If this is the US, I can’t think of anything as such.

If you’re choosing a name for the thing, then I’d choose something fairly unique, so that if you get into any kind of trademark wrangling down the line, you’re in a good position. That’s about as legal as I can think of.

https://old.reddit.com/r/scuba/comments/nionzq/do_you_ever_just_listen_to_the_sound_of_the_reef/

Do you ever just listen to the sound of the reef? The crackling and popping that you hear in the background that are not bubbles, are sounds of the reef. Fish doing fish things, shrimp doing shrimp things, etc.

You don’t care about topic at all?

EDIT: Here are some 26 million phpBB forum pages:

https://www.google.com/search?q="phpbb+limited"

The first page of results is mostly related to phpBB itself, and the second page starts listing forums using phpBB.

Yeah, but that’s just a guess. Looking further, it sounds like it was indeed added by the printer, not on the artist’s end, but that the art they sent was just black-and-white, with instructions to the printer as to what to what white areas to shade:

https://thenib.com/color-archive/

Cartoonists don’t create these dots—they’re added during print production. Cartoonists started with pen and ink on paper. Starting in 1894, their drawings were shot as photographic negatives, which were then exposed under intense light onto photosensitized zinc metal plates.

To add tints, cartoonists (or often an assistant or colorist) roughly marked up their drawings, indicating which grays or colors should appear in which areas. Comics syndicates created a limited set of colors to choose from based on mixing tints at different percentages, and those numbers would be marked on the comic. Some cartoonists used color pencil or watercolors on their original or a copy as an additional guide.

In production, engravers took these zinc plates—a single black plate for weekdays, and four separate ones for Sunday color comics—and painted around each area that needed tone using a water-soluble material called gamboge. They applied an oily ink to a sheet in a frame somewhat resembling a silk screen called a Ben Day screen that was covered with tiny dots for the desired tint. The engraver then placed the screen over the areas on the zinc plate that needed tint applied and used a burnisher to rub down the Ben Day pattern. They then washed the gamboge off. They might have to do this dozens to hundreds of times for a Sunday strip.

It sounds like that analog process became a digital one sometime around the 1970s, but still had the “artist-annotated image” approach.

If you mean the dot pattern on the can, I believe that that’s halftoning, which would let a black-and-white newspaper print something other than black-and-white images. I’m not familiar with the process, but my guess is that the way that probably worked was that Larson sent in something with a flat shade of gray and then the halftoning was generated digitally for it and anything else that used shades of gray on the print side.

Ditto, though the LoRA might explain it.

The base model, Pony Diffusion, doesn’t normally act like that in my experience. Maybe if you generated an enormous number of images and culled them.

The simplicity of the style might also help – less to change.

I’m pretty sure that the airspace around Heathrow is controlled, too.

https://zenit.org/2024/08/29/vatican-citys-immigration-law-one-of-the-strictest-in-europe/

Vatican City’s immigration law, one of the strictest in Europe

In May 2023, Pope Francis approved a new Fundamental Law for the Vatican City State, reinforcing strict criteria for citizenship and residency. This law stipulates that Vatican citizens include the Pope, cardinals residing in the state, and individuals whose roles are essential to the Vatican’s functions. Residency, similarly, is granted under tight conditions and can be revoked at any time, underscoring the transient nature of living within the Vatican. Marriage and family ties offer no guarantees for continued residency, with the law stating that permissions for spouses and children cease under specific circumstances, such as annulment or separation. Furthermore, children of Vatican citizens lose their citizenship upon reaching adulthood, unless specific conditions are met.

So now we have Trump aiming to score political points by trying to project an image of restrictive immigration policy while continuing to run permissive policy and the Pope aiming to score political points by trying to project an image of supporting permissive immigration policy while running restrictive immigration policy.

EDIT: I see that someone else pointed out the same thing.

We’ll see “which” 196 ends up being the de facto, but my money’s on .world just due to user numbers

investigates

As of this writing, it looks like the userbase on each is:

EDIT: [email protected] has 16,800 subscribers, but if you figure that it’s been around for a while and probably some of those accounts aren’t active or are duplicates from people changing home instance or the like, active users might be a better metric. It’s had 1.46k users active in the last day, 5.38k users in the last week, 9.8k users in the last month, and 19.4k users in the last 6 months.

The 196 mods say that the Drag controversy is unrelated, as Dragonfucker had been banned from 196 long before for unrelated reasons.

Although…this is some sort of spat relating to pronouns, and as I recall, isn’t that guy’s thing referring to himself using the third person?

main mod (Ada?)

Ada isn’t a mod of [email protected]. Ada is the admin of lemmy.blahaj.zone.

EDIT: While I’m not subscribed to 196 – not really my cup of tea – and I haven’t been following whatever the issue is, I probably would have moved it too, for more-general reasons. While lemmy.blahaj.zone doesn’t, as far as I know, have any real restrictions on non-trangender content, it’s really a special-interest instance aimed at transgender stuff. It’s kind of like setting up a community about Shakespeare on yiffit.net – it’s not like the yiffit.net crowd is going to take issue with it, but it’s a special-interest instance aimed at adult furry stuff, and that probably isn’t what you’re going for unless your angle is specifically an adult furry take on Shakespeare. Which, I mean, I guess someone could be, but I don’t think is the case with 196.

EDIT2: A curious search on Kagi reveals that apparently there is a published dating sim game on Steam specifically dealing with furry Shakespeare with multiple DLCs. I’ll be damned.

The continuation of /r/196.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=r%2F196

r/196

A subreddit that gained popularity due to only having one rule, which is to post before leaving. The sub started after it’s predecessor, r/195, was shut down by the moderators.

I’m okay with game prices going up – they’ve fallen far behind inflation over the decades – though personally I favor DLC rather than one large shebang. Lower risk on both sides.

And there are a lot of games out there that, when including DLC, run much more than $100. Think of The Sims series or a lot of Paradox games. Stellaris is a fun, sprawling game, but with all DLC, it’s over $300, and it’s far from the priciest.

But if I’m paying more, I also want to get more utility out of what you’re selling. If a game costs $100, I expect to get twice what I get out of a competing $50 game.

And to be totally honest, most of the games that I really enjoy have complex mechanics and have the player play over and over again. I think that most of the cost that game studios want is for asset creation. That can be okay, depending upon genre – graphics are nice, music is nice, realistic motion-capture movement is nice – but that’s not really what makes or breaks my favorite games. The novelty kind of goes away once you’ve experienced an asset a zillion times.

I don’t know much by way of relevant levers on the Linux side that you could pull that might affect behavior on the headphones side.

If you can disable aptX (on my system, you can see this in the device settings in pavucontrol) you might get lower-quality but more-reliable sound.

The vote was overwhelmingly in favor of the ban, dude, on both sides of the aisle, and every other House member in Wisconsin voted in favor of it. Your one legislator is not the deciding factor on this.

I mean, I just don’t have the expertise to say on the legal/regulatory side. Someone who has a background in securities and has been following the cryptocurrency situation would probably be in a better position.

I suppose that there will be people who do have such a background looking at it. The fact that it’s the President – who is in charge of the Executive Branch – and that most media that might be reporting on it has a partisan position makes this a lot more complicated.

Still, wouldn’t be the first time that we’ve run into high-level graft in the Executive Branch. Dealt with it then.

Okay, I’m going to be the Debbie Downer here – I don’t think that Ukraine’s going to be able to do that in the kind of timeframe that would matter, if the aim is ballistic missile defense rather than just a long-range antiaircraft missile. The US spent a lot of time and resources on ballistic missile defense to get where it was.

it could have defended the Trypillia Thermal Power Plant from the Russian attack

It sounds like that was a ballistic missile attack:

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/04/12/7450897/

The Trypillia thermal power plant, which was completely destroyed by a Russian ballistic missile attack on 11 April

Andrii Hota, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of PJSC Centrenergo, Ukraine’s national energy company, believes that given the constant danger of Russian attacks, the rebuilding of the Trypillia Thermal Power Plant (TPP) in Kyiv Oblast without providing Ukraine with air defence systems is an “exercise in futility”.

The Western alternative that I’m aware of is the Aster 30 fired by the SAMP/T from Eurosam, and from what I was reading earlier in the war – and it’s possible that things might have changed, if Eurosam managed to figure out and address whatever the issue is – it sounded like Russian ballistic missiles were getting past those. Zelenskyy had some very unhappy comments about how some other missile than Patriot wasn’t able to intercept ballistic missiles, and I didn’t see any other anti-ballistic-missile that had been sent to Ukraine, so I’m pretty sure that at least at that point, the Asters weren’t stopping Russia’s ballistic missiles. And if it was subsequently resolved, I haven’t seen news about it…and I’d think that both Ukraine and Eurosam would very much like to publicly release that if they had; for Eurosam, it’d be an endorsement of their weapon’s capability and for Ukraine, would be a morale-booster. I have seen a lot of news about the Patriot.

Maybe they could reverse-engineer and clone the Patriot. I would think that that would create its own political issues and I don’t know how easy it’d be to manufacture in Ukraine under wartime conditions. I can imagine that if I were Ukraine and thought I could manage it and that it were critical to the war, I might go ahead and do it and work out issues with the US later. But even that may not be practical, given what I’ve seen as to estimates as to timeframe in the war.

I don’t know how viable it is to go do a new ABM system from scratch, including all the testing and research, especially under the constraints that they’re working with (time, resources, Russia probably placing any development on Ukrainian territory that it can find as a top-priority target). Turkey – which has its own share of headaches, though far less than Ukraine is dealing with – spent years trying to build a similar ABM system, and it doesn’t sound like they were successful. And even Lockheed Martin, which has an existing product and production lines and had started to expand capacity some time back, and doesn’t have any of the headaches that Ukraine does, is still going to take years to scale up.

https://www.defensenews.com/land/2024/04/09/how-companies-plan-to-ramp-up-production-of-patriot-missiles/

While the Army has yet to fund another missile production increase, Lockheed decided in the latter part of 2022 that it would continue to invest internally to be able to build 650 a year. “Lockheed could see the demand out there,” Davidson said, adding that the company plans to hit that number in 2027.

Honestly, if I were running things in Kyiv, I think that I didn’t have a way to do active defense against ballistic missiles, I’d probably try to passively-harden a site enough against ballistic missile attack to survive it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trypilska_thermal_power_plant

The main assets of the Trypilska TPP were four pulverized coal and two diesel fuel units with a capacity of 300 MW each. There were also six turbines and generators with a total nominal capacity of 1,800 MW. The transformers are of the TDC-400000/330 type.

So, okay. It won’t be as efficient, and that’s going to be a hassle after the war. But maybe it’s possible to grab a field and start sticking 1MW generators in revetments sufficiently spaced that one missile cannot hit multiple of the generators. A ballistic missile is going to cost more than what one of those does. Same thing for smaller, dispersed storage tanks, transformers, etc.

That won’t make it immune to ballistic missiles. But it will provide passive resiliency, and that might be enough to kill off the utility of the ballistic missiles.

It’s not possible to do that for all industry, while ABM interceptors can cover more than just one industrial installation. If Russia can’t effectively use ballistic missiles against power generation, they’re going to use them against the next-most-important thing on their priority list. But if one considers that power infrastruture is probably about the most-critical, that might be sufficient.

linear chatty threads with easily expandable images/videos attached to posts

So, I don’t know if you’re aware – and your client may work differently, if you’re not using a browser – but in the Lemmy Web UI, you can expand images that are directly posted by clicking on them.

Kbin/Mbin – I don’t know about piefed – supports arbitrary resizing of inline images as well.

references to other messages using post number backlinks that show referenced post on hover.

Oh, yeah, that’s definitely a legit issue today here – you can link to other communities in a home-instance-agnostic way with the !community@instance syntax, but not to other posts or comments. You can link to one on a given instance but for people using a web browser, it’ll take other users following the link off their home instance. They can work around that on the browser side, but it’s a real limitation.

The way redditlikes feel with this tree-like structure is totally different and it breeds different types of discussions and totally different vibe. This works better for stricter, more formal, more serious discussions, while imageboards work better for chaotic fun chatty threads with incidental RP and whatnot.

considers

Hmm. I don’t disagree that there is a cultural difference today between the Threadiverse and 4chan, but I’m also not sure how much of that is intrinsic to the platform, and how much of it is just what current users happen to be doing on currently-popular communities.

Like, today, there are a lot of furries, LGBTQ+ crowd, Linux users, video game players, and left-wing politics. Oh, and there’s the piracy crowd. I guess maybe one could argue that the higher bar to use the thing maybe favors more Linux users or something, but I don’t think that it’d apply to the other things. I think that a lot of that was just because there was a series of exoduses from Reddit that happened to include those users. The /r/piracy lead moderator left and a lot of people came with him. I think hexbear was the result of /r/ChapoTrapHouse being banned or something like that.

When I got onto Reddit, in the very early days, back when most of the content was just submitted by people who worked at the company and it was a single page – it was mostly people talking about programming languages – especially Lisp – and startups, because that’s what they were into. There were a lot of people talking about computer science.

I mean, your home instance is lemmynsfw.com – the content in most communities on that instance probably isn’t going to be mostly long, serious text discussions, like.

That being said, I can appreciate if what you’re wanting is a large pre-existing community of people already posting whatever content you’re after. Easier than growing one! But I couldn’t help but plug the Threadiverse, and I think that it avoids a lot of issues if you’re not happy with someone exerting centralized control over your content.

I’m sorry that I don’t have a specific imageboard in mind. But if you don’t get a good recommendation, I’m sure that there are lists of imageboards out there, and if you figure that you can probably get a good idea of the content within a couple clicks, it probably doesn’t take too long to skim a list.

kagis

https://imageboards.net/

The most complete and updated list of imageboard. Explore Over 200 Curated Boards.

If you figure that you can determine whether an imageboard meets your criteria in about 30 seconds of browsing it, even if the description of each isn’t enough, you should be able to hit all of those in about an hour and a half at maximum.