Deebster

Deebster, 11 days ago (edited 11 days ago)

In Foobar2000, Shpeck allows you to run those old Winamp vis plugins - I have Milkdrop 2.2 with all those old classics. They still look great on modern tech!

Deebster, 11 days ago (edited 11 days ago)

I’ve been building my music collection since I was ripping CDs by hitting play, recording in Win95 Sound Recorder and running the .wav through LAME (nowadays EAC to flac, of course). I see no need to pay a subscription to listen to my music, when I can just use that same money to buy and own the albums* and not worry about them disappearing.

• also means more money goes to the artist

Also Navidrome + Symfonium means I can still stream to my phone so the only benefit Spotify etc has is new music, but YouTube (+ uBlock) gives me that.

Deebster, 4 months ago

Maybe it’s an attempt to evade automated systems that check for spam.

Deebster, 19 days ago

What’s this kind of thing called in linguistics? Where you parse the sentence wrong (for comedic effect in this case), something about dangling modifiers, maybe?

Deebster, 8 days ago

I found v1: cohost.org/…/185658-logo-designs-from-th

Deebster, 23 days ago (edited 23 days ago)

Maybe his analysis considered this, but the article doesn’t mention real-world factors like the climate crisis, the cost of living crisis, and what feels like the resurgence of fascism and the spectre of World War 3. It’s noted that liberal families seem more susceptible - perhaps it’s because right-wing families are more likely to believe these things aren’t real, or aren’t a problem?

Deebster, 11 days ago

There’s the idiom “return to the fold” which means come back to a group, but aside from that I don’t think many non-farmers know that meaning of fold.

Deebster, 14 days ago

Thanks for explaining it, not sure why you’ve collected those downvotes.

Deebster, 14 days ago (edited 14 days ago)

Do you also attack dictionaries for explaining offensive words? The person I’m talking to never used the term, they merely explained the meaning behind the number.

What you are doing is shooting the messenger. Please target your outrage more carefully in future.

Deebster, 14 days ago

Yeah, it’s probably shooting the messenger. Reminds me of once on Reddit where someone had asked a similar question and I’d replied with a sourced quote from the dictionary and got complaining replies and downvotes.

Deebster, 21 days ago

I am pro both existing side by side, which is pro-Palestine and pro-Israel. Are you calling the many Israelis who would like to peacefully co-exist anti-Israel?

Deebster, 21 days ago

Really I was arguing with the “anti-Israel” part, since I don’t think that’s merely interpreted as meaning you’re not in favour of Israeli policy. I was attempting to agree with the top of the thread’s implication that “anti-Israel” feels like it’s been used as a short step away from “antisemitic”, which Israel has a long history of using in the face of any criticism.

Deebster, 21 days ago

I disagree that being in favour of something means you agree with everything they do, but for the record, I’ve been to Palestine several times and I didn’t liked what Israel was doing back then, let alone the current disgusting atrocities that Netanyahu’s currently perpetuating.

Deebster, 25 days ago

My absolute favourite is when the examples say something like “production code should not be written like this, this is just for clarity” with no indication of what’s wrong with the code.

Is it just normal Rust stuff like there’s unwraps everywhere and it’s one big file? Does the example have security or performance problems? Is the example unidiomatic or over-verbose or is it ignoring features real-world code would use? EXPLAIN YOURSELF!

Deebster, 23 days ago (edited 18 days ago)

CNLabelContactRelationYoungerCousinMothersSiblingsSonOrFathersSistersSon

The label for the contact’s mother’s sibling’s younger son or father’s sister’s younger son.

I thought it was just a male cousin, but it doesn’t include a cousin who’s your uncle’s son. Which culture needs this?

Deebster, 25 days ago

Those photos really sell the value of those satellites. It seems ridiculous that we don’t have replacements up there given how many launches there’s been in recent years.

Deebster, 25 days ago

Compare to MessagePack’s example from their front page:

https://programming.dev/pictrs/image/16329c49-dfe7-4e0d-85a7-cca3c69aae50.png

It answers 90% of my questions in a quick example.

Deebster, 13 days ago

I used to have some with e-ink displays that showed how full they were, but I always wished I could use them to show a label instead.

Deebster, 9 days ago

Well good news then, since they were joking (I guess) - it’s a mod to improve Grim Fandango Remastered’s graphics.

Deebster, 18 days ago

I missed the news that K-9 was becoming Thunderbird for Android. I used to use it before switching to FairEmail, I think because development had stalled. It’s a solid choice, hopefully they don’t add too much in like they have with the desktop version.

Deebster, 25 days ago

The country

Which country?

aluminum

Never mind.

actually...I’ve just checked fact-checked myself and apparently Canada also says aluminum but 🤷

Deebster, 25 days ago

It’s a weird time to be alive.