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Daniel Lakeland @[email protected]

Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.

Oct 01, 2026, 11:32 PM

I think I've seen this before, but I stumbled across it in a lemmy comment just now and figured I'd post it.

I think this indicates to me that there are really two meanings of the word "purpose" - one is design intent, the other is real-world function. Having that distinction is useful, e.g. it let you discuss how a design succeeded or failed..

Boswell's linocuts blow my mind.

There's more here: https://lauraboswell.co.uk/printgallery.php

There's also a video of her talking through her process at https://youtu.be/CMGKqEgW10U

There's an option in the KDE plasma settings to "disable touchpad while typing", which I already have on. My mouse randomly clicks and moves the cursor while I'm typing though, and I suspect it's due to an over-senstive touchscreen (because I can't think of what else it might be).

Is there an equivalent way to disable the touch screen while typing?

Lime Bar @[email protected]

I am a little shocked at the lack of solidarity I see between artists working in different mediums wrt genAI.

Musicians who would never use it to make music use it to make cover art

Graphic artists reach for it to make music over their videos

Writers use it to illustrate their articles

And, considering software development an art, many use it to create web sites or apps to host their art.

None of this is necessary. All of this is harmful to the other artists.

Collaborate ffs.

Stop it.

Aug 09, 2026, 12:17 AM

It would be cool if there was a community dedicated to helping people get better at making visual art, e.g. art education, learning, advice requests, feedback, etc.

Is there anything like this already? I had a search around and couldn't see anything much. There is [email protected], but it's fairly dead, and doesn't cover lots of the things above.

If there isn't already something like that, would people be keen for it?

What music albums or EPs released in the last ~20 years are way less popular than they should be?

Anything with over a million listens is probably already too popular for the purposes of this question. Looking for stuff that never got much air play, but is really excellent.

What are the major paradigms within the social sciences? e.g. Sociology seems to have very different ways of knowing and methodologies compared to e.g. behavioural sciences. Is there a sensible/useful way to think about how to group the sub-disciplines?

Most communities are not the sole community related to their topic, there are really often other communities on the same, or similar topics.

An example: there are a tonne of art related comunities, but only a small handful of them have links to other related communities.

It would be great if there was more of a culture of propping up semi-related communities. This would be particularly useful for helping more niche communities get rolling.

I found this super informative - it uses hatching to build values and form distinction, and the simplified thumbnails really make it easy to follow what's going in and how it works