WanderingVentra

joined 2 years ago
[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

People who wanted kids to run would've just kept voting Biden or Kamala. They were killing plenty of them. Don't think Trump has even reached those numbers yet, although in his defense, he hasn't been in office as long.

[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I voted Kamala, but I still understood why people didn't. I saw it coming a mile away, while people like you plugged your ears and would rather ignore it. I was trying to save her campaign.

[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 4 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

Liberals care more about the golf resort than the genocide.

[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Oh nice! Thanks!

[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

Is yours one? I saw other people suggest Lemmy.zip, mander I think is one, and lemdr.oid or something like that.

The problem is that they tend to be smaller, which means harder to find.

[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago (4 children)

The US did a genocide on the Native Americans, even after being a democracy.

[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 33 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

This suuuucks. We need another big, general instance that doesn't defed everyone. But I get it, being an admin sounds like a lot of work or I would do it lol. Plus I don't have place for a server around here. Or do most admins just buy space from the cloud?

[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Reminds me of that great joke -

A KGB agent and CIA agent meet up in a bar."I have to admit, I'm always so impressed by Soviet propaganda. You really know how to get people worked up," the CIA agent says.

"Thank you," the KGB says. "We do our best but truly, it's nothing compared to American propaganda. Your people believe everything your state media tells them."

The CIA agent drops his drink in shock and disgust. "Thank you friend, but you must be confused... There's no propaganda in America."

Over analysis caveat of the jokeOf course it's not state media directly in the states, but the same billionaires who own the state own the media, so it turns out all to be the same thing in the end.

[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Holy shit actual media criticism and analysis on North Korea. Never thought I'd see this day.

The little clip with the meta-commentary on news stories commenting about them was hilarious yet insightful, so I definitely have to watch the full documentary they're referencing (EDIT: especially if it's just the 20 minute video you linked. That's the full video? I thought I heard the word documentary so thought it would be longer).

 

Any Marvel Rivals players on Lemmy? I didn't see a community so I'll just ask here. How are you supposed to play the Hulk?

People say Hulk is OP, so I feel like I should learn to play him as a vanguard, but I have a feeling it's just because of his team-ups. Every time I jump in with this guy I just immediately get hit with a bunch of damage and CC by their whole team, have to shield, then jump out, then wait to get healed before jumping in again. I feel like I'm not holding any space or doing anything with this guy. Venom feels like a more workable version of him.

[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Just saw Sinners and loved it! Anyone know a good way to search old movie specific discussion threads so I can see what other people on Lemmy had to say about it?

[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Ah see, there's the problem. I don't think it's like Newton's Theory of Gravitation. The rate of profit to fall isn't some ironclad law that's applicable in all cases 100% of the time. Cowbee already conceded various ways it could not be true (lack of competition such as through monopoly, exploitation of workers, globalization and imperialism, cartels, trusts, etc).

It seems to describe the natural tendency of a system-wide phenomenon (assuming increasing automation and existing competition in capitalism but nothing really else), so you'd have to consider a macro view of the entire system over a long period of time for it to work. It's like how you can't say one section of the world has been getting colder or staying the same for a couple years and thus climate change has been debunked, as you not only need to look at the whole planet but then the next couple decades as well.

So the next company has a brief increase in rate of profit, but then taking a more extended look at the system, everyone will probably switch suppliers to the cheaper wood and someone is going to lower their prices, forcing everyone else to (barring one of the scenarios above).

[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

You can probably counter climate change temporarily, too. For example, dumping increasingly larger ice cubes in the ocean every year.

But ya, the analogy isn't completely one to one, it was just another good example of a a high level system-wide tendency that must be examined over a whole system and over a longer period of time that I thought most people reading would be familiar with.

 

Been out of the piracy scene for a bit, maybe about 6 months to a year, as I basically have been good with the streaming services I already sign up for. But this past week I've rebuilt my setup (my mini server died), and tested it by trying to torrent something yesterday just to make sure I still can, and I noticed Torrent Galaxy was down. Then I saw some articles that it's been down a lot lately. Does anyone know what's going on? Or was it fine and it was just something on my side, like a DNS issue?

I hope it's fine because that was the best public tracker I knew. For example, the show I was looking for to test my setup with couldn't be found on 1337x (TPB ended up coming through but I don't trust that site as much as I used to). Are they really cracking down on public tracker indexes right now? Have any good alternatives popped up yet? Is there anything we as a community can do to get around or resist these efforts?

I'm not even a diehard pirate, I like the efficiency and user friendliness of paid services or products, I just like it to be an option when I want to punish companies for customer unfriendliness (ex: I stopped paying for Netflix when they prevented sharing outside of household), and without public trackers the hobby feels too niche and exclusive.

 

I'm pretty new to Python because I haven't used it much for many projects over the years, but i decided to use it to make a web app recently with flask to practice. It calls a simple python program that does some file conversion. There's no database.

I'm hosting it on Python Anywhere for free right now. It's for an old TTRPG, so useful for a niche community, but probably not big enough to be worth hosting fees. Just in case, I'd also like to be able to keep an installer on my github or a Dropbox. The hope is others can still grab it, spread it, and install it long after I've lost interest or gotten hit by a bus.

From my googling, I see 3 main options:

  • Path 1: Keep the basic structure of a web app and use one of the frameworks that let me run it in a computer's browser offline.
    • The options here seem to be Flaskwebgui, Electron, or NW.js.
    • This seems the simplest and most straightforward way.
    • Web GUI is ubiquitous nowadays.
    • Part of me also doesn't like that everything has become a web app. I don't even know why. Maybe I don't like the idea of Google controlling everything.
  • Path 2: Keep the basic backend logic but rewrite the web GUI with a desktop GUI, making it more of a true native desktop app.
    • The options here seem to involve using pyinstaller and then some python GUI library/framework like Tkinter, PyQt, PySide, or Dearpygui.
    • I feel this will be slightly more work but it's a super simple UI so remaking it isn't a huge deal.
    • My instincts tell me the end result might be faster, since it won't have to deal with a browser middleman or web routes and such. But, I might be wrong, it might just be my old-ass not used to everything being an electron app nowadays.
    • Might also be more self-contained from carrying it's own libraries and not relying on browser compatibility? Idk.
    • Probably more OS dependent, though. Not sure how easy it is to make it work with PC, Mac, and Linux users.
  • Path 3: There seems to be some way to combine flask and pyinstaller so sounds like a combination of the two is an option, too. Haven't looked into this too much though since most of my search results talked about the above two paths.

So which way is best? And which framework/library/tool in that path?

 

So far, public trackers have been working fine for me, but think I've finally run into some niche shows that have been hard to find or only been able to find individual episodes instead of a single collected season torrent. (Nothing too special, just some baking shows.)

I'm wondering if it's finally time to look into private trackers or Usenet.

If you use them, what did it take for you to finally look into these more time or effort intensive piracy options?

A movie you wanted to see that was too old to be seeded on public trackers? TV shows too old or niche? A game, an obscure music artist? Something else? Was it just curiosity? Or something you did immediately upon getting into piracy? I'm just curious myself lol.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/48643729

Has anyone seen any particularly good deals for NAS's, storage or memory, mini computers, things like that, for this Black Friday / Cyber Monday season?

 

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/48643729

Has anyone seen any particularly good deals for NAS's, storage or memory, mini computers, things like that, for this Black Friday / Cyber Monday season?

 

Has anyone seen any particularly good deals for NAS's, storage or memory, mini computers, things like that, for this Black Friday / Cyber Monday season?

 

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/44904749

I heard about this in the UK elections recently, and someone recommended it to me recently for the US elections, because I said I empathize with the people who are voting against Kamala because of the genocide, despite being a Kamala supporter myself (you've probably seen me around arguing as such lol).

Basically, it's a system where people in safe states, like me, agree to trade votes with someone in a swing state. So the safe state person would vote with the heart of the person in the swing state, so they can kind of vote their heart and mind at the same time.

Is this a thing we could set up? Would it be legal to make a community for that, or would it rub against laws about affecting votes or something? There was even a whole site for the UK, but not sure if it would work in the US.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/42813294

Hey Lemmy,

What are your favorite horror movies from Blumhouse?

I went to Universal Studio's Halloween Horror Nights this year and they had the whole tram Blumhouse themed. I liked to watch horror movies during this spooky season, so i think catching up on some of these ones seems like a good place to start this year.

 

What I think I know : They tried to take a picture at Arlington National Cemetery, but couldn't? There was a physical altercation maybe? But the Trump campaign said there wasn't?

Is there more to this? Can someone explain to me the context of how this is a scandal?

Like I hate Trump but I don't understand why this is a big deal. It doesn't seem to involve the man personally, just some staffers who had an argument with a cemetery worker, and seems like small potatoes compared to other scandals he's had. Is it because of how sacred the cemetary is, or did they get into an actual fist fight, or did Trump personally interfere in some way?

 
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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by WanderingVentra@lemm.ee to c/fedigrow@lemm.ee
 

I'd love a Nature is Fucking Lit community over here on Lemmy. I just saw the cutest post on Reddit there and I'd love to spread it or see it over here. (I look at reddit without a profile while at my work computer sometimes, don't judge me lol).

Think I should post it to the lemmy.world one to revive that one? Looks like that hasn't been active in a few months.

I also wonder if it's better to use this opportunity when it's possibly dead to revive the community somewhere else? Like maybe mander.xyz since nature is connected to science or something? Or maybe the solar punk instance? Is there a better place someone can think of or should we stick to the Lemmy.world one?

What do people think?

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