LainTrain

Just in case someone has been in a coma since like 2016 and has somehow not heard of the original, it's "A Quick One Before The Eternal Worm Devours Connecticut" by Have A Nice Life.

This song seems to be a Banjo(?) cover of it.

As a disclaimer, I'm not actually anti-AI, but tons of slop is made with it. It's the same as those TTS Reddit reading videos from back in the day or any other shitty trend from the last 10 years.

I'm old enough to know to dismiss internet noise as vastly out of touch with the actual silent majority of internet users, so this moral panic over slop to me was just zoomers who grew up on reaction videos thinking that wasn't slop to the folks who came before, but I was on a train, looking around, I saw like 4/5 people I could see were on their phones, watching clearly AI-generated content, on TikTok or something similar based on the UI elements, one of them even had it on speaker for some reason.

All of them seemed around my age in the mid-20s.

Thing is, I don't really understand it, what's the appeal? I'm not asking about being on your phone, but specifically short-form videos about nothing specific.

When I looked it up, lots of talk about addiction and dopamine loops, but I can't relate to that, I assume this maybe has something to do with me having ADHD and the theory that my dopamine system doesn't really work "normally".

I tried watching TikTok before, but it definitely wasn't stimulating for me, I got bored pretty quick. If I was on a train and really bored looking out the window listening to music, I'd whip out a Wikipedia page or read the comments on Lemmy or look up a random question on my mind.

Why? Well in my experience - text is a lot easier to consume you can consume more information faster, hence to me - it's more stimulating. Works both ways too - It's just easier to express yourself quickly and clearly in text than by speaking. Even typing on my phone feels a helluva lot less taxing and more stimulating than speaking/listening.

It's not like I don't watch videos, I do have videos on in the background sometimes when I'm tidying up or whatever, where I prefer long-form stuff so it just fades into the background and stays consistent and non-distracting. If I watch a movie it's often something I kinda need to mentally work myself up for. I definitely wouldn't be able to pay attention to a video playing on my phone.

So my question is - what's so stimulating about this type of stuff in particular?

I want to hear about your experience so I can understand it better.

I'd like to understand it, because otherwise it feels like most people are weird aliens, driven by forces beyond my comprehension, and it's not nice :(

Whats a good resource? Any guides or such you found particularly helpful? I'm only familiar with some basic x86 assembly, no SSE, AVX, etc. would it be "too much" to try and learn any Risc-V assembly?

Also, are there Risc-V devboards, and if so which ones are good, and what do you use yours for? Are they at an 8-bit microcontroller level, or ARM-running-Linux type beat? Asking the latter because it's always fun to have a real target when learning a new architecture.

Hope discussion is allowed, this place seems like mostly link spam.

What's something that gets you every time? Like a genre trope? A well-timed amen break? Hi-gain on drums in post-punk/new wave? Wow and flutter in a lofi sample in a Current Joys or Teen Suicide type lofi song?

For me it would be acoustic guitar accompanied by a piano melody below, like: https://youtu.be/9FCF2Y4lIWk And https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZuIMcmNZnU

Never can quite tell if it's actually playing the same/accompanying chords in the bass clef or if it's just EQ frequency cuts to give the guitar space to breathe, and never could figure out how to make it myself, trying to put guitar and piano together just ends up with mush whenever I try it, but nonetheless as a listener it always really underscores any drama so well, I love it, no matter how tired or how often I hear it, it never doesn't work.

Close second would be really stripped down instrumental electronic or synthwave songs that are just arpeggios in a few chords with no percussion, really gives me that feeling of refreshment and a new dawn at the end of some story, or perhaps a deserved break.

For example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYLP1pB7xBs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9obW0GNyYbU

I noticed a lot of people seem to browse by All yet complain there's not much content, whereas I'm browsing by Subscribed and I still feel like there's an unreal amount of content, far more than I could consume even if I was browsing Lemmy Non-Stop all day.

I wonder if maybe sharing our subscribed communities with each other would help?

Well the "threatens" part has at least

Every time I come back to a thread later - it's gone. What gives? This is the only community on Lemmy or heck even on the internet in general where I've seen this, it's so odd.

This is quite recent but I've been browsing Lemmy a bunch lately and quite often I see extreme grammatical errors.

I'm not talking about like, incorrect stylistic choices between commas and dashes, or an improper use of ellipses or missing commas or incorrect use of apostrophes in its/it's or in multiple posessive articles or just plain typos or any nitpicky grammar nazi shit like that, but just basic spelling specifically.

It's one thing when you can't spell some pretty uncommon words and you're too lazy to look it up and/or use autocorrect, but it's a completely different league to misspell very basic words, very recently I saw someone spell "extreme" as "extream" which is just kind of baffling, I actually can't even imagine how one would make such a mistake?

And it's not been an isolated thing either, I've seen several instances like that lately.

Am I going crazy? Is it just me?

Don't get me wrong: I certainly don't wish for corporations to destroy the environment for their own benefit, but primarily because I believe that if the environment is to be exploited for industry the rewards of that should be shared equitably amongst the workers in a worker-owner cooperative structure, and the spoils of it should be shared equitably across mankind, and not only those alive today, but also those in the future, hence we need sustainability.

Insofar as actually wanting to preserve it for its own sake though - I think it's meaningless, in a vacuum I would in fact prefer less biodiversity, especially when it comes to insects, and I would really like it if we could exterminate all species of fungi, mosses, lichen as well.

Where others see untouched ecosystems I see unused land that could be a nice city.

I'm an anarchist but I am firmly anti-degrowth, I would genuinely side with neolibs against anprims because they made a far better world even for all it's flaws. Doesn't help that neolibs have actual arguments and all anprims have is the "noble savage" and "appeal to nature" fallacies. Superficially I'm more on the side of soviet tech optimism if that makes sense.

Beyond the political, I don't really have any affinity for it, there are people who say various nonsense like "green spaces improve our mental health" whereas I find them mostly depressing and kind of out of place.

I am okay with parks in cities as long as they're empty and within reach of civilization, but green spaces like parks in cities aren't nature, they're a well curated almost entirely artificial human creation, an expressionist pastiche of green.

Actual nature is wildfires, cancer, floods, earthquakes, predation, parasitism, prions, wasps, itching, pain, burning, poisons, toxins, spores, fungi, spores, lichen, moss, mosquitoes, wasps, bacteria, sun overly bright, needing to pee, being itchy, negative emotions, reptiles, spiders, no amenities, dirt, dirty water (swamps), viruses, bacteria, thorns, stinging nettles, mites, ticks, lyssavirus, people turning to religion etc.

Flowers smell okay, but really air freshener smells better.

I find it all absolutely disgusting, and what's even more disgusting is that these things can affect my unfortunate meat flesh prison, it could make me sick with some COVID-over9000 - another of mother nature's little treats, and then ruin my plans for the day, or even my life.

Nature is pain and agony, and when it's not trying to kill you, it'll damn well do it's best to make you uncomfortable 24/7, it makes me long for the eternal sanctity of steel in lieu of flesh, and the safety of concrete paved city roads lit under a warm orange glow of an artificial street lights. Some nice brutalist architecture, flat colours, sharp geometric shapes - urban and industrial environments feel like home.

As long as there isn't crowds though - people are nature too and pretty disgusting as well, they are as irrational as any frightened animal and a vector for disease.

I never understood what the big deal was with staying inside during the pandemic. It's one thing if you have a shit place and you have to house share or live with parents, if you rent a semi-modern apartment for yourself, I don't see the issue. As long as you're comfortable and have plenty of space, what else is there? All the things one could want are on the internet anyway.

I much prefer the internet tbh, here I have control, if there's something I don't like, I don't have to ever see it again, but I can also engage with it freely without the interaction ever escaping my control, my agency is never impeded. The digital space is much more liberating.

Outside I can't really use an adblocker, or a waspblocker, or a sporeblocker, or a people-blocker.

I've read a number of posts like this on Reddit before and to get ahead of the usual replies:

You have allergies!

No. I don't have any as far as I know.

You just need to do shrooms

I have several times, though I kinda hated it, I much prefer acid myself, and it didn't change my opinion in the slightest. Best place to trip is at home, I can't imagine the panic attack I'd have tripping outside. Actually I can because I have. Would not do that again. At least it was in a business district and not in some ugly forest so I could duck into a Starbucks.

You hate animals

No, I've actually had pets. That said while I value the companionship I would prefer an artificial companion instead.

You just need to spend more time in nature

I've already spent way more time in nature than I'd ever want.

You should read about nature more

Yeah I have. I actually quite like reading about ancient creatures and whatnot, especially from the Cambrian period.

You're just born after 2000!

Idk how that one is relevant but I'm from 1998.

But you're part of nature

Yeah, I hate that. The bits about myself that I love are all that I managed in spite of it, not because of it. I will hate growing old as my meat prison rots and breaks down and I will hate having to confront mortality knowing there is so much to do.

You just haven't visited [x]

I've visited the French Alps as a kid and it smelled like pig shit and made me exhausted, I've visited farms and it smelled like horseshit and was dirty, I've visited Times Square and it was the happiest memory I had as a kid. As an adult I've visited all up and down the UK and Russia (the Baikal and Ural) and idk about the nature there, it's all just whatever and blends in.

At one time a field in the UK offered me peace when I needed it due to material struggles and I enjoyed it, (despite the unfortunate fact it was a reminder of wealth inequality because it was all privately owned by some aristocrat) or at least I thought I enjoyed it, now that I fixed it by improving my material circumstances and have no need for it.

EDIT: Because people cannot read, I've highlighted that I do not in fact think we should destroy mosses and lichen etc. and I am in fact aware that destroying any natural ecosystems has has serious negative cascading effects on everything else including human life and I do not wish for it because I'm not a moron

That's why I said "in a vacuum", as in -isolated from other factors. I'm glad this post has encouraged discussion but please just actually read it before engaging. The lack of reading comprehension on Lemmy is genuinely worrying.

I'm an amateur musician and I made this quite a while ago, I hope you like it and I'd love any and all feedback you can give :)

It was Inspired by this other neat remix I found way back: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-Hsf9HGIRbM I seem to recall this one playing on Lainchan's 404 page or something way back? Maybe someone else remembers something like that?

I actually even liked the app. Bruh.

Edited as per rules:

This is a post about the newly-viral in the west Chinese social media app Rednote.

I actually liked the app and even said as much, however the app prompts a permission for "Making and managing phone calls" as you can see in my first comment (linked below), I felt it needed to raise this as a potential concern as it's suspicious.

Original comment is at: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/35733739/16034665 And https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/35733739/16035177 And https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/35733739/16035273

Original post is above the linked comments.

The potentially offending text is spread across several comments, the ban does not cite any specific comment.

Modlog is at: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=7652836

Reason: Rule 1 on World News at Lemmy.ml, which goes as such:

No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia. Code of Conduct.

What's even funnier is I'm a bisexual trans woman from Russia, I'm about half of those things they are banning me for being prejudiced against, a fairly regular visitor and commented on .ml, hexbear vet (also banned unrelated to this lol), actually a pretty big fan of Mao (though he made some questionable decisions) and have had a book of his quotes by my bedside for god knows how many years by now, it's my support network when I need to feel heard in rage against various bastards like landlords.

I even liked the app and said it's probably not malware in my opinion as someone with genuine qualifications and a dayjob of making such calls. I was frankly not just being not bigoted, I was pretty charitable too for a multitude of reasons, one of which is to make the tankoids at ml more receptive to it.

However I guess unless I literally mindlessly see mandarin and go soyjak over it every time it's not simpling enough. Tankies isn't even it, it's literally weabooisn for china.

Dafuck? Removed for rule 3? !selfhosted@lemmy.world what the?

As far as I'm aware running and getting DNS to work on a home network is precisely everything to do with self-hosting.

I get that I'm being a bit of an opinionated asshole, and maybe my post is not overly constructive, but shit, a good rant to start a discussion should not be a reason for removal, least of all for a rule that has blatantly not been violated and that's the only actual reason I can think of why I'd been banned.

A good rant is literally the most worthwhile content imho, a good hearty debate invites viewpoints and opinions, even if the OP is unpopular. I hate the sterile, overly polite, overly PC tone enforced on some Lemmy communities.

As long as no one is literally insulting other users or spreading misinformation or being discriminatory/xenophobic based on characteristics. I wasn't even swearing. I'm so done, I'm blocking all of lemmy.world until they get their shit together.