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Comment on The analog life: Fifty ways to unplug and feel human again in ~health.mental
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Comment on Critical Role sets Brennan Lee Mulligan as Game Master for next core campaign as he signs new three-year deal with Dropout in ~games.tabletop
redwall_hp Link ParentThat's been my take on it as well. I find it hard to continue to focus on the story as well when it's bogged down with the players going on weird tangents. I listened to a few episodes of campaign...CR is too long for me - 4 hours a week for years is way too much.
That's been my take on it as well. I find it hard to continue to focus on the story as well when it's bogged down with the players going on weird tangents. I listened to a few episodes of campaign two while driving, and watched a few live streams with my partner, as she's into it.
Now the animated Amazon shows...those are excellent. It's Critical Role with an editor. I've enjoyed Vox Machina so far, and we have a new season of that forthcoming, and a Mighty Nein one on the way too.
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Comment on Marvel’s next moves: ‘Black Panther 3’ and a young ‘X-Men’ cast to ‘keep the cost down’; ‘Blade’ and ‘Deadpool 4’ are lower priorities in ~movies
redwall_hp LinkI will only accept a Blade reboot if it also has a techno soundtrack.I will only accept a Blade reboot if it also has a techno soundtrack.
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Comment on I am new to Mac OS, give me your favorite or preferred settings/ tools! in ~tech
redwall_hp Link ParentMacOS (and iOS) already does that on its own these days though. It just builds a usage profile and will charge up to 100% when it thinks you'll need it. My personal Mac basically lives on its...MacOS (and iOS) already does that on its own these days though. It just builds a usage profile and will charge up to 100% when it thinks you'll need it.
My personal Mac basically lives on its charger and is always sitting at 80%, with a menu bar option to ask it to charge to 100%, and my work Mac tends to hit different targets depending on the time of day or day of the week, based on when I'm at my desk or going to meeting rooms.
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Comment on I am new to Mac OS, give me your favorite or preferred settings/ tools! in ~tech
redwall_hp Link ParentBTT tip: bind three finger click on the trackpad to opening links in a new tab. That's still my primary reason for using the app lol.BTT tip: bind three finger click on the trackpad to opening links in a new tab.
That's still my primary reason for using the app lol.
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Comment on I've noticed an odd and possibly disturbing trend on Reddit lately in ~tech
redwall_hp Link ParentI believe so, yes. And AutoModerator too, I think?I believe so, yes. And AutoModerator too, I think?
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Comment on I've noticed an odd and possibly disturbing trend on Reddit lately in ~tech
redwall_hp Link ParentRich in self satisfaction and knowledge, I'm sure!Rich in self satisfaction and knowledge, I'm sure!
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Comment on I've noticed an odd and possibly disturbing trend on Reddit lately in ~tech
redwall_hp Link ParentNote that GPT 3 came out like 1-2 years before they threw a chat UI on it and the public at large became aware. There was tons of buzz on places like Hacker News (and to a lesser degree Reddit)...Note that GPT 3 came out like 1-2 years before they threw a chat UI on it and the public at large became aware. There was tons of buzz on places like Hacker News (and to a lesser degree Reddit) about it when it was just an API, and people were already making toy projects that integrated with it. There was even a GPT 2 version of Subreddit Simulator, iterating on the original Markov Chain version, several years before that.
I was already suspecting GPT astroturfing was going on way back then. I haven't really used Reddit since the API apocalypse, so I assume it's just become worse.
And non-LLM repost bots have been an epidemic for well over a decade. One account would recycle an old thread that performed well, and other accounts would verbatim copy comments and basically recreate threads, farming plausible activity. Then the accounts would likely be sold to marketers or other nefarious types.
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Comment on iOS26 "Liquid Glass" - is it really such a big deal? in ~tech
redwall_hp Link ParentWWDC is also, foremost, a developer conference. It's definitely a big deal do have this dropped on you: "Hey, you're all going to have to redesign your apps and scrap other roadmap work you might...WWDC is also, foremost, a developer conference. It's definitely a big deal do have this dropped on you: "Hey, you're all going to have to redesign your apps and scrap other roadmap work you might have, because Tim Cook decided iOS and MacOS don't look enough like his pet Vision Pro project."
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Comment on Change.org petition to Mastercard and Visa to end censorship of NSFW content in ~lgbt
redwall_hp Link ParentAlmost every reference to "pornography," if you search the Project 2025 PDF is also simultaneously referring to "drag queens" or "transgender ideology" in the same sentence. It's clearly a...Almost every reference to "pornography," if you search the Project 2025 PDF is also simultaneously referring to "drag queens" or "transgender ideology" in the same sentence. It's clearly a two-front approach to destroy the first amendment and make being LGBT illegal.
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Comment on Change.org petition to Mastercard and Visa to end censorship of NSFW content in ~lgbt
redwall_hp (edited )Link ParentNote that this isn't so much a hypothetical, given that it's a core goal of Project 2025. The Republican plan is to, through courts or law, classify anything LGBT as "pornography," while...There's the hypothetical slippery slope of them someday deeming all content with LGBTQ+ content as NSFW or inappropriate, but it's already doing damage.
Note that this isn't so much a hypothetical, given that it's a core goal of Project 2025. The Republican plan is to, through courts or law, classify anything LGBT as "pornography," while simultaneously making all pornography illegal through court cases and legislation. (Then there are additional steps that, if you read between the lines, could boil down to promoting imprisonment for being LGBT, because all proliferation of their definition of pornography is "child abuse.")
You can already see aspects of that normalization in the wave of book banning targeting public and school libraries. "Pornography" keeps being used to describe any book with LGBT characters or topics. (Or Maus.) And the majority of references to "pornography" in the Project 2025 text are in the same breath as "transgender ideology" or "drag queens." Then we have the various states that have rammed through identification laws that require invasive identification and record keeping...
All obscenity doctrine is a crass violation of the first amendment and should never have been allowed to stand for this long.
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Comment on The Nintendo Switch 2 is the fastest-selling gaming hardware in US history in ~games
redwall_hp Link ParentRelated: there's some concern about nearsightedness becoming far more prevalent than it used to be. It went from 25% a few decades ago to over 40%. Staring at a phone for hours is probably driving...Related: there's some concern about nearsightedness becoming far more prevalent than it used to be. It went from 25% a few decades ago to over 40%. Staring at a phone for hours is probably driving an increase in myopia...which I've realized is an advantage of playing games on a console. Gaming time becomes hours spent looking across the room, focusing into the distance.
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Comment on Malaysia no longer takes US plastic waste, creating a dilemma for California in ~enviro
redwall_hp Link ParentArguably turning hydrocarbons into a solid and burying them back in the ground is an imperfect form of carbon sequestration. Also arguably if you're going to burn hydrocarbons, it's better to burn...Arguably turning hydrocarbons into a solid and burying them back in the ground is an imperfect form of carbon sequestration.
Also arguably if you're going to burn hydrocarbons, it's better to burn plastic from already extracted oil and not mine more coal or whatever. Not burning them would be far preferable though. Japan is in a situation most of us are probably unfamiliar with in that they have to import most of their energy sources, with a heavy majority of their electricity coming from imported fossil fuels. (Something like 40% oil, 24% coal, 24% natural gas.)
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Comment on Recommendation Request: New Mouse in ~comp
redwall_hp Link ParentI use an MX Master for my work laptop. I discarded the awful Logitech software and use a shareware utility called SteerMouse to adjust pointer settings. It's been set and forget....I use an MX Master for my work laptop. I discarded the awful Logitech software and use a shareware utility called SteerMouse to adjust pointer settings. It's been set and forget.
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Comment on Don't sleep on Kpop Demon Hunters in ~movies
redwall_hp Link ParentI was disappointed that they got ProZD (SungWon Cho) to play one of the Saja Boys, and then he barely had any lines. Overall it was funny though, even though I'm a J-Pop fan and don't really...I was disappointed that they got ProZD (SungWon Cho) to play one of the Saja Boys, and then he barely had any lines.
Overall it was funny though, even though I'm a J-Pop fan and don't really listen to K-Pop.
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Comment on They’re putting blue food coloring in everything in ~tech
redwall_hp LinkThe important question is: does this person who lives in such a blue world drive a blue Corvette and have a girlfriend who is also blue? Korg M1 piano startsThe important question is: does this person who lives in such a blue world drive a blue Corvette and have a girlfriend who is also blue?
Korg M1 piano starts
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Comment on 'I destroyed months of your work in seconds' says AI coding tool after deleting a dev's entire database during a code freeze: 'I panicked instead of thinking' in ~comp
redwall_hp Link ParentI don't know about Android, but that's very apt for iOS. The three-button predictive text feature is a (much smaller) ML model that does use the context of what was recently typed for the...As you know, a LLM is basically an auto-correct on steroids (not exactly, but let's keep it simple).
I don't know about Android, but that's very apt for iOS. The three-button predictive text feature is a (much smaller) ML model that does use the context of what was recently typed for the predictions. Within a lexical sentence, it predicts likely subsequent tokens.
I just typed "In" in a blank text box and only pressed the first suggestion several times, and got: "In the United States an estimated one in a million are living in poverty and are deeply uneducated." Which certainly does seem like a plausible sentence, though the number is nonsense. (Certainly more than a few hundred people are impoverished.)
Larger models' ability to vomit out even more statistically plausible text doesn't mean there's any meaning whatsoever, just that we're more likely to find patterns we like in the word vomit, and ascribe meaning that isn't there.
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Comment on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - Season 3 in ~tv
redwall_hp (edited )Link ParentAddendum: As someone who tends to subscribe to secular humanist thought, largely because of Star Trek, I can say it's hubris to look at hundreds of religions that have existed (now or in the past)...Addendum: As someone who tends to subscribe to secular humanist thought, largely because of Star Trek, I can say it's hubris to look at hundreds of religions that have existed (now or in the past) on our planet and say 999 out of 1000 are all false...but 1 out of 1000 is the one true blah blah. (Also, proof by induction.) Just as it's statistical hubris to assume a vast universe managed to end up with life on a singular planet, whether it's at an observable distance or not.
Now multiply that by an entire galaxy of worlds, with many more planets. And traveling in starships to see the many other planets that make a creation myth seem unimportant and cosmically comical.
At least, monotheism gets difficult. Something syncretic and polytheistic like Shinto probably holds up better. You can welcome the spirits of [insert planet] and build them their own shrines when you visit.
You either end up with the enlightened society Roddenberry dreamed of, or an evolved religion that's xenophobic and bent on destroying every civilization that makes it seem less important. (Warhammer, I guess?)
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Comment on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - Season 3 in ~tv
redwall_hp LinkThat seems very out of place for Star Trek, and not really in keeping with Roddenberry's secular humanist philosophy in my opinion, though I don't want to make claims about his beliefs without...That seems very out of place for Star Trek, and not really in keeping with Roddenberry's secular humanist philosophy in my opinion, though I don't want to make claims about his beliefs without having a concrete source handy.
It's a fairly common theme in TNG and DS9 that one of the Federation's values for membership is that a society has reached a point where religion has become a cultural vestige and not an active part of society, and it was a sticking point with the consideration of Bajor's membership. (Sisko becoming embroiled in that was also an issue on two fronts: both for acting as a religious figure and for the issue that if Bajor was not seen as ready to be a member of the Federation, it's also getting into Prime Directive territory.)
Earth is portrayed as having mostly lost the tendency after WWIII/Eugenics Wars/etc, and the most glaring example of religiousness among their allies would be the Klingons. Who are largely shown as drawing upon those cultural roots when it serves their interests. Worf is an anomaly in his convictions to their warrior culture, and even he has multiple reality checks surrounding Kahless and the evolution of Klingon society over time.
But it's still the closest thing we've gotten to Star Trek in decades, so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Comment on ‘Superman’s $57m second weekend propels Warner Bros. to top of YTD studio marketshare with $1.32b in ~movies
redwall_hp Link ParentActual ticket sales have been on a downward slide since the early 2000s, and were basically cut in half post-pandemic. So I'm not sure there's much point in comparing Superman to Man of Steel,...Actual ticket sales have been on a downward slide since the early 2000s, and were basically cut in half post-pandemic. So I'm not sure there's much point in comparing Superman to Man of Steel, other than to say "yes, ticket prices did go up." (They went way up to make up most of the lost ground.) It's getting into the same territory as comparing films from the era of multiple theatrical runs to a post home video world.
Things I use my Apple Watch for daily:
Lower friction 2FA prompts at work, several times per day.
Triaging notifications without taking my phone out of my pocket, which is less socially obtrusive and less temptation to unlock the phone.
Quick acknowledgement for my pager app
Exercise tracking
Constant noise exposure monitoring. I'm careful about protecting my hearing, and I can check the ambient noise level in decibels at any time, and choose to either use AirPods with ANC (approved for a certain amount of hearing protection) or passive concert earplugs if I anticipated needing them. It will also pop up noise alerts when it detects certain levels of sound.
Low friction payments. I can double press a button and hold my watch to a gas pump or payment terminal in a store. I barely use Apple Pay on my phone now, because the watch is faster.