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5 votes
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JSHint: Watching the ship sink (A lesson on ambiguous licenses)
7 votes -
Google Photos will no longer have unlimited free storage after June 1
40 votes -
Your computer isn't yours
41 votes -
UK sees record bandwidth use on Xbox Series X/S launch day
8 votes -
Google apologises to Thierry Breton over plan to target EU commissioner
6 votes -
Apple is currently having widespread server issues due to the macOS Big Sur update, which is also preventing users on Catalina from being able to open apps
30 votes -
Twitter: An update on the features related to the 2020 US Elections
11 votes -
TikTok can continue to operate in the US, Commerce Department says
10 votes -
TikTok says the Trump administration has forgotten about trying to ban it, would like to know what’s up
16 votes -
Guido van Rossum, the Python language's founder, joins Microsoft
13 votes -
Daring Fireball review: The iPhone 12 Mini and iPhone 12 Pro Max
10 votes -
How do you describe TikTok? The automatic culture of the world's favorite new social network
5 votes -
SpaceX Starlink beta users provide first impressions and unboxing pictures
10 votes -
Introducing "How to Fix the Internet," a new podcast mini-series from EFF
7 votes -
youtube-dl's creator and initial maintainer explains the origins of the project
18 votes -
Intel's new golden sample CPUs, and cryo coolers developed in partnership with EK and Cooler Master
7 votes -
Privacy is a lonely bastion. Anyone know how to meet friends online these days?
At some point we recognized the signs of desperation. My wife and I had been running to the window like puppies for a glimpse of any unusual traffic. We caught ourselves bingeing on news articles,...
At some point we recognized the signs of desperation. My wife and I had been running to the window like puppies for a glimpse of any unusual traffic. We caught ourselves bingeing on news articles, as if saturating ourselves with reporting could somehow make us relevant to a world that saw less and less of us. We even resorted to calling my mother. After listening to 90 uninterrupted minutes of narration regarding her most recent routine doctor’s visit, we broke down. We resolved to end the isolation that was slowly killing us. Then the pandemic hit.
Our biggest stumbling block is figuring out how can we make friends online using only privacy-respecting platforms and software? We would like to see some friendly faces in real time without being simultaneously, you know, mined. Could anyone in the know share suggestions?
Edit: I'm grateful people are considering this. Thank you! I find it helps to ask people what their ideal solution would be, no matter how far-fetched. So, in response to that: My dream platform/venue/project would meld aspects of Lunchclub with The Human Library. I have stories to tell. I would love to video chat with fully-clothed individuals drawn from all over the world, chosen based on their stories and ambitions. It would work the way a good host does. You know, "Greta once had the job of getting sweat stains out of Bruce Springsteen's guitar strap. You two should swap cleaning stories, since you work at that drycleaner's, right, Butchie? Is it true it's a front for the mob? Oh, excuse me, I have to disinfect the pizza guy. I'll leave you to it." Maybe I should flesh this out more.
36 votes -
Web history - Chapter 5: Publishing
4 votes -
How to switch an old Windows laptop to Linux
19 votes -
Amazon wants to win over Sweden – the Swedes have other ideas
7 votes -
GPD Win 3 announcement
4 votes -
Company made to change name that could be used for XSS vulnerabilities
11 votes -
Joe Biden’s victory was just what tech wanted. Now what?
6 votes -
Microsoft Edge Browser on Linux: Surprisingly good
12 votes -
The battle for the soul of digital freedom taking place inside your printer
15 votes -
Proposition 24 passes in California, pushing privacy rights to the forefront again
13 votes -
Amazon releases "Halo" wearable which analyzes emotions in the user's voice
14 votes -
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