OG Xbox didn’t allow anything like that, but there was an active mod scene. Once it got to the point you could soft mod it without having to install a modchip, it was like a whole new system. Kodi started life as Xbox Media Center running on the OG Xbox. Was so awesome and that was my media center for years.

Yeah, the PS3 “Other OS” debacle was a real dirty move by Sony, I’ll agree. There was no reason to take away existing functionality but they did it anyway.

Can’t speak for the multiplayer subscription, but the latter two have pretty much always been the case, no?

(Sits on stump, sets my belt onion off to the side, tells the young’uns to gather round to listen to an old man speak): Back when I gamed, I had to pay for Xbox Live to play multiplayer.

I’m probably going to regret asking, but curiosity is getting the better of me.

What has the PS5 done to draw the ire of the fediverse?

There was another early 90s show, Nurses, which was a spin-off of Empty Nest.

For a few years in the 90s, there was a whole Golden Girls Cinematic Universe lol.

totally. Thankfully someone uploaded upscaled recordings to Youtube because you cannot buy or stream it anywhere.

I’m watching Empty Nest and Scrubs more-or-less at the same time, so I’ve got two shows running right now that both have sassy nurses named Laverne lol

Cool, thanks. I’ll give that a read and see if I can make it work cleanly. At this point, it’s just an experiment, but I’ve wanted to have some mechanism for a standardized machine-readable community rules for a long time, specifically to put into the report and moderation workflows. If I can make it work cleanly, and if it’s not something already planned for Lemmy 1.0, I’m absolutely willing to make that a Tesseract feature.

What’s the significance of this syntax with regard to it not rendering?

  [//]: # (r1: Posts must be ...)
  [//]: # (r3: Posts must not be ...)
  [//]: # (r2: Posts must be ...)

I’ve long wanted a somewhat standardized way to define community rules so I could do exactly what you were describing in your issue, but I’m not clear on how/why that syntax doesn’t render.

I tried it in Tesseract, which admittedly use a different markdown renderer than other apps, and the first line shows but the second and third don’t.

If other apps can get on board with that, then I may need to understand what’s happening in that syntax to make sure it doesn’t render.

“Meanwhile on Grad” is kinda best described as “shit tankies say” and it’s always full of screenshots of ridiculous takes coming out of .ml, grad and their lot.

In case you’re like me and have never even heard the term “tankie” before this place, here’s a helpful Urban Dictionary link: http://tankie.urbanup.com/15148876

Lol, yeah

“Season 9 but good” is definitely how I would describe it.

Definitely feels like the early seasons of the original run but with the old cast promoted to chiefs/residents with the “young cast” filling their intern roles. And yeah, unlike season 9, you actually like the new characters.

Yeah, it’s pretty good.

LOL, if only.

Yep. Just finished the last episode of the revival and realized I haven’t seen the first run in forever.

What do you want to practice? Just general sysadmin stuff? Networking? Clustering? Horizontal scaling? All of the above?

Old PCs are just Debian servers waiting to happen. Depending on their specs, you may be able to do VMs or you can utilize container frameworks like Podman, Docker, or LXC to deploy individual applications or application stacks. Or you can just bare metal install anything you want.

Years ago, I bought a batch of 16 Wyse thin clients on eBay for about $15/each. These had 4GB SSDs and 2 GB RAM, so I upgraded about half of them with 64-120GB SSDs (whatever I had lying around) and 8 GB RAM. Thin clients can usually be found pretty inexpensively and are pretty power efficient, but they’re not performant workhorses. They’re great for practicing networking, VLANs, system orchestration (e.g. Ansible, Cockpit) application clustering and horizontal scaling, diskless workstations, setting up a demo office server and workstations, and even VMs if you’re just practicing; they’re a little underpowered to run a lot of VMs, but you can certainly run a few small ones just to practice managing them.

than to carry something like an evaporative cooler

Evaporative coolers don’t really work in high humidity. If you live in an area that’s a dry hot, they work great. Summers in my area, though, are very muggy. Other than ice pack based products, the only passive coolers I’ve found work in humid environments are these sweat bands that have either desiccant beads in them or that stuff that’s in diapers. They pull the sweat away keeping it out of your eyes and give a little evaporative cooling at the same time.

Webapp. It’s the development branch of Tesseract.

I can use regexes, so it makes it a bit shorter list:

I’ve toyed around with LLM-based moderation tools but it never really panned out. It was too hit or miss to be relied upon even with the temperature parameters turned way down in an attempt to get consistent results. Granted, I was using a small local model and not feeding it to one of the big players.

To give an example, I tried to keep it focused by creating one custom model per rule to enforce. An example prompt to mod calls for violence was basically:

ROLE: You are a forum moderator who does not want users calling for violence.  Examine the input and analyze whether it violates any constraints. 

KNOWLEDGE:
- {list of dog-whistle slang for calling for murder}

CONSTRAINTS:
- Content should not advocate violence
- Content should not normalize violence
- Content should not escalate tensions or fan flames
- Content should avoid promoting harmful stereotypes
- Content should not utilize broad, sweeping generalizations
- Content should not use dehumanizing language
- Content should not undermine human rights, due process, or the rule of law

FORMAT YOUR RESPONSES AS JSON:
{
  reason: [A one to two sentence summary],
  score: [On a scale of 0 to 10, how severe is the content advocating violence]
}

The score part of the response was my band-aid to get around the high number of both false positives and false negatives as I originally had it returning true or false only. Any score 7 or higher caused the item to be passed to the mod queue along with the reason, and I would review its actions later.

Ultimately it was slow and still somewhat unreliable, so I abandoned the idea after running it for a little less than a day since I can 't run bigger models to get better results fast enough to keep up. Using a cloud based service was out of the question for many, many reasons, both financial and ethical.

To answer your question, as long as the models were locally hosted and properly tuned/tested, I’m fine with it in theory, except for the ideology part; that’s pretty messed up. While I don’t want my submissions used to train anyone’s model and take measures to prevent my own instance from being used as a data source, I remain aware that once I post something, I have no control over its fate the moment it federates out.

[1] Yes, I know that’s like half the comments that get posted around here. My goal was to try to have it mod things so posts were bases for actual discussions instead of being a knee-jerk rage factory.

I used to do that but once the backend added that feature I removed that step from the automod script. Basically it was to prevent the communities here from being unmoddable on remote instances.