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Welcome to our virtual third place, The Café.

Come on in and make a new human connection over a cup of coffee (or Teh Tarik). This is a casual community, do whatever you want, share your oyen pics, your frustrations, and even organize a weekend picnic with the community. The world is your oyster.

Rules are simple, be kind and civil with each other. As with any other café, rude patrons will be kicked out.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

car enthusiasts may appreciate this-

just rode in the Nissan Z. despite riding on coilovers and very fat 275 rubbers... the NVH of the Nissan Z is quieter and smoother than most continental cars that i have driven and been in.

I have lusted for a certain B58-powered Toyota for a while now after being strapped in the passenger seat to drift on the track. After experiencing the new Nissan Z, i think i'm sold. And that retro 300ZX-inspired rear with a spoiler, 240Z-inspired roofline, bonnet, bumper is sex man..... looks better IRL than in pictures trust me.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

ayo...i just found out about Lemmy NSFW..... somehow it's more cursed than NSFW subreddits cause you know, the entire instance is NSFW. shame they didn't call it Lemmy Smash

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I think most daily thread regular migrated. Dt has waaay less traffic than before.

And why does lemmy keep asking me to relogin? I wonder if theres some boxes i havent check yet.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

not so long ago, maybe 6-7 years ago, just before GE, the daily thread used to be very deserted lol, double digit almost every single day. This chat thread does remind me of the calmness the old DT provided me, and hopefully many other people.

if you go even further back maybe 7-8 years ago, the entire sub was a desert, you could post very strange questions like What does everyone do for a living, What is everyone's favourite food etc... HAHHA

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was there for 1500 subscriber - there wasn't a daily thread or anything. I ran across the sub before, but i wasn't active or anything. The meme golden era where meme chains can last days or weeks, the 'we are serious sub, no meme' time, the screaming political posts and comments era (no meme and only serious posts make monyets cranky), and then return of the meme (monday)

one of the time the amount of people spiked was during the ODF debate i think. tech people already on reddit finally found their way to r/malaysia even if they ignored it before.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What’s ODF debate? Open document sth? Google’s saying that’s from 2007?

Damn that’s real old… I only joined at around 2015/2016 when it had around 6800 subs. Remember 10000 being a big event. Reddit never appealed to me cause the UI kinda wack.

From there it snowballed, with the two GEs + Sheraton Move being the biggest user magnet.

Maybe monyet.cc can grow if we weather a few of those events haha

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do you get the relogin when opening the site? Or does it ask you to do it every refresh?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

uwu seems like lemmy is gaining more traction. Though mostly are DTs regulars. uwu. Just thought I'd pop in and say happy weekend 🥳

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

today's theme for me is alt frontends and fediverse software:

  1. https://libredirect.github.io/ is a web extension for firefox and chrome that auto-redirects to alt frontends (as an aside, don't you find it interesting that there are redirects for tiktok and bilibili, but none for zuck's networks?)
  2. use https://farside.link/ if you don't want to install anything (so instead of https://reddit.com/r/popular, you modify the url to https://farside.link/reddit.com/r/popular and farside redirects you to a random alt frontend instance)
  3. last but not least, https://fedi.builders/ is a huge list of fediverse software for building a real alternative internet, because alt frontends are more of a stopgap measure, and sooner or later they will be taken down
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Awesome stuff!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

As much as I advocate for sensible, non-emotional investing via passive means, it's hard to ignore:

  1. the bear case where after a yield curve inversion, the stock market usually only crashes after the yield curve uninverts. This has yet to happen, which adds to the suspense, as it's currently very inverted.

  2. the bull case where CPI is noticeably heading back towards the Fed's target of 2% (latest report at 3% y/y). The Fed has already said the last Fed meeting decision was a "skip", implying that a hike is still on the cards for future meetings, however the market has been performing very positively over the past 2 months. Related to the bear case, the yield curve will uninvert once the Fed decides to cut rates instead of hiking. On the technical front, on a higher time frame, the monthly MACD had a bullish crossover for all broad-based equities indices. This could still be a FOMO rally, but so was the last 10 years (as the US market's return was primarily driven by higher PE ratios rather than dividend yields or book value, compared to rest of the world where PE ratios are still relatively tame). For all we know, the Fed might pull off this "soft landing" shenanigan.

Well, I lied. If I just ignored the noise, and emotionlessly and periodically added to my investment portfolio come rain or shine, I would've ended up much better. The odds are in my favour if I just stuck to the plan.

Of course, this only comes up when market is up. Even crypto is up after some extremely favourable news yesterday. When the market is down, "oh syukor tak all-in lagi".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Probably the last comment of the day: @[email protected] can we open NSFW Communities? I'm thinking of malaysia after dark, where people (and their alt accounts, really) can share their hamsap stories, discussions and questions. It wouldn't be a NSFW pics and vids kind of community though. Text only.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Who open it they will have to seed it.

no. not that kind of seed

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's a bit tricky for now since we haven't established the instance-wide etiquette and moderating NSFW content is really really hard, and not easy for the moderator's psyche too.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Great question. We've been talking this out internally and will share a note on this soon!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

cystic acne sucks man... they're all around my chin area. fucking painful.

currently taking doxycycline, was told to be patient and i need at least 3 months to see effect. it's almost month 3 now but it only got worse. visiting parents in my hometown atm and left my acne cream (some antibiotics + topical retinol cocktail) in my apartment.

gonna try bezoyl peroxide later as stop gap solution.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (21 children)

My parents always nudged me to exercise more while saying I can eat whatever I want. But do you guys think exercise or diet is more effective? Or it's a mix of both? Personally I think it's a mix of both, but sometimes I'd get fatter for no reason(even though I was still exercising) then I'd somehow get slimmer for no reason(I wasn't exercising during this period because I was exhausted from work). My diet was pretty much the same.

I really don't understand how my body works.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I think you need a combination of both. As always, fitness is a very diverse subject with everyone being their own experts (and have different experiences cos of variations in...everything) so take this with a grain of salt.

In my mind, I group fitness/dieting activities into 3 major categories:

  1. Eat better- eat less carbs but prevent hunger pangs and binge eating by making sure you replace the lost carbs with other foods like veggies, meat, tofu, eggs. When eating out, the most practical way to do is to eat mixed rice shops. The chinese ones, malay ones, the indian ones, wtv. In my experience, balanced meals usually results in better mood and less cravings for sweets/chips/snacks. That's even better, cos you don't need to expend willpower to stop yourself from stuffing your face with kerepek ubi pedas.

  2. Exercise to build muscle- muscle uses more energy even when idling (when you're sleeping, sitting, watching TV, etc). So building some additional muscle throughout will make you use more energy and draw down some of those fat reserves. A mix of body weight exercises is not difficult, just a bit of many things, consistently. Gradually tone up those muscles.

  3. Exercise to burn calories. Running, swimming, etc. You need to keep your heart rate within a range so either buy a fitness watch or learn to quickly measure you pulse on your neck.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Coming in a bit late but I'll say this: if you want to exercise for fitness, yes please do. But exercise and/or dieting for weight loss is basically... Bunk. Yes there will be (short-term) results but much of the state of evidence in 2023 will tell you that TLDR your body is very good at staying alive and if your weight setpoint is such-and-such, then work with the body you have to give you the fitness that'll give you good long term prospects. Even your own personal experience (at your age) is telling you there's no real meaningful correlation, meaningful as in you can't minmax your way to a solution. General advice about living well seems sound, but nutrition and fitness science literature is showing there's really no standard pathway that you can hack. BBIAB with citations.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

TFW it's TGIF but you work on Saturday.

feelsbadman

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Commenting so I could be the 100th commenter here 😁. Currently at 99 as I am typing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Wtf just happened and how can i missed the train uhuk

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

From just adjusting my parking brake to changing the master pump. No wonder the car locks up so easily, only the front brakes were working, I thought the tires were just shit.

Now my car can actually brake and doesn't move a couple of centimeters when I pull the parking brake.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

did it feel like the car's sliding when braking? and since the rears didn't work the fronts were probably working way harder?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Dude, is this the same issue you talked about months ago? Glad that you had it fixed!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@cendawanita I've been trying out foundkey and akkoma today, and I definitely see why you prefer the interface of the *keys over akkoma (do you know if akkoma inherited its ui from pleroma?)

however, I couldn't get posts from foundkey to federate over to lemmy. hopefully that's caused by a setting that can be changed, and it's not due to the *keys being incompatible with lemmy by default.

anyway, which of the *keys did you say you have experience with? (and how many of them are there? I've seen misskey, calckey, foundkey. anything else you know of?)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

(quite interesting, even though you @ me, i didn't get notif also)

re: akkoma - ya it's a pleroma fork actually. can't quite remember if there was any technical reason for it, it was mostly because the pleroma dev+main instances was infested by nazis and rightwingers and lolis. iirc when i joined in nov 22, that was the "lore" that i picked up.

of the *keys, misskey is the original flavour but the japanese founder dev is apparently a bit of a lone wolf and so the dev for that became quite slow. And I think there was fallout when he, in running the japanese instance for it, wouldn't commit to moderating against homophobic speech or protecting explicit support of lgbtqia. So there was a big break from then on from there. The rest are forks of misskey, but you've pretty much named the major players:

  • foundkey is a fork by this swiss guy. Apparently decent but is by this one guy, so that could be an issue.
  • calckey is by this german guy I think. This one is going to go on relaunch on the 19th with new name etc. Supposedly it's because the fork has branched out enough it's its own thing, but idk. Sounds cool though, another german dude to go toe up against Eugen's Mastodon. I've noticed a lot more on the Black Americans side are beginning to rec Calckey because of all the functionalities you've also noticed (I'm on a walled-up instance for BIPOCs for example, that runs on it). Just because of what I perceive to be real good prospects in terms of userbase and with it development and funding support, I recommend Calckey, and--
  • hajkey (it's swedish for shark, so "hai-ki") - this one also another difference in ideology. The people behind blahaj.zone have been key contributers to the Calckey code repo but they fell out over the growth mindset with the soon-to-be-renamed Calckey so this is a soft fork. So they'll stay within the calckey development cycle. (but who knows how soft it would be; one issue i'm sort of understanding is how resource intensive it can be as an instance grows, especially on the antenna function - btw, my favourite fedi function when it comes to scouting posts from other people.) My kitajagakita alt is one awkward.company, that one runs on this software.

re: federation - the problem is normative centralization - mastodon is the main dog especially in the western and western-facing userbase, so lemmy and *keys and *oma devs do try to make sure the federation works well there. But Lemmy is already a little janky, and maybe that's why it doesn't really play well with the foundkey yet (esp if the fk dev has enough on his plate). try setting up on an instance on calckey (not the main one, they're having continual performance issues) or hajkey and see if there's any improvement from last month (even kbin wasn't federating well with calckey).

LONG POST IS LONG

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Wow, that's a lot to digest

Do you happen to be a comp Sci graduate? Coz you sound like it ahah

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