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  1. Comment on Beating Tetris in ~games

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    A short review of the evolution of the meaning of "beating" the Tetris game.

    A short review of the evolution of the meaning of "beating" the Tetris game.

    4 votes

  3. Comment on Americas’ first cowboys were enslaved Africans, ancient cow DNA suggests in ~humanities.history

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    But were there iconic cowboys in the 19th century? I am not an American and perhaps I am terribly wrong in this, but I don't think there was such perception in 19th century American culture, or...

    But when I think of Cowboys in the 'John Wayne (was a Nazi)' or John Marston style, I think of the 19th century.

    But were there iconic cowboys in the 19th century? I am not an American and perhaps I am terribly wrong in this, but I don't think there was such perception in 19th century American culture, or any perception at all for that matter. The only thing I can think of is O. Henry's The Hiding Of Black Bill, which doesn't put cowboys in any sort of romantic light.

    In fact the oldest such imagery I can think of is from Karl May's works (Winnetou etc.), starting in late 19th century. For me, these always seemed like a late addition to an old tradition of "riders", Bellerophon, Knights of the Round Table, Three Musketeers - and after cowboys, bikers, romantic heroes on horse (be it mechanical).

    8 votes

  4. Comment on Midjourney version 5.2 adds support for "zoom out" feature in ~tech

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    Funny how the human characters are almost all white, except when the prompt included "dark skinned". There also seems to be a preference of "young" versus "old", but less prominent.

    I have a large grid

    Funny how the human characters are almost all white, except when the prompt included "dark skinned". There also seems to be a preference of "young" versus "old", but less prominent.

    1 vote

  5. Comment on A reading challenge! in ~books

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    Jean Paul Sartre - "Nausea" :P

    Jean Paul Sartre - "Nausea" :P

    1 vote

  6. Comment on Self-hosters! Share your reasons for self-hosting and favorite apps! in ~comp

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    Fellow Subsonic user here :) This thing has clients for everything - mobile (I use Ultrasonic), PC (Clementine on Windows/Linux/Mac), even Raspberry Pi (Volusonic plugin for Volumio). It's so much...

    Fellow Subsonic user here :)

    This thing has clients for everything - mobile (I use Ultrasonic), PC (Clementine on Windows/Linux/Mac), even Raspberry Pi (Volusonic plugin for Volumio). It's so much better to have a centralized music management than to mount large filesystems on various devices and have that scanned on each at every change in the music library.

    I use Navidrome, which has a web player included too. And autoscans for changes (although that may be flaky for large libraries). It is also available as a Qnap app and this is how I use it - on a low powered Qnap TS-133, without the overhead of their docker implementation.

    2 votes

  7. Comment on Movies that everyone likes (e.g. Shawshank redemption)? in ~movies

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    Forrest Gump?

    Forrest Gump?

    9 votes

  8. Comment on Creatures that don't conform: Slime molds and their fascinating existence in ~science

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    Did we really see the world as sacred at anytime in the past? My understanding was that no, the world was a dangerous place that needed to be tamed, so every time your band moved to a new place,...

    How do we see the world as sacred again?

    Did we really see the world as sacred at anytime in the past?

    My understanding was that no, the world was a dangerous place that needed to be tamed, so every time your band moved to a new place, the shamen needed to consecrate (i.e. make sacred) the place by retelling the stories of Creation. But it's been a long time since I've been reading such things, and the sources were dated (IIRC M. Eliade - The Sacred and the Profane).

    1 vote

  9. Comment on What are your thoughts on social nudity? in ~talk

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    I spent summer holidays for some 15 years in a nudie camping on the shore of the Black Sea. It's weird... for the first 15 minutes. Then you adapt and it feels normal. There's really nothing else...

    I spent summer holidays for some 15 years in a nudie camping on the shore of the Black Sea.

    It's weird... for the first 15 minutes. Then you adapt and it feels normal. There's really nothing else to say, I wasn't going there necessarily for the nudism but for the people, many of them friends and colleagues, but also interesting new folks from all over the country.

    I think there was a bit of hipsterism involved, but it really felt nice with no clothes on and as long as everybody else was doing it, it didn't feel weird.

    14 votes

  10. Comment on Have you ever bought your “dream guitar”? in ~music

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    You could try something like the Vox Amplug headphone amp (I have one for guitar and it's worth all the ~40 euros I paid for it). Or if you want effects, get something like the Boss GT1-B (you can...

    connecting it to my then PC's sound card

    You could try something like the Vox Amplug headphone amp (I have one for guitar and it's worth all the ~40 euros I paid for it).

    Or if you want effects, get something like the Boss GT1-B (you can find it cheaper than Thomann's current price of 263 euros), it has headphone output and amp simulators so you can use it with your stereo.

    Both support audio in so you can play to your favorite songs, although for that the easiest way is to use a small combo.

    Once you get a satisfying sound you'll find the drive to play too :)

    1 vote

  11. Comment on BlackCat claims to have hacked Reddit, and it is threatening to leak the data in ~tech

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    u/ekjp, it's in the thread I linked. Huffman may be harder to type than u/spez, but the latter makes him appear like "one of us", which clearly he is not.

    her username

    u/ekjp, it's in the thread I linked.

    Huffman may be harder to type than u/spez, but the latter makes him appear like "one of us", which clearly he is not.

    18 votes

  12. Comment on BlackCat claims to have hacked Reddit, and it is threatening to leak the data in ~tech

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    She seems... reluctant. By the way, why do we call Ellen Pao by name but Steve Huffman by handle? (i.e. u/spez)?

    Get Pao back.

    She seems... reluctant.

    By the way, why do we call Ellen Pao by name but Steve Huffman by handle? (i.e. u/spez)?

    19 votes

  13. Comment on Bryan Ferry - Alphaville (2018) in ~music

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    From his last album, Bitter-Sweet, containing remakes of earlier songs. Original piece from 2010. If you have trouble remembering the guy - Avalon (1982).

    From his last album, Bitter-Sweet, containing remakes of earlier songs. Original piece from 2010.

    If you have trouble remembering the guy - Avalon (1982).

    1 vote

  15. Comment on Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout ‘will pass’ in ~tech

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    Sure, if it comes from within the group. If it comes from the CEO it looks more like branding cattle.

    it's kinda harmless to have a label for your group

    Sure, if it comes from within the group.

    If it comes from the CEO it looks more like branding cattle.

    11 votes

  16. Comment on New users: Ask your questions about Tildes here! in ~tildes

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    Right now it's 13021 -> 17334 over the last 12 days. Almost exactly 33%.

    we went from 13,021 users to ~14,350 over the last few days

    Right now it's 13021 -> 17334 over the last 12 days. Almost exactly 33%.

    2 votes

  17. Comment on What operating system do you run your home servers on? in ~tech

  18. Comment on Reddit appears to be down during blackout day 1 in ~tech

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    Indeed, reddit.com is not accessible, but reddit.com/r/<some_sub> is.

    Indeed, reddit.com is not accessible, but reddit.com/r/<some_sub> is.

    13 votes

  19. Comment on Reddit appears to be down during blackout day 1 in ~tech

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    People go online at the end of business hours too. Europe ends the work day, this page was posted around 16:45 CET. It probably started around 5 pm EET (4 pm CET) and overlapped with East Coast US...

    People go online at the end of business hours too. Europe ends the work day, this page was posted around 16:45 CET. It probably started around 5 pm EET (4 pm CET) and overlapped with East Coast US starting the day.

    14 votes

  20. Comment on Likely the last Mod post that I'll make in /r/videos. We're shutting down in ~tech

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    This is true for comments and link posts. Content form text posts and img/video hosted on reddit will not be visible in the poster's history (except for mods on the sub in question).

    This is true for comments and link posts. Content form text posts and img/video hosted on reddit will not be visible in the poster's history (except for mods on the sub in question).

    2 votes