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  1. Comment on What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga) in ~anime

  2. Comment on Descenders Next | Reveal trailer in ~games

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    Have you ever played any of the SSX games? I'm surprised there's no mention of them in this thread. I'd be curious how it compares to games like Steep and Descenders. I never pursued this genre so...

    Have you ever played any of the SSX games? I'm surprised there's no mention of them in this thread. I'd be curious how it compares to games like Steep and Descenders. I never pursued this genre so I had no idea these existed. I'll definitely check out those out.

    2 votes
  3. Comment on Descenders Next | Reveal trailer in ~games

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    Whoa, this reminds me of SSX.

    Whoa, this reminds me of SSX.

    2 votes
  4. Comment on [SOLVED] Looking for a deleted post in ~tildes

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    Thank you so much, I thought it was just gone because it wasn't on Wayback Machine but I didn't think to try what you shared. I really appreciate it!

    Thank you so much, I thought it was just gone because it wasn't on Wayback Machine but I didn't think to try what you shared. I really appreciate it!

    5 votes
  5. Comment on Learning and studying things without taking notes in ~life

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    I realized a flaw in my writing after I hit post. But I won't mention it, perhaps to see if or how others would! :-)

    I realized a flaw in my writing after I hit post. But I won't mention it, perhaps to see if or how others would! :-)

    3 votes
  6. Learning and studying things without taking notes

    I'm curious if there's anybody here who's like this. Either doing it without writing things down, or doing it minimally. I don't know why but I find it very difficult to do, and it stops me from...

    I'm curious if there's anybody here who's like this. Either doing it without writing things down, or doing it minimally. I don't know why but I find it very difficult to do, and it stops me from actually learning/studying. I feel like it slows me down, significantly. It also feels like a chore. I feel like part of this may be because I'm in information security? Like, there's a lot of reading and researching going on, then immediate practicing and applying. Even when I have to take tests. I just read and listen or whatever else and that's it. Maybe in other fields, taking notes is a big thing, or maybe it's just me. I also have other interests, but yet still, I simply can't bring myself to write things down. I just prefer to absorb everything, in whatever pace I like, sometimes it's slow, sometimes it's fast. If I ever decide that I'm going to take notes while learning/studying, I'd stare at my notebook/software for a very long time. I'd sit with one chapter/slide for quite awhile. At the same time, I truly admire people who take notes and write stuff. I do wish I was like them sometimes. Is anybody out here the same? Even though I really want to hear from people who are similar, everyone else can join the discussion too. What do you do? How do you do it? What is your preference? Do you think there's a "better" way to do things? Could taking notes be "superior" to the opposite?

    27 votes
  7. Comment on Make the Wayback Machine the real internet in ~tech

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    The people behind Archive.org do great work when it comes to preserving the internet, but I feel like we shouldn't (perhaps fully) rely on them alone. The same work they do, we should be doing...

    The people behind Archive.org do great work when it comes to preserving the internet, but I feel like we shouldn't (perhaps fully) rely on them alone. The same work they do, we should be doing ourselves, and it's possible in ways with the power of Wget. ArchiveBox is really easy to set up, it has a nice web UI, and it has several different outputs i.e. PDF, HTML, PNG and even sends your links to Wayback Machine, but the cool thing about it is that you decentralize and archive websites locally. That way if anything ever happened to Archive.org, you have your own offline internet of whatever you chose, which I feel like is an even cooler thing about doing this. The developer behind ArchiveBox talks about all of this in this video. I would like to add that, I don't think everything should be preserved and archived. There's a lot of crap on the internet. This is why choosing is nice, and in a way, it feels important for whoever is interested in archiving to have their own setup. What you choose to archive and what I choose to archive will probably be quite different, so everyone's ArchiveBox would be special and unique.

    6 votes
  8. Comment on Lunar Codex: Digitised works of 30,000 artists to be archived on moon in ~space

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    This is interesting. Reminds me of the Voyager's golden record. I wish things like this were also released to the public as a torrent or something.

    This is interesting. Reminds me of the Voyager's golden record. I wish things like this were also released to the public as a torrent or something.

    5 votes
  9. Comment on Finding Kloos - a game created by the UK Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) in ~games

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    Can you source any of this? Thanks!

    Can you source any of this? Thanks!

    1 vote
  10. Comment on ProtonMail complied with 5,957 data requests in 2022 – still secure and private? in ~tech

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    Correct me if I'm wrong, but I feel like the answer is yes. The "data requests" are minor (to some extent) i.e. IP address, recovery email if it's enabled, or payment method. All which can be...

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but I feel like the answer is yes. The "data requests" are minor (to some extent) i.e. IP address, recovery email if it's enabled, or payment method. All which can be anonymized, right? The way I see it, ProtonMail provides the user many ways to protect themselves. They let you register and use their service not only through VPN but also Tor. It sounds harsh to say but given everything that's laid out, if I got caught... Perhaps it's my fault. I don't know.

    44 votes
  11. Comment on Ethiopia cracks down on gay sex in hotels, bars and restaurants in ~lgbt

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    I think coercion comes from extremism of something like religion or anything really, but not inherently whatever the thing is. So it's not necessarily religion, really. It's people, their...

    I think coercion comes from extremism of something like religion or anything really, but not inherently whatever the thing is. So it's not necessarily religion, really. It's people, their so-called interpretations or whatever and what they do with it here. I also think you can't assume what anybody knows or doesn't know about anything here and say things like that. It's not cool or kind. You could've just said the last two sentences and it would've been chill. Anyway.

    3 votes
  12. Comment on Are invitees able to know who invited them? in ~tildes

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    Cool. So invites are completely anonymous, except internally.

    Cool. So invites are completely anonymous, except internally.

    10 votes
  13. Comment on Are invitees able to know who invited them? in ~tildes

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    If I understand this correctly, they can know who invited them (by email, or username, or both? or none?)—but the person who invited them cannot know either?

    A record of which users you invite will be kept internally (but won't be visible to any users, including you). Please invite people that you think will be good community members—if you repeatedly invite users that cause issues, you may lose inviting privileges.

    If I understand this correctly, they can know who invited them (by email, or username, or both? or none?)—but the person who invited them cannot know either?

    8 votes
  14. Comment on Black women with guitars? in ~music

  15. Comment on The Parade – I'm A Dreamer (2023) in ~music

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    Soothing gem. Thanks for sharing!

    Soothing gem. Thanks for sharing!

    1 vote
  16. Comment on Why therapy is broken in ~health.mental

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    Damn.

    “There have been times in my life, honestly, when my income stream has gone down, and I really need to keep clients and I'm not getting many new referrals,” Kottler says. “And I won't easily let a client go.”

    Damn.

    5 votes
  17. Comment on Why therapy is broken in ~health.mental

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    Lol, The Patient reference?

    Lol, The Patient reference?

    3 votes