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[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 1 points 13 hours ago

The manga has heavy "Charmander evolves to Charmeleon!" vibes.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 12 points 15 hours ago (8 children)

I named* my first self-built computer after him! Does this make that machine gay? They put chemicals in the bytes that turn the friggin' hardware gay!

*call me a weirdo but I do often name stuff like household appliances and my trees.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 8 points 15 hours ago

Valve just did the same thing. Valve who’s pretty famous for fighting back did the same thing.

C'mon, that's whataboutism. Let's focus on itch.io.

Those words are lawyer words. Not truth, lawyer words.

Yes. And I'm blaming them for that.

I surely doubt itchio would come away scot free if they went to the press and said that they were forced

The payment mafia is all about "brand damage". If itch io said the truth in the statement, while still complying with their threat, I don't think the mafia would cut it off - because doing it would bring a lot of brand damage to the mafia.

"Look at itch io! You can't even criticise the payment mafia, it'll get in your way! We need to rely on alternative payment systems!" is a situation even the payment mafia would want to avoid.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 12 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

Read the statement linked in the article. Focus on the words itch dot io used there:

  • "we came under scrutiny [pressure]"
  • "directing concerns [demands] to our payment processors"
  • "prioritize our relationship [dependence] with our payment partners [providers]"

The only reasonable explanation for the presence of those euphemisms in the statement is, that the people in charge of itch dot io aren't even trying to fight back. They're painting the MC/Visa/PP mafia as "concerned partners". Like a dog a bit too eager to waggle its tail to its master.

That's why I'm assigning at least some blame to the platform. Less than the payment mafia, and way less than the conservative nutjobs; but they are not guiltless IMO.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 9 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (6 children)

[itch dot io] "To ensure that we can continue to operate and provide a marketplace for all developers, we must prioritise our relationship with our payment partners and take immediate steps towards compliance."

Emphasis mine. Why are they calling those mafias "partners"?

Even if most of the blame should be geared towards the Christians in Collective Shout and the greedy PP/MC/Visa mafia, itch dot io should get part of the blame too.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 4 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

If you try to trick Laziness, then Hyperactivity eats your face. And vice versa. They claim dibs on fucking with each other.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 12 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

I have two chimps inside me. They keep flinging shit at each other. And then devour the faces of whoever comes close to them.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Here's a picture, stolen from some cooking site (because it looks better than mine):

It's a common dish here in Paraná, known locally as "cuque de farofa e banana"; basically Streuselkuchen plus sliced bananas. I'll share the recipe I followed, it works fine, it's just that I didn't give the yeast enough hours to act:

RecipeFor the crumbles:

  • 180g flour
  • 200g sugar (add more if you like it sweeter)
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 2 tablespoons plus more of some solid fat (lard, butter, margarine, they all work fine)

Mix all ingredients by hand, adding more fat as needed; you know you got enough fat there when the crumbles barely hold themselves together, once you press them with your hand.

Batter:

  • 1 tablespoon dry biological yeast
  • 250ml lukewarm milk; make sure it isn't too hot, otherwise it'll kill the yeast
  • 75g sugar
  • 300g flour
  • 2 tablespoons fat
  • zest of a lime, half lemon, or a rangpur
  • two eggs
  • some vanilla extract
  • a pinch of salt
  • three bananas, peeled, sliced
  1. Mix the yeast, the milk, and one of the tablespoons of sugar. Let it bloom for half a hour.
  2. Mix everything else together, then the mix from step #1. You'll get a sticky batter.
  3. Transfer the batter to a greased baking dish; preferably a large one, you want the batter to be thinly spread.
  4. Let the batter ferment for a few hours; the actual time depends on weather, but it should at least double in size.
  5. Add the sliced bananas over it. Then the crumbles. Then bake the thing 180°C, in pre-heated oven, for 30min or so. You know it's done when you stick a toothpick in it and it comes out clean.
  6. Let it rest a bit then enjoy.
[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 7 points 21 hours ago

I think it's a mix of what both IninewCrow and Jay said: survival bias + higher early exposure to dirt, pollen etc.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 10 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

My banana crumb cake turned out tasty, but it didn't grow as much as I wanted. I kind of forgot to take into account climate on yeast times, plus I'm not used to cakes so I had no clue if the batter grew as much as it should (for breads this is easier for me).

Beyond that I'm playing some Pokemon Emerald. Mostly abusing RNG manipulation for shinies, and faketime for berries. I'll probably start some Leaf Green or Fire Red playthrough, gotta catch'em all...

Bought a bottle of vodka. Now dumping all citrus skins in it. Some months later I'll have my fun with it.

No plans for Fri/Sat/Sun as of yet.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 8 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (3 children)

Sorry for the double reply.

In the short-ish term, I think a good way to address this would be if governments across the globe had laws like "a service provider cannot refuse to provide services to a platform based on the nature of the lawful content within that platform".

Odds are Visa/MC/PP wouldn't even try to fight against such a law - they don't really mind servicing itch.io, from their PoV it would be yet another customer; the problem is pressure exerted by those Protestant nutjobs in Australia, but once a law is present they can't exert that pressure.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 15 points 1 day ago

Right, that’s why they CAN do it, but I’m talking about why they WANT to do it.

The reason why PP/MC/Visa "want" to do this has zero to do with "porn saturation" or whatever. It's basically "brand management"; they're seeing servicing sites with specific types of adult content as "brand damage", so they pressure those sites to not do it. That's it; if they believed the opposite they'd gladly force itch io to show a dick in the front page.

In turn, the reason Collective Shout is pressuring PP/MC/Visa through "brand damage" mostly boils down to conservative babble. Check this, regarding the group's founder and take your own conclusions.

 

This infographic is still incomplete; I'm posting it here in the hope that I can get some feedback about it. It has three goals:

  1. To explain what federation is. No technobabble, just a simple analogy with houses and a neighbourhood.
  2. To explain why federation is good for users.
  3. [TODO] Specific info about the Fediverse, plus some really simple FAQ.

Criticism is welcome as long as constructive.

EDIT: OK, too much text. I'm clipping as much as I can.

 

This is not some sort of fancy new development, but it's such a classical experiment that it's always worth sharing IMO. Plus it's fun.

When you initially mix both solutions, nothing seems to happen. But once you wait a wee bit, the colour suddenly changes, from transparent to a dark blue.

There are a bunch of variations of this reaction, but they all boil down to the same things:

  • iodide - at the start of the reaction, it'll flip back and forth between iodide (I⁻) and triiodide ([I₃]⁻)
  • starch - it forms a complex with triiodide, with the dark blue colour you see in the video. But only with triiodide; iodide is left alone. So it's effectively an indicator for the triiodide here.
  • some reducing agent - NileRed used vitamin C (aka ascorbic acid; C₆H₈O₆), but it could be something like thiosulphate (S₂O₃²⁻) instead. The job of the reducing agent is to oxidise the triiodide back to iodide.
  • some oxidiser - here it's the hydrogen peroxide (H₂O₂) but it could be something like chlorate (ClO₃⁻) instead. Its main job is to oxidise the iodide to triiodide. You need more than enough oxidiser to be able to fully oxidise the reducing agent, plus a leftover.

"Wait a minute, why are there a reducing agent and an oxidiser, doing opposite things? They should cancel each other out!" - well, yes! However this does not happen instantaneously. And eventually the reducing agent will run dry (as long as there's enough oxidiser), the triiodide will pile up, react with the starch and you'll get the blue colour.

Here are simplified versions of the main reactions:

  1. 3I⁻ + H₂O₂ → [I₃]⁻ + 2OH⁻
  2. [I₃]⁻ + C₆H₈O₆ + 2H₂O → 3I⁻ + C₆H₆O₆ + 2H₃O⁺

(C₆H₆O₆ = dehydroascorbic acid) Eventually #2 stops happening because all vitamin C was consumed, so the triiodide piles up, reacts with the starch, and suddenly blue:

 

EDIT: @mindbleach@sh.itjust.works shared something that might help to circumvent this shit:

Contained in these parentheses is a zero-width joiner: (​)

Basically, add those to whatever you feel that might be filtered out, then remove the parentheses. The content inside the parentheses is invisible, but it screws with regex rules.

 

Changes highlighted in italics:

  1. Instance rules apply.
  2. [New] Be reasonable, constructive, and conductive to discussion.
  3. [Updated] Stay on-topic, specially for more divisive subjects. Avoid unnecessarily mentioning topics and individuals prone to derail the discussion.
  4. [Updated] Post sources whenever reasonable to do so. And when sharing links to paywalled content, provide either a short summary of the content or a freely accessible archive link.
  5. Avoid crack theories and pseudoscientific claims.
  6. Have fun!

What I'm looking for is constructive criticism for those rules. In special for the updated rule #3.

Thank you!

EDIT: feedback seems overwhelmingly positive, so I'm implementing the changes now. Feel free to use this thread for any sort of metadiscussion you want. Thank you all for the feedback!

 

Apparently humpback whale songs show a few features in common with human language; such as being culturally transmitted through social interactions between whales.

"The authors found that whale song showed the same key statistical properties present in all known human languages" - my guess is that the author talks about Zipf's Law, that applies to both phoneme frequency and word frequency in human languages.

[Dr. Garland] "Whale song is not a language; it lacks semantic meaning. It may be more reminiscent of human music, which also has this statistical structure, but lacks the expressive meaning found in language." - so while it is not language yet it's considerably closer to language than we'd expect, specially from non-primates.

 
 

Based on

SVG source for anyone willing to give it a try. Made with Inkscape. The emojis were added as images because Inkscape.

 

Aue, patrue placentae! (Oi, tio do pavê!)

 

It's a 10m papyrus scroll from Herculaneum, one of the cities buried by Vesuvius' volcanic ash in 79 CE. It's fully carbonised but they're using a synchrotron to create a 3D model of the scroll without damaging it. Then they're using AI (pattern recognition AI, perhaps?) to detect signs of ink, so they can reconstruct the text itself.

The project lead Stephen Parson claims that they're confident that they "will be able to read pretty much the whole scroll in its entirety". And so far it seems to be a work of philosophy.

 

The title is a bit clickbaity but the article is interesting. Quick summary:

A new ancient population was recognised, based on genetic data. This population has been called the Caucasus-Lower Volga population, or "CLV". They were from 4500~3500BCE, tech-wise from the Copper Age, and lived in the steppes between the North Caucasus and the Lower Volga. .

About 80% of the Yamnaya population comes from those people; and at least 10% of the ancestry of Bronze Age central Anatolians, where Hittite was spoken, also comes from the CLV population. The hypothesis being raised is that the CLV population was composed of Early Proto-Indo-European speakers (the text calls it "Indo-Anatolian").

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by lvxferre@mander.xyz to c/growthefediverse@slrpnk.net
 

I'm sharing this pic because it might be useful, to advertise Lemmy in Reddit meme communities and the likes. It isn't supposed to be a full info dump, just to spread the word that Lemmy exists and give people some room to ask questions about it.

The copypasta is from @Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com. The meme is from @JokkaJukka@lemmy.world.

Here's the source SVG file in case anyone wants to edit it.


EDIT - @Libb@jlai.lu had a great take on this idea, I need to share it here:

 
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