I hope forgejo’s federation efforts come along. Being able to host projects on my own instance, yet receive contributions without having to allow people to register on my instance, would give me the push to completely abandon Github.

How does it feel to have the objectively best sense of humor?

Some might say interconnecting everything could be a legitimate goal. Nonetheless, some people started to report about huge amounts of data and metadata being sent to Matrix central servers.

Curious that this claim is without source in the original.

I also have porblems with their claims about bridges. Bridges are Band-Aids to allow you to communicate with people not on Matrix, not a dark masterplan to build a central spionage hub.

By default, a homeserver trusts matrix.org in questions of federation and identity of other servers. You have to get that trust from somewhere. You are free to choose another source for that.

(For example, my homeserver isn’t federated at all, and has that trusted server removed; it doesn’t communicate with anyone. Also it’s not synapse, but that’s besides the point.)

I guess it’s a matter of taste then. I really enjoy the vibrancy and fluidity of animation we get today. And I find them to be no less expressive.

Yep.

Those older movies are beautiful achievements for sure. But it’s disingenuous to say that there isn’t a plethora of movies and shows today that rival and surpass those older examples visually. Not to speak of just how much more fluent animation has become.

Many of the people who worked on those older masterpieces are still in animation today, and have only become better at their art.

They are still being being painted by hand. On a graphics tablet, for example.

That’s great.

Please beware that DNS over TLS is transport protection; the dns server itself of course still sees and knows everything.

How exactly does Free, non-open-source software prevent that?

I’m currently re-reading Dan Simmons’ Hyperion Cantos, and something struck me. If this had been made into an HBO/… show, like, 8 years ago, it could have been a genre- and generation defining TV event akin to Game of Thrones.

But if it was to be produced today? It would be a cringe, plastic-feeling knock-off akin to Netflix’ Last Airbender.

Github, Lemmy, my blog.

Sauerkraut and mashed potatoes were my absolutely favorite dish as a kid.

Am German though, so…

That’s a pretty apt description, I’d say! Getting everything you ever wanted and still feeling like you don’t belong and cannot be happy.

IDK if you’ve seen the show, but if not: that’s definitely still a big theme there, but while it is never dropped completely, it is alleviated somewhat because the characters grow closer as a group than they did in the books. Can highly recommend both.

It is, and I read them. The series creators were very faithful to the general feeling and atmosphere of the books, but most of the plotlines and character beats are show-only. Makes for two very different (but both good!) stories.

The Magicians (2016): It often gets pitched as “Hogwarts for adults” because it features a magic college/university, but honestly that is just the initial backdrop and a massive undersell.

It is the rare show where the creators were seemingly handed a blank cheque to be as creative as they want to be, and they make full use of that in more ways than I can list here (but which definitely includes both the magic system itself, and the hilarious nonchalance towards the consequences of magic being a reality); yet all the while, they stay true and fiercely loyal to their characters, who are all deeply flawed, but which you can’t help but want to see succeed; plus they managed to write genuinely great humor.

The best summary of the show comes from one of the characters themselves: “Magic doesn’t come from talent. It comes from pain.”

Be warned: the first few episodes, and possibly the first season, are the weakest and roughest of the bunch, which probably really hampered viewership. They do still manage to find their own tone, but it’s nothing compared to seasons 3-5.

Piefuckers

I’m lawful evil. It’s so great. I can keep my head straight instead of always having it turned.

Pffft. You just aren’t a Nix enjoyer yet.

I’m just going to leave this here: Wigner’s friend.

In Timelike Infinity, there’s a group following that logic through to its conclusion, committing a bit of terrorism on the galactic scale to make Ultimate Observer-senpai notice them from the end of time and the universe.

Batshit insane, 10/10, one of Baxter’s tamer plotlines.

Same