GlassHalfHopeful

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[–] GlassHalfHopeful 2 points 14 hours ago

Great news. I hope it was relatively non-eventful.

[–] GlassHalfHopeful 24 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I hate this comic. Too real. 😭

[–] GlassHalfHopeful 11 points 2 days ago (5 children)
[–] GlassHalfHopeful 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I'm not sure your comment accurately or fairly represents things.

Narcissism is genuine psychological disorder. Your comment doesn't explain how he would be one of "the most narcissistic people."

However, you genuinely made me curious about how many people have been contributing and by how much, so I looked it up on GitHub as you mentioned. There have been 159 contributors. The second most being 210 commits. Dan is the number one contributor at over 10,000 commits!

I can't know his motivations, only what he shares publicly. I don't follow PixelFed development closely. I don't know why he's trying to do so much at once. And I honestly thought Sup was short for Whatsup.

What I do know is what it's like to slave for thousands of hours, writing millions of lines of code, trying to manage multiple projects with numerous hands in it, ridiculous deadlines, and with customers and users quick to criticize without truly understanding everything entailed in such projects.

Perhaps I'm honestly ignorant and he really is someone to loath. So far though, PixelFed has been a gem that connects me with a lot of beauty. I personally know loathsome humans. There's plenty more in the news daily.

This Forbes article though? It's doing something really good for the Fediverse. It's highlighting the need for funding projects like these. And, yeah, it mentions Dan because he's the one who got these projects of the ground and has done nearly all the bleeding and sweating for it.

I get the concerns and fears, but I'm not sure there is reason think we're there yet.

I guess I'm just grateful.

[–] GlassHalfHopeful 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I really like Boost as well. It was what I preferred on Reddit and I was happy to keep using it with Lemmy. I appreciate all that Reuben has done.

I'm going to keep trying to nail this down. I suspect now it could be related to instance settings.

Findings I had this morning: https://lemmy.ca/comment/14153173

[–] GlassHalfHopeful 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Ugh. Now I see that this behavior changes between instances. Will have to look deeper later. Could be BE version differences. Could be instance settings.

We have your example from your instance and then I tested the following...

Same link while logged into Lemmy.word:

Same link while logged into feddit.uk:

Now to further complicate this, this is Sync for Lemmy via Lemmy.ca:

This is Sync for Lemmy via feddit.uk:

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submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by GlassHalfHopeful to c/[email protected]
 

I see this often and wonder how much I miss as a result. Imgur links neither render as a link nor an image. I only know it's a link to an image when I view it the same post via the WebUI or another app. I don't even realize these are images most of the time and just scroll past.

Is it simply not being handled yet? A bug? Design decision?

Referenced post: https://lemmy.world/post/24776463

[–] GlassHalfHopeful 3 points 4 days ago

I love them. 😄

[–] GlassHalfHopeful 0 points 4 days ago

I mean, I'm very okay with that too. 😁

[–] GlassHalfHopeful 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Haha. As far as "hacker" movies go. 😁

I was only just barely getting into tech and software back then. Didn't even have to suspend disbelief. I just thought it was cool as hell. ✊

 

I have finally figured out a way to poorly and incorrectly mispronounce "dólares" so that it would finally let me through the exercises that include numbers and money. There is no single word it has struggled to understand more than that one. And trust me, I am saying it correctly. Good grief!

What about you? What words does Duo refuse to accept from you?

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by GlassHalfHopeful to c/[email protected]
 

Does anyone know where I could find comparisons of the various Lemmy clients available? I'd like to see something contrasting things like app maturity, features available, update release frequency, and etc?

I'm looking to try out some of the more mature clients since the one I'm using (Boost) has been exhibiting some problems for me recently. I wanted to narrow down the cause of the problem and will be trying other clients to make sure my instance isn't the issue. I'm writing this from Eternity (Nightly).

 

Is there a way to enable logs outputs? I'm getting pretty regular timeout errors on my primary instance of choice. I'd really like to know more details about what's going on.

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Time outs (self.lemmy_ca_support)
 

Ever since things came back up after the Jan 5th outage, I've started to encounter regular timeouts. I will scroll past a couple dozen number posts and then it will stop as of there are no more. Within a few seconds, the application produces a time out error.

I use Boost for Lemmy as my client, but I'm not convinced that the issue is the app since switching my instance allows me to continue scrolling without a problem. And to be clear, prior to January 5th, I've never experienced a timeout in the app.

I'm curious if I'm the only one experiencing timeouts on Lemmy.ca. If so, then I'm curious if the admins are aware of any issue.

 

EDIT: I find the article interesting, but not in the good sense. I'm glad to know, but it only leaves me feeling achy.

I also find the down votes for this post interesting. The source is trustworthy and accurately reflects the US American populace. Perhaps the negative votes simply reflect how many, including myself, feel about this news in general.

 

“It revolves around safety, security, and, I think, common sense. It protects our children and grandchildren in private spaces where they are most vulnerable,” said Republican Ohio state Sen. Jerry Cirino, the bill’s sponsor.

 

Older article (2023), but sharing for those unawares.

The birds - which have been around since the prehistoric Pleistocene era - were officially declared extinct in 1898.

After their rediscovery in 1948, conservationists began collecting and incubating eggs from wild takahē, to prevent them from being eaten by predators

 

This kid really is incredible! I heard him and his mother interviewed today on All Things Considered. Managed to find this Audubon article to show my family. It links TikTok videos that show off what he can do. I don't really know how to share those directly and they often don't work for me because of registration requirements. I think they should work for at least one listen for you all though.

 

The Biden administration has warned Israel that it must increase the amount of humanitarian aid it is allowing into Gaza within the next 30 days or it could risk

The Biden administration is doing the best they can possibly do. /s

🤬

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19034034

How do you teach a bird how, and where, to fly?

The distinctive Northern Bald Ibis, hunted essentially to extinction by the 17th century, was revived by breeding and rewilding efforts over the last two decades. But the birds — known for their distinctive black-and-iridescent green plumage, bald red head and long curved beak — don’t instinctively know which direction to fly to migrate without the guidance of wild-born elders. So a team of scientists and conservationists stepped in as foster parents and flight instructors.

“We have to teach them the migration route,” said biologist Johannes Fritz.

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