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o76923

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I'm a nerd who plays #Arknights and watches #anime. I'm a big fan of #StarTrek. I'm a bit of a #furry. If you met me on the Fediverse, it's probably my work trying to document stuff about #neomoji.

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bobpony, to random
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Anyone gonna switch to Mozilla Firefox?

o76923,
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@Terminhell @bobpony @fitik

Yeah, Hill said those limitations both made it so they couldn't reimplement some of the features currently in UBlock Origin and was a sign that Google is just going to keep getting worse. That's why he made the choice to try to coerce people into other platforms by making it only available in non-Chrome browsers going forward.

o76923,
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@fitik @bobpony

It's a deliberate choice by Raymond Hill, lead dev of uBlock Origin. Architecturally, they lose access to some of the stuff they use for ad blocking and it's easier for Google to circumvent ad blockers using M3. So he is encouraging people to switch browsers by not fighting the extra garbage.

UBlock Origin Lite will still work because it uses Manifest version 3 but it isn't as fully featured because it can't be.

thomasfuchs, (edited ) to random
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Just learned what the user interfaces in the SpaceX capsules run.

The capsules that provide life support for people traveling into space and have to be absolutely reliable.

The user interface that controls an explosion.

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.

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It runs some home-compiled version of Chromium and the UI is written in JavaScript.

o76923,
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@thomasfuchs

But Mercury-punk looks so cool. If you ever had an excuse to design a space ship, why wouldn't every button, dial, switch, and lever look like it came off a 1950s assembly line?

DrTCombs, to random
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Y'all, she's 53 inches tall.
4 feet, 5 inches.
And still not tall enough to "be seen."

o76923,
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@DrTCombs

Where's that infographic showing the M-1 Abrams tank has better ground visibility?

At a bare minimum, these vehicles should require a front camera (or periscope?).

VeryBadLlama, to random
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I wonder if my medieval ancestors would be surprised to learn that, hundreds of years later, the main activities in my life are still "try not to die in the Great Plague" and "watch people argue about the legitimacy of the current Pope"

o76923,
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@VeryBadLlama

They probably wouldn't, oddly enough. The notion that things change over time in a way that will be broadly beneficial to your children is a shockingly new concept, over the time scale of human history. Humans have been aware that stuff is different than it used to be even in our oldest written texts but the idea of "progress" only dates back to the 19th century or debatably the 17th if you consider some Enlightenment ideas close enough.

Until recently most people thought civilization was either static or cyclical with some debate over how regional or population specific those were and if god(s), man, or disasters were responsible for those changes.

jasonkoebler, to random
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New: Firefox users have reported an "artificial" 5-second delay when they try to load YouTube videos that is magically fixed if they use Chrome, which has been going viral in a few different places. I asked Google what is going on. They

  1. Didn't deny the artificial wait time is happening
  2. Said it's part of its war on ad blockers, not targeted at Firefox

Mozilla also told me no indication this is targeted at Firefox

https://www.404media.co/youtube-says-new-5-second-video-load-delay-is-supposed-to-punish-ad-blockers-not-firefox-users/

o76923,
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@falcennial @jasonkoebler

The important thing to remember about Google is that they haven't been great at anything technical in a very long time. They have so much money and such a large user base that they don't have to be so perverse incentives optimized away from being good at things.

Unfortunately, that doesn't mean it's any easier for a better alternative to enter the market.

josephcox, to random

Wild: Google confirms it is throttling YouTube load times for some viewers. Firefox users reported the issue today. Google says, instead, it’s supposed to tackle ad-blockers regardless of the browser used https://404media.co/youtube-says-new-5-second-video-load-delay-is-supposed-to-punish-ad-blockers-not-firefox-users/

o76923,
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@josephcox

I wonder if this is disabled in the EU. They seem more likely to not take kindly to this sort of thing.

theresnotime, to random

Fedi. As. Fuck.

o76923,
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@theresnotime

I wonder if this is the post that got a Republican politician to mock leftist Thanksgiving by saying we had "Mommy milkers mac & cheese" as one of the dishes.

ginny, to random

gonna make my own damn search engine and if your website plays a fucking video in the lower right corner you can’t be in it

o76923,
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@ginny

If you need to hire somebody with lots of experience with Latent Semantic Indexing (what Google used until pagerank), I know a guy. It's me.

addmen, to random

I really want a necklace that speaks to me (not literally ya weirdo). I tend to lean towards the pagan things, earthly things, like the tree of life.

I need help finding stuff though. I want it to be quality (gold, white gold, not gonna have an allergic reaction/green skin kinda thing).

Sites? Brands? Help?? 🥴
Whats good?

o76923,
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@addmen

My first reaction was to look for a singing fish (Big Mouth Billy Bass) keychain and suggest that as a pendant... then I finished reading your post.

Have this anyway.

🐟🐟🐟

astra_vulpes, to random

everyone wants a catboy until you make him food and he stops eating after having eaten half of the meal. then he looks at the half empty plate, looks at you straight in the eyes and says "it's empty"

o76923,
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@astra_vulpes

My cat-cat, Botch, once complained about not being fed—while food was in her mouth. I had a partner who just moved in with their cat so Botch reacted to the second can opening the same way she did to the first by whining and trying to get to it.

At some point, I aspire to have a cat-partner do the same.

benkramer, to animals
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Dis floof in the morning sun.

o76923,
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@benkramer

I have never seen another cat who looks so much like my cat, Botch. It's uncanny. Yours isn't a shelter cat from Iowa is it?

o76923, to random
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What happened to that post about bridge-based recommender algorithms? The article achieved new heights in centrist brainrot and I wanted to dunk on it.

o76923, to random
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has asked that we target HP, Puma, and Marvel (not Disney more broadly) for Black Friday through Cyber Monday. This doesn't supercede their existing list but they want to draw attention to these companies because it's something consumers can do.

HP is targeted because they run most of the servers for the Israeli state including their prisons, the ID cards with de jure racism, and the system they use for targeted killings.

Puma is targeted because they support a soccer league for settlers in the West Bank.

Marvel is targeted because they are including the character Sabra in the upcoming Captain America movie (she's a pretty awful character they keep claiming they're trying to rehabilitate or give a new take on but she's always Islamophobic even after "getting better" at the end of her arc).

yassie_j, to random

My dad, upon seeing my lockscreen wallpaper:

“Is she one of them waifus, kiddo?”

o76923,
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@yassie_j @mia

Oh. That's one of the boat ladies from Azur Lane, isn't it?

o76923, to chess
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The writing in is just so freaking good.

The theme for the Perilous Advancement event is . It actually builds up some interesting gameplay mechanics around it but, once again, it's the story that I truly love. The Professor is trapped by the big bad, Eucharist, who decides to toy with the Professor by playing a rigged game of chess while her machinations finish in the Magrasea. But, to show the event is rigged in her favor, she takes the first move despite being the black player.

The first 30ish stages/cutscenes in the event set up the dynamic where events in the chess game parallel what's happening in Magrasea. Around halfway into it, they establish a rule that each time the Professor takes a piece, he may send one message to the outside. But instead of using them to give orders to Oasis (our team), he contacts the Sanctifiers, Lind, and Turing because calling on allies is more important and he trusts Persicaria absolutely—even though the player can clearly see how badly she is struggling in the role and she herself wishes the Professor were able to take over.

So, we transitioned from it being a metaphor to being tactical. You'd think that means the professor is just setting other pieces in motion. Eucharist brings it back trying to make metaphors about sacrificing and using our allies then about how arrogant the Professor must be to think they're the king instead of a pawn (leaning hard on the 4th wall). By this point, the Professor has all but won as Eucharist has taken the bait in game, losing multiple pieces to a fork then skewer set up by a promoted pawn. She loses her cool and angrily makes bad moves costing her most of her remaining pieces.

Then we get some badass lines like "since I took a piece, I can send a message" where hundreds of targeting reticles appear on Eucharist from Sanctifiers showing up.

After the Professor formally wins, we mention that we've never been much for chess because our preferred game is Go. That's a reference to the saying that "Go is to chess as chess is to checkers", which works because the Professor did just outplay Eucharist relying on much more depth of strategy. Eucharist then states that she doesn't even know how to play to which the professor responds, "In Go, black takes the first move."

That isn't actually the end of the story but it has a huge spoiler so it needs another post.

Eucharist liked the aesthetics of chess and taunted with metaphors. There were tactical elements creating side incentives. There was an allegorical parallel to the event. There were game mechanics tied in to the stages. And it all leads to a supremely satisfying twist. They use the Chess theme so much better in Perilous Advancement than 99% of games that do a chess themed event.

mia, to random
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someone YOU know could be suffering from vaushism

o76923,
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@mia

Is that kinda like Wu-diocy?

spinach, to random
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i should make a new linux distro called Russian Roulette Linux where every 60 seconds a random active PID is selected and killed with SIGKILL

o76923,
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@spinach

Friar Tuck and Little John for every program would have some advantages over systemd...

o76923, to random
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It had not occurred to me that equipping oath skins on so many dolls in would negatively impact game performance because they're so much more detailed. This feels like a metaphor for polyamory secretly being an exercise in schedule management.

o76923, to random
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Lolipopgi has developed a recurring joke on her stream that Linux users are virgins. Yeah, it's a bit problematic to use virgin as an insult like that but honestly I'm just so distracted by how dated of an insult it is.

Setting aside that Android phones and 90% of websites run Linux, who is your stereotypical Linux user? In my circles at least, Linux user ≈ sys admin or software dev. So they're furries and/or trans women. I don't exactly associate either of those groups with being virgins.

nixCraft, to random
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ml engineers watching frontend devs build ai startups 🤷🏽

o76923,
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@alxlg @nixCraft
p(knows_{math}|does_{ML})=frac{p(does_{ML}|knows_{math})×p(knows_{math})}{p(does_{ML})}

o76923, to random
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I just saw an interesting theory about the latest event: They released the oath system early because they wanted that to dominate discussion instead of the ultra-mega spoiler from the event's ending.

They wanted the players distracted to protect the story. The thing that happens at the end is thematic, tragic, in character, and has been foreshadowed since at least chapter 2 but it still caught me off guard. Even as disconnected as I am from other players, I'm still surprised it wasn't spoiled for me.

spinach, to random
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foxing match (competition to see who can act the most like a fox)

o76923,
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@spinach

I'm surprised that I haven't seen someone go awawawawawa yet. Or is that only a thing foxgirls do?

o76923, to ChatGPT
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Code Bullet's latest video has him screenshotting and following the advice that gives him on what moves to make. It's such a perfect encapsulation of what ChatGPT is. It is trained on enough scraped internet data that it is capable of recognizing copyrighted assets and spitting out proprietary game rules/mechanics. However, it gets lots of them wrong. Moreover, even with all that stolen data, it still has no idea what is going on, hallucinates mechanics, can't strategize, and can't produce coherent instructions.

An algorithm like, "spend all your money buying pets, preferring duplicates then most to least expensive" would be more effective and use approximately 0.1% of the carbon footprint.

https://youtu.be/dI43FJGa52A?si=XJlKmJzlEfAtYBtz

o76923, to epicseven
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just rolled out its oath system. If you don't play games, it's a way to "marry" your favorite character. Their icon gets a decoration, you get a little cutscene, you can raise their trust even higher, sometimes they get extra lines or outfits. It's a very pandering thing but it's just part of the collector genre.

Obviously, not everyone who plays these games cares about that kind of thing. So people are doing stuff like oathing Uranus, a robotic turret that wields NERF guns. But I just saw something even funnier.

Somebody asked what the "meta" choice would be. From a pure gameplay perspective, who should they marry? After some discussion the conclusion was that since the extra trust allows you to increase their HP by 8%, the optimal choice would be a character with lots of HP and an ability dependent on it. The far and away winner in those categories is a guard named Bonee. She's a child-like character built to be an orthopedic surgeon.

People are joking that her oath line is "FBI, open up!"

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