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33/MInterested in self-hosting, decentralization, and learning more about the fediverse.

I also do photography, but with digital cameras from the 90's.

  • List of scholarly publishing stings

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  • Does anyone else feel like the list should be chronological and not alphabetical by discipline?

    There doesn't seem to be any contentious edit war regarding the sorting... Maybe this is finally my time to make a major edit.

    Probably not, though, there isn't much to hold the list cohesively either way.

  • Music Monday [Week 41] - What have you been listening to lately?

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  • I clicked play and the airy chanting and ambient whatever started playing, and I was scrolling around the page to try and find some kind of information or clue into what this was about, and I got to the bottom and it said "If you like Tallah you might also like: Bloodywood", and I was like Ah, ok, I just need to wait.

    Yeah, that's fun. I didn't even read the second half of your comment and had the exact same Korn thought.

  • Favorite pieces of media (Games, movies, music etc) and reason

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  • If I have to pick an absolute all-time lifetime favorite game, I would have to take the coward's way out and give 2 related answers...

    SanFransisco Rush 2049 and Toy Commander for the Sega Dreamcast.

    Those were the 2 games my brother and I grew up playing, we sunk thousands of hours into each and would make up our own imaginary game modes and just fart around and try to 100% the games.I still have our original Dreamcast and the original game disks. Technically my brother has the DC right now because he was unemployed for a couple months not too long ago and got into Toy Commander speedrunning lol

    Just the memories associated with these games, they're so close to my heart. Recently I've been leaning more on my family for support instead of trying to fight the good fight alone, so I've been hanging out with my brother a lot, and we still make references to these games even ~20+ years later.

    Plus, I can still pick up Rush 2049 and have a grand ol' time. Toy Commander doesn't hold my attention as much anymore, but him and I still play together occasionally when I am at his house.

  • Fritillary butterfly

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  • Huh, so that's what they are called!What camera was this shot on? It's got some real softness to it, but zooming in, there's some of what my brain is seeing as some processing artifacts from like a cellphone camera or something

    This one is from an Olympus D-360L (1.3MP, 2000)

  • Ivy

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  • Love it.

    My brother is a huge proponent of the toy-lens-on-fancy-camera aesthetic. I don't even know what camera he's got, some big Sony Alpha thing, but for the past 5 years he's pretty much exclusively used a 3D printed manual focus disposable camera lens adapter.

    My prolific use of 25 to 30 year old point-and-shoots is so hilariously contrasted by my most recent photography friend. He just bought some crazy Fujifilm X-series something-or-other, and spends like 80% of the time we're out together tweaking his settings or fussing about the metering or something something about the histogram... I walk up, click one button, produce interesting and memorable photo, walk away lol

    I will be in Chicago in November for work! I'm excited to drag some of my cameras with me.

  • Music Monday [Week 41] - What have you been listening to lately?

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  • I had an interesting week. Not a lot of music going on.I DID have one afternoon where I was feeling in the mood to just go nuts, so I blasted some Brand of Sacrifice, Humanity's Last Breath, and Disembodied Tyrant.Really bombastic Deathcore has cemented itself as my "guilty pleasure" genre.

    like this: https://disembodiedtyrant.bandcamp.com/track/i-the-devourer-2

    I am going to be in Paris at the end of October and I have marked a couple of small music venues that allegedly have weekly punk or prog stuff... I would love to catch a weird or crazy show (every French musician I know is wonderfully weird and out there), if anyone has any firsthand recommendations that would be sick.

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    America could have avoided all of this with a functional justice system

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  • I'm currently reading a book (A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge) where 2 voyages get stranded at the same faraway star system, one is a totalitarian autocracy and the other is a free trading culture. The totalitarian regime gets the upper hand, takes over via manipulation and sabotage, and tries to stifle and outlaw all money and trade. They end up spying on the underground black market trade that pops up and manipulates people into trading and doing work for the regimes benefit without their knowledge... If not money, then goods and services, or any other analog for such. Certain people will always try to accumulate "wealth", whatever that wealth may be, it doesn't necessarily have to be legal tender.

    The book feels extremely relevant to current events, as the autocratic regime employs a ubiquitous police state and uses an even less ethical analog for AI to control it all. It was published in 1999.

  • Never let downvotes discourage you from posting

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  • I was looking for someone else to mention this.

    The karma system on Reddit trapped me hard and the constant validation seeking was really a drag on my mental health. Getting one negative score comment would ruin my day, I really just want to be understood. I realize how unhealthy that is, but I'm not really sure what to do about it besides just not interacting with that place anymore. I don't have as much of a problem with being wrong in real life, it's more the fact that online I have the opportunity to take my time, be meticulous, edit my post to make sure it's perfect and I have said exactly what I wanted to in the exact way I wanted to...

    Coming here and being able to disable the counts has been an absolute dream.

  • I've been alive for the entire narrative of the internet and it's crazy to think any of the newer generations will be able to sort it all out for themselves.

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  • Still doin' their thing, they released a new album last year! They went on a small new-album tour and that's when I was able to catch their show.

    I found the source of the quote on the bookmark, and it was a quote by Plato out of Phaedrus so it definitely is real lol. It's somewhat different on the bookmark, but depending on what translation you look at the quote will probably be slightly different anyway. It's sections 274e to 275b

    But when he came to writing, Theuth said, “This branch of learning, O King, will make the Egyptians wiser and give them better memories, for I have discovered an elixir of both memory and wisdom.” The king replied, “Oh most ingenious Theuth, one man is able to invent these skills, but a different person is capable of judging their benefit or harm to those who will use them. And you, as the father of writing, on account of your positive attitude, are now saying that it does the opposite of what it is able to do. This subject will engender forgetfulness in the souls of those who learn it, for they will not make use of memory. Because of their faith in writing, they will be reminded externally by means of unfamiliar marks, and not from within themselves by means of themselves. So, you have discovered an elixir not of memory but of reminding. You will provide the students with a semblance of wisdom, not true wisdom. For having heard a great deal without any teaching they will seem to be extremely knowledgeable, when for the most part they are ignorant, and are difficult people to be with because they have attained a seeming wisdom without being wise.”

  • I've been alive for the entire narrative of the internet and it's crazy to think any of the newer generations will be able to sort it all out for themselves.

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  • I have my font set to Atkinson Hyperlegible, so the lowercase L has a little tail to differentiate it from the capital i, which has its serifs... but in the quote block, the font isn't enforced for some reason so I had to copy/paste it into this textbox to even see what letter that was.

    Interesting stuff that I would have never noticed or thought about otherwise...

  • I've been alive for the entire narrative of the internet and it's crazy to think any of the newer generations will be able to sort it all out for themselves.

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  • I have a bookmark made by the band Sleepytime Gorilla Museum that was sneakily tucked into my merch haul last time I saw them live, and it has a quote on it that I will need to wait until I get home to properly remember, and I also want to do more diligence to figure out if it is an actual quote. At the top it says "A WARNING ABOUT READING", and the quote says something like:

    Beware the written language, man was never destined to record their every thought. How will we continue to remember ourselves when we are now able to cast our essence into this new medium, to remove the memories from ourselves so that we are wrought into perpetual forgetfulness?-Allegedly some ancient guy from the dawn of books

  • TIL there's a species of fish called Boops boops.

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  • The "Boops Boops in a bucket" photo used to be the main article image on Wikipedia and it tickled me in just the right way, I screenshotted it in 2021.

    I went to check on it a couple years later after telling someone about it, and the photo was completely gone from the article! I was so sad. But I still had my screenshot.

    Looking now, the bucket photo has returned further down the page!

    Looking at the Wikipedia history for this page is funny, there are so many edits for one page for a small little goofy fish. Really shows how much work goes into maintaining that encyclopedia! And looking at the little spats about such things as the color of the bucket, and whether or not it is appropriate to mention such in the caption... Fascinating. EDIT: I keep going deeper. The caption for this exact image has been HOTLY contested. Also it has been said that the bucket is blue, and also that the bucket is turquoise. Also it can't be decided on if "Boops boops in a bucket" is an appropriate caption because it is literally correct, or if it is "roflcopter nonsense" simply because the name of the fish happens to be silly...

  • Music Monday [Week 40] - What have you been listening to lately?

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  • My brother was listening to some fabulously florpy music this weekend and I don't know how, where, or why he found it, but I can't stop listening...

    https://soundcloud.com/toy17949/the-all-seeing-eye

    We had to wake up at like 4am to get somewhere really early, and he was blasting this in his car as we drowsily drove through the dark, abandoned streets. Certainly a vibe.

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  • Qualcomm unveil the Snapdragon X2 Elite and Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme, the fastest and most efficient processors for Windows PCs

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  • I have a Dell XPS 13 9315, which is roughly the same size as the 11" air (actually slightly smaller), and I absolutely adore it. I didn't get the highest-end because I didn't need it, but it's available with some decent processors and up to 32Gb RAM. It just sucks that everything is soldered to the board and non-upgradeable, and it has only 2 USB C ports, but that's the price you pay for the size. The battery life is actually astounding, too, I am constantly amazed how long it lasts. The new XPS13 has the weird square flat keys and no border around the touchpad, I'm really glad I got the model I did because the new ones look like a pain to actually use.

    Like I can actually do a little bit of light Solidworks on it if I'm not near my desktop, which blew me away. It plays the indie games I like, too, so it basically just does everything I need.

    My winter project is to install Linux on it and get it all working the way I want.

  • I'm so tired of the hell we inhabit (Rant)

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  • Ah, yeah, the horrors really seem to be quite universal these days, not contained within any one border...

    I'm right there with you with just Lemmy, it seems like a decent enough place and I enjoy the fact that there aren't 18 billion users. I'm on Piefed, which has a convenient filter for removing news (and also allows me to disable the post and comment scores, which is super helpful for me, the karma system is why I was so addicted to reddit). I want it to be like the old days, if I want news, I turn on the radio or pick up a newspaper. (I've subscribed to The Onion News physical print, which has been a small glimmer of joy every month)

    Good on you for taking care of your girlfriend. I couldn't keep up a relationship through everything else and broke off a long-term relationship, have been single for about half a year with no plans of finding anyone else. Sometimes I feel like a selfish piece of shit, but I have been the happiest I've been in years, so I'm just rolling with it.

    I've been hyperfixated on backpacking lately, I really just want to load up a pack and disappear into the woods for a few days and not see another human the entire time. I've been doing a lot of hiking after work, there's a decent size (for my area) management area about 20 minutes from my job, I can get out, hop over there, and go out for a few hours before it gets dark.

  • I'm so tired of the hell we inhabit (Rant)

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  • I'm guessing you're also in the USA? As irresponsible as it is, I have been pulling back from the news, trying to not pay as much attention to it. It's not like I can do anything about it myself, anyway, so why spend so much effort and go through so much turmoil to keep up? Occasionally I will listen to NPR in the car, but everything is just so upsetting...

    Over the past couple years I have deleted all my social media, stopped using reddit, and switched to a "dumbphone" so I can't scroll endlessly when I am bored. I spend my free time reading, playing old Pokemon games (currently playing Crystal), and have been spending a lot of time hiking, just print out a map and set off into the woods, turn my phone off, enjoy nature... Even yesterday, it was raining, I still went for a 2 hour hike. It's been really healing for me to pull back like this.

  • How was your summer overall?

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  • I didn't do a whole lot this summer, I feel I've 80/20'd my calendar, I've done most of the fun exciting things in the last month and a half. Booked every single weekend and many weekdays, and so far every single weekend in October is booked, too, with November filling up fast. This happened last year as well, super busy end of summer and fall!

    My trip to Amsterdam for a concert in April and then 3 more awesome concerts in April/May kinda signaled the start of the slow summer, as I had to penny pinch and save for a bit, and the hot weather just kinda kept me subdued. I did go to a bunch of protests in my city, though. Protesting was the bulk of my summer activities since it was free and I live downtown in my state's capital, so I could just walk over.

  • Magic is real, we just know how it works and call it technology

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  • Chicago Tylenol murders

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  • I don't take ibuprofen often, but a couple months ago I opened my bottle, shook out 2 pills, and out popped a tiny plastic mammoth. I was very confused. Where had this tiny toy come from? Had it ALWAYS been in this bottle somehow? What kind of wacky assembly line accident could cause this?

    I was telling my brother about it and he was like "I FORGOT that I put that in there! Bro it's been like 3 years!"

    Mystery solved. But yeah I was very confused and questioned all the other ibuprofen I had ever taken. I store it under my sink in a box, so not easily visible. Showed me how easy it would be for someone with ill intent to do something actually bad (as long as I trusted them enough to be in my house... which raises the bar pretty high for malice, but still...)The little mammoth got to go back in the bottle, it lives there now.

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    Music Monday [Week 39] - What have you been listening to lately?

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    Music Monday [Week 37] - What have you been listening to lately?

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    Music Monday [Week 36] - What have you been listening to lately?

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    Music Monday [Week 35] - What have you been listening to lately?

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    Music Monday [Week 34] - What have you been listening to lately?

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    Yesterday, I saw some of the strongest firsthand experience that smartphones are spying on us I have ever seen.

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    Music Monday [Week 33] - What have you been listening to lately?

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    What is your favorite museum?

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    Dendelion (Polaroid PDC-2000 digital camera from 1996)

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    Does anyone want to be IRL penpals?

  • internet funeral @lemmy.world
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    Perfect Recall

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