A geologist and archaeologist by training, a nerd by inclination - books, films, fossils, comics, rocks, games, folklore, and, generally, the rum and uncanny… Let’s have it!
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There’s an active sub, so it has potential but does nerd everyone pitching in.
that was possible in the first place?
Are you an admin or something?
Yep, I’m a feddit.uk Admin and I was able to add an avatar and banner to !blackmagicfuckery@feddit.uk using the Photon frontend. Or I thought I did (I made a note of this at the time) but now my confidence in the sequence of events has been knocked. But if that wasn’t his I did it, then I have no clue his I managed it.
I’d like to know what the behavior should be.
Well, I personally feel Admins should be able to edit the settings for communities they aren’t Mods of (and I can’t be made a Mod of a community because I have seniority). However, Lemmy’s default is to not allow this (presumably as a holdover of the philosophy of Reddit where a sub was a Mods little fiefdom, at least until recently), so I presume that should be the behaviour of the frontends too.
I think instance admins can transfer moderator powers by request, if absentee moderation should become an issue.
We can indeed. If a user if the instance, who is in good standing, would like to take up the reins moderating a community they often post to, then they can drop us a note a and we’ll look into it. We do keep an eye out for enthusatic posters to communities without an active Mod and might reach out to them but there’s no harm in being proactive.
I can’t edit a community’s information without being a Mod of that community. I was able to do this on the Photon frontend but that doesn’t seem to be possible now. I’ll have a ponder and see if there’s a trick to it that I’m missing.
It’s as active as people make it.
The Mod has been MIA for 5 months but that doesn’t stop other people from posting, it just means there isn’t anyone on duty to jolly things along a bit.
I’m not well-read enough to be certain but it seems like stross riffs off of a different famous author’s “style” for at least some of the books I’ve gone through so far, which is fun when I recognize the elements.
He covers it a bit in the interview:
The first four books in the series were, individually, tributes to specific British Cold War thriller writers (Len Deighton, Ian Fleming, Anthony Price, and Peter O’Donnell respectively). After I ploughed that field, I then switched to writing pastiches of different urban fantasy genres: I did vampires, superheroes, unicorns (in a novella), and elves (with a side order of Lovecraftian dragons).
There’s also some Fleming in the mix too. Stross’ chronology mentions some of the influences on each book, including things like Modesty Blaise.
One of my favourite series, I can highly recommend them.
Although it’s open source, so anyone can contribute, the original developers are Chinese (it seems to default to the simplified character set, so not Hong Kong). It’s been going for a while but has only popped up on a lot of people’s radars as it got English-language documentation.
My best shot at a name: AllDB
It’s probably cooler in Chinese.
Weird news:
It’s definitely an issue Rick ran into.
My understanding is that a civilisation capable of running a simulation like that would have access to enormous, possibly near-infinte amounts of power (like tapping black holes for energy).
I use Calibre.
That’s the bit I was trying to figure out.
That was my thoughts - this is no way to teach them about dispute resolution. OP seems to be focusing in the wrong thing (as everyone deals with things different) and they need relationship counselling.
Perhaps they meant “brush against thighs”.
They did say "first Golden Age - no reason we can’t be in a new Golden Age.
Not a good sign. It’s been on my watchlist for a while and I’m now not looking forward to it. The rating on IMDb is decent, so it may overcome the awkward start. How did the rest go?