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artilectzed

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Very taken. Wandering the fediverse, screaming in to the void. It occasionally whispers back, but I haven't experienced it scream back, yet.
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senanthic, to random
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you know, I made the right decision to leave Catholicism many, many years ago. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/pope-francis-gender-theory-ideology-1.7130679

artilectzed,
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@senanthic Old 'infallible' white man talking shit about things he really doesn't need to be worried about, at all.

arstechnica, to random
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After decades lost, Star Trek’s original Enterprise model may have been found

The listing went down quickly, and Roddenberry's son is trying to track it down.

https://arstechnica.com/culture/2023/11/after-decades-lost-star-treks-original-enterprise-model-may-have-been-found/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

artilectzed,
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@arstechnica No bloody A, B, C, OR D!

rebeccawatson, to random
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Today's video is all about why you shouldn't panic at the WHO classifying aspartame as "possibly carcinogenic" but you SHOULD be concerned by the number of medical professionals being paid by junk food companies to push unhealthy shit https://skepchick.org/2023/09/aspartame-is-safe-tiktok-dietitians-arent/

artilectzed,
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@rebeccawatson Great shot of Indy :D

TexasObserver, (edited ) to climate
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What if ... we all took naps? 😴

The practice of taking siestas could make a comeback during extreme #heat and record-breaking summers. From our partners at @grist: https://www.texasobserver.org/siestas-naptime-extreme-heat-climate/

#ClimateChange #environment #HeatWave #summer

artilectzed,
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@TexasObserver Me five years ago: If I take a nap at any time during the day, I won't be able to get to sleep at night.
Me yesterday: If I don't get my 2pm nap in, I'm grumpy AF for the rest of the day, and basically revert in to a toddler.

lowqualityfacts, (edited ) to random
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I apologize for passive aggressively gaslighting you all into believing that I am Snoop Dogg. They're right, it's time for me to come clean.

The truth is that I am actually Sandra Bullock. I am deeply sorry for deceiving everyone earlier today. I just wanted you all to like me.

artilectzed,
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@lowqualityfacts NPH and Ryan Reynolds are the same person.

stux, to random
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Shot down by Russia's own 'defence batteries' :bloblaugh:

Yeah.. obvious much?

artilectzed,
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@stux Talk to your kids about the dangers of Gravity poisoning, before it's too late!

Chron, to news
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Texas Senator Ted Cruz reviews 'Barbie': "This is Chinese communist propaganda."

https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/barbie-ted-cruz-oppenheimer-18209509.php

artilectzed,
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@Chron Do I get a Red Reader's Digest or a pink one if I go see the movie?

jessica, to random
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mornin’ rabble rousers

artilectzed,
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@jessica 👋

KathyReid, to random
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Why does need permissions?

artilectzed,
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@KathyReid Might be because of the Sony LinkBuds headtracking integration?

Gwendolyn, to gaming
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Just finished recording some Morrowind gameplay for my channel. Had following thought:

I hate it when a game's difficulty setting basically just boils down to adjusting a damage multiplier.

I'm looking at you, Bethesda.

I prefer it when the AI actually gets smarter, maybe enemy layouts change.

Something as simple as adjusting an enemy's reaction time can have a huge impact on difficulty.

artilectzed,
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@Gwendolyn Out of curiosity, are you using the original engine or OpenMW?

artilectzed,
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@Gwendolyn I remember the load times being horrible back in the day, hopefully that doesn't happen on modern hardware :D

I haven't looked at OpenMW for a few years. Looks like the last release was last fall. Maybe I'll give it another spin sometime this year.

artilectzed,
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@Gwendolyn Many "fond" memories of flying through the air, across the island, with most of the time being stuck on cell loading 😁

Glad you're not having to deal with that!

artilectzed,
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@Gwendolyn HAHA! Yes!!

My first playthrough of the game, I wandered off so hardcore that I actually missed that body going thump until I went back there, weeks later.

I loved Morrowind so much!

arossp, to random
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I really want Mastodon to be the next big thing, but it frankly has a culture problem that is going to kill its broader adoption. After quite a long time here, and a few days at Bluesky, the comparative experience looks like this:

Bluesky: "Everyone's posting about the latest weird inside joke, and I'm excited to post my weird twist on it!"

Mastodon: "Jokes offend me because I was born without a sense of humor. I demand that you wrap all levity in a content warning or I will FediBlock you."

artilectzed,
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@arossp Comparing a culture that's been baking for 5 or so years, with one that's attracting all kinds of people and only had a few weeks to figure itself out...

Well, what's to be achieved with that? The culture of BlueSky may be radically different in a month, and even more different than that in a year.

It's okay to like both platforms! Or only one of them!

Just don't get in to the age old internet argument of "X is superior to Y, and you're just wrong if you disagree."

artilectzed,
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@arossp I guess I haven't really experienced that, myself. I've been on here as long as you, and it's generally felt welcoming.

The only unwelcoming bit I felt was when the mastodon.social admin's muted me and didn't respond to my PM's 😂 Getting moved to a different instance was a big step forward, for me.

neil, to internet

I appreciate that this is going to upset some people, and I thought I was too shy to say it, but I prefer over :

Here's why:

https://neilzone.co.uk/bluesky_over_mastodon.html

artilectzed,
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@neil

Robert Redford nodding gif from Jeremiah Johnson (1972)

seachanger, to random

Rad things about mastodon we take for granted

CW - these are amazing

Editing posts - hard to go back once you taste this

Alt text as the norm - total community enforcement

Replies - option to delist them so we don’t clog the feed

Timeline curating - we have near infinite timeline options with filters, lists, local, federated, hashtags etc

Muting - we can choose a time period!

Character count - 500 let’s you get an effing thought out

Ownership - we can own the damn thing ourselves

artilectzed,
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@notjustbikes @EposVox @seachanger

alt-text policing: 🤷
alt-text suggesting: 👍🤘

artilectzed,
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@seachanger @notjustbikes @EposVox Yep! We can't all be "perfect" all of the time! But we can all pitch in!

I don't post nearly as many images as I would normally, and it's for similar reasons to was @notjustbikes said.

In my particular case, it would probably just be a bunch of shitpost images, though, so the world is probably better for it. 😂

arstechnica, to random
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AI-generated beer commercial contains joyful monstrosities, goes viral

30-second spot set to "All Star" may inspire awe—or nightmares.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/05/ai-generated-beer-commercial-contains-joyful-monstrosities-goes-viral/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

artilectzed,
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@arstechnica Another instance of "Singular Pile of Shit" advances, instead of The Singularity.

feditips, to animals
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When you write hashtags that contain multiple words, make the first letter of each word a capital letter, for example . This will make the tag readable to blind people.

Blind people use the internet through screen reader apps, which read text out aloud. By putting a capital at the start of each word in a hashtag, you are telling the screen reader how to say the tag correctly.

In the non-techy world this is generally known as "CamelCase".

(Techy people may call it PascalCase)

artilectzed,
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@feditips It's not just sight-impaired users will benefit from doing this :D

arstechnica, to random
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IBM pauses hiring around 7,800 roles that could be replaced by AI

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna says he could see 30% of back-office functions replaced by AI over 5 years.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/05/ibm-pauses-hiring-around-7800-roles-that-could-be-replaced-by-ai/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

artilectzed,
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@arstechnica [HELLSCAPE INTENSIFIES]

gamingonlinux, to random
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Mastodon improving the onboard experience is great. The wannabe fedi-police will be out in force against a default instance i’ve no doubt and I’ve already seen numerous complaints about it.

It’s not “growth for the sake of growth” or against the idea of decentralisation. It’s just a small basic change to improve the flow for new people to get people started. Good stuff.

Also quote toots coming, yay!

artilectzed,
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@gamingonlinux Yeah, it's not like you're forever locked in to mastodon.social. Its super easy to migrate to new instances.

I started out on mastodon.social, and I've moved instances a few times.

Not too excited about quoting, but eh, maybe I'll come to appreciate it later?

jerry, to random
artilectzed,
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@jerry My reaction to Bluesky

GIF of a man wearing a suit, shrugging

artilectzed, to random
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Ah shit.

artilectzed,
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artilectzed,
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@benjaminhollon Indeed!!

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