bitcrafter

joined 2 years ago
[–] bitcrafter@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago

Okay, fair enough, you got me: I wrote his name on a piece of paper and was standing on it when I wrote that comment in order to absorb his authority. You win this Internet argument.

[–] bitcrafter@programming.dev 4 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I was definitely not standing on the authority of Elliott, merely making use of his words and crediting him for it, so you are simply wrong.

[–] bitcrafter@programming.dev 4 points 3 days ago (12 children)

On the contrary, quoting is exactly the act of borrowing another's idea, but doing the courtesy of giving credit to the person from whom you borrowed it.

[–] bitcrafter@programming.dev 4 points 3 days ago (14 children)

Good writers borrow, great writers steal. -T.S. Elliot

[–] bitcrafter@programming.dev 7 points 5 days ago (2 children)

One should be wary about voting for the Alligators Eating Peoples' Faces party...

[–] bitcrafter@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

ENDELAYIFICATION IS STILL BAD!!!

[–] bitcrafter@programming.dev 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Evidence suggests that “consciousness” is the mechanism that allows separate parts of the brain to communicate with other parts of the brain and coordinate activities. The hypothesis is this is done by the frontal cortex which is responsible for reasoning, decision making, and controlling voluntary movements. However, there is still much research required in Neurosciences before we have a solid theory and understanding of consciousness.

So in other words... it exists.

It is worth nothing that the first sentence is exactly my perspective, as I explicitly stated earlier:

I think that consciousness in the brain is just an approach that it uses to aggregate and share information amongst several subcomponents.

[–] bitcrafter@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Sure! What exactly do you think consciousness is (or is not)? You seem to think that I was motivated to enter this conversation in order to feel smart, but asked my original question because I was genuinely interested in your point of view.

[–] bitcrafter@programming.dev 0 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Once again, you prove yourself too cowardly to state your thought outright. 😉

[–] bitcrafter@programming.dev 0 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

It is very telling that you are unable to respond directly to what I said. 😀

[–] bitcrafter@programming.dev 0 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

If your brain creates the illusion of a unicorn, then the presence of the illusion is real, even if the unicorn is not.

 

I realized that I haven't spent time on Pixelfed in a while, and that it would be great to find more content to add to my feed! So I logged in to my instance (social.photo) and then... hit a wall.

With Lemmy and Mastadon, it is super easy to peek at what is going on at other instances and find communities to subscribe to, but it looks like Pixelfed does not make this easy. The biggest issue I have run into is that many of the largest servers do not seem to let you explore what is on them unless you first create an account, and the main Pixelfed Server Directory at https://pixelfed.org/servers does not indicate which servers can be explored or not, so you have to click a few times (since the link takes you to the registration page) to even find this out for a given server. It also does not help that navigating to an instance does not show you the content for that instance, like it does for Lemmy or Mastadon, but for a login page that may or may not have an "Explore" tab at the top.

Am I missing something here? I just logged into Tumblr for the first time in years and my immediate next thought was, "Gee, I should be using Pixelfed instead!" But if in practice it is simply not possible to find content I am interested in without a great deal of hassle then it is not a realistic replacement. In particular, it seems like the way Pixelfed is set up requires me to register on particular instances to get a better view of what content is available (not just locally, but pulled in from other instances). This seems contrary to me to one of the biggest advantages of the Fediverse, which is that you are able and encouraged to pick an instance that best suits you rather than the one where all of the content lives; in particular I could not imagine self-hosting a Pixelfed instance without being left out of most of the content available.

And just to be clear, I am willing to put up with some degree of hassle resulting from the inherently decentralized model of the Fediverse, since I switched completely over to Lemmy from Reddit about a year and a half ago after the API fiasco (and the only reason why I do not use Mastadon more is because I was never that into Twitter-style content to begin with). But having to go out of my way to get through artificially constructed walls to even find content to subscribe is a bit much.

However, again, maybe I am missing here. If someone is willing to point me to a resource that solves this problem problem and makes this entire rant sound completely ignorant then that would be great! 😀


Edit: Fixed silly typo.

 

Someone had to do this before the riots started.

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