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

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.

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.

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 🤪

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.

You are the best thing that's ever been mine

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!

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.

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.

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

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! 🍻

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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.

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.

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.

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

WHO WILL WIN?

Britney Spears
VERSUS
Victor Wembanyama's security

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)

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...

UPDATE

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

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

Good morning Phlemmies! Tamad na ako >:( SHABU

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

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!

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

Oh no, he's on to us! 🤣

Note: The gf in question is Patricia Henson

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.

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

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

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

Is it crowded during Saturday nights?

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

Naiwan ko yung tumbler ko 🥲