BashiBazouk

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by BashiBazouk 3y ago
I worked with type like this back in the day. The burnish type reproduced much cleaner than this stuff. The big problem with the acetate was the edges. Some would reflect light and require quite a bit of touch up once the negatives were mad
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by BashiBazouk 3y ago
Digg was bought out for the name and is a news aggregate site without comments. I'm trying to like Lemmy but it really needs a data dense "old.lemmy" interface. I doubt I'll stick with it...
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by BashiBazouk 3y ago
Nothing, really? I've been following "popular" and it's all low quality rage bate and reposts. New stories are molasses slow in showing up, the same stories will be there the next day or even the day after rather than a
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by BashiBazouk 3y ago
I'm with you. Moved up from California half a decade ago and I don't think I've ever self pumped gas into my current car and I thoroughly enjoy that fact. The only time I've encountered lines is once in a blue moon, the
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by BashiBazouk 3y ago
Odd. I think it might be something else. I've been lurking Lemmy as I decide what to do about reddit and have not noticed any unusual loading times. The page linked to above takes two seconds to load (the spinny things stop turning and
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by BashiBazouk 3y ago
Well, according to: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/reddit-ceo-slams-pro... "Huffman said, though, that he’d like to see some form of revenue-sharing. “I would like subreddits to be able to be bu
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by BashiBazouk 3y ago
In Canada, maybe. Santa Cruz, California on the other hand had plenty of homelessness all through the 70's...
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by BashiBazouk 3y ago
The base Lemmy site does allow that. It looks like every button should lead to sign up dialogs but doesn't. Just select a serer, then join a server, hit communities at the top and select all in the green menu. I don't know if it s
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by BashiBazouk 3y ago
Ya, I figured that out when I decided to give it a go and sign up. It takes two screens that look like one needs to sign up (just about everywhere else on the net would require it with a similar screen) but then it lets you pick a server wi
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by BashiBazouk 3y ago
The problem with the Fediverse as it currently stands is it goes against my long time use of forums. I'm usually only logged in on a desktop where I would post comments from. Most of my reading happens on pad, mobile or work where I ha
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by BashiBazouk 3y ago
If it's perceived as profitable or core to the business, the latter more likely, I would not be surprised if quite a few companies try their hand at a reddit like endeavor. I hold out hope that who ever owns slashdot would add user ge
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by BashiBazouk 3y ago
I would think they would treat it like youtube and allow it to lose money, at least at first, in order to support their core business.
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by BashiBazouk 3y ago
If it's this important to google, couldn't they just buy Reddit with what amounts to pocket change? That would be an interesting plot twist...
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by BashiBazouk 3y ago
I think there are a lot of people wondering if the "even more user-hostile changes" are a loss of old.reddit. I knew of 3d party apps but none by name until this most recent incident as I am fine with old.reddit but the behavior o
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by BashiBazouk 3y ago
Reddit seems to be dying for me for completely different reasons. Meme dependency for lack of a better word. Not the images with one liners though there are an annoying amount of those as well, but a standardized repetitiveness of responses
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by BashiBazouk 3y ago
From reading the transcript it reads to me that Reddit says Apollo is costing them $20 mil a year from lost opportunity cost, which I take to mean advertising/tracking et? The Apollo dev seems skeptical of that cost and is jokingly sug
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by BashiBazouk 3y ago
That was well covered in Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test . At least the "make LSD popular" part.
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by BashiBazouk 3y ago
They kept running editions off the original wood plates but the plates slowly wear and because of that colors changed from edition to edition. My father bought a 3rd edition print in the 60's when he was in the navy stationed in Japan.
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by BashiBazouk 3y ago
Growing up in Santa Cruz during peak arcade, the casino at the boardwalk was one of the best. Not only did they have just about all the arcade video games but also an incredibly deep pinball collection for when you needed something else. My
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by BashiBazouk 3y ago
My wife started teaching a class at the local university. She had a bunch of positives on the anti-plagiarism software used by the university. She ran a bunch of papers by me and man, analyzing the results are an art within it's self.
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by BashiBazouk 3y ago
It's likely a self solving problem. Through AI we are adding tons of fake information to the net. We will get to the point that a picture or video alone won't be definitive proof of anything. There will have to be back up evidence
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by BashiBazouk 3y ago
We had MAX on the macs at the computer art lab at San Jose State. We mainly used it to control peripherals in art installations and projects. It was such a cool program but too expensive, protected and obscure to be cracked. Sort of the ant
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by BashiBazouk 4y ago
As opposed to your pro-WL propaganda that is blatantly false? Yes, what you describe is how I and I think many others generally viewed wikileaks up to 2016. With the DNC email leak, that changed: https://www.theregister.com/
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by BashiBazouk 4y ago
I thought the disillusionment around here with wikileaks had more to do with the way they had changed from careful curation, removing the personal information of those not involved, to just bulk dumps. Less that Hillary's emails were l
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by BashiBazouk 4y ago
I don't subscribe to college as primarily a way to pump out worker bees. People should have access to learning beyond that to which ends only in employment. Cut the bloated administration, figure out how to lower costs and tailor to di
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by BashiBazouk 4y ago
I miss kuro5hin and if we are going back in history, Plastic as well.
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by BashiBazouk 4y ago
Some sort of meta moderation of subreddit moderators could be such an improvement over there if well implemented... I miss the old slashdot system as well.
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by BashiBazouk 4y ago
Heh...good quote. I was in chess club in Jr high, playing lots. One day I was about two thirds through a book on chess openings and had a major moment of self reflection: what the hell am I doing, this is really boring. Luckily for me I was
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by BashiBazouk 4y ago
And still is for most. I'm a horrible speller, but fairly consistent in my mistakes. Usually I use the wrong vowel with a similar sound in the middle of a word. It's amazing how few spell checkers can handle that. The google searc
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by BashiBazouk 4y ago
A bit hard to take this seriously when the author categorizes the Chinese navy as the worlds largest. The US Navy has fewer ships but almost five times the total tonnage. Not to mention this guy might want to ask the NRO about the chances o

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