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My first computer was a C128, and everything has been downhill since.

Interested in retro and modern retro projects.

I know how to code.

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sayomgwtf, to illustration
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From Disney-Pixar's animated film, Turning Red

In the movie, strong emotions 'release the panda,' so she tries to stay emotionless. However, she learns how important it is to feel all 'em feels

Mei Lee ❤️

'Tis Doodle O'Clock ~☆

breadbin,
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@sayomgwtf I was a bit worried when I heard it was a period piece (worst joke of the year) but I think they didn’t overdo the analogy and it was a nice little movie. Not their best, but I enjoyed it. Might watch it again sometime.

sayomgwtf, to illustration
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Fashion designer and auteur

She creates custom-made original outfits for superheroes since the 'glory days'. She is very talented and as demanding of others as she is of herself

Wears the most iconic glasses out of all Disney characters

Edna Mode ❤️

'Tis Doodle O'Clock ~☆

breadbin,
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@sayomgwtf Daaaarling.

eniko, to random
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So Boeing made an automated system that pitches the plane down to avoid stalls on the 737 Max, reliant on a single sensor as a point of failure, which would fight the pilot if the pilot tries to manually correct, and then hid this system from everyone including pilots in training and omitting it from the manual?

Am I getting this right?

How was there not a single engineer who looked at it and went "hmm maybe this isn't robust, which is a problem since the failure mode of this hidden system is that the plane drives itself inexorably into the ground"??

breadbin,
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@eniko I bet you many engineers were upset, and management silenced them. Going against a company in this country isn’t safe:(

(Also yes, shit design. Should have been multiple ones, and the rule is that computers can’t be allowed to make those final decisions.)

sayomgwtf, to illustration
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He is one mischievous little penguin

He is not as popular as Hello Kitty, but is an important Sanrio character. Back in 2006, he was the mascot for the FIBA World Championship of basketball, which was held in Japan

Badtz-Maru ❤️

'Tis Doodle O'Clock ~☆

breadbin,
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@sayomgwtf All I remember is that he has a guard gator, no bark all bite!

(Someone once quoted that, decades ago, and I remembered it for some reason. No idea if it matches:))

atomicpoet, to random

Fun fact: Hasbro, the toy company, used to own Death Row Records.

https://www.complex.com/music/a/cmplxjoshua-espinoza/death-row-records-now-owned-by-hasbro

breadbin,
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@atomicpoet Remember the old “MegaCorps” from various 80s fiction? Turns out they were pretty good at guessing the future:(

drahardja, to generativeAI
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Here’s an illustration of a rudimentary mental model that I use when thinking about advances in computing tools. Computers are already (essentially) Turing-complete, so anything that can be done can in theory already be done using any existing technology. But what these leaps do is that they bring down the SKILL and RESOURCES needed to accomplish a certain task. The red arrow in the image is what such a leap does.

is such a leap. The red dot represents not only something genuinely useful that people used to have to learn a skill or pay someone to do, but can now do with ease (removing a distracting object from a photograph), but also vectors of abuse that similarly gain the same level of ease (crafting misinformation, generating fake revenge porn). With every leap, thousands of these red dots move toward the origin, some good for humanity, and others bad.

Cont’d…

breadbin,
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@drahardja My biggest gripe is the same as with copyright etc. This pools all the riches even more.

Losing your livelihood is far worse than copyright being broken imho. So I think anything generative should be taxed hard (just as anything not needing labour and thus making tons of profit) and turned into UBI. If we end up with more money in, UBI bonus time.

breadbin,
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@drahardja The other giant nut to crack is privacy. Who created the disinformation/harmful content in the first place? Making it illegal and punishable means nothing if you can’t find and stop the source.

But registering everyone is an ever worse problem. Anyone vaguely Asian? CCP sympathizers, camp time. Already happened before:( We shouldn’t register people.

So how do we update society so it’s (sensibly) policeable? I’ve got zero clue:(

eniko, to random
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Love how 4 years into the pandemic we keep rediscovering that covid infection causes heart damage and potential subsequent heart failure, something I remember researchers posting about on twitter in like April of 2020

But nah that 5-15% higher than 2019 levels of excess mortality loads of countries are reporting has nothing to do with covid 🙄

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20231226/p2a/00m/0sc/047000c

breadbin,
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@eniko I’m still wondering if we are looking at a situation where 10+ years down the line we get another disease. Something even worse.

It’s not like it would be a unique thing. But I do not know much about viruses.

atomicpoet, to random

The Street Fighter character Sagat is actually based on a real person.

Sagat Petchyindee was a Muay Thai champion with a 266(151)-40-11 record. He also dabbled in kickboxing and boxing, winning multiple titles.

Sagat is most well-known for his epic rivalries with Dieselnoi Chor Thanasukarn, Pete “Sugarfoot” Cunningham, and Ronnie Green.

breadbin,
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@atomicpoet I suspect a lot of game characters are based on real people, but I’m sure there’s a lot of less famous examples.

But I kinda love the mundane sometimes. Like if a character I based on someone’s sister or high school teacher. They get to live on in an interesting way.

drahardja, to iOS
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[Disclaimer: I know the author of this app from a car club I belong to, but this review is not biased by my relationship with them.]

Here’s an actually good that blends AI and product search. This app recommends gifts for people based on their likes, and you can type in anything you want.

You don’t log in. They don’t collect your info. They don’t collect your friends’ info. They just act as a search engine for plausible gifts within your budget, and they make money from affiliate links, so they get paid only when you buy something.

It’s one of the rare times where the app maker’s incentives align with the users’. This app reminds me of Google when it was a simple search engine that shows you ads based on your search terms, and doesn’t track you all over the web.

It seems to work pretty well for the handful of times I used it.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cheerful/id6450187187

breadbin,
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@drahardja Going to try this on myself. People are dreadful at giving me gifts, so if it works I’ll spread it.

That said one has to really know my interests well. I’m one of those people that don’t want something similar, adjacent, or almost what I want. I intrest levels tend to drop like a cliff.

(If it doesn’t work I might just use it for figuring out gifts for others :))

breadbin,
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@drahardja Sadly ended up not being too useful. I got obvious and already tried avenues and for me it wasn’t terribly useful. Ended up being of the form “like X - buy X”. C’Est la vie.

breadbin,
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@drahardja Not saying it can’t be useful to people, I’m sure it can. But if you want someone that often is an outlier user in some way I’m your man :)

The irony is that it’s fairly easy for me to figure out what I’d buy myself, and if I find the price acceptable, but damn near impossible to get others into that mindset. Because buying what I asked for is boring:(

(Didn’t get any presents I wanted this year btw.)

breadbin,
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@drahardja For me it’s the surprise. I easily make the most in my immediate family so I kinda buy what I want.

It’s like the Anton Ego of getting gifts :)

If you absolutely want to buy me a gift though, then the PG Unleashed RX-78-2 Gundam is a good gift:)

HEXWALKER, to random
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Moving on from an old OS is bullshit. Stay with what you are comfy with.

breadbin,
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@HEXWALKER I abandoned Windows over a decade ago, and the only time I miss it is when I need an obscure tool. Which is a pita, but still better than the alternative :)

It is disheartening that I’m starting to feel this type of feeling with a lot of things. :/

e_urq, to random
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A woman who was once prominent in the detransitioner community now opposes bans on gender-affirming care.

Carey Callahan feels guilty at the role she played in a movement that is hurting both trans people and those who detransition. The Washington Post covered her story today, and I've got some of my own thoughts and analysis.

https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/washington-post-carey-callahan

breadbin,
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@dgoldsmith @e_urq Far too many don’t take kids seriously. It’s like the majority forget that young people are still human beings even if they aren’t fully baked.

The view that children are property has always scared me (especially in the U.S., it was such a culture chock) and that was before I was aware of these even worse things:( Same with how children who aren’t straight gets tossed out of their homes.

xodium, to random
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Shen Comix posted this and it reminded me I had a Thing to say about Fortnite: I actually didn't mind it...at first. When it was still fresh, and people were new to it.

Then the insanity builders got in and made it not fun. I know no-build exists now, but...then it became The Everything Game and that just turned me off massively.

And this is before we get to the point that, well, Fortnite probably funded the EGS and Epic's desire to just be absolute dicks.

breadbin,
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@xodium People forget that when Epic attacks some other company. They have a zero interest in helping us. They aren’t suing anyone to make our lives better. They want to get our money and all our info (I wouldn’t dream of giving them my credit card).

In a biz shock full with extra terrible companies, they are bad.

IMHO.

sayomgwtf, to illustration
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Nintendo love ⭐️

Many Kirby games have performed commercially well, selling at least one million or more copies worldwide. Kirby's Dream Land was the best-selling one until Kirby and the Forgotten Land released

Kirby ❤️

'Tis Doodle O'Clock ~☆

breadbin,
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@sayomgwtf Kirby is such a fantastic character design. So so simple and good.

chikorita157, (edited ) to random
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Finally back after touching grass. Now for todays anime review later tonight

breadbin,
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@chikorita157 (I first saw the pre-edit one. My brain did a double take there:))

drahardja, to random
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Sometimes I read about people asking for a taxpayer-paid, publicly-owned social media platform, and I wonder what that would look like in the US thanks to our government’s 1st Amendment obligations. How much power would the agency who runs it even have to moderate Nazis and abuse? Any power to control abuse will be weaponized by regressive states to control progressive speech. Is a public social media stratum really going to be better than the Fediverse?

And think of the surveillance that might occur. I’m pretty sure a government-run platform will pretty quickly require real ID checks for accounts for “security” reasons and to participate in any government business online.

I understand the desire for a truly democratized, money-is-not-speech communications platform. But a common transport layer for messages is only the beginning. Who does the administration? Will they do better than today’s private counterparts? How will admin powers not be abused to silence legitimate dissent?

breadbin,
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@drahardja That’s kind of a zero to escape velocity type of a thing. That and it doesn’t feel the 1st means much right now.

If we look at USPS (which needs new leadership and a lot more funding!) they won’t open mail to see if it’s ok to deliver it.

So a government ran social media would either be completely unmoderated or straight up Stasi. There are a lot of things I think the government should provide (healthcare, clean air and water, the internet, education, etc). But social media, no.

breadbin,
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@drahardja I do think the government should provide UBI (and not some fraction of minimum wage version for the record), which would free up a lot of people to do things that benefits society instead of make the rich richer.

So I think that one layer of indirection is better for social media and society than the department of microblogs and racist memes.

YMMV.

eniko, to random
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apparently YT picked up on my video overnight. also: obligatory nice

breadbin,
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@eniko Lots of people ramping up for the holidays?

atomicpoet, to random

I love how we all convinced Gen Z that the 80s were about hanging out on rooftops while gazing at neon signs.

breadbin,
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@atomicpoet @SeasonsChange The Ferrari (lame) or Lamborghini Countach (Elite) poster on the wall was real. And so was the Countach in Cannonball Run.

I avoid rewatching any movie I have nostalgia for, because I generally don’t remember the awful parts.

atomicpoet, (edited ) to random

Early 80s video game art is hilarious.

For example, this is the box art for Lode Runner. I don’t know about you, but I didn’t expect such a realistic portrayal. The man is literally wearing a fanny pack of gold bars while swinging from monkey bars and simultaneously shooting at robots. I have so many unanswered questions!

breadbin,
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@atomicpoet Reminds me of intros to games. You get some amazing 3D pre-rendered intro that gets you hyped to be max. Every fancy chemical known to man is pumping through one’s body. It’s go time!

And the game looks nothing like it at all, just way way less cool.

daringfireball, to random
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Axios: ‘Warner Bros. Discovery in Talks to Merge With Paramount’
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/12/21/warner-bros-paramount

breadbin,
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@daringfireball This is going to turn out really really poorly. I’d rather just about anyone else buy it. Hell I wish MS would buy it AND WBD because they most certainly would do better.

When I want a big corp to buy things like this, things have gone awry.

sayomgwtf, to illustration
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He is everyone's favorite antagonist

He is considered to be a Wario Series character despite not appearing in any of the Wario games. Also, according to Nintendo Power magazine, his real name is Jimmy Papadopoulos

Waluigi ❤️

'Tis Doodle O'Clock ~☆

breadbin,
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@sayomgwtf Or he has to run a scary house (reverse Luigi’s Mansion).

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