Barbarian

joined 2 years ago
[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 1 points 43 minutes ago

Is this situation the same for support for Trump in the US?

I haven't gone too in-depth into this, but a quick search show a 50/50 split in favorable vs unfavorable opinions of Trump. Last time I took a look, serious pollsters who found interesting ways of measuring support for Putin in Russia without endangering those participating found generally a 33/33/33 split between those in favor of Putin, those against, and those with no opinion (part of the intentional depoliticizing of the Russian population).

So, I guess it's vaguely accurate to say there's more people that dislike Trump in the US compared to Putin in Russia, but also more people that like him.

[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

He only brought a plucked chicken carcass to forum once

"We know that man is a featherless biped..."

"BEHOLD! PLATO'S MAN!"

"Fucking Diogenes."

[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 21 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (5 children)

It's gonna be interesting watching to see if all the "All Russian people are complicit because they don't rise up and kick Putin out" crowd actually put their money where their mouths are and show them how it's done, or if it was all bluster.

To be clear, I hope it's the former but I think it's the latter.

[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

As far as I'm aware, originally it was a horror-themed critique of mindless consumerism (which is why malls are the most common backdrop). Could be wrong, but that's what I remember reading.

[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 days ago (2 children)

What's stopping him making an executive order claiming he can do it, use that as an excuse to run a clearly illegal campaign, use his control of the FEC to win and dare anyone to do smth about it?

[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Has there been any progress on dropping tarrifs between provinces?

[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 week ago

Support networks are so incredibly important to parents. Don't have kids of my own, but am helping with my sibling's kids. Babysitting and just general support split with my parents. Thankfully, they don't need financial help but that'd be on the cards if it came to it.

Support networks like this, whether it's family, neighbours, friends or some combination is almost mandatory if you're not very wealthy. It takes a village to raise a child, after all.

[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm sure some large percentage are bots, and another percentage are trolls.

[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago

Wow, it's almost like there might be people with different opinions that use Linux and Linux users aren't a single hivemind.

[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, I work daily with a database with a very important non-ID field that is denormalized throughout most of the database. It's not a common design pattern, but it is done from time to time.

[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

It's necessary to split it out into different tables if you have a one-to-many relationship. Let's say you have a list of driver licenses the person has had over the years, for example. Then you'd need the second table. So something like this:

SSN_Table

ID | SSN | Other info

Driver_License_Table

ID | SSN_ID | Issue_Date | Expiry_Date | Other_Info

Then you could do something like pull up a person's latest driver's license, or list all the ones they had, or pull up the SSN associated with that license.

 

Climate Town & Not Just Bikes collaborating on how parking minimums destroy both the environment and cities

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Barbarian@sh.itjust.works to c/lemmyinstances@lemmy.world
 

Join-Lemmy.org instance list - Official instance list.

Lemmy Explorer - Nice list of all instances with sorting and filters.

Fedidb instance list - Much faster to load & browse than Lemmy Explorer, but less options for sorting and filtering. Great if you just wanna check the top few instances quickly

Fediverse Observer map - Shows where all the Lemmy servers are physically located

Fediverse Observer list - Probably my least favourite of the options I know about, but it does exist. Fedidb and Lemmy Explorer are better.

 

If you look at the top ~20 servers on fedidb, they are very clearly botswarms. Either intentionally set up that way, or accidentally due to turning off protections and not deleting users.

You can tell this because they have 70,000 registered users, but only 10 of them are active.

I believe we should pre-emptively defederate with botswarms before they're turned on. If the instance owners clear out the bots on their instances (like lemmy.ninja did) then they should be immediately refederated.

I don't know about you guys, but I don't want this place to be drowned in spam as soon as they're activated.

 

Just so people are aware, Kbin users will not see your comments or get your votes.

If you comment on a Kbin post, only other users on sh.itjust.works will see it. We are effectively defederated due to this bug. This affects all instances on 0.18.0, as far as I understand it.

 

This sub seems to be very western EU focused, so putting in a video about life here in the east seemed fun and interesting. Happy to answer any questions about life on this side of the continent.

 

There doesn't seem to be a general-purpose atheist community yet, so here is the closest thing. I hope this link fits in with your community! If not, fully understand if it's deleted.

 

Even though this song isn't exactly new and everyone who calls themselves a hiphop head knows who Aesop is (regardless of whether you like his music or not), I thought I might as well post one of my fav tracks from my fav artist.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Barbarian@sh.itjust.works to c/rpg@lemmy.ml
 

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/336160

I'm only including the overall review, not the chapter-by-chapter breakdown because I hit Lemmy's character limit twice, and I cba to split it into multiple sections again. Just click the link above if you want to see the full breakdown.

TL;DR: The book is overall pretty good. It's not a literary masterpiece by any stretch of the imagination, but the chapters that work, work really well. There are also chapters that are awful, and you should just straight-up ignore. There are also some very questionable editing decisions that mean you have to cross-reference things across both ends of the book, but this is something that can be overcome by taking notes and assembling a timeline yourself. This started as a review, but ended up being more of a GM guide on how to use the book. I hope nobody minds terribly.

Overall, this book is really all over the place. Some terrible editing decisions, an awful chapter that should have never made it past the draft stage, and some questionable organizational decisions, but the chapters that work really work. I think it’s well worth it just for the Detroit Rupture/Detroit Now and UCrASh chapters. There’s lots of potential shadowruns here, and if the official timeline is too tight and you want your players to see more of this important moment in UCAS history, you can always tweak the timeline yourself to lengthen or shorten it. I really do think there’s a lot of value in this book, but it is a bit of a slog to get to it.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/61827

Hello! Friendly neighbor over at sh.itjust.works popping in to lend a hand. Here's a very useful set of instructions and tips that have been floating about, I hope you find it useful too.

You can ignore the "How to Join Lemmy" part if you're already happily set up on pathofexile-discuss.com, but the rest'll still be useful.

(These instructions are for using Lemmy in a browser. If you are using an app, some steps may differ.)

How to Join Lemmy

To use Lemmy, you need to be a member of one instance from the list at https://join-lemmy.org/instances. You will still be able to see content from anywhere, but the instance you choose will determine:

  • What URL you use to log in to Lemmy,
  • What content shows on the homepage when you select "Local" or "All",
  • Who moderates your instance, and
  • What rules you agree to when you sign up.

Choose an instance that matches your interests, language, and region. (If you want more information about an instance, you can tap its "Join" button, which will show you its current homepage in the main view and its description in the sidebar. You can also check the tables here and here.) Please avoid joining instances that are already crowded (1K+ users/month). If an instance gets overcrowded, it can start running slowly or experiencing downtime, so choosing an uncrowded instance will give both you and others a better Lemmy experience.

Once you have decided on an instance, tap its "Join" button to open it and then tap "Sign Up" in the upper-right corner. Fill out the form and wait for your account to be approved.

When your account is approved, log in and customize your profile and settings. If you change your language settings, select "Undetermined" in addition to any languages you speak so that you can still see posts and comments that are not tagged as being in any particular language.

How to Find and Subscribe to Communities

There are four ways to find communities through Lemmy:

  1. To browse communities that others in your instance are already subscribed to, tap the "Communities" tab at the top of the page and choose the "All" scope. Tapping on a community name will open it through your instance.

  2. To browse communities across all instances, visit https://browse.feddit.de/. Tapping on the community's name will open it, but probably not through your instance (in which case the page will say that you are not logged in). Instead, follow these steps:

    a. Copy the community's URL or remote name. You can use the copy button next to the community name, you can open the community outside your instance and copy the URL from your address bar, or you can open the community outside your instance and copy the remote name (which will look like [!community@instance.tld](/c/community@instance.tld)) from the sidebar.

    b. In your instance, tap on the "🔍 Search" button in the upper toolbar.

    c. Make sure that you have chosen "All" for each of the four filters: "Type", "Scope", "Community", and "Creator".

    d. Paste the community's URL or remote name into the search field and tap "Search".

    e. One of the results should be the community shown as an icon, a name, and a subscriber count. If you do not see it, or it is buried too deep in the search results, try changing "Scope" to "Local". If that does not work, you may need to wait a bit and try again.

    f. Tap on the community in the search results to open it in your instance.

  3. If you want an experience similar to Reddit's r/all, visit https://lemmy.directory/home/data_type/Post/listing_type/All/sort/Hot/page/1, which aggregates from these communities as described here. As in Option 2, you can copy and search for a community's URL to open it in your instance and subscribe to it.

  4. If you don't see a community by browsing, subscribe to https://lemmy.ml/c/findacommunity and make a post about what you're looking for.

Once a community is open in your instance, subscribe to it by tapping on the "Subscribe" button at the top of the sidebar. It will then appear in the "Subscribed" section of your "Communities" tab, and its posts will show on your home feeds.

Can't find a community you're looking for? If your instance allows it, you can create the community yourself by tapping "Create Community" in the upper toolbar.

The simple version of that wall of text is if you're the first person on your instance to subscribe to a community:

  1. Get the URL (for example, https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy)

  2. Go to the Communities page

  3. Search for that URL

  4. Change all search options to "All" (even "Communities")

  5. Click the federated link it gives you (for example, https://pathofexile-discuss.com/c/lemmy@lemmy.ml)

  6. Click subscribe

Also, there's a new project for finding communities across instances! lemmyverse.net is a REALLY cool and easy way to find communities that you might want to subscribe to!

 

A crazy sci-fi tale about alternative facts and belief systems

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