This is the kind of interaction that would haunt me years later when I'm trying to sleep.
Ohio being on the list is pretty funny (assuming this is in the US). Going to make geography and history classes awkward.
What grade is this, that Edging and Goon were common enough terms that they had to be included here?
"Animal noises" is very broad. Furry persecution. :(
The fact that they lose "LiveSchool points", whatever those are, presumably for saying these words, is almost worse than the fact that they have this list at all. I don't know what that system is or how it works, but I already hate it.
Hectoring is to act domineering, or to try to intimidate.
Get him to lay out exactly what you'll be doing, in writing, and what qualifies as 'complete' for each task. Don't leave it open-ended, or you're giving him leave to either keep adding new tasks, or to say "This wasn't done adequately!" and refuse to pay your share.
Find some simple recipes, and follow them to the letter. If it says to add something "to taste", just add a small amount of it and assume it's fine. As long as you aren't trying to invent your own dishes, or improvise somehow, you should be fine.
Really depends on the object. If it's a collectible item with a value that's open to interpretation, I sometimes do, especially if I'm considering buying multiple things. (For example, CCG cards priced at $20, I might offer $70 for a playset of 4.) Those things don't have firm market value (or that value fluctuates frequently) and there's usually an easy way to look up a price range quickly to get a sense for what's a fair or reasonable offer.
If it's something someone made and is selling, it feels rude to me to haggle. The item has no real market value because it's something they made; the price is what they're willing to sell it for. I'll either buy it for that price, or not buy it at all. I guess the exception would be if they've got a sign inviting haggling, which I've seen at convention spaces on rare occasion.
This is me any time there's a friendly kobold in any game. Deekin? Koll the Red? Popper? That's my jam.
This is how I've always understood them. If after you've had some time to digest how the interview went (and evaluate, based on the questions you (should have) asked during the interview, whether you think the position is a good fit for you) you still want the job, you send a quick email basically saying "Hey, thanks for meeting with me - it was nice to meet you / your team. Based on our interaction, it looks like this position would be a great fit for me / I'd be a great fit for it - here's some things I took away from it (which also serves to show I was attentive / not just going through the motions) - looking forward to hearing from you to continue the process!" To your point, it's not an ass-kissing email, the 'thank you' portion is just a polite formality to open the conversation.
and even a government-funded program to better educate women on their own menstrual cycles so that they know when they should be trying for a baby
It should be Trump himself giving that class. Because I'd love to hear that.
Is Beehaw doing something different from the rest of lemmy? You can log into any instance with any of the apps.
Sure is. You might check !lemmyapps@lemmy.world for some suggestions, but there's many.
(Refer to the pinned megathread.)
Especially if they'd help carry your bags and whatnot; that could be very helpful for someone who has mobility issues or just has a lot of things they need to bring. Well worth $7.50
In a hypothetical world where every service that wanted to be kid-friendly was willing to make two versions of their site, and where the obvious security concerns were solved, and where it could somehow be quarantined away from normal users, how would a kid even prove they were a kid?
The issue (in my eyes) is that this isn't limited to discord. Anywhere online where kids are allowed to be, predators can also be. Fuck, even Roblox apparently has a big predator problem. So if we make it the responsibility of platforms to police, we're setting ourselves up for a world where you have to have your ID ready to scan in to any website you visit or service you use that lets you interact with other people in any way, no matter how mundane, and there will be no internet services where anyone under 18 is allowed.
Or, we just accept that there's no reasonable way to keep adults and kids from intermingling, and we make it parents' sole responsibility.
They already have that policy, as the article notes. The problem is, how do you enforce it? As the comment you replied to notes, without requiring an ID verification, anyone can say they're any age.
At what point does it become the parents' responsibility to monitor what their kids are doing online?
Boo hoo. Maybe if he hadn't been such a shitheel he wouldn't have gotten the sanctions imposed against him in the first place. Most people manage to go through their entire lives without ever even facing, nevermind losing, a defamation suit - I hope he gets exactly zero sympathy.
I'm with you, I think we all are, but what would you propose we do? I certainly don't know. "Attending protests" doesn't feel impactful or immediate enough.
I'm sure you know, but I haven't seen any communication about it, so I'm bringing it up just to make sure. Performance tanked abruptly a few days ago and has only gotten worse in the following days.
Is it helpful to bring this up when it's observed, or would you prefer we just chill and wait?
Hugely improved performance! Great work! Thanks a lot!
Rather than communities being hosted by an instance, they should function like hashtags, where each instance hosts posts to that community that originate from their instance, and users viewing the community see the aggregate of all of these. Let me explain.
Currently, communities are created and hosted on a single instance, and are moderated by moderators on that instance. This is generally fine, but it has some undesirable effects:
- Multiple communities exist for the same topics on different instances, which results in fractured discussions and duplicated posts (as people cross-post the same content to each of them).
- One moderation team is responsible for all content on that community, meaning that if the moderation team is biased, they can effectively stifle discussion about certain topics.
- If an instance goes down, even temporarily, all of its communities go down with it.
- Larger instances tend to edge out similar communities on other instances, which just results in slow consolidation into e.g. lemmy.ml and lemmy.world. This, in turn, puts more strain on their servers and can have performance impact.
I'm proposing a new way of handling this:
- Rather than visiting a specific community, e.g. worldnews@lemmy.world, you could simply visit the community name, like a hashtag. This is, functionally, the same as visiting that community on your own local instance: [yourinstance]/c/worldnews
- You'd see posts from all instances (that your instance is aware of), from their individual /worldnews communities, in a single feed.
- If you create a new post, it would originate from your instance (which effectively would create that community on your instance, if it didn't previously exist).
- Other users on other instances would, similarly, see your post in their feed for that "meta community".
- Moderation is handled by each instance's version of that community separately.
- An instance's moderators have full moderation rights over all posts, but those moderator actions only apply to that instance's view of the community.
- If a post that was posted on lemmy.ml is deleted by a moderator on e.g. lemmy.world, a user viewing the community from lemmy.ml could still see it (unless their moderators had also deleted the post).
- If a post is deleted by moderators on the instance it was created on, it is effectively deleted for everyone, regardless of instance.
- This applies to all moderator actions. Banning a user from a community stops them from posting to that instance's version of the community, and stops their posts from showing up to users viewing the community through that instance.
- Instances with different worldviews and posting guidelines can co-exist; moderators can curate the view that appears to users on their instance. A user who disagreed with moderator actions could view the community via a different instance instead.
- An instance's moderators have full moderation rights over all posts, but those moderator actions only apply to that instance's view of the community.
- Users could still visit the community through another instance, as we do now - in this case, [yourinstance]/c/worldnews@lemmy.world, for example.
- In this case, you'd see lemmy.world's "view" of the community, including all of their moderator actions.
The benefit is that communities become decentralized, which is more in line with (my understanding of) the purpose of the fediverse. It stops an instance from becoming large enough to direct discussion on a topic, stops community fragmentation due to multiple versions of the community existing across multiple instances, and makes it easier for smaller communities to pop up (since discoverability is easier - you don't have to know where a community is hosted, you just need to know the community name, or be able to reasonably guess it. You don't need to know that a community for e.g. linux exists or where it is, you just need to visit [yourinstance]/c/linux and you'll see posts.
If an instance wanted to have their own personal version of a community, they could either use a different tag (e.g. world_news instead of worldnews), or, one could choose to view only local posts.
Go ahead, tear me apart and tell me why this is a terrible idea.
Kind of falls under the 'Too Afraid to Ask' category, I guess, but I've been curious about this for a while. Did something actually happen at some point, or was this just a procedural thing that wasn't ever followed up on?
It's mildly annoying given how large they are.
Edit: It's possible that this isn't a federation problem at all (as discussion is bringing to light) but something else entirely. Regardless, though, something is going on.
It's also possible that the site I link below is out of date, so maybe don't take that as gospel. I bookmarked it a year ago and just hit it up to check on this a few minutes before posting, so I haven't been keeping up with it.
Doing a little more digging in light of the above, it's possible this is related to this issue, and there's just an extremely long delay before we get content from lemmy.world. Weirdly, though, it doesn't seem to be the case with other instances - maybe because of their size? Either way, looking at the same posts on our instance and 3 or 4 others, we seem to be the only ones not getting the replies. So something's fucked, maybe.
If you're on lemmy.world and happen to see this, drop a reply in here, maybe - I'd be curious to see how long it takes for us to see it (or if we can at all).
Page load times have been very slow for some communities, especially those hosted on other instances, and especially over the past few days. Not sure if this was related to the maintenance over the weekend. Here's some quick examples from a sample of 3 communities. I'm listing them in the order that I visited them (I'm not sure if images et. al. are cached across instances, but just in case):
- https://pawb.social/c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone - Load: 6.8s
- https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/196 - Load: 655ms
- https://lemmy.world/c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone - Load: 705ms ---
- https://lemmy.world/c/technology - Load: 705ms
- https://pawb.social/c/technology@lemmy.world - Load: 17.58ms
- https://yiffit.net/c/technology@lemmy.world - Load: 557ms ---
- https://yiffit.net/c/memes - Load: 557ms
- https://lemmy.world/c/memes@yiffit.net - Load: 699ms
- https://pawb.social/c/memes@yiffit.net - Load: 587ms
Of these three tests, we performed fine on one, but the other two were markedly slower. Refreshing the home feed (settings: Subscribed, New) has also been very slow (with load times in excess of 5 seconds being very common).
Is anyone else seeing this, or is this a 'Me' problem?
(I swear I don't only complain.) :D
I'm sure there's a really simple answer to this, but it's a surprisingly difficult problem to search for.
I've got a RichTextBox control and I'm trying to write text that includes the letters "ff", but they don't show up. This is the specific code in question:
for entry in suffix: desc += "[color=darkgray]Suffix (Tier: %s, Quality: %s%%) 'of %s'\n[color=royalblue]" % [entry.tier, entry.quality, entry.mod.name]
This is what it ends up printing:
If I change one or both of the Fs to capitals, they both display fine; it's specifically two lowercase Fs that're problematic. They also display fine elsewhere in the same textbox; it's just this line specifically that's problematic. Even tried escaping it but it didn't like that, either.
Most of the settings on the RichTextBox are default; the font has a lowercase 'f' character; I haven't done anything weird with the font size, or style, or anything else.
I'm tearing my hair out here. Please tell me this is just some stupid bbcode tag or some such.
Edit: For anyone finding this later:
It's a ligature (ffi) that the font is missing a glyph for. To solve the problem: On the Import tab, choose the font you're using, click Advanced, and under Metadata Overrides, expand OpenType Features, click Add Feature -> Ligatures, add whichever option is appropriate (discretionary or standard ligatures), then disable the option. Reimport the font, and the issue is fixed!
Let's get some furry shit up in there. We can create / share a template so we're all working on something cohesive. Any interest / anyone have any suggestions for something to draw?
'No impact on missions,' military powerhouse insists
> The hacktivists, which describe themselves as made up of "gay furry hackers," usually target government orgs whose policies they disagrees with, and have a flare for political publicity stunts, also posted a link to the purported stolen files on their Telegram channel.
>"The astonishing siegedsec hackers have struck NATO once more!!1!!!," the crew wrote, bragging: "NATO: 0. Siegedsec: 2."
> The team is referring to its earlier NATO intrusion in July, during which it claimed it swiped information belonging to 31 nations and leaked 845MB of data from the alliance's the Communities of Interest (COI) Cooperation Portal.
Hiber3D has integrated Google's AI tools to give creators the ability to type what they want to see—and generate an immersive world.
> "Some game developers are turning to artificial intelligence to make the creative process faster and easier—and cheaper, too. At Google Cloud Next in San Francisco, startup Hiber announced the integration of Google’s generative AI technology in its Hiber3D development platform, which aims to simplify the process of creating in-game content.
> Hiber said the goal of adding AI is to help creators build more expansive online worlds, which are often referred to as metaverse platforms. Hiber3D is the tech that powers the company's own HiberWorld virtual platform, which it claims already contains over 5 million user-created worlds using its no-code-needed platform.
> By typing in prompts via its new generative AI tool, Hiber CEO Michael Yngfors says creators can employ natural language to tell the Hiber3D generator what kind of worlds they want to create, and can even generate worlds based on their mood or to match the vibe of a film. [...]"
Once this is refined, this could be very neat! It's only environments right now, not characters and whatnot, too, but maybe eventually we'd be able to dynamically generate some anthro-populated worlds to explore.
Performance on Pawb.Social specifically has been degrading significantly; it often times takes a very long time (10+ seconds) to load a post, for example, with a noticeable number of time-outs occurring. Opening the same post via its home instance in these cases typically works much faster, leading me to believe the problem is here, not with the host instance.
This is the case even with local communities.
Hoping to hear from other folks - are you also experiencing this? Is it a temporary issue, or indicative of a growing server-side problem?
There was discussion on the lemmy fork thread about replacing the default 'Donate' link with a server-specific one, but given that's not available yet, is there somewhere we can contribute funds towards hosting costs?
Really, maybe such a link should be on the sidebar, at least - if there is one somewhere already, I wasn't able to find it, and as such I suspect other folks who would potentially be looking for one wouldn't find it, either.
I really don't have a lot of background on cluster munitions; it only really came into my perception in response to the controversy over the US providing them to Ukraine. As I understand it, the controversy is because they often don't all explode reliably, and unexploded munitions can then explode months or years later when civilians are occupying the territory, making it similar to the problems caused by landmines.
In an age where things like location trackers, radio transmitters, and other such local and long-range technology to locate objects are common place, what's stopping the manufacturers of these munitions from simply putting some kind of device to facilitate tracking inside each individual explosive, to assist with detection and safe retrieval after a conflict? I get that nothing is a 100% effective solution, but it seems like it'd solve most of it.
Can someone with actual knowledge explain why this is still a problem we're having?
He's an alchemist, okay? It's definitely a Strength potion, not grape Kool-Aid, okay? It's only $5, just try it!
That poor elf has seen better days; it takes a special kind of talent to be overpowered by kobolds.
Books, games, movies, youtube channels, podcasts, whatever you've got - I'd love some recommendations for anything tangentially furry-related. There's plenty of cartoons (and I'd be happy to hear about those, too), but in particular, any more adult-focused media would be very welcomed!
Is it a testament to the power of the organization, or the lawlessness of the city that one can wear their regalia in broad daylight unaccosted? It's anyone's guess.
