I can’t stand looking at Lemmy without Voyager.

Yeah, I use eternity and I’m grateful for the theme settings.

Also for godsake why isn’t swipe left for the next post a standard thing on these applications.

I tried all of the apps on the google playstore before reaching the last in the list, eternity which had a setting for swiping left for the next post.

That said the lack of advertisements is refreshing as is the horrifically bad “AI” moderating system that is so prevalent on reddit.

The fact that you, a human, asked this question, and got a variety of human replies is why I would say no.

Well they are on the fediverse/lemmy. It’s not dead, yet, simply because there aren’t enough users to create a RoI for bot/karma farming in order to push advertising and disinformation to the top.

I recently saw an internal report estimating that dark fibre in a particular country needed to increase several hundred percent in order to meet the demand from data centre and large facilities transmission needs.

Much of this being built for the AI bubble boom. When the next generation of DC come online the cost of per bot will continue to tumble to the point where it won’t cost much to turn even Lemmy into a bot ridden wasteland.

How would you know if you updated?

My notepad++ is on 8.9.1 and I have no idea how it’s on that ver (ninite I think is where I sourced it…maybe it’s auto updating?)

I regularly open CSVs in the range of 500MB to 2GB in notepad++ without any problem…

I mean film is a family hobby. My dad spent forever building his dream sound system,

Sounds like my mother. She was a film maker, worked on a lot of big films.

So upset she decided to get rid of 60 years of speakers and gear to the local hifi shop instead of her son (and we were by no means estranged or with some weird broken relationship ie I’m leaching off of her).

Just discovered it was all gone when I spent 3 months watching her die (too late for recriminations when the cancer has adled their brain).

and I built my “fuck yeah it works” system out of his discards (I have to recognize hardly anyone falls into great sound systems the way I did but by crab god, I’m a musician if I’m going to treat anything it’s my ears). I got a decent working 5.1 system of 25 years old cones and tweeters,

Yup. Took her speaker shopping and had to watch her grimace cause all I could afford was some shitty Yamaha kit. Thanks Ma. You could have given your son something out of your vast dragons hoard. Maybe the Tanoy studio monitors that you had sitting in the spare room???

just spent some money a few years back to buy a severely outdated receiver because the one I had (have technically. still gotta clean it up and take down to the relic shoppe) was made before hdmi and was having difficulty communicating with modern devices over optical audio.

Got her outdated circa 2000, albeit, $3k Yamaha receiver because she had it as her editing den system (and she passed before she could break the room down).

We had goddam electrostatic speakers, 1 metre wide for godsake. I thought I’d be passing them down to my son and so on. But noooo she had to sell them along with the valve amps and solid state amps she built.

Sigh.

Goddam parents.

Reddit has had something like it for a while. I can’t remember the sub’s name but it was hilarious.

But what is good about this is you can actually get a good feel for what are are bots, not just in lemmy but across the net.

I think the following is clear

• Epstein was a pimp
• he procured children and women to be used in awful, highly illegal acts
• he recorded these acts, using the information to extort and blackmail the rich into various schemes and scams, not to mention for information
• this explains how his net worth / wealth jumped several times, especially when he was young and somehow made millions with no clear explanation, at the time, as to where he got the money from.
• we have a huge amount of information from the victims that he used girls as currency
• considering the circles that Epstein, the people he was involved in, including heads of state, former heads of state, politicians, factional powerbrokers, scientists, actors, celebrities and a multitude of oligarchs.

These are the circles intelligence agencies walk in. But who he was involved with is probably gonna be harder to work out.

What about Murena? I wonder if it can defeat Pegasus’s hacks.

That said if I was going to criticise a violent regime like the House of Saud I’d be using a burner phone, and not accepting random messages.

The Pegasus hack reportedly uses an exploit in imessage to execute unauthorised code.

Then don’t watch a video captured by a phone

Although the show is pissing me off its clear that Tim Cain, Leonard Boyarsky, Jason Anderson, Chris Taylor, Mark O’Green, Scott Bennie and Christopher Taylor from Fallout 1 definitely did get somethings right ie the US trying to invade Canada.

Standard US playbook. Find lackeys who want to destabilise and split a country and fund their coup.

Currently there is no movement, just a national level reaction. A movement requires leadership, a significant level of coordination and mobilization, very specific set of demands and goals, and an underlying message/philosophy that is backed by the general public. We currently have non of this.

Which is why I’m so pissed at the democrats and not just the liberal right wing corpo ones but in particular AOC, Bernie and the other members of the progressive arm. They should be leading a general fucking strike.

And not just them but those adjacent to the party ie Jon Stewart, Colbert and Steph (and all the rest of the YouTube / social media sphere talking heads). Not only have they made incredibly lucrative careers attacking Trump, speaking truth to the insanity of the last ten years (because even under Biden it was always still about Trump), making it clear trunp is a clear and present danger to all.

I’m sick of their never ending jokes and serious moments.

A call to fucking action is required. The world is watching whilst you say your pretty, empty, words.

The time is now.

The idea any manufacture or system integrator would be around in 25 years makes solar panel warranties worthless anyway.