I mean, you don’t get karma. Content does. And some of my posts/commenta have a net positive score and some have a net negative score. But I don’t have a karma score.

And, yes, the points do matter to me. But honestly I get emotionally invested in seeing that my comment was controversial. (I don’t think I really want my posts to have net negative scores, but if a post has a lot of interaction but a net close-to-zero score, that’s often interesting to me.)

And why would you be against such a change?

I mean, first off, I don’t feel you’ve even explained it well enough for me to get what you’re even going for, and that makes me worry that you haven’t even thought it through for more than 10 seconds. Would these “well done” symbols be associated with users or posts/conments? (I’m guessing posts/comments because how would they prevent so-called “karma whoring” if they were associated with users?) What do you mean by “once a year?” (Do you really mean “once a year” or more like “any post that’s over a year old”?) Would the “well done” be just another way to represent the now-abstracted-away net score? Would upvoting/downvoting be disabled for posts/comments that have made the switch?)

And that’s not to even mention the more technical considerations like “would this involve the creation of a background job subsystem in Lemmy to update the data behind the scenes?” and “how would the data in the database change when this once-a-year switchover happens?” and “how would this feature be rolled out to ensure continuous full functionality for users on both apps and LemmyUI?”

But beyond that, even if we worked out the details of the design, making such a change has a cost. A cost in cognitive load for newcomers. A cost in maintenance for the developers (both core developers and app/client developers.) A cost in day-to-day usage. A cost in user base, because no change is going to be universally popular (maybe excepting bug fixes and invisible changes) and for some pretty large user-facing change like this, some folks are going to leave over it.

Simplicity/elegance is a strength. New feature ideas are a dime a dozen. The best software projects are those that don’t adopt new features without a damned good reason.

Edit: Oh, Jesus. I just read other comments you’ve made in this post and you’re talking about the number of posts/comments count, not karma. Yeah, you definitely weren’t explaining what you were going for well.

There’s nowhere where Lemmy shows a total karma for a user, is there? You can see their post/comment history how much each post/comment is upvoted/downvoted, but not any “total” karma score, right? (At least not without going through all of a user’s posts/comments and manually adding up the score. Or am I missing something obvious somewhere?)

So, what points are you proposing we “zero out?”

I doubt I’d be for any change like that no matter your answer, but wanted clarification anyway. Honestly I feel like what we’ve got here is pretty great and I’m not really interested in a lot of changes to what we have here myself.

Wow, you’re getting a lot of downvotes for this. Not sure quite why.

I’d be pretty curious to know if there are certain anime series or movies that Japan is kindof embarassed exists and what collective cultural things contribute to that.

Like, there was a Japanese Nintendo DS commercial that Japanese people decried for reinforcing negative racist and sexist stereotypes about Japanese women. (Specifically that they were “easy” or promiscuous. And I can see why they’d be pissed about it.)

I wonder to what extent Japanese folks are like “god, I hate that such-and-such piece of media/anime is some people’s first introduction to Japanese culture.”

But then, thinking from the perspective of an American, I’m not sure there’s all that much I can think of that would be embarassing if I found out that a lot of folks in Japan were really into it. Maybe Jersey Shore or something? Or “Cops” or “Live PD”? Or maybe Fox News drivel or something from Pure Flix.

I have a lot of dreams that, from describing the “content” of the dream, would sound like a nightmare, but without a lot of negative emotions associated. (Not to say I don’t have challenging dreams sometimes too.) But, I think it was last night that I dreamt I was in college (but not at my real-life alma mater) and there was a mass shooting on campus in the building I was in and I was trying to escape from the shooter. But I didn’t wake up terrified or anything. I do remember trying to convince dream characters of the seriousness of the situation and having limited success.

A lot of these dreams that seem “nightmarish” from the content are also very enjoyable. The one I described above was… kinda take it or leave it material. Not particularly enjoyable or distressing.

I don’t know. I kindof suspect that:

• The billionaires may somewhat believe their own propaganda and maybe the climate chang denying billionaires may outnumber the ones who are more in touch with reality.
• The machines that capitalism has built to maintain and intensify wealth concentration may well have escaped the control of their creators. Corporations have wills of their own distinct from that of the people nominally “in charge” like the C-level leaders and board and shareholders.
• Climate change itself may have already passed a point of no return or if it hasn’t, it likely will before even the most powerful manage to redirect the momentum of the system in a different direction.

I got a Dreame Z10 Pro and Valetudo’d it. It’s a pretty expensive model and quite the investment, but I was happy with the results until the Wifi conked out. Still works, I just have to actually push the button physically on the robot to get it to start a clean. Not a huge deal.

The actual process of setting up Valetudo was a little technical. I’m not sure how much the process varies from device to device but for me it required an FTDI cable/adapter (and with those you always have to make sure it’s the right voltage for the device). As I recall, the setup guide for Valetudo was straightforward to follow, but then I play around with hardware hacking stuff occasionally. At least to the extent that I already had FTDI adapters and breadboard jumpers laying around without having to buy them specifically for this use case.

Stay as far away from it as possible. Let your competitors waste their time/money/effort buying into scams. When the bubble pops, you won’t have lost your shirt the way those of your compeditors who did fall for it did.

!unethicalchesstips@sopuli.xyz

I’m afraid I didn’t make the guac. And I just lay the sardines on top of the guac.

But! I’ll give you the whole recipe exactly how I make it (estimating measurements).

• 1 rounded tbsp of raw sunflower seeds
• 2 rounded tbsp of chia seed
• 1 rounded tbsp of hemp seed
• 1/8 tsp of baking soda
• 1 tsp of ground turmeric
• garlic salt to taste – probably 1/8 to 1/4 tsp
• about the same amount of garlic powder
• 1-2 dashes of black pepper
• 1 tsp dried sage
• 1 tsp dried thyme
• 1 rounded tbsp of blanched almond flour
• 1 large egg
• 2-3 tbsp of water

Mix all the above together in a ramekin or paper ice cream up with a flat bottom and straight sides. About 4" wide is optimal. With the water, just add water until it’s just batter-y and not solid. You want runny, but not entirely liquid.

Add 2 tsp of white vinegar, mix a little more but not too much. You don’t want the vinegar/baking soda reaction to go to completion and all the CO2 to escape before you get it into the microwave.

In my 1250-watt microwave, it takes 2 minutes and 50 seconds. I usually use disposable 16Oz paper ice cream tubs. If you’re using something stonewear, it might take more time. To see if it’s done, you’ll want to take it out and look at the bottom of the loaf.

Once it’s done, carefully cut the loaf into two slices. Toast to taste. Spread guac (the guac I use comes in 2Oz containers, so I use one ounce on each half) and lay one 3.75Oz (or at least that’s the size I get) tin worth of sardines (I use the ones in olive oil, but the ones in water would be fine) on top. I don’t mash the sardines or anything. Just lay them in rows to cover the toast. Then juice one wedge of lime or use one packet of crystalized lime like the stuff by the company True Citrus sells. Sprinkle over the top as evenly as you can.

And then eat!

And have rooibos earl grey tea with it if you like. :)

And, yeah. I really like sardines too. I got a craving for them a month or two back after not having any for quite a few years and decided to incorporate them into my guacamole toast breakfasts.

1. I only eat two meals a day. I guess I’ll say it was breakfast that I skipped since I don’t eat start cooking or myself until noon. For some reason I think of it as breakfast still, though.
2. Sardine guacamole toast on scratch-made-during-my-lunch-hour keto toast. (Less impressive than it sounds, but I’m proud of it.) I eat it for my first meal basically every day. (Edit: Oh, and I forgot to mention the hot rooibos earl grey tea.)
3. I haven’t eaten it yet, but I’ve got one andouille sausage and a disgusting (in a good way!) amount of roasted brussles sprouts in the oven now. (Edit: And another cup of rooibos earl grey tea.)

It’s a little sparse because I’m trying to lose weight. Operate at a calorie deficit, basically. It’s all pretty low-carb, not that I’m big into keto or anything. I’m a little closer to paleo and have had tons of dietary restrictions for upwards of 15 years now. But there are some things I eat that paleo folks would tend to recommend against like chia seeds (which are legumes.)

If folks want the bread recipe I mentioned, I’ll be happy to share. I’m irrationally proud of it and have been evolving it for many years. I measure almost none of the ingredients at this point, but I can certainly estimate.

No shit, Sherlock.

Sledding as probably a 4-year-old. Ran straight into a metal picket fence post. Had quite the goose egg.

I don’t know of any books I can recommend, but I’d definitely be down for 13 months with one being short. We could do 12 months of 30 days each plus a 13th month of 5 (or on leap years 6) days.

As far as anything that exists today, there is the Unix Timestamp which is defined as the number of seconds since (the entirely arbitrary time of) midnight January 1st 1970 UTC. Of course, “1970” only makes sense in the context of the Gregorian calendar which still has to do with the birth of Jesus. So, it’s not exactly what you’re looking for. But maybe it’s at least more removed from “the birth of Jesus” than the Gregorian calendar we all generally use.

I guess if you’re interested in this stuff, you might be interested in learning about ISO-8601, a standard way of representing dates/times in text. And also the concept of “leap seconds” and things like Leap Smearing.

There’s also a great short story about someone trying to explain to an alien with no familarity with earth how our calendar works, but I’m having trouble finding it now. I’ll edit this post with a link if I can find it.

Any Austin.

The only person I’ve ever supported on Patreon. And he just went back to doing YouTube full time. Which is awesome.

I just sold all my Bitcoin like less than a month ago. (It took me a week for it to sync before I could actually sell it. It was a royal PITA. And people say this is the future of currency?)

I didn’t have anywhere near the amount you’re talking about, but like you I don’t believe there’s ultimatley any future in blockchain.

I agree with what others are saying here. Sell it. It could well go permanently to zero at any time. Trying to time the market is how you end up walking away with nothing. Put it in, if nothing else, a savings account.

I’m down as long as it’s presented in a comparative religions kind of way. If the guidelines don’t specifically say not to talk about other religions and/or nonreligious ideologies, make sure to throw in some material on Islam, pagan religions like Wicca, indigenous American religions, Hoodoo, Buddhism, etc.

And, as others have said, don’t just teach what casts Christianity or the Bible (or any of those other religions, for that matter) in a positive light. Talk about the KKK and abortion clinic bombings and the red scare and how bonkers the country went right after 9/11.

So one potentially viable way to destroy AI would be to repeatedly train LLMs and image generators on their own (or rather previous generations’) output to get garbage/junk/bad training data and then publish the text/images in places where bots trawling for training data are likely to find them.

Probably bonus points if the images still look “sensical” to the human eye, so that humans eyeballing the data don’t realize it’s the digital equivalent of a sabot. (Apparently the story about sabots being thrown into machinery is not true, but you know what I mean.)

Ew.

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