MalReynolds

@MalReynolds@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seen at a pre-release event for Magic the Gathering’s Star Trek Beyond Realms tonight.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The meaning of SIC ITUR AD ASTRA is thus one goes to the stars : such is the way to immortality. - Merriam Webster.

  Seems a reasonable sentiment, if perhaps in a crass place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mark Cuban says Facebook knowingly runs AI deepfake scam ads as Meta docs reveal $16 billion in fraud-linked revenue⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Meta: ‘We sell scammers shovels’

  After all, gotta show solidarity with your peers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Frozen part II: Hackers remotely defrost produce in Euro supermarkets ... again⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Seriously, if IoT things were (easily, as in consumer protection laws) liable for damages, we’d have so much less useless, dangerous crap that’s mostly just there to monetize your data. How many of these ESP32 things can even be updated.

  IoT VLAN > /dev/null (or perhaps to HomeAssistant, carefully, with blocklists) kiddies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No Man's Sky for new slow player⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I love (and am endgame in) both. I come back to each, check out the new stuff and drop it when I’ve done enough. Elite is IMO the grindier of the two, once you’re through the initial BS in NMS it’s just muck around and have fun, in Elite that takes a looong time (way less now, I was there in the first days, dear goddess), like carrier and 10B, before the FOMO goes away forever and you’re just mucking around. These days I mostly go back to Elite for CGs and when new stuff can be bought in game and often do NMS expeditions.

  To OP:

  Both are fun and good value, but the miles wide and inches deep thing is true. Elite has basically no story / quest (plenty of backstory though and a background simulator) and dumps you in the deep end. NMS does have a fair few hours of quests which helps you get up to speed, but it’s mostly optional (some unlocks in there). In both you have to have enough self direction to make your own adventure, but sounds like you’ve got the explorer spirit, likely a good fit, for slow too.

  If you get into them they’re some of the best values around, super easy to sink hundreds (or more, sigh) of hours. If you like arcadey low stakes fun most, go NMS, if you want a ‘real’ feeling of space, better combat, killer sound, can cope with some grind, and are OK with meeting the consequences of your actions (don’t fly without rebuy kids) Elite is the way. Either way, if you get into one, the other is likely worth checking out eventually.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coalition says cuts to climate, housing and more would save $31b⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Every time the ‘Coalition says’ Australia pays. Not good economic managers, objectively bad (except for their mates)

  It’s not a household budget you dicks, governments should do good for society.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most of plant based leather uses a lot of polyurethane⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Veg tanning is a thing too, growing in popularity and better for artisanal work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord Distances Itself From Age Verification Firm After Ties To Palantir’s Peter Thiel Surface⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup, but not worthless to their lawyers, so they’re full of weasel words and yet still bind the consumer to horrible conditions. Yay, late stage capitalism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨earth, fire, water, wind - it's not hard⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well said.

  You may be Crack’d.`

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fEEt⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Super informative if true, like mercator projection if you understand it. Is it ?, or just a meme / AI, fucking timeline. Source?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lol, lmao even.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  GIGO

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🤏🤏🤏⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In Anna’s, thanks, likely useful…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which RSS are you using?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same, many years now, does the job well, simple web interface without any fuss. Docker (in my case podman, but whatever) version is pretty damn bulletproof, can’t remember the last time I needed to do anything to it. Tailscale / Headscale / wireguard will let you use it on your phone’s browser if you’re keen on that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do I always have "dreams" that give me anxiety (aka: nightmares)? Why do I never just get to re-live my happy memories in my dreams? Wtf brain?!? This is outrageous! It's unfair!⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Observational bias : You remember only the bad ones, especially as they are the ones most likely to wake you, and thus cross the memory barrier to the conscious. You likely have good ones as well that you don’t remember.

  If it really bothers you consider keeping a dream journal for a few months which should make you able to remember more, and more of your dreams. If it turns out you really have no good dreams, the next step is to learn lucid dreaming and fix that shit. If that’s too much work, you can try repeating “I will have good dreams” in your head as you go to sleep, you might be lucky.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My Car Is Becoming a Brick: EVs are poised to age like smartphones.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For the record, if the software updates stopped where they’re at today, I’d be fine with how the car functions until the end of its life. In fact, I kinda wish they’d just leave things alone at this point because I don’t want any extra features out of the thing.

  And therein lies the rub, you don’t get to choose, the corpo does and you have to trust them (you do trust them, don’t you?). Pretty much like you’re renting, not owning. As the article points out this is similar to phone ’ownership’, hopefully in the fullness of time there will be a GrapheneOS equivalent for cars…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Realistic Scientific Method⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn I wish there was a line between ‘hypothesis unsupported’ and publish. Negative results are results too, and now someone else will try it and fail too. So much wasted time, but publishers…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gamepad for Linux Gaming?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, don’t use Lutris, either Steam or straight to Bottles. But I’ll guess yes, with the dongle it comes up as a normal XBox controller unless you jump through hoops to get extra buttons going.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gamepad for Linux Gaming?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have an 8bitdo and like it as well, one thing to consider tho is Steam Controller 2 is "extremely close", might be worth holding out for that to drop atm, the original is pretty legendary and 2 seems based on steamdeck layout.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Been there⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminder, email is asynchronous, it’s not instant messaging, it doesn’t need to be answered immediately, that’s a corporate construct. Take a moment, take five or ten. Just don’t answer. No guilt, no judgement, it’s just email. If your work culture means you need to treat it differently, immediately, that’s on them and they suck, so give them the bare necessity immediately and take your time with the real answer, everyone will be better off, even you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨sagan/sanders 1991⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Right you are, if a tad US centric, not sure the topic actually was Sagan and Congress, although Sagan for Sanders might give you some credibility. I suspect we’re on the same general side anyway and the ancientness of the argument helps both…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨sagan/sanders 1991⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Cool, never implied you did,(suggest that Carl Sagan invented climate science in 1985) and happy the spirit continues in you, here for it. Science is never proven (mathematics aside), just more and more probable in most cases, at this point the “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence” is anything against climate change…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨sagan/sanders 1991⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  While I adore Sagan, the greenhouse effect was was proposed as early as 1824 by Joseph Fourier (yes Fourier transform dude).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many people would a generation ship need to have for inbreeding to not be an issue?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Not what you mean, but one woman and a shit-ton of frozen sperm and ova would probably work, say 3 for redundancy…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨arborholing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, oxygen builds up, fire, CO2…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sometimes feeling bad is a correct response to the world around us.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve heard it as (and occasionally use myself),

  Insanity is a sane response to an insane world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta’s Ray-Ban Display Glasses And The New Glassholes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Second, it sucks that the wrist band thing is being tied with bullshit ai glasses. I would love to see that as a regular input device for PCs and smartphones.

  Seconded, have long considered sub-critical neuron monitoring a really good in to ‘thought control’ without the privacy complications. No thanks neuorolink, stay out of my head (at least for many years until the implications and side effects shake out, fMRI also spooks me) but I’m fine with wrists and perhaps voicebox (ala firefox ), you know, voluntary stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The best of both worlds with IEMs and TWS buds maybe?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I like my qudelix-5k, does flawless 96Khz/32bit LDAC to my Pixel7 (not that I use media that high, but it works well). Balanced output, onboard equalizer, usb DAC as well., been solid for 2 years+, goes great with IEMs. It’s a bit pricey and likely to be a pain when I have to go in to replace the battery, but I find myself charging ~ weekly, so Li-ion is good for ~ 1000 charges, perhaps 500 before significant degradation, which is 10 yrs or so. Worth it for my use case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I stood on a precision scale and farted, would I get lighter or heavier?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You seem to be assuming that the volume is immediately replaced by the external atmosphere, which I doubt is valid, more likely that the volume of the person would decrease, at least temporarily. The weight of 1 Liter (assuming a massive fart) of air is 1.275g according to wolfram, so, using your density numbers above, 1.275 * 1.06/1.2 = 1.126g lighter. Measurable with a really good scale, if the 90ml fart volume is realistic (has to be more realistic I guess), that's ~.1g,

  Think of yourself as a hot air balloon with a very tiny chamber, and when you release a 90 milliliter fart, you lose a little buoyancy and sink a little. You get heavier when you fart.

  No, you get denser, but not heavier.