kuramitropolis

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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
That's exactly what it is. Show me some mind-blowing AI art :-)
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
Or because I knew it was AI generated when I looked at it. Either way, that shouldn't be the differentiator. An artwork is judged by how it exists within the totality of the context. We can consider "art" in the broadest se
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
"Working artists" (lol) are gonna be just as subservient with or without 2D typewriters, because the "creative industries" are to art basically what porn is to sex. (Anglophones have this linguisic quirk where half of th
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
Anyone got a standalone ActivityPub client ? Couldn't find one. The protocol is intended to cover both server/server federation and client/server fetching of updates, correct?
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
You can choose if you are aware of alternatives.
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
I'd wager it's already happened. The general loss of definition since before the pandemic, the events of the past year in particular, especially the sudden burst of clarity around some of the sketchier economic affairs of these pa
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
Careful, you almost discovered the "Wow!" impulse there https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTp8VizqUWY
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
Markdown allows you to just write HTML in it. That makes it a superset of HTML. HTML is not difficult to write, it's difficult to edit. A S-expression-based dialect of HTML (with macros!) would be fun.
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
Whoa, I didn't know Steemit still existed. That's the first non-crypto related post I see on it since I first heard of that platform years ago! Sadly it's still a very low quality post. Ironically, maybe it's the prevale
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
I still get that sometimes - I think someone left it on for all the Tor nodes in Germany...
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
What's holding the web back by 20 years are </closing tags>. If it wasn't for them, CMS would not have had to be invented, and everybody would be blissfully authoring effortlessly semantic hypertext like they do with Ma
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
It's a psyop to divert mindshare from those P2P networks that actually do something.
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
Well, historical baggage, mostly. Everybody keeps saying it's pretty decent these days, and the Flarum codebase looks clean enough.
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
Information-dense. Old-school Web 2.0. Human sensory bandwidth-respecting.
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
Can you link me to some? I only seem to be able to find the newer versions.
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
Nothing ironic - it's all working as intended. What got the initial critical mass of people hooked, is that they were already familiar with the idea of an online conversation space, and liked expressing themselves through that medium.
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
A thousand times this. It's not only the dumbest thing I've seen a programming language do, it's also dumbest thing I've seen in the JS ecosystem. Ended up having to implement an AST-based post-processor to fix packages
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
Yes, because nobody was trying to manipulate us through them. It was just a communication service enabling diverse people to talk to each other. It was also, well, optional. None of that algoboosted dopamine-head datamining freakshow that&#
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
If you can get over the PHP and the "reinvented" UI... maybe?
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
Once you get over the initial learning curve, Rust is a very capable and productive application language, and I'd argue that the whole "low-level"/"high-level" divide is just a historical artifact. Sure, there
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
Yes! Those forums really felt like places . Social media nowadays just feels like, well, TV.
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
This is beautiful. For me, the old-school forums are a pinnacle of UX that Discourse fails to match. That UI + the real-time facilities of Lemmy is a match made in heaven. Now, if only someone implemented the old IPB theme! Pic: https:&#x
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
It's artificial scarcity, which to me is immoral, but it is what it is. In your example, you have the choice not to buy the license. In the case of Protonmail, they already have your emails, and are already serving them to you, so hold
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
Can you explain why you had a thought, however? And how many levels deep? Only as many as someone cares to ask, I'd wager. You have developed the capability of explaining your actions as resulting from your thoughts, because there is s
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
Who put them there?
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
You gotta clarify on some of the connections you're making. They're the kind of connections that people usually soft-lobotomize themselves into not making
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
Were they? The article said they were told to "stop printing". As in "stop the presses", perhaps. Still sounds weird, though - maybe the author of the invite is not a native English speaker?
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
The Vestax's MIDI controlled pitch looks pretty sick. What's the closest one can get to it in software these days?
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
That's not a mixer, that's a controller for software. Make sure it's not a crappy one and that the whole setup works reliably so you don't inadvertently ruin it for the kid. These are generally only good for mixing sets,
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
I'm not sure what you're trying to say, but I'm basically responsding to the implications I perceived in the "are you a hermit" question, which I feel are quite disheartening in their own right: that meeting society

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