FishFace

Y’all need to learn how to write out pronunciations, whether in the international phonetic alphabet or otherwise.

No it doesn’t.

c2?

There are already 9 elder scrolls games that are Skyrim*

*counting the Switch and Switch 2 releases separately because that suits my agenda

There are functions without docstrings so probably not significantly.

Telegram or other chat-bot seems like a weird interface for… well, any piece of software, actually.

Music that hasn’t been compressed to hell and back.

If the music is interrupted by anything, then that needs to be:

• brief and preferably informative. Queue position is useful; how valuable my call is is not.
• infrequent. I don’t need to know my queue position that often, and I don’t need to know how important my call is ever.
• clearly not someone picking up my call. Fade the audio out nicely and then immediately start the voice part with no silence, so I don’t start listening to see if the talking is a call handler. Ideally, just do this at the end of the song. See above.

Most hold systems play a short piece of music where everything outside of 300-3000Hz has been obliterated so it sounds like absolute ass, interrupt it every 30s or so to play the same pointless speech clip, and initiate that clip with some silence and clicks that sound like someone picking up a phone.

paid posts (lol)

I would like to stand up for the real meaning of the word “algorithm” - there’s a sorting algorithm which shows you the most recent posts, for example. Indeed, the default “hot” sort is already a more advanced algorithm which uses votes and time to show you what is likely to be “good” as decided by users. It’s just not driven by AI or subtle data about how you navigate the page.

I actually think Mastodon could use a better algorithm to help old but interesting posts get a chance since I’m not checking it every minute… But how to do it in a way that doesn’t suck is hard. Of course, there’s an easy way to avoid it becoming a dark pattern, which is to keep it fully optional.

I didn’t see a reason to block everyone from lemmy.ml until now.

The beauty of federalisation is that you can have both. But we should be honest - maintaining a community with closed registration processes takes effort, so it’s always going to be smaller than open registration. For people unlikely to get punched, most are going to end up in the soup of generally-federated instances, rather than in a more closed-off but safer network.

And since we’re not really talking about people called Mark getting punched, but trans people being exposed to transphobia and things like that, there’s also an important distinction that is worth remembering: being exposed to hateful statements is horrible, but not as horrible as being punched. So some trans people do end up staying on lemmy.world and that’s also OK.

If you die (while making food) in a slow cooker, you are the food in the slow cooker.

If you are, for example, stuck in a cave, what you need is not a therapist, but a rescue by an experienced team of cavers, and that may not be enough. But, if that’s not enough, and you’re stuck in the cave for the foreseeable future, a therapist may be able to help with how you feel as a result of being stuck in that situation

Didn’t realise Saddam Hussein got stuck down there

It was fine when it was one day here. “Spooky season” and its attendant nonsense and plastic tat can get in the bin.

God I find it difficult enough to decide what to have just ordering of the menu without chopping and changing

Because if you don’t like it, you can just not pay. Being outraged over it makes no sense at all.

Personally I’d rather just read the Wikipedia article

Generally paid public toilets are not charging enough to make money; it’s a fee to discourage people from using it as a private space to be antisocial by vandalising it for fun.

It is not 100% effective and has downsides, but it’s not a capitalist money making scheme, usually.

Anything but wholesome though…