cm0002

joined 2 months ago
 

I've been wanting to make a modern and intuitive client for reading papers for a while. A huge thanks to arXiv for all they do

Check it out at OpenParchment. You can find the code here.

Enjoy and let me know what you think!

Developer @Aurelius@lemmy.world

 
 
 

A volcano in southeastern Iran has nudged upward by about 3.5 inches (9 centimeters) in 10 months. This might sound like a small rise but it has big significance.

A new study used satellite data to spot the change and argues that pressure is building near the summit.

 

The Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR)’s T1 class is famous for many reasons: being enormous, being a duplex, possibly having beaten Mallard’s speed record while no one was looking… and being in production in the 21st century. That last fact is down to the redoubtable work by the PRR T1 Steam Locomotive Trust, who continued their efforts to reproduce an example of these remarkable and lamentably unpreserved locomotives in the year 2025.

They say that 2025 was “the year of the frame” because the frame was finally put together. We might say that for the PRR Trust, this was the year of welding. Back when the Baldwin and Altoona works were turning out the originals, the frames for steam locomotives were cast, not welded. There might not be anywhere on Earth to get a 64′ long (19.5 m), 71,000 lbs steel casting made these days. Building it up with welded steel might not be perfectly accurate, but it’s the sort of hack that’s needed to keep the project moving.

 

A lot of people around my age might read those words and be instantly thrown back to the days of dial-up internet, MSN Messenger and Napster.

But before you instinctively type the letters "a/s/l" on your keyboard, get this - for a lot of people, this is hardly the stuff of distant memories.

In 2025 RuneScape - the online game where players can go on quests with their friends which first launched way back in 2001 - saw an influx of players.

Its number of paid members grew to "well over a million" according to the company, an increase of 30% compared to the start of the year.

Many millions more play for free, and the firm saw a historic milestone in 2025 - with a whopping 240,000 logging in at the same time, the most simultaneous players in the game's 25-year history.

To put that into context, at the time of writing, only three games available on the online store Steam have more current players.

[–] cm0002@ttrpg.network 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I specified already, people see the instances you post from and builds recognition for that due to the volume with which i post. So I rotate around which ones I post from

when you use these accounts to post to huge instances like lemmy.world (which you do frequently)

I haven't posted to a .world comm (with the exception of linux_gaming) since the JL fallout and have moved quite a few of the comms I created there off it and am planning to move some of the larger ones I mod off there

although I'm not convinced it's really a problem.

It actually did happen to me, and they were spouting right-winger Nazi bullshit sooo yea. Turned out it was UM (unsurprisingly) lmao

And btw some of those accounts in your screenshot are the imposter accounts like Lonestar, az.social and pawn

But some of the others I don't post from much if at all and just make comms with them

[–] cm0002@ttrpg.network 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

Oh I don't do that for that, there's multiple reasons, but one of the bigger ones is to promote smaller instances because of the volume of posting it makes smaller instances more recognizable.

Other reasons for the multitude of accounts include making comms on fitting smaller instances (I make programming related comms on programming.dev or retro related on retrolemmy for example), protecting against the imposter problem and better interconnecting wayward smaller instances (you'd be surprised at the number of, even common comms, that smaller instances are missing out on that I discover just through my posting)

[–] cm0002@ttrpg.network 19 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

I do crosspost all .ml content and tag the user if it's OC, as part of boycotting efforts against .ml. It shows in the crosspost section of your client

Not that it's relevant in this particular case, this is my own sourced article not posted before to the Threadiverse

Why am I cross-posting .ml content?

I cross-post from .ml to the nearest relevant non-.ml comm to reduce the influence of .ml comms and indirectly, the instance as a whole, to make it an easier decision for other instance admins to defederate because one key reason I identified that admins don't want to defederate is because .ml still has some very large comms and some niche comms.

Megathread on the issue

Some highlights from the link:

"Don't worry guys, the Uyghur Genocide was REALLY just birth control! ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/30580167

"See! nobody died IN Tiananmen Square, just AROUND it, so it doesn't count!!" ~ Davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/30673342

.ml admin, Nutomics continued transphobia https://lemmy.world/post/29222558 The original transphobic Comment from Nutomic: https://lemmy.world/post/18236068

"NK is actually good and anything counter to that is Western propaganda!" ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/31595035

General negative sentiment to other instances who haven't "seen the way" yet ~davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/27426510

"If you don't support Russia then you just don't understand geopolitics" ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/27352415

And so so much documentation on clear heavy handed censorship and bias also on the link. So much I can't even put them all here because this comment would be really long.

I believe the behavior of its admins (the main admins are Lemmy devs) does harm to the overall growth of the Lemmy-verse and maybe even the Thrediverse (since Lemmy kinda kicked off the Thrediverse) because of its association with the devs of Lemmy and their insistence to use .ml as their personal political platform to spread harmful propaganda

On the outside, bringing up Lemmy frequently leads to comments like "Lemmy? Isn't that the place with a bunch of tankies?" Or "Tried Lemmy, but found it full of pro Russia crap so I left". The best way forward from that I see is to either widely defederate from .ml like the rest of the Triad, or pressure them to put a fair and unbiased as possible admin team.

[–] cm0002@ttrpg.network 4 points 4 days ago

I use this, I like it. I have it coupled with a device management platform that enforces it. (ManageEngine Endpoint Central, free up to 25 devices)

You can also self-host the "connected mode" server and is way more flexible than Family Link in regards to app limits. You can even set time limits for individual app activities. So if your kid likes a certain app, but has features you'd prefer they have less or no access at all to and it's broken into a separate activity you can just add that activity to a stricter limit

[–] cm0002@ttrpg.network 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If it's just a domain, you can transfer registrars pretty eaily

[–] cm0002@ttrpg.network 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Stamets is a BOT I KNEW it caught in 4K 📸

[–] cm0002@ttrpg.network 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not sure what your area was or what, but it's definitely way cheaper. I still have the ability to go and make a 45-minute monthly trek to do so. Meat alone is, on average, 50% cheaper than Walmart and about 30-40% cheaper than the cheapest place I have in town

There are a few exceptions like certain canned veggies/beans if you can buy in bulk at Sam's Club or Costco can be a bit more expensive at the Commissary on a per ounce basis and name brand frozen/pantry "convenience" foods tend to have little savings

But by and large it's dirt cheap compared to off-base

[–] cm0002@ttrpg.network 19 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Commissary groceries are subsidized, it's going to have a pretty big impact. Not only will they have to go off-base, it'll be a lot more expensive.

Coupled with the not getting paid part...lmao

[–] cm0002@ttrpg.network 13 points 1 month ago (8 children)

I updated the post with an archive link, sorry I always forget this website is like that because my ad blocking makes it appear clean to me

[–] cm0002@ttrpg.network 37 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I updated the post with an archive link, sorry I always forget this website is like that because my ad blocking makes it appear clean to me

[–] cm0002@ttrpg.network 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Lol these are for games the work in the terminal

Or

Does RetroArch now have a TUI‽ Because that would be genuinely cool if it did lmao

[–] cm0002@ttrpg.network 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In a just, reasonable world it wouldn't matter because the governments would be doing logical things like rolling out some sort of UBI program to catch people or ensuring basic needs are met job or no job, setting up retraining programs for people to easily pivot etc.

It is useful, it's the governments of the world response to its job elimination that's the problem

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