lvxferre

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[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 14 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

I have two chimps inside me. They keep flinging shit at each other. And then devour the faces of whoever comes close to them.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Here's a picture, stolen from some cooking site (because it looks better than mine):

It's a common dish here in Paraná, known locally as "cuque de farofa e banana"; basically Streuselkuchen plus sliced bananas. I'll share the recipe I followed, it works fine, it's just that I didn't give the yeast enough hours to act:

RecipeFor the crumbles:

  • 180g flour
  • 200g sugar (add more if you like it sweeter)
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 2 tablespoons plus more of some solid fat (lard, butter, margarine, they all work fine)

Mix all ingredients by hand, adding more fat as needed; you know you got enough fat there when the crumbles barely hold themselves together, once you press them with your hand.

Batter:

  • 1 tablespoon dry biological yeast
  • 250ml lukewarm milk; make sure it isn't too hot, otherwise it'll kill the yeast
  • 75g sugar
  • 300g flour
  • 2 tablespoons fat
  • zest of a lime, half lemon, or a rangpur
  • two eggs
  • some vanilla extract
  • a pinch of salt
  • three bananas, peeled, sliced
  1. Mix the yeast, the milk, and one of the tablespoons of sugar. Let it bloom for half a hour.
  2. Mix everything else together, then the mix from step #1. You'll get a sticky batter.
  3. Transfer the batter to a greased baking dish; preferably a large one, you want the batter to be thinly spread.
  4. Let the batter ferment for a few hours; the actual time depends on weather, but it should at least double in size.
  5. Add the sliced bananas over it. Then the crumbles. Then bake the thing 180°C, in pre-heated oven, for 30min or so. You know it's done when you stick a toothpick in it and it comes out clean.
  6. Let it rest a bit then enjoy.
[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 10 points 4 weeks ago

I think it's a mix of what both IninewCrow and Jay said: survival bias + higher early exposure to dirt, pollen etc.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 10 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

My banana crumb cake turned out tasty, but it didn't grow as much as I wanted. I kind of forgot to take into account climate on yeast times, plus I'm not used to cakes so I had no clue if the batter grew as much as it should (for breads this is easier for me).

Beyond that I'm playing some Pokemon Emerald. Mostly abusing RNG manipulation for shinies, and faketime for berries. I'll probably start some Leaf Green or Fire Red playthrough, gotta catch'em all...

Bought a bottle of vodka. Now dumping all citrus skins in it. Some months later I'll have my fun with it.

No plans for Fri/Sat/Sun as of yet.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 9 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (5 children)

Sorry for the double reply.

In the short-ish term, I think a good way to address this would be if governments across the globe had laws like "a service provider cannot refuse to provide services to a platform based on the nature of the lawful content within that platform".

Odds are Visa/MC/PP wouldn't even try to fight against such a law - they don't really mind servicing itch.io, from their PoV it would be yet another customer; the problem is pressure exerted by those Protestant nutjobs in Australia, but once a law is present they can't exert that pressure.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 15 points 4 weeks ago

Right, that’s why they CAN do it, but I’m talking about why they WANT to do it.

The reason why PP/MC/Visa "want" to do this has zero to do with "porn saturation" or whatever. It's basically "brand management"; they're seeing servicing sites with specific types of adult content as "brand damage", so they pressure those sites to not do it. That's it; if they believed the opposite they'd gladly force itch io to show a dick in the front page.

In turn, the reason Collective Shout is pressuring PP/MC/Visa through "brand damage" mostly boils down to conservative babble. Check this, regarding the group's founder and take your own conclusions.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 31 points 4 weeks ago (17 children)

I don't think it's just a matter of personal responsibility; it's part of the socio-economic system, whoever controls the capital can force others depending on it to do things they don't want to. In this case PP/MC/Visa forcing itch.io.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 195 points 4 weeks ago (26 children)

I don't care about porn games, but:

The fact MasterCard, Visa, and PayPal can censor lawful content is problematic, to say the least.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 11 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Mine either. But I did the mistake of websearching them:

  • roach bin - apparently some people breed cockroaches as pets, or to feed their actual pets with.
  • dermestid beetle aka carpet beetle - they're so notorious for feasting on dead bodies that forensics uses their presence/development to estimate date of death.
  • pap smear - cells collected from the cervix, used to check for cancer.
[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

This is probably obvious, but:

The reason those businesses so consistently distort what SKG is about is to mislead the public, into not supporting SKG. They want their "remote kill switches", even if they're an unfair market practice - because if you're playing a 10yo game, you aren't buying whatever slop they released in the current year.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 21 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Roach bin
Dermestid beetle
Pap smear

The further you read, the worse it gets.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

When I had the same issue, I solved it this way:

lvxVidRencodeAll () {
  for i in *; do ffmpeg -i "$i" -c:v libx265 "zz-$i" ; done
  pw-play /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/complete.oga
  }
lvxVidResizeAll () {
  for i in *; do ffmpeg -i "$i" -filter:v scale=-2:720 -c:v libx265 "zz-$i" ; done
  pw-play /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/complete.oga
  }

They're both in a script that gets loaded by my .bashrc. Then I simply open the terminal, in a dir full of vids to perform one of those functions, and I run the command. No args. The first one converts the video to H265, the second one resizes it to 720p and converts it.

Why I'm sharing this: because odds are you won't use ffmpeg for a lot of different stuff, only for the same things over and over. You don't need an LLM for that, you need to spend some time deciding what you want to do, and then storing it for later in a script.

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