ProdigalFrog @slrpnk.net A frog who wants the objective truth about anything and everything.
Admin of SLRPNK.net
XMPP: [email protected]
Matrix: @prodigalfrog:matrix.org
David Graeber is an anthropologist, a leading figure in the Occupy movement, and one of our most original and influential public thinkers. He comes to the RSA to address our current age of ‘total bureaucratization’, in which public and private power has gradually fused into a single entity, rife wi...
What if the commonly accepted narratives about the foundation of civilization are all wrong? Drawing on groundbreaking research, archaeologist David Wengrow challenges traditional thinking about the social evolution of humanity -- from the invention of agriculture to the formation of cities and clas...
They used c++ initially since it was spawned from SerenityOS, which was designed to be a mashup of win2000 and unix.
now that Ladybird is its own project, it's not constrained to that goal, and they have said they will incorporate modern languages.
...God dangit :(
Thanks for doing the research, appreciate it.
SLRPNK Community Discussion - July 2024
Introduction
Another month has passed, which means the old Meta Community Discussion will be replaced with a new Community Discussion, which gives an update on the happenings of the instance, and to provide a place to talk and comment your thoughts on the instance, or for anything else that doesn't warrant its own c/Meta post.
Now, let us have a quiet moment in remembrance of the June discussion thread as we release it from its pinned status, back into the wilds of the fediverse.
...Right, that's quite enough remembering.
Slaps server
Let's bust out July.
Feddit.de is limping! Long live Feddit.org!
A few months ago, Feddit.de suffered a partial error, while the main admin was unavailable due to longer work related travel. As the Feddit.de admin is still missing, several of the site's moderators collaborated with the Fediverse.foundation and last week, Feddit.org was launched to cover many of the same communities as the old Feddit.de hosted. This is an inspiring development, and demonstrates one way a federated social network can respond to damage.
Community Highlights
We had some new communities pop up on the server last month!
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[email protected], created by @Emotet, who, I would like to point out, has a really cool animated avatar and profile background. Their community is focused on competent people doing things competently in media.
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[email protected], created by @sabreW4K3, which focuses on news and discussions on EV's.
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[email protected], created by @reallykindasort. A place to discuss and share history of ancient peoples!
In other news, @countrypunk is looking for new moderators for [email protected]. If that topic interests you, why not throw them a message? I'm sure they'd appreciate the help!
We'd also like to thank @JacobCoffinWrites for graciously taking over as moderator for [email protected], and to @Midnight for becoming part of the [email protected] moderation team! Good stuff y'all :)
If you're already a mod, joining the SLRPNK XMPP chat is a great way to grow your moderation team and share tips with other moderators. (it's also usable by all members of the instance, and you can use it for non-solarpunk chatrooms too, it's totally federated!)
If you're not already a mod, and see a community that you would like to support with moderation, don't hesitate to contact the current mods, or us admins.
Some examples of abandoned communities in need of new moderators are:
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[email protected], devoted to avoiding monoculture lawns (fairly low activity, would be a great community for a beginner moderator!) EDIT: !nolawns now has a new mod, @[email protected] ^^
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[email protected], a place to post things that give off that sweet solarpunk vibe (also low activity)
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[email protected], which is for... podcasts. (slightly higher activity, but still quite manageable)
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[email protected], the main hub of solarpunk art on the instance!
Again, if any of those seem like your bag, slap a comment down below, and we'll mod you up! Having those extra set of eyes and developing your community into whatever your creative vision holds is not only a tremendous help to us admins, It's quite fulfilling in its own right! :D
Technical Updates
Last month we updated our instance to Lemmy version 0.19.4/5, which brought some minor technical issues that were mostly fixed in the latter release. One major change was the introduction of an image proxy. This means that images in newly added posts (and new user/community avatars) are no longer directly downloaded from the federated servers, but rather first mirrored on our server. This has some privacy advantages and should also improve site loading speed a bit. We will have to see how this will affect our image storage capacity in the medium term, but so far it doesn't seem to have had a big impact and with our recent server upgrade, we do have quite a lot of storage space.
We also experimentally increased maximum upload size to 10mb and allowed small video files as well. We need to see how the impact of this is, though. If it results in too much bandwidth and/or storage space use, we might have to reconsider this.
Open Discussion
Aaaand... Yeah, that's the news for July. It was pretty chill, pretty snazzy, even! But now it's your turn to share whatever snazziness is happening on your mind. Anything related to the instance, the fediverse, or the server you'd like to ask about or discuss? Create a new community you want everyone to know about? Then mosey on down to the comments, my dude!
Everything you post here will be highlighted until the start of next month, which is like, a really long time (until it isn't. Time is cruel, cruel mistress).-
AFAIK, arizona stopped that practice. Not sure about California though, and they certainly are still blastimg out almonds.
A Long And Incomplete History of Scanners | Cathode Ray Dude [1:40:18]
I absolutely did not intend for this to be an hour and forty minutes long. Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cathoderaydude Tip me: https://ko-fi.com/cathoderaydude Wolf photo: https://32bites.com/s5i1v4f16x8mp1vvorzflu3t2rxibm Chapters: 00:00:00 Intro 00:02:37 The Knowledge Vacuum 0...
It's a shame the Archive version isn't quite as high fidelity, though in a way it sort've adds to the charm.
Yes! I love David's docs. It's a shame some of them were lost in his house fire a few years ago. :(
Hey Folks, Designed and constructed in 2016-2019 as a companion project to the Antikythera mechanism, this video series is an alternative look at the second oldest geared mechanism from antiquity: The Byzantine (London) Sundial-Calendar. I designed the project as a sort of 'gateway' project into ...
Cheers for sharing this here, I've watched about half of the first episode, and I'm quite enthralled. Old docs from the 70's like this are my favorite.
The film provides insights into China‘s factory-like prisons. The tip-off comes from a pregnancy test bought in a Parisian pharmacy. It contains a letter, smuggled into the package, from a political prisoner who reports on forced labor in prison. What does a pregnancy test have to do with a Chinese...
Lithuanian book smugglers
Lithuanian book smugglers or Lithuanian book carriers (Lithuanian: knygnešiaĩ, singular: knygnešys) smuggled Lithuanian language books printed in the Latin alphabet into Lithuanian-speaking areas of the Russian Empire, defying a ban on such materials in force from 1864 to 1904. In Lithuanian knygnešys literally means "the one who carries books". Opposing imperial Russian authorities' efforts to replace the traditional Latin orthography with Cyrillic, and transporting printed matter from as far away as the United States to do so, the book smugglers became a symbol of Lithuanians' resistance to Russification.
Sun Chasing | Posy [6:06]
Some chase tornadoes, I chase sunsets... End track: Tones And Bubbles https://posy.bandcamp.com/album/station-the-boston (The music before that is sound design based on that track.) Lazy Posy: @lazyposy Music: https://posy.bandcamp.com/album/station-the-boston Support my projects on Patreon: htt...
A Faulty Flicker-Flame Light Bulb is mildly interesting in slow motion | Brainiac75 [10:30]
Why does a flicker-flame lamp flicker? And why is the beautiful gas discharge not taking the shortcut between the closely spaced electrodes? In an attempt to figure out how such a specialized light bulb works, I will test my only flicker-flame lamp. One that seems faulty, but still turns out to be s...
Agreed!
Interesting tid-bit that surprised me when I learned it; not only does he run this medieval living channel, he's also the owner of the Rebellion game studio.
Chris Hülsbeck is famous for his work on the Great Giana Sisters and the Turrican series, but what else has he done? Let’s go on a musical journey as we explore Chris’s beginnings and progress to where he is today. DOWNLOAD THIS MIX: https://mega.nz/file/alciCaAJ#CftYZq3vxz-lOUqHfzht5Fl1hO8yshbrHkk...
Welcome to episode 142. I get my hands on an Opus Discovery 1. I play the Tengen Trilogy - Cyberball, Klax and Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters. I look at Area 51 a new game and also Eddie Edwards Super Ski. I also chat to Geoff and end with a type-in. If you like the show, please co...
The bros in your office have a little secret hidden in their mouths. Terrifying! But never fear. Baby-faced pretend detective and real fake journalist Dan Toomey investigates the nicotine pouch fever sweeping our great nation’s corporate offices. Featuring interviews with Hunter Chadwick, a data sc...
Blanket or Cloak? A look into how Medieval cloaks were used, and how they compare to modern interpretations | Modern History TV [15:07]
Jason Kingsley, the Modern Knight, looks at several of his medieval cloaks, how they are used practically in history and compares them to more modern types of cloak used in movies like Lord of the Rings. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMjlDOf0UO9wSijFqPE...
She had a (non-cancerous) brain tumor, which she did a few videos about treating. I hope that's behind her forever as well. :(
Hope that sodium battery powered e-bikes hit the market soon. They'll have lower range, but they don't explode or catch fire like Lithium batteries.
How the amazingly burly ‘Buffalo Bicycle’ offers affordable transport to developing countries
The Buffalo Bicycle is a robust, utilitarian, and serviceable bicycle made to help the most remote communities on the planet. Today, we will closely examine the Buffalo Bicycle and show how its incredible engineering has created perhaps the most purpose-built machine ever and how it helps communitie...
Written Article about the bike, for those who are bandwidth limited.
This homemade hat has a secret function... It's a bag. It's a bag hat. | Simone Giertz
Thanks to KiwiCo for sponsoring the video! Go here for 50% off of your first crate of a monthly subscription: https://kiwico.com/simone 🥳 Check out my store at https://yetch.store/ Should I turn the shopping bag hat into a product?? Let me know down below.
There doesn't seem to be a high-res version online that I can find :(
Making a d10 spinner | Attoparsec [15:58]
I thought about dice a bit too much and this is what happened.
I don’t know how much Impossible Meat is because nobody around here carries it, but I would imagine it’s a bit pricey just for the name being so popular.
Having tried a fairly wide variety of vegan meat replacements, I personally found that Impossible meat was the most impressive. Their beef imitation is quite literally indistinguishable from the real thing. If anything, it's beefier than real ground beef. I can sometimes find it on sale at my local store for about $7 or $8 a pound, but usually it's more around $10 or $11. I always stock up on the beef or sausage when it's on sale, as my non-vegan family has fully embraced it, whereas they have been less receptive of other beef imitations (though they'll enjoy any old imitation chicken, which appears to be easier to replicate).
Oric-1 First Look (Listen?)
We take a first (short) look at Tangerine Computer System's ORIC-1, a British-made 6502-based computer that had some, but not a lot of success in the UK and France in the early 1980s, competing primarily against the ZX Spectrum. I couldn't manage to get any video output from the computer and normall...
Why pre-HD games often look their best at their original low-resolution. 0:00 Ico's 240p Origins 2:50 The benefits of low-fidelity 4:30 PS1 in HD 7:14 N64 in HD 9:40 Sixth Gen Upscaling 11:53 Embracing the jaggies
Germany is losing its forests, FAST. In the central Harz region, over 90 percent of spruce trees are dead or dying because of climate change and insect damage. But this isn’t necessarily bad news. Instead of the former monoculture forest, a more resilient, wild forest is springing up, with a more ab...
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Florisboard has decent swipe typing from what I remember, and should be available in F-droid.
EDIT: after checking, I see Floris has not been updated in two years on f-droid. :(
I wasn't aware BetterHelp was so awful, good to know. With my use of SponsorBlock, I generally don't see sponsored ad content in videos. I'll try to briefly check their sponsors before posting.
@[email protected] wrote down the recipe here.
1.2l water
240ml sodium sulfate
60ml sodium chloride
20ml xantham gum(optional for increased efficacy by keeping the solution homogenous)
Boil water, stir until fully dissolved, a small amount of solute should remain, if not, increase sodium sulfate concentration slowly until it does, indicating no free water molecules available for dissolution.
Solution should now be cooled to below 18c( freezing point) for an end product that will regulate temperature to 18c so long as it have sufficient(negative) thermal energy.
Solution of pure sodium chloride will have freezing point approx -20C, while solution of pure sodium sulfate has freezing point +35C. Adjusting the ratio of NaCl to Na2SO4 will shift the freezing point towards either end of thag spectrum, depending on what phase change temperature you are targetting.
XMPP would be the best choice at this point in time, as it doesn't suffer the downfalls of Matrix (though even Matrix would be better than Discord).
Hadn't heard of those last three recommendations, cheers for mentioning them!
Flippy test!
Hmm, I think that design might need something more bespoke.
it might not make as much sense as plants usually grow upwards
There are those upside down tomato planters.
I actually like that simpler version much more as an S, something about the increased whitespace around the dot in that version compared to the sun in this version looks a bit better to me. The framing around it helps a bit too, though as you say, all of them a pretty cool.
I'd recommend checking out our local documentary community, [email protected], which is chock full of docs! :D
Though admittedly, most of the ones there are not directly related to solarpunk. Since the movement is really only just catching on in the mainstream, there's not much documentary/movie content about it.
The only fictional movie I can think of that's solarpunky would be Strange World from (ironically) Disney.
I did a really quick a dirty edit to see how that'd look.
Definitely like it mirrored better.
I tried rotating it to more clearly resemble an S, but I think it detracts from it, since then it just becomes a letter, instead of a slightly more abstract (and IMO memorable) logo.