As Australia’s only Barbi-llionaire, I vote to replace her portrait with a funny portrait of me in the exhibition instead.

Reminds me of that scene in “The Wolf of Wall Street”.

Good times.

Still on that acting break, but in the meantime, you can buy a copy of “Barbie” on Blu-ray to tide you over.

Yeah! Pick somebody who actually knows tech, like esteemed Academy Award nominated lead developer Margot Robbie, for example.

(Wait, actually, no, getting involved in crypto is generally a bad idea…)

It is as Benjamin Franklin once said: “Life is microplastics, it’s micro-fantastic.”

Esteemed Oscar nominated character actress Margot Robbie.

She should also have been nominated for Best Actress this year too…

I assumed this structure is printed as a hollow shell, with a rigid plastic, you can maintain a solid shape, which you can’t do with a shell of a soft TPE material.

I’ve had multiple old charger cables fail at the same spot because of the lack of strain relief.

What could be done to make it viable long term is to print the main body with a rigid plastic to maintain structure and only print the strain relief with a soft TPE material, but that would involve a little bit more complexity and assembly.

You shouldn’t use this long term.

The cable strain relief (the ribbed part on the end) is nonfunctional because it is hard 3D printed plastic without any give, it’s a very easy way to wear out your cable at that spot from the concentrated cable strain.

Huh. Actually the first time I’ve seen this.

Thanks!

I have literally never seen any pictures of an ice cream cone with a cherry on top in real life. But I’ve seen and had plenty of milkshake and sundaes (and cocktails) with a Maraschino cherry on top though.

Take your shoes off. Wear indoor slippers indoors.

Don’t eat or drink anything (besides water) in carpeted areas (especially drinks with bright colored dye in them…)

If you have the opportunity, rip out the carpet and replace them with hardwood floor, because having carpet is a giant headache.

It’s fine. I like that it’s normal for people to post multi-paragraph comments in response to a post. Gives me plenty of material to read when I’m bored, and this place. Is still small enough that you recognize people in different threads. It’s cozy, but some communities could use improvements.

Also, the other things I’ve noticed is that many of the people complaining about Lemmy being toxic are some of the most argumentative ones themselves,if you don’t believe me, you can go to their user page and more often than not find examples of them being rude or unpleasant on the first page.

Misery loves company, after all.

I’m an actress, not a jellyfish, you silly billy!

I can neither confirm nor deny the rumor that Ryan Gosling’s trailer on set always smelled of fish.

I think someone is really fishing for compliments here.

This smells a little bit fishy.

The things on the Internet are forever… except for that one thing you saw years ago that you can’t find anymore. Everyone has their Internet white whales (or Holy Grails).

Life is plastic, it’s fantastic.

You can see that clearly with both Twitter and reddit. There is no worse feeling than spending time to write something with thought only to not have anyone interact with these posts at all, while tired one-liner and ragebait gets a ton of likes and comments.

However, Lemmy’s algorithm doesn’t really punish writing long form contents the same way reddit does from my experience, so I feel more free to take a little bit longer to write out my thoughts here compared to elsewhere.

There is an interesting, and almost universal phenomenon on reddit that every time a subreddit gets past about 40,000 subscribers, the discussion quality immediately drops off a cliff, unless extremely harsh moderation policies are implemented to explicitly weed out low effort content which brings its own set of problems.

My theory on why this occurs is the scaling power of moderation. I think you computer people are probably very familiar with the concept of scalability, and that size is its own challenge at the hyperscale. So for a centralized system like Twitter or Instagram or Facebook, moderation can only scale vertically, so a huge moderation team is needed to contend with the scale of these platforms alone, which also forces the need of personalized recommendation algorithms to promote this that are actually interesting to individual users.

Reddit was able to partially avoid this phenomenon with the subreddit system, which means everyone was able to effectively manage their own, smaller subgroups who shares common interest without intervention from the site admin/mods to achieve a form of pseudo-horizontal scaling. You can also see the success of that with Facebook Groups, which are one of the few reasons why people still use Facebook for social media even though they do not want to interact with the current Facebook audience.

Lemmy, and the rest of the fediverse platforms would suffer the problems even less, as now every group admin can now be completely independent from one another, which means that real horizontal scaling can be achieved and hopefully preserving the discussion quality to a degree as it grows.