oh wow, the UI was so different I genuinely mistook it for a completely different app. Very pretty indeed, but I like my basic boring functional UIs – gimme lists and no distractions and I will worship you

Ooh pretty. So Tesseract is another fediverse client, like PieFed/Lemmy/Mastodon ?

Exactly, the extra eyes makes all the difference

I gotta admit, I just don’t trust github apks.

Yeah F-Droid isnt perfect, but it does list what liberties an app takes up front

https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract ?

yes, but also fuck no and please don’t vote with your feelings

I see it as 16 year olds are the most easiest to manipulate on social media, and that this does not bode well for progressive politics.

At the same time, what’s the actual peak age of “can’t be manipulated on social media”, and as blacknight says below - if they can work and die for our country at that age, they might as well be allowed to vote

I avoid news and politics, that probably helps a lot on that regard

Honestly, same. As an ML user (this is my UK alt), I never really saw any of toxicity described by so many others, but I guess I just learned early on to put my filters up and have been living in my own bubble within ML.

If a place gets toxic, I tend to just leave instead of doubling down, and that I think is a pattern that might be alien to some because how reddit used to function: you couldn’t just leave reddit politics-wise because the frontpage literally hammered you with it, so you’d have to stand your ground and fight until users or mods waded in. But here? You can leave lemmy politics-wise because the frontpage is either your subs or local posts filtered through your block lists.

I’m very happy in my bubble, and it does genuinely confuse me when someone says “oh, you’re from ML, are you?” and I think “yeah… and it’s mostly quiet, just the way I like it”

I’m really disappointed by June, April and August. Without these months, everything would be so neat and orderly

Interestingly

• Aprch
• Maril

are the only two hallucinations, everything else is always a legit month

hierarchical letter clustering would be my guess, or graph-based clustering using ngrams of 2-4 as nodes and maximising for connections.

Or using an optimized Regex and printing out the DFA?

Edit: Quick N-gram analysis (min=3, max=num letters in that month)

library(ngram)

tmonths = c("january", "february", "march",
           "april", "may", "june", "july",
           "august", "september", "october",
           "november", "december")

zzz = lapply(tmonths, function(mon){
  ng = ngram::ngram_asweka(paste(unlist(strsplit(mon, split="")), collapse=" "), min=3, max=nchar(mon))
  return(gsub(" ", "", ng))
})
res = sort(table(unlist(zzz)))
res[res > 1]

This gives the following 9 ngram frequencies greater than 1:

  ary   uar  uary   emb  embe ember   mbe  mber   ber 
    2     2     2     3     3     3     3     3     4 

As you can see two longest most common motifs are “em-ber” and “uar-y”

Using this I propose the following graph

stateDiagram
    direction LR
    sept --> em
    nov --> em
    dec --> em
    em --> ber
    oc --> to
    to --> ber
    feb --> uar
    uar --> y
    jan --> uar
    ju --> ne
    ju --> l
    l --> y
    ma --> r
    ma --> y
    r --> ch
    
    a --> p 
    p --> r
    r --> il
    a --> u
    u --> gust

Genuine Question:

if you could split the month names into 3, how would you split them to maximise their choice overlap?

• “em” is a good overlap for nov/sept/dec
• “uar” is good for jan/febr

LEAVE ME ALONE I’M NOT A PISS BABY

Issue with Karma and Tagging, is that we all have 1 topic that we are all toxic about and we then carry that label everywhere, even on topics that we are completely rational about.

To quote an old joke:

So a man walks into a bar, and sits down. He starts a conversation with an old guy next to him. The old guy has obviously had a few. He says to the man:

“You see that dock out there? Built it myself, hand crafted each piece, and it’s the best dock in town! But do they call me “McGregor the dock builder”? No! And you see that bridge over there? I built that, took me two months, through rain, sleet and scoarching weather, but do they call me “McGregor the bridge builder”? No! And you see that pier over there, I built that, best pier in the county! But do they call me “McGregor the pier builder”? No!”

The old guy looks around, and makes sure that nobody is listening, and leans to the man, and he says: “but you fuck one sheep…”

Huh. I don’t quite remember this Nasreddin Hoca story growing up, but I’m sure the snake says something really clever

“Door donot” - Yoda, talking fast

You were’t there man, you didn’t see what I saw!

I dont get confluence. It just looks like a group of github readmes

I see you crack your eggs with a sensual spoon, and splay them out flat on a crunchy surface

what’s the story here, never heard of this one