barbariangrunge

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by barbariangrunge 2y ago
See also: that episode of the British black mirror
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by barbariangrunge 2y ago
Sounds nice until you put yourself in the employees shoes. All your mistakes become public case studies, you’re cut off from proper mentoring, and you can no longer say anything in private to your boss without the whole team hearing it
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by barbariangrunge 2y ago
It’s already stolen in a way from all the users who just wanted to be able to use a forum and had no serious alternatives
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by barbariangrunge 2y ago
Discord…
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by barbariangrunge 2y ago
I’ve improved my night vision (headlights on the highway at night kind of thing) with some exercises I made up. I think shifting from light to dark focus uses muscles and those muscles can just get weak. You can just exercise them and they
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by barbariangrunge 2y ago
I’d love to hear any other details you or anyone else would care to share. I’m making an audio drama as a hobby and have never directed before, and most of my actors will be untrained volunteers. Posts like yours are so interesting
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by barbariangrunge 2y ago
It’s on hn here or there, or in random blog posts shared in here. Just keep your eyes open for a bit and you’ll see something pop up
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by barbariangrunge 2y ago
If you sign up for the ad free tier, you’ll still get spammed by ads injected during podcasts, much more than if you use a free podcast app Also, there are privacy issues: https://mashable.com/article/spotify-user-priva
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by barbariangrunge 2y ago
It became trendy recently to break compatibility with Firefox. Blogs almost bragging about how they boldly made the choice. Very embarrassing stuff
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by barbariangrunge 2y ago
“Non profit”
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by barbariangrunge 2y ago
The only thing that gives me pause is the android os, which makes me uncomfortable for privacy reasons
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by barbariangrunge 2y ago
Please don’t give anybody ideas, hiring practices in tech are already so shitty
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by barbariangrunge 2y ago
What if it’s over a series of transactions? Eg, two dozen visits to a restaurant where you get better service than other tables because you’re a big tipper?
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by barbariangrunge 2y ago
My asus zephyrus was unfixable too. Luckily I had an overpriced warranty for it. Not sure what laptop to try next for game dev, I actually went back to a desktop afterwards
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by barbariangrunge 2y ago
If you think that’s true, I invite you to sort steam games by release date and to simply buy the most recent 10 of them in the categories you like that aren’t free to play. I mean, they’re all equally good, right? Making good games is easy.
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by barbariangrunge 2y ago
Everyone is so mad about them stealing a beloved celebrity’s voice. What about the millions of authors and other creators whose copyrighted works they stole to create works that resemble and replace those people? Not famous enough to genera
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by barbariangrunge 2y ago
Plus: trustworthy to have my interests in mind instead of whatever tech company owns it
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by barbariangrunge 2y ago
When Reddit’s leadership started publicly referring to its users as data to leverage, surely everyone saw this coming?
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by barbariangrunge 2y ago
Twitter has been doing that too. Or was. Not sure about x
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by barbariangrunge 2y ago
You get posts by people? I swear, it was nothing but ads and recommended content for me until I stopped using it
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by barbariangrunge 2y ago
RSS: which readers do you like? Ie, what app? Thunderbird?
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by barbariangrunge 2y ago
I remember my fancy black deck I was so proud of and all the nights playing against tooth and nail, a deck full of cards many of which was worth as much as my whole deck. It sucked. I won 1/3 games at my best because I wasn’t willing t
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by barbariangrunge 2y ago
Board game companies make so little money, don’t begrudge them for asking for money in exchange for completely optional content
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by barbariangrunge 2y ago
The company that controls online video is announcing a new tool, and ambitions to develop it further, to create videos without need for content creators. Using their videos to make a machine that will cut them out of the loop.
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by barbariangrunge 2y ago
YouTube’s endgame is to not need content creators in the loop any more. The algorithm will just create everything
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by barbariangrunge 2y ago
Give some privacy on those android tablets and I’d have one. But android is scary for that. iPad = tablet that doesn’t make me worry about being studied and spied on
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by barbariangrunge 2y ago
Samsung and googles past privacy practices scare the crap out of me. That’s why I own an iPad and not an android
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by barbariangrunge 2y ago
I sort of feel the same way. All those invisible magic shortcuts make the device a bit arcane and they’re only there because apple refuses to include physical buttons. Like Face ID: please no. Give me back my finger print sensors
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by barbariangrunge 2y ago
I don’t see discussion of this elsewhere, so: the Magic Keyboard isn’t good. In some senses, yeah, it’s amazing. But I use the f keys all the time normally. I use esc all the time. The keyboard lacks both. It makes the iPad heavier than my
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by barbariangrunge 2y ago
They are spying on you, looking for clues to your gender. That is the same as collecting the data, but more insidious and automated.

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