Step 1: Print a photo of your dad.

Step 2: Hold it up to the camera.

Step 3: Play Resident Evil 7.

Look, I right-clicked $1.2 million.

(Full disclosure, it took a little more than right-clicking to download that image. OpenSea apparently purposefully makes it hard to download images. Not terribly hard, though. Only took me a couple of minutes to figure out.)

I don’t think the lemmy.ml admins have been coy about it.

If you go to the lemmy.ml home page, at the bottom of the right column is a list of admins.

The first admin’s profile banner is a picture of Mao. And the second’s profile pic is a photo of Fidel Castro. The other two don’t have profile pics that are explicitly authoritarian communist and I haven’t had the patience to look through a whole lot of their posts or anything.

Just a couple of Reddit threads (via libreddit.hu) on the topic: one and two. Unfortunately what they link do doesn’t appear to be in the wayback machine as far as I’ve been able to tell.

The world needs more things like Skibidi Toilet. It’s reminescent of a brand of bizarre internet humor I thought had permanently died out long ago.

We might be able to answer the question better if you named the “other platforms” you’re referring to. It doesn’t seem like an unusual amount compared to, for instance, how much communist/transgender content Reddit had back when Reddit wasn’t as evil as it is now. (Who knows what Reddit’s like now. I haven’t been back since the two-day boycott over the API pricing.)

All that said, some of the communist content here is tankies. (That is, authoritarian communists who spout CCP or other authoritarian communist regimes’ propaganda.) Some of the Lemmy instances (like latte.isnot.coffe and lemmy.ml) are run by tankies.

That said, a lot of the communist content here is grass-roots anarcho-communist advocacy by people like me who ideologically lean that way.

2023 was the year Mississippi declared war on New Mexico.

Wait, do people who are counting calories cook, for instance, spaghetti with meat sauce, cheese, and meatballs and only count the calories in the spaghetti? That’s got to be kindof a denial and/or self-deception kind of phenomenon rather than legitimately thinking that the calories in, say, sauce are negligible or “cook off” somehow, right?

I’ve got a smart TV on which the Wifi broke very shortly after I got it. I just use a Chromecast and it works nicely.

Derivative and uninspired. Have an upvote.

How did you get it to play sound when my phone is muted? How!?

I interpreted it the same way devexxis did, but on rereading, I think you’re right.

Wow. I couldn’t possibly be any more your opposite in this regard. I try very hard not to run proprietary software. For safety reasons. And when I do run proprietary software, I do my best to sandbox it. I don’t let my Nintendo Switch talk to my home network often. I hacked my robotic vacuum cleaner not to phone home. I do my (U.S.) taxes on stupid paper because there aren’t pure-FOSS options for filing electronically.

“Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.” - Linus Torvalds

Open Source software is (caveat, qualifier) safer than proprietary software. (And I’ll get to the caveats and qualifiers later.)

Software exploits are possible only because of mistakes, oversights, negligence, or mistaken assumptions on the part of the developer of user of the code. More eyes on the code help suss out those mistakes, oversights, negligence, and mistaken assumptions, creating a more secure (and bug-free) piece of software.

Besides that, companies that make proprietary software have incentives to put evil things into said proprietary software that endanger you to enrich them. (For instance, phone apps collecting personal data about you only to sell to advertising companies.) Companies that contribute to open source software also have incentives to put evil things into open source software, but when everyone has access to view the source code, it’s a lot harder to get away with that. (Not to say it’s never happened that purposeful vulnerabilities have gotten into open source software, but it’s a lot easier to catch such vulnerabilities in open source software than proprietary software.)

As others have said, the way algorithms related to security are designed, the security doesn’t depend on keeping the algorithm secret. (But rather, keeping a “key” – a bit of data generated by the algorithm – secret.)

Now, caveats.

I do believe there is some extent to which open source software is trusted to be safe even when the “chain of custody” is questionable. There are ways to ensure integrity, but there are repositories such as NPM that carry large amounts of open source software that is used by huge numbers of people on a regular basis that don’t utilize sufficient integrity checking techniques. As a result, there have been a few cases where malicious code has sneaked into NPM and then into codebases.

There are also cases where governments have gotten malicious code into open source projects. (Though, I’d expect that’s more of a problem with proprietary software, not less.)

Actually, the answer turns out to be pretty interesting.

The short version is that what colors are considered “distinct” are heavily influenced by culture and Newton, from whom we get ROYGBIV, came from a culture which valued the dye called “indego.”

Edit: It also seems Newton thought the number 7 had cosmic significance and thought there ought to be 7 colors.

More info in this short video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf7WT6TLy8s

Just what comes to mind. Es Posthumus and Two Steps From Hell don’t really have lyrics (or at least none my brain gets distracted by.)

I find Lazy Eye by The Silversun Pickups is very chill. Good “studying” music.

Beyond that, mostly music I’m very familiar with and listen to a lot. Music I know so well it doesn’t surprise me at all.

Fun fact: the person who invented digital electronics constantly flipped everybody he met the double bird.

(Disclaimer: This fact may not be an actual fact.)

New fear unlocked.

This is a clickbait YouTube video waiting to happen. And now I really want to see it to find out all the logistical issues they’d have to go through to make, cook, and eat a single noodle long enough to reasonably be considered a single plate full of spaghetti.

Thanks!

Completely unrelated question: is there a /c/OutOfTheLoop yet?