[–] 6 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

I run a reticulum NomadNet site. I setup logging, since there are no 'sessions' and I don't want to force everyone to identify, I just calcuate bot traffic based on time, order and frequency of loads, bots's scraping are likely 80% of my traffic. And this is for a service that's designed to support 200bps radio links.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 hours ago

    It's not like Mastodon; there aren't superior communities. Outside of hexbear or .ml, there's no meaningful difference between lemmy.social and lemmy.zip you just join one and follow what you want of all the options.

    The part the general public isn't ready for is curating their own feed.

    There's no AI shoving things at you so you can doomscroll. They want that.

    There's also no ads paying for the servers, so we keep is small and enough of us dontate to keep it runnings.

    You get a couple million twitter/reddis assholes over here burning server costs up with not donating shit; the nice, quiet, pleasant community we have goes to shit.

    Don't borrow trouble.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 hours ago

    I keep a desktop convection/airfrying oven next to the real oven. Every 2-3 years I recycle it and get a new one.

    Big ovens are a fucking nightmare to clean :)

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  • [–] 10 points 11 hours ago

    AI produces cookie-cutter bullshit.

    That said, at least for the time being, it gets down to brass tacks in the first paragraph or so. I guess they haven't felt the need to keep your eyes on the page longer.

    Capitalist enshitifed journalism is the reason they're 'starving' for readers. You can't find a meat-created news article or a fucking recipe without sifting through 10 pages of hyperbole and nostalgia.

    Bring back the fucking newspaper article format where every word cost somebody money. Spend the money on paying someone to make sure the news is right and condense it into an article where your primary goal is conveying exactly what's going on with a close fucking second goal of not wasting everyone's time.

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  • [–] 9 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

    We spent our entire childhood bored, with the occasional couple of hours of gaming in the shallowest games anyone ever created. (yes because of hardware limits but still)

    We look back at all that time spent and lacking any of it, want to go back.

    Nostalgia is the ultimate rose-colored glasses

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Reccomendation: If someone is having problems getting the dough to cooperate and feel like it's just a big horrible mess, buy "00 pizza flour" it's finely milled and has extra protien in it, it's closer to working with playdough, makes the whole process far more enjoyable. Also, a nice low-moisture mozzarella like Galbani gives youa nice cheese pull that's not greasy.

    I have made hundreds of pizzas at home. 3-4 day fermented dough, 500 degree cast iron skillet, finish in the mother of all air fryers.

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    "Good morning" is a term of welcome. "Good Night," when said at night, is a term of leaving. You'd never say "good night" to someone who shows up at 11 pm for a party. Nor would you say good morning to someone leaving your house. Have a good morning, sure, or have a good day. Good Day is another term used while leaving. Then there's Good Evening, which is the Good Morning of the night.

    TL;DR Anon's flame dashboard said good night, and he's overcaffeinated and underslept and noted some wierd shit going on with wishing people Good [timeofday]

    The button must be pressed (thebutton.lemmy.zip)
     

    The Button 🔘

    An experiment has begun.

    There’s a button.

    That’s it. Just a button… and a timer counting down.

    Anyone can press it. Everyone sees what happens. And every press changes things forever.

    • One shared button
    • No undo, no reset
    • A collective test of curiosity, restraint… or chaos

    Some of you will hold the line. Some of you won’t last five seconds.

    Either way, once it’s over… it’s over.

    The Button

    So the only question is:

    Do you press it?


    The Button is open to anyone on any federated platform, be that Lemmy, Piefed, Mastodon... even Stegodon!

    Any user from any instance can sign in and press the button, but you only get one chance.

    To add another layer to this, users can choose which faction to join, and the "winner" is the faction that holds the button the longest amount of time before it eventually runs out.

    Initially a press of the button resets the timer to 15 minutes - this may reduce if the game carries on for a while. At the time of this post, there is about 60 minutes until the button expires. The first button press will be available when there's 15 minutes left, i.e. in 45 minutes, but you can sign up now to be ready!

    There is also a permanent record of the first pusher :)

     

    This one may indeed be a fever dream. I keep hearing whispers from social about mini-tanks showing up in US citites. And as horrifying as this is, I get a little chuckle when this image pops into my head of Shriners driving tiny tanks around in a march to war. I could have SWORN this happened in Futurama, but I don't see it in Ghost in the Machines (parade day), or War is the H Word, and I just can't place where else it would have been, well, unless I'm imagining it, which is absolutely reasonable.

    Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

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