ElectroVagrant

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ElectroVagrant,

Peertube is like an alternative site to youtube. It’s a different place to post your video (you can’t use it to watch YouTube videos to my knowledge)

This is mostly right, I think I’d only clarify that it’s not a singular site, much like Lemmy isn’t, as instead it’s more site software to spin up a YouTube-like video hosting site. Also you’re right that you can’t use it to watch videos as you might via Piped/Invidious, unless the creator has also posted their video to a PeerTube site/instance.

Last little point that’s not super important to know for regular folks is that it’s not using bittorrent for helping distribute video loads, it’s WebRTC. Still peer to peer, just a different approach to it.

ElectroVagrant,

Ah…Yeah, that’s what I get for skimming. Tbh it’s a little confusing, but thankfully it’s not stuff viewers need to know necessarily.

ElectroVagrant,

Ghost Commander may work for this. I’ve not tried sftp myself, but on opening it I do see the option there, so it might be worth a try.

ElectroVagrant,

pescatarian detected 😂

ElectroVagrant,

u shake her hand and say thanks for your time then slip off to make this meme then send it to her and now u’re meme married

ElectroVagrant,

or promoted for gambolin’, win win win

ElectroVagrant,

The rule of penis:
If you have something in mind that involves a penis: not yet, keep it to yourself.
If you didn’t have a penis in mind: don’t mention penises to her right now.
Altogether then: only proceed to penises with consent and when you know preferred dildo brands.

p.s.remember to wash your new dildo before and after use!

ElectroVagrant,

But when it comes to bad feels strong enough I cannot escape through gaming, then I talk or write about said feels.

Something genuinely useful I’ve found in this respect, that you sometimes see folks recommend, is writing one’s situation out, their feelings, some mix of all of that, in a throwaway form. So, open a notepad file on a computer, hammer out some lines, thoughtfully, incoherently, for however long and let it sit for a moment or two; review it if you want but ultimately don’t save it, close the window/file, and maybe it will have helped a little.

It may help even more if it’s some pages from a physical notepad or something to write them out by hand and crumple or tear them up to toss out if one’s feelings are more angry or upset.

ElectroVagrant,

This is a good list although i generally wouldnt bother listing yacy. Its only as good as the people adding to the list and thats not a lot.

Isn’t that last point a good reason to mention it, to possibly increase the amount of people contributing?

ElectroVagrant,

Here’s what you do:

Find a place still stocking it, see if you can find someone that knows when the shipments come in or contact info for the folks that ship it, stake out the store for when the deliveries come in to ask the delivery people where they load up their inventory or contact the shipping people for the address of the distribution center.

Okay, lot of work involved upfront, I know, but once you get the distro center’s info, you’re close to the gold. Figure out their operating hours and begin the heist plans, then execute them perfectly so that you come out with a lifetime supply of the drink. The next tricky part will be storage, but look at what you already learned you could do to get your prize. Next up? Squatting industrial refrigeration units until you’ve savored every lost drop of this stuff.

ElectroVagrant,

But I don’t want to seek out shows. There’s very little interesting stuff being released anymore. They ignore making products for groups in favour of making products for everyone, which results in products for no one. I cannot cope with that.

It seems like some other replies are glossing over this, and here’s the thing: you gotta seek out interesting stuff. Many of the big tech algorithms are focused on the latest, hottest things, sure with some personalization tossed in related to your interests, but still more related to new and popular.

You want a heap of interesting stuff, you can’t keep following what’s trending, you gotta set out and seek out stuff related to your own interests. Not in a physical sense either, but poking around online.

Follow a Wikipedia rabbit hole. Find a director/artist you like, look at what else they’ve been involved with or done creatively, check that out however you can, then look at those they’ve collaborated with and if you like their stuff, check out their collaborators’ work, follow the influences and inspirations. You will hit some duds, but you may also find some real gems the algorithms never woulda served up anytime soon.

What’s more, the further back you dig, the likelier you are to come across that really weird niche work that some folks started out with, that got eyes on them before they may have “sold out” by working on bigger, more mainstream work.

ElectroVagrant,

Users that “suffer” from this likely need to simply replace the battery.

Maybe, but 1. Apple should have been transparent about the changes, 2. Apple (and frankly all smartphone manufacturers imo) should make it easy to simply replace the battery, and 3. making it easy shouldn’t mean bringing it to their store or sending it in for a replacement.

ElectroVagrant,

None of this bothers me personally.

So the only part of any of this that does bother you is seeing people’s complaints about something that doesn’t personally bother you, if I’m following you correctly? Then why/how is it you’ve been coming across these complaints and why are you letting them bother you when it seems like nothing else about the situation is bothering you?

I don’t really follow why, in a situation where you’re seemingly by and large unaffected to the point that you really shouldn’t have any complaints, you’re complaining about those that were affected complaining about…Y’know, being affected.

ElectroVagrant,

Sometimes, yeah, particularly if it was a copy I let someone borrow but they never returned for this or that reason, or if it was a book I initially read through the library and wanted my own copy (digital or physical) to review whenever.

As of late I’ve been reading more nonfiction though, where one may be more inclined to review them for learning/reference purposes.

ElectroVagrant,

Beware that iirc, unlike Tor an[d] I2P, Freenet leaks your IP, so I recommend to use a VPN.

If it’s using basic peer-to-peer tech, I suspect you may be right. Been awhile since I looked into it, and as I recall it wasn’t really built for privacy so much as another way to share info with few limitations (hence the free in freenet), so it’d make sense if it did.

ElectroVagrant,

Has anyone thought about how we can bring more people over to the Fediverse? My friends and family are all still on the Big Tech platforms like FB and Insta, and I doubt I will be able to convince them to switch over to a Fediverse platform, especially if they themselves don’t see any of their connections using the platform too. How does the Fediverse community plan on attracting more users over?

This is a common question from newcomers, and it’s not necessarily a bad one, just worth being aware of this to better understand some of the responses you may see. Something else to keep in mind is that there is no collective, united Fediverse community in the way that you might sorta see on some bigger tech platforms (albeit even on those, there’s not really a singular community either).

What this means is that there’s no combined community effort from folks across the Fediverse to attract new users, and since it’s all loosely connected communities driving it all, there’s no market push to popularize them as you’re more apt to see from the tech industry. In fact, if you wander into some parts of the Fediverse, you’ll find some folks far happier to keep their communities small and to themselves for a variety of reasons, sometimes conflating the tech and their community (i.e. a popularization of Lemmy as tech wouldn’t mean their little Lemmy community instance had to link up with every other one).

That said, there are also plenty of folks around here interested in the question and planning/discussing drawing in more folks. Some of those discussions being about improvements to the technology to make it less jank and comfortable for less technically inclined users, others about how to present it without getting in the weeds of the tech details, and some just by trying to post interesting/entertaining content to keep folks interested past a glance. There’s as many ways to approach it as there are Fediverse communities, and so there’s not really been any one way that people have been going about it.

ElectroVagrant,

Nice photo! I almost mistook their tag for a lil’ blep! 😂

ElectroVagrant,

Hopefully this isn’t gonna get me cursed or something, I thought to myself as I finished putting up some signs directing people into the cemetery for candy. Inside I’d even set up some lights and a few bins of candy as bait so I could say it was all in the Halloween spirit.

Crouching in my hiding spot and listening for any folks coming by, I felt something like a light tap on my shoulder, and froze. No way, had I been found out already?

I turned my head to look back and almost ran screaming myself. A host of…Translucent…People were standing behind me. Some sort of trick, right? Someone found out what I was doing and got me first, that’s gotta be it, surely?

The ghost that had tapped my shoulder smirked, and pressed their hand on my shoulder, enough that I could feel it…And then let it pass right through me.

“fuck, are you here to kill me?” I managed to eke out.

“Oh, no, first we wanted to spook you then help you spook others. That was your plan, wasn’t it?” the shoulder-tapping ghost responded.

“Uh…Ye-yeah. Are you…serious?” I asked, baffled. “Hell yeah, usually we only get a few folks roaming through this time of year, but you went and helped us by putting out some bait!”

Uneasy, but happy they hadn’t killed me or whatever worse a bunch of ghosts might do, I told them my plan and a few of them rolled their eyes at how basic it was. It was, really, just wear a scary mask and jump out growling, so I couldn’t blame them. With some more folks to help me, we could make it all more elaborate, and so we did.

Instead of having the bins all in one place, we spread them out around the cemetery and I’d act as a guide to them, spinning spooky stories along the way that some of the ghosts passed on to me or helped to make up. Then as we made our way further in, the ghosts would use their abilities to subtly reinforce the stories, till we reached the last bin of candy they’d reveal themselves and somehow, make me appear like one of them too. I don’t really know how they did the last one, till the sun started to rise and I thanked the ghosts for helping me, and they laughed an eerie, hollow laugh unlike those I’d heard through the night after each scare.

“What’s so funny?” I directed the question to the whole group, and the shoulder-tapping ghost took to answering once more, “Oh, so you know how we said we made you look like a ghost to scare people?”

“Y…Yeah, it was a cool trick, how’d you do it?”

The ghost tapped something just out of sight near where we had put the last bin. I went to look and there was my corpse, hunched over with the ghost tapping its shoulder. On seeing the expression on my face change the ghost cackled a hollow, horrible cackle.

“Least they won’t need to carry your body far!” the ghost said, bursting into yet more laughter.

ElectroVagrant,

use poor messaging

Speaking of, isn’t the U.S. now charging for them/requiring insurance? Add that to the mix and of course fewer will get it.

ElectroVagrant,

They have received the blessing of the Moose.

ElectroVagrant,

Huh, it’s been awhile since a post like this, forgot I didn’t have anything in the sidebar/pinned post directing them to a more appropriate community.

This reads as more like venting, for which there’s !vent. If you’d like to start a discussion related to politics here, like how political polarization seems to be affecting people, that’s okay, but this veers a ways off from that imo.

ElectroVagrant,

^ buny

ElectroVagrant,

Pepper Sauce? I gotta hope there’s some kinda event involving spicy dishes or at least a place serving some nearby, it’s too good to pass up!

ElectroVagrant,

Huh, I think I’d heard some parts of this song without realizing it. Not a bad tune!

ElectroVagrant,

p.s. this is an example of a top-level comment for clarity’s sake.

More on track though: what’s your sentiment on blimps/ballooning?

ElectroVagrant,

Not, “BOooOOo…It’s Haal-lloooweeen”?

ElectroVagrant,

Surprise, you got the pickle prize! Hope you like pickles!

ElectroVagrant,

Get a mirror that doubles as a sort of magnifier to view the area around your nose closely & carefully. You’re looking for seams around the nose with which to gain leverage to gently pry off the nose to get better access to the nostrils within & beneath. Once the nose has been popped off your face, you can rinse both it and the exposed nostrils out with some warm water, which should get rid of the dry, compacted mucus.

You may want to take a soft, thin brush while you’re at this for a more thorough clean. Once both the removed nose and exposed nostrils are cleared to your satisfaction, realign your nose with the seams you found at the start and gently squeeze & press your nose to reconnect it with your face. A light splash of warm water and scrub should help reseal the nose to your face and make the seams less noticeable.

Hope this helps!

ElectroVagrant,

Sorry, I think I may have timeslipped, I take it this isn’t the stream of advanced face prostheses, my bad!

ElectroVagrant,

Ah, thanks, those were our predecessors. We just go by people now. Appreciated all the same though!

ElectroVagrant,

Yo, thanks for sharing this, it’s a fun jam!

ElectroVagrant,

You’re only allowed to put rolls of one ply toilet paper in the shark’s fins, to simulate using sharkskin toilet paper that rubs your booty raw.

ElectroVagrant,

It may appear so, but…Here’s a weird fish fact!

ElectroVagrant,

how is this source not shark rule34, smh

ElectroVagrant,

“We like to call them poison pixels.”

ElectroVagrant,

Until the law catches up with the technology, people need ways of protecting themselves.

I agree, and I wonder if the law might be kicked into catching up quicker as more companies try to adopt these tools and inadvertently infringe on other companies’ copyrighted material. 😅

ElectroVagrant,

Thanks for added background! I haven’t been monitoring this area very closely so wasn’t aware, but I’d have thought a publication that has been would then be more skeptical and at least mention some of this, particularly highlighting disputes over the efficacy of the Glaze software. Not to mention the others they talked to for the article.

Figures that in a space rife with grifters you’d have ones for each side.

ElectroVagrant, (edited )

Probably all articles I have read on it by mainstream media were somehow wrong. It often feels like reading a political journalist discussing about quantum mechanics.

Yeah, I view science/tech articles from sources without a tech background this way too. I expected more from this source given that it’s literally MIT Tech Review, much as I’d expect more from other tech/science-focused sources, albeit I’m aware those require scrutiny just as well (e.g. Popular Science, Nature, etc. have spotty records from what I gather).

Also regarding your last point, I’m increasingly convinced AI creators’ (or at least their business execs/spokespeople) are trying to have their cake and eat it too in terms of how much they claim to not know/understand how their creations work while also promoting how effective it is. On one hand, they genuinely don’t understand some of the results, but on the other, they do know enough of how it works to have an idea of how/why those results came about, however it’s to their advantage to pretend they don’t insofar as it may mitigate their liability/responsibility should the results lead to collateral damage/legal issues.

ElectroVagrant,

I generally don’t believe in intellectual property, I think it creates artificial scarcity and limits creativity. Of course the real tragedies in this field have to do with medicine and other serious business.

But still, artists claiming ownership of their style of painting is fundamentally no different. Why can’t I paint in your style? Do you really own it? Are you suggesting you didn’t base your idea mostly on the work of others, and no one in turn can take your idea, be inspired by it and do with it as they please? Do my means have to be a pencil, why can’t my means be a computer, why not an algorythm?

Limitations, limitations, limitations. We need to reform our system and make the public domain the standard for ideas (in all their forms). Society doesn’t treat artists properly, I am well aware of that. Generally creative minds are often troubled because they fall outside norms. There are many tragic examples. Also money-wise many artists don’t get enough credit for their contributions to society, but making every idea a restricted area is not the solution.

People should support the artists they like on a voluntary basis. Pirate the album but go to concerts, pirate the artwork but donate to the artist. And if that doesn’t make you enough money, that’s very unfortunate. But make no mistake: that’s how almost all artists live. Only the top 0.something% actually make enough money by selling their work, and that’s is usually the percentile that’s best at marketing their arts, in other words: it’s usually the industry. The others already depend upon donations or other sources of income.

We can surely keep art alive, while still removing all these artificial limitations, copying is, was and will never be in any way similar to stealing. Let freedom rule. Join your local pirate party.

Reformatted for easier readability.

ElectroVagrant,

Unfortunately there’s a lot of things that communicate only via Facebook, and they’ve decimated Craigslist so it’s the only place to sell crap.

Undead marketers?

ElectroVagrant,

Yo wait, the ocean exists and it’s a world’s worth? I thought it was like, a mythological universe-spanning body!

ElectroVagrant,

I tend to be one of those that doesn’t listen to country (but maybe some folk-esque stuff), who are some artists from then you’ve been listening to that you might suggest?

ElectroVagrant,

I’ve had Cyber Stockholm Syndrome by Rina Sawayama stuck in my head lately, which is kind of fitting.

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