fieldhockey44

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[–] fieldhockey44 3 points 1 year ago
[–] fieldhockey44 13 points 1 year ago

Check out the book Redshirts by John Scalzi. It’s a meta-satire of Star Trek about what would happen if the redshirts started noticing that anyone who goes on a mission with the captain ends up dying. One of the funniest books I’ve read. As a bonus, the audiobook is narrated by Wil Wheaton.

[–] fieldhockey44 4 points 1 year ago

Aww it’s like a bunny wallaby

[–] fieldhockey44 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What sort of description did you use to get this image? Was it just one prompt or a bunch of refining?

[–] fieldhockey44 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That’s awesome. How much instruction do you have to give it to be close enough to what you remember?

[–] fieldhockey44 1 points 1 year ago

They may not care so much about that since they don’t make any ad revenue from those subreddits

[–] fieldhockey44 31 points 1 year ago

It’s a frustrating growing pain but I’m glad he’s working on a fix now rather than waiting until the instance gets overwhelmed

[–] fieldhockey44 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I wonder if they’ll start with the founding of Baghdad proper in the 700s or if they’ll go all the way back to Mesopotamia and Babylon. The article says it focuses of mainly the Abbasid Caliphate in the ninth century but it would be a shame not to include at least something from the cradle of civilization.

[–] fieldhockey44 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What a fascinating project. I’m of two minds about using the storyboard sketch style for the reconstructed content.

On one hand, the footage is lost, and nothing anyone does will be original, so we shouldn’t try to disguise the truth and try to mimic the real footage with the reconstructed segments. Let the original pieces shine and be honest about what has been filled in.

On the other hand, this is something where the use of deepfake technology or incredibly high quality CGI and audio recreation could be a real benefit, so the audience could be immersed in the story without being distracted by the reconstructed content.

It goes both ways. Do you do your best to show the original content and fill in with just enough to keep the story together, or do you try to truly recreate the lost content even though it will never be exactly what they originally created? Do you supplement or replace?

[–] fieldhockey44 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait, how is teddit working without the API?

 

I tried visiting r/pics to see the fallout of its new NSFW status and was blocked by this message.

 

I tried visiting r/pics (which was recently marked NSFW in a protest of malicious compliance) and was blocked by this message. Sorry if it’s already been posted- I can’t figure out search too well.

[–] fieldhockey44 3 points 1 year ago

Two likely possibilities with further detail about each below:

  1. The link you clicked took you to the community on the host instance rather than the copy on your local instance, or

  2. The community is on an instance that’s defederated with your home instance.

When you view and interact with communities and content hosted on another server, you’re technically interacting with a copy of that community/content that’s hosted on your home server and kept in sync with the main copy. So if I want to subscribe to /c/technology hosted on lemmy.world even though my home instance is sh.itjust.works, I need to visit the copy on shitjustworks at sh.itjust.works/c/[email protected]

If I went to lemmy.world/c/technology, I couldn’t interact because I don’t have an account on the lemmy.world site.

As I said above, communities and content are copied between Lemmy instances and kept in sync across the copies. But sometimes an instance will ‘defederate’ with another, ie cutting the direct connection between them that lets them copy and sync content. In that case, there’s no local copy for me to subscribe to or interact with.

The incorrect link is far more likely to be the issue than defederation, so whenever you run into that issue check the link and make sure it’s the copy on your instance.

[–] fieldhockey44 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I tried creating an account on lemmy.world at first and could never get it to load correctly. Try joining another instance - lemmy.world is probably overloaded.

Edit: use lemmyverse.net to look through the available instances, their rules, and their uptime stats.

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