cwagner

@cwagner@lemmy.cwagner.me

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cwagner,

Civ V: 2,444.5 hours, never played multiplayer, all but maybe 300h with communitas/vox populi

Runner up is Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous with almost 2000 hours

cwagner,

and a few other engines

Bing, and the founder’s non-commercial search engine’s index IIRC

cwagner,

Thing is, they have to pay Google/Bing (they use their APIs in addition to smaller indexes) for every search, so there is only so much elasticity.

My monthly search usage is 700-800, which means I’m comfortably in the mid-tier plan and pay $10/month.

cwagner,

They phrased it weirdly, but Bangs (same before that for free when I was a DDG user for years) are a killer feature. I don’t need the indirection if I know where I’m searching for something. !caniuse, !mdn, !imdb, whatever. I’d not use a search engine without bangs again, and if Kagi didn’t support all the DDG bangs, I’d never have even tested them.

cwagner,

It mostly is, just not 100% ;)

cwagner,

connect to the same user

What?

And no, kbin and Lemmy both federate with each other, but are otherwise different apps, so you can’t use the same mobile app for both unless it explicitly supports both.

cwagner,
  • Personal taste, but I think the user interface is far superior to Lemmy. Even with scripts to help Lemmy, kbin still looks better.
  • Politics. Some might have issues with the political positions of the Lemmy devs, no matter if they influence the software or not
  • It doesn’t matter that much. They are both federating with each other, you can subscribe to magazines from Lemmy, and to communities from kbin.
cwagner,

Yeah, I keep forgetting about that because I care about as much about Mastodon as I care about Twitter ;)

A side effect of it, that I do care about and sorely miss on Lemmy: Tags for posts. Like flairs for Reddit, but you can have multiple.

cwagner,

What specifically is different regarding how political discussions are handled over there?

Absolutely nothing. But the devs (or at least one, not sure), have strong political views that a lot of people take offense with. Search Lemmy & tankie if you want to know more.

cwagner,

I’m pretty good at translating between MBA and software developer, so they understand each other, despite being a software developer myself ;)

cwagner,

Hah, poor guy, because I never heard of him before, and he was mentioned in the same breath as Hitler, I thought he has to be some pretty shady dude, but otherwise ignored that part :D

cwagner,

Because by 1944 they used around 4500 forced labourers (foreigners, POWs) in dangerous condition. Oh, and they apparently bought 170 female prisoners, who then all died during some experiment:

A Bayer employee wrote to Rudolf Höss, the Auschwitz commandant: “The transport of 150 women arrived in good condition. However, we were unable to obtain conclusive results because they died during the experiments. We would kindly request that you send us another group of women to the same number and at the same price.”

– en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer#World_War_II_and_the_…

cwagner,

I’ll join the energy people. To live is to suffer, at least as long as you have a physical body. Even if you are a billionaire.

Once we are beings of pure energy, well have peace and equality. Well, hopefully.

I really like transhumanist and posthuman novels, yes ;)

cwagner,

Technically, Mugg & Bean from South Africa. But that’s the chain they used to be, they changed their menu in major ways at some point between 2019 and 2023, and now it sucks :(

cwagner,

The order is not the same, but my 5 choices match the top 5. Now I’m sad. Mainstream and sad.

cwagner,

Why shouldn’t people be able to opt out? I

Because you’ll be dead.

cwagner,

I would.

cwagner,

No, because it’s not them any more. It’s just remains. I still respect them the same way as before, the remains simply have no real relation.

Have you ever gotten scammed, package stolen, or been a victim of fraud in any way?

I just got my package of new earphones from Best Buy, and the box was fucking empty. I mean there is the box and instruction manuals and charging cable, but the actual earphones aren’t there. They’ve used Shipt (which is like a doordash but for packages) but the box was inside another layer of packaging which was supposedly...

cwagner,

Yeah, early-ish days of ecigs (started vaping fully in 2012, so I’m guessing this was around '13/'14), ordered a mod off of facebook, wired the money via WU, the end. And yes, that seems risky, but that was also how things were done, few of the advanced mods were made by companies (those only made lame stuff that looks closer to the teenager ecigs they now sell at the supermarket), instead you had people tinkering in their basements ;)

cwagner,

I’d say somewhere between 2 and 3.

The first option would also result in the weird situation that most South Africans (11 official languages), who use English in everyday life, would not count as bilingual because there’s still a bit of a difference to fully native speakers. My wife grew up with Sesotho, but started learning English from 1st grade on and all her classes in school and university have been in English. Her English is better than mine (5th grade, and all but English-classes in German), but worse than that of my USA or British friends.

born in a bilingual country / completely indifferent to native, educated speakers of the language

While we are on the topic, you wouldn’t normally use “indifferent” like that. A better word would be “indistinguishable”.

cwagner,

being fluent without visiting an English speaking country is quite an accomplishment.

It helps if at the age of ~16 you start consuming only English media (books, movies, TV-shows), and are in many English online communities ;)

I would also like to thank the people who laughed at me and my friend for having German MtG cards when we were 10 years old, that was one huge boost to my vocabulary :D

cwagner,

It was clear what you meant. But while this might be used in very rare cases like indistinguishable, it almost never is. If it’s not distinguishable, you can’t get stronger ;)

cwagner,

what?

Bugs and performance issues are their focus for now. Lemmy was tiny until recently, that means a lot of features weren’t needed, and a lot of issues never arose.

Now it’s big, and we want multi communities, flairs, and many other things, but for now the focus is on not having federation from lemmy.world take 2 hours, and for custom emojis not being able to take over instances and stuff ;)

cwagner,

You are stating that you only want it for NSFW, and then explain as if that’s true for everyone. It’s not.

How are we going to pay for all this?

I’m really enjoying lemmy. I think we’ve got some growing pains in UI/UX and we’re missing some key features (like community migration and actual redundancy). But how are we going to collectively pay for this? I saw an (unverified) post that Reddit received 400M dollars from ads last year. Lemmy isn’t going to be free....

cwagner,

Storage doesn’t distribute, though. Every instance needs to save everything. I run my own instance, so the way it works, is that I save everything anyone posts in any community I subscribed to. Permanently, by default.

Bandwidth, sure, mostly. But storage will only grow. And massive amounts of instances will also add issues over time, unlike something like XMPP/Jabber, the fediverse is more of a hubs and spokes model.

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