I verify my sessions. its a hassle, but it’s getting rarer and easier.
I used to make comics. I know that because strangers would look at my work and immediately share their most excruciatingly banal experiences with me:
— that time a motorised wheelchair cut in front of them in the line at the supermarket;
— when the dentist pulled the wrong tooth and they tried to get a discount;
— eating off an apple and finding half a worm in it;
every anecdote rounded of with a triumphant “You should make a comic about that!”
Then I would take my 300 pages graphic novel out of their hands, both of us knowing full well they weren’t going to buy it, and I’d smile politely, “Yeah, sure. Someday.”
“Don’t try to cheat me out of my royalties when you publish it,” they would guffaw and walk away to grant comics creator status onto their next victim.
Nowadays I make work that feels even more truly like comics to me than that almost twenty years old graphic novel. Collage-y, abstract stuff that breaks all the rules just begging to be broken. Linear narrative is ashes settling in my trails, montage stretched thin and warping in new, interesting directions.
I teach comics techniques at a university level based in my current work. I even make an infrequent podcast talking to other avantgarde artists about their work in the same field.
Still, sometimes at night my subconscious whispers the truth in my ear: Nobody ever insists I turn their inane bullshit nonevents into comics these days, and while I am a happier, more balanced person as a result of that, I guess that means I don’t make comics any longer after all.
I verify my sessions. its a hassle, but it’s getting rarer and easier.
I’ve used matrix for the better part of a decade, and I get that reference.
That said, while the matrix crew have worked hard on the decryption issues, I’d much rather feel that particular pain on a federated network where I can change servers than be stuck with Signal if/when the single server’s policies turn evil.
That tells you all you need to know about my sources for firearm trivia! I don’t even remember watching DH2 😄
OT, and I’m usually not the type that comments with gun trivia, but
the cold metal of a glock
Wasn’t Glock famously made of ceramic polymer and became popular for evasion of metal detectors?
Sorry for the sidetrack, that single point irks me even if it’s way outside my wheelhouse.
Maybe even a note why this is worth clicking on, and not just a lazy teen spamming /all with anything they come across on a school night.
That may just be my preference 🤔
I ses the referrer hash in mbin, so that checks out.
Yeah, that still seems weird to me. Does it connect the post in any way to the magazine (especially Lemmy communities), or just end up a hashtag if people read from a fedi microblog instance?
Incidentally, FediMeteo uses the existing Open-Meteo API. The use case is just… you can follow your nearest city on Mastodon and get forecasts in your home feed?
But… Lemmy isn’t for following accounts. That’s a microblog feature. Maybe follow them on Mastodon or similar network?
Probably not —
You can follow FediMeteo directly in the Fediverse (on Mastodon and compatible platforms)
AFAIK the Lemmy/Mastodon compatibility isn’t great as they use activitypub for different purposes.
Besides, what would be the point of posting weather reports on Lemmy? So you can discuss their accuracy?
FediMeteo is dedicated to my grandfather, who every evening would give me the weather forecast based on TV, radio, and his personal experience. He would convince me that the weather would be bad, so he had an excuse to accompany me to school instead of me going alone.
That’s a lovely anecdote, but also an argument against keeping up with weather prognoses — if you’ve already decided your preferred outcome based on your plans and desires for the next day 🙂
Right, thanks. Couldn’t help the snark but I’m glad you cleared it up.
So what you’re saying is, never mind what it’s producing is bullshit as long as it’s saying it convincingly? 🙂
Yeah, that’s the kind of unhelpful condescension I recognise from that “enthusiastic” community. Thanks for the nitpick.
I tried Yunohost once, and everything worked as long as I stuck to the officially supported apps. The community forum was supportive within reason, and would respond with advice fairly quickly. When I reported an error with an unofficial app, however, I was instantly told off that I shouldn’t expect any help.
Now, having used and admined my Linux desktop systems for a decade (without claiming to be an actual sysadmin), I nosed around the system a bit and to my eyes it seemed a right mess of app and user folders, permissions and containers. Surely, a combination of my limited understanding of server apps and a system that is made primarily for GUI use to make administration easier for beginners.
What I mean to say is, if you already run a set of working docker containers, you’re probably more advanced than the intended Yunohost user. I was that half ounce more literate that I became frustrated with the GUI-centric setup, and imperial pounds too illiterate to actually muck around in the command line.
Look at it this way, Yunohost offers a fraction of the apps available on Docker, and not all of them are maintained. They do offer a graphic admin interface and out-of-the-box working setups (or did five years ago when I tried it).
So your solution is a vendetta society balanced by mutually assured deepfake. Got it.
This tool is intended for use with non-DRM, legally acquired eBooks only. The authors are not responsible for any misuse of this software or any resulting legal consequences.
Use this tool responsibly and in accordance with all applicable laws.
Uh huh, yep. Also, will definitely not be putting any audiobook readers out of a job.
Any time you need to remind users to “use this tool responsibly”, you know very well that’s not going to happen.
That’s like saying victims of deepfake porn benefit because they get to watch themselves having sex. Nope, not buying it.
No worries. Given the season, surely it’s the recurring Bahhum bug.
This is something all of those auto-summarizers neglect to mention. Sometimes long is good, and activates understanding in a way you won’t get from a one-paragraph tl;dr version.
I wonder how Orbit would summarize this newsbyte? “Long is a bother. This better ❤️🤖”?