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by sersi 2y ago
I used to think like you but the rise of the extreme right wing (and extreme left wing) in Europe and the US has convinced me I was wrong. You're right a kid with a hundred dollars of hardware and an internet connection might be able t
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by sersi 2y ago
I am increasingly worried that the combination of social media, AI generated text and deepfakes is the death knell of the beautiful dream that is democracy. If a massive amount of voters can easily be influenced by whoever is the least ethi
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by sersi 2y ago
Yeah, I noticed, it's been rather annoying. Even fanficfare hasn't yet been updated to strip that.
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by sersi 2y ago
Only wish there was a way to get new patreon chapters in pocket automatically.
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by sersi 2y ago
Not sure why that was flagged. Comparing statistics between countries is always fraught because of different ways of measuring such statistics and I think this is a great example of how much of a difference measurement methods can make.
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by sersi 2y ago
The Pocket integration with Kobo is really a godsend and why I end up using it way more than my kindle (despite prefering how the kindle Oasis feels in my hand)
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by sersi 2y ago
The author starts by giving 6 tiny thumbnails 3 of which are fine and 3 of which are uncanny. I honestly don't see how the 3 marked as uncanny are uncanny. They also don't mention from which films/media those images are. I re
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by sersi 2y ago
Ha! my dad celebrated my announcement by inviting me to a good restaurant. I would never have thought about hiding that from my parents and I had their full support to bring my girlfriend back to my room (and later for the night)
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by sersi 2y ago
Ok, yeah as teen if I skipped any schedule things to go to a friend house, my parents wouldn't have batted an eye. Outside of school obligations, the rest was my own choice.
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by sersi 2y ago
I'm curious why not pointing the weapon at the ground? (I've never been to a firing range so this might be a stupid question)
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by sersi 2y ago
I mean, when people bring up unsupervised use of internet, I always remember that my first exposure to porn in the 90s was a site called animal sex farm (there was a list with leaked credentials for porn site that I stumbled into and that w
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by sersi 2y ago
What did you do that your parents didn't want you to do? Some concrete examples? I'm asking because I'm having a hard time coming up with examples of things that both my parents wouldn't have wanted me to do and would be
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by sersi 2y ago
At least from discussions I've had over the years with my accountants, comply and evade are very different. Evasion is when you are doing something that's explicitly illegal. Optimization and compliance is when you comply with the
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by sersi 2y ago
I first switched to ddg but kept using !g because I often wasn't satisfied. Since I've switched to kagi, I barely ever fallback to google (only sometimes for very local results)
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by sersi 2y ago
I've tried that before but the latency bothers me a lot even when typing, etc.
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by sersi 2y ago
I was about to write the same comment but you expressed it much better. I would also be happy if it could be both an android tablet but have a monitor mode where it just becomes a monitor.
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by sersi 2y ago
The problem is that to be able to make a purchasing decision toward repairability there must be actual choices that offer better repairability. That doesn't seem to be the case for phones unfortunately.
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by sersi 2y ago
Oh yes, they've also done another game that's very much in the spirit of the old King's Quest. Order of the Thorne. The lead developer has chronic health problems unfortunately so that slows development by a lot. He has a pat
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by sersi 2y ago
Oh, I actually thought it was less of a grindfest than Heroine's quest and mage initiation or at least I really don't remember grinding much.
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by sersi 2y ago
Conquest of the Longbow is a masterpiece. As a kid, I loved the fact that a lot of puzzles had multiple solutions. It was definitely not an easy adventure game though, I remember being stuck on some of the puzzles using gems and trees.
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by sersi 2y ago
The King's Quest game from 2015 started out excellent with some great puzzles and felt like a modern King's Quest. Unfortunately the later chapters were much lighter in terms of puzzles. For Quest of Glory, I'd recommend Hero
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by sersi 2y ago
> “I began to suspect that I was either in a dream of my own construction or trapped in some kind of fake reality constructed by someone else,” he wrote in an essay in 2020. “Could I be in a coma or some afterlife limbo state?” I've
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by sersi 3y ago
Nice, I love Humongous so knew about PJ Sam (and plan to play Putt Putt together with him) but didn't know Zoombinis and Crystal Rainforest. Any other recommendations?
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by sersi 3y ago
I loved LOGO as a kid, my father was a teacher and he had a robotic LOGO turtle mounted with a pen that could be used to trace on A3 paper. Lot's of fun but that was more around 6 years old or so.
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by sersi 3y ago
Thanks for the Tux Paint suggestion, I played a lot with Kid Pix as a kid and it seems that Tux Paint is similar :) Haven't looked at the PBS shows yet, right now our son has been rather obsessed in a BBC show called Maddie do you know
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by sersi 3y ago
It's a neat project and great that it's opensource. I'm not an expert though but when I compare this to Educational apps from my childhood like Adibou or Castle of Dr Brain, it seems the activities are not as fun with the exc
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by sersi 3y ago
Yes, I really wish they hadn't done that Karen/Danny subplot. It was a cheap way of introducing tension between characters that didn't add anything to the show. If it were most other show, this particularly subplot would have
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by sersi 3y ago
Of those, Foundation is the only one I wouldn't recommend at all. It might be middling if it was named something else but as a show that purports to be Foundation it's a complete insult to the books. But the other shows, especiall
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by sersi 3y ago
It depends on the region you were born in. I was born in the country side of normandy where there's plenty of horse breeders. Some primary schools there will bring the kids once a week to do horse riding and seeing horses is somewhat c
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by sersi 3y ago
9 months ago I early retired (I'm in my 40s)... I've just decided to find a new job because I'm bored. Opensource is fun and I did contribute somewhat but I find that working on an interesting problem in a team is just fun an

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