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  1. Comment on Scientists and archivists worry Epic Games' control of the 3D model market will 'destroy' cultural heritage in ~games

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    The issue with cultural heritage is money, or rather lack of money. It's very easy to scan and create a somewhat good 3D model of any landmark using a phone and a drone. There are free or cheap...

    The issue with cultural heritage is money, or rather lack of money.

    It's very easy to scan and create a somewhat good 3D model of any landmark using a phone and a drone. There are free or cheap softwares to do so.

    Issues arise when you want a very detailed model. Then you require either laser scans or meticulous photogrammetry. And it costs a lot.

    For small heritage buildings (like the windmills mentioned in the article), nobody has money for detailed scans. And nobody wants to host the 3D models. Heck, currently Wikimedia Commons only supports STL files for 3D objects. It's not designed to display photorealistic models.

    I work in the field, we have some users that created wonderful models of heritage sites, but there's little to no funding, except for big landmarks.

    11 votes

  2. Comment on Looking for slim wallet recommendations in ~life.style

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    I have a NanoBoy by Jaimie Jacobs, which is a copy of the Nomatic Wallet. It's slim, easy to get your card from and can handle a bit of cash. It's also lasting well: the Nomatic Wallet lasted 6...

    I have a NanoBoy by Jaimie Jacobs, which is a copy of the Nomatic Wallet. It's slim, easy to get your card from and can handle a bit of cash. It's also lasting well: the Nomatic Wallet lasted 6 years, the current one is 3 years old and still going strong.

  3. Comment on Self-hosting a podcast server in ~tech

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    You can have a look at Castopod. It's a dockerized FOSS solution for hosting podcasts. Never tried it myself though.

    You can have a look at Castopod. It's a dockerized FOSS solution for hosting podcasts. Never tried it myself though.

    1 vote

  4. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    Forza Horizon 5 I love arcade racing game, played a lot as a kid (Need for Speed, Burnout, Blur). I recently bought Forza Horizon 5, seemed to be the best arcade racing game around, lots of...

    Forza Horizon 5

    I love arcade racing game, played a lot as a kid (Need for Speed, Burnout, Blur).
    I recently bought Forza Horizon 5, seemed to be the best arcade racing game around, lots of content.

    Gameplay-wise, it's great. I love the different type of races, lots of vehicles (almost too many to be fair), they are fun to drive, it's arcade but not too easy, you still need precision. I like it very much! There's a real difference between the surfaces, the vehicles, lots of different races. It's great. I'm not a huge fan of the Hotwheels themed zone, but I can see the appeal for some players.

    Gamedesign-wise, I HATE IT. First thing first: it looks like a damn mobile-pay-to-win game. Coins! Points! Events! Seasons! Don't miss it! 3 days left! You need to buy a car for this race! Just let me play already, don't shove it in my face all the time. I hate the story line and the cutscene. I don't need a scenario to race car around. I don't see the points in mission like "go retrieve an old car in a barn and go back in a truck". Smashing random boards just to gain credits/points/whatever is also completely useless - huge shootout to the dialogue line "Whoa, this is going to give us so much fame" (or something like this) when I smashed a random board under a bridge.

    And above all else: I can't stand driving to races. Sure, you want to demonstrate you have a big open world. Who cares? Who enjoys driving in the dirt only to go to the next race? I don't want to waste 5 minutes of my gaming time just to go from one race to another.

    I feel like I spent half my time actually racing, and the other half just going from place to place. In that regard, NFS: Hot Pursuit (2010) is still the GOAT for me. No nonsense, no scenario, minimal cutscenes, just pick your race and enjoy it.

    5 votes

  5. Comment on What did you do to "prepare" for your marriage? in ~life

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    Living in France, I can't really speak for the US. But in France divorce, even amongst Christian people, is largely accepted. My parents' generation (in their 60s-70s) may not divorce but live...

    Living in France, I can't really speak for the US. But in France divorce, even amongst Christian people, is largely accepted. My parents' generation (in their 60s-70s) may not divorce but live separately because of possible shame, but my generation (30s-40s) will not hesitate to divorce. Even recently, during a church meeting, someone mentioned being separated from their spouse and no one batted an eye.

    4 votes

  6. Comment on What did you do to "prepare" for your marriage? in ~life

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    I second this. We're both catholic and the church mandates a "marriage preparation" (at least in France). Of course there was a some religious information, but like Boojum said, we were invited to...

    I second this. We're both catholic and the church mandates a "marriage preparation" (at least in France). Of course there was a some religious information, but like Boojum said, we were invited to think about some hard topics. I do remember some of them:

    • Do we want to be buried? Cremated? Where are we laid down? etc.
    • What do we consider cheating? What can I forgive?
    • How do we feel about having a kid with disability? How will we adjust to their disability (work+personal)

    The idea behind these unpleasant question is that sometimes disaster strikes unexpectedly. And it's good to discuss this together.

    I also find the 4 pillars of christian marriage a good way to think about the marriage (even if not religious):

    • Freedom of consent: are we pressured by the other, our families, society, to get married? I guess not, but it's always a good question to ask!
    • Indissolubility of marriage: this is a life commitment, are we ready for it? This is the perfect time to talk about the small everyday problems/itches you have with your SO. You'll have to suffer them for your whole life if not addressed :)
    • Fidelity: what's a deal breaker in our marriage? It could be cheating, hiding some things (addictions, etc), sickness, disability. It also leads to what can you forgive, what you can't forgive.
    • Fertility: Kids, of course, but not only, it's larger than that. Marriage is viewed as the cut from our parents to create a new home. How will we make this home "fertile" -> what will be our role in the society? How will we get involve in our community (community being neighborhood, church, friends, etc). It yields questions about what we do together, and what we want to still do alone (private garden).
    8 votes

  7. Comment on Looking for non-political content in ~life

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    Can recommend Boylei Hobby Time. Every week he uploads a diorama he made from Minifigures. Always a good watch.

    Can recommend Boylei Hobby Time. Every week he uploads a diorama he made from Minifigures. Always a good watch.

    3 votes

  8. Comment on Who are the pop stars, from any era, who have extraordinary skills? in ~music

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    Specific to France : Johnny Hallyday. Even though he was heavily marketed, he had a powerful voice and really gave life to some of his texts. You can listen to "L'envie" or "Poème sur la 7eme",...

    Specific to France : Johnny Hallyday. Even though he was heavily marketed, he had a powerful voice and really gave life to some of his texts. You can listen to "L'envie" or "Poème sur la 7eme", these are my two favorites.

    2 votes

  9. Comment on How is your experience with various programming ecosystems? in ~comp

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    I worked for ~2 years on a cloud service with a private react dashboard for monitoring the service. Every CVE I had was an obscure DDoS in an obscure library, which was a dependency of a...

    I worked for ~2 years on a cloud service with a private react dashboard for monitoring the service. Every CVE I had was an obscure DDoS in an obscure library, which was a dependency of a dependency of a dependency of a dependency of a package I was using. I either had to wait for the patch to be applied down the whole chain or fix it myself tinkering with the package.json. I hated this, given that it is highly unlikely the issue was exploitable through the main package.

    1 vote

  10. Comment on What are some things you do "the old fashioned way," which might come with unexpected benefits over the modern, "improved" way of doing things? in ~talk

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    (almost) No SEPA mandate I don't know if it's a thing in the US, but in Europe it's common to give a mandate to a company to allow them to get the money you owe them directly from your bank...

    (almost) No SEPA mandate

    I don't know if it's a thing in the US, but in Europe it's common to give a mandate to a company to allow them to get the money you owe them directly from your bank account. Stuff like energy, internet bills, etc. I try to avoid them as much as possible. Some are not possible (loans, internet) but I don't like the idea of someone taking money directly from my account.

    Organizing files in my online drive

    I hear more and more that recent generations just dump their files in GDrive/Dropbox/whatever and use the search box to find their documents. On my drive everything is neatly organized and I can find stuff faster than the search box most of the time.

    6 votes

  11. Comment on Hundreds of flying taxis to be made in Ohio, home of the Wright brothers and astronaut legends in ~engineering

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    The goal is to not fund public transportation by funding Hyperloop, then ditching Hyperloop. Thus people still need their cars (including Teslas). If you were to fund PT, car demand would lower

    The goal is to not fund public transportation by funding Hyperloop, then ditching Hyperloop. Thus people still need their cars (including Teslas).

    If you were to fund PT, car demand would lower

    11 votes

  12. Comment on It looks like Facebook will be forcing me to switch to Messenger. What are my options? in ~tech

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    On mobile, Messenger is deactivated through the browser. Using Firefox and Desktop version toggle I can get through but the design is not great at all. I don't think using the browser is the way...

    On mobile, Messenger is deactivated through the browser. Using Firefox and Desktop version toggle I can get through but the design is not great at all. I don't think using the browser is the way to go here...

    2 votes

  13. Comment on A single reform that could save 100,000 lives across the USA immediately in ~health

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    As a French person, this horrifies me. Here, even giving hair is a free act. Same for all the rest.

    The National Organ Transplant Act prohibits compensating kidney donors, which is strange in that in American society, it’s common to pay for plasma, bone marrow, hair, sperm, eggs and even surrogate pregnancies.

    As a French person, this horrifies me. Here, even giving hair is a free act. Same for all the rest.

    7 votes

  14. Comment on Linux could be 3% of global desktops. What happened to Windows? in ~tech

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    Yes, I don't think the explanation is "People are switching to Linux", it's more "People are switching to smartphones/tablets".

    Yes, I don't think the explanation is "People are switching to Linux", it's more "People are switching to smartphones/tablets".

  15. Comment on Any Tildes android app? in ~tildes

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    I'm using Firefox too but my beef is that if I have a Tildes tab opened on some topic, and click on my home shortcut, I'm opening a new Tildes tab. I don't mind clicking on the shortcut and going...

    I'm using Firefox too but my beef is that if I have a Tildes tab opened on some topic, and click on my home shortcut, I'm opening a new Tildes tab. I don't mind clicking on the shortcut and going back to the original tab. Any idea on how to do this?

    4 votes

  16. Comment on What are the benefits of using Linux for the less computer competent? in ~comp

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    What's the benefit of using Windows for a standard person? All your interactions are now done through the web browser (social networks, banking, streaming, office softwares, ...), so you don't...

    What's the benefit of using Windows for a standard person? All your interactions are now done through the web browser (social networks, banking, streaming, office softwares, ...), so you don't really care about your OS. Unless you have a need for a specific software, or gaming (even that is being change by Steam) there is no real reason to use Windows except habit.

    9 votes

  17. Comment on The Apollo app for Reddit closes this evening. End of an era. in ~tech

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    For some communities, Reddit was a very nice and slick aggregator. In my case, r/formula1 was a nice mix of news, crafted stats, pics and memes in the off season. It's hard to find a replica...

    For some communities, Reddit was a very nice and slick aggregator. In my case, r/formula1 was a nice mix of news, crafted stats, pics and memes in the off season. It's hard to find a replica somewhere else.

    13 votes

  18. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~talk

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    Same thing applies to France!

    Same thing applies to France!

  19. Comment on What are your favorite webcomics? in ~comics

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    Love that comic too! Quite the hidden gem, I was lucky enough a friend recommended it to me.

    Love that comic too! Quite the hidden gem, I was lucky enough a friend recommended it to me.

    1 vote

  20. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~music

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    Blur at Nuits de Fourvière in Lyon France. It was awesome - very good set list - and the atmosphere was perfect. Nuits de Fourvière take place in the ancient Roman theater of Lyon. Artists come on...

    Blur at Nuits de Fourvière in Lyon France. It was awesome - very good set list - and the atmosphere was perfect. Nuits de Fourvière take place in the ancient Roman theater of Lyon. Artists come on scene as the sun is setting and rock you into the night. It ended up in a huge "pillow" fight (seat pillow are offered for seating in the theater) that I still remember vividly (it was in 2009 I think)

    2 votes