GET IT!

Horse tranquilizers?

Been a while since I’ve watched it but Kids (1995) might qualify as fitting the category (not sure if it’d be a “best” though).

It looks delicious. Like some frosted cinnamon cereal or doughnut hole.

Sticking my neck out a bit to share my general views and habits on voting to maybe add some other things to consider.

My general mindset is that each community sets rules on posts and comments, and that ideally only appropriate things should then be posted. So I typically only think to upvote stuff when there’s an even greater than normal amount of effort or thought put into something, or to counteract dogpile downvotes to an appropriate post/comment.

Say I’m browsing a motorcycle community and one user posts a meme about bikes, and someone else poses a story about learning to ride; if my preference is for text posts instead of images I could just upvote the story post and not the meme, but both posts are related to the community and belong there. I could upvote both (and by extension all posts) but then what’s the difference if everything is +1 or +0? If memes are disallowed, I can downvote and report the post to push it down to hopefully keep others from having to see it or encourage them to post their own.

I will also downvote nearly 100% of extremely low-effort pointless comments like “THIS”, “lol”, URL shortened or amp/tracking including links without context etc. A post in another language but marked as English I will also downvote, foreign language communities/instances I just block. I block most meme and shitpost style communities so I’m not looking to vote police what other people enjoy, but doing this stuff in science/news/hobby/etc. communities is inappropriate.

So that’s generally how I behave on Lemmy (and previously on Reddit) - I’m generally more “on the lookout” for bad content, and not looking to boost things that belong here. I don’t rely on voting to maintain my feed, my block lists are also enormous.

A more semi-recent phenomenon is accounts spam posting a bunch of (relevant) links and then self-deleting - I can’t block that account to hide their posts, but as I’m scrolling through my feed I will downvote every single post they made regardless of its quality etc. I’m not going to rehash arguments about whether their behavior is acceptable or not (“they are posting relevant stuff, who cares if they’re acting in bad faith!”) but since there’s generally 2-3 of those accounts per day spam posting junk that’s a lot of downvotes from me to a lot of different communities including some I’m not subscribed to. I’m not going to bother reporting every single post, and until there’s a method to easily directly report a user I’m not going to bother trying that anymore.

Just wanted to put that out there that there might be other legitimate users that have wildly disproportionate voting numbers and that it might not be malicious or careless in nature. I don’t know if Lemmy ignores them like Reddit (supposedly?) does, but I’ve never mass voted from a user’s history. It’s only from comments and posts that were presented to me during my normal browsing.

Probably Fundamental attribution error. Basically, that we judge others by their actions but ourselves by our intentions.

Relevant Donnie Darko on Smurfs scene. (NSFW subject/language)

https://archive.ph/fTy43

Happy to help! Thanks for the initial pointer to the site.

Some more info about Flock cameras and their multitude of vulnerabilities and dangers are covered in some YouTube videos by Benn Jordan:

• Breaking The Creepy AI in Police Cameras (2025-08-26)
• We Hacked Flock Safety Cameras in under 30 Seconds. (2025-11-16)

Maybe it’s just me, but all the links on that page seem to point to a different zine (“Red flags: Before you join that org”) than one about Flock. I tried a few likely URL substitutions but couldn’t find the intended PDF.

EDIT: Just clicked the publisher username and found it has correct links: https://unsalted.noblogs.org/post/2025/03/27/new-zine-birds-of-a-feather-destroy-a-flock-together/

I hope Mamdani has adequate security because my first reaction to this is that it’s an attempt at plausible deniability for when some “unfortunate accident” befalls him. The emphasis on there not being a difference in parties, and how much they’re all rooting for him, could be parlayed into encouraging everyone to just accept a republican replacement since our goals are totally in alignment, but clearly the democrats just can’t take care of their own people or the citizens they represent.

Any other president and administration I’d take the comments as either sincere or just friendly empty platitudes, but this group doesn’t do anything seemingly human without ulterior motives.

In 20 years the only people who will remember you worked late will be your kids.
Your job posting will be up before your obituary.

I will probably check it out, but the Steam reviews give the impression it’s really short and lacking in replayability so I’m not very hopeful it’ll scratch the same itch. Thanks for the suggestion though :)

I had only played the first 2 Katamari games (and then recently replayed the “Reroll” versions on PC) and was really looking forward to the newest Once Upon a Katamari. Unfortunately, I mostly hate the newest game and since instead of addressing any of the common complaints - like uneven level distribution, severely cluttered UI in levels, wonky physics compared to previous titles - the only developer announcements are for 2 more paid DLCs that are basically just music packs.

So, I’d also love some Katamari-like games if the official series is going to be handled so poorly and as frustrating to play.

I hope in some fashion computers and related technology drop out of mainstream appeal and are relegated to actual nerds and tinkerers again. Not in a gatekeeping sense, but just where the goals are about pushing boundaries for the sake of exploration and not solely profit and personal data acquisition motivated.

Even aside from the soap opera-like conversation, the timestamps seem pretty suspect to me. Even assuming STT input it seems unlikely both sides (especially with one being ostensibly emotionally distraught) would be reading and responding within a minute each time.

as my system chases it’s tale in a silicon frenzy

Nice proofreading, Lazlow J.

I’m just a bit too young to have been part of the BBS scene, but I’ve certainly done plenty of Windows re-installs. I had a friend that would wipe his Windows 98SE drive every two weeks or so, whether or not there was any instability. I recently stumbled across an old backup of some screenshots and found one where I was apparently proud of the 31 day system uptime. Best part of the transition to NT based Windows was definitely the near complete elimination of BSoDs. Kinda blocked out the bad memories of random lockups and blue screens just being an expected part of daily computing life.

fdisk, format, reinstall
doo-dah, doo-dah

To be somewhat close to on-topic with self-hosting, the oldest service I have fond memories of running was a small Hotline server.

He didn’t insist on a Steam Resonance Imaging test instead?

A new day, a new cm0002 account to add to the block list (this one marks #25). I really hope the next Lemmy update includes wildcard filters or something.