myrrh's recent activity
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Comment on What's a product or service that you use but don't want to pay for and why? in ~life
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Comment on I am angry at Google and wanted to share (rant) in ~tech
myrrh Link Parent...yeah, i went down the whole self-hosting path last decade and it's really not worth the hassle anymore due to the ongoing effort of working around automated whitelists + blacklists while......yeah, i went down the whole self-hosting path last decade and it's really not worth the hassle anymore due to the ongoing effort of working around automated whitelists + blacklists while staying vigilant against server penetrations...
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Comment on I am angry at Google and wanted to share (rant) in ~tech
myrrh Link...i dealt with a similar issue yesterday in outlook: i'd received two malicious emails overnight sent as calendar invitations for a 7.30 AM meeting, which outlook automatically added to its......i dealt with a similar issue yesterday in outlook: i'd received two malicious emails overnight sent as calendar invitations for a 7.30 AM meeting, which outlook automatically added to its calendar and proceeded to popcorn me with notifications through both outlook + teams on every device before i'd even opened anything at work...
...i don't have the option to change platforms at work, but despite my continued efforts to disable + dis-integrate, it's becoming impossible to keep AI agents from scanning and intercepting what should be dead-simple separate applications which do exactly what i tell them, no more...
...this has grown pervasive across the industry, not just gmail + outlook, and in my struggle to stay the tide (disabled that auto-calendar feature, but it'll be something new next week) i feel like we've crossed some threshold where we're now serving the machines rather than the inverse...
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Comment on High pollen count: The last straw effect on suicide risk in ~health.mental
myrrh Link...sleep deprivation may be a contributing comorbidity, too: i know i'm a heck of a lot more foul-tempered and self-destructive when i'm chronically sleep-deprived, and allergies can profoundly......sleep deprivation may be a contributing comorbidity, too: i know i'm a heck of a lot more foul-tempered and self-destructive when i'm chronically sleep-deprived, and allergies can profoundly affect my ability to get meaningful rest...
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Comment on ‘Heat 2’ is on: Michael Mann crime drama moves from Warner Bros. to United Artists; Jerry Bruckheimer, Scott Stuber producing in ~movies
myrrh Link Parent...period films are especially difficult to pull off if they sit side-by-side with a contemporaneous original......period films are especially difficult to pull off if they sit side-by-side with a contemporaneous original...
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Comment on Ask not why would you work in biology, but rather: why wouldn't you? in ~science
myrrh Link...i don't see a strong argument here: you can rage against the night all you want, but entropy's still coming for each of us at the end of all things...why not focus one's energy on palliative......i don't see a strong argument here: you can rage against the night all you want, but entropy's still coming for each of us at the end of all things...why not focus one's energy on palliative care and dying gracefully instead, which is much more of a sociological than a technological issue?..
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Comment on What common misunderstanding do you want to clear up? in ~talk
myrrh Link Parent...we frequently used to play the original avalon-hill civilisation board game, which includes a 'speech' phase in each turn: we house-ruled that all speeches must conclude 'and carthage must be......we frequently used to play the original avalon-hill civilisation board game, which includes a 'speech' phase in each turn: we house-ruled that all speeches must conclude 'and carthage must be destroyed'...
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Comment on What common misunderstanding do you want to clear up? in ~talk
myrrh Link Parent...yes, i'd always understood the byzantine empire to be a direct continuation of the eastern roman empire and not a successor state; the grandparent statement kind of threw me for a loop because......yes, i'd always understood the byzantine empire to be a direct continuation of the eastern roman empire and not a successor state; the grandparent statement kind of threw me for a loop because it seemed to be simultaneously denying and validating my understanding...
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Comment on What common misunderstanding do you want to clear up? in ~talk
myrrh Link Parent...help me reconcile 'isn't the continuation of the roman empire' with 'was the roman empire'; i can't quite parse what you're saying......help me reconcile 'isn't the continuation of the roman empire' with 'was the roman empire'; i can't quite parse what you're saying...
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Comment on imgur.com geoblocks the UK in ~tech
myrrh Link Parent...typing from a cartoonishly-red state, i celebrate every time i see our regressive laws countered with overt geoblocking: the effects of legislative overreach must be brazenly transparent in......typing from a cartoonishly-red state, i celebrate every time i see our regressive laws countered with overt geoblocking: the effects of legislative overreach must be brazenly transparent in order to foster civil policy...
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Comment on McDonald’s redraws battle lines on subminimum wage in ~food
myrrh Link...mcdonald's doesn't offer table service, so none of its employees qualify for subminimum wage; chili's servers are paid subminimum wage and tipped accordingly, but their back-of-house......mcdonald's doesn't offer table service, so none of its employees qualify for subminimum wage; chili's servers are paid subminimum wage and tipped accordingly, but their back-of-house operations, which perform the same duties as mcdonald's employees, start from the same minimum wage...
...i don't tip for takeout nor pay extra gratuity anywhere i don't take advantage of table service; i think the disparity here is mcdonald's grossly-inflated pricing...
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Comment on Brannon Braga calls for longer Star Trek seasons in ~tv
myrrh Link Parent...the next generation used physical models, too......the next generation used physical models, too...
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Comment on Brannon Braga calls for longer Star Trek seasons in ~tv
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Comment on What creative projects have you been working on? in ~creative
myrrh Link Parent...part of the craft of bootlegging used to be smuggling-in, assembling, and surreptitiously recording live performances, with all the logististical challenges a venue might present to that......part of the craft of bootlegging used to be smuggling-in, assembling, and surreptitiously recording live performances, with all the logististical challenges a venue might present to that process: half the fun was just capturing that lost moment in time, the other half relishing its preservation...
...now that console recordings are ubiquitous and everyone carries a recorder in their pocket anyway, i don't bother anymore and just enjoy the experience in real time, instead...
...contextually, i infer that you're talking about mix-tapes rather than bootlegs, though...
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Comment on Madredeus - o pastor . a vaca de fogo . os senhores da guerra (1995) in ~music
myrrh (edited )Link...to my ears, this era was peak madredeus: after their international breakthrough, they still made fine music but something about superstardom banished authenticity and lost their muse along the......to my ears, this era was peak madredeus: after their international breakthrough, they still made fine music but something about superstardom banished authenticity and lost their muse along the way...
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Comment on Deus Ex Remastered | Announcement trailer in ~games
myrrh Link...invisible war could most use a remaster for modern platforms, methinks......invisible war could most use a remaster for modern platforms, methinks...
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Comment on Tildes Book Club Discussion - September 2025 - Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang in ~books
myrrh (edited )Link Parent...i've been a fan of ted chiang's work since he first published in omni; he's not a prolific author but his short stories are each brightly-polished gems and he's a darling of the clarion......i've been a fan of ted chiang's work since he first published in omni; he's not a prolific author but his short stories are each brightly-polished gems and he's a darling of the clarion workshop with good reason....this book, his first collection, wasn't published until over a decade later, and that's pretty much been his pace of output throughout his career: each time he's published a new book i've considered myself fortunate to find it at all before it's snapped-up and sold-out...
...when i first read the tower of babylon thirty-five years ago (summer of 1990, back when magazines shipped months before their cover date), i was immediately struck by its compelling tone of biblical realism, sucked into the narrative only to have my sense of wonder unexpectedly burgeon at its revelatory depiction of cosmic topology...it's a bleak story at its heart, kind of a nihilistic take on divinity and the cosmos, which sets in stark contrast to its protagonist's purported journey and is all the stronger for that...
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Comment on Amazon to end commingling program after years of complaints from brands and sellers in ~finance
myrrh Link Parent...no, that's the inherent deficiency in comingling: they don't (didn't) track which specific units originated from which vendor, instead they simply binned everything together as a fungible......no, that's the inherent deficiency in comingling: they don't (didn't) track which specific units originated from which vendor, instead they simply binned everything together as a fungible commodity and only tracked that a vendor contributed X quantity of Y units in a common pool...
...if a customer buys merchandise from their vendor of choice, amazon indiscriminately retrieves one item from that common pool and deducts it from the vendor's available quantity; those common pools are irrevocably tainted by the least-common-denominator of contributing vendors...
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Comment on Has anyone here tried bone conduction headphones? in ~tech
myrrh (edited )Link...i'm on my fourth pair of after/shokz; they're the least-encumbering headphones i've ever used, which coupled with open-ear utility make them trivial to wear all day and just ignore when i don't......i'm on my fourth pair of after/shokz; they're the least-encumbering headphones i've ever used, which coupled with open-ear utility make them trivial to wear all day and just ignore when i don't need them...
...the newest openrun pro with enhanced bass makes a world of difference for music, transforming the technology from anemic let-your-imagination-fill-in-the-missing-frequncies to perfectly-servicable: not at all bass-intensive but sufficiently-remedied for a similar listening experience to cheap commodity earbuds, just don't buy them expecting an audiophile experience and you won't be disappointed...
...that might not sound like a ringing endorsement but it absolutely is; now i can enjoy the unmatched practical benefits of bone-conduction without compromising their primary use of enjoying music...
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Comment on My experience suddenly being very pretty in ~lgbt
myrrh Link Parent...very apropos to my own experiences likewise......very apropos to my own experiences likewise...
...try watching it without a subscription, adblocker, nor VPN for a week: it got so bad that i quit following youtube links entirely, and my wife (who has a subscription and watches it regularly) was aghast when she saw what i sat through...
...i don't have a problem with tastefully advertising-supported services, but what youtube has become is honestly a pox on humanity...
...i think pornhub are leaving money on the table by not launching a competing all-ages video platform...