Lvxferre [he/him]

I have two chimps within, Laziness and Hyperactivity. They smoke cigs, drink yerba, fling shit at each other, and devour the face of anyone who gets close to either.

They also devour my dreams.

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Cake day: January 12th, 2024

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  • I am not deciding shit for anyone. I’m concluding your kid is most likely MtF, based on the info you provided — “in my simple brain he has a dick he’s a boy” + usage of the word “trans”.

    And, even in the chance my conclusion is incorrect (the kid is actually genderfluid, or non-binary, et cetera), my point still stands, even if you pretend it doesn’t dammit. You highlighted you use “he/him” because the kid has a dick, regardless of the kid’s identity, that’s an arsehole move, doubly so coming from a parent. The right approach would be to use the ones the kid chose.

    You’re the one assuming shit here

    Not really.

    I’m laughing […] I find that funny.

    Said Egnatius the Celtiberian.


    EDIT: I usually don’t bring shit from the modlog up, because it’s often a diversion tactic. However, in this case, it’s 100% relevant: the user above defends physical violence against children. In his own words, “I’m saying this with all the honesty. We need to start beating our kids again.”

    It explains a lot, doesn’t it? If a person doesn’t get why physical abuse against kids is bad, the idea of respecting someone else’s choices is a bit too complex for that person.


  • Summer? See you guys in December… okay, sorry for the dumb joke. Here’s what I’m planning to pick up, roughly by order of how much I want to see it:

    1. Mushoku Tensei III
    2. Youjo Senki II
    3. Otomege Sekai wa Mob […] 2
    4. Black Torch
    5. Ryoumin 0-Nin Start no Henkyou Ryoushu-sama
    6. Tsuihou Sareta Tensei Juukishi wa Game […]
    7. Koko wa Ore ni Makesete Saki […]
    8. Hell Mode […] 2
    9. Sekai Saikyou no Kouei
    10. Reiwa no Dara-san
    11. Suterare Seijo no Isekai Gohantabi
    12. Rakudai Kenja no Gakuin Musou
    Further impressions on the first six series I mentioned (note: no actual spoilers here, I'm only trying to reduce clutter)

    Mushoku Tensei III — Once you go past the fact Rudeus (the MC) was scum in Earth, and that he’s still shitty after reincarnated (but less than before, so… yay?), you’re presented with a solid fantasy series. IMO Mushoku Tensei has the perfect mix of romance, adventure, and worldbuilding, all of them tied by a nice theme (TL;DR: “try to be a better person, one step at a time”). And it diverges from a lot of later isekais in small aspects, that makes it feel refreshing and exciting.

    Youjo Senki II — in totally-not-WW1-Earth-with-magic, a man reincarnates as a little girl, misunderstood by everyone, as they assume she’s more thoughtful than she is. War is still cruel, but at least it’s fun to see Tanya’s plans of a peaceful life being ruined by God.

    Otomege Sekai wa Mob […] 2 — Almost everybody has a loose screw or two, and that’s bloody hilarious! Specially the goldfish poop gang “capture targets” of the game, chasing after Marie. Plus Leon does show some character growth, even behind his arsehole façade.

    Black Torch — I read some of the manga a long, looooong time ago. I remember it was about some kid who loses his (literal) heart fighting against a mononoke, and then merges with another who decides to save his life. The story was fun, but IIRC it was cancelled, so I’m glad to see it being animated.

    Tsuihou Sareta Tensei Juukishi wa Game […] — the premise is bland: reincarnated in a game, strong but taken as weak, disowned by his father, yadda yadda. But even then, there’s always some struggle behind the fights that most isekais miss, because having game knowledge doesn’t magically make Elymas invincible. Also, I really like Ruche/Luce as a deuteragonist.

    Ryoumin 0-Nin Start no Henkyou Ryoushu-sama — if I were to describe the manga, it feels a lot like “Spy x Family meets Isekai Nonbiri Nouka”: wholesome slice-of-life with settlement building. There are bits of actions here and there, but I won’t watching it for the action, I’ll do it for the sheep. And the beastkin. And all that fluff.

    I’ll also keep watching: Re:Zero, Iruma-kun, TenSura, Ascendance of a Bookworm. Then there’s the older stuff I’m only watching now, like Mahoutsukai no Yome and Highschool of the Dead.

    So a total of 18 series, 12 being new ones. Two~three episodes per day.



  • …I’ll be honest.

    You’re saying you’ll defend whatever she decides to be, but I don’t think you accept it yourself; that’s why you’re still treating your daughter as if she was a boy. It’s perfectly possible this actually hurts her, but she doesn’t complain because it’s complicated to do so with your parents before adulthood, like it or not you’re still a figure of authority.

    EDIT: to be clear. I’m saying it’s preferable to treat a trans child by the gender they identify themself with, than by the gender assigned to them by birth. Doubly so if you’re in a position of power over them, like a parent is.


  • My trouble is always ending up with too much leftover whey.

    Add some fruit juice to it, and sugar to taste. IMO it’s delicious. (Note: this works better with sour fruits. Lemon, orange, passion fruit, cashew, pineapple, this sort of stuff.)

    I’ve never made paneer, but I have made a lot of ricotta (well, this type of ricotta, there’s also leftover whey ricotta, which I haven’t made). I had no clue paneer was basically just pressed ricotta.

    It’s possible what you made is paneer.

    At least traditionally, ricotta is the one made from leftover whey; that’s why it gets this name (ricotto = recooked). You make some low temp cheese like pecorino, re-heat the leftover whey to ~80°C, add some white vinegar (and probably salt), transfer the curds outside of the liquid and here you go.


  • Then I’ll admit to be a tentacular monster. And might as well share my “Levantine” spice mix for other monsters here:

    • 5 parts smoked paprika
    • 5 parts black pepper
    • 5 parts cinnamon
    • 4 parts coriander seeds
    • 4 parts cumin
    • 3 parts allspice
    • 3 parts cloves
    • 2 parts cardamom
    • 2 parts star anise
    • 2 parts chili pepper
    • 1 part nutmeg

    Just blend them all together and store in an airtight container. This stuff is amazing in meats, specially beef.




  • While Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles has its own rich lore, it is made even more enticing by its connection to the series xxxHOLiC. Both series were developed by Clamp and are set in the same multiverse. Characters are shared between the two series, and the interdimensional witch Yūko Ichihara plays an important role in both stories.

    This. So much this.

    You can enjoy them individually, but once you enjoy them together, both become far richer. It isn’t just about the TRC gang visiting the witch, everything is connected.

    Two examples (heavy TRC+xxxHolic spoilers)
    1. TRC’s main antagonist Fei Wang Reed was created by Clow Reed. Who apparently was a lover of Yuuko, the witch of xxxHolic; or at least really close to her. Fei Wang wants the feathers for the power to revive Yuuko, who’s not-quite-alive-or-dead, her time was frozen by Clow.
    2. xxxHolic Watanuki is an alternate existence for the Syaoran who you see travelling in TRC. He had to go back in time to save the Sakura you also see travelling; but he needed to leave “someone” to take his place in the world, so Watanuki was born. In fact everything in xxxHolic boils down to giving that alternate existence of Syaoran some place in the world, so he doesn’t disappear and fuck with causality.

    Mushishi and Hellsing also have great worldbuilding, but TRC/xxxHolic is more like a fractal of worlds tied together.

    Can’t say about the other series, as I didn’t watch them.


    With that out of the way, for people who want an isekai series with good worldbuilding, I’d recommend Log Horizon. AFAIK it was one of the first “trapped in a game” isekai series, and it goes great lengths to explore how game logic interacts with reality. Such as food only having a taste when made by people with a cooking skill, or where the money from loot comes from, or what it means to “die” in the world, etc.

    And if you don’t want isekai, there’s The Ancient Magus’ Bride. Sure, younger than things mentioned in the list (the first season is from 2013), but worldbuilding is top notch.


  • That Luminous vs. Kaplan case is a good example on how the popcorn crowd fuels fires. And, sure, some tankies are too combative*, but neither side here was one — it was mostly an anarchist and [I believe] a liberal.

    From my PoV the whole thing went like this:

    1. Deceptichum@qokkau gets banned by Kaplan@reddit.world, allegedly for “trolling”; in practice for criticising the Fedihost foundation. Bad admin behaviour from Kaplan, who’s clearly emotionally invested into his reddit.world foundation. Popcorn crowd goes like “Zionists! Zionists!”, even if the immediate matter is another.
    2. Luminous@AN bans Kaplan from AN, allegedly for “zionism, genocide apologia". I do not know if this is accurate or an overreach; if it is an overreach, it’s bad admin behaviour from Luminous. Popcorn crowd still chanting “Zionists! Zionists!”.
    3. Luminous was using a childish username, “murder all Zionists”. The underlying message (don’t tolerate Zionism) is sensible, if read in the right context and in good faith; problem is, people in bad faith will remove it from the context. And that’s exactly what Kaplan does, to justify defederating a whole instance (AN) without previously contacting neither other LW admins nor other AN admins. Now the popcorn crowd chants “Death threats! Death threats!” [Rimu goes here.]
    4. Since AN is part of the flotilla with /0 and quokkau, the “pact” between all three instances is evoked, escalating things further. Popcorn crowd makes sure reddit.world sees the flotilla as “all terrorists” and the flotilla sees reddit.world as “all Zionists”.

    All of that while the folks in the flotilla consistently ignore why reddit.world censors pro-Palestinian messages (pressure from the German government), but not pro-Zionism ones (no such pressure exists). While reddit.world “conveniently” keeps doing this immoral shit because “we just follow orders”. (And because banning the whole topic altogether wouldn’t sit right in an instance that sees itself as the spiritual successor of Reddit, and other instances as those inconvenient stones in its path.)

    Without the popcorn crowds, the most you’d have are two admin teams solving their issues in private. But because of the popcorn crowds the whole thing blew out of proportion.

    Worst part? I’m not even sure if I’m not part of one of the crowds now.

    * or should I say too “screechy”? If they actually spent that energy fighting for the causes, it would be great. But they’re busier using it to screech at random people on the internet.


  • Thanks for the link! Relevant to note, one of the comments there linked this thread, where Nutomic (note for the onlookers: Nutomic is the Lemmy backend developer) criticises what Yogthos did. I’ll quote it here:

    Responsible disclosure is still important because it takes the developer time to develop, validate and release a securit fix. Keep in mind that open source projects like Piefed, Lemmy and others are developed by volunteers in their free time. So it is irresponsible to publish security problems without any private warning. For all the infighting that is happening, we need to remember that our enemy is Reddit, and not anyone on the Fediverse.

    And even then. I disagree with what Yogthos did, but what he said holds some merit (if a large model can find it, an attacker can do it too, so devs need to be proactive).

    What I’m really disliking to see, though, in all this PieFed vs. Lemmy talk, is not even dev behaviour. From either side. It’s user behaviour; the “popcorn crowd”, throwing petrol into random fires, and burning the house down because it wants to see pretty flames go brrrrr. I’ve seen this in plenty other situations, but the threads both of us linked shows it really well.

    Every one [platform] is incomplete to varying degrees

    And as typical for software, none will be ever complete! Or should be.

    And on a related note, Rimu is stepping backwards a bit from directly contributing so much to PieFed, as it is leading to burnt-out

    That might explain why some of his recent takes have been a bit… over-simplistic, to say the least. Odds are he isn’t informed on the drama going on, and it’s easy to jump to conclusions.


  • At the same time the Lemmy devs are attacking PieFed, e.g. by running AI to identify vulnerabilities and then rather than offer even so much as 24 hrs notice go ahead and publicly disclose them (yes they “can” do so, but is it “friendly” to have chosen that route?).

    I’m not informed on that. Do you have some link where I can read further about it?

    Regarding the rest:

    I feel like the problem regarding Lemmy features might be what you said about being difficult to work with, plus that there’s way less people who can contribute with Rust code than Python code. However: I’m no programmer, this is just hearsay, so take it with a grain of salt because it might be incorrect.

    That said I like the concurrent existence of Lemmy and PieFed, and I’d really like if there was more “Fediverse forum” platforms. It might split efforts a bit, but every new platform brings new stuff into the table; Lemmy was there at the start, then Kbin trying to “tie” the forums with microblogging, and then Piefed with the improvements you mentioned. More importantly, that concurrence allows us to not need to have “faith” in any specific platform, since if the devs for some reason go MIA the rest of the “Fediverse forums” survives.




  • Based on other comments it defaults to the last language used, right? (It has been some time since I used PieFed.)

    I feel like people get tired of those of us who constantly say that PieFed offers SIGNIFICANTLY more features than Lemmy does, or will ever do, but OTOH…

    People make a whole ruckus because of the political views of the individual devs (from both sides), and also because of Rust vs. Python, but at the end of the day I like how PieFed adds new things to the table. Every new piece of software brings a different vision, different “I can’t stand this papercut issue so I’m fixing it”, and with it a bunch of new features.

    Although… for the Python vs. Rust thing, I get Rust might perform better but I kind of expect people to be more likely to contribute with a Python project.


  • The selector is there, at least in Lemmy’s default web interface… but it’s a pain to use.

    I think Lemmy should let you configure one language as default, and as many languages as you want for quick access. Then if you don’t mess with the “select language” menu, your posts/comment get your default language. And if you do need to mess with that menu, you’ll have an easier time finding the language you want, like this:

    (Replace the languages in the “quick access” list with the ones you want.)

    “Undetermined” should only appear if the user actively unselected the other languages.

    Note by my example you should be allowed to tag a post/comment with 2+ languages. The OP is a prime example of that, sometimes content shows multiple languages at once and there’s nothing wrong with it.

    Also note this should be separated from the configuration of which languages you’re willing to see, that already exists. Being able to read some stuff in a language is definitively not the same as being able to write with it.