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Comment on Lankum – Live at WGBH (2020) in ~music
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Alex G - Gretel (2019)
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Comment on Doomsday scoreboard in ~humanities.history
shu LinkThis is a site listing (obviously failed 🙂) predictions of the apocalypse or apocalyptic events. Each entry is described briefly and features links to the Wikipedia, which makes it a nice site for...This is a site listing (obviously failed 🙂) predictions of the apocalypse or apocalyptic events. Each entry is described briefly and features links to the Wikipedia, which makes it a nice site for casual browsing of historic movements or persons and their ideas around their doomsday predictions.
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Doomsday scoreboard
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Comment on What's your video game comfort food? in ~games
shu Link Parent😁 Yeah, I can imagine. 🍝 Currently I try to view the base not as something that has to be finished, but more as something like a zen garden that can be worked on slowly over time. (That metaphor...😁 Yeah, I can imagine. 🍝
Currently I try to view the base not as something that has to be finished, but more as something like a zen garden that can be worked on slowly over time. (That metaphor is from the py discord, and I found it quite helpful in tackling the cascading production chains.)
But I'm also much earlier in the playthrough, transitioning to a trainbase (before logi science) and slowly making progress, so we'll see what I think of that idea in a few hundred hours. 🙂 But currently I really enjoy it.
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Comment on What's your video game comfort food? in ~games
shu (edited )LinkIn the last few years Noita has become the game I play to relax. I think it transports me into a flow state, feels great to play, and that just has a calming effect on me. In the early 2000s Quake...In the last few years Noita has become the game I play to relax. I think it transports me into a flow state, feels great to play, and that just has a calming effect on me.
In the early 2000s Quake 3 Arena felt similar to me, but these days it would probably be too stressful, too hectic.
e: oh, and Factorio of course. I'm currently playing a Pyanodons run and it's also a great way to relax.
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Comment on Forgot Chrome's unusable, any recommendations? in ~tech
shu (edited )Link ParentYou already got a lot of good replies about why Brave is not that great, I want to add one more aspect: The idea behind this browser is to use Brave as a tool to distribute ads to users and...You already got a lot of good replies about why Brave is not that great, I want to add one more aspect:
The idea behind this browser is to use Brave as a tool to distribute ads to users and 'reward' them for watching ads with crypto tokens. There's a whitepaper available that describes these ideas in more detail.
For me that means the Brave companys goals never align with my own interests. It's a complete mismatch and I could never trust them.Add to that the shady stuff they did in their history, plus Brendan Eich, plus them being just another Chrome fork which ultimately just gives Alphabet/Google more power, and that thing is completely unusable for me.
e: english hard
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Comment on What ridiculous thing would you spend billions on? in ~talk
shu (edited )Link ParentOops, you're right, that should have been delicious. In german 'delikat' basically means 'delicious', but that doesn't translate. 🙂 I should have spend a few million for english translators. For...Delicate
Oops, you're right, that should have been delicious. In german 'delikat' basically means 'delicious', but that doesn't translate. 🙂 I should have spend a few million for english translators.
For ukulele practice I could send a few falafel drones.
e: wording
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Comment on What ridiculous thing would you spend billions on? in ~talk
shu Link ParentHaha, escaped again from the curse of having too much money!Haha, escaped again from the curse of having too much money!
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Comment on What ridiculous thing would you spend billions on? in ~talk
shu Link ParentOk, complainers about unfair apology letter deliveries get not one, but two heartfelt apology letters and a pineapple pizza plushie.Ok, complainers about unfair apology letter deliveries get not one, but two heartfelt apology letters and a pineapple pizza plushie.
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Comment on What ridiculous thing would you spend billions on? in ~talk
shu Link ParentOk, complainers about unfair pizza rulings get a slice, too, and a heartfelt apology letter.Ok, complainers about unfair pizza rulings get a slice, too, and a heartfelt apology letter.
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Comment on What ridiculous thing would you spend billions on? in ~talk
shu (edited )LinkI'd invest in eight billion ukuleles with bob marley songbooks, delivered by drones to each human being individually. Anybody who complains about their ukulele gets send a slice of delicious...I'd invest in eight billion ukuleles with bob marley songbooks, delivered by drones to each human being individually. Anybody who complains about their ukulele gets send a slice of
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Comment on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | Official trailer in ~tv
shu LinkWhenever I see trailers like this one or the one for Section 31 I feel like a grumpy old man mumbling that this isn't my Star Trek, these whippersnappers don't even know how to polarize the hull...Whenever I see trailers like this one or the one for Section 31 I feel like a grumpy old man mumbling that this isn't my Star Trek, these whippersnappers don't even know how to polarize the hull plating, it was so much better in the olden days.
Becoming a grumpy old man is probably my fate anyway, but these trailers really accelerate getting there. 🙂
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Comment on A better way to watch YouTube in ~tech
shu (edited )LinkI do not have a youtube account and I semi-regularly remove YTs cookies, so that the data the algorithm gathered is reset. I subscribe to specific channels with an RSS-reader that supports...I do not have a youtube account and I semi-regularly remove YTs cookies, so that the data the algorithm gathered is reset.
I subscribe to specific channels with an RSS-reader that supports youtube, so I get a notification when something new is released.
When I want to pause a video and watch it later, I add the timestamp to the URL with this add-on and simply bookmark it in a default folder.
Other than that I use uBlock Origin and sponsorblock .
All in all this works fine for me. The more control I have about how I use YT the better.
The only exception are age-restricted videos, for these I would need an account. But I rarely encounter restricted videos and even if I had an account, I'd never send a picture of my passport to Google to verify my age, so that's just not available to me.e: I recently added an add-on that removes the YT-suggestions panel and I really like it. Away with the drama influencers, hello peace of mind. 🙂
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Comment on America tips into fascism in ~society
shu (edited )Link ParentCanada would probably also have resistance support from inside of the US, at least I'd hope so. Insane that it has come so far that we have to speculate about these scenarios.Canada would probably also have
guerillaresistance support from inside of the US, at least I'd hope so.Insane that it has come so far that we have to speculate about these scenarios.
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Comment on What's your current PC wallpaper? in ~tech
shu Link ParentYes, I really like her style, too. She got this flowing, vibrant, soft view of nature, trippy but calming.Yes, I really like her style, too. She got this flowing, vibrant, soft view of nature, trippy but calming.
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Comment on What's your current PC wallpaper? in ~tech
shu (edited )LinkCurrently a photo of a lunar eclipse by James McCarthy, borrowed from reddit. Before that several paintings by Phyllis Shafer, slightly cropped when necessary. And my login wallpaper features an...Currently a photo of a lunar eclipse by James McCarthy, borrowed from reddit.
Before that several paintings by Phyllis Shafer, slightly cropped when necessary.
And my login wallpaper features an unfocussed Beaker. 🙂
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Comment on Understanding what a VPN can do for you and how to pick the right one in ~tech
shu Link ParentHm, if I would use a VPN, I'd do it to hide my IP when torrenting let my IP appear as if it was from a different country to bypass geoblocking, e.g. when I'd want to watch something from the BBC...What can a VPN can do for you in terms of privacy and security (Spoiler: not that much).
Hm, if I would use a VPN, I'd do it to
- hide my IP when torrenting
- let my IP appear as if it was from a different country to bypass geoblocking, e.g. when I'd want to watch something from the BBC or so.
The fact that all my internet traffic would be encrypted is a nice bonus. I doubt that my provider monitors my traffic in the first place since I live in the EU, but depending on the fucked-upness of this timeline this might change in the coming years.
Also fingerprinting my browser might be a bit harder? (although I don't have too much hope on that front since a firefox on linux with my config will probably standout with a VPN address, too.)
But all in all I think that's a pretty good feature set of VPNs? They actually do give more privacy, especially when using a VPN service that doesn't keep logs of their connections.
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Comment on Neuromuscular aim assist in ~games
shu LinkVery cool idea and pretty nuts to build this, thanks for sharing! Part of me wonders if this is a troll video to make cheaters electrocute themselves. 🙂 Because I have my doubts about the accuracy...Very cool idea and pretty nuts to build this, thanks for sharing!
Part of me wonders if this is a troll video to make cheaters electrocute themselves. 🙂
Because I have my doubts about the accuracy one can achieve with this, and I would assume that more than one muscle group is needed to move your arm/hand with this precision? I don't know. Intuitively I'd assume this is too simple to be true, but maybe it just works? Hm.But if this actually works as good as presented in the video, I could see this wrecking competitive online shooters once people start selling toolkits based on this idea. Then people could get disqualified for "sub-human reaction times due to cybernetic enhancements" which is pretty cool. 🙂
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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
shu Link ParentIt means that in the billions of texts that were used to train the LLM there were a few hundred in which 'panicking' was a typical human response to deleting a production database. That's why it...It means that in the billions of texts that were used to train the LLM there were a few hundred in which 'panicking' was a typical human response to deleting a production database. That's why it pops up in the LLMs internal statistical evaluation of this situation and is generated as a response.
In my opinion it's a problem that LLMs generate emotional responses when they are used as tools, because it invites anthropomorphization of LLMs by people with less technical backgrounds. It's completely misleading.
Thanks so much for sharing! I love this.