@SJ_Zero@lemmy.fbxl.net avatar

sj_zero

@[email protected]

I run the FBXL Network including FBXL Search, FBXL Social, FBXL Lemmy, FBXL Lotide, and FBXL Video. Mostly for my own use because after having my heart broken by too many companies I want to be in control of my own world.

I also wrote The Graysonian Ethic: Lessons for my unborn son, now on Amazon

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. View on remote instance

sj_zero OP ,
@SJ_Zero@lemmy.fbxl.net avatar

Yes, even among the different options there’s a lot of diversity. Lemmy, lotide, friendica, kbin, they can all do things similar to reddit.

Is this wiring run ok? ( lemmy.world )

Finagled my way into the attic to explore a bit. Found this wiring run that basically lays on the sheet rock with insulation sitting on top. It goes to a light switch that controls three of this thin led recessed lights. Could this get really hot and start a fire with the insulation on top?...

sj_zero ,
@SJ_Zero@lemmy.fbxl.net avatar

lol I made it half way through your comment and went “That doesn’t look like knob and tube! It looks like Romex!” and then literally the next sentence said the same thing.

sj_zero ,
@SJ_Zero@lemmy.fbxl.net avatar

I was going to use one, but then I just massively increased the character count of my soapbox instance. At 60k I was able to post the first drafts of entire chapters of my book.

The nice thing about a blogging platform is you can organize the long things you’ve written and they don’t just disappear into the void…

sj_zero ,
@SJ_Zero@lemmy.fbxl.net avatar

1000%.

Way back when fbxl was powerusrs gaming in the late 1990s, one of the few articles I wrote on there was saying basically the same thing even back then. It isn’t good for society to be chasing down $300 boxed copies of games just to see a slice of history.

It should be like trademark: use it or lose it.

I’m ok with old games being sold, btw. There was a time I owned every game on gog on principle. (Today there’s too much to possibly lol)

Fediverse dating app? ( kbin.social )

This is just a thought I had that I wanted to bounce off people who know more about ActivityPub/the fediverse— would it be feasible (and would it make sense) to build an open-source, ActivityPub-compatible dating app as an alternative to Tinder/Bumble/etc.? And if so, what could that look like? Obviously the small userbase...

sj_zero ,
@SJ_Zero@lemmy.fbxl.net avatar

One big problem is that a fediverse dating app would be honest and most are scummy and fraudulent.

Fake profiles, fake messages, it looks like the place to be.

sj_zero ,
@SJ_Zero@lemmy.fbxl.net avatar

My argument about why would be more honest than other apps is that it would be distributed and self-hosted. Most dating apps are trying to eventually monetize you. It isn’t that the users are more or less honest, is that the platform for themselves are less honest because they need to make you feel like it’s worthwhile popping money on their dating website. Moreover, a self-hosted solution doesn’t need to impress investors by having 12 billion users.

sj_zero ,
@SJ_Zero@lemmy.fbxl.net avatar

Nice!

A short but very nice article, and some good discussion about meta that isn’t just “press the ban button”. It’s important to note that threads and Lemmy probably won’t have much to do with each other since it’s a Twitter clone.

One big thing is what I always say: decentralization is strength. Spread out over different instances and start your own instances or what happened on Twitter will just happen again.

sj_zero ,
@SJ_Zero@lemmy.fbxl.net avatar

Even among people who like trump, there are plenty of people who know that he lost the election.

Even if Biden cheated (and I’m not saying he did), people who cheat to win elections are called the winner of the election. Laws tend to fine campaigns for cheating rather than changing the outcome of the election.

As an example where a campaign was fined for malfeasance during a campaign, the Clinton campaign was fine for misbehavior in the 2016 election related to the steele dossier politico.com/…/dnc-clinton-campaign-fine-dossier-…

However, although that example was of a losing campaign, up in my home country of Soviet canuckistan, several election cycles ago the conservative Stephen Harper government was fined for election fraud, and that’s all that happened. They were officially in charge and they stayed that way until the election of Justin Trudeau in 2015.

Typically, lawmakers want election issues to be dealt with by the electorate, they’re extremely extremely wary about stepping in and changing elections on their own.

While we’re on the topic though, I would like to remind everybody that it is extremely typical for the losing side of an election to claim that the other side cheated. In 2000, there were plenty of people pointing out fuckiness in the supreme Court decision that ended George W. Bush the election, and in 2004 election machines were singled out as a potential method of cheating by the Democrats when John Kerry lost the presidential election, and in 2016 there were lots of cries saying that there was election interference that led to the election of Donald Trump.

sj_zero ,
@SJ_Zero@lemmy.fbxl.net avatar

You think so?

Seems like an awfully high effort post to be just a troll. Maybe it’s just that other people don’t have the same views as you do.

sj_zero ,
@SJ_Zero@lemmy.fbxl.net avatar

You mean like a whole aside about accusations of trolling?

I guess I’ll take your advice.

Top of r/all ( old.reddit.com )

Is this new to post-blackout reddit is or has it been this way for a while. Top post of r/all is a tweet from like 2 years ago about a “current event” that no one has talked about since then and 100% of the comments are talking about this like this topic is the focus of today’s or any recent time’s 24 hour news cycle....

sj_zero ,
@SJ_Zero@lemmy.fbxl.net avatar

BEEP BOOP I DISAGREE WE SHOULD PROTECT THEM WHAT ARE YOU ANTI ROBOT OR SOMETHING? BEEP BOOP

sj_zero ,
@SJ_Zero@lemmy.fbxl.net avatar

Ngl, “brand safety” is a pretty dangerous idea. That’s where tech companies start to get a justification to fiddle with speech.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • random
  • All magazines
    •