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Comment on Sam Neill, Jurassic Park star, dies at 78 in ~movies
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Comment on eBook management for Kobo in ~books
Rudism LinkI've used Calibre in the past and found it to be very bloated and cumbersome, so for a long time have been doing similar to you (manual plug and sync). I actually just discovered Booklore (which...I've used Calibre in the past and found it to be very bloated and cumbersome, so for a long time have been doing similar to you (manual plug and sync).
I actually just discovered Booklore (which led me to Grimmory) this weekend and have been giving it a go, trying to organize my library of ebooks, manga, and audiobooks in it. So far it is also feels like it's trending toward very bloated and overkill for my needs (less cumbersome than Calibre, but only just barely). My audiobooks/ebooks are not very well organized and their baked-in metadata is all over the place so it's been quite a bit of work getting it all under control. I'm hopeful that once everything is organized, keeping it that way as I add new media in the future will be a lot simpler. I haven't even tried any of its Kobo sync features yet, but I'll probably be toying with that some time this week.
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Comment on Blog owners, do you write under your real name, or under a pseudonym? in ~hobbies
Rudism LinkI use either my real name or my Tildes username (which I think can be trivially traced to my real name) for pretty much everything. I also don't participate in very much social media or post...I use either my real name or my Tildes username (which I think can be trivially traced to my real name) for pretty much everything. I also don't participate in very much social media or post anything I wouldn't want associated with my real name (and also regularly purge a lot of older stuff, though of course everything lives on in some form out of your control). I've dabbled in using a more anonymous pseudonym for various projects in the past, but there's something in me that feels weird about it and it's harder to commit to those projects as a result.
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Comment on There is no reason to buy another PlayStation or Xbox in ~games
Rudism LinkThere are a few cohorts of people who I think consoles will always appeal to, regardless of how enshittified and/or PC-like they become: Users who don't already have or need a state-of-the-art...There are a few cohorts of people who I think consoles will always appeal to, regardless of how enshittified and/or PC-like they become:
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Users who don't already have or need a state-of-the-art computer. Like if your primary PC is a MacBook Air, or an el-cheapo 5 year old desktop that works just fine for everything else you need it for, or even a tablet or smartphone, but you still want to play AAA games, then buying a console is a much simpler (and typically cheaper) option than researching and buying or building out a new gaming PC.
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Users who may have a PC but are couch gamers. If you just want to kick back and play games on your TV with a controller instead of being hunched over your keyboard because you already do that all day for your job, then plugging a console in is again much simpler and/or cheaper than figuring out how to set up game streaming, buying a second PC to plug into your TV, or doing what a friend of mine did for a while with an insane cabling setup using HDMI-over-ethernet to wire his TV up to his desktop in a completely different room.
I feel like the whole "consoles are just PCs now anyway so just buy a PC instead" attitude overlooks the whole appeal of consoles where you don't have to buy or build a PC, which can be very confusing for non-technical people who just want to play games on their TV with as little friction as possible.
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Comment on Bethesda, id Software reportedly hit hard by Microsoft layoffs in ~games
Rudism Link ParentThe base game plus all DLC areas and dungeons that came bundled with your initial purchase of the game can be played without any monthly fee. If you want to play newer content as it comes out you...The base game plus all DLC areas and dungeons that came bundled with your initial purchase of the game can be played without any monthly fee. If you want to play newer content as it comes out you either have to pay the monthly subscription, or buy it as a one-time DLC purchase. It used to be that the newest chapter would only be available on Steam (or whatever store you go through), while older content could be bought piecemeal through less expensive in-game microtransactions... that may have all changed since the last time I played a couple years ago though.
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Comment on I need more hilariously awful pick up lines to make my wife roll her eyes at me in ~talk
Rudism LinkI guess that doesn't really work in your situation... Here's a bonus already-married line to compensate:Hey, look what my shirt is made of... (move head and hold up tag to show her)... Boyfriend material.
I guess that doesn't really work in your situation... Here's a bonus already-married line to compensate:
Baby, since we got married you've gotten hotter even faster than the global climate.
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Comment on I made a satirical AI detector in ~tech
Rudism Link ParentLike this: "Mom, Dad, I'm not only your child---I'm also an AI."Like this: "Mom, Dad, I'm not only your child---I'm also an AI."
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Comment on Steam Summer Sale 2026: Hidden gems in ~games
Rudism LinkNew Heights (239 reviews) Discount isn't the hugest, but I picked it up anyway since I'm a big fan of climbing games (Jusant, Cairn, Peaks of Yore) and this looked promising. Played it for a few...New Heights (239 reviews)
Discount isn't the hugest, but I picked it up anyway since I'm a big fan of climbing games (Jusant, Cairn, Peaks of Yore) and this looked promising. Played it for a few hours last night and I like it a lot. It definitely gets quite janky, with the character sometimes going full ragdoll mode, or unable to figure out how to move one limb around another, but for me that hasn't gotten annoying enough (yet) to feel like any more than just part of its quirky charm. The climbing mechanic feels most similar to Cairn, where you move and place one limb at a time (though full body position and movement plays a bigger role here). Playing the actual game with a controller works fine for me so far, but the menus are kinda hit or miss where the controller seems limited to some subset of items and I need a mouse to hit others. If you liked Cairn for the climbing and just want more of that without any kind of story this will probably scratch that itch.
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Comment on I made a satirical AI detector in ~tech
Rudism Link ParentSomething that I think about a lot is how AI content is basically guaranteed to win the attention game through sheer volume, which will kill the motivation of humans to write and share stuff on...Something that I think about a lot is how AI content is basically guaranteed to win the attention game through sheer volume, which will kill the motivation of humans to write and share stuff on the internet. Eventually the only new data that LLMs can train on might be stuff that other LLMs have generated. I'll be there, ready with my bucket of popcorn when model collapse becomes the new problem that these companies have to deal with.
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Comment on I made a satirical AI detector in ~tech
Rudism Link ParentI had originally thought about leaning into more of a Geocities aesthetic, and if I had gone that direction I definitely would have used some blink and marquee tags (plus animated gifs). I'm not...I had originally thought about leaning into more of a Geocities aesthetic, and if I had gone that direction I definitely would have used some blink and marquee tags (plus animated gifs). I'm not really sure what you'd call the aesthetic I ended up landing on... maybe "emojicore."
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Comment on Climate.us is a new website created by former NOAA employees who worked on Climate.gov until they were laid off last year as part of the heinous DOGE cutbacks in ~enviro
Rudism Link ParentPeople who have tried to build something with the help of LLMs and personally experienced what a tedious, depressing process that can be are probably less likely to make that assumption....People who have tried to build something with the help of LLMs and personally experienced what a tedious, depressing process that can be are probably less likely to make that assumption. Especially for projects where it's clear the people behind it seem to genuinely care about quality and attention to detail.
I'm not trying to argue one way or the other about climate.us (I have no idea), but answering your question about why people might be less defeatist/pessimistic about automatically assuming AI without any actual evidence.
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
Rudism LinkI got Deliver Us the Moon since it's heavily discounted right now on GoG and Steam and it was listed as an exploration-based puzzler. It's fine. Doesn't quite scratch the itch I was hoping for......I got Deliver Us the Moon since it's heavily discounted right now on GoG and Steam and it was listed as an exploration-based puzzler. It's fine. Doesn't quite scratch the itch I was hoping for... it's very linear and the puzzles so far aren't too challenging or interesting, and there isn't really any off-the-beaten-path stuff to explore that I've encountered so far, but the story at least is somewhat interesting so I'll likely finish it unless it does something annoying (overly-difficult timed challenges feels like something it might be building towards).
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I made a satirical AI detector
It's been annoying me lately how often I see people declare that certain blog posts or articles are AI-generated due to the presence of certain "tell-tale signs," (emdashes being the #1 example)....
It's been annoying me lately how often I see people declare that certain blog posts or articles are AI-generated due to the presence of certain "tell-tale signs," (emdashes being the #1 example). It annoys me even if I agree that the thing in question is probably is AI-generated—mainly because I really like emdashes and I use them in my own writing all the time, and it grinds my gears knowing that some percentage of the population will assume I used AI because "hurr durr emdash == AI."
I'm not necessarily talking about Tildes. I'm sure I've seen it on here, but the worst offender by far is Hacker News where often one of the top comments on a linked article that has an emdash somewhere in the body will be a snarky comment about how it's clearly AI generated.
Anyway, I blew off some steam this weekend by making this silly satirical website/art project called GENIUS AI Detector that makes me giggle, so I'm sharing it in the hopes that it brings a bit of joy to any fellow emdash users who are likewise depressed about the shadow that has been cast over one of my favorite punctuation marks.
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Comment on Hoopla Bonus Borrows for June 2026 in ~books
Rudism LinkI like the idea of Hoopla, and maybe this is just a problem with my specific library, but any time I've wanted to watch a movie and tried to borrow it, I get an error saying that the maximum total...I like the idea of Hoopla, and maybe this is just a problem with my specific library, but any time I've wanted to watch a movie and tried to borrow it, I get an error saying that the maximum total number of borrows for the day has been reached and to try again tomorrow.
That limitation seems wild to me. Like can you imagine if a physical library had a daily limit on the number of items it can loan out per day and had to close up early any time that was reached? It makes no sense to me--if a library has a license to loan out some number of copies of each item in its catalog, what is the purpose of a global limitation on total loans per day? Is it some kind of cost saving measure where they get a discount on licenses per item if they agree to a daily cap? The end result is I've tried to use Hoopla to borrow a movie or audiobook maybe half a dozen times over the past few months and not been successful even once. I guess it's not really tailored for spur-of-the-moment borrows and requires more planning where you figure out what you want and try to nab it earlier in the day.
edit: Thinking about it a bit more, maybe the licensing costs to the library aren't per item like Libby/Overdrive, but rather some fixed cost each time something is borrowed? I guess a daily cap would make a lot more sense if that is the case.
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Comment on What have you been listening to this week? in ~music
Rudism LinkI recently got a Bandcamp notification about Devin Townsend's new album The Moth. It made me realize I've missed a ton of his albums (most recent one I owned was Physicist from 2000), which I feel...I recently got a Bandcamp notification about Devin Townsend's new album The Moth. It made me realize I've missed a ton of his albums (most recent one I owned was Physicist from 2000), which I feel is kind of a shameful oversight for a Canadian metal head. So instead of jumping right to The Moth I bought a copy of Terria and plan on spending time with each of his albums that I missed, one at a time, over the next few weeks/months (including the one Strapping Young Lad album I'm also missing).
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Comment on Save Point: A game deal roundup for the week of June 14 in ~games
Rudism Link ParentI also had Ancient Dungeon on my wishlist. I played Arizona Sunshine a bit way back on PSVR and it was pretty good, this bundle is probably worth it for those two alone.I also had Ancient Dungeon on my wishlist. I played Arizona Sunshine a bit way back on PSVR and it was pretty good, this bundle is probably worth it for those two alone.
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Comment on Minute Cryptic in ~hobbies
Rudism Link ParentThe cryptics tutorial there is great! It always feels like I'm accessing some kind of hidden power when I manage to solve them. Another place to get good quality crosswords (mostly standard, but...The cryptics tutorial there is great! It always feels like I'm accessing some kind of hidden power when I manage to solve them. Another place to get good quality crosswords (mostly standard, but they do cryptics on Thursdays) that I enjoy is AVCX.
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Comment on ‘Backrooms’ sends Hollywood running to Reddit for new ideas in ~movies
Rudism LinkThey don't even need to go further than the backrooms. Nobody owns the IP, so it's essentially public domain, and there are literally thousands of different levels with their own aesthetics and...They don't even need to go further than the backrooms. Nobody owns the IP, so it's essentially public domain, and there are literally thousands of different levels with their own aesthetics and quirks. Let's see a pool rooms movie, parking garage movie, infinite suburbia movie, endless grocery store... I mean if execs are going to learn the wrong lessons anyway they might as well do it in the most comical way possible.
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Comment on What is your eleventh favorite video game? in ~games
Rudism Link ParentI finished it and thoroughly enjoyed it, right up until the (optional?) part at the end that's accompanied by In the Hall of the Mountain King playing, which I spent days attempting over and over...I finished it and thoroughly enjoyed it, right up until the (optional?) part at the end that's accompanied by In the Hall of the Mountain King playing, which I spent days attempting over and over again and eventually gave up in frustration. I've since had the itch to replay the game a few times but never pull the trigger because I remember how annoyed that made me.
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Comment on So I fell for a phishing in ~comp
Rudism Link ParentI would also check "linked apps," "your devices," and "app passwords," as these are all ways someone could potentially maintain access to your account even if you change your normal account...I would also check "linked apps," "your devices," and "app passwords," as these are all ways someone could potentially maintain access to your account even if you change your normal account password and have 2fa enabled.
My favorite Sam Neill movie is Event Horizon, an underrated 90s sci-fi horror (which sparked my lifelong love affair with that particular genre mashup).