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  • I’ve recently been trying to train myself to lucid dream frequently. The first thing anyone will tell you is to keep a dream journal, and holy shit does it help. Started journaling them on the 2nd of January, and even just a week later I started having very vivid dreams every night. All senses included; and as of a couple days ago, fairly critical thinking (mental math). I haven’t managed to have a “lucid dream” yet, but I’ll get there.

    For the sake of completeness, a lucid dream is a dream in which you’ve become aware that you are dreaming. Whether you can control the dream or feel that it’s vivid is a separate concern.

    Pretty cool stuff.





  • Why are you conflating “ghetto”, “gangsta,” and black? 95% of it is about where and how you grew up.

    There’s plenty of white guys who, although will never experience and understand what it’s like to live in America while black, understand the struggle of growing up in the ghettos, being socioeconomically alienated, and being pressured to look to the “gangsta” lifestyle.

    These three can often overlap, but are importantly separate things. A white guy in that situation won’t know what it means to be black like I do, but I will never have a fraction of their knowledge and experience of what it means to grow up to the streets.










  • Is final iteration of long chain of names. Starts with “Metaqione,” a slightly off English phonetic spelling of Italian word for “jester,” pronounced as if name were Spanish. Name often shortened to “Meta,” which was cool, and then Meta used name as branding for all creations. Then, big corporation decides to change name. And then Meta was pissed, decided that “Metaqione” was too hard to pronounce correctly anyway, and therefore changed name.

    “Metaqione” became “Mesaqoraz,” a new iteration and chapter. New name had something related to universe and metaphysics, but then Mesaqoraz no remember now. Name “Mesaqoraz” was actually very short-lived, and was not attractive to Mesaqoraz because name was too complicated and hard to remember, which resulted in truncated name “Mesa,” but “Mesa” was too common and is real word in many languages, and initials of Mesa’s real name were promptly added to front, creating “Delmesa.” Because Lemmy new and small, and programming.dev even smaller, “Mesa” was available, which is nickname for Delmesa.


  • Mesa@programming.devtoFediverse@lemmy.mlPSA: Lemmy votes can be manipulated
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    2 years ago

    I don’t have experience with systems like this, but just as sort of a fusion of a lot of ideas I’ve read in this thread, could some sort of per-instance trust system work?

    The more any instance interacts positively (posting, commenting, etc.) with main instance ‘A,’ that particular instance’s reputation score gets bumped up on main instance A. Then, use that score with the ratio of votes from that instance to the total amount of votes in some function in order to determine the value of each vote cast.

    This probably isn’t coherent, but I just woke up, and I also have no idea what I’m talking about.