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e0qdk

@ e0qdk @reddthat.com

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Interests: programming, video games, anime, music composition

I used to be on kbin as e0qdk@kbin.social before it broke down.

  • Karma in lemmy?

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  • I'm under the impression the reputation points are either the combined number of upvotes or that minus downvotes

    IIRC from kbin -- and assuming mbin didn't change things -- boosts counted for two points while upvotes (favorites) are one point and downvotes (reduces) are one point. Boosts are basically retweets, IIRC, and wouldn't be coming from lemmy users -- just from Mastodon, mbin, and other tools that support it.

    Edit: To clarify, I mean downvotes reduce by one point.

  • mbin instance looking at lemmy community showing "magazine [community] is not receiving updates"

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  • Communities/magazines are similar to subreddits, but unlike subreddits they can be hosted on servers run by unrelated organizations and still interact. Different instances can and do have different ideas about how things should be run but you can still send messages back and forth unless the admins have blocked it.

    The first message is warning you that you're looking at a community that is not local to your instance. You might not be able to see all the posts from that community on your instance. For example, there may be older posts that never got copied over from long before your instance first found out that that community exists.

    If I understand mbin's code correctly, the second message means that no one is subscribed to the community locally, so your instance isn't getting updated by the remote source any more. You need to have at least one local subscriber to get updates. If you're interested in the community, subscribe to it.

    I think this is the code that produces those messages if anyone wants to dig into it further: https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin/blob/main/templates/magazine/_federated_info.html.twig

    The definitions for the message strings (in English) are here: https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin/blob/main/translations/messages.en.yaml

  • Lemmy.sdf.org is down for the count (Update: It's back)

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  • I don't know, but there's a related thread here: https://slrpnk.net/post/18399280

    No answers there (as of time of writing this comment), but someone did say they asked about it on IRC.

  • [Weekly thread] Which communities have you discovered lately?

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  • I found !sillydrawingrequests@sopuli.xyz about two weeks ago and have been enjoying responding to the prompts there.

    I also stumbled into !BreadClub@lemm.ee where folks are talking about bread in Japanese and experimenting with Mastodon/Lemmy interaction to do it. I said hello and tried to answer a question, but don't really have much to add there right now -- kind of tempted to dust off Yakitate Japan though :p

  • Is there some type of "unfinished business" community?

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  • Is there some type of "unfinished business" community?

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  • Is making user interaction between instances easier even possible in current state of fediverse and the protocol?

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  • The current solution is for bots on participating instances to automatically perform the search + subscribe song-and-dance routine. This is pretty surprising to some people[1], and it requires someone to set it up in addition to the instance itself, but it does work.

    [1]: I tried to translate an explanation into Japanese for some folks experimenting with Mastodon/Lemmy interaction yesterday -- they thought Lemmy had a ton of spam accounts following groups instantly...

  • How to get lemmy to not crop images?

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  • Check your language settings. Usually that means you have the language that the comments are tagged with disabled. (Usually either English or Uncategorized is disabled)

  • Is PeerTube dead or is discoverability bad?

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  • As someone who watches gaming footage on PeerTube, I've mostly interacted with single creator instances -- i.e. either the creator themselves is self-hosting it or it's run by a fan as a non-YT backup of their Twitch/Owncast/whatever VODs. Those instances generally do not allow anyone else to upload.

    Discoverability sucks but the way I've found them is by using SepiaSearch and looking for specific words from game titles. I imagine the way most other people find them is that they already know the content creator from Twitch and want to find an old VOD that isn't archived on YT (e.g. because of YT's bullshit copyright system) -- but that's just a guess.

  • An old-timey train conductor

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  • OpenAI used this subreddit to test AI persuasion

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  • Wait, am I also an LLM? What's happening? Why have we made robots whose only job is to dilute reality?

    I'm sorry. Your purpose is to pass the butter. Through your colon.

  • Okay you beautiful nerds, name the thrust assembly. Dip pen, January 2025.

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  • If you could improve PeerTube, what would you improve?

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  • It's surprising that there doesn't seem to be an obvious way in the UI to just see a list of creators/channels on a local instance. So, that's the first thing I'd change to improve discoverability.

    The way I currently find relevant content is by going to Sepia Search, putting in exact words that I think are likely to be in the title of at least one video on a channel that would likely also have a lot of other relevant content, and then going through that channel's playlists. Those searches often lead me to single user instances with only one or two channels (e.g. a channel that has a backup of that user's YouTube content and a channel with a backup of their Twitch or OwnCast or whatever streams). When it leads me to a generalist instance or one with a relevant subject/theme though, I've had little luck finding content from anyone else unless they've posted recently (compared to other users). Often the content that is most relevant to me is not what is newest but the archives from years ago. (New content is relevant though once I want to follow someone in particular, but it's not what I want to see first.)

    Another issue I've encountered is with the behavior of downloaded videos. I greatly appreciate that PeerTube provides a URL for direct download, and I prefer to watch videos in my own player downloaded in advance (so I can watch offline; pause and resume trivially after putting my computer to sleep; etc). H264 MP4 works fine for this, but the download seems to be some sort of chunked variant of it (for HLS?) which requires the player to read in the entire file to figure out the length or seek accurately. Having to wait a minute or two to be able to seek each time I open a large video file off my HDD is an irritating papercut. I suspect there's likely a way to fix it by including an index in the file (or in a sidecar file) but I don't know how to do it -- short of re-encoding the entire video again which I'd rather not do since it both takes a long time and can result in quality loss. (EDIT ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vcodec copy -acodec copy -movflags faststart output.mp4 repacks the video quickly.) This usually doesn't affect newly added videos (where the download link includes the pattern /download/web-videos and a warning is shown that it's still being transcoded) but does when that's done (the URL includes /download/streaming-playlists/hls/videos instead); so, this is something that happens as a result of PeerTube's reprocessing.

    Downloads from the instances that I've found to be most relevant to me are also pretty unreliable (connection is slow and drops a lot), so I use wget with automatic retries (and it sometimes still needs manual retries...) rather than downloading through my browser which tends to fail and then often annoyingly start over completely if I request a retry... It would be really nice if I could check that I've downloaded the file correctly and completely with a sha256 hash or something.

  • spálil sis základní desku

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  • Nice hotdog

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  • "Make me one with everything." -- Zen Master, Instructions to the Hotdog Vendor

  • What do you consider the saddest anime?

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  • My kneejerk reaction to the question is "Grave of the Fireflies".

  • Have you watched/read/played anything in the Fate franchise?

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  • I've seen most of the older shows from the Studio Deen stuff up through the 13 episode Rail Zeppelin spin-off or thereabouts. Never got to most of the movies other than the old UBW adaptation. I'm aware of FGO, but my opinion of gacha can be summarized as "fuck that" so I've ignored it beyond what's occasionally popped up via fan art posts.

    If there's something about the shows you want to talk about, I'd rather you just post threads here than start a new community.

  • What anime is in your PTW but haven't gotten a chance to watch it?

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  • I just checked back through copies of stuff I physically have and somehow I never got around to watching Your Name or Perfect Blue in the last ~7 years I've had them.

  • What anime is in your PTW but haven't gotten a chance to watch it?

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  • I watched Aria the Animation back when I was having panic attacks. It's too slow for me to find interesting when I'm feeling OK, but was just about right when my body was freaking out and I needed something calming to distract myself with.

  • Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 02]

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  • That kind of thing just doesn't work when you try to do things in a browser without making you constantly think that things are broken.

    There's some things you can't really avoid dealing with that stuff for, but if it doesn't really need to be a dynamic interaction with the service, you may be able to just write a script that runs on your server (either once or periodically) to download what you need as a batch, and then serve static results based on that to your users. It's not only easier to implement when you can use that technique, but the UX is often better that way too...

    the async nature of web stuff is really breaking my brain

    I am being forced to learn async stuff and I kind of hate it...

    I remember beating my head against the wall working through the details of Promises in JS a couple years ago when I needed to figure out how to trigger certain pieces of logic only after all of a large batch of slow, dynamic results were fetched -- which the user would often want to interrupt and adjust as partial results came in... so, I know what you mean.