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14 votes
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A series of tweets by one Miami University student that were critical of a proctoring software company were hidden by Twitter after the company filed a copyright takedown notice
12 votes -
Hasan Piker's Twitch stream is the future of Election Night coverage
12 votes -
Netflix prepares to add an audio-only mode for background listening
13 votes -
Apple announces ‘One More Thing’ event for November 10th
16 votes -
Seeking good programs for digitizing all our addresses
What's your preferred program for typing up lots and lots of addresses? My mum's got multiple address books and they'll have to be typed up eventually, a block at a time. I don't really want to go...
What's your preferred program for typing up lots and lots of addresses? My mum's got multiple address books and they'll have to be typed up eventually, a block at a time. I don't really want to go with the contacts function of Outlook/Hotmail/Live, because it requires signing in and the password could be misplaced. I also would like to use something that could ideally export the addresses to another Outlook/Hotmail/Live or Gmail account.
7 votes -
It’s 2020. Why do printers still suck?
24 votes -
Raspberry Pi 400: The $70 desktop PC
46 votes -
Translation from Dropbox to English of ‘Focus will shape the future of distributed work’
3 votes -
The story behind markdown
14 votes -
Developer Resume Review
I am currently a junior in college and in search of summer internship for next year. I am not seeing much response and starting to wonder if it is an issue with my resume. Is there any chance one...
I am currently a junior in college and in search of summer internship for next year. I am not seeing much response and starting to wonder if it is an issue with my resume. Is there any chance one of you would be willing to take a look at it? Open to any and all feedback.
Thank you for your time.
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Strange idea to fix RPG gaming online - shit or lit / feedback chat
It's Covid days and I am sure all of us who play Pen and Paper RPG's (watup, nerds) have found the experience incredibly lacking. The way we communicate via Discord etc, has to be incredibly...
It's Covid days and I am sure all of us who play Pen and Paper RPG's (watup, nerds) have found the experience incredibly lacking.
The way we communicate via Discord etc, has to be incredibly different from IRL conversations. Its frustrating when the core element of RPG's is the conversations, the chat, the small talk, the adlib and the silly jokes.
The way we talk IRL is so different because we can discern the different sources, we can listen more or less to different people, we can interrupt and add things. Conversations via Discord is more like listening to a speech, and then replying. IRL gaming and the conversations that crop up are more like actual human chatting - taking a joke, building on it, having it taken from you etc etc. (the way me and my friend talk is so natural, we know each other well enough to be able to discern the relevant from the irrelevant - the bits we can tag on to, and the bits we need to leave alone)What I was thinking was to see HOW we talk in gaming, and how that could be mimicked SOMEWHAT in Discord etc.
My idea was to create a set of icons/low quality videos arranged around a table placement, that you can then focus on. Like a mouse controlled object that indicates what part of the table you focus on and how much. Just like a human would by turning her head this way or that to focus on one person talking in a group, or leaning in towards that source to indicate how much she listens to that unique source. By having a physical placement you can focus on an edge of "the table" and then lean in towards one source - and lean out to listen to all.
All other listeners can see your focus, the way you turn towards a source and be able to change their communication to fit.
So imaging having your "icon"/video at the bottom, the table sorted in a half circle shape above and your "focus" in the middle. If you pull it to its "lagrange point" (a snapping midpoint so its easy to find) you are listening to all. By dragging it towards one end you are focusing more on that person and the people around it, as a circle. You can see others focus, by coloured lines focusing more or less on an end or another.
My idea is to abuse the already available 3D audio effects existing and use that to put your focus towards one end or another, muting and muffling audio as your focus move across the table to be able to somewhat mimic the way we as human listen.
The social order of an RPG session, with the DM being the natural focus at times means that that focus can happen naturally either through focus, or simply silence. With it you can find the focus of others as an indicator of whether you are committing a faux pas or not, just like in real life when people pointedly may look directly towards another source.
7 votes -
Veronica Mars and NTLM password hashes
7 votes -
Announcing Good Reports, a new review site with recommendations for "non-toxic" online tools available as alternatives to Big Tech services
18 votes -
The 72nd Technical Emmys
8 votes -
Targeted by government misinformation, activists in the Phillipines are asking Facebook to do more to tackle a deadly epidemic of "red-tagging"
8 votes -
Evolving Reddit's workforce - Going forward, Reddit employees will mostly be able to work remotely from wherever they want, and all US employees will be paid the same, regardless of location
18 votes -
What is the Internet doing to baby boomers’ brains? Social media platforms are sucking a generation into a misinformation rabbit hole.
20 votes -
Does the Reddit 'Popular' page base results on the user's preferences?
I use Reddit more than I should. I flip to the 'Popular' page to see current events. I am curious if I am looking at skewed results based on the subreddits and posts that I visit, or if I am truly...
I use Reddit more than I should. I flip to the 'Popular' page to see current events. I am curious if I am looking at skewed results based on the subreddits and posts that I visit, or if I am truly looking at a good sample of Reddit's popular posts?
3 votes -
How a fake persona laid the groundwork for a Hunter Biden conspiracy deluge
12 votes -
RIAA obtains DMCA subpoenas against Cloudflare and Namecheap targeting forty-one domains for YouTube-ripping platforms and pirate sites
29 votes -
The problem with (all) the tech hearings in Congress
7 votes -
Reddit worries it’s going to be crushed in the fight against Big Tech
16 votes -
Amazon's launch of a Swedish retail site has caused embarrassment – confusing, nonsensical and occasionally vulgar product listings scattered across the catalogue
6 votes -
Why the extortion of Vastaamo matters far beyond Finland – and how cyber pros are responding
4 votes -
FBI, DHS, HHS warn of imminent, credible ransomware threat against US hospitals
13 votes -
XDA Pro1-X phone announced with physical keyboard, available with Lineage and Ubuntu
12 votes -
Reddit announces "Predictions" - Allowing users to bet on the outcomes of polls with Coins (purchased with real money), where moderators are responsible for choosing which option wins
38 votes -
AMD to acquire FPGA-creator Xilinx in an all-stock transaction valued at $35 billion
15 votes -
Mobilizon, a free-libre federated events and groups platform has launched v1.0
13 votes -
How to improve your debugging strategies
6 votes -
The RIAA's fraudulent attack on youtube-dl is not a DMCA §512 infringement/safe-harbour, and the reality is weird
37 votes -
Finland's interior minister summoned an emergency meeting after patient records at a private Finnish psychotherapy center were accessed by hackers
5 votes -
The search engine Hacker News has been asking for
13 votes -
How I’ve convinced people around me to care about privacy
11 votes -
Using GPT-3 for search
8 votes -
Facebook has sent a cease-and-desist letter to two NYU researchers, demanding that they shut down their research into political ads and disinformation on FB’s platform
30 votes -
Meet the 24-year-old who’s tracking every broken McDonald’s ice-cream machine in the US
14 votes -
On our abusive relationship with Mozilla’s Firefox
10 votes -
Ads improbably sprout on ad averse Substack
4 votes -
Testing quad GeForce RTX 3090s in a desktop
6 votes -
[SOLVED] US websites no longer work, at all, in EU (?)
So, I had an issue with the radionouspace.net website, referenced here. Since then, I've started hitting the exact same issue on a few other sites ... webpage never resolves, the browser just...
So, I had an issue with the radionouspace.net website, referenced here. Since then, I've started hitting the exact same issue on a few other sites ... webpage never resolves, the browser just spins its wheels until it times out.
I went thru and systematically shut down all of my add-ons, no joy. Tried other browsers, does not work anywhere ... except, oddly, sometimes, in TOR. On a hunch, I fired up my VPN service and tried to connect thru a US-based VPN server ... and there it is.
I have now confirmed, multiple websites (I'm assuming these are all US-based -- have not checked) no longer resolve for me, here in Hungary. Can anyone, anywhere else in the EU, confirm this?
I'm guessing this is the US response to the latest GDPR ruling against data-sharing across the Pond, but I'm on a "news fast" and haven't been keeping up-to-date ... anyone care to fill me in -- the "in a nutshell" version?
Update: Definitely something local-ish, probably specific to my ISP. VPN thru Hungary works, non-VPN thru Hungary does not.
10 votes -
Streaming app Quibi is shutting down, after raising $1.75 billion and launching six months ago
25 votes -
Facebook's Supreme Court arrives
4 votes -
Activists build facial recognition to ID cops who hide their badges
15 votes -
How Facebook is bringing QUIC to billions
7 votes -
Twitter won’t let The New York Post tweet until it agrees to behave itself
13 votes -
The forklift truck drivers who never leave their desks
6 votes -
The Motte subreddit had a schism leading to the creation of a new community
4 votes -
Sweden is banning equipment from Chinese telecommunication firms Huawei and ZTE from its new 5G network
7 votes