GreatAlbatross

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[–] GreatAlbatross 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Pissed off farmers are often ludicrously strong, and well, pissed off.

[–] GreatAlbatross 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ever since seeing the SoA level in Sonic Racing Transformed, I've been curious what the game that inspired it was like.

[–] GreatAlbatross 4 points 1 month ago

Most mid-range and above OLEDs do.

[–] GreatAlbatross 17 points 1 month ago
[–] GreatAlbatross 10 points 1 month ago

If it cuts down on the absolute cunts who tool around town on loud quads, I'm all for it.
Just make sure they're taxed and insured.

[–] GreatAlbatross 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

"Diddja laak tha'?"

[–] GreatAlbatross 57 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I had someone arrive at a BBQ, saw me frying some onions, and ask "Are you going to caramelise those onions?"

Yes mate. The onions I'm frying for a few minutes while the burgers cook, gonna be nice and caramelised in seconds, just you watch.

[–] GreatAlbatross 45 points 1 month ago

He was made sticky by vicky.

[–] GreatAlbatross 4 points 1 month ago

I think for a lot of people, DVDs hit the spot in the same way CDs did: Quality that was good enough to never think about again.

Glossing over how CDs are at the limit of human hearing, and DVD isn't close to the limit of vision, imagine the average person with a £300 TV across the room, using TV speakers, and maybe not wearing their glasses.
For them there isn't that much difference getting a BD/UHD, other than occasionally noticing the 25/24hz speed up.

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by GreatAlbatross to c/backend
 

This shouldn't take long, hopefully this will clear a few of the cobwebs from last week's upgrades.

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by GreatAlbatross to c/feddituk
 

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/13627155

We're going to try to make the leap forward today. There will be some downtime while we attempt to do this. Rollback will be around 3pm if things are not working as expected.

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by GreatAlbatross to c/backend
 

We're going to try to make the leap forward today. There will be some downtime while we attempt to do this. Rollback will be around 3pm if things are not working as expected.

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19.4 upgrade (self.feddituk)
submitted 5 months ago by GreatAlbatross to c/feddituk
 

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/13242302

Hello, I'm hoping to take the instance to 19.4 in the near future.
Before doing this, I need to take pictrs up a few versions.
This will take a while, so while 19.4 is in the works, it won't happen for a week or so.

Cheers, GA.

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19.4 upgrade (self.backend)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by GreatAlbatross to c/backend
 

Hello, I'm hoping to take the instance to 19.4 in the near future.
Before doing this, I need to take pictrs up a few versions.
This will take a while, so while 19.4 is in the works, it won't happen for a week or so.

Major changes in 19.4 (It's a big-un, and should bring a fair few useful improvements): https://join-lemmy.org/news/2024-06-07_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.19.4_-_Image_Proxying_and_Federation_improvements

If there are any things in this list you're curious about whether we'll be implementing, ask away.

Cheers, GA.

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by GreatAlbatross to c/feddituk
 

I felt this might be worth the community discussing.
Happy for people both on and off-instance to weigh in, though it is about this instance's interaction.

It's made doubly fun by the fact that the main owners of the lemmy project are admins on there. (If I understand correctly)

Title was brought over during the cross post.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/16246531

I feel like we need to talk about Lemmy's massive tankie censorship problem. A lot of popular lemmy communities are hosted on lemmy.ml. It's been well known for a while that the admins/mods of that instance have, let's say, rather extremist and onesided political views. In short, they're what's colloquially referred to as tankies. This wouldn't be much of an issue if they didn't regularly abuse their admin/mod status to censor and silence people who dissent with their political beliefs and for example, post things critical of China, Russia, the USSR, socialism, ...

As an example, there was a thread today about the anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre. When I was reading it, there were mostly posts critical of China in the thread and some whataboutist/denialist replies critical of the USA and the west. In terms of votes, the posts critical of China were definitely getting the most support.

I posted a comment in this thread linking to "https://archive.ph/2020.07.12-074312/https://imgur.com/a/AIIbbPs" (WARNING: graphical content), which describes aspects of the atrocities that aren't widely known even in the West, and supporting evidence. My comment was promptly removed for violating the "Be nice and civil" rule. When I looked back at the thread, I noticed that all posts critical of China had been removed while the whataboutist and denialist comments were left in place.

This is what the modlog of the instance looks like:

Definitely a trend there wouldn't you say?

When I called them out on their one sided censorship, with a screenshot of the modlog above, I promptly received a community ban on all communities on lemmy.ml that I had ever participated in.

Proof:

So many of you will now probably think something like: "So what, it's the fediverse, you can use another instance."

The problem with this reasoning is that many of the popular communities are actually on lemmy.ml, and they're not so easy to replace. I mean, in terms of content and engagement lemmy is already a pretty small place as it is. So it's rather pointless sitting for example in /c/linux@some.random.other.instance.world where there's nobody to discuss anything with.

I'm not sure if there's a solution here, but I'd like to urge people to avoid lemmy.ml hosted communities in favor of communities on more reasonable instances.

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