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  • Right, I guess that’s what turns me off from it, somehow you put it into words better than I ever could. But it’s still nowhere near “slop”, and I don’t like it being slandered. It’s entertaining (for those who enjoy it), it’s harmless, and the smoothness of the animations can even scratch a “competence porn” itch. I really think they’re going for an ASMR kind of thing, and it’s working. And I see absolutely nothing wrong with that.

    I can also guess that that’s why they’re going for those kinds of subjects in most of their videos. Anything that is even a little bit controversial or political can turn people away, so it’s safer to stick with things that are a bit detached from the world. … Or something like that.

    Not to mention that any topic that doesn’t call for cool animations is immediately out of the running. The coolest animations come from the exact kinds of topics you described. Something on the cusp of science and science fiction.










  • Took me a while to understand what you’re warning against. Allow me to rephrase, and tell me if I got it wrong.

    The || will execute what’s after it in two cases:

    1. The preceding command (in this case the rm) never ran because of an earlier &&
    2. The preceding command ran and returned nonzero

    OP’s code relies on the 1 case, but wrongly assumed that the 2 case will never happen. That’s the footgun.


  • Illuminating read. Thanks.

    It doesn’t answer the obvious question though. The host (Bluesky/Eurosky, which apparently is called a PDS) is still effectively an instance, isn’t it? You can host your own, but you’d probably use one that’s already set up. It doesn’t seem that different from Mastodon in that sense.

    The other big question is, how does the migration work? I’ve heard that Mastodon’s migration is less than perfect. But this blogger says they’ve moved from bsky to Eurosky, and I just want to know how that works – if I have a client subscribed to that account back when it was on bsky, how will my client know where to look now?

    Edit: okay, I did a little searching, then after getting no useful results gave up and asked the big data machine that’s making everyone’s lives worse. I kinda get it now, but not enough to explain here. But it sounds like a good system.