crulife's recent activity
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Comment on What are people's experiences with using Kagi? in ~tech
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Comment on What are people's experiences with using Kagi? in ~tech
crulife Link ParentDamn, that's an awesome feature. I'm sold. My current child internet access policy is "no" just because of the lack of controls. How fine-grained is it?I can curate what sites my young kids have access to.
Damn, that's an awesome feature. I'm sold. My current child internet access policy is "no" just because of the lack of controls. How fine-grained is it?
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Comment on Insomniathought: blocking people in social media can be a positive thing in ~tech
crulife Link ParentThe change would spread out a bit according to my initial experimentation. But not a huge one. .../versions/f0e1d2c3b4a5_add_user_blocks_table.py | 52 +++++++++++ tildes/tests/test_user_blocks.py...The change would spread out a bit according to my initial experimentation. But not a huge one.
.../versions/f0e1d2c3b4a5_add_user_blocks_table.py | 52 +++++++++++ tildes/tests/test_user_blocks.py | 100 +++++++++++++++++++++ tildes/tildes/database_models.py | 8 +- .../tildes/models/comment/comment_notification.py | 14 ++- tildes/tildes/models/comment/comment_tree.py | 15 +++- tildes/tildes/models/message/message.py | 17 ++-- tildes/tildes/models/pagination.py | 8 ++ tildes/tildes/models/user/__init__.py | 1 + tildes/tildes/models/user/user.py | 35 +++++++- tildes/tildes/models/user/user_block.py | 63 +++++++++++++ tildes/tildes/request_methods.py | 25 +++++- tildes/tildes/routes.py | 4 + tildes/tildes/templates/macros/comments.jinja2 | 9 +- tildes/tildes/templates/settings.jinja2 | 11 +++ .../tildes/templates/settings_blocked_users.jinja2 | 31 +++++++ tildes/tildes/templates/user.jinja2 | 31 +++++++ tildes/tildes/views/api/web/user.py | 28 +++++- tildes/tildes/views/message.py | 21 +++++ tildes/tildes/views/settings.py | 17 +++- tildes/tildes/views/topic.py | 5 +- tildes/tildes/views/user.py | 21 ++++- 21 files changed, 493 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)Moreover it seems that this might go against the grain of Tildes philosophy, which is probably the bigger problem.
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Comment on Bernie Sanders: The public should own half of the big AI companies in ~society
crulife LinkThat's just plain communism. So no, that's a provably bad idea. Additional taxation and redistribution of wealth gained from AI usage will be a good idea though. A windfall tax[0]. Probably the...That's just plain communism. So no, that's a provably bad idea.
Additional taxation and redistribution of wealth gained from AI usage will be a good idea though. A windfall tax[0]. Probably the only idea that can prevent an outright revolution or at least extreme misery from happening, if AI-took-our-jobs scenarios become reality.
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Comment on Insomniathought: blocking people in social media can be a positive thing in ~tech
crulife Link ParentIt's there already? Couldn't find it under a user. Oh, I guess you mean the "ignored topics" feature.I love the ignore feature on Tildes and use it liberally.
It's there already? Couldn't find it under a user. Oh, I guess you mean the "ignored topics" feature.
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Comment on Insomniathought: blocking people in social media can be a positive thing in ~tech
crulife Link ParentYeah, exactly. The other words I had in mind were even more condescending.Spare is awful, it's condescending.
Yeah, exactly. The other words I had in mind were even more condescending.
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Insomniathought: blocking people in social media can be a positive thing
Most social media sites have options for muting and blocking people. As we know, muting is one-way (they see me, I don't see them) and blocking is two-way (neither see each other). Recently, while...
Most social media sites have options for muting and blocking people. As we know, muting is one-way (they see me, I don't see them) and blocking is two-way (neither see each other).
Recently, while having too much caffeine in my system way too late, I had the thought that "blocking" is a far more negative term than what it should be. Sometimes it's done in spite, absolutely. You wanna slap somebody for being how they are.
But sometimes you just recognize that there's someone who you have nothing against, whom you might even like if you met them in real life, but in this context of limited human connect, you understand that the only possible communication between you and them would be toxic. That your opinions, your way of speaking, perhaps your whole existence offends them. Or vice versa.
So you protect them from yourself by blocking them, in lieu of a better word. I think there should be a better word but I haven't figured out what it should be yet. "Spare"?
(P.S. I think tildes should perhaps have such a functionality)
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Comment on Happy, fighting May 1st! in ~society
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
crulife LinkI got Dungeons 4 and Legend of Grimrock 2. Also the MUD I've always played, Icesus got their original wizards back from a decade-long hiatus, which has revived the game quite a bit. Dungeons 4 is...I got Dungeons 4 and Legend of Grimrock 2. Also the MUD I've always played, Icesus got their original wizards back from a decade-long hiatus, which has revived the game quite a bit.
Dungeons 4 is a spitting image version of the good old Dungeon Keeper. In addition, it has an overworld (which is a bit boring frankly at least so far), and it has the same laconic voice actor who's in The Stanley Parable.
Legend of Grimrock 2 is a grid-based first-person puzzle CRPG where you control a group of 4 in a mysterious island. Spitting image of Dungeon Master from late 1980s.
I also get Drova from GOG sale but haven't got to it yet.
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Comment on What I learned about billionaires at Jeff Bezos’s private retreat in ~society
crulife Link ParentBeing a normal human being is almost invisible, it doesn't break the social media ragebait hurdle. It hardly ever even breaks the regular news hurdle. So if those people exist, how would you know...Why isn’t there a single billionaire in the world leveraging the same degree of wealth and influence to actually end world poverty?
Being a normal human being is almost invisible, it doesn't break the social media ragebait hurdle. It hardly ever even breaks the regular news hurdle. So if those people exist, how would you know about them?
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Comment on What I learned about billionaires at Jeff Bezos’s private retreat in ~society
crulife Link ParentI'm trying to squint at the table you provided and see absolutely no evidence of Jeff Bezos's ownership affecting Washington Post's position. What am I missing here?I'm trying to squint at the table you provided and see absolutely no evidence of Jeff Bezos's ownership affecting Washington Post's position. What am I missing here?
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Comment on Which Linux distro do you use, and why? in ~tech
crulife LinkMostly Arch or CachyOS. Those tend to be the ones that work the best in general and are the easiest to mold into what you need. I used to use sway, nowadays Cosmic Desktop. I have great respect...Mostly Arch or CachyOS. Those tend to be the ones that work the best in general and are the easiest to mold into what you need. I used to use sway, nowadays Cosmic Desktop.
I have great respect for Fedora for their better security stance and sometimes gravitate towards that. Mostly for anti-USA reasons (not sure if valid, didn't bother to research that much since obvious alternatives are easily available) I've been staying away from it lately.
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Comment on Star Trek: Voyager Season One | re:View in ~tv
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Comment on Proton Meet isn't what they told you it was in ~tech
crulife Link ParentBut... the thing that Yen talks about actually happened. Chuck Schumer refused to bring the anti-trust bipartisan legislation to a floor vote in 2022. This is not a question of opinion, Democratic...Like, yes the Democrats are often useless, but claiming that the Republicans stand for the little guys and are more likely to fight big tech abuses is a take that simply has no basis in reality.
But... the thing that Yen talks about actually happened. Chuck Schumer refused to bring the anti-trust bipartisan legislation to a floor vote in 2022. This is not a question of opinion, Democratic party leadership clearly protected big tech at that point in time. And it is true that Chuck Schumer's daughters worked in conflict-of-interest positions at the time: Jessica Schumer at Amazon, Alison Schumer at Meta.
It does have a basis in reality.
Of course at the same time he was absolutely wrong in vaguely suggesting that Trump republicans would be a sensible choice.
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Intravenous 3 | Official announcement trailer
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Comment on What if AI just makes us work harder? in ~tech
crulife Link ParentAI and robotics can actually free us from that, I believe. Will it actually do that is another question, because there are so many ways that can go seriously wrong. But the industrial revolution,...I think we'll always be on a treadmill.
AI and robotics can actually free us from that, I believe. Will it actually do that is another question, because there are so many ways that can go seriously wrong.
But the industrial revolution, free markets and capitalism clearly brought us incredible wealth compared to what existed before them, and even though a lot of it has concentrated on the rich, a lot of it did actually spread to everyone.
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Comment on What if AI just makes us work harder? in ~tech
crulife Link ParentYeah. 100 years ago it might've been reasonable to think that communism can fix this problem, but to think it today is a bit ludicrous.Yeah. 100 years ago it might've been reasonable to think that communism can fix this problem, but to think it today is a bit ludicrous.
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Comment on New ‘Lord of the Rings’ movie From Stephen Colbert and his son in development at Warner Bros in ~movies
crulife Link ParentNot more than me, and I wouldn't trust me to write the script for this. Knowing the source material is useful, but what you really need is the ability to write something that is both new and good...Colbert genuinely, deeply cares about the legendarium.
Not more than me, and I wouldn't trust me to write the script for this. Knowing the source material is useful, but what you really need is the ability to write something that is both new and good while being solidly based on Tolkien. I consider that a huge challenge.
Looking at Colbert's Goodreads, it seems like he's mainly written mediocre parody books based on his TV persona. And again, I'm punching up when I say that.
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Comment on Russian soldier secretly guides Ukrainian strikes on own unit, leaving up to 150 dead in ~society
crulife LinkSounds a bit too good to be true, but if it's true... that's what I call a frag. Well done. If true.Sounds a bit too good to be true, but if it's true... that's what I call a frag.
Well done. If true.
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Comment on 'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' to end with Season 2 in ~tv
crulife (edited )Link ParentIf I remember the late 80s and early 90s correctly, having whole series, like every single episode, be rather bad artistically was not that abnormal. So in that sense TNG first season wasn't...If I remember the late 80s and early 90s correctly, having whole series, like every single episode, be rather bad artistically was not that abnormal. So in that sense TNG first season wasn't really "bad" compared to almost everything else that was going on at the time.
Nowadays, we have thousands of options, a disturbing amount of them well made. I could literally be watching only 8+ imdb scored things for the rest of my life's free time.
Thanks for this thread! I've had some doubt about starting to pay for a search engine, especially one incorporated in the US, but this discussion convinced me to try it out at least for a month.
The founder seems like a cool person at least by his own site: https://vladimir.prelovac.com/