Norah (pup/it/she)

👽Dropped at birth from space to earth👽

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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • Norah (pup/it/she)OPto196treats rule
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    2 days ago

    It can definitely be used as part of a HRT routine. If I were the artist, I woulda put “spironolactone” or “cyproterone” though, but I’m a talentless hack so this is the meme we got.


  • Norah (pup/it/she)to196Balatro rule
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    In the past, you would have a copy of pictures posted directly stored by every instance, consuming resources for every of them

    I don’t think that’s been the case for quite some time. As a test, what is the link for this image in my comment? It should be blahaj’s pictrs instance:

    (it’ll either show as lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs or pictrs.blahaj.zone)


  • Norah (pup/it/she)to196grules plan
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    I thought part of the difference with piefed is that it’s not a drop-in replacement that can hook into current databases, such that an instance would have to start afresh on a new subdomain, and users would have to sign-up again, re-subscribe to their communities, etc. Is that the case, or was I mistaken?


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    This is a poor take on how to deal with the tyranny of the majority, in my opinion. I wasn’t saying it necessarily applied here, and was only bringing it up as a caution against absolute democracy. Here’s a longer form example:

    Say you have a software project that operates as an absolute democracy. Each and every new software feature that the developers work on is decided by a vote of all users and contributors to the project. For vote after vote, the feature “implement screen-reader support” is passed over for shinier and more exciting new features, after all the vast majority of voters don’t use a screen-reader.

    Wouldn’t you say that it is fair if eventually the developers told the community “Nope, we’re going to implement screen-reader support as the next feature”? Or do you believe the blind users should have to fork the project and implement screen-reader support for themselves? After all, they’ve been “free” to do that the whole time.


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    There are absolutely viable forks/rewrites of the Lemmy backend. Sublinks was the one I was keeping an eye on, but progress seems to have slowed down significantly on that. It’s supposed to be a drop-in replacement for Lemmy that continues working with current apps.




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    …impose rules that would never pass a basic yes/no poll…

    I generally agree with your comment, but I wanted to point out that the tyranny of the majority can still be a major issue. For example, there are often times when a majority of people believe the opposite of what a small number of experts agree is the best course of action. You can see this in laws that suppress trans rights receiving wider public support, even when they go against medical best practices.