Andrew

Skirt + poncho = double skirt
Denim skirt + denim poncho = double denim double skirt.

For movies and shows to a VPS, I’d install a command-line IRC client (like weechat) and get stuff using XDCC.

I used to have a bot that uploaded stuff to Google drive and mega for plebs on Reddit to download, and that what the bot used to get the content in the first place.

Maybe, but image posts drive more engagement than text ones. You can see on !lowqualityfacts@lemmy.zip that the text posts, which are no worse LQFs than any other ones IMO, score noticeably lower.

I like sites / Lemmy frontends that provide some kind of ‘teaser’ for text posts (they also show a bit of the post’s body in the main feed), meaning you can often see both the feed line and the punchline for a post without going into it (it works well for ‘dad jokes’ for example). But the default frontend - lemmy-ui - doesn’t do that, so it hobbles the potential of text posts.

Putting people you don’t trust into a trebuchet is a win-win: it technically means you trust them more, but it also makes them someone else’s problem.

I know all the cool kids hate on AI, but as someone out of the loop, that ‘podcast’ is really impressive. I guess it speaks to how a influential certain style of podcasting is (from the likes of NPR) that a machine can copy it the same as other humans do.

As for the embedded link, this works for me (and others on the same site as me), but it might not for others:

Incels complain about being put in the “friend zone”, so infrels must be one layer below them?

HBO Max, for the brief period of time it existed, had a more fitting ‘bumper’. Hacks, which started out as a ‘Max Original’ still had it in season 3, but The Penguin, which was a Max Original until it wasn’t, has the fuzzy version (I’ve had players that struggle with it a bit, but I doubt HBO gives a shit about the quality of my experience pirating their stuff)

Well, yeah. Dunno how popular those names still are though. There’s also androgynous-sounding name like ‘Alex’ or 'Andy, of course, but I figured that the general idea was to take a flight of fancy and riff on it, not shoot it down from the skies.

It’d be interesting if men took on their wife’s first name, so it would immediately indicate to others if a man was married or not. And then there’d be pushback, in the same way there is to the ‘Mrs’ and ‘Miss’ titles, and parents would start naming their sons with female names to start with. (it works less well the other way around, because there’s already girls called ‘Dylan’ and ‘Taylor’, etc).

I’ll admit to assuming he must be kind of a cool nerd for naming some of his SpaceX things after Culture ships (from Iain M. Banks’ novels), but now I feel sullied by association from having enjoyed the same books.

I seem to have stumbled into an argument that people are more passionate about than me. I mentioned I’d seen ‘active/passive’ used (in computer networking), and in that context, it ‘seems alright’ (in the sense of actively giving demands, vs. passively accepting them [and doing what it’s told, of course])

If someone has made good-faith request not to use certain terminology (like Master/Slave), then I’m generally more interested in finding acceptable alternatives than I am in dismissing their concerns outright. If, at the end of a proper search for alternatives, nothing suitable can be found, then fair enough. I’d question the idea that it’s really impossible to find something else though, but - for now at least - I’m sure that Dom/Sub isn’t it.

Yeah, you’re right, that was a clumsy word choice. My experience is mostly from watching The Duke of Burgundy tbh

I’ve seen ‘Active / Passive’ used, that seems alright. There’s plenty of alternative terms to use without borrowing terminology from sexual roleplay.

Anyway, the Sub is supposed to be the one that’s actually in control for this kind of thing (otherwise you’d just be in an abusive relationship), so that confuses things when you start trying to applying it elsewhere.

It seems to be quite a lot for the server it’s hosted on though (which is not the snappiest). There are, of course, still areas in the world where - for one reason or another - people still are effectively on dial-up speed-wise.

Buster should turn their attention to the size of the images uploaded to servers like this: 1.1M is arguably overkill for this one.

It probably is. I’d tried Mastodon but found myself not going back. Phanpy re-invigorated my interest in it.

You can look at the git logs for any open-source project if you want to feel better about it: there’s usually a regular pattern of:
do this for all the things.
Followed by either:
hang on, wait. Not *all* the things.
Or:
Missed these out of all the things

Not much for beets. My config.yaml is just:

library: ~/.config/beets/musiclibrary2.db

import:
    move: yes

terminal_encoding: utf8

plugins: fetchart embedart

(so fetchart and embedart are the only plugins)

(from then on, a Navidrome server hosts the music, and I tend to use a Windows app called ‘Feishin’ to play it)