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Uncircumcised penis owners, did you ever wish you were circumcised? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] porcoesphino@mander.xyz 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Where did I say that I think that not knowing with certainty implies the practice should be done?

I asked how we could know because it seems kind of tough to validate and that makes it interesting

I am sorry, but everyone is getting syntax highlighting wrong in c/hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
[–] porcoesphino@mander.xyz 2 points 3 days ago

I don't think my IDEs are quite as colourful as his. Did he choose a deliberately bad colour scheme to try to make a point?

I am sorry, but everyone is getting syntax highlighting wrong in c/hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
[–] porcoesphino@mander.xyz 1 points 3 days ago

Trying hard to justify their epiphany... and trying to justify their plugin and advertise it.

Uncircumcised penis owners, did you ever wish you were circumcised? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] porcoesphino@mander.xyz 2 points 3 days ago

Great reply, thanks.

nobody wants to be circumcised unless it's all they've known

Yeah, that's pretty solid. With what I've learnt in the last 24 or so hours (so I'm a clear expert) it seems like it could still be true that young children will not remember and that they heal differently so that there isn't a diminishing feeling or the diminished feeling only happens with botched operations / poor healing or an unlucky few. None of those arguments seem solid though. I'm curious to see info on those points if anyone has it

Japanese Government Calls on Sora 2 Maker OpenAI to Refrain From Copyright Infringement, Says Characters From Manga and Anime Are 'Irreplaceable Treasures' That Japan Boasts to the World in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] porcoesphino@mander.xyz 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And the other government with large contributors is China and intellectual property rights have never been strong there. Walk around a tech startup in China and you'll see plenty of posters they've made with their products and with the faces of Elon Musk or Steve Jobs there as if they're endorsing or part of the product

Japanese Government Calls on Sora 2 Maker OpenAI to Refrain From Copyright Infringement, Says Characters From Manga and Anime Are 'Irreplaceable Treasures' That Japan Boasts to the World in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] porcoesphino@mander.xyz 1 points 3 days ago

And the other government with large contributors is China and intellectual property rights have never been strong there. Walk around a startup and you'll see plenty of posters they're made with their products and with the faces of Elon Musk or Steve Jobs there as if they're endorsing or part of the product

Uncircumcised penis owners, did you ever wish you were circumcised? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] porcoesphino@mander.xyz 1 points 3 days ago

Not quite:

https://mander.xyz/comment/22680300

And I'm not confident that their aren't more that I'm missing in a quick scan

Uncircumcised penis owners, did you ever wish you were circumcised? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] porcoesphino@mander.xyz 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

When I read this, it seemed like an attempt at a pithy comment that included a logical fallacy but I couldn't put my finger on it. I think I have it now.

If you take the position that's basically the opposite of the posters and simplify you could end up with an imaginary world with features like: circumcisions cause no lasting pain and have no effect on sexual sensation. In that world, trying to make sure there are less circumcisions is still pretty reasonable, you're cutting up a baby for no reason. But what behaviour would you expect to see from people in this thread? I'd expect to only see circumcised people saying that many of the comments in this thread didn't reflect their experience and for people opposed to circumcision to take those comments as defending the practice. Only circumcised people saying that a lot of these comments don't reflect their experience would also be a quality in worlds where:

  • circumcised people are trying to legitimise an experience they went through since otherwise they may have lost something for nothing, or
  • there are strong religious groups trying to push for the practice of circumcision.

The fact that only circumcised people are saying a lot of these comments don't reflect their experience doesn't give us information about which of these worlds we live in (or more realistically, how much of each is part of our world since the last two obviously have some effect)

People's personal comments about their experiences before and after the operation do help differentiate, but that wasn't part of the pithy comment.

Why do so many lemmy clients drop information about other servers? in c/lemmyapps@lemmy.world
[–] porcoesphino@mander.xyz 1 points 3 days ago

Wow... an off by one error while talking about software dev

Why do so many lemmy clients drop information about other servers? in c/lemmyapps@lemmy.world
[–] porcoesphino@mander.xyz 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

what about just always showing the "open envelope" icon, both when the button is on and when it is off?

When the inbox counter doesn't go down, it's nice to quickly know which posts aren't correctly marked. I don't think displaying that way makes it more clear but I am about to rush to do something so I might not be thinking it through. I'll think as I use the app and get back to you.

I think another issue is that the client gets out of sync with the server on the Inbox page. I think it only notifies that a refresh is needed when new items are added to the list.

And when the refresh banner shows up, if you pull down to reload instead of pressing the button in the banner then a load indicator shows and eventually clears but the banner doesn't. I'm not sure if that's because the load isn't happening, if it's the load is being thrown away, of if the banner state isn't being updated.

If you put your finger on the bar and swipe to the left, it'll show more options :)

🤦‍♂️ I even noticed the link button was greyed out but for some reason I thought it was a bug and displaying as disabled even though it was clickable. Swapping from scroll to a hamburger menu is one way to handle future user stupidity but I'm not sure if it's better, or there are better alternatives.

Why do so many lemmy clients drop information about other servers? in c/lemmyapps@lemmy.world
[–] porcoesphino@mander.xyz 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

So, on Mlem on an iPhone the inbox counter on the menu bar wasn't going down when I opened things (and was -1 earlier today) so I updated the interaction bar to add the Mark Read action:

The indicator bar, everywhere, has indicators in the middle with buttons on the outside. The buttons look the same but slightly larger. If they are toggled on, then you can see them clearly as buttons. Making them look like buttons when they're toggled off would help me parse the icon Mark Read is currently displaying, since it's the action that will be applied not the current status of read/unread (how my brain is parsing it).

For uploading an image, the bar I see above my keyboard is this:

And I don't see a place to change what's in that bar.

As a side note, after opening the app and using it, I did a scan through settings and on the comments the interaction bar wasn't quite what I'd want so I updated it and hit save. It offered for me to push the change to all interaction bars and I thought that of course I wanted the change pushed to all comment interaction bars. Anyway, I imagine the rest of my interaction bars are pretty custom now.

Uncircumcised penis owners, did you ever wish you were circumcised? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] porcoesphino@mander.xyz 1 points 3 days ago

It just seems odd for the practice to have started in independently, in multiple places around the world, and to still be done for different reasons if that were a fact and not just a bias in framing (since a lot of people here seem to be strongly/angrily pushing a message). And that isn't me saying that the practice should exist, or that the effect doesn't exist, just that the practice gained momentum independently multiple times and both cutting up your child and lowering sexual pleasure are usually something that would slow down or stop that momentum. I guess there are plenty of counter examples, it's not hard to find cultural habits that run from weird to terrifying in other cultures so plenty have to exist in yours

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Why do so many lemmy clients drop information about other servers? (mander.xyz)
submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by porcoesphino@mander.xyz to c/lemmyapps@lemmy.world
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Resolved since Mlem has all the features I wanted:

https://mander.xyz/comment/22644935

It also solved one I hinted at in a few of my comments, what are the server's users actually like. That's exposed in a tab on a pane summarising a server but you can see some of the information online, like the endorsements here for lemmy.ml:

https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/lemmy.ml

Edit of original question

Is there an iPhone client that makes it possible to do these three things in the app:

  1. To be able to see the different sidebars that are visible if you load these two sites (not only the side bar on server I'm registered to):

  1. To be able to scroll these community (sorry not channel) lists separately and independent of channels from other servers (sorry not instances) (and not only the channels on server I'm registered to):

  2. To be able to search "ask lemmy.ml" filtered by communities and see "https://lemmy.ml/c/asklemmy" show up in some way.

Original post

Maybe it's just the iPhone clients, but they seem to have issues with use cases for other instances, for example:

  • If I'm interested in news from a certain country, and there is an instance focused on that country, I basically need to get on the web to search if there is a useful channel on that instance. If you use on of the iPhone clients to search for a channel and only use the instance name then nothing seems to match show up. You can find users from those channels, channels that happen to use that set of characters, or when people write a channel from that instance, but the search doesn't seem to match channels on that instance.
  • Clients don't seem to offer a way to navigate to an instance and see all its channels. This is basically the same use case as above, but with more exploration and less targeted. Again, I seem to need to use the web.
  • I can't find a way to show the sidebar for an instance, besides the one I've registered for. For a lot of instance+channel combinations this really doesn't matter. But when it matters, it tends to matter a lot. I had a few situations in asklemmy@lemmy.ml where people basically resorted to saying the instance was lemmy.ml and I had to go look up why that would matter by switching to a browser. (Yeah... a newbie problem, and now I wonder how I could have missed it.)

So, incase this comes across as just statements, here are some questions:

  • Am I missing an obvious client / some buttons to click?
  • Is this just how communities and users grew to use the echo system?
  • Are the iPhone clients all from similar codebases or copying UI layout?
  • Is there some technical issue with the exposed search APIs?
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Why are so many lemmy clients channel focused? (mander.xyz)
submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by porcoesphino@mander.xyz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
5 comments fedilink
 

This was better placed in c/lemmyapps@lemmy.world and I can delete this post if it's expected:

https://mander.xyz/post/39865414

Maybe it's just the iPhone clients, but they seem to have issues with use cases for other instances, for example:

  • If I'm interested in news from a certain country, and there is an instance focused on that country, I basically need to get on the web to search if there is a useful channel on that instance. If you use on of the iPhone clients to search for a channel and only use the instance name then nothing seems to match show up. You can find users from those channels, channels that happen to use that set of characters, or when people write a channel from that instance, but the search doesn't seem to match channels on that instance.
  • Clients don't seem to offer a way to navigate to an instance and see all its channels. This is basically the same use case as above, but with more exploration and less targeted. Again, I seem to need to use the web.
  • I can't find a way to show the sidebar for an instance, besides the one I've registered for. For a lot of instance+channel combinations this really doesn't matter. But when it matters, it tends to matter a lot. I had a few situations in asklemmy@lemmy.ml where people basically resorted to saying the instance was lemmy.ml and I had to go look up why that would matter by switching to a browser. (Yeah... a newbie problem, and now I wonder how I could have missed it.)

So, incase this comes across as just statements, here are some questions:

Is this just how communities and users grew to use the echo system? Am I missing an obvious client / some buttons to click? Are the iPhone clients all just from the same codebase? Is there some technical issue with the exposed search APIs?

Sorry if this is in the wrong community... hesitant tone it's an exploration issue? /hesitant tone

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The White House - Presidential Action - Columbus Day, 2025 (europe.pub)
 

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/10/columbus-day-2025/

This Columbus Day, we honor his life with reverence and gratitude, and we pledge to reclaim his extraordinary legacy of faith, courage, perseverance, and virtue from the left-wing arsonists who have sought to destroy his name and dishonor his memory.

Just over 2 months later, on October 12, 1492, Columbus made landfall in the modern-day Bahamas.  Upon his arrival, he planted a majestic cross in a mighty act of devotion, dedicating the land to God and setting in motion America’s proud birthright of faith.

Before our very eyes, left-wing radicals toppled his statues, vandalized his monuments, tarnished his character, and sought to exile him from our public spaces.  Under my leadership, those days are finally over — and our Nation will now abide by a simple truth:  Christopher Columbus was a true American hero, and every citizen is eternally indebted to his relentless determination

As we celebrate his legacy, we also acknowledge the contributions of the countless Italian-Americans who, like him, have endlessly contributed to our culture and our way of life

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Looking for a good ebook library alternative (europe.pub)
submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by porcoesphino@mander.xyz to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Honestly, I'm personally not just after a self hosting solution, I'm mostly trying to replace US services and companies. As part of that, I've started using Jellyfin and I think it's great but the book library part is a bit clunky.

I think I've got three use cases:

  • Research papers
  • Textbooks
  • Novels / Non-fiction

I'm okay with three separate setups for these too. I do listen to quite a few audiobooks but they're currently independent and I'm happy to keep it that way. I'm happy to hear integrated solutions, or suggestions for an audio book library, but this post is focused on the above list.

The main device I'd do most of my reading on is an iPhone but I'd also be wanting to open up the research papers and textbooks on my MacBook. I'd want to be able to add research papers from the iPhone, or at least a light weight way to list them to quickly add later.

Note taking and highlighting isn't an issue, I've started using markdown for this. Syncing how much of the book I've read is. Ideally between devices but on the one device would work too.

I figure I'll have to drop some of my aims here but I thought I'd see if anyone knows of decent setups to try. Neither Jellyfin or Calibre seem amazing but maybe I could just configure them better.

Since there is a mandated image here I'm starting to wonder if I'm really in the wrong place, but I put textbook cover there

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