Also in Aus here, using ISP DNS, not blocked. I think what you generally find is that most ISP's just don't do the DNS blocks, even if they're required to. Like you said, it's very easily circumvented and also it just doesn't lead to any measurable outcome other than the ISP customer's dissatisfaction in some cases. It's probably more profitable to retain the customers and deal with whatever regulatory blowback.
Can you quantify the difference? Far as I can tell, there's just an imaginary line where software becomes AI just because the logic filtering it depends on to operate is sufficiently complex. The term doesn't really seem to be a useful categorization either, e.g. the fundamentally different approaches of diffusion models and transformer models.
Aesthetics are the same bogeyman excuse used to justify really any significant change in a phone since IP ratings first came in with. I recall back when USB-C was first showing up in smartphones, there was a time where simultaneously some manufacturers were pushing for the change and others trying to push back on it, with both groups citing aesthetic reasons.
For me, it's because the password I entered didn't meet the minimum requirements. The instance signup page had some kind of issue with actually letting me know that was the problem, it just gave me the spinning pinwheel forever. I refreshed and tried changing the password to something more complex and it worked instantly
It's not on this list because it's not a lemmy instance, it is just linked with lemmy via the fediverse. There's a separate list for kbin instances here: https://kbin.fediverse.observer/list
Nearly 40k users on kbin.social
Resistances are currently garbage
Info from kripparrian's video
Let's say you're playing a sorceror or necromancer, so your main stat is intelligence, which also grants resistance to all elemental, poison and shadow damage. You probably have a bunch of paragon glyphs that grant resistances, and your gear grants you additional resistances too.
You can go to your build stats with advanced tooltips on and observe the stats of your individual elemental resistances. The game will show you that your current resistance stat reduces incoming damage of that type by x%.
If you were to now swap your gear, skills and points over to something different at random, and check this stat again, you will find that actually the majority of the damage reduction you had for the same damage type is still there, despite removing all your resistance buffs.
Most of the resistance to a given damage type comes from wearing any item at all, so relative to an item which prioritises the resistance type in question, the difference in damage reduction for that damage type is almost negligible. After investing all of your gear, glyphs, and skills into resistances, on the classes with the most resistances in the game, the difference will be damage reduction of a few %, for that damage type only.
Comparing to non-elemental situational damage reduction stats like 'damage reduction from close', kripparian's calculations showed that a perfect roll on an elemental resistance item still yielded significantly less damage resistance to an elemental damage type than a typical 'damage reduction from close' roll yields for all damage types (it is situational, but most enemies in the game are close).
Given there are 6 forms of elemental damage in the game, for the specific items compared the resistance item yielded less damage resistance overall by a factor of 33x. For most of the other stats in the game, they are in a roughly similar ballpark in terms of efficacy, except this one which is over an order of magnitude worse than really anything else.
It's a wasted stat. If you tiered out all the possible stat rolls for all of the items in the game for any class, for any item where an elemental resistance is possible it is the worst roll you can get. The class worst affected by this is necromancer, followed by sorceror, and kripparrian goes on to point out that these are currently considered the worst performing classes in endgame
Just a PSA really, I think a lot of players are currently running a build that could be objectively improved by rerolling a resistance stat or replacing that item.
The resistance calculation is very complex, check out kripparrian's videos on it if you want a full explanation but effectively perfect resistance rolls are still like 100x worse than average rolls on stats like damage reduction from close (edit: when directly comparing the same type of damage to resistance against that type of damage). For late game build optimisation, any resistance roll on any item is the worst stat you can roll. Coincidentally the two classes that build resistances off their main int stat, sorceror and necro, are apparently the worst performing classes in endgame
I think they're just complaining about multiple posts on the same topic. Like, anywhere on the fediverse. It is crossposted to /c/philippines though which is kinda odd, though not actually anything to do with this version of the post
That's the box I used too. I looked into it a bit further and I think possibly the issue is the community/magazine you were searching for had not been subscribed to before by a user on your home instance. In that case the instance has not indexed that community/magazine and you need to manually point it toward the instance it's on. But once this is done the community info is cached in the search for any user on that instance looking for that community later on. I guess once the ecosystem is mature then provided you're on a relatively populated instance and the community you're searching for isn't too niche, you could just go to the community search first and it'd work most of the time.
They show up fine in the communities search for me. https://i.imgur.com/iHO4wIP.png
My grandparents could probably monetize Reddit more effectively than that twerp.
Why does reddit consolidating all nsfw content delivery under its website and first party app suggest they want to stop NSFW content?
Reddit's rise to prominence is in part a result of emphasis on facilitating the discourse Facebook used to be a place for. Facebook as a venue for discourse has gradually ended over the past decade or so, for the majority that still use it it is now just a centralised email server for sending event invitations.
No one has global Reddit traffic data except for Reddit - market estimation methods can't really account for a deviation from the norm on such a short timeframe. Regardless, it's the users that matter that are gone, we agree on that. The same ones that made Reddit the safehaven for Digg users to begin with.
I don't think Reddit is going the way of the Dodo, it's Reddit as a platform for discourse I'm on my soapbox about. Probably the largest exchange of ideas in human history happened on it. But the writing is now on the wall, to continue posting you first need to overcome the internal conflict of putting stock in a platform whose killer use case was predicated on user goodwill now burned. That itself is enough of an obstacle to make folks disengage, skewing the userbase, post quality declines, and then it's just another cesspool. All of this takes time though
My personal compulsion to browse reddit certainly isn't to think actively about the content I'm being fed, that's kind of the whole point - here's all the links you want spoonfed to you so you don't need to seek them out. The algorithmic approach to content delivery is the core product, and it became popular because it is good method of consumption. But when content quality goes down on average, eventually you end up with a Facebook situation - those are the users that actually don't care.
Thanks for the link, on the face of this I'm not sure if this really goes for or against my idea about the available metrics at hand not really being sufficient to make accurate/meaningful observations about the data. It certainly does feel to me like there's an undeniably significant protest occuring on the platform now, even within the confines of established rules on reopened subs. And also datapoints not considered, such as subs which have been reopened by direct admin action, or under threat of it.
I'm just trying to summarise to be concise, this part is what I was getting at
look at how little it took for the protest to wane, some subs are still protesting or migrating, but the majority reopened and they’re going on like nothing happened.
I disagree that "the majority reopened", of a total proportion of subs that blacked out I think the majority are either blacked out or have not resumed operations as normal. This is different from a majority proportion of all subs, which is a much larger number, and the majority of which also never participated in any blackout. Since the majority of traffic on reddit goes to a minority of subs, it's not clear which metric you're looking at or whether it's meaningful in context.
Since reddit algorithms to some extent relied upon that consistent operating principle of posts in popular subs being boosted, initially the result of the blackout was extreme - the website could not functionally aggregate posts on most users frontpages with so many subs on private mode. But that is not a problem directly caused by the blackout, it's caused by reliance on consistent data. So all reddit needed to do in that case was adjust the algo to significantly improve the average user experience during peak blackout. Instead of users seeing a bunch of posts about private subs they can't interact with, they just get fed posts from subs that didn't black out, so users could engage with reddit while an active ongoing protest was happening on the platform and might not even notice.
So I guess my point is that someone's impression of how the frontpage looked at t+24hrs, or t+48hrs, or today, as an indication of how reddit's going right now, is inaccurate because of the inherently subjective nature of the information visible from just browsing the platform.
I think the position in the tweet is sound if you assume a healthcare system that's generally fit for purpose where barriers to potential abuse exist. If you can't then there's most likely other factors in that system contributing to drug dependency more significantly than ADHD diagnoses, like marketing from pharma companies or lower minimum qualifications to prescribe substances with abuse potential etc.
It makes more sense on balance to prioritise addressing the unaddressed mental health disorders in the general public than worrying about opening up avenues for potential drug abuse that aren't currently a big issue. I mean, shit, if addicts all switched to prescriptions, that'd be a win for public health compared to where we are now.
Whether something is up or down is more meaningful in terms of our average interaction with that object than whether it is left or right. Conceptually the latter is inherently relative to the observer, and in many circumstances the observer could just turn around to change the state of whether it's left or right, so it doesn't matter which way it is. Whereas they can't do as much about many things that are "up" or "down" like the sun, a tree canopy, the earth's mantle. Those things are more constant generally so it's easier to grasp them
I feel like any cases of multiple communities for a given subject will naturally resolve as users develop a preference for one community over the other. The users from the lesser communities will organically migrate to the dominant community for that subject, or we'll arrive at the conclusion that each community actually explores niches of that topic that are worthy of separation or delineation.
That's how it worked on reddit, anyway. Multireddit functionality of any sort was missing on most platforms, and yeah there's a lot of users that want it. But a lot of that desire is borne from the current state of Lemmy, rather than what it will be once the fediverse is more developed both as a concept in software and a concept in social media interaction
You can be a bear and lead a pack of wolves into battle, pets would be cool but I'm already satisfied lol
Great comprehensive guide, I also watched some vids from Kripparrian which he linked that were very informative. Bye bye resistance gems, turns out resistances are effectively broken right now. Was thinking about spending some time leveling an alt necro or sorceror but might wait for balance changes given the current state of that