It’s called the linguini effect.

“Turing Completeness” != “Turing Test”

I assume this is a joke?

I had it running on Windows (no container) a while back. Wasn’t particularly difficult at that time, at least.

Can’t give any advice here though, since all we’ve been given to work with is an OS.

You’re in luck! The book I’ve generally heard recommended to beginners for Python is available for free online!

Thanks!

Just bought my first house today, I feel this graph on a spiritual level.

Some folks on Lemmy recently recommended StreetComplete, and I’ve been really enjoying it so far.

It’s a “Pokémon Go” style thing, but you go around answering simple questions about your surroundings which are then used to update/improve the data on OpenStreetMap.

One concern I considered after using the app was that because your contributions are uploaded to OpenStreetMap, in theory I imagine someone could use that data to track where you are / where you’ve been / where you tend to be. So just be aware of that.

I feel like it has to do with the “mystical” or metaphorical perception of mirrors, especially early on.

Like, as if looking “into a mirror” is analogous to looking “into a (or rather: the) mirror world”, if that makes sense.

Kind of the same reason we use the preposition “in” or “into” rather than the more physically correct “at”.

100%. To be honest I don’t even use this “trick” anymore myself because like 60% of the links are inaccessible now.

It’s incredibly sad that they destroyed such a great resource, that place was like the Wikipedia of opinions.

I feel like Aaron 100% would have backed Lemmy.

(Edit: Not that I or anyone can speak for him, obviously.)

For the record, the real trick is to add “site:reddit.com”. But as the site decays over time that will sadly become less useful.

I completely agree that “third places” have been all but eradicated in favor of revenue-generating spaces. This trend alone has lead to the death of a lot of things, including a sense of community and local engagement. (Edit: Worth noting that I also agree with your point about atomization)

I think it also has a lot to do with how abstracted we are from reality. We’ve built all these systems to replace actual face-to-face communities, and people would rather surround themselves in that than to expose themselves to the unpredictability of real life - for better and worse.

It’s a hard sell to get people to reverse course because it’s so much more painless/numbing to engage with these systems. (Not to even mention AI promising to give every person their own personal Yes-Man.)

I think one of Lemmy’s issues is that everyone wants to create a community instead of contributing to what’s here. People expect to have all the “niche hobby” communities like Reddit had right off the bat, but we don’t have the mass of people to support that - especially when you can have multiple communities for one topic across instances. Everything dilutes to nothing.

So we end up with nearly a 1:1 user/community ratio and every community either gets abandoned or only has 1 power-user posting.

I think the solution is essentially what you’re doing - to take existing communities and breathe life into them. Start out small and focused, and then branch out when it feels necessary.

I’m not necessarily looking for “wholesome” content, though. I’m looking for interesting content.

Also, there isn’t enough content to browse just a few subs, and there are a lot of communities being created that i would miss out on, and “opt-out” is generally my preferred way to browse.

I think the reason I’ve gotten to this point is that I’ve been angry at things before and I’ve very strongly expressed an opinion that I later on found I disagreed with.

This is probably just an age thing, but I could only do that so many times before I stopped to think maybe it’s worth reevaluating how I look at things.

I’ve reached a point in my life where I can be against something without getting mad about it. Sure, sometimes you get a revolution (with all the problems that come with that), but in everyday life, people just aren’t productive when they’re angry. A person living a happy, fulfilled life is more likely to contribute to making the world a better place.

Same here. I don’t know if I could in good conscience go back to Reddit, but the constant doomposting makes Lemmy seem more and more unattractive by the day - and that’s after applying a hefty amount of post filters.

I keep telling myself that if I just stick it out, we’ll eventually get enough users to drown out the negativity, but some days I wonder if we’ll ever get there when that’s like 95% of the feed.

Imo the problem is that social media is one of the worst possible places to foment political change, yet is by far the most popular.

If people actually have a shit about this stuff, they’d be out campaigning for it, or helping people affected by it, instead of just clicking a button and patting themselves on the back.

Not to say social media can’t bring change of course, but I mean, the people posting the most are pretty much by definition doing the least.

Seriously. I wonder how many of those doomers actually volunteer in their community, or are active in their local politics. If the answer was any more than “basically none,” I don’t think we would have most of these issues.