Nyla_Smokeyface

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Nyla_Smokeyface,

This is the funniest thing ever

Nyla_Smokeyface,

This is the cutest thing!

Nyla_Smokeyface,

This is genuinely terrifying

Nyla_Smokeyface,

Reinforced binder paper where the holes are triangles and reinforced with tape. I hadn’t had to deal with my papers getting ripped out of a binder/refillable notebook since getting them

Nyla_Smokeyface,

Lovely kitty!

Nyla_Smokeyface,

I saw a video once of a prank where two girls go up to a stranger asking them to take a picture of them across the street. The stranger takes the photo and when the two girls start crossing over to the other side, a car passes by and the two girls are replaced with two old men wearing the same shirts. Even the Polaroid photo shows the old men. It’s genuinely funny and completely harmless. It just makes the person getting pranked go, “Wait, what the fuck???”

I do hope the people were told that they were pranked though and that they don’t live the rest of their lives thinking they’re insane 😂

ETA: also this video where the guy puts on the collar and leash of his blind husband’s service dog when he asks him to go get his watch. (He immediately reveals himself when the blind husband gets back to pick up his service dog’s leash again and the husband thinks it’s hysterical).

Nyla_Smokeyface,

That’s not harmless that’s cruel 😭

Nyla_Smokeyface,

I love Whitney Chewston

Nyla_Smokeyface,

Technology, open source software, operating systems, retro technology, furries

Nyla_Smokeyface,

I don’t know the word but there’s one Japanese word that means “stupid” but is basically the equivalent to the r-word in English. It’s banned from being said on Japanese television.

Nyla_Smokeyface,

Tiny cock?

Nyla_Smokeyface,

I legitimately laughed out loud at the red banana simply labelled “what”

Nyla_Smokeyface,

These exist??? Holy shit

Nyla_Smokeyface,

It’s a pretty popular writing software, though you mainly hear about it in writing circles so that might be why you never heard of it.

Nyla_Smokeyface,

I loved Killer Frequency! I made a post talking about it.

Nyla_Smokeyface,

I LOVE NOT FOR BROADCAST! I was there when it was just episode one. I really need to finish it but I haven’t found the time

Nyla_Smokeyface,

I was devastated to learn the creators intended it to be pronounced “jif” like the peanut butter brand

Nyla_Smokeyface,

The moment I read this comment is now my answer 😭😭😭

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I haven’t read a lot in my RSS feed in a bit but here are my favorites:

  • Buried Treasure - Reviews of hidden indie gems
  • Dhole Moments - Writings about information security, cryptography, software, and humanity.
  • Tales of the Aggronaut - A personal blog from Belghast about gaming, specifically MMOs, but there’s also a decent amount about his own personal life in the posts. That personal aspect of his blog appeals to me. He’s also on the Fediverse, and helps operate the Mastodon instance gamepad.club! You can find him at @belghast
  • Web3 is Going Just Great - A blog by Molly White tracking examples of how “things in the blockchains/crypto/web3 technology space aren’t actually going as well as its proponents might like you to believe.” I’m also subscribed to Molly’s reading list about blockchain stuff..
  • Obsidian Roundup/Iceberg - A blog from Eleanor Konik about the Obsidian app. It’s about updates, workflow guides, new plugins, advice from other members, themes, and ancillary tools. I also recommend checking out the other tabs on Konik’s blog as she delves into history and world culture and even has fictional stories.
  • MacStories - A blog about Apple tech and apps, including a lot of reviews which I really enjoy.
  • The Digital Antiquarian - A blog about the history of computer entertainment, digital culture, and video games.
  • AI Weirdness - Pretty self-explanatory. Highlights AI being weird.

This is a newsletter, but I also enjoy Garbage Day. I use Feedbin which allows me to have emails in my RSS feed.

Nyla_Smokeyface,

Some people have replied to the thread

Nyla_Smokeyface,

Having federation between different platforms is a double edged sword because on one hand, I want to explore and experience the different platforms the Fediverse has to offer like Calckey/Firefish. On the other hand though, I almost feel like it wouldn’t be worth it because everything—or at least most things—are federated, so how much new content would I be seeing? On top of that, if I wanted to post something I’d have to choose which account I would post it to because crossposting would effectively be double posting which isn’t fun for anyone.

Nyla_Smokeyface,

Raddle and Tildes are open source

Nyla_Smokeyface,

What terrible choices, out of curiosity?

I joined Raddle because I wanted to keep up with r/traa, r/egg_irl, and r/ennnnbbbyyyy 😭😭😭😭

Nyla_Smokeyface,

Fwiw this is about Brave Search, not the Brave Browser

Nyla_Smokeyface,

Wait why would the search engine be the bloat part?

Nyla_Smokeyface,

His apology “for the pain his donation in support of prop 8 caused” was also kind of undercut by following up by calling criticism of his views as a “political litmus test”.

He’s shocked that his support of a political organization makes people think that he agrees with their movement and he gets criticized for holding those views?

Nyla_Smokeyface,

That’s fair. I feel like bloat would be the wrong term to use in regards to a search engine though 😅

Nyla_Smokeyface,

I have one of those, except it can play other old retro games too!

Why do they keep making new languages

Why are there so many programming languages? And why are there still being so many made? I would think you would try to perfect what you have instead of making new ones all the time. I understand you need new languages sometimes like quantumcomputing or some newer tech like that. But for pc you would think there would be some...

Nyla_Smokeyface,

How do you know which language to use? And how do you know if you should stick to a language that you already know or if you should learn a new one?

Sorry if this is a dumb question I only just finished my first year of being a comp sci major

Nyla_Smokeyface,

Threads had no discovery features?! Jesus Christ…

Nyla_Smokeyface,

That’s…really bad 😭 Even Mastodon allows you to search by hashtags (I know it supports full-text search but most instances turn that off because it’s pricey)

Nyla_Smokeyface,

BRUHHHHHHHH

Nyla_Smokeyface,

I’d love to see a RemindMe bot for Lemmy!

Nyla_Smokeyface,

Thank you!!!

Nyla_Smokeyface,

I FUCKING LOVE THIS VIDEO. There I Ruined It is a treasure

Nyla_Smokeyface,

It makes me so sad that so many detransitioners are being used as “proof” that trans people aren’t valid or that it’s an agenda

Nyla_Smokeyface,

I also heard that some people detransition after finding out they are nonbinary. One of my high school teachers has a friend who is a trans woman who stopped taking hormones because it changed her body more than she was comfortable with. I wouldn’t be surprised if there are detransitioners who detransition because they realize that medical transitioning wasn’t right for them.

Nyla_Smokeyface,

Yeah I realized that as I was typing this haha. Touche. My teacher didn’t use the word detransition for the record. I just wasn’t sure if the friend would count as a “detransitioner”

Nyla_Smokeyface,

Not really a hack but I love using loose leaf paper with triangle holes that’s reinforced with tape. It’s called “College Ruled Reinforced Paper”. My papers don’t constantly rip out anymore.

Also I like refillable notebooks. They’re regular notebooks you can refill and much lighter and easier to carry.

An interesting case of moderation in the fediverse (blog.ownlifeful.com)

A small group of people were offended by a joke that unintentionally came across transphobic, and as a result this persons account was blacklisted. Even after getting the account reinstated, there were lasting complications with the state of the account (these probably technical issues) and the account was basically lost for...

Nyla_Smokeyface,

For what it’s worth I appreciate you trying and trying to understand!

Nyla_Smokeyface,

Yeah it’s important to know the difference between a trans person calling themselves that and someone randomly saying that slur.

I also hope OP (as in the blog owner) knows that being bisexual doesn’t make him exempt from transphobia.

mastodon.art defederating calckey firefish social. Cites behavior of lead project dev (dotart.blog)

mastodon.art has decided to suspend firefish.social from their instance due to issues with its administrator. The administrator of firefish.social was found to be boosting posts from a known harasser on another instance. mastodon.art takes a firm stance against racism and suspending full instances in these situations is part of...

Nyla_Smokeyface,

Damn. I was considering checking out Calckey…

I mean there are probably other instances but it still sucks

Nyla_Smokeyface,

Backblaze needs to see your computer once every 6 months, and any external hard drives you’re backing up every 30 days.

I have ADHD so this is the part that concerns me the most.

I’m also a bit worried about the time it’ll take. Especially since I have quite a bit of stuff to back up and I don’t want to have my computer and drives running for days, and I don’t want to feel like I can’t use my computer in that time period.

Nyla_Smokeyface,
  1. Data that absolutely must be backed up.
  2. Data that would be nice to have backed up, but you can live without if the worst happens.

I’d then recommend setting up a solution that you can then immediately start using to store data that fits into the first category I’ve listed above. Once you have that in place, you can then, over time (because these things do take time), start shifting existing data that fits into Category 1, over to this new setup.

That is a really good way to break things down. My folders of modded games take quite a bit to backup. I can probably skip the files of the mods themselves for a while because while they’d be nice to have because it’s a pain to redownload them, I can live with having to redownload them.

A more ideal setup, if you’re willing to get your hands dirty and deep-dive into the world of self-hosting, would be to save up for something like a Dell optiplex PC. Set this up at home with something like Nextcloud so that you can have your data sync between you Windows, Mac and Nextcloud server. And then, depending on the configurability of your home router, set up a Wireguard or OpenVPN server on the optiplex so you can VPN to your Nextcloud server from your laptop when you are away from home.

I’d like to explore self-hosting someday and I’ve heard good things about NextCloud, but doesn’t this kind of defeat the purpose of having a cloud backup since I’d want it to be offsite?

Overwhelmed with backups and I don't know how to improve my backup strategy.

I should really start doing regular backups again, do the 3-2-1 backup strategy again, and organize my backups but there’s so many files and stuff on my devices and external drives that it’s overwhelming and I don’t know how to properly sort it. ADHD kicks my ass too and I know that it takes a while to backup and that...

Nyla_Smokeyface,

How cute!!!

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