mushroommunk
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- Comment on Day 762 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 days ago:
Oh, uh… Don’t try to understand it you say?
puts down my fountain pen and the map of the house I was drawing
- Comment on Day 762 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 days ago:
If you love Control, read the book that inspired it.
Read “House of Leaves”
Highly recommend. One of the best and weirdest reading experiences I’ve ever had
- Comment on It's great to see a politician that's progressive and Not a Millionaire. 6 days ago:
Another commenter explained how it was stopped, but he was only going to forgive some for people below a threshold. AOC and Sanders are trying to forgive all for everyone and make it free moving forward. AOC was very vocal about Biden not taking it far enough
- Comment on It's great to see a politician that's progressive and Not a Millionaire. 6 days ago:
AOC has argued for student loan cancellation for all and free college education for all. She and Bernie Sanders have put forth proposals to do just that. They’re just fighting an uphill battle.
- Comment on Rideshare Stimulator finally gets its genAI disclosure after much Saber-rattling, and it turns out the game also uses the tech for in-game music 1 week ago:
Sybian missed an opportunity here to make this game first
- Comment on Why put data centers in space? 1 week ago:
You’re talking about project Natick. All reports I saw was that it was actually a resounding success. The only reason I’ve seen for why it was cancelled is because it wasn’t able to be kept at the bleeding edge as they couldn’t upgrade the servers randomly. It doesn’t really compare to launching them into space which gives basically zero benefit but adds an insane amount to the cost.
- Comment on Why put data centers in space? 1 week ago:
Plus the ozone layer destruction as they re-enter the atmosphere when decommissioned
- Comment on Why do seemingly well-adjusted adults find it acceptable to loudly play tiktoks on public transport? 2 weeks ago:
Oh no, not without very good reason (we have had to video call a doctor friend about a stranger while out in public, that was a weird day).
In general we’re right there with you. We grumble about how it seems that since COVID people have forgotten how to be considerate while out and about.
And drive. Everyone forgot how to drive during COVID and still haven’t re-learned.
- Comment on Why do seemingly well-adjusted adults find it acceptable to loudly play tiktoks on public transport? 2 weeks ago:
There’s plenty of good uses. Phone speaker is real good when wife calls in the middle of an online match to double check something in a ten second call while actually at the store. I can mute my mic and take it with my gaming headphones still on.
But I’m the only one home, and, ya know, at home not public.
- Comment on "Digital Signatures" just ask you to type your name into a box now. Am I right in thinking this almost-completely defeats the purpose of a signature? 2 weeks ago:
Reading through these comments and I’m just now realizing something; I’ve never gone searching to see data on if cursive actually is faster on average and if so, how much. And does that handwriting improves memory fact apply more to cursive or print writing or equally just because it uses more muscles in general?
I’d imagine it would partially depend on the script chosen, ligature vs looped, Spencerian vs New American vs D’nealian etc for speed but the memory thing I’ve got no guess.
- Comment on "Digital Signatures" just ask you to type your name into a box now. Am I right in thinking this almost-completely defeats the purpose of a signature? 2 weeks ago:
On the flip side, there’s validity in doing things just for the aesthetics of it and we sacrifice too much to the ever present drive for efficiency.
Cursive isn’t necessarily the banner we should all really behind for that though handwriting something is still shown as one of the best ways to remember something.
As a fan of fountain pens and handwritten letters it is nice to get one knowing someone put that effort into it.
I dunno where I’m going with any of this. Teachers and schools are underfunded, if kids are fucked it’s our fault don’t blame them, fancy squiggles are fun.
- Comment on Pizza Party and Casual Fridays 3 weeks ago:
Unionize. At my last company I got everyone to sign an email (I just collected replies and then forwarded on) stating they would not return to office. Boss sent from mandating full week return to only one day and providing other benefits
- Comment on What was a bad TV show season renewal you've seen? 3 weeks ago:
Stargate Universe season 2.
I’m a huge Stargate fan but even I admit season 1 was rough. It wasn’t Stargate, it wasn’t a new thing yet, it was a weird mess and I did not have high expectations for season 2 at all. I think sadly they didn’t get their 3rd season as it was finally starting to come into it’s own and would have actually been great then. One day maybe we’ll get more Stargate but with Amazon recently canning what they were working on I’m not too hopeful.
- Comment on I didn't realize masala, was spicy 3 weeks ago:
They’re so much variety to Indian food. Some of it is very much hot spicy. I used to work with a guy who would bring in his wife’s samosas for me and boy those things burnt like hell. Loved ever second. I should see if he’s down for a drink sometime soon
- Comment on Bit harsh? 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, the topic comes up quite often in the Welsh learners server I’m in (obviously full of Irish, Scottish, and Welsh people). It gets pretty heated going both ways, some annoyed by “culture thieves”, others glad people are learning.
I wouldn’t say the tests are bullshit. Some of the marketing for sure but the science behind them is sound. The problem is most people don’t really take the time to understand it at all and what it really means.
The reasons behind it being a trend are quite complex, probably beyond the scope of a Lemmy comment lol.
- Comment on Bit harsh? 5 weeks ago:
That and Hollywood and pop culture (which would be what I expect other countries interact with the most) likes to homogenize and play to the most common elements.
- Comment on Bit harsh? 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with wanting to follow your heritage.
I do have Welsh ancestry it’s helped me dig into, but I mostly did it because of my love for Arthurian legend. Wanted to learn more about it and in the process came across stuff in Welsh and just went down a rabbit hole and never stopped.
- Comment on Bit harsh? 5 weeks ago:
USA you mean. (America covers Canada and Mexico and Brazil and… Well you get the picture).
As with anything in the US it’s more complex than that. Most of my friends speak a second language to some degree. German, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, and I myself am working on Welsh.
Sure you get plenty of ignorant folk who call it useless, like most of my relatives, but plenty want to learn. US is not really one homogenous culture despite how it might seem at times.
- Comment on Bit harsh? 5 weeks ago:
It really helps to have a community too. I found one for Welsh that has weekly chats geared towards learners. Experienced learners have been helping people learn no matter how simple the question. They’ve even started developing games and learning tools in Welsh to help more.
There’s similar communities for most languages I’d wager.
- Comment on Bit harsh? 5 weeks ago:
One of the things Discord is actually good for! I learned Welsh and found a community specifically for practicing talking the language mentored by more experienced people.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Just using simple translation would not add all that formatting. Plenty of non English speakers use translation tools. People aren’t buying it because you on one hand say no AI/vibecoding but then on the other hand use lots AI tools on the site and for posting.
It comes across as very “oh no you can trust me I’m totally not lying despite the evidence otherwise”
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
And the lack of formatting that I would expect from a human. No explanation for what makes it special or why we should care, just a list of features. This just screams vibe coded data grab
- Comment on people who take zoom calls in coffee shops are insufferable 1 month ago:
Crap, here I was thinking they used a Nintendo Powerglove and a Virtual Boy
- Comment on In a rough estimaten for how much money it would cost for Wikipedia to quit asking for donation for like the next 10 or 20 years....or forever? 1 month ago:
I’ve been waiting for the 2026 update. So many sights have seen such an insane spike in AI not scraping traffic this year that has to play in some.
- Comment on Soldering 20m and 40m low pass filters from QRP Labs for RPi WSPR 1 month ago:
Yeah, I don’t know how much you know about electronics but usually you want inductors pointing every which way so they don’t magnetically couple, but looking at the circuit and the tolerance on the entire thing I guess it’s fine, this saves a little space.
I usually play in speaker crossover land (exact same concepts and circuits, low pass filter, high pass filter, etc) and get a little OCD sometimes.
- Comment on Soldering 20m and 40m low pass filters from QRP Labs for RPi WSPR 1 month ago:
Any particular reason you didn’t lay the third ring flat to reduce coupling between all three?
- Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe? 1 month ago:
www.reddit.com/r/gog/comments/1txmcyd/…/opxtour/?…
Second sentence is literally the GOG rep stating is part of their culture. The reply is the dev explicitly stating they avoided several of the runes sent because of the connotations. Comments are full of people pointing out that they did not use the rune they claimed they did based on the Unicode and pointing out that in history using the double rune has had no meaning.
The developers also pointed out in a different spot they changed their logo because the old one had connotations they wanted to avoid but that GOG used the old one, despite having the new less problematic one.
Nothing GOG said passes the sniff test.
- Comment on Sony 1 month ago:
That’s the girl from Pragmata isn’t it? Doesn’t scream AI to me
- Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe? 1 month ago:
They went back and forth with the community more and the devs but basically repeated themselves
- Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe? 1 month ago:
Except their excuse that it was part of their culture and why they use it in the first place holds no water according to the developers of the game (part of said culture) as well as many others.
