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Is ‘Melissanthe’ an actual Greek personal name or it was invented by a Greek poet?

Google sponsors open source software through the Google Summer of Code.

People only want to hear nothing but the good things, all of the time. Even if you’re not posting anything politically or any news that’d bring anyone down. There’s a video I saw, since deleted, about a man who posted on Facebook. He posted numerously uplifting news about his life, new girlfriend, new job and a brighter future. He got likes, support and comments reflecting this.

I suffer from body dysmorphia and as I am worse I’m finding that I cannot use technology any more as I can see my face reflect on the devices screen. Are there any screen protectors that will stop the reflection or reduce it?

You know like the classic hitman, criminal, or secret agent, etc. trying to present as a normal suburban family.

I used to be strictly materialist and atheist. Now I’m pretty spiritual. Don’t necessarily follow a religion and don’t support bigotry but yeah, I’m fairly spiritual now. This is a recent development and I never thought I’d be here like 5 years ago.

what the title says

The main thing is the title of the post, the body of the post is an addition and clarification to the question.

Today, for the first time on Lemmy, I received a message about posting being forbidden from VPNs.

Does the post live on forever in other lemmy versions?

In my head libertarians are the right and anarchists are the left but they are similar in ideals (little to no government intervention). At least in the sense that if you talk to a libertarian I feel they tend to sound socially right and an anarchist tends to sound socially left. I have no idea if this makes sense at all. If you’re going to tell me to read more, sure, recommend some literature though.

This seems like such a simple thing to me, and yet the US just can’t seem to get it done. What are the issues preventing this?

I work a very strange rotating schedule so breakfast, lunch and dinner aren’t really a thing for me. That said, I treat the final meal of the day as my most important and largest.

This was the first movie made by Quentin Tarantino that I watched. I didn’t know anything about the movie, apart from a handful of references I observed from memes.

To me it shouldn’t matter, but it feels weird having the bathroom door open all the time. Also my shower sometimes does a midnight clunk for no obvious reason and it’s loud.

For me it’s saying, “we can’t joke about anything anymore”. Sirens go off immediately 🚨

I have this scene in my head that goes something like this:

When it comes to privacy, one of the first things people mention is threat modeling. However, searching up how to do threat modelling shows me results targeted at people with some technical knowledge.

I always have had this dichotomy. First off, I have moderate ADHD (don’t we all on Lemmy, ha!) And am a maximalist, meaning I like stuff. Having stuff that does something (video games, PCs, TVs, cars, motorcycles, audio gear etc) or enables me to do things (tools, climbing gear, cheese press, etc). I’m maybe a mild hoarder, but to be fair if I have something collecting dust I give it away or sell it to someone who can enjoy it. I don’t keep garbage (don’t all hoarders say this? Oh boy..)

I am new here and I know that Reddit made Fosscad leave, but I need to find someone that can do cad work for me. I am a licensed FFL with SOT located in Northern Virginia.

Let’s say if we were to meat someone from a different universe where things never die, how would you explain death to them?

Inspired by a few other posts and memes flying about. When I was young movies and tbh real life you would come across old people telling you that can’t trust the gov. To keep your cash at home etc. tell em nothing.

What are some things that I should know? Any community recommendations??

Doesn’t have to be about over traumatic-related things, but just in general, things you don’t like talking about. Whether it’ll bum you down, distract you or vice versa.

I still remember… an apartment I lived in till the age of 8… like I could draw a map of the interior…

Which one of you bloody Lemmy nerds created this wonderfully wacky website? I found it when searching how to make gifs in Linux. Haven’t tried the tutorial but it looks super detailed and nice!

I clarify:

For me, Tunic. Well, it’s a bit more complicated. I was burnt out on soulslikes and wanted a break. Saw what I thought was a nice little Zelda clone, as in I was scrolling the Steam store home page and did a double take when I saw the one and only piece of promotional art for the game. That character design looked like it was one floppy green hat away from a lawsuit from Nintendo. Instantly downloaded it upon learning that the instruction manual played a big part in the gameplay.

Sharing is ethical only through corporate approved channels!

I hate Instagram. Because every post results in Meta knowing more about me and getting better in manipulating me and society. Locked in because of the critical mass. For now, it’s the only way to keep in touch with international friends. Would you be willing to make a Pixelfed account? Today? And double post everything for a while, on Insta and Pixelfed? It’s the only way to make this work, I think. Slowly creating a critical mass without dumping Insta rightaway. For the moment you and your friends won’t miss out on anything. Along the way mention from time to time on Pixelfed there are no ads, no manipulative algorithm, … There are tool to import your Insta posts with hashtags and timestamps. Although, apparently, these don’t work perfect yet. Continue doubleposting until half of your contacts have done the same. Then start only posting to Pixelfed, simultaneously posting an Instagram post saying you and most others have switched and why. Could this work? EDIT : perhaps my question is : How can we make this into something trending? EDIT 2 : if you already switched. Did you manage to convince some of your contacts? EDIT 3 : i started contacting famous persons (blue tick) that i follow on ig. “Question. Would you consider opening a parallel account on PIXELFED? No algorithm, no ads, server in a country of your choice. As to slowly move away from Meta. You have enough critical mass.”

There are a few countries out there that people love to hate. Sometimes they choose to block all visitors from those countries to their websites. What is your opinion on the practice? Note that I am not talking about blocking for legal or copyright reasons, or about blocking done by the countries’ authorities or ISPs, only by the websites themselves.

Like what Platforms or other means to use and what to look out for? What should I write ? How much money should I ask for?

Was thinking of adding an avatar (random image I like off a search) and got to wondering this.

To me right now is the first Red Dead Redemption. Finally I’m able to play it, I’ve wait for over a decade. No spoilers, zero youtube gameplay videos, zero questions about the game to my friends. It gotta be me, and the game, it happened, and I think it sucks.

(When you thought the lyric was one thing but it turned out to be totally different)

My location is Asia, rural, and I discovered these things. I have no real friends doing it right now? Is this just new?

With Daylight Savings once again coming up, it never fails for it to spark discussions about its purpose in modern times. People hate it widely while few seem to be okay with it and depending where you live, others don’t even know what the deal is.

Give me something juicy

Rule 6 states “No US politics”, but methinks this is kinda grey on that one.

The whole concept of not knowing what you’ve got until it’s gone. Remember that song you used to hate hearing and now 20 some years later, you’d wish we’d be back to music like it because music today is too artificial and AI-powered? Remember nearly a lot of things you criticized and now have a soft spot for because everything now has gone to shit?

I feel like I remember a bot a while ago that you summoned it somehow with a username and shortly later it would respond with a summary of what it knows about you as a person based on your comments and posts. Does anyone know what happened to it? I’d like to try it out again, if it still exists

I always reject them, but mostly because I never really understood what their purpose was.

Hello. I am new to mastodon, just made my account. I chose mstdn.ca. Who should I follow that isn’t boring? memes, humour, news, leftist politics, shitposts, etc. or is it serious at all times like bluesky?

By “important” I mean that it didn’t just become hugely popular, but it also changed a music genre or launched an entirely new one, or otherwise made a huge impact on music in general.

I am only recently learning about how widely used these things are, but how little is known about the long term risks and more subtle impacts of the drug. Anecdotally, what have y’all heard about it?

What made you choose your Fediverse Instance?Why did you choose your Fediverse Instance, does it have a bigger meaning than it was a bigger instance or was it for a certain reason? Did you have to be on your instance you chose?---@asklemmy@lemmy.world @asklemmy@lemmy.ml @asklemmy@sh.itjust.works#AskMastodon #AskFedi #AskFediverse #Fediverse #Instance #Question #FediQuestion

I’m trying to degoogle. I’ve heard good things about DuckDuckGo and I’ve been using it for the past few weeks and it’s pretty solid. But I’m just wondering what the Lemmy/Piefed community prefer for a search engine.

In Super Mario Bros, I called fire bars (those rotating fire thingies in castles) “fire spankers”. A friend called Goombas “chicken nugget heads”.

Free or paid, any topic.

So I have always hated Tesla and don’t like that they’ve in a lot of way tarnished the name of electric cars. The second you say electric cars every person and their mom says OHH you’re getting a tesla! Quite annoying.

That appearance in france the other day is so weird. Is it actually possible it’s an impersonator? It sure seems like an impersonator.

My test has two critical dealbreakers to them.