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Comment on Celebrating 30th wedding anniversary - AMA in ~life
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Comment on The global fertility crisis is worse than you think in ~society
Gazook89 LinkI am at a vacation rental and one of the books left here that I picked up today is The Children Of Men. I’m only ~20 pages in. It is set in Britain 2021 and there is a global fertility crisis: no...I am at a vacation rental and one of the books left here that I picked up today is The Children Of Men. I’m only ~20 pages in. It is set in Britain 2021 and there is a global fertility crisis: no new children have been born since 1995, globally.
No reason is really given (at least so far) for this calamity. But these types of reports as in the posted article are mentioned as a sort of early warning, not understood at the point they at published but only a small piece of a larger puzzle.
Anyway, not saying this is the case here, but just an interesting note.
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Comment on MLB decries use of personal writings on Pride Night hats in ~lgbt
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Comment on USA TODAY Play expands digital comics library with Marvel Comics in ~comics
Gazook89 LinkI visited a library in an unfamiliar city today while on a trip, and noticed the Daily Bugle as the first thing on a periodicals shelf. The shelf wasn’t labeled in a way I could see the USA Today...I visited a library in an unfamiliar city today while on a trip, and noticed the Daily Bugle as the first thing on a periodicals shelf. The shelf wasn’t labeled in a way I could see the USA Today label before picking it up.
I thought “wow, is this some weird independent publication like a zine?”
Took me a minute to notice the USA Today marks, and immediately lost interest.
Didn’t expect to see it linked here, but even now I am surprised how little interest i have in following to the article to read what it is all about (besides marketing).
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Comment on Leak exposes members of Peter Thiel’s secretive ‘dialog’ society in ~society
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Comment on Tildes Survey #9: How optimistic are you about the future? (Results) in ~talk
Gazook89 LinkIs it possible to add a link back to the originating Tildes post on the survey site after you've completed it, or a redirect directly back to page?Is it possible to add a link back to the originating Tildes post on the survey site after you've completed it, or a redirect directly back to page?
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Comment on Where The Wild Things Are - by Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen in ~books
Gazook89 LinkMac Barnett and Jon Klassen discussing Where the Wild Things Are. Very good. I only just heard of this blog, cowritten by them, reviewing picture books. This is first one I've read, from 2024, but...Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen discussing Where the Wild Things Are. Very good. I only just heard of this blog, cowritten by them, reviewing picture books. This is first one I've read, from 2024, but it's 100% up my alley.
I often think that more adults should take the often small amount of time to read picture books occasionally, there are so many gems that express in a few pages what novels take hundreds of pages to say.
Mac Barnett got some heat recently due to a comment about the number of bad children’s books out there, but he’s totally right— except it’s every genre. But there is plenty of good, too, and we just need to take the time to identify those and really look at them.
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Where The Wild Things Are - by Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen
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Comment on User: ThreeCheersAppleTest in ~test
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Comment on Brave Origin, a paid, premium version of Brave is now available in ~tech
Gazook89 Link ParentI think the idea is that by paying, they have a more traditional revenue source than data harvesting. They offer a service, you pay for it with money. If you had a lawn care service, and you never...I think the idea is that by paying, they have a more traditional revenue source than data harvesting. They offer a service, you pay for it with money.
If you had a lawn care service, and you never paid but they got to empty your mailbox every day in return, it might be nice to find a company that just does the mowing in return for cash.
Of course, if they take the cash AND still take your mail, then it’s not such a good deal.
And if they are only taking cash from you, but taking the mail of other customers, then it feels a little like extortion.
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Comment on Google Chrome to fully remove legacy support for manifest v2 in ~tech
Gazook89 Link ParentOrion is WebKit, not chromium. So you are chrome freeOrion is WebKit, not chromium. So you are chrome free
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Comment on This restaurant stopped charging for food. And profits are up. (gifted link) in ~food
Gazook89 Link ParentRebes Play Cafe in St. Paul too. It’s an infant 0-3ish play space with a small cafe. They were a big distribution point for food and toys. The owner also operates a language program, Spanish and...Rebes Play Cafe in St. Paul too. It’s an infant 0-3ish play space with a small cafe. They were a big distribution point for food and toys. The owner also operates a language program, Spanish and mandarin, that contracts with schools and private lessons, and she continued to support her staff even while they had to cancel contracts to keep them safe (keep in mind, it’s not only undocumented people that were targeted). And, the owner ran a food shelf out of her living room up until a few weeks ago.
Really, there were so many good businesses and organizations (and people) doing good work.
Edit to add: they had their front door smashed in and office rifled through the morning after a radio interview with the owner was broadcast, about supporting the community in the face of ICE.
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Comment on What are your gaming idiosyncracies? in ~games
Gazook89 Link ParentI explore any area by going Left every time it is possible, without repeating an area. Dungeons, trails in the woods, etc. quick edit: It's always surprising when i've play co-op games with a...I explore any area by going Left every time it is possible, without repeating an area. Dungeons, trails in the woods, etc.
quick edit: It's always surprising when i've play co-op games with a friend and they are either lost, or ask me "which way do you think we go?". Um...left?
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Comment on What are your gaming idiosyncracies? in ~games
Gazook89 Link ParentI pretty much only stay in the options/settings menu. Once I've got things set how i want them, I'm mostly finished with the game (meaning, there isn't much value in actually playing). That's why...I pretty much only stay in the options/settings menu. Once I've got things set how i want them, I'm mostly finished with the game (meaning, there isn't much value in actually playing). That's why I don't buy games any more.
Hobbyist web development is more akin to "playing with settings", so I pretty much just do that. I get the dopamine of getting some sort of success after long periods of struggle, which is basically equivalent to playing games.
Dwarf Fortress scratches the same itch.
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Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp
Gazook89 LinkWith an LLM, I worked this last week on a web app that is pretty much for myself, but also doesn't really work without my friends using it. It's called Kid Collider, and it's basically the old...With an LLM, I worked this last week on a web app that is pretty much for myself, but also doesn't really work without my friends using it.
It's called Kid Collider, and it's basically the old Facebook "Check In" functionality without all the extra fuss.
Here is my frequent problem: My kid wants to go to the park, but also wants to be sure there is a friend there, so I've got to shoot a text to some parent in the area to say "we're going to the park, come if you want". But I might not get a response by 20 minutes later, so I do the same with another parent, and so on, until it's time to go home (or worse, someone comes 5 minutes before I want to leave).
I often think about the Bat Signal-- throw one up in the sky, and batman comes. I started with the name "Bat Signal", actually. With this app, you make a signal that gives a rough ETA to some location, and it goes on a feed that people can see. The only people that can see it are people you have "friended" (and been accepted). The signal only has whatever information you want to give, the fields are "Name", "Address", "ETA", "Message", and an "expiration" time that indicates when the signal will disappear. The address doesn't have to be real, it could just be the name of neighborhood or cross streets.
A signal just indicates intent to be somewhere, and the people you know can see that and decide to meet up if they want. There is no messaging between users, no scheduling or RSVP'ing....use your regular channels of communication for that. The messages expire after your set time, and are deleted permanently from the database. You can save location information for easily creating signals, but please don't put your actual home address in there-- it's not encrypted in the DB.
It's currently called "Kid Collider", though there is nothing that is kid-specific and it does not take any kid information like a lot of other similar apps. I was just thinking about renaming it "Collider", but sometimes I prefer to narrow the audience a bit even artificially.
Mostly my dream is that other parents in my life are using this, I don't really care if other unknown people do, but maybe someone has critiques that will help improve it.
(PS, for account creation, it sends an email from Supabase, which has a confirmation link, and I think that confirmation link goes to a github 404 page.....the confirmation is still working, it's just not redirecting correctly. So just navigate back to the original link and it should be good. That is, IF anyone is interested in looking).
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Comment on What creative projects have you been working on? in ~creative
Gazook89 Link ParentIs it worth it? The hours of recording and editing, trying to build an audience in order to gain even a small bit of influence. Presumably the audience would be a subset of people who play league,...Is it worth it?
The hours of recording and editing, trying to build an audience in order to gain even a small bit of influence.
Presumably the audience would be a subset of people who play league, further subsetted by people who want to listen to complaints about the reporting system.
The better time investment is probably finding a reliable crew of people to play with so you have a team of 5. Or, just switch to ARAM for the fun.
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Comment on Searching for neighbours on the indie web in ~tech
Gazook89 LinkJust out of curiosity I looked up some button makers: hekate2 sadgrlonline ritual.sh pixelwolf And honestly the list goes on, it seems like a fairly popular project for people to make their own...Just out of curiosity I looked up some button makers:
And honestly the list goes on, it seems like a fairly popular project for people to make their own editors. I just didn't know that.
Sorry that this doesn't really get the meat of your post.
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Comment on What are people's experiences with using Kagi? in ~tech
Gazook89 Link ParentYou can easily remove those sites from your search on Kagi. I don’t know: do other search engines allow blacklisting by domain? And there exist premade lists of annoying sites, both provided by...You can easily remove those sites from your search on Kagi. I don’t know: do other search engines allow blacklisting by domain? And there exist premade lists of annoying sites, both provided by Kagi and other users. I don’t see fandom links at all. No Pinterest. No Amazon store. None of the myriad stack overflow clones. All that was included in some list I popped into my settings.
Maybe other engines allow that too, I don’t know.
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Comment on What are people's experiences with using Kagi? in ~tech
Gazook89 Link ParentNo such thing as neutral search even by a non profit. A non profit is still providing a service that costs money to run, so they are in the same scramble for funds. But in the case of a non...No such thing as neutral search even by a non profit. A non profit is still providing a service that costs money to run, so they are in the same scramble for funds. But in the case of a non profit, they have to chase grants or do fundraising which is effectively the same as just charging for the service.
Probably the closest thing is just going to a municipal library and asking a librarian for resources in the catalog.
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Comment on What are people's experiences with using Kagi? in ~tech
Gazook89 Link ParentAh I see. I guess I wasn’t aware. It’s this part of the timeline that I remember, with no prior LLM before it:Ah I see. I guess I wasn’t aware. It’s this part of the timeline that I remember, with no prior LLM before it:
2023 - The Assistant by Kagi enters public beta
What is something that someone wished they could change about the other, but had to give up on?