Read as in, with their eyes? Or how to ingest it into some other app/script? Cos I’m vaguely aware that awk can be used in some way for this, but wouldn’t have a clue how.

A little more context for anyone not aware. Epistolary just means it’s like the book equivalent of the Blair Witch Project. It claims to be written not by some outside author like most books, but to be the literal transcriptions of the characters’ diary entries, letters, news articles, and phonograph recordings. All of these are of course dated in-universe, with the first of Jonathan Harker’s diary entries taking place on 3rd May. So we’re reading through it as it happens.

Days 1 and 2 are very short, and there isn’t any entry on 6 May, so you’ve got plenty of time to catch up if you want to join in on 7th May.

Minor correction: the days don’t actually match up to “chapters” of the book. Chapter 1 is made up of 3, 4, and half of 5 May. Chapter 2 is the 2nd half of 5 May, 7 May, and the 1st half of 8 May. I’m not 100% sure as I’ve never read the book this way before, but I believe later on, doing it this way will actually mean we read it slightly out of the normal reading order, too, especially as relates to the news articles and shifting POVs.

Good post.

Wrong community.

That depends? How good are your singing voices? And do you viciously attack innocent passers-by?

Wahoo absolutely does this.

Yeah I also expect MS will see W11’s poor uptake (iirc, W10 actually increased market share over the last 12 months) and will see it as necessary to extend. Probably more to reduce the risk of bad press from a serious security incident, rather than because they’re afraid people will switch to Linux.

I’m more surprised at PewDiePie, tbh. Jason runs a Mastodon instance, with the account notjustbikes@notjustbikes.com (I’m hoping that by leaving out the @ sign before the local username, that won’t send him an unwanted notification), so the fact that he’s also a Linux user is less surprising. I don’t watch PDP, but I gather he has a very large and impressionable audience, so him promoting Linux should be good!

Ok I love bike lanes now

Ok but if you haven’t already, you really should watch the channel’s videos. They’re insanely good, and show why good city design is good for bikes, but it’s not just bikes.

Clickable links, for sure. But machine-handled links like RSS feeds and ActivityPub subscriptions? Maybe not.

Denethor never meets Aragorn to make the accusation.

Of course, with an embedded direct link, you could put the title text in as alt text:

Unfortunately that won’t always show up in the same way title text does.

part of every xkcd comic is the hover text.

Yes…that would be why you would link directly to the comic…?

This comment perplexes me. A direct link to the image? Why not either embed that link so the image appears here on Lemmy without clicking a link, or link to the comic page which has both the comic and the title text?

And I hope youhave learned to sanitize your inputs not fucking use generative AI for grading

Ftfy

I think it’s a discussion with having, but I don’t think there’s a one-size-fits-all answer to it. I think as a default, it’s probably a good idea. Don’t create more specific communities when more general ones will work.

As an example, Reddit has /r/Brisbane, /r/movingtobrisbane, and /r/brisbanetrains. But there’s only !brisbane@aussie.zone (there’s also a trains one, but it’s dead and irrelevant for these purposes, IMO), and I think this is for the best. Anyone interested in the more specific content can easily go to the more general community, and there’s likely to be at least a passing interest in that anyway.

But there are times when a more general community is inappropriate, because the audience for one of the specific parts is not interested at all in the other specific parts.

And I think your BG3 example is a good one of the latter. A general gaming community is not a good place for detailed discussions about a particular game, because most people in a general gaming community aren’t interested in that. They’re a good place for announcements about games and larger scale discussions about franchises, developments, and trends in gaming. But not about specific strategies, lore theorising, or patches of specific games.

If you can expect a majority of the audience for a particular Community to be uninterested in a significant amount of content, that’s the sign that a more specific Community should be made, IMO.

I thought it was “things a programmer says to a client (while rolling their eyes) after the client gives nonsensical feedback.”

Ah right, thanks. I only searched for “meta”, not “announcements” when looking for an answer to my question before posting. But looks like my instance stopped federating that community a year ago anyway.

Right, but this comes down to that same discussion I alluded to but largely wanted to avoid (due to irrelevance) about whether the downvote is for disliking content, or whether it should only ever be for off-topic and spam. You’re just never going to get a situation where people stop using it for content they dislike.

Is it? It’s already been established elsewhere in this thread that there’s a pyramid of users. The majority lurk. The cast majority of what’s left only ever vote. The majority of the rest only comment. And only a small fraction actually create posts. We’re not going to change that just by hoping.

But you’re right, it would be better if they posted. And that’s why I suggested DMing them to initiate a conversation. I’d ask them if they could post more of their own stuff.

In the case you describe, I think it’d be appropriate for a mod of the targeted community to ban them

I thought that at first too, but I recently thought of a counterexample, so I’m not so sure. See my top-level comment if you’re interested.