Does this mean blue whales are on the way out, given the lower amount of krill in the oceans nowadays, or have they just stabilized at a lower population? I imagine human whaling practices have muddied the data, but I’m ignorant as to the extent.

It gives me no pleasure to learn that the business imitating japanese idol agencies was abusing their position and financials in relation to their “talent”.

To be honest a goddess of those who die a virgin sounds like a much healthier approach than our current incel culture(s)!

“scaled” and “Top - 6 Hours” are pretty decent at surfacing meaningful … well, maybe not conversation but engagement at least.

Oh, man, thanks for that link! I thoroughly enjoyed Dave Barry in Cyberspace back in the day; glad to see he’s still writing about computers in this way.

This is it, this is the shit I’m talking about:

Finally managed to track it down! https://skapbadoa.com/2018/02/19/explaining-iwakura-lain/

The only good ressource I found apart from that link is the following 15-year-old website: https://www.cjas.org/~leng/lain.htm

Wanted to try it, signed up for the beta, still waiting on my invite code.

On the surface, bluesky integration makes sense if they’re trying to onboard people onto “the social web”. Still, I’m disappointed they seem to want to be a curated view on what they determine is a feed, and not some kind of plug’n’play feed viewer beyond RSS.

“Pondering my cell” just didn’t have the same ring to it… Sounds like I’m suck in jail

Ok but if it allows anubis to judge the soul of my bytes as being worthy of reaching a certain site I’m trying to access, then the program is not making any calculations that I don’t want it to.

Would the FSF prefer the challenge page wait for user interaction before starting that proof of work? Along with giving them user a “don’t ask again” checkbox for future challenges?

I really enjoyed Lain as a work of speculative fiction, especially watching it in 2019 and being able to compare and contrast the portrayal of computer’s effects on society with what “actually” happened as we moved more and more of our lives onto the internet.

The “actual” story/plot (message?) only really came together after watching a long YouTube video (actually, I read the transcript / script as a blog post so it wasn’t as long for me to get through it). If I had had the patience I think I would have preferred rewatching until I “got” it, but there’s so much else out there to experience. Maybe some day I’ll sit down and do a “proper” rewatch.

A good part of the initial enjoyment for me was the vibes and letting the different scenes slowly add up onto each other in the back of my mind.

As others have said in this thread already, it’s not necessarily the most coherent nor meaningful story as it is conveyed. Being depressed can unironically help it make sense (though I would never ever recommend getting depressed just to better understand Lain or any story really, your mental wellbeing is more important!).

The shots of telephone lines with audio of power line hums and the weird purple/red splotches are probably some of my favorite bits, and they’re what I immediately think of whenever Lain gets brought up.

It’s a bit clearer in french; “weed” is “mauvaise herbe” which literally translates to “bad herb/grass”.

To my knowledge, there is 1 feature that forgejo has that gitea doesn’t: it can generate a new ssh key for you at the click of a button that can be used to push repo changes to another git forge.

I have several personal repos on my forgejo instance that are each setup so that they mirror themselves onto my Codeberg account at noon every day.

I also have a gitea instance on a raspi on my local network that itself will push out changes on certain repos to the (public-facing) forgejo instance.

I can push and/or pull to any of the three origins as needed, but usually I just push to the gitea when I’m at home and the forgejo when I’m not, and let the mirroring take care of propagating changes to Codeberg.

Some decent comments on hackernews, though the post itself is [flagged].

Part of the problem is also that, while an acre of land can feed a family of 4, there’s no way to generate enough surplus from that single acre to be able to afford a tractor in the first place. So the tractor creates the need for much larger farm plots being owned by a single person, which way up all the supposed extra free time the automation/mechanized tool was supposed to bring.

In the end, less people can work the land to sustain themselves and the only people better off are those who already had more than enough to go buy.

And now they’re trying to automate community, the last thing we have. Don’t let them!

If you have a fediverse account, you can comment on this article from your own instance. Search https://hackers.pub/ap/articles/0197de66-6d9c-7728-abed-b8a4996f3022 on your instance and reply to it.

Very cool to see, now if only those comments could show up here in Lemmy…

Dog_with_thousand_yard_stare.jpg except instead of Vietnam flashbacks it’s

I see the tumblr culture is already present, congrats! Although I never personally used tumblr, my understanding is that more than features or functionality it was very much the culture that its users cultivated that made that site special.

I wonder if they just want some more data they can then sell off to others.