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  1. Comment on A website for comparing endorsements in California elections in ~society

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    Nice site! For IL, I'm only aware of this one: https://www.girliguess.com

    Nice site!

    For IL, I'm only aware of this one:
    https://www.girliguess.com

    1 vote

  2. Comment on rex: a media server for the Plex apps that owns no files in ~tech

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    I think "owns no files" would be a valid way to describe a program that doesn't move local files into a managed media library folder but because this program doesn't have any local media files in...

    I think "owns no files" would be a valid way to describe a program that doesn't move local files into a managed media library folder but because this program doesn't have any local media files in the first place it definitely feels like the wrong phrase to use

    2 votes

  3. Comment on We Were Here (Pranav Bhasin 2026) in ~movies

  4. Comment on CGA-2026-10 🕹️🏚️ 🦇👻 REMOVE CARTRIDGE ⏏️ Spooky Mansion Adventures in ~games

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    I was surprised how violent Alone in the Dark was! Various aspects remind me of Resident Evil like the fixed camera locations like watching a movie, tank controls... The graphics aged a bit poorly...

    I was surprised how violent Alone in the Dark was! Various aspects remind me of Resident Evil like the fixed camera locations like watching a movie, tank controls... The graphics aged a bit poorly but several parts creeped me out.

    I didn't know much about the history of either games but looking into it more Shinji Mikami has acknowledged that Alone in the Dark was the primary inspiration that shaped the development of Resident Evil. So I'm not making any novel comparisons here.

    7 votes

  5. Comment on We Were Here (Pranav Bhasin 2026) in ~movies

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    The message is ubiquitous: A.I. is here, and it’s probably going to take your job. Pranav Bhasin’s comic mockumentary—which was executive-produced by the actors Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Andrew Scott, and which won the Audience Award for Short Narrative at this year’s SXSW festival—flips the script with its vision of tech backlash. The film, set in an Indian town, follows the exploits of three retirees named Bagchi, Pimple, and Ganguli, who are fighting back and taking the jobs of machines. Bagchi, decked out in silver body paint, has declared himself a dish antenna; his friends are “working” as a vehicle’s reverse camera and a microwave. “This is a revolt,” Bagchi says, “a war cry.”

    https://www.newyorker.com/culture/screening-room/the-humans-are-coming-for-ais-jobs-in-we-were-here

  8. Comment on Ten remote cabins with artist residency programs in ~travel

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    There are quite a few intentional communities around the world that often offer something similar: https://www.ic.org

    There are quite a few intentional communities around the world that often offer something similar:

    https://www.ic.org

    5 votes

  10. Comment on Amenra - Aorte-Ritual (2020) in ~music

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    I don't listen to a lot of metal but I quite liked this. I guess technically it is post-metal or sludge metal so maybe more like punk than metal. But still... very crunchy!

    I don't listen to a lot of metal but I quite liked this. I guess technically it is post-metal or sludge metal so maybe more like punk than metal. But still... very crunchy!

  12. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    Just don't pull a My Friend Aaron! I'd say you could identify small local businesses that are too techno-sane and help them out net-wise. Maybe they need LLMs, maybe not--but building up a small...

    shipped so much in the last few weeks ... I'd love to figure out how to monetize it somehow

    Just don't pull a My Friend Aaron!

    I'd say you could identify small local businesses that are too techno-sane and help them out net-wise. Maybe they need LLMs, maybe not--but building up a small fiefdom of B2B relationships can be a win-win situation. Just need to figure out how to market your services and package them into something where people can easily sign up with low commitment.

    3 votes

  13. Comment on Does Tildes welcomes “self-promoting” links to personal blog posts? in ~tildes

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    Total posts for last six month or so: 49 Manual do Usuário posts: 21 Percentage: 43% In the past six months you've posted your blog about every week or so. Is this a bit too much? Maybe a bit. Are...

    If so, why?

    Total posts for last six month or so: 49
    Manual do Usuário posts: 21
    Percentage: 43%

    In the past six months you've posted your blog about every week or so. Is this a bit too much? Maybe a bit. Are you cross posting every blog article that you write to Tildes? Are you doing it because you want some link juice, or you want agreement, or you want criticism, or you want a discussion about the topic?

    Maybe it is some combination of two or three of those. I don't want to discourage you from posting on Tildes but maybe you could post 3rd party links a bit more? If it's your blog then you have a bit more weight in the discussion (as your opinion is the topic) which isn't always fair... but sometimes it is right to post your blog instead of a comment. I don't think we should ban your blog--it's easy to ignore if we don't want to read it this week.

    Maybe percentage is not an issue for people but frequency is?--If you linked your site every day I think people would appreciate it less. If you linked to your site once or twice per month people would still know your blog exists. I don't think you post too often but it does seem a bit of a borderline case.

    When judging others it helps me to think about myself doing the same action. Personally, I'd be a bit scared to post my own blog post to Tildes. Maybe I lack confidence or don't feel I could put something coherent together which would be interesting for a broad number of people to read. The french have a word: egoist. On the other hand... if everyone is scared to share then all we see on Tildes are virtual tumbleweeds (which Deimos would need to program in--as a new feature!--to maintain the same level of user retention). So some vanity is useful in the world and it is not all bad. I like reading your blog every now and then! But the topic of your writing is not always interesting so I don't always read it--and that is perfectly fine.

    13 votes

  14. Comment on 1 in 8 Billion - Browser game, free, life sim with real statistics from 172 countries in ~games

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    The HTML source code looks like it is 100% pre-baked text and translations so you could download it and run it offline.

    The HTML source code looks like it is 100% pre-baked text and translations so you could download it and run it offline.

    3 votes

  16. Comment on Epstein family values in ~society

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    Here's a similar article that might help to explain the phenomenon?: We already know what a world without work looks like - Asterisk Magazine Basically, drawing parallels to 18th-century European...

    the Oligarchs are trying to build the kinship networks that no longer exist

    Here's a similar article that might help to explain the phenomenon?:

    We already know what a world without work looks like - Asterisk Magazine

    Basically, drawing parallels to 18th-century European aristocrats, the author argues that a future post-work world driven by automation will revert humanity into a highly personal, status-obsessed "relational society" centered around gossip and dominance hierarchies.

    In contrast, modern work and impersonal market economies foster liberal individualism, allowing people to derive dignity from objective accomplishments and freeing personal relationships from transactional necessity.

    Losing modern work to AI risks eroding these individualist values and returning society to a more clannish, restrictive way of life. But maybe that's already happening anyway? Or maybe elites have never ever actually been defined by their job roles except as brief periods of cosplay?

    3 votes

  17. Comment on Donald Trump strikes deal with Vladimir Putin to get diesel in sharp reversal of US policy weeks before midterms in ~society

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    This definitely isn't the first time the US has done something like this... nor even the first time with Iran Similar: Pre-WWII Japan had almost zero domestic oil reserves. Official U.S. and...

    paying the other side to kill his troops

    This definitely isn't the first time the US has done something like this... nor even the first time with Iran

    Similar: Pre-WWII Japan had almost zero domestic oil reserves. Official U.S. and Imperial Japanese Navy statistics confirm that over 80% of Japan’s pre-embargo petroleum imports originated in the United States. So that kinda backfired.

    3 votes

  18. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    Thanks for sharing this! Had fun. Short game. Got stuck for a while there... Didn't realize the bedroom closet existed--I kept clicking east instead of west when in the bedroom.

    When the TV Decides to Murder your Girlfriend

    Thanks for sharing this! Had fun. Short game. Got stuck for a while there... Didn't realize the bedroom closet existed--I kept clicking east instead of west when in the bedroom.

    1 vote

  19. Comment on What did you do this week (and weekend)? in ~talk

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    I don't normally follow celebrity gossip but I read last night that Christian Bale still drives around his 2003 Tacoma

    I don't normally follow celebrity gossip but I read last night that Christian Bale still drives around his 2003 Tacoma

    1 vote

  20. Comment on Leap seconds have helped keep clocks synchronized with Earth’s rotation, but their time may be over – here’s why in ~science

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    I feel like we've put so much effort into getting leap seconds working that we shouldn't just abandon them. Feels like a few steps backwards. Doesn't sound high-precision to me then lol... sounds...

    I feel like we've put so much effort into getting leap seconds working that we shouldn't just abandon them. Feels like a few steps backwards.

    high-precision computer systems ... assume that a day is 86,400 seconds long

    Doesn't sound high-precision to me then lol... sounds poorly modeled. Seems like some person just didn't want to update some COBOL system somewhere so their organization is paying a lot of money to figure out how to keep everyone from being more precise.

    Of course... Earth and her orbit are not a clock--so we don't need to force it and pretend it is a more precise system then it actually is. It's not unreasonable to think that we may eventually need negative leap seconds in the future--I know the article says we need one now but I mean need it to a larger extent than we currently need the positive leap second.

    The 2012 Reddit hrtimer livelock crash (fixed shortly after in Linux 3.4)... it seems a bit telling if that is one of the only examples that they can find. Programmers are managing with the concept well enough.

    But maybe CGPM / BIPM are right... maybe it doesn't really matter and we can just re-align things by leap-hour every 1,000-6,000 years

    5 votes