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  1. Comment on The user is visibly frustrated in ~tech

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    I remember that moment too... I think I rolled my eyes and thought something like "Of course microsoft dressed up blue screens." Play to your strengths, right? 😂

    The first time I saw the 'new' Windows BSOD that just said 'Something went wrong. :(' I felt a deep sense of quiet anger that has never fully abated

    I remember that moment too... I think I rolled my eyes and thought something like "Of course microsoft dressed up blue screens." Play to your strengths, right? 😂

    6 votes

  2. Comment on Clanker: A word for the machine in ~tech

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    Who does #2 work for?!

    or belittle a toilet

    Who does #2 work for?!

    1 vote

  3. Comment on Clanker: A word for the machine in ~tech

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    SF's techbro culture turned me off from moving there. If the best the US can do in terms of tech culture is "frats meets technology" I hope and cheer for the US getting overtaken in the field.

    SF's techbro culture turned me off from moving there. If the best the US can do in terms of tech culture is "frats meets technology" I hope and cheer for the US getting overtaken in the field.

    2 votes

  4. Comment on Clanker: A word for the machine in ~tech

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    Yeah, I wrinkle my nose at it because it exists in the same space as other epithets. Why celebrate and signal the human capacity to hurl slurs when upset?

    Yeah, I wrinkle my nose at it because it exists in the same space as other epithets. Why celebrate and signal the human capacity to hurl slurs when upset?

  5. Comment on People who want less AI are breaking up with Google Search in ~tech

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    They get the worst of both worlds - they shove AI at people who don't want it (intrusively in search) turning people off to the engine entirely; they also support non-augmented search by adding...

    They get the worst of both worlds - they shove AI at people who don't want it (intrusively in search) turning people off to the engine entirely; they also support non-augmented search by adding &udm=14 to your default search query yet without getting any of the opt-out positive buzz (from the kinds of users already complacent with gradual phase-out via config flags in products like Chrome) by making it more prominent to people already looking to leave anyway. Shooting themselves in the foot and the ass simultaneously.

    I'll never understand why google of all the giants fell off, man. People keep talking about a culture problem but it'll never change until google themselves admit they have a culture problem.

    16 votes

  6. Comment on What games do you most wish had a remake, or a sequel or both? in ~games

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    My contributions to this topic would both be PS2 series that both 'technically' had sequels but that... deviated heavily from the formula. Jak and Daxter (I'm one of the weirdos who loved Combat...

    A ton of PS2 era games

    My contributions to this topic would both be PS2 series that both 'technically' had sequels but that... deviated heavily from the formula. Jak and Daxter (I'm one of the weirdos who loved Combat Racing but I was looking over 'lost frontier' and by god it didn't seem like a J&D game) and Mercenaries (had a Mercs 2 but the PS2 version was so disgustingly watered down I doubt I'll try it on other platforms if I get a next gen console... Plus they made Peng take a complete 180 and everything fun about the first game was like a caricature of itself... oof)

    Then again I've missed out on a lot of gaming; taking notes in this thread on beloved titles to play :)
    Honestly the 'platform' I'm likely to build or get next will probably be a dedicated thing to play old flash games haha.

    1 vote

  7. Comment on What games do you most wish had a remake, or a sequel or both? in ~games

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    Yeessss... I have been itching for something to scratch the Midnight Club itch.

    Midnight Club 3 DUB edition from the PSP to PC

    Yeessss... I have been itching for something to scratch the Midnight Club itch.

  8. Comment on How do you build lasting habits? in ~life

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    Makes total sense: If 'exercise is a muscle', then fulfilling commitments specifically when your desire was not to is the exercise needed to build that muscle.

    I often tell myself "the fact that I don't want to do this is exactly why I need to do it."

    Makes total sense: If 'exercise is a muscle', then fulfilling commitments specifically when your desire was not to is the exercise needed to build that muscle.

    1 vote

  9. Comment on YouTube is testing a three-strikes policy for ad blocking in ~tech

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    Unfortunately that arms race is destined to be lost, since DRM was made a web standard in '17.

    Unfortunately that arms race is destined to be lost, since DRM was made a web standard in '17.

  10. Comment on Nostalgia -- what programs do you miss? in ~tech

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    Google Talk. Simple and lightweight.

    Google Talk. Simple and lightweight.

  11. Comment on Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website in ~tech

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    Heh, like an oldschool StumbleUpon :)

    Heh, like an oldschool StumbleUpon :)

    9 votes

  12. Comment on Why did you select your username for Tildes? in ~tildes

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    a treasured and carefully-guarded point in the space of four-character strings

    1 vote

  13. Comment on Phasing out passwords: Apple to automatically assign each user a Passkey in ~tech

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    Your backup can be the "What you know" factor such as a secure backup password somewhere.

    Your backup can be the "What you know" factor such as a secure backup password somewhere.

    1 vote

  14. Comment on Why are we often hesitant to spend money on digital services? in ~tech

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    For me, it's less about the dollar amount and more about another subscription to keep an eye on. I'm a lot happier when I can consider a fixed-sum cost analysis of something than I am with...

    For me, it's less about the dollar amount and more about another subscription to keep an eye on. I'm a lot happier when I can consider a fixed-sum cost analysis of something than I am with something that asks for my card information and that might go up at any time.

    My favorites are ones that combine subscriptions with one-time payments in a clever non-annoying way. Intellij does this with perpetual fallback licenses iirc; 365 days of a subscription would get you a permanent license of a fixed version.

    A game I played did as well (it had microtransactions, but if your microtransactions ever added up to around the cost of a typical game at the time, you'd subsequently be unable to pay further and would instead be able to generate more of the in-game currency for free.) Bought it on the spot as I was happy to pay the cost of a full game (even though it was a pretty simple game!) to essentially "disable" the microtransaction aspect.

    I'm not totally against subscriptions (as dfx points out, they're occasionally entirely justified), though I do know that for me they have a higher psychological threshold to meet/justify, such as paying a share for upstream resources or support. But insofar as there's a "fair" price point for any given thing, I'm more happy to trust (or at least consider) apps or services that provide transparency and choices there.

    4 votes

  15. Comment on Does Tildes need a new icon? in ~tildes

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    Thank you for vocalizing this, it felt off-putting to me as well.

    I assume you mean well, but it just comes off kinda rude to me. I certainly wouldn't do it.

    Thank you for vocalizing this, it felt off-putting to me as well.

    15 votes

  16. Comment on Meta is building an alternative to Twitter in ~tech

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    I can't help it, whenever he gets the puppy-dog eyes goin' 😂 Seriously though, I have hopes for something wiki-like (even if that's not the direction he's going for a forum) as there are insights...

    I'd give the Jimmy Wales platform a shot - give money even...

    I can't help it, whenever he gets the puppy-dog eyes goin' 😂

    Seriously though, I have hopes for something wiki-like (even if that's not the direction he's going for a forum) as there are insights to be gleaned both with searching modern forums (searching "site:whatever.com yourQueryHere") as well as platforms like slack ("Searchable Log...") with the potential benefits to forums that are designed with thought put into how they can also act as information archives/repos.

    2 votes

  17. Comment on Reddit appears to be down during blackout day 1 in ~tech

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    After a prior wave of blackouts (I think the ones surrounding Victoria being let go?) they implemented 'community health' guidelines, essentially giving them something to fall back on to...

    After a prior wave of blackouts (I think the ones surrounding Victoria being let go?) they implemented 'community health' guidelines, essentially giving them something to fall back on to commandeer and reopen subs if needed.

    If anything, "closed subs causing site issues" would give them more of a justification to do so.

    7 votes

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

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    That sounds excellent, mind sharing a link if it's OSS? Something like that would've been useful back in the day (my roommates and I ended up making little Autohotkey scripts) but considering my...

    I've implemented dynamic routing (e.g. you can create your own board combination by linking to /board1+board2, each board holding multiple sounds grouped together)

    That sounds excellent, mind sharing a link if it's OSS?

    Something like that would've been useful back in the day (my roommates and I ended up making little Autohotkey scripts) but considering my affinity for sound drops I'm sure I'll be curious about it again at some point!

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

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    Perhaps a project-idea generator? :D

    Perhaps a project-idea generator? :D

    2 votes

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

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    Completely agreed; show me a repetitive task and I'll show you a way to make it easier, particularly involving browsers. I was excited to learn that Chrome's devtools now has the ability to record...

    If you could think of some examples of ways that people could use programming to make their life easier and automate boring things that you could integrate into the class, I think that could get a certain subset of people hooked. Who doesn't like a shortcut?

    Completely agreed; show me a repetitive task and I'll show you a way to make it easier, particularly involving browsers.

    I was excited to learn that Chrome's devtools now has the ability to record and export Puppeteer scripts natively (Devtools' tri-dot menu > More Tools > Recorder). It helped me convince a colleague to look into automating some of his occasionally repetitive work.

    3 votes