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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • All those folks in the 50+ age group that grew up with “Russia is enemy #1” are probably cycling through waves of intense work and prolonged orgasm.

    I wouldn’t be surprised if one of the first things considered in strategizing any armed conflict is whether they want Russia and China to know that we have X or are capable of Y. Russia has shown their hand. If they could do more, they would have by now.

    It has also taught NATO that Russia is still in the barbaric tactics mindset. Hospitals, schools, churches, shipping centers - they’re all valid targets. If Russia wants a position, they’ll level the entire town. That certainly changes the plans, of anyone thought they would abode by the Geneva Conventions.


  • Eh, this seems a little half-assed, IMO. There’s no adjustment for error magnitude in relation to the rest of the video content. If they fuck up a basic stat on an informational video, it can easily have a more significant effect of viewers than a major error on a niche topic in a long, multi-topic video.

    This works into the whole prioritization portion of the post. Many of the things they classify as “low severity” and only warranting a pinned comment could lead to completely different behavior. Example:

    1. Very Low Severity
    • The statement could possibly be misunderstood, but it’s generally true and most people would be fine with how it’s currently presented.
    • eg. The host says, “One of DisplayPort’s main advantages over HDMI is its higher bandwidth,” but this is only true when comparing certain generations of the standards. HDMI 2.1, for example, has much higher bandwidth than DP 1.1.

    If the whole video is on the differences between HDMI and DP, this statement is completely opposite of the truth on a basic, primary statistic. The connector’s ONLY purpose is to transfer data, which is rate and bandwidth. The erroneous statement is an absolute - something IS something. All LTT needs to do is add, “some versions” or “generally”. THEN it becomes a softer interpretation error.

    • DP’s bandwidth is GENERALLY higher than HDMI’s? Let me look up when this statement doesn’t hold true…
    • DP bandwidth IS HIGHER than HDMI? Guess I don’t need to look up that info because they’re presenting it as a universal truth.

    Purchasing decision time… That GPU has 3x HDMI and 1x DP ports? Well, I’m not sure about these other stats, but I know that HDMI sucks compared to DP, so I can eliminate all the GPUs with more HDMI ports than DP ports. I guess I’m getting this 5 year old GPU with 1xHDMI and 3x DP ports instead.

    If that mistake was in a 30 minute news video covering 8 stories and the statement was an aside, okay, maybe a pinned comment.

    In reality, all these errors should be easy to correct, but that’s hampered by YouTube’s tools. LTT should be able to replace a small segment of video with a cut away to stock or b-roll and a voiceover with the correct information. But, you can’t do that on YT.

    Another alternative, if the information is insignificant enough for only a pinned comment, is to simply mute that 2-3 seconds of video. If the misstatement was significant enough that muting it makes the rest of the video tough to follow, then the mistake wasn’t small enough for a pin.









  • That’s a pretty good list. I have a few differences in how I look at lists like this, though.

    I generally lump major series together, unless there’s a real standout entry or a long series. So I agree with having just Star Trek 2 in it, but think Star Wars 4 and 5 should occupy 1 spot and include ROTJ. For cases like Terminator, where there are a ton of crap movies, I’d put the original and 2 in a single slot.

    There are a bunch of classic movies missing, too. Soylent Green, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Forbidden Planet, Metropolis, etc. Personally, I’d have Dark City, The Last Starfighter, Short Circuit, maybe Iron Man, Black Panther, or Age of Ultron (some Marvel entry). A nod to anime should also be in there, even if it’s just Akira. Others I’d might have in there if I ever sat down to rank these things in order: Total Recall, The Running Man, The Lawnmower Man, Cube, THX 1138, The Fly, MiB, Mad Max, The Thing, Close Encounters

    Probably not making the list, but noteworthy conceptually: Minority Report, Johnny Mnemonic, Contact, Children of Men, Contact, Donnie Darko, Looper,

    If they want to include movies that were great within their times or some specific context, the original animated Transformers was a crazy, but noteworthy departure from the franchise’s previous media. Galaxy Quest and Space Balls aren’t philosophical masterpieces, but definitely high on my list.

    For kid friendly stuff, Batteries Not Included, Space Camp, Flight of the Navigator, and E.T.


  • I… I’m speechless.

    Although, as a professional internet nitpicker, I have top s say I’m surprised he didn’t go into color theory more. Easy 45 minutes of additional content there. (I guess he touched on it, but there’s so much more.)

    Now I remember why I looked at lasagna cat a few years ago and, after a minute or two, decided to set it aside. There’s a whole lifetime’s worth of content to drown in.





  • Generally, if someone’s being a total asshole so severely that they have to be yeeted with several thousand other unaware bystanders, I expect to see a bunch of examples within the first… 2, maybe 3, links.

    If someone can point me to a concise list of examples (actual data), I find it more disturbing that an admin on another server can yeet my account because they make noise on a discord server.I mean, yes, federating is a feature, but why even offer the ability to enroll users? Maybe for a group of friends, or something, but just rando users is nothing but a liability to everyone involved.




  • I almost thought I had written your comment and completely forgot about it. No, I just almost made the exact comment and want that hour of my life back.

    If there was some over the top racist rant, I sure didn’t see it. And the admin pushing for the defederation sounds so bizarre. Bizarre is the best word I could come up with because “petty” makes me think it was like high school politics. This is closer to a grade school sandbox argument.

    The worst I saw was “defedfags” and it was used in a way that was meant to highlight how they never said anything offensive. Like saying, “If you thought what I said before was offensive, let’s see how you respond to something intended to be negative.”

    The crazy thing is that the decision is being made because the admin just liked a post. It’s not even because of the post content - which has nothing controversial and appeared maybe 8 times in my Lemmy/kbin feed yesterday.

    Editing to add that this is the article: https://kbin.social/search?q=wakeup+call


  • I’m not sure if it helps, but I wonder if this is linked to the inactivity error.

    Load up any kbin thread or main page, open a new browser tab in the foreground, me around in the non-kbin tab for 15-30 minutes, and return to the kbin tab. Now any clicks on ‘actions’ (voting, posting, basically sending info to the server) sends you to an error page. Whatever info you were sending doesn’t register (vote count or highlight, posts don’t show up, etc.

    I didn’t have any logout problems at all until maybe a week ago. Since then I’ve been logged out 5+ times.

    Not a big problem for me, but I could see it annoying others.