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by dmonitor 1y ago
I put googly eyes on a camcorder and call it Bobby. Why can't Bobby watch a movie in the theater with me?
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by dmonitor 1y ago
You need some mechanism in place to prevent any joe schmoe from spinning up FreeSteam and rehosting the whole thing.
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by dmonitor 1y ago
the current strategy seems to be the equivalent of taking a chainsaw to someone's chest and calling it heart surgery. I don't know how to do a heart transplant, but I know the tools require some amount of subtlety.
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by dmonitor 1y ago
reddit has been pushing itself as an "app" more than a website recently, and killed off a lot of third party apps in a move that drove off some longtime users. could just be a sign of a changing userbase, but I won't write of
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by dmonitor 1y ago
Elon buying twitter and changing the algorithm to support him probably isn't included in this calculation
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by dmonitor 1y ago
The "if you're not with us, you're against us" mentality is exactly what won the current administration. People like the image of a strong man with his own opinions. Democrats have been retreating to the center on nearly
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by dmonitor 1y ago
You should interpret "not being able to posit your idea" as your idea losing so hard in the marketplace that people refuse to even consider it.
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by dmonitor 1y ago
Their device should definitely have a big red light on top of it
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by dmonitor 1y ago
DIN format radios are still around. My recent-ish corolla's infotainment display is just a well integrated double-DIN. I'm surprised this car doesn't as far as I can tell, have a DIN slot for one.
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by dmonitor 1y ago
That's just hindsight being 20:20
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by dmonitor 1y ago
> banning Twitter This is just practical given you can't see tweet threads (and sometimes even tweets) without an account. > against banning AI Art I think you mean to say reddit is pro-banning AI art? Anyway, banning AI art is a
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by dmonitor 1y ago
Not that term, but a Messiah that will establish / lead a powerful Jewish nation was
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by dmonitor 1y ago
Luke 17:20-37 also seems to support the idea that Jesus was trying to tell people the kingdom was spiritual, not physical. The kingdom as a concept wasn't some novel idea, either. Jesus was claiming he was the fulfillment of the messia
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by dmonitor 1y ago
I can see the appeal of "colonizing mars as an extinction-proof backup plan", but I'm not convinced that it's a positive-EV play. Attempting to go to mars increases odds of our survival in case of earth going to shit by
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by dmonitor 1y ago
We also haven't specified if we're sending live humans to Mars. Just shuck someone onto the next rover we send over and call it a night. Sending a live human, or group of humans, on a suicide mission in the name of bragging righ
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by dmonitor 1y ago
You basically can't give people numbers or statistics because invariably people will try to make that number as big as possible.
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by dmonitor 1y ago
The nature of 4chan makes it more difficult to distinguish from just normal posting. There's not any kind of paper trail to look at and potentially ID the posters. It's also somewhat expected on the site from a cultural standpoint
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by dmonitor 1y ago
> These numbers helped me deduce that many boards' most infamous personalities were all the same guy. Simultaneously one of the best and worst parts about the website was how much a single person could create influence. Some guy spa
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by dmonitor 1y ago
That's crazy. The whole "dank memes" thing and terms like based, boomer, wojak, and soy are all from channer culture. 4chan managed to brand gen Z as the "zoomer" generation. Its cultural pervasiveness is impossibly
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by dmonitor 1y ago
Wiktionary has a surprisingly robust list https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:English_4chan_slang
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by dmonitor 1y ago
> Discord is very much in the same boat of build user base, then either sell or lock people in and charge a lot. It's current model is unsustainable. It will get bought out or enshitify eventually, there's no other sustainable
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by dmonitor 1y ago
the "ignore previous instructions" thing is a classic, but I imagine a few real people would just follow the instructions simply because it's funny. I wonder what a better benchmark would be, and think asking some obscure tri
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by dmonitor 1y ago
Not too difficult to realize what they mean is "please feel comfortable posting your most radical opinions and we'll signal boost the ones that help our agenda"
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by dmonitor 1y ago
That's not it at all. I'm sure there's lots of sycophants out there, but a lot of people just don't find "he's stupid and it's random" a satisfying explanation for his actions, even if they disagree w
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by dmonitor 1y ago
The cell providers also get really opinionated about how much / how often your IoT device talks to the cell towers when they seek to approve your device.
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by dmonitor 2y ago
With homebrew, you can go all the way up to 1TB
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by dmonitor 2y ago
Announcing a solution to joycon drift would require acknowledging drift at all, which would open them to another class action. The camera is sold separately, so you can just not plug it in. The parental controls also lets you turn off chat.
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by dmonitor 2y ago
You will never run out of games to play with a softmodded Wii plus a massive SD card. Make sure your Wii has the correct ports and get some Gamecube controllers too.
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by dmonitor 2y ago
It's a shame that apps like these are "illegal". There's so much fun innovation to be had.
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by dmonitor 2y ago
> Students never get a 20/20. A good grade is a 16/20! This right here I think is a huge factor. Pretty much every top student in my college classes and highschool were essentially just testbots optimizing for maxing out quiz a

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