Oh fun! Have you considered crossposting to [email protected]?

I can’t see a share button (that copies to clipboard, instead of sharing directly to Xitter), but I got it in 6. Probably would’ve been 5, but I rejected the correct one out of hand because I thought it was only movies.

See also: Am I a good creative writer the asshole.

Yeah shockingly bad. I suppose it shouldn’t be a surprise that HN leans libertarian and views equality as a bad thing, but the extent of it was still a bit of a shock.

Fwiw Stanford was basically a scam. The story as it’s usually told is a lie, and its results are in serious contention, even beyond the usual replication issues psychology studies have.

Milgram is a good study, and even seems to have survived multiple replication attenpts, but its results are often overstated in their broader applicability. Notably: there are issues around the idea that it is “authority” that causes people to comply, as is usually claimed, instead of a belief in “expertise” or trust in the system (e.g. that a university-authorised study is obviously not going to kill people). Still, the conclusions are good enough for the purposes of your comment here.

If you don’t care about America’s decline into fascism, why are you even in this community? Why not just continue happily using Google products and other American tech?

But honestly, “I do not care about politics on the other side of the globe, and I’m not jobless enough to censure everything” is such an incredibly shitty entitled attitude to have. You should care. Not caring is not something to proudly trumpet out to the world. It makes you look selfish and wilfully ignorant.

Whether you believe certain specific responses to any given issue are actually productive and worth the trade-off is an entirely separate matter. If you’re gonna continue using Proton because you can’t find anything as good as it to switch to, or because you don’t think the CEO’s comments were bad enough to warrant cancellation, or even that the switching cost would be too high relative to how much impact it would have, I wouldn’t blame you. There are certainly American products that I continue to use because the benefit they provide me outweighs how much impact I think switching could have.

But a blanket statement that you don’t care about the most powerful country in the world losing all semblance of rule of law? Jesus fucking Christ dude. Could you show a little humanity?

“Bookmark” is not a term I’m familiar with. I think it might be an app feature.

Now 3.79

Most of the episode just helped reinforce what I already understood to be the case. But I thought one particularly interesting bit was about how he never really had his dad’s approval, and seeking it (whether consciously or not) is likely a part of why he is how he is.

Fear the Boot, an unfortunately infrequent but excellent RPG discussion podcast. Don’t let the absurd name put you off, the discussions are top notch.

Origin Story, a really great podcast going in to the history of things. Mostly political ideologies (a recent episode was entitled “the myth of cultural Marxism — anatomy of a conspiracy theory”, for example, but their episodes on Neoliberalism and Centrism were also excellent), but also often political figures (the scathing review of Ayn Rand was very amusing, and the more recent Elon Musk episodes were rather enlightening), and the occasional lighter one (like the origin of Super Heroes and more recently Doctor Who). It’s a podcast with few enough episodes and a slow enough release schedule (they do a few episodes one per week, then take a long season break) that it’s really worth going back through the archives to listen to older episodes.

Oh I listen to The Rest is History, the original podcast from the same company. It was going to be one of my answers to the question. Reqlly great stuff.

Ironic timing…

IMO a “simple browser” of this sort should display literally only the content in the HTML file itself. It shouldn’t even view CSS stored in a separate local CSS file, let alone reach out to the web to download more content.

Hey, I just discovered this and discovered that you seem to be the developer of it.

It seems to be broken in at least two ways, and doing some very unexpected (at least insomuch as it attempts to replicate RES behaviour, and also IMO how I would expect it to behave) things with alternative keyboard layouts.

Broken: upvoting posts. If I have a post selected and press “a”, it takes me to the post in the poster’s instance, the same as clicking the little fediverse logo. If I press “z”, it upvotes. Voting works fine on comments with a = upvote, z = downvote.

“Disable arrow key scrolling” also seems to disable the use of arrow keys inside of a text box.

Keyboard layouts: in short, you seem to be using event.code, which detects which physical hardware key is depressed, instead of event.key, which detects the character that was typed. It means that if I want to move forward and backward, I have to press the key I would normally expect to type h/t.

To be clear: this is not wrong necessarily. It’s actually sort of my preferred way for video games to do things, so I can type the keys in the space that WASD are and move around, for example. But as my personal preference, and my experience of how most browser extensions do things (including RES), this is not how I’d prefer it to be done.

I use Dvorak, which by coincidence keeps a and m in the same places as QWERTY (as well as the number keys), but moves everything else around to be more efficient and ergonomic. It also has the benefit of putting j and k where QWERTY has c and v, allowing for convenient one-handed use of the “next” and “previous” comment buttons along with upvoting, while keeping the right hand on the mouse for scrolling. And I could easily reach to the numpad enter key with my mouse hand to collapse a section (side note: using event.code means only the main enter key works. Using event.key, both enter keys are Enter). QWERTY requires two hands on the keyboard.

Yup, exactly so. I’ll often notice a reply to one of my comments from a LW user will only show up in my inbox about 3 days later.

Basically, the way Lemmy is designed, each instance has to tell each other instance what its users did (where relevant—no need to send to aussie.zone a post made in a community that there are 0 aussie.zone subscribers, for example). That includes posts, comments, and upvotes. And the way it’s designed, the originating server (in this case, LW) has to send it to the receiving server (AZ), then the receiving server sends a confirmation back, and then the originating server can send the next one.

Because LW is hosted in Germany, and AZ in Australia, there’s a minimum amount of time thanks to the physical constraints of sending signals over that long distance. And double that because it’s a return trip, and a small amount more for processing time. It ends up measuring in the hundreds of milliseconds. Which leaves you with a maximum of a few hundred thousand actions sent from LW to AZ per day. If LW users are doing more than this, then the delay will slowly grow. If they send less, the delay will shrink, or remain at near 0.

Now, the most recent version of Lemmy actually lets you set it so that instead of sending just one at a time, you can have multiple threads, so you’re sending multiple at a time. But LW only upgraded to this version a few days ago, and they didn’t turn on this feature when they did so.

Hmm, I wonder…does “my favourite pirate streaming service” count as avoiding big tech?

I actually don’t agree with @[email protected]. It deals with relatively dark subject matter (drugs and murder—no sexual violence or anything like that), but I find it does it in a rather flippant way, and feels like quite an easy watch in the way Parks & Rec or Brooklyn Nine Nine were easy watches.

The basic premise is two Pakistani-American brothers’ father dies, and they discover he was a big-time mob boss dealing in drugs. One of the brothers is a bit of a drop kick, spending his days getting high. The other is very uptight and straight-laced, and wanted to follow in his father’s footsteps…or what he thought were his footsteps running a large deli empire. The two of them end up selected as co-“CEOs” of the drug business because they get chosen as a compromise between the two actual mobsters who were competing to be next leader. In the middle of all this, an FBI agent is trying to pin them with their connections to illegal drugs. But the FBI agent’s boss is a Gilderoy Lockhart type (if you’re familiar with Harry Potter) full of himself but actually totally incompetent.

It’s quite silly and absurd situational comedy, IMO.

I think the solution to the problem with quarters is to say “calendar quarter”.

Just started Deli Boys. Very funny.

Hardly the first time Spanish courts have completely fucking failed to understand technology (I will never get over how monumentally stupid the Mario Costeja case was), but this manages to take it to an incredible new level. The idiotic lack of forethought asside, you’d think that once the consequences were made clear and people were actively being prevented from accessing all sorts of legitimate websites, including GitHub, they’d immediately reverse course. How the fuck does one private sporting company gain the right to force a huge swathe of the Internet to be blocked, anyway? Utter fucking nonsense.