Malgas

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[–] Malgas@beehaw.org 15 points 6 days ago

This feels like an exercise in Goodhart's Law: Any measure that becomes a target ceases to be a useful measure.

[–] Malgas@beehaw.org 3 points 1 week ago

Draw me like one of your bog girls.

[–] Malgas@beehaw.org 2 points 1 week ago

I've also seen similar behavior: when trying to move the cursor by tapping, it instead selects from where the cursor is to where I tapped.

Though, like the other poster, it doesn't seem to be happening right now.

[–] Malgas@beehaw.org 1 points 1 week ago

All crystals are bastards.

[–] Malgas@beehaw.org 3 points 1 week ago

Are we sure it's not about a particularly belligerent donkey?

[–] Malgas@beehaw.org 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Given the other sorts of things that pass for 1/1 creatures, I'd assume each token either represents a giant squirrel or a swarm of regular-sized ones.

That said, 15/15 does seem a tad low for a world-destroying eldritch horror.

[–] Malgas@beehaw.org 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Wait, what is the correct holiday for these?

[–] Malgas@beehaw.org 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Nipplerdoodles.

[–] Malgas@beehaw.org 2 points 1 week ago

One example is Civilization VI, where the Linux build is several versions older than the Windows build, and one of the DLCs just silently doesn't install unless you force Proton.

[–] Malgas@beehaw.org 1 points 1 week ago

2048 is a suspiciously round number (it's 2^11^) to the point that I came into the article expecting to read about an error affecting some subset of the records. But no, that's the exact number of votes cast using the system, out of a larger and less round pool of potential voters.

So apparently it's a coincidence, but it's making my brain itch.

[–] Malgas@beehaw.org 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sentient AIs seem to be a lot less common and less powerful computationally in Fed space

Are they really rare, or are we seeing a universe shaped by and through the eyes of a civilization predisposed to deny and destroy them? Apart from the Doctor and Moriarty, how many others were simply shut off? How many beings like the exocomps were wiped when they "malfunctioned"? How many sentient computers are locked away in the Daystrom Institute, never to see the light of day?

[–] Malgas@beehaw.org 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The Minds of the culture are people, with the same rights as any other inhabitant. Even the ones unwilling or unsuitable to coordinate the systems of a ship or orbital.

By contrast, both Data and the Doctor had to argue for their personhood, to convince the Federation that they should have rights, and their utility played a role in that decision.

The Federation talk a big game about fair treatment for all sentient beings, but they sure are willing to deny rights to those they don't like, and they are meat supremacists.

 

I'm trying to write a package for the Zen Maru Gothic font, which is available on Google's font repository on github. (https://github.com/google/fonts) It's a huge repo with thousands of fonts, so I'm trying to use sparseCheckout to grab only the part I need:

src = pkgs.fetchgit {
   url = "https://github.com/google/fonts.git";
   rev = "v0.4.9";
   sha256 = #snip long hash;
   sparseCheckout = [ "ofl/zenmarugothic" ];
};

I was originally using fetchFromGitHub pointed at the same repo. In both cases, what's actually being fetched into the store seems to be the root directory of the Google Fonts Axis Registry repository (https://github.com/googlefonts/axisregistry) which has a different url, name, and owner.

I feel like I'm going crazy.

 

Example of behavior: https://discuss.online/post/35408836

In a browser, the post body contains two spoiler tags, the first is some text, and the second is an additional image. In the app, the image gets combined into the gallery, but the text is nowhere to be found.

Also the "Combine markdown images to gallery" setting doesn't appear to do anything; even with it turned off, the image gets combined into a gallery and the text is still missing.

 

Bug Report

Describe the issue: The post in question:

https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/53330380

That's the url as connect copied it from my feed view in Connect, but I imagine my experience actually involved the federated copy on Beehaw. [Edit: the tchncs.de link crashes also.] A couple of attempts looked like the app was trying to throw up an error message of some sort, but it crashed back to the launcher so quickly I couldn't read it.

Device Information

  • App Version: 1.0.372 (372)
  • Platform: android
  • OS Version: BP4A.260105.004.E1
  • Notice: Using legacy Shared Preferences

Modified Settings

The following settings have been changed from defaults:

  • isCommentActionsReversed: true (default: false)
  • alwaysShowInstance: true (default: false)
  • alwaysTrustDomains: true (default: false)
  • commentTextStyle: bodyMedium (default: bodyLarge)
  • enableCommentNavigator: true (default: false)
  • shouldHighlightNewComments: false (default: true)
  • isImageVerticalSwipeToClose: false (default: true)
  • nsfwView: show (default: blur)
  • applyNsfwInCommunities: false (default: true)
  • cardType: list (default: card)
  • shouldResolveOpenGraph: false (default: true)
  • shouldDisplayCommunityBanner: false (default: true)
 

The old bug where spoiler text appears blank in light mode appears to be back. Probably it's rendering the text as white on white rather than respecting the theme settings.

ExampleI can't read this part in light mode at all.

 

Go to a thread with more than a screenful of comments. Collapse some comments. Scroll away and back. Comments no longer collapsed.

 
  • With "force full-size thumbnails" disabled (the default) most thumbnails fail to load

  • With "convert to webp" enabled (the default) most images fall to load in app, but work in an external browser

As an aside, is there an "open external" anywhere when viewing an image? It used to be in the three dot menu, but I don't see it now.

 

It used to be that pressing the back button while in the settings menu would take you back to where you were before. For the last several versions, it would instead unceremoniously exit the app. I see from the notes for 271 that an exit prompt has been added, seemingly cementing what I would have considered the root bug. (i.e. that it exits at all rather than just going back)

So how are we supposed to leave the settings menu if not the back button?

 

Revealed spoiler text appears at first to be blank. Highlighting reveals that it's there, just the same color as the background.

Edit: this is in 120

 

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Cake is Bravetart's vanilla butter cake, scaled down for two pans rather than three and with the zest of two lemons added to the batter.

Filling is homemade lemon curd: zest and juice of two lemons, six egg yolks, and 200g sugar heated until thickened, then 1 stick cold butter stirred in off heat.

Frosting is Bravetart's Swiss meringue buttercream with 1tsp lemon extract and juice of 1 lemon added.

Garnished with candied lemon peel, scaled down to 1 lemon.

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