Ha, that reminds me of Donald Knuth offering 0x$1.00 to anyone that finds a mistake in TAOCP, like this guy:
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BitSound@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•[Legal question] Are song titles subject to trademark?4·9 months agoDefinitely not. There’s a whole genre of music that’s created for riding the coattails of popular songs. They wait for a song title by artists like Taylor Swift to be announced and then release their own songs with the same title. Sometimes they’re actually good, like this dude:
I’ve been wondering how much of that is back to school. I have the sense that Lemmy has a lot of younger users. I can’t judge though as I’ve been inactive for long stretches due to life. I’ve been trying to contribute more now
The latter, but I also don’t really mind paywalls in the form of “get early access” like SMBC comics or “get exclusive special content” like a lot of bands do.
You can just straight paywall with those too, but you don’t have too. A band I like crowdfunded a music video and you can watch it free on youtube, but if you didn’t crowdfund it you missed out on perks that go all the way up to being in the music video
Probably my favorite set of stories is by qntm, who writes lots of short fiction you can check out at his site. He wrote There Is No Antimemetics Division, which I think is best described by the intro he wrote for it:
An antimeme is an idea with self-censoring properties; an idea which, by its intrinsic nature, discourages or prevents people from spreading it.
Antimemes are real. Think of any piece of information which you wouldn’t share with anybody, like passwords, taboos and dirty secrets. Or any piece of information which would be difficult to share even if you tried: complex equations, very boring passages of text, large blocks of random numbers, and dreams…
But anomalous antimemes are another matter entirely. How do you contain something you can’t record or remember? How do you fight a war against an enemy with effortless, perfect camouflage, when you can never even know that you’re at war?
Welcome to the Antimemetics Division.
No, this is not your first day.
There’s a lot of other good entries too. They generally take the form of a wiki entry at https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/, as a classified file describing some anomalous thing or event. They have a shared canon but only loosely, individual stories can conflict with one another. Here’s a couple good ones:
- https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-173 - The original. No picture because the creator of the picture didn’t like being used for SCP, but you can find it online
- https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2521 - An anomaly that covets any written information about itself
- https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3008 - An anomalous IKEA, got turned into a video game
- https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-j - Joke SCP
I’ll post over in !scp@lemmy.world too, to see what other people recommend for getting into it
BitSound@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Which scene in a movie/series do you think didn't make any sense to the plot ?11·9 months agoThe trilogy would’ve been much better if either director had done all 3. Either J.J. Abrams with a fun nostalgic return to form, or Rian Johnson with a fresh new take. The whiplash from them fighting with each other over the direction of the plot just ended up being a huge mess. I’m pretty surprised they weren’t just told what the plot was going to be, kind of seems like a screwup by whoever handled that.
False dichotomy, I’d rather see other funding models like Patreon/Kickstarter. Paying gets you early access/bonus stuff/whatever, and you don’t need intrusive technologies like ads/paywalls.
!scp@lemmy.world and !bluey@lemmy.world are both communities that are pretty low traffic atm, but seem like there’s a lot of Lemmings that would be into them
BitSound@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•If you could, how would you deprogram an extreme liberal?351·9 months agoHow are you defining “far extreme liberal”?
BitSound@lemmy.worldto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Please suggest some good self-hostable RAG for my LLM.English21·9 months agoNot sure how ollama integration works in general, but these are two good libraries for RAG:
BitSound@lemmy.worldto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•People with framework laptops on linux (nixos?) what is your experience with them?21·9 months agoNot in general, sorry. Best bet is to make sure you’re using the most recent kernel, which Ubuntu tends to lag on. You can also try checking out the arch wiki entry for it. It’s a different distro, but the wiki is good and commonly has tips relevant for any distro.
BitSound@lemmy.worldto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•People with framework laptops on linux (nixos?) what is your experience with them?11·9 months agoWhat kernel are you running? From what I understand, that should be the major differentiator if you’re not using S3.
BitSound@lemmy.worldto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•People with framework laptops on linux (nixos?) what is your experience with them?11·9 months agoCouldn’t tell you unfortunately. It looks like AMD is also on board with deprecating S3 sleep, so I would guess that it’s not significantly better. The kernel controls the newer standby modes, so it’s really going to depend on how well it’s supported there.
BitSound@lemmy.worldto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•People with framework laptops on linux (nixos?) what is your experience with them?141·9 months agoSleep kind of sucks on the original 11th gen hardware. They pushed out a bios update that broke S3 sleep, so now all you’ve got is the s2idle version, which the kernel is only OK at. Your laptop bag might heat up. S3 breaking isn’t really their fault, Intel deprecated it. Still annoying though. I’ve heard the Chromebook version and other newer gens have better sleep support.
Other than that, it’s great. NixOS runs just fine, even the fingerprint reader works, which has been rare for Linux
BitSound@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's an artist / band that you used to dislike, but now enjoy?111·9 months agoMeshuggah:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9LpMZuBEMk
Listened to them before I got into metal, came back to them later and now love them. That’s from probably one of their more accessible records, they also have more experimental stuff like this:
BitSound@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is the most severe case of brainwashing you have seen?191·10 months agoOn a related note, I think libraries do need a bit of a facelift, and not just be “the place where books live”. It’s important to keep that function, but also expand to “a place where learning happens”. I know lots of libraries are doing this sort of thing, but your average person is probably still stuck in the “place where books live” mindset, as you allude. I’m talking stuff like 3D printers, makerspaces, diybio, classes about detecting internet bullshit, etc.
BitSound@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is the most severe case of brainwashing you have seen?English205·10 months agoThreads like this, with highly upvoted comments like
americans are more propagandized than they think citizens of the DPRK are
They also use sarcasm try to push the narrative that North Korea is actually just fine, OK?
Guys you don’t understand; the West has spoken; we MUST hate North Korea, our governments have already decreed it so.
Many of them are also seemingly physically incapable of communicating without hexbear’s custom reaction images, which is a weird behavior common to many cults. Makes it harder to communicate with the outgroup.
I think LW is defederated from them (or vice versa) so you can’t post over there, but for further examples, try making an account over there and saying that maybe, just maybe, Putin did a bad thing by invading Ukraine, and they’re defending an imperialist.
BitSound@lemmy.worldto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What duration of time do you connect to intellectual property?42·10 months agoI respect that you work in the arts. However, I think too many people worried about copyright think that things would look similar to the way they are today, but the situation would be radically different without copyright. For example, Disney wouldn’t exist. You wouldn’t have large corporations taking and not giving back, because those large corporations wouldn’t exist like they do now in the first place.
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