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by zeta0134 3y ago
I've long since blocked the recommendation content. No sidebar, no end-of-video overlay, no homepage content at all. Just a search box, thanks. (And even that's gotten functionally useless over the years; external search engines a
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by zeta0134 3y ago
I don't think there's any claim you could make about the language model, factual or otherwise, that would resolve my primary hangup. As a non-native learner of a new language, I do not have a trained bullshit detector for that lan
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by zeta0134 3y ago
I'd be happy to pay for such a service if the stories were written by a human, but once I learned the stories are AI generated, I bounced. Even if they're edited by a native speaker, something about that feels off. I want to learn
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by zeta0134 3y ago
I've been! To that and the creation museum, run by the same group. Boy it's an experience, as a former Christian that had to come out of the closet. There's like... a willing suspense of disbelief that one must accept for pre
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by zeta0134 3y ago
The most gigantic red flag for the platform right now is that embedded twitter links are completely broken until you log in. I'm regularly *not* logged in on most of my devices, especially my work machines, and it means I'm now tr
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by zeta0134 3y ago
I guess I'm more surprised that these were anonymous at some point. That seems like a pretty normal thing to track when you pay employees hourly. Were they in the building when they claimed to be working? Like I realize this is charged
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by zeta0134 3y ago
Ah, this probably also explains why a bunch of sites have started requesting Speech Synthesis capabilities on Firefox, which it blocks (yay) but notifies about each time (less yay). I figured it was fingerprinting or some other nonsense.
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by zeta0134 3y ago
When I was paying for Netflix, I still found it easier to download the shows I was interested in watching as this permitted me to remember my place, dodge their shitty player UI, and not deal with crappy internet problems causing the stream
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by zeta0134 3y ago
Stupid question I suppose: what's stopping the family from turning right back around and suing the HOA for the now presumably lost value of the home, to the tune of 100% of the mortgage payments made minus the supposedly owed fees?
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by zeta0134 3y ago
This is a dangerous argument. Shall we make it illegal to switch radio stations when they stop playing music and start running commercials? After all, the advertiser paid good money for those commercials to play. Shouldn't everyone be
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by zeta0134 3y ago
Sure they are. They were delivered to my browser, for free, without any exchange of currency on my part. The page offered to deliver the ads alongside the content. Whether I chose to consume the ad is, again, my business , not the site&#x2
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by zeta0134 3y ago
They've already given it away for free by uploading it to YouTube. That I choose to consume the content outside of the free web player is not their business at that point. Most frequently I do this because I am analyzing the audio, a
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by zeta0134 3y ago
The typical hello world is actually a CHIP 8 emulator, which is a type of VM that ran on an old calculator, the specifics of which elude me. It's got a tiny memory space, simple instructions and a handful of features, so it's the
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by zeta0134 3y ago
Probably the nicest bonus feature of Mastodon is that I can subscribe to a friend's original posts but unsubscribe to their "boosts," which is Mastodon's way to quickly share content. This way I can follow artists that m
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by zeta0134 3y ago
Primarily because I already pay for YouTube Premium on my main devices, but some of my other devices aren't signed into that. I'm not paying for it twice, especially not on my work account, that would be inappropriate. I already s
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by zeta0134 3y ago
Well this is a topical place to ask this tangent I suppose. My GPU is on the fritz and I'm looking to replace it. Has anyone gotten SteamVR working decently under Linux through Proton? If so, what GPU do you have? It's basically i
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by zeta0134 3y ago
And since it is positioned and looks like the Sublime Text minimap, I instinctively tried to click on it to scroll to part of the page, and was saddened that this does not work. That would be the most logical extension, that feature is rea
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by zeta0134 3y ago
Jake Kaufman was kind enough to release the entire Shovel Knight OST as an NSF under creative commons, meaning we're allowed to host it and do cool stuff with it. So I'll take this opportunity to plug an NES visualizer I've b
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by zeta0134 3y ago
And for heck's sake outlook, really , did we NEED modifier-less keyboard shortcuts triggered by single letters? $deity help you if you try to type in Slack while Outlook's Web App is focused; you're likely to archive a dozen
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by zeta0134 3y ago
I went KDE Plasma. It works pretty well, it feels close enough to Windows that the transition is as painless as possible, and it's got tons of advanced tweaks for power users. GTK and Qt apps both seem to run fine under it. Most import
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by zeta0134 3y ago
I'm really irritated by Arch's meme status, because it's genuinely a solid distro and out of all the weird Linux workstations I've spun up over the years, my Arch workstations have given me the least trouble. Manjaro, be
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by zeta0134 3y ago
Music. String ensembles are the best, choir is a close second. Rapid response, mild euphoria, no unpleasant side effects. Repeated exposure can induce fatigue, making it an excellent sleep aid.
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by zeta0134 3y ago
Presumably many brute force attempts come from compromised residential PCs, whose owners may not be aware that they are participating in an attack. It's not especially polite to expose all of that personal info.
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by zeta0134 3y ago
Dozens and dozens, too many to list. Modern favorites include Celeste, Hades, Ibb and Obb, Shovel Knight, Paper Mario: The Origami King, and Cadence of Hyrule, just to name a few. No life events really, it's just that when I code I pre
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by zeta0134 3y ago
I mostly consume videogame soundtracks as my background music. My downloader script solves several problems: - I can play the entire OST on company / otherwise awful internet, where bandwidth is not free - The player doesn't pause
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by zeta0134 3y ago
> The European Commission has published its biannual list of foreign countries with problematic copyright policies. ... Interestingly, the EU doesn't mention the United States, which is arguably the most significant country yet to i
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by zeta0134 3y ago
For your enjoyment, may I present: "Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda_CD-i_games But for more official games, I find Phantom Hourglass to be the weakest entry in t
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by zeta0134 3y ago
The impressive part of the NES was its picture processing unit, which among other things finally delivered on an arcade-like experience at home and gained mass appeal in the process. For the time it was considered quite an advanced chip in
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by zeta0134 3y ago
I'm irritated to learn that proper nouns are allowed. That's unusual for word games, and imho breaks the spirit of the thing. But honestly most of the frustration is not knowing whether the game is going to treat two words as rela
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by zeta0134 3y ago
YouTube is by no means the primary reason I run my ad blocker. That it works on YouTube is a side bonus, mostly useful if I need to watch something in an incognito window or while I'm signed into my work account. I pay for Premium on m

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