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by amatecha 9mo ago
yeah, I sought out 96kbps mp3s because I could listen to those and still use my computer without too much lag. 128kbps was enough to really bog things down lol >_<
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by amatecha 9mo ago
This happened a couple days ago, not "a few hours ago". I was surprised torrentfreak hadn't posted about it at the time -- maybe took them a while to notice? I tried to hit the site on Jan 2nd, 10:40pm pacific timezone, and
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by amatecha 10mo ago
That's cool, but yeah I won't use it regardless (just like I won't use any of the services you mentioned). It's all for-profit centralized extractive/exploitative stuff.
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by amatecha 10mo ago
Ah hell yeah that was great. Thank you for such an awesome post/site!
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by amatecha 10mo ago
Yeah but at least you can get the games. On my old MacBook (my only "modern" Mac), Steam auto-updated itself to a version that no longer runs on that machine. If that was my only computer (luckily it's not), I'd not on
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by amatecha 10mo ago
In high school English class we had to present a "poem" of our choice, of any sort - which included music pieces (or whatever other format). The song you quoted (KMFDM - Dogma) was my choice. The assignment included handing out
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by amatecha 10mo ago
My general view on TikTok is: why would I even remotely want to use something that's specifically designed to exploit me and manipulate me? The tiny shred of value I might experience (in the form of an occasional interesting video) i
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by amatecha 10mo ago
quality of the web*
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by amatecha 10mo ago
Probably stop using platforms/sites that exist to make money off you. I know it sounds ridiculous, but... the vast majority of the crappiness on the web is due to greed for money. If platforms didn't care about making money thro
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by amatecha 10mo ago
Bad-faith putting words into my mouth. Take that shit elsewhere please.
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by amatecha 10mo ago
That's kinda my point, this was already argued like 80 years ago. > Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend
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by amatecha 10mo ago
Holding people in power accountable is never a bad thing.
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by amatecha 10mo ago
they really are kind of the same thing: basic human rights.
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by amatecha 10mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
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by amatecha 10mo ago
Yeah I was wondering about that too, the far-greater exposure to radiation... I don't know anything about how well-mitigated that is these days, but I'm sure it's a huge factor they would have in mind?
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by amatecha 10mo ago
Yeah turns out that is the case, it was a joke image but the person didn't say it was a joke and posted it as if it was real :\
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by amatecha 10mo ago
Did I say anything about morals or compromise or anything? Now you're just ranting to the void about a straw man, not furthering conversation in any way. I think you're the only one who needs to get over something here: the fac
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by amatecha 10mo ago
Was there an actual point or are you just being contrarian for the sake of it?
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by amatecha 10mo ago
The ban is also for anyone who refuses to submit their private data (face scan or government ID) to an unrelated 3rd party company which will invariably store that data with insufficient security.
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by amatecha 10mo ago
Saw a screenshot last night of someone who can't get into JIRA (or some other Atlassian product) until they either submit two forms of government ID or record a face scan. Seems like a great and effective initiative /s Text of th
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by amatecha 10mo ago
Can view without subjecting yourself to "X": https://xcancel.com/tsoding/status/1998403967718400376
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by amatecha 10mo ago
Ah man, I remember those days. So tedious!
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by amatecha 10mo ago
No doubt. My friend learned how to hex edit because of WC1 -- editing his savegame files haha
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by amatecha 10mo ago
Yeah! My intro to the series was the 3-level WC1 demo. I was absolutely blown away as I had never played any game like that before it. Instantly obsessed haha
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by amatecha 10mo ago
Random note to whoever put the Pebble blog together - you don't need 2-4 megabyte images inline in the article! Since the images are limited to ~544px wide, make thumbnails of that size rather than using the original full-size image i
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by amatecha 10mo ago
Yes. If I wanted an LLM-generated response I'd submit my own query to such a service. I never want to see LLM-generated content on HN.
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by amatecha 10mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Unthinkable
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by amatecha 10mo ago
Ah wow , rip the awesome fonts used in the original game. The new ones are so "clean" and boring :( Glad to see the art itself was not too badly modified. It's weird though, like the vegetation in the Farm building looks we
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by amatecha 10mo ago
I remember it felt like AGES for the Mac version to come out -- my friends with DOS/Win machines were playing and of course I was out of luck, still clinging to my precious WarCraft 1 in the meantime (apparently the Mac vers came out 8
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by amatecha 10mo ago
Yeah! and check out that little "remote", allowing quick access to pause/play/skip and volume control! I could just keep the CD player in my pocket and be walking and listening to music, never needing to take it out of

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