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- Comment on Am I immature if I feel sad that a subculture that treated me so warmly died out years ago? 2 days ago:
but I really don’t like My Little Pony :)
Ooh. Then you might be one of today’s lucky 10,000.
For a children’s show, My Little Pony has no right to be as good as much of it is.
And they basically got John Delancy to reprise the role of Q, because his granddaughters were fans.
- Comment on Why do I push people away if I'm so lonely? 3 days ago:
I’ve had eras of my life like that. I thought I was being antisocial, but it turned out the people I was surrounded with were just exhaustingly petty. Then my situation changed who I had surrounding me, and suddenly I was a social butterfly.
It is wise to look inward, and work on ourselves, because we are the only ones we can change.
But it is also wise to give ourselves a break, because it might just be the situation that sucks.
- Comment on Alan Turing if he existed today 5 days ago:
Food for thought: Alan Turing was born in 1912, and Grindr launched in 2009. So there’s an outside chance that Turing could have lived to see (or helped found) Grindr, if the world had been gentler to him.
- Comment on Ubisoft initiates colossal restructure to become a more 'gamer-centric' company 5 days ago:
I’m actually not sure I can afford to keep playing “buy an indie game every tone Ubisoft does something evil or stupid”.
But I’m down for a few more rounds, at least.
- Comment on Lawks 1 week ago:
What is the wind speed of an unladen swallow?
- Comment on Are you people all bots? 1 week ago:
Barring that, we at least need to find someone who can pass a captcha test…
Then I think we’re doomed. I don’t think there’s anyone left who can pass captcha better than a computer can.
- Comment on Are you people all bots? 1 week ago:
We could all give each-other Turing tests, or Vought Kompf tests, but I think both have to be administered by a known confirmed human. Maybe there’s some set theory math we can do on the results to find at least one human…
- Comment on Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes 3 weeks ago:
If I were in your shoes (and I am), I would start trying to blindly use AI to do various aspects of my job (and I have).
The results are laughable.
There are things that I do that AI can do. Stupid, boring, uninteresting things. In particular, AI excels at doing things I already wrote a simple Bash script to do for me a decade ago.
Seriously, I encourage everyone to give it a try.
Let’s all build that passion project we’ve been dreaming of and host it for the world to enjoy.
In the best case, the world has a happy little passion project chugging away being useful.
In the worst case, we learn what AI cannot do yet, and realize we can still keep charging people for our labor for a few more years (and decades and centuries).
- Comment on If the shoe fits 3 weeks ago:
The Prince actually knew he re-found his true love when he saw her badly scraped knee and shin.
(Sadly, she doesn’t land the trick shown here.)
- Comment on Internet picture of a monkey 3 weeks ago:
We can issue a special edition, and make it look like their robot. Then we can sell an “Alpha 5 AI AI AI AI AI!”
- Comment on AI-Induced RAM Crunch Could Push Next PlayStation and Xbox Past 2028 3 weeks ago:
I dont want consoles to “get better” i want them to do more.
Exactly. They could give us a built-in light gun and a steering wheel, and see what indie game developers do with them!
- Comment on Evidence 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on My friend is buying a new PC and he is deciding between air cooler and AIO, which should be get? 3 weeks ago:
I had a one liquid cooled computer once, and swore never to have one again.
Even when they work, they’re crazy heavy, and sometimes they leak.
And all the pumps and tubes add that many more points of failure that could interrupt my precious gaming time.
- Comment on I am definitely a bird me personally 3 weeks ago:
I kind love these. It’s a little taste for the rest of us what a few of us must feel almost every time they enter a public bathroom.
I ran into one and I felt afraid I would be judged for choosing a room that others didn’t expect me to.
So I rehearsed a quick meaningless apology and took a guess.
No one actually bothered me, but it was still a little stressful.
And then I thought, “Oh, that’s what it feels like.”
I also learned the same place had plenty of other bathrooms clearly labeled in a “for use by anyone” manner. So I guess if I had chickened out, I could still have found those.
- Comment on Questions about how to present radio shows on Jellyfin 3 weeks ago:
Thank you!
I never thought to consider a different top level library type. Thank you!
My Jellyfin has been very challenged by out-of-copyright cartoons that originally aired in theaters.
- Comment on Questions about how to present radio shows on Jellyfin 4 weeks ago:
I normally love opinionated software, but Jellyfin’s options often just kind of suck.
It would be nice to have an option to mark a folder as “Just list these in alphanumeric order, and play them when I click on them”.
But I’m not aware of such an option.
- Comment on Can someone ELI5 RSS/Atom feeds? 4 weeks ago:
The rent seekers push web services because they don’t think they can sell you a client app.
There are many nice completely free privacy respecting client apps for RSS on F-Droid.
- Comment on What activity or pastime of yours is barrels of fun? 4 weeks ago:
Hear hear!
- Comment on I'd just go ahead and turn around. 4 weeks ago:
Worth it, though.
- Comment on Where's my old hat 5 weeks ago:
Thank you for your service!
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 1 month ago:
So gold is inflation-proof?
Yes, but only to the extent that you can store it, defend it and find a buyer when needed.
Gold loses value at exactly the rate of the cost of the armed guards you are paying to keep it from being stolen.
Pay too little, and it takes its value to someone else who is better armed or sneakier.
And if someone set aside gold for you that you have never seen, no they didn’t.
- Comment on If your federal government cut internet access to your whole town then where in your town would you think that "the people" would get together to protest ? 1 month ago:
Yes. I would meet at “yes”, as well.
- Comment on If your federal government cut internet access to your whole town then where in your town would you think that "the people" would get together to protest ? 1 month ago:
I’m not saying. Nice try possibly Federal Internet cut-off clean-up assassin team!
- Comment on Cloudflare is down [Dec 5] 1 month ago:
Is there a reason these outages seem to have increased recently?
We’ve had three years of unnecessary tech layoffs.
Nobody knows how the fuck anything in their technology stack works anymore.
Everyone is just spinning the giant wheel over and over and hoping it doesn’t land on bankrupt.
Sell your technology stocks, kids.
- Comment on I support this 1 month ago:
Yes it is high stakes.
When I go for it, I leave exactly one milk carton of blank belt before adding the divider.
I feel that it gives me an air of unhurried friendly eye-contact-free confidence.
I’ve heard other people speak in this situation, but that sounds like a pro player move that I might warm up to in a few more years.
- Comment on I support this 1 month ago:
I would have left the divider out, because I default to assume others are acting in good faith.
I would have wondered why we needed to not use a divider, today. I would have assumed she knew something I didn’t know. And then I would have shrugged and left it how she put it.
So I guess I would have achieved an accidental malicious compliance. Haha.
- Comment on Your Data Might Determine How Much You Pay for Eggs 1 month ago:
This has been going on for awhile.
I get better (online) prices on everything since I de-googled myself.
- Comment on Can anyone scientists confirm? 2 months ago:
I speak to fish, and can confirm.
Although, I must admit that the fish words for “flee to safety or face my wrath, pitiful human!” and “oh! I think that’s a crumb of cracker. Yum!” are very similar in most fish dialects.
- Comment on One hour into Gears 5 and I feel its a lot better than 4 2 months ago:
“They’re not breasts, Doctor. They are highly sophisticated Dalek implants!”
- Comment on Google tells employees it must double capacity every 6 months to meet AI demand 2 months ago:
If someone says 10x it’s probably bullshit. 100x it’s definitely bullshit. I don’t even have a term for 1000x
The term we’re looking for is “fantastic investment opportunity”.