moth main, no llms, all human

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Cake day: February 26th, 2025

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  • One person collected\created a ton of them and started to post them in droves to set a trend other would follow for a while. While the amount of them is moderate by reddit standards, smaller Lemmy userbase and it’s c/shitpost community got quite overwhelmed with that, up to the point you can’t scroll for a minute without seeing another moth meme. People got divided over the mothposting as you can see in that thread, with some choosing to ban\downvote\report them arguing they aren’t fun, too numerous and are mostly from one account, similarly to spam\flood; and some like me found it as a field for humor\creativity while bored, an event akin to what I’ve enjoyed back on r/196.

    I’m not informed of any deep meaning or conspiracy theory behind it, it’s just a silly posting routine probably being someone’s project. But you can draw weird conclusions yourself, like it being a lamp seller’s campaign in the summer when their demand takes a nosedive due to more sun hours each day (yay, Lemmy’s so popular it has ad campaigns!); or, you know, it may be a commentary on how human race is captured by the idea of a weaponized atom that may eventually end it - and this is relevant when discussing the ongoing ME conflict that some see as a WW3\NewVietnam starter.

    Do with that information what you will. Now that I think of it, it could be funny if the original mothposter wrote your post instead, so people mildly annoyed with their little mischief got to write a reply and then got an Aha moment recognising the username in a different community. Maybe the mothperson is you?






















  • I’m still puzzled by the idea of what mess this war was if at times you had someone still not clearly identifiable, but that close you can do a sheboleth check on them, and that at any moment you or the other could be shot dead.

    Also, the current conflict of Russia vs Ukraine seems to invent ukrainian ‘паляница’ as a check, but as I had no connection to actual ukrainians and their UAF, I can’t say if that’s not entirely localized to the internet.




  • Linux lets\makes you interact with a terminal (and just OS tinkering) more, so you become a bit more comfortable with writing simple commands and then code.

    One of the things for basic Python and default libs is sorting your Downloads folder into a more logical filestructure that doesn’t need reshuffling and searching for long. Move pictures into Pictures and sort them accordingly to the year\month you saved them for example. Make the script run once a week. Make it write a log file as it runs.

    I did this one for the sake of it, but then I needed a piece of code to bruteforce the PDF file password protection, so I used a lib to access and resave this file without a password. On every attempt to open it, it inserted another password from either freely availiable databases of simple passes or well-known leaks (rockyou). It worked nice for PDFs I needed to crack to, actually, just print on paper, but also worked when I tested it with combinations of random words and symbols I came up with. I needed a lib to open a pdf, a list of passwords to try (althought, a bit pre-formatted), and a couple of victims to test on.


  • Hehe, I didn’t get it from your comment.

    I can’t say a strong yes since I’m not a professional, but it’s common to me too. Thinking about that from a programming perspective, we all have short-term memory (e.g. RAM in PCs) where we write tasks, things, impressions we need now. It’s limited in volume\blocks, so when we push one another thing in, it takes something else’s place, and past things inevitably gets overwritten, unless they went the long-time memory road. What’s left are traces and parts beyond recovery, usually a saved meta log of your thoughts\intentions, some unique emotions and visions, or something that you saved in another sources (e.g. you interlink where you lost your keys by remembering what other thing you did at the moment). You comb these together and construct either a list of timestamps or a blurry 3d scene in motion of significant actions and details, and work from here.

    It is, as I know, natural to everyone. It becomes an ADHD thing when inputs are that frequent you don’t stop overwriting important stuff with first, second, third thing you now focused on, or try to reactualize lucky survivors by writing all your memory with them.

    I haven’t thought much about that when my life was slow and boring, but as it got to it’s speeds now, the rhytm I’m actually thrive in intellectually, losing things or forgetting stuff becomes too much apparent, compared to my more NT colleagues.

    Take it as my own personal perspective and nothing else.


  • Most things you read about mental disorders and even illnesses are in all of us in very small portions, but it gets diagnosed as a condition when it starts to inescapably condition your life. To hit a modern definition of a disorder, you (or rather a psychiatrist) need to confidently tick several boxes.

    I’d recomend to read about ADHD, people’s stories and lifehacks that can be useful anyway, without jumping to assumptions just yet.