This is the kind of AI/machine learning I can get behind, especially given it may sort of help even out some of its energy use in the process. More of this application of the tech could be great if the results hold up.

In a better world, this (or one of its forks) would have taken off instead of Mastodon. It makes a way better case for itself by its distinct features compared to Mastodon, which is too easy to ignore (by everyday people) as Nerd-Twitter.

I’ve seen this band name before, but not sure if I’d heard them before so gave “Young Wicked” a listen. They definitely sound like some other bands I’ve heard before…Albeit with their own touches.

Not too bad, not something I’d listen to all the time, but when you want this kind of rock grit, I can see the appeal. Appreciate the track suggestions and recommendation!

Desktop friendly link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drugstore_beetle

That aside, you’re not kidding:

It belongs to the family Ptinidae, which also includes the deathwatch beetle, furniture beetle and cigarette beetle.

Talk about a wild family.

In terms of fully free, obligatory mention:
Your library may offer more than books alone, depending on how well supported they are. Borrow music, movies, sometimes even video games. For music and movies they may also offer these to borrow digitally as well via online services they coordinate with.

Ubisoft cannot complain when gamers “pirate” their games then.

If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t theft and all that.

Congrats on getting them to curl with delight!

“Behold, I’m a unicorn!”

did you know people born on leap years only emerge and exist on leap years?

It’s a mark against the US’ political landscape that 81 year old Biden and 77 year old Trump are the frontrunners for the presidency, so far as I’m concerned. At that age, any person in a leadership position should be stepping aside to, at most, act as counsel for their successors, or at least simply get out of the way if they cannot meaningfully help.

It speaks against the individuals and the organizations’ sense of responsibility to not recognize the limits of themselves or those they prop up. You can forgive a child trying to act older than they are, but an adult acting like they’re still in their prime when they’re not is simply sad, and it looks bad when others enable and encourage them despite the risks to themselves and others.

It’s the third one now meant to be in the third dimension, as it breaks out of the otherwise 2D panels. First attempt at the optical illusion and on review I recognize I should have adjusted it more to better get that across

Perfection meme. This is a simplified vector drawing variation on that, combined with a playful goof on the orb meme that was floating around awhile ago.

I realize you’re asking for a list of sites with RSS feeds, but I wanted to highlight an easier method of sometimes finding feeds than that mentioned by Evkob: Feedbro add-on for Firefox.

You can click the icon for it while browsing a site to check for whether or not any feeds are available. Unfortunately it doesn’t always find them, I think depending on the part of the site you’re browsing or how the feed is being provided, perhaps both, but it’s been a pretty useful tool in my experience, especially for sites that seem determined to bury them.

Par for the course with VR/MR headsets tbh. Beyond these finally getting down to a glasses form factor, which is still a fair way off it seems, I don’t think there’s much that can be done to improve the look of the current form factor when in use.

You start a company (or call it whatever), then someone else does the same. You trade with them. You build.

Expanded/extended mutual aid networks amidst non-profit/not-for-profit companies and worker coops might be really interesting. This reminds me to dig around some more for any histories on attempts of this nature to identify what issues emerged to try to address them.

Web browser would be best if you’re really determined to keep all browsing to one app, yeah, probably.

You wouldn’t necessarily need to make accounts for each one, only if you wanted to more smoothly participate via commenting/posting/etc. As long as the instance isn’t kinda private or running a fork that keeps stuff private or something, generally you can view different instances’ content without any account creation whatsoever. It’s one of the underrated perks of some of this federated stuff, being that it’s closer to the open web than corporate platforms.

I can’t speak much to Kbin, but I kinda know from experience with Mastodon that it tends to do a better job at talking to other federated platforms than Lemmy, for sure. In which case you can make a Mastodon account on some instance and follow stuff from Peertube/Pixelfed accounts a little more easily, but given their different focuses, the formatting’s typically the kicker and so things may not display as neatly as if you went directly to the instance they’re posted from.

Nevertheless, if you’re seeing the post in Mastodon, there may be some link back to said instance in some way, whether in the post itself or following through from the person’s profile. It’s not exactly elegant, but again, you typically won’t need to have an account on the remote instance/site to view the content (including additional content), which is already sometimes a step above the corporate platforms.

Tbh it’s not totally useless, as it notes the books have only been temporarily removed, and so the reality is that it’s neither him being right about a political play nor leopards eating his face…Yet. I haven’t found any followup articles on Escambia County Public School District’s review of their books, and wouldn’t expect to for awhile given they’re reportedly reviewing over 1,600+ books for legal compliance. Also, it’s kind of ironic that O’Reilly’s benefiting from the group Freedom to Read tracking the books under review…

Right now O’Reilly’s fuming over kind of nothing, as no decision has been made regarding whether to ban or remove any of the books up for review. They’re simply all in-process of review to comply with the ridiculous new legislation. Maybe in that sense it’s kind of more of a leopards ate my face situation that his books have even been temporarily pulled for review because of the legislation?

I don’t really know what they were expecting though, as I’m guessing many school districts in Florida are having to go through similar processes to avoid running afoul of the law.

This isn’t impossible but due to the way each federated platform is structured it does make it more difficult to fold into a single app. What you’re looking for, perhaps inadvertently, is essentially a fediverse browser. In that case you’re almost better to use a regular web browser with some plugins that may better enable navigation of each platform, as this ensures you’re keeping it to one app.

I say almost because your second point makes that less viable, but in itself this would prove a thorny issue regardless as each platform handles filtering/blocking differently, as you’ve found. I think the latest version of Lemmy has tried to improve on this, but not every instance has updated due to a mixture of details in how different admins/teams want to approach it.

Also, unfortunately iOS further impedes this, given that many of those interested in the fediverse space tend to lean towards Android, so many of the more flexible apps, e.g. Fedilab are Android only. If there are iOS alternatives, I’m simply not aware of them, nor do they surface on a light search.

Unless someone else knows of something for iOS like what you’re after, I think for now the “best” approach for navigating different fediverse platforms in a single app may be via web browser and hoping they have a decent mobile UX. However for the best UX you’re probably going to want to use multiple apps for each federated platform and toss’em in a fediverse folder/tag on your phone.

There appear to be a few, albeit none are active at the moment, and I think the intent was to consolidate them all to one community on dbzer0. Communities with the same name may be found on Lemmy World (where a pinned post directs people to dbzer0) and Lemmee, where although there’s no pointer to dbzer0, it’s made by the same person, so I’m guessing the same idea may apply.

!contentcreation@lemmy.dbzer0.com

There may be another with a different name that’s more active, but I’m not sure what it is.

Ah…Yeah, that’s what I get for skimming. Tbh it’s a little confusing, but thankfully it’s not stuff viewers need to know necessarily.