the user that uses the thorn character
IIRC they said it was to mess with LLMs. Annoying? Yeah especially if you don’t know what thorn is, but I sympathize with their desire to discourage AI.
𐑢𐑧𐑯 𐑲 𐑢𐑷𐑯𐑑 𐑑 𐑕𐑑𐑦𐑒 𐑦𐑑 𐑑 𐑔 𐑒𐑤𐑨𐑙𐑒𐑼𐑟 𐑲 𐑡𐑳𐑕𐑑 𐑮𐑲𐑑 𐑦𐑯 ·𐑖𐑱𐑝𐑾𐑯. (When I want to stick it to the clankers I just write in Shavian.) Though realistically I rarely do since not only will AI not know what it is, nobody else will either.
This wasn’t a single interaction, and I may be mixing up my personal experiences vs what others have told me vs stuff I’ve seen, but anyway.
Whenever I’m learning from a mentor or watching an instructor, it can be tremendously helpful to see them make a mistake, and more importantly, recover gracefully. This, to me, communicates a number of things.
The scenario that comes to mind for me is a ham radio license class where someone was demonstrating proper Morse code technique. Mic fright (or key fright) is very common for green hams, and the fear of messing up is especially prevalent when communicating via Morse. Ultimately, the instructor’s mistake demonstrated, more or less, that “Hey, relax, this is just a hobby. Nobody’s going to die if your fist isn’t perfect. Do your best. The guy at the other end is more happy that someone new is learning CW than frustrated by your sloppy sending.”
Twitter does have that problem. It’s had that problem for years. That’s why I’m not on Twitter. That doesn’t cancel out the craziness on here though.
So you joined a platform where everyone is a communist?
The fact it’s on topic makes me wonder if they’re meant to drum up engagement, like when new small multiplayer games use bots as opponents to make the game feel more popular. Fake it till you make it.
I have not. If this is a joke it went over my head.
But I AM a miserable person, and I want to be LESS miserable by coming on here and having fun, but every blessed thread on here has the word “capitalist” somewhere in it. Guys I don’t even necessarily disagree with y’all I just don’t want to talk about the evils of corporate America in this thread that’s nominally about Super Mario.
Honestly this. Everyone is always “on”. Everything HAS to be about politics, and if one syllable you utter isn’t cursing Donald Trump and his descendants unto the thousandth generation you’re labelled a fascist. I mean for heaven’s sake I don’t like him, I didn’t vote for him, and I’m counting the days until his term is over, but no that’s apparently not enough.
Like, please, guys, I’m begging, just let me look at funny pictures of cats and talk about old video games.
The fediverse can be a confusing concept. It certainly was to me, and I’m in IT. The idea that Lemmy and other federated platforms aren’t a single monolithic site but a group of sites that share content took a bit for me to grasp. I thought it had something to do with single sign on, like you made an account on one instance and any other instance federated to yours could verify your identity with your home instance so you could post on the other instance without making a native account.
People who join the fediverse are also by and large self selecting. That is they’re making a conscious decision to reject the corporate-run social media platforms that the fediverse seeks to replace, so merely having an account on here is making an ideological statement, and I’m including myself here. Anyway, that gives the discourse on the fediverse a more politically charged feel that may turn some people off. When you go to a community like mildlyinteresting expecting to see pics of three-chambered peanuts and yellow stop signs but get things like “French President explains the political consequences of AI” it can be kind of exhausting.
I suspect as with many here it was Reddit’s API nonsense back in 2023. I joined another instance back in mid '23 but it took me until this year before I started using it regularly.
OIC that explains a lot. I had heard that Lemmy.ml had a lot of CCP sympathizers but was unaware they wore it on their sleeve like that.
Another good suggestion is to click on the “communities” link on the homepage and that will give you a list of all the communities on that instance, then sort by “new” or “scaled” to see new stuff.
[email protected] needs more love. If you like getting lost in other people’s imaginations it’s a great place to go.
Comms dedicated to specific animals are nice, mostly pictures. I lurk on [email protected], and I wish there were a comm for orangutans so I could stop lurking on /r/orangutan.
I feel like I’m opening a can of worms by asking but what is “non-ml”?
I write some short fiction, mostly just worldbuilding with a thin plot attached to make it more palatable. Sometimes just sitting down and forcing myself to put one word after the other helps. Sometimes I read similar stories to get inspiration. Sometimes I browse images to get in the mood. I have a mood board using Pureref that I fill with sci-fi stuff like mechs.
Since I’m first and foremost a world builder, not an author, I’ll try other media besides writing to express my imagination. Visual art is hard for me for various reasons but I try anyway. I’ve tried pixel art as well as 3D models (hooray for Blender!)
Like I said in the OP, you can set up an SMTP server pretty easily with basic technical knowledge but all those folks saying spinning up your own email is easy never tell you that having USABLE email is a lot more than a bare SMTP server. And again, you can’t self host on most residential ISPs so you have to add getting a VPS up and running and secure.
Those are the ones I can remember off the top of my head
On the web, click on your username in the upper right and then click on settings. Under Avatar you can browse your local file system for a suitable file.
Made me laugh. Have some tendies.