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Comment on Saner macOS keybindings with skhd-zig in ~tech
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Comment on Saner macOS keybindings with skhd-zig in ~tech
delphi LinkI feel like a lot of the writer's frustrations come with wanting to be macOS less like macOS, and this to me is a fool's errand. Like, they installed Karabiner to remap the option key (which macOS...I feel like a lot of the writer's frustrations come with wanting to be macOS less like macOS, and this to me is a fool's errand. Like, they installed Karabiner to remap the option key (which macOS can do by default, by the way), Rectangle to change window behaviour because they didn't get on with spaces and maximisation, Marta because they don't like Finder, Alacritty because they don't like Terminal or iTerm, and you can do all those things, yes, but you're really gonna fight the system every step of the way, as evidenced by the fact that they refused to learn what App Shortcuts means. Shocker, it's Shortcuts in Apps. Remapping keybinds like you can in Photoshop, but for the entire system, although admittedly, I've never really seen anyone actually do that.
You can choose to live your life that way, it's your computer and you can do what you want with it, but I feel like if you put in this much effort to make macOS less like macOS, you might just... not like macOS, and that's fine. The writer doesn't ever tell us why they are using it in the first place.
It seems like they have so many frustrations with it that they might genuinely be better served by Asahi Linux for example, which gets you all the benefits of Apple Silicon but none of the particulate matter they keep running into. And for what it's worth, I actually quite like all of these idiosyncrasies and I get on great with macOS. Cmd and Ctrl are swapped to every other computer, I guess, whatever, but it took me maybe 3 days to come to terms with that and I haven't looked back since, even with regularly switching between Mac and Linux.
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Comment on Build your own video game listicle in ~games
delphi Link ParentOh Wheatley's a classic I loved this little moronOh Wheatley's a classic I loved this little moron
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Comment on Build your own video game listicle in ~games
delphi Link ParentI really don't like SHODAN in any incarnation. Yes, she has her place in culture, and while I don't like to play the system shock games, I don't think they've aged particularly well, she is...I really don't like SHODAN in any incarnation. Yes, she has her place in culture, and while I don't like to play the system shock games, I don't think they've aged particularly well, she is without a doubt the thing that makes them special, but I've never liked her voice, her design or her purpose in the story. She really just seemed, to me, like "baby's first rogue AI". I dunno, I never connected with her.
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Comment on Build your own video game listicle in ~games
delphi LinkGames rated by iconicity of their AI characters based on entirely unfair characteristics and whether I like them or not: \10. BioShock 2 (The Thinker) \9. System Shock (SHODAN) \8. Fallout 3...Games rated by iconicity of their AI characters based on entirely unfair characteristics and whether I like them or not:
\10. BioShock 2 (The Thinker)
\9. System Shock (SHODAN)
\8. Fallout 3 (President John Henry Eden)
\7. Nier: Automata (2B, 9S, A2)
\6. Detroit Become Human (Marcus, Connor, Kara)
\5. Fallout 4 (Nick Valentine)
\4. Observation (SAM)
\3. Titanfall 2 (BT-7274)
\2. Portal (GLaDOS)
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Comment on California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law — software distributed under the GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses are exempt in ~tech
delphi LinkIf this has the side effect of making more software available under OSS licenses, there's something good to come from this whole fiasco after allIf this has the side effect of making more software available under OSS licenses, there's something good to come from this whole fiasco after all
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Comment on What creative projects have you been working on? in ~creative
delphi LinkGonna launch the new version of delphitools this weekend, completely rewritten in a new framework and with tons of new tools, and so, so much new art. I do a sticker for each tool, and tons of...Gonna launch the new version of delphitools this weekend, completely rewritten in a new framework and with tons of new tools, and so, so much new art. I do a sticker for each tool, and tons of character illustrations all around the app. Excited but also nervous
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Comment on What creative projects have you been working on? in ~creative
delphi Link ParentOh I fear this one may be a banger, what a brilliant conceptOh I fear this one may be a banger, what a brilliant concept
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Comment on How rigid/fluid is your LGBT identity? in ~lgbt
delphi LinkI'll be honest, I don't check that often. I know I'm not a girl, I know that clearly doesn't apply. I also know I'm not a guy, I also know that clearly doesn't apply. So, naturally, I'm some...I'll be honest, I don't check that often.
I know I'm not a girl, I know that clearly doesn't apply. I also know I'm not a guy, I also know that clearly doesn't apply. So, naturally, I'm some flavour of non-binary, therefore queer, therefore trans, the proof is trivial and left as an exercise for the reader, pronouns they/them, thank you very much.
Could I arrive at a deeper understanding of my gender and my identity were I to put the time and effort in? Maybe! Would I figure out I'm actually genderfluid, or flux, or demi-something? Probably, not gonna lie! But I have other things to do, and not knowing this doesn't cause me any particular trouble or discomfort, so this is the army we go to war with.
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Comment on What are we in a golden age of? in ~talk
delphi Link ParentFinally, someone's voicing the opinion I've tacitly held for so long. I don't know why anyone would like to actually interact with 40K so much, everything in that universe just seems so miserable,...Finally, someone's voicing the opinion I've tacitly held for so long. I don't know why anyone would like to actually interact with 40K so much, everything in that universe just seems so miserable, and that's explicitly the point.
Not that I'm a cosy gamer who only plays farming simulators, but I just can't get over the inherent brutality, hopelessness and hate that everything in 40K seems to be dripping with, and I don't exactly want to get into it on the off chance my opinion could be changed for the better.
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Comment on What are we in a golden age of? in ~talk
delphi Link ParentGod, I get you! I'm having a gorgeous time too! Super annoying to admit from a storytelling perspective, but it does get better!God, I get you! I'm having a gorgeous time too!
Super annoying to admit from a storytelling perspective, but it does get better!
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Comment on Artists built a site to escape AI. Scrapers are coming for it anyway. in ~tech
delphi LinkI was in the periphery of Cara ever since they started and even wanted to volunteer as a designer for them, but it never worked out. I can't stress enough how, as horrible as it is for artists,...- Exemplary
I was in the periphery of Cara ever since they started and even wanted to volunteer as a designer for them, but it never worked out. I can't stress enough how, as horrible as it is for artists, this was inevitable and the warning signs were always bold and bright for those with eyes to see.
Cara's initial draw was to disallow scrapers and then use the Glaze toolkit to "poison" art uploaded to the site so it couldn't be trained on. This was a great PR move, but anyone even passingly familiar with the actual technology, as a hater or a lover, will know that Glaze only works if the model architecture that does the training matches the one that does the poisoning. It's trivially easy to circumvent, but uses the exact same resources as AI image generation, so they had to stop doing that in 2024 when their money threatened to run out.
They also never did anything to block scrapers aside from a truly anemic
robots.txtfile that disallowed the scraper bots. Essentially saying "Look at this enormous mountain of high quality, pre-tagged data, please don't touch it!". There was no Anubis, no tar pits, no honeypots, there was not even Cloudflare Turnstile, despite them hosting at Cloudflare.I have to assume that the creator was either incompetent or disingenuous on this point. There wasn't even a cursory attempt at doing the thing they promised. It wasn't even a good social platform since it only attracted artists and had no draw for non-artists like Instagram did.
The entire project was kind of doomed to have this happen from the start, and as much as I love the idea, it really requires a different approach these days. If you're vocally anti AI, and please, by all means, then you also need to be aware that you'll attract the most smug edgelords armed to the teeth with AI models just licking their lips to get that sweet, succulent training data contained therein. You can't bring a knife to a gun fight and you can't fight the AI scrapers without AI security hardening (or a dedicated Opsec team).
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Comment on Eigendrum: Draw any shape and hear it as a drum in ~creative
delphi LinkSuper cool thing to play with, but the constant Claude-made copy in this page just exhausts me. Really just squeezes the good will for this project out of me. It's a couple of lines. You can write...Super cool thing to play with, but the constant Claude-made copy in this page just exhausts me.
Struck. Every mode sounds at once, each as loud as the surface moves where you hit. Loudest here is mode 1 at 130.0 Hz. Modes 7, 8, 11, 12 and 2 more stayed silent - the mallet landed on a nodal line.
Really just squeezes the good will for this project out of me. It's a couple of lines. You can write it yourself, dear programmer.
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Comment on What game are you terrible at? in ~games
delphi LinkMarathon, the new one. The extraction shooter. I've not loved a game like I've loved Marathon in a long time, the story is interesting, the style points are off the charts, it feels excellent to...Marathon, the new one. The extraction shooter. I've not loved a game like I've loved Marathon in a long time, the story is interesting, the style points are off the charts, it feels excellent to play, the characters are inspired, the weapons all feel incredible, it's generally well balanced, the movement is fun, and I avoid other players like the plague because I'll get my shit rocked every single time without fail. I'm Season Level 100, have around 90 hours in the game, and my player kills are probably under 10.
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Comment on I'm not ready to let this place go in ~tildes
delphi Link ParentThat would be nice. I didn’t expect anything to come from this, what, public breakdown? But yeah, I’d love to be friends. Thanks for listening to me.That would be nice. I didn’t expect anything to come from this, what, public breakdown? But yeah, I’d love to be friends. Thanks for listening to me.
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Comment on I'm not ready to let this place go in ~tildes
delphi Link ParentI like that. That’s a good way to see it.I like that. That’s a good way to see it.
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Comment on I'm not ready to let this place go in ~tildes
delphi Link ParentI really hope nothing changes. I really do, but... I mean, at least, before I could pretend. Now we all know. It feels like the head of the AV club looking into the clubhouse and going like "oh,...I really hope nothing changes. I really do, but... I mean, at least, before I could pretend. Now we all know. It feels like the head of the AV club looking into the clubhouse and going like "oh, you guys are still here? well, lock up when you leave". Yeah, we can stay as long as we like, but the vibes have changed.
Heck, I'm emotional. I might delete this post tomorrow. It's not exactly great for the digital footprint to get mad over a guy not-even shutting down a forum I liked.
But fuck, man. I don't want to find a new community again.
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I'm not ready to let this place go
With the announcement of Tildes maintenance mode, it's finally official. Tildes has an expiration date. We don't know when it'll be, but we'll surely know when it's passed. I... I don't want to...
With the announcement of Tildes maintenance mode, it's finally official. Tildes has an expiration date. We don't know when it'll be, but we'll surely know when it's passed. I... I don't want to go. I love this place. I love the people on it.
I got here after Rexit, like many of my peers, because reddit was my home online. I participated in discussions. I spent so much time there. I met my husband. It was my little corner of the internet, because it had exactly what I wanted and nothing else.
All that's gone now. When Apollo shut down, I deleted my account out of protest. I regret that now. People pointed me here, to Tildes, and for a moment, just a moment I could smell the musty carpet of the first websites I was ever on. This was it. This was it. A tiny forum with just enough modern convenience to tolerate using it, full of people who were interesting, discussions that were respectful, little to no drama, and a minor legend of the former web at the top, generally content with ruling as a benevolent dictator.
I posted. I participated in discussions. I had such a grand time talking to people, Season One of the Minecraft server will forever be in my heart as the "golden days" of it all, if I had to look back. I check this place religiously. It's in my favourites bar. I still post. I still comment. I still like the people. It's small enough that I can go "hey, there they are!" when I see Creesch or Bauke or Tea. For the first time in a long time I could call a communal web space my... home. It's cheesy. I know.
And now I hear that it's supposed to end? That the experiment has run its course, that sooner or later, but probably sooner than I'd like, it'll all be gone? That I have to pack up all my shit again and find a new place, a new community? What a sick joke, I say, with metaphorical tears in my eyes, because getting mad is at least something. Getting mad is more than removing the stupid bookmark and forgetting about this place like I forgot about LiveJournal, about MySpace, about Blogger, about fucking Ello.
I don't want to go. And I know nobody's asking me to go. But everyone expects everyone else to go at some point. And even though none of you actually know me, truly know me, I still feel like we're familiar. We have tiny, tenuous, brittle relationships that could snap at any point, be it from hostility or apathy. I know that none of this is real, but god damn it, I liked it.
Now you'll say, oh god, Delphi, shut up, this is a forum, it's not that deep, and you're right, so damn right, I couldn't agree more, none of you should mean anything to me, I have friends, I have a life, I have people who love me out there, for real, I shouldn't care about this, but then tell me, why do I have tears in my eyes?
What's the point of this post? Catharsis? Maybe? I didn't expect to feel this way about a little corner of the internet that's sometimes a little snobbish, sometimes a little too high on its own farts, sometimes a little too elitist, but that's where I'm at.
I don't want to let this place go. But I also know that I won't be the last one here.
So if this is the last time I see some of you, I don't blame you. Just know you were part of my life, and that I quite liked that part.
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A little edit after crying it out: You’re all right. I hope that Tildes won’t change. I certainly won’t, I’ll stay here, and I hope we’ll have many more years together. This entire thing just dredged up memories of losing online spaces before, and… well, you can imagine the rest. Love y’all.
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Comment on Any significant changes to Tildes are extremely unlikely in ~tildes.official
delphi Link ParentOh, I know. I've been here for a while. It's just... different when we hear our fearless leader say it. Half joking here, but it... made me feel something. I dunno. Humans are weird like that.Oh, I know. I've been here for a while. It's just... different when we hear our fearless leader say it. Half joking here, but it... made me feel something. I dunno. Humans are weird like that.
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Comment on Any significant changes to Tildes are extremely unlikely in ~tildes.official
delphi (edited )Link(Recommended ambiance for this comment: A crackling campfire at night under clear skies in a remote part of the Nevada desert) I dunno, does that make anyone else a little... sad? Sure, the site...(Recommended ambiance for this comment: A crackling campfire at night under clear skies in a remote part of the Nevada desert)
I dunno, does that make anyone else a little... sad?
Sure, the site works great, I'm not debating that. If you pressed me on the issue, I don't even think I could think of a feature that I'd want added or changed. Tildes is fine as is, and I certainly aren't missing anything.
But hearing that out loud, Tildes is in minimum maintenance mode, even though I know it true in my heart of hearts, is... bittersweet. I dunno. Mark this as noise, but it feels kinda weird to say. Yeah, this is the little camp of tents at the side of the information superhighway, and yeah, eventually it'll be over, and we'll all pack up and move on to somewhere else, that's how these things work. That's how we got here.
I just hope it's not anytime soon.
I'm going back into my tent. See you all tomorrow.
Fine, then let me rephrase: The writer doesn't ever tell us why they're using macOS, not the Mac itself. You can put Linux on these things and it runs mostly fine.