RoundSparrow

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I have built hundreds of oddly specific James Joyce Finnegans Wake 1924 Playlists, can I share here? (sh.itjust.works)
 

Thank you for feedback / feedfoward.

Experience Mythology Project : Seattle Tech Empire, Carl Sagan Fights Back ::: PaleBlueDot Alternate Reality Game ARG / My Game in c/games@sh.itjust.works
[–] RoundSparrow@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months ago

“It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

Experience Mythology Project : Seattle Tech Empire, Carl Sagan Fights Back ::: PaleBlueDot Alternate Reality Game ARG / My Game in c/games@sh.itjust.works
[–] RoundSparrow@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months ago

“It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

Experience Mythology Project : Seattle Tech Empire, Carl Sagan Fights Back ::: PaleBlueDot Alternate Reality Game ARG / My Game in c/games@sh.itjust.works
[–] RoundSparrow@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Defend the Great Seal, Carl Sagan Pale Blue Dot Skywalkers!

Joy!

Starship Integrated Flight Test 3 Launch Discussion and Updates Thread! in c/spacex@sh.itjust.works
[–] RoundSparrow@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago

they announced it completed. Not sure if it worked as intended.

Starship Integrated Flight Test 3 Launch Discussion and Updates Thread! in c/spacex@sh.itjust.works
[–] RoundSparrow@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Starship is supposed to coast for the next 30 minutes, until T+ 40

Starship Integrated Flight Test 3 Launch Discussion and Updates Thread! in c/spacex@sh.itjust.works
[–] RoundSparrow@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 months ago

45 seconds in, amazing all engines look great

Starship Integrated Flight Test 3 Launch Discussion and Updates Thread! in c/spacex@sh.itjust.works
[–] RoundSparrow@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 months ago

It is looking like it might go on first attempt!

/c/SpaceX Starship Integrated Flight Test 2 Official Launch Discussion & Updates Thread! in c/spacex@sh.itjust.works
[–] RoundSparrow@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Fuel loading has gone well so far!

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Steely Dan - Iconic Duo Had Rookie Sing BACKUP on This 70s Hit—By the NEXT Year He OUTSOLD ‘em!—Professor of Rock (www.youtube.com)
9-25-23 www.thefarside.com in c/thefarside@sh.itjust.works
[–] RoundSparrow@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

I think the joke is how a pest exterminator is being called on an extinct species. Play on the mutual concept of extinction.

KSP2 is Spamming the Windows Registry Over Weeks/Months Until the Game Will Stop Working Permanently in c/games@sh.itjust.works
[–] RoundSparrow@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago

All the Unity game engine self-destruction choices got to them ;)

Lemmy probably feels like Reddit when it first started, all warm cuddly and friendly to newcomers eager to discuss and collaborate around central topics. in c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
[–] RoundSparrow@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It’s already like that here, friend.

Lemmy didn't take off until well into May 2023, despite being online and open source for over 4 years. The quantity of posts, communities, comments was very small for 4 years online.

Then everyone flocked out of hate and anger of an API money matter with Reddit.Then crowds got hate-filled and angry when Threads was launched by Meta/Instagram/Facebook on July 5. And crowds became hate-filled and angry over Elon Musk rename of Twitter to X on July 23.

Outside big growth in memes and shitposts, there haven't been big numbers of people flocking here out of organic goodness on organized topics. It has largely been a HiveMind of hate as a motivation to come here since May.

Some good seeds have been planted since May, but the atmosphere of hate motivates change is pretty much Mob Mentality / reactionary.

CVE-2020-19909 ist everything that is wrong with CVES in c/cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works
[–] RoundSparrow@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

When cross-posted >= 2, should go to a dedicated page like Reddit has had for a very long time... and allow easy viewing of who posted, date, number of comments, date of last comment, votes, etc.

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Loss of control, often dramatized scene in fiction stories where a character physically travels, has a large amount of information to share - but limited time. "Come with me if you want to live" (tvtropes.org)
 

Link to TVTropes: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ComeWithMeIfYouWantToLive

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“Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments.” - Marshall McLuhan - cornerstone of /c/mental_influenced (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by RoundSparrow@sh.itjust.works to c/mental_influenced@sh.itjust.works
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As a media environment, the context here is to view media as environments and even the shift they make over time.

I added a link to Jung's concept of "persona" to the sidebar of this community: For Jung, "the danger is that [people] become identical with their personas—the professor with his textbook, the tenor with his voice." The result could be "the shallow, brittle, conformist kind of personality which is 'all persona', with its excessive concern for 'what people think'"—an unreflecting state of mind "in which people are utterly unconscious of any distinction between themselves and the world in which they live. They have little or no concept of themselves as beings distinct from what society expects of them."

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Beehaw discussion, avoiding influences and managing new information consumption: "How did you find a healthy balance between staying informed and not despairing about the world?" (beehaw.org)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by RoundSparrow@sh.itjust.works to c/mental_influenced@sh.itjust.works
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There are many detailed replies in this Beehaw.org posting related to media environments.

/c/mental_influenced community: “Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments.” - Marshall McLuhan

As a media environment, this Beehaw discussion is treating the entire world, the whole #PaleBlueDot as a media environment. How much of the world's news can you consume? Some of the replies talk about their spouse being a filter for even world news information.

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The Musical Innertube - Talking About Walter Becker (Steely Dan) (www.youtube.com)
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Professor of Rock, Steely Dan's Reeling in the Years: Hired Gun NAILED Best Solo of 1973 on 1st TRY…But Engineer FORGOT to Hit Record! (www.youtube.com)
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Steely Dan: Show Biz Kids (www.youtube.com)
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Reading a posting on lemmy-ui that is a link to another lemmy posting is confusing to read, it looks like the messages is from the person doing the link-posting. (sh.itjust.works)
 

I also find that when people post journalist news sites, they are using archive proxies to bypass paywalls, and you can't tell which news site the actual story is from.

The context of this being a "link posting" is not very clear. I encourage discussion and changes to the lemmy-ui webapp so that it more clearly presents that this is an "offsite link" posting(?)

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FYI: lemmy.ml - central hub for many communities - has been down 2 hours after 0.18 upgrade EDIT: back up - they say DDoS attack against multiple Lemmy instances (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by RoundSparrow@sh.itjust.works to c/main@sh.itjust.works
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Based on my weeks of code (and operating instance) study on lemmy_server, I strongly suspect that peer servers upgrading to 0.18 is causing a swarm of federation activity that lemmy.ml is getting as peers go down and back up.

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PLEASE help test Lemmy 0.18 fixes, enterprise.lemmy.ml is the testing server with latest code (sh.itjust.works)
 

Enterprise: enterprise.lemmy.ml - Thank you!

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Canadian YouTuber: One Bad Byte Broke This Game: Commodore 64's "Livingstone, I Presume?" (www.youtube.com)
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