Andrew

Ranked by complexity:

1. Demystify the universe
2. Demystify the human brain
3. Demystify our sed scripts

Think we should maybe walk before we run here.

I’ll admit to assuming he must be kind of a cool nerd for naming some of his SpaceX things after Culture ships (from Iain M. Banks’ novels), but now I feel sullied by association from having enjoyed the same books.

I wouldn’t do this personally, but if I did, I think I’d at least pipe the results to head -n 1 to only act on the first result.

It probably is. I’d tried Mastodon but found myself not going back. Phanpy re-invigorated my interest in it.

Sorry. It’s from me being too online. Must. Put. Phone. Down.

It was two, fwiw. They were also upvoted, and engaged with (which is what the trolls want, of course). I shouldn’t have made that comment - it’s a sign that I’ve been on my phone too much this morning. I’ll amend it, and then go out for a walk or something.

Well it’s good to see that - unlike Lemmy - Reddit users have found a way to bash Windows without using pre-transition images of Elliot Page. So they’ve got that going for them, at least. (I’m assuming this post is also poking fun at Reddit, for being riddled with ads)

EDIT: Apologies, I shouldn’t have made this comment. I’ll leave it up, so the replies have some context.

Mastodon also has a different outbox format (one that’s paginated), so that’s the other reason their posts don’t show from Lemmy. Solving the problem of following users with fake communities has also been proposed (by me, and also here), but it’s generally a bad idea - a hack that will come back to bite you. If Lemmy were changed to integrate Mastodon more, it’d ideally be a big project - one that would fully embrace the idiosyncrasies of Mastodon (like muting replies and denying Follow requests) because ignoring them would lead to trouble later on.

Sync seems to have it’s own convention where you just search for the community name, and click the one you want from the results.

If the one you want isn’t coming up, you could make a comment somewhere using the ‘!’ format, and then click on that to force it to resolve.

Hmm. Just re-checked. Still says the same thing for me. Maybe it’s country-specific (I’m in the UK), or browser-specific (I’m using Chrome on Android), or being A/B tested (although the comment about all French newspapers doing this suggests otherwise).

The cookie pop-up for this site gives you 2 options: ‘Accept and continue’ or ‘Decline and subscribe’ which I’ve never seen before and enters a new level of cookie choice abuse. (Accept is for 823 partners, btw)