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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • You seem determined to take issue with the concept of a bidet. That’s OK no one is forcing you to use one. The toilet seat attachment ones are super cheap and convenient. You don’t have to get up and go anywhere. You just turn a knob when you’re done pooping and you get cleaner than you can with paper. Feels good to be clean.

    Like back to the arm poop analogy, if you for some reason were getting shit on your arm every single day, sometimes multiple times, then having to go do the shower soap towell thing becomes a hassle. Maybe it makes sense to have a special hose next to where you keep getting shit on you to make clean up easier.








  • What do you mean by > ‘the humbuckers are starting to die?’ They’re just magnets with copper wire wrapped around them, they don’t really wear out. What’s the problem you’re trying to solve? If it’s quiet/scratchy/noisy you probably just have a bad potentiometer or a cold solder joint. If you don’t like how to guitar feels then yeah something different may be in order. If you like the guitar but something about the sound isn’t perfect then maybe different pickups will help, but your amp will have a much larger impact on your tone than different humbuckers.





  • There’s no retroactive syncing. So a regenerated instance would start seeing any new content from the moment federation is switched back on. It’s the same if you’re the first user to subscribe to a community on another instance (from your instance). Until that moment your instance doesn’t know the community exists but one a user subscribes your instance starts copying new content from that community and other users from your instance will start seeing that content in ‘all’.




  • This is the pcgamer website without adblock!

    I discovered this this morning as I was trying out a Lemmy app (thunder) instead of my ad blocked Firefox and followed an article link.

    In less than 600 words there were:

    • 3 full page ads to dismiss
    • an auto playing video taking up 1/4 of the screen that follows as you scroll
    • a sticky animated footer banner
    • and a half page animated ad between each paragraph.

    Fuck that. Fuck any organizational that does that to it’s product or has that level of contempt for it’s users.

    I support content creators but ad block is necessary for safety, privacy, and the overall usability of the Internet.


  • Good on them. I hope others follow suit. As an aside, I recently switched to a lemmy app instead of using my ad blocked browser, and holy shit PCGamer’s website is an unusable dystopian nightmare. You have to read the article through a tiny letterbox of multiple competing videos and across the short article there are three full page ads to dismiss. Fuck that.

    Here’s the full article text to save you a click.

    If you want official updates from the Minecraft dev team, you better not look on Reddit. A post from a Reddit user bearing the name sliced_lime and a flair indicating they are the Minecraft Java Tech Lead (almost certainly Mojang’s Mikael Hedberg) announced yesterday that Mojang would no longer be posting official content to Reddit, in the wake of that platform’s response to protests over changes to its API.

    “As you have no doubt heard by now, Reddit management introduced changes recently that have led to rule and moderation changes across many subreddits,” read the post, before announcing that those changes have led Mojang to “no longer feel that Reddit is an appropriate place to post official content or refer [its] players to”.

    The events are only obliquely referred to in the post, but it seems the move has been sparked by Reddit’s crackdown on protests against recent changes to its API that would, in essence, kill off third-party apps that let users access the site.

    Subreddit mods have spent the last few weeks mounting various campaigns against Reddit’s corporate leadership, either “going dark” by turning the subreddits they oversee into private, invite-only communities or else marking them as NSFW, meaning Reddit can’t sell ads on those pages. Reddit responded by pressuring disgruntled mods, and in some cases ousting and trying to replace them.

    In practice, the biggest impact of this departure will be the end of the subreddit’s official changelog threads, where the subreddit’s 7.4 million Minecraft fans and players can pore over official updates in granular detail and offer their feedback directly to the devs who hang out there. Sliced_lime emphasises that players are, naturally, “welcome to post unofficial update threads going forward,” and can always “visit [Mojang’s] feedback site at feedback.minecraft.net” or else contact it via social media.

    User reaction has been pretty understanding, which probably only highlights just how angry everyone is with Reddit’s leadership right now. The top-voted comment on sliced_lime’s post, from DamageBooster, just says “Understandable” before asking where else users can access official changelogs.

    Still, even if there are other avenues to reach Mojang, it seems fairly dramatic for a game as incomprehensibly massive and significant as Minecraft to cut off Reddit as one of its official ports of call. It’s reminiscent of advertisers fleeing Twitter in the wake of Elon Musk’s messy assumption of leadership at that company. Time will tell if Reddit’s leadership will take any notice, though (I can’t say I’m optimistic).

    I’ve reached out to Microsoft to ask if any more of its studios are going to follow Mojang’s suit and cut off Reddit as a source of official communication, and I’ll update this piece if I hear back.

    For now, I think this is a one-off. There’s no sign of any other Microsoft studio doing anything similar so far, so this seems more like a situation that has personally aggravated sliced_lime (and presumably their fellow Mojang devs) than a Microsoft-wide initiative. But who knows? Perhaps one of the biggest companies in the world will take some time off fighting multiple national market regulators at once to direct its ire at Reddit executives. If that doesn’t get their attention, nothing will.



  • You can search for a magazine by typing in a keyword like ‘history’. The search results will bring you magazines from kbin.social and the websites federated with it that have the keyword ‘history’ in their names or descriptions.

    Something you should probably add about searching for magazines is that the search can only find magazines that someone else from your instance has already subscribed to.

    If you go to https://browse.feddit.de/ and search for ‘history’ you’ll see there are 21 results. So before creating a new magazine be sure to check the wider fediverse for a similar one.

    To add them you can visit them and then copy/paste the url into your kbin instance’s search bar, then browse to the magazine from kbin and click ‘subscribe’. That will then make the community/magazine discoverable for others in your instance and it will start appearing in ‘all’.

    Unfortunately I don’t think there is a platform for listing both kbin and lemmy communiyites/magazines yet.


  • They have a cached copy of the content from before defederation. It’s a bit weird, but they can still comment and make posts in the zombie community, but the posts go nowhere. Only users from their own instance can see them, every federated instance sees the ‘true’ Beehaw content.