Fredselfish 10mo ago • 100%
Oh yeah, I own a Kindle and forgot to add the two books I read off of it. Will be reading more on it for 2024 now that my library has Kindle support.
Fredselfish 10mo ago • 100%
I had own that one for a long time. I can say I wish I had listened to it earlier it was a great novel. Will definitely be picking up a physical copy this coming new year just like all my autobooks. I have physical copies for most of them.
Fredselfish 10mo ago • 100%
Actually, yes. Both Wally Lamb novels are my favorite. Any Johnathan Kellerman novel. Project Hail Mary is great.
11/22/63 was a nice read, and all the autobiographies were good. Christopher Reeves was heart renchin.
Fredselfish 10mo ago • 100%
Not sure why but link not working here
All Books Read in 2023 https://imgur.com/gallery/BMpumH7
These are all the books I have read either at work or home during 2023. To add to the list, I am going include the audiobooks I have listened to this year. Eyes of the Void by Adrain Tchaikovsky The Web by Jonathan Kellerman I'm Glad My Mom is Dead by Jennette McCurdy Holly by Stephen King (yes, listened and read the book) Fairytale by Stephen King All the below I listened to in anticipation of Holly coming out. All written by Stephen King. Mr Mercedes Finder's Keepers If It Bleeds. Life of Chuck. The Outsider. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir The Woman Who Wouldn't by Gene Wilder The Family Plot by Cherie Priest DumaKey by Stephen King Later by Stephen King Old Mans War by John Scatzi Neuromancer by William Gibson Off To Be The Wizard by Scott Meyer Run Program by Scott Meyer The Talisman by Stephen King Mile 81 by Stephen King She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb Now that is all the books some of these I read before or listened to many times, and I am pretty sure there some I forgot. I read at least one book a day unless really busy, then maybe can take up to three days. My 40 minutes of round trip commute, along with my other traveling, allows me to listen to a lot of audiobooks. I hope to beat this reading record for 2024. Happy New Year!
Fredselfish 1y ago • 87%
Lot of states do inspections Oklahoma definitely needs them. And I see these trucks all the time in my state. Didn't know it was a device doing it until I read this article but now I know. Bullshit and we need to take the license away from people who do this.
Fredselfish 1y ago • 100%
That would be awesome! Then we could get public control internet providers and cheaper internet.
Fredselfish 1y ago • 100%
I never heard anyone say that about communism but wouldn't surprise me if they believed that. Be same assholes who dont own or can't afford a home in America.
Fredselfish 1y ago • 100%
I am pissed that West is running on the green ticket. I really liked him but now he wants to be the spoiler vote and help get Trump elected. He smart enough to know this wrong and that he only hurts the Democrats in our two party system.
Fredselfish 1y ago • 21%
In Oklahoma there relationship would have been legal. 16 age of cocent in my state. Fucked up but also reason they say not rape because she female and he is male also I don't consider it rape he was 16 old enough to know what waa happening and agree to the relationship.
Fredselfish 1y ago • 66%
My favorite of the 3 movies.
Fredselfish 1y ago • 95%
Everyday I discover some new way corporations are destroying our lives on this planet all for a monterrey system we made up.
Fredselfish 1y ago • 80%
As a writer I would be fine with this.
I am looking forward to this novel. I love this character and look forward to reading another case with her as the lead. I am a little frustrated when I noticed that Will Patton will not be the voice for the audiobook, but I will adjust because I will at least have a physical copy. Who else is excited for this novel?
Fredselfish 1y ago • 60%
Is the same country who just made history landing a probe on the moon?
Fredselfish 1y ago • 100%
Problem this idiots guess don't understand is he can't pardon them on state crimes. This dumb fuck going to prison. Let them keep talking to reporters.
Fredselfish 1y ago • 97%
Figure some secret service love MAGA and probably been infiltrated b white supremacy.
Fredselfish 1y ago • 71%
I disagree smart phones have shown an effect on people memory especially younger adults and children. Blue light alone causes are harm.
Also I use to be able to memorize every one phone number now we have contacts to store them in.
Also getting places we didn't rely on Google Maps.
Fredselfish 1y ago • 37%
Is that maybe why there been an uptick of bad people in the last couple of decades.
Fredselfish 1y ago • 100%
25 years since they released a new IP how crazy.
Fredselfish 1y ago • 100%
Put in a dark cell for rest of their fucking lives.
Fredselfish 1y ago • 87%
Exactly if Advanced aliens exist they will see as not worth contacting because we are still bunch fucking apes who haven't evolved pass our lizard brains.
I made this cake to celebrate my ten years on Reddit can't wait until next year for my Lemmy cake.
Received this in my email what do you all think?
There a link also but I didn't dare click on it. I can share it if anyone wants to. Just ask. Stop Trying to Make Social Networks Succeed by Ploum on 2023-07-06 Lot is happening in the social network landscape with the demises of Twitter and Reddit, the apparition of Bluesky and Threads, the growing popularity of Mastodon. Many pundits are trying to guess which one will be successful and trying to explain why others will fail. Which completely misses the point. Particular social networks will never "succeed". Nobody even agree on the definition of "success". The problem is that we all see our little bubble and generalise what we observe as universal. We have a hard time understanding Mastodon ? Mastodon will never succeed, it will be for a niche. A few of our favourite web stars goes to Bluesky ? Bluesky is the future, everybody will be there. That’s not how it works. That’s not how it ever worked. Like every human endeavour, every social network is there for a limited duration and will be useful to a limited niche of people. That niche may grow to the point of being huge, like Facebook and WhatsApp. But, to this day, there are more people in the world without an account on Facebook than people with one. Every single social network is only representative of a minority. And the opposite would be terrifying when you think about it (which is exactly what Meta is trying to build). Social networks are fluid. They come, they go. For commercial social networks, the success is defined by: "do they earn enough money to make investors happy ?" There’s no metric of success for non-commercial ones. They simply exist as long as at least two users are using them to communicate. Which is why criticisms like "Mastodon could never raise enough money" or "the Fediverse will never succeed" totally miss the point. If you live in the same occidental bubble as me, you might have never heard of WeChat, QQ or VK. Those are immensely popular social networks. In China and Russia. WeChat alone is more or less the size of Instagram in terms of active users. The war in Ukraine also demonstrated that the most popular social network in that part of the world is Telegram. Which is twice as big as Twitter but, for whatever reason, is barely mentioned in my own circles. The lesson here is simple: you are living in a small niche. We all do. Your experience is not representative of anything but your own. And it’s fine. There will never be one social network to rule them all. There should never be one social network to rule them all. In fact, tech-savvy people should fight to ensure that no social network ever "succeed". Human lives in communities. We join them, we sometimes leave them. Social networks should only be an underlying infrastructure to support our communities. Social networks are not our communities. Social network dies. Communities migrate and flock to different destinations. Nothing ever replaced Google+, which was really popular in my own tech circle. Nothing will replace Twitter or Reddit. Some communities will find a new home on Mastodon or on Lemmy. Some will go elsewhere. That’s not a problem as long as you can have multiple accounts in different places. Something I’m sure you do. Communities can be split. Communities can be merged. People can be part of several communities and several platforms. Silicon Valley venture capitalists are trying to convince us that, one day, a social network will succeed, will become universal. That it should grow. That social networks are our communities. That your community should grow to succeed. This is a lie, a delusion. Our communities are worth a lot more than the underlying tool used at some point in time. By accepting the confusion, we are destroying our communities. We are selling them, we are transforming them into a simple commercial asset for the makers of the tool we are using, the tool which exploits us. Stop trying to make social networks succeed, stop dreaming of a universal network. Instead, invest in your own communities. Help them make long-term, custom and sustainable solutions. Try to achieve small and local successes instead of pursuing an imaginary universal one. It will make you happier. It will make all of us happier.
There a link also but I didn't dare click on it. I can share it if anyone wants to. Just ask. Stop Trying to Make Social Networks Succeed by Ploum on 2023-07-06 Lot is happening in the social network landscape with the demises of Twitter and Reddit, the apparition of Bluesky and Threads, the growing popularity of Mastodon. Many pundits are trying to guess which one will be successful and trying to explain why others will fail. Which completely misses the point. Particular social networks will never "succeed". Nobody even agree on the definition of "success". The problem is that we all see our little bubble and generalise what we observe as universal. We have a hard time understanding Mastodon ? Mastodon will never succeed, it will be for a niche. A few of our favourite web stars goes to Bluesky ? Bluesky is the future, everybody will be there. That’s not how it works. That’s not how it ever worked. Like every human endeavour, every social network is there for a limited duration and will be useful to a limited niche of people. That niche may grow to the point of being huge, like Facebook and WhatsApp. But, to this day, there are more people in the world without an account on Facebook than people with one. Every single social network is only representative of a minority. And the opposite would be terrifying when you think about it (which is exactly what Meta is trying to build). Social networks are fluid. They come, they go. For commercial social networks, the success is defined by: "do they earn enough money to make investors happy ?" There’s no metric of success for non-commercial ones. They simply exist as long as at least two users are using them to communicate. Which is why criticisms like "Mastodon could never raise enough money" or "the Fediverse will never succeed" totally miss the point. If you live in the same occidental bubble as me, you might have never heard of WeChat, QQ or VK. Those are immensely popular social networks. In China and Russia. WeChat alone is more or less the size of Instagram in terms of active users. The war in Ukraine also demonstrated that the most popular social network in that part of the world is Telegram. Which is twice as big as Twitter but, for whatever reason, is barely mentioned in my own circles. The lesson here is simple: you are living in a small niche. We all do. Your experience is not representative of anything but your own. And it’s fine. There will never be one social network to rule them all. There should never be one social network to rule them all. In fact, tech-savvy people should fight to ensure that no social network ever "succeed". Human lives in communities. We join them, we sometimes leave them. Social networks should only be an underlying infrastructure to support our communities. Social networks are not our communities. Social network dies. Communities migrate and flock to different destinations. Nothing ever replaced Google+, which was really popular in my own tech circle. Nothing will replace Twitter or Reddit. Some communities will find a new home on Mastodon or on Lemmy. Some will go elsewhere. That’s not a problem as long as you can have multiple accounts in different places. Something I’m sure you do. Communities can be split. Communities can be merged. People can be part of several communities and several platforms. Silicon Valley venture capitalists are trying to convince us that, one day, a social network will succeed, will become universal. That it should grow. That social networks are our communities. That your community should grow to succeed. This is a lie, a delusion. Our communities are worth a lot more than the underlying tool used at some point in time. By accepting the confusion, we are destroying our communities. We are selling them, we are transforming them into a simple commercial asset for the makers of the tool we are using, the tool which exploits us. Stop trying to make social networks succeed, stop dreaming of a universal network. Instead, invest in your own communities. Help them make long-term, custom and sustainable solutions. Try to achieve small and local successes instead of pursuing an imaginary universal one. It will make you happier. It will make all of us happier.
Everytime I try to comment I get an error either santax error or other error causing me unable to comment. No matter what platform I use to access lenmy.ml.
Me and my boss explained how you could just have AI write your article etc. Then have those checking systems check it for you. Keep fixing it until beats the systems which with AI won't take long.
https://imgur.com/gallery/WDFtRgQ Thinking about buying a new one. What do you guys think?
This was a category two hike 3 miles up a mountain. Largest hike I have ever undertaken. But was amazing view and worth the hell we went through to reach the top.
I enjoy hiking and backpacking. I go to Yellowstone once a year. What's the best pack to buy? I have one but bought it at Sports Academy and I feel there should be better ones out there.
How do y'all feel?
https://imgur.com/gallery/Ib8hfqv Rereading all these novels (actually listening to all the audiobooks) in preparations for Holly that comes out in September.
Photos I post to Lemmy never come out right. I never had this issue with Reddit and I use same device to upload with. Tried through app Jerbroa and the browser. Can someone help?