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Comment on Movie recommendations? in ~movies
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Comment on Algorithmic Complacency: Algorithms are breaking how we think in ~tech
shrike (edited )Link ParentThe Subscription feed used to work when most people released once, maybe twice a week max Now it’s just a ton of live videos, short 13 second bits, YouTube shorts and irrelevant crap from channels...The Subscription feed used to work when most people released once, maybe twice a week max
Now it’s just a ton of live videos, short 13 second bits, YouTube shorts and irrelevant crap from channels I subscribe to.
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Comment on How often do you replace your phone? in ~tech
shrike My company pays for a new phone every 2 years. I pay them a small fee and get the old one to myself, which goes to someone in my family who needs it. Works fine for me :)My company pays for a new phone every 2 years. I pay them a small fee and get the old one to myself, which goes to someone in my family who needs it.
Works fine for me :)
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Comment on Donald Trump directs US Treasury to stop making pennies in ~society
shrike Next up, mandate prices to only be in 5 cent increments?Next up, mandate prices to only be in 5 cent increments?
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Comment on What books do you recommend for someone looking for positive vibes or casual amusement or escape in ~books
shrike Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree I think it's the seminal "cozy fantasy" book. The stakes are as high as starting a café in a fantasy town. The audiobook is also very very good, as Travis, the...Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree
I think it's the seminal "cozy fantasy" book. The stakes are as high as starting a café in a fantasy town.
The audiobook is also very very good, as Travis, the author, is a professional audiobook narrator and of course reads their own book :D
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Comment on Single most useful program you daily use? in ~tech
shrike Alfred does what I want and nothing more, their updates are mostly invisible to me and I can apply them if I want to. It also lets me pay for it once without a subscription. Raycast tries to do...Alfred does what I want and nothing more, their updates are mostly invisible to me and I can apply them if I want to. It also lets me pay for it once without a subscription.
Raycast tries to do everything and keeps adding stuff all the time.
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Comment on What fictional world would you live in, if you could pick any one? in ~talk
shrike There's also the fan theory why almost all trainers are children: there was a massive global war and most of the adults died.There's also the fan theory why almost all trainers are children: there was a massive global war and most of the adults died.
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Comment on What fictional world would you live in, if you could pick any one? in ~talk
shrike The friend of the main character in Player of Games designed mountains for a living. Or you could easily become the best you can be at something, maybe change gender, try that for a while etc. You...The friend of the main character in Player of Games designed mountains for a living.
Or you could easily become the best you can be at something, maybe change gender, try that for a while etc. You can also decide to go into stasis for a while and check out the future.
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Comment on There is no safe word: How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades in ~books
shrike The sad thing is that because of this we won’t be getting more of Sandman or Good Omens. Hundreds of people will be looking for new jobs because the author has been an asshole for a few decades.The sad thing is that because of this we won’t be getting more of Sandman or Good Omens. Hundreds of people will be looking for new jobs because the author has been an asshole for a few decades.
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Comment on What long book series is worth its page count? in ~books
shrike He literally had to find a new company to handle the printing, his regular one couldn't do books that big :DHe literally had to find a new company to handle the printing, his regular one couldn't do books that big :D
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Comment on Disney’s Snow White | Official trailer in ~movies
shrike The trailer looks like they reimagined the whole thing from the start. It might work or it might not. What I can be absolutely sure about is that The Internet will lose their collective minds over...The trailer looks like they reimagined the whole thing from the start. It might work or it might not.
What I can be absolutely sure about is that The Internet will lose their collective minds over this and the rage content will flow (and make money for people creating it).
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Comment on Disney’s Snow White | Official trailer in ~movies
shrike People were complaining that it didn't match the original animation. But (IIRC) it was actually based on the Broadway play that they did from the animation, which had more songs in it.People were complaining that it didn't match the original animation.
But (IIRC) it was actually based on the Broadway play that they did from the animation, which had more songs in it.
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Comment on You should have a website in ~tech
shrike There are people who sell actual things they make and their only online presence is on Meta-controlled sites. If something happens to that, they lose their whole following AND their business....There are people who sell actual things they make and their only online presence is on Meta-controlled sites. If something happens to that, they lose their whole following AND their business. They're so young or so chronically online that they can't fathom a world outside Instagram for example.
Even small tweaks to The Algorithm that decides who sees their posts is a huge hit to their revenue if they're doing something that doesn't get promoted as much.
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Comment on You should have a website in ~tech
shrike There might be a disconnect here. If your only online connections are to people who are close enough to you personally for you to give them your personal phone number or email address (or home...Why would you see my empty homepage url and not my email or my phone number? Or message my partner or mutual friends?
There might be a disconnect here. If your only online connections are to people who are close enough to you personally for you to give them your personal phone number or email address (or home address), this is not for you.
I do NOT want people cold-calling my partner either by email or phone if my accounts go missing and my online-only friends/acquaintances start to wonder where I disappeared. Those people don't even know if I have a partner, many of them have no clue where I live, they most definitely don't know my real name, phone number or email.
My online presence and offline persona are separate for a reason and very rarely do they mix. I think we're both in the generation where sharing your face, real name etc. online was considered bad form and a bad idea in general.
Now it has become the norm to paste your face and real name on every thought you have.
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Comment on How decentralized is Bluesky really? in ~comp
shrike People still manage to remember their email addresses, a mastodon username isn't much more complicated.Just remembering username and password is hard enough for some people
People still manage to remember their email addresses, a mastodon username isn't much more complicated.
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Comment on You should have a website in ~tech
shrike It can be as much of a "presence" as you want of course. If the photos you took of your dinner is what you want people to see, put them on your own site in addition to whatever social media site...It can be as much of a "presence" as you want of course.
If the photos you took of your dinner is what you want people to see, put them on your own site in addition to whatever social media site you want to. This can be automated to a decent degree if you want to (with IFTT, Zapier, n8n, etc).
Let's take a hypothetical: If I follow you on social media, I'll most likely see your home page URL multiple times, maybe I'll even click on it to find out about your other accounts. If you suddenly disappear from whatever site, I have at least a vague memory that you had a site you controlled. No matter how downranked it is by search engines, I can at least go try to find it or maybe it's still in my browser history or I'll remember it off the top of my head. I can go there and check if you have any info why the account went away.
But if you really don't care about people finding you when some AI moderation system decides arbitrarily to nuke your profiles from existence, then by all means don't have a central place you control. I don't care and I don't have a "homepage". I couldn't care less about my "personal brand". There are exactly three photos of me on the internet and I've been here when Netscape 4.7 was the shizznizzle.
I've just seen way too many people cry how their whole livelihood disappeared when their main account got disappeared from whatever site they were using and want to tell them that there are options they can control.
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Comment on Is the Cybertruck really that bad? in ~transport
shrike It's supposed to be a "truck" that can tow heavy shit. They made the chassis from cast aluminium. Which is brittle and will crack. There is a reason heavy duty vehicles use steel frames, steel...It's supposed to be a "truck" that can tow heavy shit. They made the chassis from cast aluminium. Which is brittle and will crack.
There is a reason heavy duty vehicles use steel frames, steel bends, but won't crack.
WhistlinDiesel is annoying if you're under 30, but the video has good points on aluminium vs steel frames: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_scBKKHi7WQ
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Comment on Is the Cybertruck really that bad? in ~transport
shrike It's a Jeep Thing, you wouldn't understand =)It's a Jeep Thing, you wouldn't understand =)
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Comment on You should have a website in ~tech
shrike People used to write blogs for themselves, not to farm massive engagement or to build a personal brand.People used to write blogs for themselves, not to farm massive engagement or to build a personal brand.
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Comment on You should have a website in ~tech
shrike (edited )Link ParentI think the idea behind that is that you need to own your identity online. Own your own house instead of renting a room in 7 different megacorp offices. Even if your house is just an empty plot...I think the idea behind that is that you need to own your identity online.
Own your own house instead of renting a room in 7 different megacorp offices. Even if your house is just an empty plot with addresses to your rented megacorp offices :)
That way if, for some reason, all of your online presence on 3rd party sites goes away people can still find you if they want to.
Depending on what you do it doesn't have to be a site, some people have a mailing list. Chronically/professionally online people will have multiple backup accounts linked with the main account so that if the main one gets banned/suspended, their ability to contact their audience doesn't completely disappear.
Valerian was such a wasted opportunity, it had plots ready to be made in the comics
They just managed to pick two complete charisma voids as the leads