komali2

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by komali2 11mo ago
> Any display or system you end up using needs HDCP 2.2 compliance to play 4K or HDR content via a streaming service or any other DRM-protected 4K or HDR media, like a Blu-ray disc. This plus all the notes below about how various apps wo
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by komali2 11mo ago
The colorful plastic chips work well enough to trick our dumb monkey brains, just like red notification bubbles.
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by komali2 11mo ago
> The Instagram explore page that shapes her taste. The vocabulary borrowed from her favorite online therapist. Micro-influencers she follows without thinking. The TikTok algorithm that nudges her mood. The attachment style she diagnosed
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by komali2 11mo ago
I'm completely happy for everything to be free. Free as in freedom, especially! Agpl3, creative commons, let's do it! But for some reason corporations don't want that, I guess they want to be allowed to just take from the com
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by komali2 11mo ago
Reminds me of when 4chan banned Russia entirely to stop DDOSes. I can't find it but there was a funny post from Hiro saying something like "couldn't figure out how to stop the ddos. Banned Russia. Ddos ended. So Russia is ban
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by komali2 11mo ago
This drives me crazy because I use dmenu to launch things, and every time I want to launch a subsonic client I'm like "blueberry? Wayshin... Weish... Fei... FEISHIN!" Just call it "subsonicfeishin" or something at l
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by komali2 11mo ago
Yes, absolutely, and most of the media would have portrayed him as an antifa rioter. Maybe the civil rights movement wouldn't even be possible in this era.
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by komali2 11mo ago
I thought the point of laws was not that enforcement is perfect but rather that the consequence of getting caught created a counter-incentive to doing the thing?
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by komali2 11mo ago
The civil rights movement was organized before social media existed.
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by komali2 11mo ago
We had a bizarre time as a brick and mortar being even allowed to be on Google Maps. We had to take multiple pictures and videos of outside of our business with our sign, and then schedule a call with someone not in our country (or didn&#x2
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by komali2 11mo ago
"Decide" is a heavily weighted word here. From what did they decide? Was the field from which they were deciding, perhaps monopolized, or ologipopalized? Was there information skewed by the entities hoping to be chosen? Do said en
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by komali2 11mo ago
Is that what happened with cigarettes? Remember how pervasive cigarette ads used to be? Human behavior is variable and can be influenced, even against our best interest. At what point do we acknowledge advertising as a form of psychological
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by komali2 11mo ago
I was in this world for like 8 years but switched to Thunderbird after one too many emails didn't send because I missed some notification or something in mu4e, and too many emails weren't rendering well in Emacs, and etc little pr
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by komali2 11mo ago
Sorry, I don't quite understand what this means, can you help?
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by komali2 11mo ago
> I tell my granddaughters: work, save, don’t depend on anyone. The world is getting harder. This woman lived through fascist Italy and everything that came after, and then says this about the way the world is going.
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by komali2 11mo ago
Did you have access to as many games back then? Maybe the novelty is less for this game? If I wanted to play a game like this I'd play Lonely Mountain: Downhill, which has waaay more content.
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by komali2 11mo ago
Hah, I wish I had the space for this and original hardware! For me it's hard to justify the space and cost when I can just have all the videogames ever made on a couple SSDs and run them on emulators. Then again, I seem to have acciden
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by komali2 11mo ago
> there is no real world use case for a middle-ground (c) where you want someone with algo implementation details rote-memorized in their brain and without the very deep understanding that would make the rote-memorization unnecessary! I
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by komali2 11mo ago
I've been getting more and more into retro gaming lately, and something that really made it click for me is leveraging shaders (or overlays) to simulate period-accurate displays. For a Sega Saturn, that'd be some kind of CRT. The
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by komali2 11mo ago
Well, I will love to go to Portugal someday, but for now I used the internet, and found out that since Portugal decriminalized heroin, its drug usage has fallen below EU average: https://transformdrugs.org/blog/drug-dec
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by komali2 11mo ago
Is transport the bit that reels the tapes? I watched a YouTube video recently about these that said that it seems all these modern ones are using basically the same mechanism from a PRC factory, and thus the minimum size is quite large. Sin
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by komali2 11mo ago
Sf fire department has also a pdf with what you should have in an at home emergency kit. It's some simple things you can get in one trip to a camping store and Walgreens. https://sf-fire.org/media/794/download
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by komali2 11mo ago
> Using a cryptocurrency (originally) meant basically opting out of the governmental violence-as-a-service for cryptocurrency/-token purposes and taking care of this aspect by yourself. Cryptocurrency was a hidden blade. People were
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by komali2 11mo ago
Yes! I've been thinking for a while that crypto/libertarianism borrows a lot of language from anarchist philosophy, but redirects that energy towards an environment that's even more capitalistic than our liberal democracies.
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by komali2 11mo ago
> Work is literally THE worst place to make human connections I don't necessarily disagree, but I make a slightly different argument, in that, humans will make human connections, whether they like it or not, and the most typical
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by komali2 11mo ago
I think just the smallest interaction with other humans on a day to day basis is pretty important for our happiness, even for introverts.
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by komali2 11mo ago
I've met some people like this and my theory, based as well on my own experience of how to get me to actually do things, is that humans are hugely dependent on externalizing (or, structures) to get things done. So when working from hom
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by komali2 11mo ago
That's not as random as letting me choose them! They had to be allowed onto the range, show ID, afford the gun, probably do a background check to get the gun unless they used a loophole (which usually requires some social capital). I&#
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by komali2 11mo ago
Ok sure I'm down for this hypothetical. I will bring 50 random people in front of you, and you will hand all 50 of them loaded guns. Still feeling it?
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by komali2 11mo ago
> See also efficient market hypothesis. On your original post, you said they pay lower in other places because they can, which I agree with, of course companies will pay as little as they can, because margin on labor is the key profit m

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