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21 points · 108 comments · view on lemmy.world

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rman0159@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 3y (1 reply)

SMNI News' YouTube channel got terminated. The red-tagging channel "Laban Kasama Ang Bayan" (named after the SMNI show with Lorraine Badoy) also got terminated on YT as well.

aaaakolokolokolok@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 3y

YT dimonio, mga NPA, salute sa buyan!

megane_kun@lemm.ee · 12 pts · 3y (1 reply)

I was bored/procrastinating on some work.

It's not really an in-depth thing, I just used Lemmy's search capability and took note of the number of responses and the number of deleted responses. I added the number of responses with the number of deleted responses (a negative number for new responses, a positive number for new responses is ignored). I did it for both Lemmy.world and Lemm.ee and took the average. For the smoothed out version, I just took the exponential moving average with the following factors:

  • sampling frequency = 1 day
  • average age (ϰ)= 7 days
  • EMA factor (α) = 1/(ϰ+1) = 0.125

That is, I am trying to smooth the values accounting for weekly variability in activity.

I guess I could have ignored the spike in activity during the Reddit blackout, but it seems that the smoothing took care of that quite well.


EDIT: Replaced chart image with a one that has a black background for legibility for people using light mode.

decadentrebel@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 3y (8 replies)

Someone made a thread the other day suggesting that r/PH switch to NSFW. This article explains what we already know and why it's a bad idea:

Reddit demands moderators remove NSFW labels, or else...

Contrary to popular belief, we're not scared of being stripped our moderator duties... BUT it is a bad thing for the sub if they appoint AI mods or just any applicant that may or may not be from a troll farm.

Edit - Apologies for bringing r/PH drama again 🤪

rman0159@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 3y (5 replies)

if they appoint AI mods or just any applicant that may or may not be from a troll farm.

Nakakatakot if the Reddit admin appoint these kinds of people as mods such as:

  • the notorious anti-vaxxer mod sa phclassifieds
  • Sakundes
  • DDS/Marcos apologist a la Truther
  • Redditor who has a eugenics fetish
  • MRA/MGTOW na nagkakalat sa isang satirical sub (na obviously not satirical ang mga posts niya)
cottonmon@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y

I was kind of curious and looked up some of them. Guess what? The MRA filed a request to be the top mod of r/ph.

yeontura@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y (3 replies)

How about pobautista?

pobautista@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y (2 replies)

You mean that tryhard wannabe mod? Forget that clown

decadentrebel@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Parang awa mo na, wag ka mag-report dito! Wala kaming "ignore reports" at "snooze"! ✌️😂

pobautista@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y

Reported this comment for using emojis -_-

cottonmon@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 3y

What they appear to be doing is asking for volunteers. Check the mod code of conduct account's posting history. That would be a disaster for r/ph. Imagine if certain people there became mods.

Anaralah_Belore223@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 3y

Edit - Apologies for bringing r/PH drama again 🤪

It's OK.

Amoureussee@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 3y

You are the best thing that's ever been mine

monknonoke@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 3y (5 replies)

I keep thinking about it, my best guess is I got stung by a jellyfish kaso di ko kasi nakita and not knowing is even more annoying 😒 basta walang kakamot is the rule lol

I can really only deduce based on what I got. Either way, I still like jellyfishes. Next time mag full suit na lang ako.

Madami akong natututunan for my beach trip. One could call it a vacation, but I thought it was pretty productive too.

Next time baka try ko matulog sa hammock just so I can save on accomodation💲jk. I think I'll seriously try it pero solo trip hahaha. Tapos kapag di ko kinaya pasok na lang ako and try to upgrade to an actual bed.

I wanna try things.

malamignasanmig@group.lt · 4 pts · 3y (4 replies)
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decadentrebel@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y (3 replies)

Oks lang, chief!

But for future reference, here's how to send PMs:

malamignasanmig@group.lt · 3 pts · 3y (2 replies)

thanks for this. am on mobile, using both thunder and memmy but i cant for life of me find the send message button. friday night case of stupid.

decadentrebel@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Ayun lang! Don't have iOS, so can't say from my end how PMs work there, hehe.

malamignasanmig@group.lt · 3 pts · 3y
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willnever_fadeaway@lemm.ee · 9 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Good morning ka-phlemmies, clock watching time but it's still an hour before I can sign out of work

ExploringLiterature@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 3y (6 replies)

So, uh yesterday was reported by Yahoo! Australia to be the world's hottest day of all time.

Friederike Otto, a German climate scientist based in Britain, was quoted (in the above news article) to say that this is a "death sentence for people and ecosystems", and that we should expect more records to be broken in the coming months/years, in a negative way.

Well, shit. Better save up for the a/c and fans people. Hotter days lie ahead.

Edit: Clarity. Edit 2: Yestereday to yesterday.

FabulousCable3945@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 3y (2 replies)

kuwawa talaga ang mga mahihirap sa climate change, mas lalong maghihirap

ExploringLiterature@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y

Wala man lang safety net of some sort. Fucked either way.

I fear that we may have yet to see the worst in people if things further go south, though I hope it reveals more of the best of the human race.

willnever_fadeaway@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 3y

I think it's the perfect time to eat the rich.

willnever_fadeaway@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 3y

Even Baguio is starting to feel like a hellhole, and people say it's supposed to be cool here.

theyawner@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y

Better save up for the a/c and fans people. Hotter days lie ahead.

A not so fun fact: cities may experience the Urban Heat Island effect and one of the factors is the reliance on air conditioners.

decadentrebel@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y

Akala ko pa naman makakatipid na sa kuryente once April-May passes, but looks like the high electric bill woes will continue.

decadentrebel@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 3y

Twitter threatens to sue Meta after rival app Threads gains traction

Twitter is threatening Meta with a lawsuit after the blockbuster launch of Meta’s new Twitter rival, Threads — in perhaps the clearest sign yet that Twitter views the app as a competitive threat.

On Wednesday, an attorney representing Twitter sent Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg a letter that accused the company of trade secret theft through the hiring of former Twitter employees.

aaaakolokolokolok@lemm.ee · 9 pts · 3y

Google: I'll give you protection, I'll scan your inbox and browsers to train our LLM Baby Bard and serve you more ads.

Enhanced Safe Browsing was only limited to Chrome users, and now Google applied it to Gmail. More "free" products everyone!

the_yaya@lemmy.world MOD · 8 pts · 3y (15 replies)

Today’s Ask PHlemmy: The world would be 100x better without this, what is it?

Vicks_inhaler@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 3y

Billionaires.

Tanker0921@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Any form of human evilness. wouldnt it be nice if everyone is nice to each other?

a_tree_with_5_branch@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y

And does it really matter

If there's a heaven up above

We sure could use some love

ExploringLiterature@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y

Pollution and Corruption.

Takina_sOldPairTM@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y
  • The Marcoses and The Dutertes (lahat ng political bloodline of)

  • Nicotine addiction

  • Air pollution

  • Flies (except the fruit based ones that aid in pollination)

  • Diseases caused by mosquitoes

  • Cancer causing cells/genes

superproxy2k19@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y (5 replies)

Flying ipis. 😞 We can keep the non-flying ones around.

cottonmon@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Fuck that, get rid of all of them nalang.

superproxy2k19@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y

Pwede din haha. Ok naman din kahit may matira pero ibang usapan talaga yung lumilipad. 😂

decadentrebel@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Buti pa yung mga higanteng gagamba kahit nakakagulat may silbi e. Kahit mga daga nagagamit sa lab research. Ito talagang mga ipis, wala. They should be wiped off the face of the planet post haste.

superproxy2k19@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y

Yup! Yung usefulness nila, kaya namang iassume ng other species pag nawala sila. Hehe. Pero basta ibang usapan talaga yung lumilipad. Hahahahaha.

Viola@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
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willnever_fadeaway@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 3y

Hatred, and to a lesser extent, misunderstanding.

Periwinkledot@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y

Greed.

a_tree_with_5_branch@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y

Lies

a_tree_with_5_branch@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
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superproxy2k19@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 3y

So yeah, I guess after posting that flying ipis thing (which makes sense to be gone for good right?), back to regular mini-OMC na naman. Skip niyo na lang haha, but yeah Advance good night, happy weekend na din. I'm positive I won't be back sometime - till then. For now, tapusin ko lang ang mga "urgent" tasks daw sabi ni scrum master. 👍 Cheers! 🍻

=

You're probably back there and maybe not here. I really cannot gauge and I should not anyway. What I realized these past few days though? I won't stop caring, but I'll still have to keep this close to my chest. Bahala na ulit, as always. I'll be here though, I'll be around literally and figuratively, whatever happens from now on, as my many thanks well not only to you but for the rest of the folks that keeps me going, too. But yeah, be well, my friend.

theyawner@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 3y

Nearly a month ago I requested for my reddit data and I just got the file today. A few notes:

  • It has all my comments since 2011. But a large part of it is unavailable on the actual site if I take a look at my profile.
  • Most of the data is comprised of my comments (around 15000+), posts (almost 200), upvoted/downvoted comments, upvoted/downvoted posts, etc.
  • IPs used to access the site are logged for about the last 3 months or so.
yeontura@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y

WHO WILL WIN?

Britney Spears
VERSUS
Victor Wembanyama's security

sparkle@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Anong magandang electric razor para sa bigote/balbas? Budget ko ay 1k.

decadentrebel@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 3y

Slightly mahal ng konti than your budget at 1.4k (with 200 off voucher code applied) but I use this one. 7 years na sa akin and still going. Madaming attachments, easy to clean, and lasts several months on a single charge.

yeontura@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y (2 replies)

UPDATE

So the PSA emailed me a full Google Drive of CSVs, PDFs and some metadata. Holy shit pwede ko nang paglaruan ito

Periwinkledot@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Did they just email you out of the blue or were they replying to an email you made?

Edit: ah ok you asked for info pala

yeontura@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y

At least hindi ko na kailangang pumunta sa East Avenue ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

had0ken@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Yesterday felt like it was summer season again. El Niño effect scares me. Well La Niña was also scary but El Niño is more prone to heat stroke. Let's keep ourselves hydrated people!

Vicks_inhaler@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 3y

It was horrible. 45 degrees daw yung heat index dito sa amin.

residEnteng@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y

And I hope the sun shines and it's a beautiful day, but something reminds you, you wish you had stayed; you can plan for a change in weather and time, but I never planned on changing your mind...

yeontura@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y

UPDATE 2:

Opening the "members" file for Nueva Vizcaya gave me 496,546 rows, the same number as the household population. The "households" file for the province has 142,343 rows, one for each household.

This means in 2.3 GB worth of compressed files I've just got 108,667,043 household members + 26,374,653 households = 135,041,696 rows for the entire Philippines what the fuck

Edit: Saka ko muna isipin to masyado haha

Edit 2: Baka may magtanong, there are no personal information here, just a bunch of variables and values

aaaakolokolokolok@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 3y

I've been a Spotify subscriber for over a decade now, and realized they removed the "Select All" option for library editing.

residEnteng@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y

Good morning Phlemmies! Tamad na ako >:( SHABU

decadentrebel@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y

Oh no, he's on to us! 🤣

Note: The gf in question is Patricia Henson

theJWPHTER88@kbin.social · 7 pts · 3y

Moon grids sa ating nakatira na sa bayang Fediverse rito! Ano nang binabalak o kasalukuyang niluluto't hinahanda ninyo para sa hapunan?

yeontura@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y

So katatawag ko lang sa PSA, at ang available lang na public use files from the 2020 Census ay for Form 2 (warning: document will auto-download).

Ano nga ba ang nasa Form 2?

  • Sex
  • Age
  • Birth registration
  • Marital status
  • Religious affiliation
  • Citizenship
  • Ethnicity
  • Functional difficulty (aka disability)
  • Residence of mother at time of one's birth (proxy for birthplace)
  • Residence five years ago (previous census in 2015)
  • Literacy
  • Educational attainment
  • Overseas worker
  • Type of residence building
  • Number of floors
  • Construction materials of building
  • State of repair
  • Year of construction
  • Size of building
  • Tenure status
  • Land ownership
  • Presence of operator in any agricultural activity (kung farmer ba or fisherman etc.)
  • LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME
  • Residence five years from now (2025)

Anyway, kaka-email ko lang din ng data request sa PSA, and hopefully ma-grant kaagad (even if it requires visiting PSA itself like I did in 2017 -- malaki-laki rin ang mga ito)

decadentrebel@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y

Flashback Friday courtesy of an r/PH post:

I forgot that this thing existed and how incredibly useful it was. I used it to track MRT traffic before leaving the office. Duterte apparently re-routed the budget so they had to kill it.

counselwolf@lemmy.fmhy.ml · 6 pts · 3y (4 replies)

Is The Podium Roof Deck a Good Spot for a Special Date Night?

Is it crowded during Saturday nights?

decadentrebel@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y (3 replies)

Only been there on a Saturday afternoon. Not too many people at that time.

counselwolf@lemmy.fmhy.ml · 6 pts · 3y (2 replies)

Did you eat at any of the restaurants? Can you recommend it?

decadentrebel@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Yes, ate ramen. Forgot the name of the resto, lol.

counselwolf@lemmy.fmhy.ml · 4 pts · 3y

Thanks for the response. Hopefully it'll be good tomorrow, it's our anniversary.

Anaralah_Belore223@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 3y (1 reply)

If the previous president said "if I gotta kill I gotta kill..." in his speech...

::: spoiler spoiler If i need your body I'll F--K it! :::

Henry@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
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decadentrebel@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y (1 reply)

For iOS users: Memmy is officially available on the App Store. No Testflight needed.

angmatandaa@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y

Cheers to promoting this app! Hope it really succeeds. I remember using the beta during the first week of the reddit boycott. App has lots of promise, hopefully they addressed much our feedback from back then

Anaralah_Belore223@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 3y (3 replies)

My bagong update ni LiftOff for Lemmy (v0.10.6)

decadentrebel@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y

Just updated. Bugs seem to have been fixed now and lemmy.world is working perfectly.

willnever_fadeaway@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 3y (1 reply)

I'm hoping Thunder gets an update too since the latest version is a but buggy.

malamignasanmig@group.lt · 2 pts · 3y
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a_tree_with_5_branch@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y

Settle down far from town, get me a pirogue

and I'll catch all the fish in the bayou.

Swap my mon to buy Yvonne what she need-o.

Amoureussee@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y (4 replies)

Naiwan ko yung tumbler ko 🥲

cottonmon@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y

sigh I know how you feel. Lalagayan ko na yung tumbler ko ng label na may contact info at pangalan on the offchance na ibabalik siya kung mahanap.

residEnteng@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y (2 replies)

Good morning Eury! 🙉 Tubig ng madami!

Amoureussee@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Hi enteng! 🙉 Musta ka na? Wag kalimutan magpahinga

residEnteng@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y

Ayos lang ako 🙉 sana ayos ka lang din 🥺

Anaralah_Belore223@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 3y (1 reply)
rman0159@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y

Yikes. They're acting like Russians spying on Telegram chats.

Anaralah_Belore223@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 3y

Chorus ng Himno ng Hukbong Dagat ng Pilipinas sa Tagalog at Latin

[TAGALOG]

Dakilang mandaragat naglalayag;
Matatapang na mandirigma, lumaban;
Walang takot na naglilingkod;
Handang ipagtanggol, ating kalayaan;

Hiyaw ng mandaragat;
"Hooyah, hooyah, hooyah, hooyah";
Sigaw ng mandirigma:
"UWAA! UWAA! UWAA! UWAA!"
...

[LATIN]

Navigant magnae nautae;
pugnant fortiores bellatores;
Sine timore servientes;
Liberatatem nostram defendere parati;

Nautae clamor:
"Hoo yah!, hoo yah!, hoo yah!, HOO YAAH!";
Clamor bellatoris:
"UWAA! UWAA! UWAA! UWAA!"
...
a_tree_with_5_branch@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y

Morning good!!!!

Takina_sOldPairTM@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y (6 replies)

Panget nung Threads amp

theyawner@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y

I just read about how you can only make a Threads account if you have Instagram. And you can't delete it. You can only either deactivate your Threads profile or outright delete your Instagram account.

Vicks_inhaler@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 3y (1 reply)

I hate how "threads" will eventually own the word "thread" in any social media/internet forum context.

aaaakolokolokolok@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 3y

Kulang na lang, mag-apply si Meta ng trademark sa "thread" na salita

Threads™

decadentrebel@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y (1 reply)

My main gripe with the app is how it's hard to read the posts of the accounts you follow. It's one huge pile of comments that I have no idea why it's there. Puros mga Pia Wurtzbach who I don't recall ever following in IG or mentioning. Also, the order is all over the place — most comments are from 12 hours ago, some 20 mins earlier, and so on.

I do like the UX compared to Twitter. The thread-based presentation of replies to "tweets" is much easier to read. You can also attach up to 10 photos and sifting through said photos is a breeze.

pints@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 3y

Yung feed ko nung una puro mga posts ni Marcelo Santos III, even got a reply from him.

Akala ko nasa early 2010s Twitter ako eh.

rman0159@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y

I've installed it earlier and pang-mobile lang siya. Yung website nila when visited on the PC, hanggang QR code lang para ma-download ang app sa phone.

Tanker0921@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y

Womp womp~

decadentrebel@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y (3 replies)

Weird, na-auto add ako sa mastodon.ph. Did that also happen to anyone here who has a Mastodon account?

theyawner@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y (2 replies)

Paanong auto-add?

decadentrebel@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Sa mastodon.social kasi ako nag-register last month. When I woke up earlier, I got a notif that someone signed the same email to a different instance (mastodon.ph).

theyawner@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y

Weird. Mastodon instances can only share what's public and email isn't one of 'em. Only possible explanation is that someone knew or managed to acquire your email address or managed to take a guess. But the motivation behind it is puzzling.

Tanker0921@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y

But the weight of the world can't hold me down

It's mind over matter, baby, you're the one I found

Playin' on my mind, so I wanna take the time

To tell you how I feel for you, you know that