A_norny_mousse
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- Comment on If you have cut off mainstream music streaming, how do you discover new music or artists and songs like what you're listening frequently? 1 week ago:
Nice. M3U saved
- Comment on If you have cut off mainstream music streaming, how do you discover new music or artists and songs like what you're listening frequently? 1 week ago:
No need to wait for Linux to listen to internet radio with individual song metadata: Soma.fm. Bagel Radio for guitary stuff. 9128.live for amazing Ambient mixes.
There’s also amazing NTS.live, Lyl Radio, Dublab etc… but they don’t always show per-track metadata.
- Comment on If you have cut off mainstream music streaming, how do you discover new music or artists and songs like what you're listening frequently? 1 week ago:
Another vote for internet radio. Adding Bagel Radio for guitary stuff. Oh and 9128.live for amazing Ambient mixes.
- Comment on To what extent has Smartphones replaced Computers? Has Smartphones replaced Computers for you or people you know? Will Phones and Computers eventually merge into one device? 1 week ago:
I’m typing this on a laptop. But I’m old.
- Comment on To what extent has Smartphones replaced Computers? Has Smartphones replaced Computers for you or people you know? Will Phones and Computers eventually merge into one device? 1 week ago:
Unfortunately what the other commenter replied is happening instead.
I will take this opportunity to drop one of my favorite tropes: even 10 years ago, every smartphone had millions of times more computing power than the complete computing power used during the moon landing in '69.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Enough has been said about the dating apps, so I feel it’s OK to remark on something else:
separated from my wife of 31 years - just earlier this month. Honestly, I’m already feeling bored and lonely
Can you provide some more context here? On the face of it it makes you sound like being dependent on a woman to keep you company. Sorry if I misinterprete that. But shouldn’t you be rather busy with other things now - idk, moving, settling in, changing your life alround, finding new friends, recovering from the separation…
FWIW, my (now) 52yo brother and his wife found each other through a dating site/app almost 10 years ago. They seem to be doing well.
- Comment on Microsoft is is bed with Google now, in a worse, more OS-integrated way than Mozilla was. This timeline sucks. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah. Or they’ll go through with it, and then realize later that they “need” to buy new ones.
Maybe I can still convince them to switch to Linux. We’re not dependent on any MS or Windows only products.
- Comment on How often do thieves (and identity thieves) actually get caught and served justice? Are there actual examples of law enforcement actually doing anything? (Because I think most cops are just lazy) 2 weeks ago:
Northern Europe. Shots fired in my neighborhood. Cops rolled up a dozen strong, with bulletproof shields, and searched for the shooter for hours.
OTOH: bike stolen. Police said, unless you have the frame number there’s nothing we can do. And even if you had, very little. They did take my report though.
I bought a much bigger/harder lock immediately, and it hasn’t happened since.
Never been burgled.
- Comment on Microsoft is is bed with Google now, in a worse, more OS-integrated way than Mozilla was. This timeline sucks. 2 weeks ago:
Did he have a beard?
- Comment on Microsoft is is bed with Google now, in a worse, more OS-integrated way than Mozilla was. This timeline sucks. 2 weeks ago:
You mean, chromium-based browser vs. chromium-based browser?
I know, it’s about data mining (don’t call it telemetry), but still. Funny. I bet they didn’t even remove all Google links from the source code.
- Comment on Microsoft is is bed with Google now, in a worse, more OS-integrated way than Mozilla was. This timeline sucks. 2 weeks ago:
I’m currently horrified how my (IT illiterate) employer said we need to update all our 20+ laptops to Win11 now. Consumer laptops that barely run Win10.
To be clear, I’m not the IT guy here, though I do sometimes help out.
- Comment on Microsoft is is bed with Google now, in a worse, more OS-integrated way than Mozilla was. This timeline sucks. 2 weeks ago:
Mint yes, Vivaldi no.
- Comment on Why does America feel the need to control the world? Do what they say? Instead of taking care of their own problems at home? When did the US become police officer of the world and enforcer? 2 weeks ago:
Also definitely not genocidal. /s
- Comment on Why does America feel the need to control the world? Do what they say? Instead of taking care of their own problems at home? When did the US become police officer of the world and enforcer? 2 weeks ago:
But they had the guts to change sides mid-war.
- Comment on Why do websites now prefer IP-based geolocation rather than the `Accept-Language` HTTP header? 3 weeks ago:
One reason is that IP’s can be more granular as another user pointed out. OTOH that doesn’t always work so well, either - I often get pinpointed to a location some 100km from where I actually am.
Another reason could be to circumvent people’s privacy or rather anonymity settings.
And since others brought up search engines etc., there’s a third reason: I always use English on my computer, but I am not in England. It’s nice to still get localised results (DDG has a drop-down to change this on the fly though).
- Comment on Why do websites now prefer IP-based geolocation rather than the `Accept-Language` HTTP header? 3 weeks ago:
using Google Translate on the backend to transparently translate the website on the fly.
This is what they call “modern cloud-based solutions”. Except, now it’s “modern AI-based solutions” - same shit with a different label.
I am now trying to imagine how that works. Every time a client calls the website with an unseen (and IP-based of course) language? Do they at least cache whatever google returns?
Storing translations and switching between them at a technical level isn’t really hard.
Esp. as you yourself pointed out, the internet has been multilingual for decades now.
- Comment on Why do fancy cars look fancy and cheap cars don't? Can't you just slap a Lamborghini-style chassis onto a lawnmower engine if you want? 3 weeks ago:
I’m the opposite: I find it increasingly harder to distinguish car makers just from looking at the car (without seeing the logo of course). They all look snazzy.
I just know that when I see a fancy car, and check the make, it’s BMW or something high end, and when I see a pygmy hippo lookin’ motherfucker, it’s made by one of those “buy one, get one free” type manufacturers that appeal to meth head soccer moms.
First of all, car manufacturers invest A LOT of resources into evoking that specific reaction in (potential) customers.
And I don’t like your attitude towards people who have less money than you.
- Comment on Why do fancy cars look fancy and cheap cars don't? Can't you just slap a Lamborghini-style chassis onto a lawnmower engine if you want? 3 weeks ago:
You absolutely can slap a Lambo body on anything (provided it fits) and there is a literal cottage industry that exists around doing so. It’s not popular because, let’s be honest, it’s pretty silly, and everyone involved acknowledges its pretty much just for fun and entertainment.
There used to be one or two pretty popular versions of this though; not an exact copy but just a sporty chassis on top of a ubiquitous and cheap model, like the Karman Ghia on top of the VW Beetle.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
They might be too old for that approach though.
Something I thought of when reading OP. Why now? He’s 15. This question would have made way more sense if he was many years younger.
[It might be the teenager himself asking here, but hey, that’s OK]
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I hope you mean supportive of your son.
If so, I see this dynamic play out in some families (I work with kids) and I don’t like it. It teaches kids to play their parents out against each other. To go to another authority figure if the first one said no.
- Comment on These captchas are getting ridiculous 3 weeks ago:
oh alright. I get that. I was going through http error codes just prior to reading it so I was primed to have something to say about it-
- Comment on Hello, non-Americans, do you have any Chinese language classes in your education system? 3 weeks ago:
Damn, I like your reply.
Most of your question can be answered by the fact that I was high when I wrote the post and am just tired of using my filter in real life and I feel safe here on Lemmy.
And that’s valid; but it might reveal things about your sub/halfconscious that other people will pint out to you, and will mistake for conviction. But if you’re OK with that…
I guess I’m a little too old-school to use social media like that, for me it’s more like a soapbox.
And thanks for yet another insight into the certainly not boring but terrifying world of the US education “system”.
- Comment on These captchas are getting ridiculous 3 weeks ago:
But then the AI just looks up the definition of 13, and the definition of 7, and should be able to answer anyhow. I mean, this is how computers work. Are you sure that’s what the other commenter was refering to?
- Comment on Who is the world's foremost expert on human nervous system and relaxation? 3 weeks ago:
Any type of “who’s the best” question is unlikely to succeed. Even if you have sports competitions to back you up. But with such a vaguely defined topic? Sorry.
- Comment on Hello, non-Americans, do you have any Chinese language classes in your education system? 3 weeks ago:
What about Russian? Serious question; around here it was a relatively popular choice (we share a border with Russia) one or two decades ago, but I suspect this might have changed recently.
- Comment on Hello, non-Americans, do you have any Chinese language classes in your education system? 3 weeks ago:
frankly a minor, tangential part of the OP
No, it wasn’t
with an essay
Hyperbole
it does come across as heavy-handed
No, it doesn’t. And what does that even mean? “I took your question seriously and attempt a serious answer” == “heavy-handed”? “I don’t agree with all your points” == “heavy-handed”? Seriously, what does “heavy-handed” even mean? It seems to imply aggression or abuse of power?
- Comment on Hello, non-Americans, do you have any Chinese language classes in your education system? 3 weeks ago:
“challenge” (with an informative explanation) == “grill”
Thanks for clarifying which sort of internet user you are.
- Comment on Hello, non-Americans, do you have any Chinese language classes in your education system? 3 weeks ago:
It’s a good question and I’m not dismissing you! But
As an American who grew up at a religious school in the 90s, we absolutely did not
that in itself is such an American thing to say. First the unspoken assumption that everybody understands what you mean by “religious”. And if I looked around here where I live I’m sure I could find a christian (which btw does not mean the same as in the US) school that teaches chinese. And probably even the leaders of such schools have never considered to separate languages into “christian” and “non-christian”.
The second half of your question seems a bit paranoid. Are you implying that every Chinese language class is secretly funded by the PRC? Are you afraid that your country might switch to Chinese at some point? Do you have a problem with English not being the No. 1 langauage, globally? I’m no friend of China’s political system, but this seems excessive.
- Comment on These captchas are getting ridiculous 3 weeks ago:
402 and it even rhymes
- Comment on These captchas are getting ridiculous 3 weeks ago:
They really should. If you applied all the logic of food labeling laws in, say, the EU, to the internet, we’d have very different laws around it today.
But somebody shit into clueless politicians brains and told them it’s different because it’s the internet.
…
Hmm, actually it is different - as in more difficult legally - because it’s global, but that’s no excuse to do nothing about it. The software would’ve been up to it even in the early days.