Daily random discussion - Jul 4, 2023
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Philemon is the mascot name by 21 votes.
I love it. This could be a variant in the near future. Saving comment for reference!
Today’s Ask PHlemmy: What is the one thing that never gets boring to eat?
Personally, egg. There are several ways on how you can enjoy the versatility of eggs; it can be steamed, fried, boiled, baked, or poached. The possibility is endless.
Tapsilog??
Chicken, kung marami kang spices/other ingredients sa bahay.
Pickled cucumbers.
French fries for me. Though recently I've started appreciating kamote fries.
Rice lol, as long as there is ulam, it doesn't get old
burger. kung may pera lang ako
Shawarma.
ramen!!!
Share ko lang yung 500-day streak ko sa wordle 😤
Nakita ko lang 'to dati sa random Reddit thread (from askReddit ata?) and it stuck with me since. Happy Tuesday, phlegmmings!
Happy tuesday ankol sox
Sirit na. 'Di ko ma-place kung ano previous u/ mo 😭😭😭.
🤫🫢🤭
Ako na sinasakit kahapon at nagescalate papuntang ubo na may plema: 👁️👄👁️
From plema to problema real quick 😔😔😔
Happy tuesday, tito Soxxx! 🤸♂️
Happy Tuesday din, Eury!
I was talking to a friend about the recent issues Lemmy, and lemmy.world in particular is facing.
I suggested that while the scaling issues on the Lemmy software itself is being worked upon, maybe more "bland" country/region instances where people can join is a viable solution....
That I'd love to make an account on
lemmy.sea(a Southeast Asian Lemmy instance)Edited typo(s)
Same here.
Why I created an account with the same username as on Reddit on lemm.ee: Because I can't bear the slowness of lemmy.world.
This is the same [email protected], just on lemm.ee.
I think most people who held out until the last moment migrated to lemmy.world hence why it's slow. Glad I'm on lemm.ee though, and that the admin is participative in contributing to the code. I trust the developers will be able to have a fix for these issues soon.
Thanks for the tip. I've made my account on lemm.ee in just under 20 minutes. I hope, though, that this won't be a pattern.
Oh, this is the same @[email protected] you replied to.
Anyways, I hope this won't be a pattern where we look for "underpopulated" instances only to find it too crowded soon enough. I remember Lemmy.world being described as idyllic before the Reddit blackouts. That's barely a month ago, lol!
It would be interesting to have a .ph instance though. r/ph managed to reach 1M subscribers alone, and the offshoot ph subs could justify having a ph-centric instance.
I flirted with this idea after reading up that Lemmy can run on a NAS. Good thing I didn't, seeing how the weekend traffic brought Lemmy to its knees.
A single stack might not be enough judging from lemmy.world's upgrade woes. And in hindsight, you'll also need a team of technically adept people aside from the admin/mod team. But it could also be interesting to have a single user instance for the sake of having a local copy of all the federated communities you subscribe to... as long as those instances would allow federation.
You need someone to host and pay that domain. .ph domains tend to be expensive to renew.
Yeah. Hosting might be cheaper, but it would be a challenge to keep it sustainable if it's going to operate through contributions. And yeah, it's a pity that dot.ph has complete control over the .ph TLDs. But I suppose it doesn't necessarily have to be a .ph, but any domain name that could cater to the ph crowd.
how about gawa tayo sarili natin instance? will be financed through donations galing mismo satin. Pero is it possible ma-takedown un instance if ever na may topic na controversial for example sa itang politician? something like na-insulto xa sa post natin and pinagbantaan tayo?
That's another can of worms I've never thought about. Reddit used to have a warranty canary in their annual transparency report. It disappeared on the next year which indicated that foreign governments has started potential user information requests.
In 2016, there was one preservation request from Philippines. But by last year, there were 8 content removal requests.
So yeah, it's possible that a PH-centric instance could be sanctioned by the government for content they may deem questionable.
I didn't even think about the possibility of government censorship, tbh. I was just thinking that creating a PH-centric instance might not be viable, but perhaps an instance to serve South-east Asia might be. I also briefly entertained the mental image of a very salty SEA-centric instance (like the infamous amount of salt present in SEA gaming servers), but that just intensifies the pun in my head.
On a more serious note, yeah. It doesn't have to be hosted here in the Philippines, maybe perhaps Singapore? That still faces the issues of skilled admins (to handle all the technical stuff associated in hosting an instance), as well as the associated expenses (and managing donations).
https://sub.rehab/
Sharing this here.
Jose, can you see?
Sana ibalik ng sugod bahay ang "problem solving" , tawang tawa talaga ako sa segment na ito before
ewan ko pero madalas nawawala un comedy pag absent si Jose sa sugod
By the dawn's early light
work to survive... ugh how annoying
Minsa'y Isang Gamu Gamo is getting the boutique label treatment via Vinegar Syndrome!
tl,dr: It's the movie where Nora Aunor yells the iconic "My brother is not a pig" lol
Oh no...
Bakit naman?
They are known for buying unfinished Z-grade movies from 20th century and restore them with uncanny voice actors and "whatever everything left on the film reels." You can compare it with Criterion Collection.
They have some good shit collections, though.
They are using the 2018 remaster by ABS-CBN on this one.
Yeah, I recently checked it. I guess they have the rights on this one.
Good morning! Gusto ko magabsent aaaaahhhh
Morning to you too, I'm sure you can do this, no need to be absent.
Pinapasok kahit sinasakit ✊😷 masked up na praying sana wala mahawa jusko
Spread the love ika nga lmao.
Edit: To be fair if your feeling out of the weather, I say call in sick no issue with it. Then again I'm not your boss what do I know.
Ain't it sad that people are compelled to go to work even when under the weather? Halatang the compensation is not sufficient and that most workplaces are not "employees first"
Good morning! Laban lang 🤸♂️
APPROVED!!!
I'm sleepy
Since we're on the topic of moving between instances, I recommend this tool to migrate your subscribed communities from one instance account to another: https://github.com/wescode/lemmy_migrate
For those using linux, btw, you probably don't have install Python3, as it's likely already installed in your system. If you already have git installed, it's even easier.
Here's what I did:
~/Projects.Codeand copy the Git HTTPS linkgit clone <url>whereurlis the link you copied in the previous steppython3 ./lemmy_migrate.py -c config.iniSomeone brought up bailing from Twitter in the previous RD thread, and I quickly remembered how I would tweet just to keep myself entertained with the long queues. Wala pa ako mobile internet a long time ago so I'd have to send my tweets to a dedicated Globe number and they will post it. Parang old school telegram, lmao.
This was a pic from one of my older tweets. Yung mala-isaw na pila ng jeeps sa North Avenue terminal.
Edit: To be clear, this was a pic I took during that exact tweet. It wasn't on the tweet itself since I obviously can't upload images (nor did Twitter support it yet).
I did this for Plurk back in the late 2000's, but not that often since the amount of lag is just incredible (but defensively so). It's a really nifty service back then though, posting through SMS, even if limited to just text.
Removing cult is really difficult.
Testing via
lemm.eesince I'm still having issues withlemmy.world.I would recommend the lemm.ee instance cause it seems like the most stable one instance from what I'm currently seeing
"Awkwardheimer"
I think its time for this "sun" to set, and with it this account. The sun must set so that tomorrow's sunrise will come.
I have always loved you from the bottom of my heart, your flaws, your struggles, everything about you. When i learned new things about you, I fell more in love with you. I loved you for being you
But alas, It has to come to this end. Even though you deleted all your messages, the pictures you sent. Those memories still live inside me and i will cherish those moments.
I'm leaving this meme that i saw here too, it captures perfectly just how much i loved you
Bye~~~
Farewell, online traveller. Sana'y magkita-kita tayong muli, kahit na iba na ang pinanangdalakang pangalan...
Growing pains for Lemmy
Parang naging default instance kasi ng most of those who join Lemmy ang .world, which dapat mag spread out between instances para hindi ma-strain yung capacity ng mga bigger instances. Kaya nga may federation. It's not that hard to subscribe to a community from another instance naman. Most of the communities I'm subscribed to are not in lemm.ee but that's the beauty of federation, I can still interact with the other instances while never actually leaving my instance. Siguro kailangan din natin i-direct and mga incoming users to other instances para ma share ang load between multiple instances. Just my 2 cents.
I'm of the opinion that ideally, Lemmy.world can act as the assembly area for the new migrants. It gives them time to get a feel of the Threadiverse as a whole, without having to think about instances and federation and all that shit. Once they've gained more experience, or found an instance that better fits their needs, then they can go.
However, given the amount of people pouring into Lemmy.world, I think that it might be a good idea to "randomly assign" an instance to them. That is, a number of small instances that are willing to take the load off Lemmy.world can group together to form a pool of instances that are then randomly assigned to those coming over from Reddit through a portal like a more newb-friendly version of https://join-lemmy.org/.
Exponential growth is scary! I sure hope instance admins, as well as Lemmy devs (and contributors, and others such as those who actively look for problems in the code), are already working on such problems. In the meanwhile, yeah, the amount of goodwill is just overwhelming as well, which I hope translates to more donations instance admins and Lemmy devs (and contributors).
I definitely agree with this, but damn, the upkeep for having an instance of your own can be a strain on your server, though. We have a small instance of ours in order to subscribe to other instances (not just lemmy.world) and in a span of 4 weeks, the database got up to 6 gigs already… can’t imagine how much it would cost to have more than 15 users. Donations would have to be a default setup if people want a particular instance to keep running and not have it become like Reddit, and I understand better now why some have to pass a particular screening first.
Huh. I just realized how ActivityPub could be a double edged sword if I'm understanding it right. If you have 5 users in your instance who are all subscribed to the same community on another instance, then you'll only need to store a single copy of that community in your instance. But if all 5 each have a different subscription, then you'll be storing a copy of each community for all 5 users. The first scenario would be more efficient in terms of storage.
TL;DR: Accessing lemmy.world from a faster instance feels faster because you're probably not really accessing lemmy.world.
There's likely two contributing factors as to why lemmy.world has been acting up lately:
From my experience, it seems like there's an issue with how the lemmy.world's frontend interacts with the backend. But it doesn't seem to affect users from other instance because as I've said, they're not really accessing lemmy.world.
To elaborate, there was a post weeks ago on how beehaw defederating with lemmy.world affects the lemmy.world users. Of particular interest is an explanation on how ActivityPub works.
So if I'm understanding it right, if you're reading and commenting on this particular post, you're really interacting with a copy of it in your instance. Your instance and lemmy.world will then synchronize the data through the ActivityPub protocol to ensure users from both instances sees the same content. This is a backend-to-backend interaction and thus may not be completely affected with lemmy.world's issues.
kain tayo bicol express...
I'm hosting a giveaway for Wargroove on steam in the Gift of Gaming subreddit if anyone wants to join in: https://lemmy.world/post/974576
Its weird I cannot view this community in lemm.ee.
Seems fine to me. The link doesn't look that great though.
https://lemm.ee/c/[email protected]?dataType=Post&page=1&sort=Hot
teka lilipat tayo sa
lemm.ee??Nope, option lang na magregister users ng isa pa account sa lemm.ee para gamitin dito sa phlemmy kasi medyo mabagal si lemmy.world right now.
yea pansin ko nga yung bagal ng
worldI still have my world account, but I will be going back there once from my lemm.ee account pag matapos na ang yakapang mahigpit na nangyayari ngayon sa lemmy.world.
I would want to argue with myself in the future also.No.
I read it until the very end, but I'm still clueless as to what that thing you're talking about is, lol!
And now I'm afraid to ask.
accidentally splashed my eye with xylene 😀👍
Ngayon ko lang nasilip kung ano ito.
Harmful, Corrosive, Health Hazard.
Oof.
@ExploringLiterature ang bagal mo.
Yan kase puro ka Lemmy.world. Tara na sa lemm.ee
Signed, Your (faster) parallel
universeinstance counterpartHAHAHA! Hello there!
Mejo nakakatakot lang na baka maulit sa lemm.ee yung nangyari sa Lemmy.world.
so far sobra laki difference ng world sa ee - not sure kung updated data dito https://lemmyverse.net/
EDIT: another page to check number of users https://the-federation.info/platform/73
Mejo selfish, I think, but I do hope it stays that way.
I made my account at Lemmy.world back when it was half the size of Lemm.ee, and look where it is now. But then again, as I've pointed out in a different reply, ang ganda naman kasi ng reputation ng admins ng Lemmy.world eh. They already have had experience with Mastodon.world, and it was said that they can pretty much handle the onslaught of users.
Both a good thing and a bad thing I guess, as mas maraming lumilipat. It's too early to tell if fediverse can take on reddit, but at least dumadami ung mga tao dito (based on these migrations). Hopefully ma handle ang capacity and dumamy pa ang (quality) users ng fediverse.
Yeah, it is a double-edged sword. The way I look at it, Lemmy.world is the starter town of the wider Lemmy-verse, dun talaga mag-dadagsaan ang mga newbs. Tapos, since masyado nang crowded, kakalat ang mga tao elsewhere, which on their own would grow and be known--maybe not to the extent of Lemmy.world is at present--but it's bound to happen.
I just hope that by then, there's enough of these hubs (for the lack of a better term) to take the load off Lemmy.world, that by then Lemmy (the software) is a lot better equipped in handling that load (not just users, but also activity), and finally, that these other instances have learned the lessons Lemmy.world right now is learning.
That is, I hope that
Edit: Formatting. Wala nga palang numbered list dito sa markdown ng Lemmy.
LMAO the mental image of a distraught ash ketchum not having any starter pokemon left for him dahil ang dami nyang kasama sa starter town Pallet town. Yeah, i went off on a tangent here lol
Damn! What a mental image. That's a hilarious one.
The one I had naman is a Divisoria-like Prontera na sobrang crowded, at sobrang lag, di ka na halos makagalaw. Tapos di mo na rin halos makita yung avatar mo kasi natatabunan ng kung-ano-ano.
"Gusto mo ba ako sumama o hindi?"
me: Gusto ko sumama ka pero kung aawayin mo lang ako at magrereklamo the whole trip ok na ako mag-isa 🥹
My delivery was pa-cute and paawa. Kung away 'to na chat lang (minus the emoji) baka nag-escalate na lol. Kaya ayaw ko chat-chat lang ih hahaha
Basta ako masaya na ako sa planned activities ko. Nag-invite lang ako ng +1 kasi for 2 people yung binayaran ko eh sayang naman yung isa. A jowa would be really handy right now chz
Medyo nakikita ko na ang perks ng couple rates tapos split lang yung expenses and then you actually end up saving more money compared w single rates 🤔
Ofc, group rates are still the cheapest. Mahirap nga lang nga bumuo ng group unless it's really your thing and you're the planner. Scheduling is also a pain. My schedule can get pretty irregular, too.
I go with couple rates, hanap na lang ako ng buddy, I suppose.
Ping comparison:
lemm.eevs...lemmy.world!That's because the lemm.ee admin has been consistent in providing updates, upgrading hardware and communicating the changes to the community, glad I signed up to the instance :)
si world din is trying to improve it, pero sobra dami users (biggest lemmy instance) so hirap sila sa overloading. kaya mas maganda ma-balance un dami ng users. post sila siguru like when new users tries to sign up sa world, it would suggest to try muna sa ibang instance
Yeah people have to understand that with federation, users should spread out on different instances and not just join the biggest one there is since it doesn't work that way here, unlike on reddit. It's not like they won't see the content from other instances, that's why federation exists so that the load is spread out to multiple instances. But oh well, that might be so easy to grasp for some.
One thing that I think has catapulted the amount of people flocking to lemmy.world is the reputation of the instance as being run by competent people as well as having a very decent uptime especially compared to other large instances at the time of the Reddit blackouts.
People just want to be on an instance that's trustworthy and reliable. Thus, I kind of understand why people just piled onto Lemmy.world. Besides, a lot of them just got redirected to Lemmy.world by well-meaning people who just wanted to keep things simple--simple for the refugees who just wanted simple instructions (without having to choose an instance with everything that entails).
Tinitingnan ba ng recruiter ang expected salary sa jobstreet pag tatawagan? Last year kasi mababa lang ung expected salary ko tapos nung ginawa kong public ung profile ko, andaming tumawag. Ngayong mataas na, wala nang natawag.
My sister worked in recruiting - yes, they do. That doesn't stop them from calling anyway, lol. They're going to guilt-trip/"gaslight" you into accepting it.
Hmmm... babaan ko na lang ung nakalagay sa Jobstreet at i-guilt-trip/gaslight sila para taasan. Haha
Ok guys pustahan time:
If you had to bet on who would win between Elon Musk and
Bryan FuryT-800Mark Zuckerberg if the alleged throwdown would happen, and why would they win,Who would it be?
Edit: Context
I'd go for Mark. He's the lesser of the two evils, has MMA training, and took down two Armie Hammers.
Huh? I think your reply got lost.
But yeah, earlier, during my migration to a different instance, mejo mabilis ang lemmy.world.
I, too, personally lean towards the zuck. Also, if you would put down an actual betting amount (any currency). How much would you throw down lollol
Lmao two Armie Hammers. Speaking of, what a fall from grace because of sexual allegations. I remember I read also somewhere on reddit that the nature of these sexual allegations were downright macabre (cannibalism fetish ata allegedly ung kay Armie), and that, according to the variety article, he's totally broke and selling timeshares in Cayman Islands.
In case anyone wants to know what timeshares are, John Oliver has a mealtime video (30 mins or less) explaining this concept.
You should watch the documentary, haha. There's more detail to the fetishes and provides a background as to why he's so fucked up (tl,dr: runs in the family).
Holy Sh*t may documentary!!? I know what i'm going to watch tonight.
MKZ-3000, I mean, Mark Zuckerberg.
Robot jokes aside, he's just healthier, more fit, and better trained in martial arts.
He's got some cred to him too. So I hope Mr. Tesla is ready to get coiled into submission.
That pun!! It's painful! Lmao!
Pero ang unang pumasok sa isip ko, cobra eh, lol! Well, sabi nga naman nila may lahing reptile si Zuck diba? It still fits somehow, kahit mejo pilipit.
Occupational hazard I guess. I admit, I died a little when I let that pun rip. LMAO
Une petite mort? huh?
We need help! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! YAW KO NA!
Oy tulog na huy, kanina pa kita hinihintay mag-off (takte sana naiwan mo lang na nakaopen). Why do I care so much for you again today? Sige ka baka di ka na lumaki niyan hehehe. Pero yeah, good night kung nandito ka man, and yes, obviously, it's hard to just magically un-care you know?
[Edit 6AMish] Pakiskip na lang po. Still, I wish every one good morning. Ingat sa lahat and do your best today!
Some thoughts, did not get much sleep today. I'm not complaining. It's just that some days, it's truly hard holding back what I want to say to you, pero kasi kailangan ko bang sabihin? I mean I could be busy with a love life now, but I've been given you to look after. Maybe kakahiling ko for you, deep down I may have wished sana parte ako ngayon of what makes you going, too.
Maybe I'm just having a hard time accepting that all this is probably over, and I have to really move on now. Maybe not really, I don't know anymore, my judgment's impaired. Maybe I need to take a break again, and that is likely what I'll do.
Thoughts niyo on Fall Out Boy’s version ng We Didn’t Start the Fire?
Okay sana kaso may recency bias siya for me. :(
The original song's charm of chronological order of events* is gone, so the flow became picking rhymes instead.
*There's only one exception of non-chronological event in the original but that was done for scanning.
pakikinggan ko na lang ulit after a few years for nostalgia or summ
Hey, og:images/thumbnails are finally showing up when posting news articles!
Edit: Looks like it only works if you're posting from lemm.ee. Say, that gives me an idea...
Confirmed. OG:images only work when posted through lemm.ee.
Someone put Colleen Ballinger's apology video on Clone Hero.💀💀💀
Good evening, peeps
Yey. Super smooth na ulet scrolling sa Connect!
Thank you sa mga nag-suggest here in RD to migrate to a different lemmy instance.
TIL the eugenics guy (with less than 20 alts) is becoming defensive when he's downvoted. I saw it on r/ph and other subs on the orangered place.
These comments from the comics and adultingph subs show he doesn't stop his eugenics fetish:
It's always hilarious when people get so upset with their downvotes. "Downvotes mean nothing" daw, pero kailangan niya imention lol. Most, if not almost all of the time, those downvotes are deserved. I always downvote them because complaining about downvotes is stupid.
EDIT: Oh god, he's also using the number of upvotes as "proof" that he's right. Ang desperate naman niya for validation hahahahaha.
Mahaba na ang kasaysayan niya sa orangered place. Maraming users ang nahahalata sa behavior niya. This comment shows about it.
Oh I'm familiar with this dumbass. Di ko lang alam na ang dami pala niyang alts. Ang sad niya, terminally online and addicted sa validation through upvotes.
Siya rin ang nagsabi ng advice na matulog daw from 8pm to 4am, pero kabaliktaran sa kanya.
Exhibit A using one of his alts in English:
Exhibit B using another alt, but in Tagalog:
What I'm inferring here is he has terrible blood chemistry, and teeth. Also doesn't shower as much as he should.
He also claimed to be in his 50s, but his way of commenting is very edgy and has reeks of a cool kid.
Uhh... Can someone ask him/her if they um, ano, failed in some application to a certain European art school?
Or, erm, they, ah, should be suggested to do some radical agricultural program that iirc involves "great leaping" to I would speculate as agricultural heights, for, say, 4 - 5 years?
Just curious.
Missing you
Minsan iniisip ko kung dapat pa ba ako magpost ng wala lang na comments. Parang every comment, pabigat sa trapik ng site.😮💨
Nah, I don't think you should mind it that much. More posts means more possibilities of engagement--which is what Lemmy as a whole needs if it were to have a self-sustaining community.
Kung sa tingin mo naman worthy of sharing ang i-popost mo eh, go lang!
Pero syempre nakaka-deter pa din yung user experience sa ngayon. I hope di mainis mga new users at sana maayos na ng mga admin yung issues.
May maintenance ata around 7pm. Sana makatulong yun!
Ah, yun lang. Oo nga. Mejo nakakadiscourage yung makita mong nag-post ka, tapos sa tingin mo witty and engaging, tapos walang kakagat.
I think a lot of us here are willing to wait, to be patient, while the issues are being fixed, on top of the flood of users fleeing the orangered site.
Naisip mo bang magtatag o magbigay ng donation drive para sa mga dev rito, upang ms gumaan-gaan na rin ang uptime ng mga instance rito?
I loved you with every single fiber of my being
Past tense?
Yep, Past tense. Need na mag move-on, Di naman na babalik yon.
Ah, got it~ Thanks!!
Ah, don't worry about it. I hope that whatever it is, it'd eventually be alright.
Ang laki ng community icon when viewed through lemm.ee ah.
Hi Philemon!
Walang imik sa simula, wala ring imik sa kadulu-duluhan, kahit na magandang balita ang dumating sa akin patungkol sa aking academic performance ngayong 2nd sem ng huling taon ng SHS kanina...
Ito na naman, umulan. Sana tuloy tuloy hanggang gabi.
Hi guys, sino na naka-try ng mga Twinhike ng mga bundok yun sa post sa FB? Baka may ma-share kayo experience. Thanks
@the_yaya