A wiki is probably what you want. I was going to suggest tvtropes, which is great for, say, a list of every superhero with X-ray vision, or every work of fiction containing dwarves, but I’m not sure that fits what you want.

I just checked this out. It’s not quite what I’m looking for right now but it does answer my question as asked. I can see it coming in handy later.

I know this is obnoxiously pedantic but the link you provide says the 666 meats come from the same animal.

When you say it like that, it sounds really mundane.

Ignoring the how of it all, here’s how I imagine it working subjectively. They have a much wider visible spectrum compared to humans, but they can’t perceive the whole thing all at once. They have four pairs of nictitating membranes that act like bandpass filters. Between the bandpass membranes and signal processing in the brain, they “tune” to different spectra, and can even narrow the bandwidth of the received signal. They can sense light polarization by aligning or misaligning their eyes to the direction of polarization, and because their eyes don’t rely on focusing a light to a point, they can stare at the sun without harm or discomfort.

Subjectively, they have no fixed concept of color, as objects appear different depending on how their eyes are tuned. Their languages lack simple color words, and must rely on analogies to objects that are similarly colored, much like most (Western) languages have no simple terms to describe odors beyond relating them to their sources (“earthy”, “fruity”, “floral”, etc).

The low-end of their eyes’ frequency range isn’t set, but they can at least see thermal radiation emitted by living bodies, and the high end is set at the threshold of ionizing radiation. Because their eyes work equally well during the day and at night, they and other species in their clade that share the same eye structure are neither nocturnal nor diurnal, and have active and rest periods that do not sync with the day-night cycle. Upon achieving sapience and developing a structured society with the concept of timekeeping, they do not use different time zones.

This would be a receive-only biological system evolved by a species of alien critters to serve as eyes, so not for any IRL project.

Does fldigi do SSTV now or am I not getting the joke?

Where possible I use an Anglish (YouTube Link) translation convention for alien words since their languages are unutterable by humans (and vice versa). As for how they sound, imagine the quiet yipping and growling made by a dreaming dog. The word in the OP is Romanized (if you can call it that) as GJbfrMr, and is pronounced /long rising weak growl, short rising strengthening whine, chuff, long low strong grunt, chuff/. The root word is the verb GJ meaning to work or to make and the suffix -bfr, which forms nouns from verbs or adjectives with a meaning of a software program or digital service described by the root. -Mr is an 3rd person proximal noun suffix roughly meaning “this…” or “this is a…”

I post my worldbuilding stuff mostly on the CBB conlanging forum, and there’s a comprehensive grammar for Commonthroat–the most widely spoken alien language–on FrathWiki. Sometimes I put stuff on a worldbuilding community here on lemmy !worldbuilding@lemmy.world.

*edit: got my own grammar wrong.

Thanks! Here are a few more samples:

Part of the livery of a particular spacecraft, spelling out the craft’s name, Dewfall.

The word for ‘Mech hangar’ (Every sci-fi setting needs some big ol’ stompy walking war crimes).

Another attempt at a glowing CRT aesthetic. This is the name of the worldbuilding project as a whole “The Lonely Galaxy”.

And here’s what the writing system looks like when hand-written. The word is “egg eater”, which is a very vulgar insult among these oviparous aliens. The aesthetic of the script leans toward the Brahmic writing systems of South and Southeast Asia.

At the time of the OP I was testing federating two nodeBB instances. ActivityPub requires HTTPS AFAIK.

Upvote for the Dark Crystal reference.

Tiny furry human! The adults are quite striking as well.

I searched for “monkeys” and this is the first post across all the instances I have access to that’s just a nice picture of a monkey and not a rant about NFTs or similar.

an ARES group in a neighboring county set up an AREDN network. They said it worked very well, with two caveats.

First was a jurisdiction issue. They couldn’t send climbers up to replace or repair equipment on their own, they had to wait for another entity to do it, this lead to things going unrepaired for a long time, which leads to…

Second, WISP equipment, even outdoor-rated stuff, isn’t as weatherproof as one would hope. Where I live (gulf coast US) we get a lot of wind and rain, so things broke down often. Combine this with the inability to replace and repair equipment as needed and you get a perpetually flaky network. I think it’s no accident that the most active AREDN mesh is in SoCal where the weather is perpetually clement.

This is all second hand, of course, though I can vouch for the WISP gear not being exactly Ragnarok proof. It seems when it worked, it worked very well, but it often didn’t work for the reasons above. If you can locate equipment in places you have access to, I think it’ll be fine.

I went all in with AREDN but couldn’t get people interested.

Interesting. My AC fan has a noise pattern that revs up as the AC or heater starts. I can hear it on the radio before I hear the fan itself.

I find it interesting that there’s a mix of commenters complaining that Reddit is at opposite ends of the political spectrum.

I assumed they were aware of each other and simply differed in moderation style or the type of user they wanted to attract.

I have, however, been toying with establishing a presence in the fediverse for conlangers/conworlders to congregate; likely not Lemmy, but NodeBB, as I like the more permanent nature of forums compared to more modern social media. As for non-federated conlanging communities, there’s the CBB where I hang out most, the unrelated ZBB, both running phpBB. But the granddaddy of conlangery on the internet is probably the conlang mailing list.

I can only vouch for the CBB, as I’ve merely lurked briefly on the ZBB and have never checked out the mailing list, though it’s on my todo list.

I was on Reddit from mid 2012 to mid 2023, across a few accounts and with a hiatus of a few months here and there. I had been passively looking at less centralized forms of personal interaction on the web, trying to find traditional forums to replace the subs I frequented. Like a lot of people here, the API issues and the news of Reddit courting investors left a bad taste in my mouth.

I deleted my account, but I still lurk on a few subs, and my IT job means I have to dig through reddit posts on a regular basis for troubleshooting purposes.

I’m attempting to run a NodeBB forum. I’m only assuming that web sockets was the issue because the first search result I came up with that matched my symptoms mentioned it.

Cool. Follow up question: Do I generate the cert once and distribute the same private key to all the servers I’m running? I’m guessing not, but does that mean I run the certbot command on every server?