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Lemmy is a failed Reddit alternative
  • I have a couple of thoughts.

    1. I dont need or want Lemmy to appeal to the mainstream. Frankly, I already get all the mainstream 'culture' I can stand, and frequntly more.

    2. I think it's a mistake to consider Lemmy a one-to-one repacement for Reddit. I hope the fediverse can leverage the whole, y'know, federation thing. I think topic-driven instances that function similarly to the old phpBB boards is a good paradigm. It's not about a monster site that has a board for everything. It's more answering the question, 'What if I could post on gamefaqs from my metal archives account?'

    I guess I just think we could do better than trying to out-reddit reddit, when it comes to having a vision for the platform.

    Signed, a linux using socialist.

  • U.S. "Know Your Customer" Proposal Will Put an End to Anonymous Cloud Users * TorrentFreak
  • Will it still be possible to purchase a VPS in another country and pay with Monero or something? This seems like insane over reach, are theu going to make it illegal for americans to do business with international IAAS providers?

  • And don't forget RTFM
  • I try to keep an eye out for repetitive tasks that might make good projects. I just started a python script that's going to download all my google photos so i can free up my cloud storage.

  • Hallucination is Inevitable: An Innate Limitation of Large Language Models (arxiv preprint)
  • researchers and philosophers (not sure why we should care about the latter’s opinions on LLMs).

    Philosophers may not be represent an authory on the mechanics of LLMs, but in a discussion of the nature consciousness (which is really what the stochastic parrot stuff is about), their opinion is as valid as anyone elses, and they have one of the richer histories of conceptualizing it, long before more rigorous empirical disciplines could dream of doing so.

  • 'NPR is cool!' How Tiny Desk Concerts became a pop culture phenomenon
  • Along a similar vein, you can catch some cool live performances of lesser known acts on the KEXP youtube channel. They interview the artists too, which is cool. They often come up in search results for artists I look up on Youtube, and my music taste tends toward the indie (as in independent, not the sound genre).

  • Users with personal music libraries, how do you decide what to download?
  • Lately ive been getting a lot of new music from rateyourmusic.com . I look up an album i like, find some themed lists featuring it that aound interesting (a lot of the lists are like "things i listened to this year", i ignore those), and will hop from list to list as i see interesting looking albums.

  • Gillian Welch- Caleb Meyer
  • I like everything ive heard of hers, and some of the songs on the next album are absolutely incredible (Time the Revelator, and the other long, slow songs), but i really dig the old timey stripped down vibe on Hell Among the Yearlings.

  • [Epic] Lost Castle
  • I'm glad I didn't pay for this. It looks fun but the performance is terrible it's literally freezing right now as I'm trying to quit. It eats up almost all of my CPU. I don't have a high-end gaming rig (any more), but i was able to get better performance out of the outer worlds.

  • The main feature i would like to see on Lemmy

    Im pretty satisfied with Lemmy, but one thing i wish you could do is browse instances. Like i wish there was a way i could almost emulate being on my programming.dev account and see all that instances communities while im logged into this account. Afaik theres no easy way to do that without visiting some aggregator website. It would be nice to do within Lemmy itself.

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    Share android -> windows via bluetooth without a google account

    is there a program that will allow me to do this without having to sign into my google account? like sendanywhere but for bluetooth?

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    How important is port forwarding, actually?

    I've been putting off renewing my mullvad membership because of the port forwarding thing. I only want to use it for torrenting. Is it really crucial to find a VPN that supports port forwarding? If so, what's the go to option now that it's becoming increasingly uncommon?

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    War horror

    Two good movies I've seen recently are Trench 11 (this one is a real hidden gem and can be streamed for free on Tubi), and Overlord. Both are horror/scifi period pieces set in world war 1 and 2 respectively. I love the mixture of gritty realism and fantastical horror and was wondering if anyone had some other recommendations.

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