesn’t seem to recognize that I have AMD ROCM available for av1 transcodes. Because the codec is open, I should be able to use it on the free version of DaVinci. Instead, I have to convert to DNxHR before importing media.

There are many open ember controls on github. This one worked the last time I used it: https://github.com/zopieux/mugctl

There are many open ember controls on github. This one worked the last time I used it: https://github.com/zopieux/mugctl

I use my ember mug because sometimes that first sip of coffee in the morning triggers something… urgent.

It’s nice to come back and still have my coffee at the temperature I left it. I also like that it keeps the coffee warm without overheating and burning it, like a hot plate would.

IDK about later models, but mine has no screen and I control it with open source software.

I’m not going to say that all things created by people aren’t slop, but it’s also true that our context for understanding art can change over time. What we’re getting now, with certain art styles being associated with slop is a kind of Seinfeld effect.

To give a specific example: When the movie Annihilation came out, it quickly became a favorite of mine. I loved its visual style, and the narrative theme about broken people. A few months ago I re-watched it and realized that its visuals have been so coopted by endless slop recreations that I couldn’t disassociate it from AI output. Even though the themes were still there and no less resonant than when I first watched it, my brain couldn’t enjoy the film because I kept thinking about slop. The movie hadn’t changed and all the artistic intentionality behind its creation was still there, but my ability to enjoy it was destroyed.

Think about it like a mid-life crisis, or some other point in time where people say “What am I doing with my life?” and then decide (and have the means) to make a change. Now the second life has begun.

I really loved the 2013 Aleksei German film adaptation, even if it strays from the book details. Something about the claustrophobic camera work and the filthy sets helped me sense Rumata’s disappointment with Arkanar.

The visual style of this trailer reminds me of a mix between the 1989 Hard to be a God adaptation and Dune, I hope it turns out good! I’ll definitely watch this if I can.

Smoking during a cardio sport. People back then gave no fucks.

What I get out of self hosting services: Full control of my data and something to tinker with when the fancy strikes.

Graphs? Monitors? Failover? I get enough of that shit at work. If it’s down then whatever: I’ll fix it when the inconvenience is too great to ignore. External users? I only invite people who understand that this is my hobby, not my job.

In my house it’ll be Lake Ontario to my Canadian friends and Lake Fascismo to everyone else.

I heard there’s a lost director’s cut where Armstrong meets an alien

Trans men don’t want to go to the women’s bathroom, but they’re legally required to do so under Kansas law. This is a protest where they follow the law-as-written to draw attention to how stupid it is. I can guarantee you that these dudes (even the ones who didn’t get the cops called on them) were humiliated by using the women’s bathroom, but they overcame that to raise awareness for trans rights.

declining to fund the $10 million project

As far as a Hollywood budget goes, isn’t that basically nothing? Sucks that she can’t get any traction for it.

Calibre is an ebook library manager with a reader built-in. Koreader is purely reader software, and it works particularly well on touch and eink screens.

I feel your frustration. Not sure about you, but some days are OK and others I feel like all I do is get upset at a GPU cluster. Last week, my team lead announced “We need to stop thinking of ourselves as a team that writes code, and become a team that reviews LLM code”. Goddamn, reviewing LLM code is miserable.

I’d quit to focus on hobbies, but short/mid-term life plans require a strong financial footing. I left a previous job after the 2024 election hoping to take 6 months off, but day 1 of MAGA fascism’s return had me so scared that I got right back into looking for jobs.

The Dirty Dozen has a very cathartic finale, nearly on the level of the cinema fire from Inglorious Basterds.