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e0qdk

@e0qdk@reddthat.com

kbin account: e0qdk@kbin.social

This is my Lemmy alt. I’m about 50/50 between kbin and reddthat these days, but my kbin account is more established. If you’re looking for my older posts, check there.

Interests: programming, video games, anime, music composition

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e0qdk,
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Right now I’m mostly using mlmym (the “old” interface on most instances that support it) because it doesn’t require JS for basic viewing.

It’s kind of buggy though, unfortunately – things like user history show up as a complete jumble, for example. :(

One of these days, I’ll probably get fed up enough to go write my own interface and set things up exactly how I want them to work… but I’ve got too many projects already so I’m just living with it for now.

e0qdk,
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I haven’t had much issue with lag, generally, but I don’t get notifications any more – which is probably the most pressing issue. (I have to remember to manually check once in a while after I post since the envelope doesn’t light up.) That might be an issue with reddthat being on a recent beta version of lemmy – I don’t know.

We do have lemmy-ui-next over here too. Thanks for reminding me about that. I’ve been meaning to poke at it a bit.

e0qdk, (edited )
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You can open any profile with multiple pages worth of posts or comments on old.reddthat.com and it’s jumbled. Even my own profile is jumbled: old.reddthat.com/u/e0qdk

The first page is mostly comments I made two weeks ago plus a thread from today and some very old threads. The second page has comments I made earlier today and during the past week. The third page starts with my most recent comment and then has a bunch of older comments.

The exact order might change after posting this, but my own recent comments mostly being on page two has been pretty consistent for a while.

If I look at a very active user’s profile (like MentalEdge’s), I see threads from today show up on page three(!) while there are threads from a week or more ago on pages one and two.

I’m not sure what’s going on exactly, but it basically makes user profiles pretty useless right now through mlmym.

Edit: I can’t even find this comment in my profile, but my other reply (regarding the envelope being fixed in 0.0.43) shows up on page 3.

e0qdk,
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That’s great to hear!

e0qdk,
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Privacy-focused people of Mbin and Lemmy, do any of the third-party YouTube viewers support spherical video?

No idea, but if you put the video file up for direct download you can view spherical video in VLC. I'm not sure what the exact requirements are to make it recognize it, but I know it can do it. (I'd guess it probably just looks for a copy of whatever metadata that YT wants you to tag the video files with.)

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https://reddthat.com/pictrs/image/5dcc7bd3-7e7b-4adc-b171-234edae27e5e.jpeg

e0qdk,
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There’s some notable differences with numbering – e.g. lakh, crore, and where to put commas when writing large numbers.

e0qdk,
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The Wet Bandits don’t stand a chance now! :p

e0qdk,
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I wonder if this will actually cause an increase in the number of security vulnerabilities and breaches as there’s now a fairly obvious way for employees to penalize their bosses financially for being assholes…

e0qdk,
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I might be interested from the audience side depending on the specific content that gets posted. I like Let’s Plays – particularly blind runs.

e0qdk,
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Those gloves look like something out of FMA. I thought “Roy Mustang” at first, but the design is a bit different.

InternetIsScary, to lemmy French
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    e0qdk,
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    My old username from reddit and HN was already taken and I couldn’t think of anything else I wanted to be called so I just picked some random characters like this:

    
<span style="color:#323232;">>>> import random
</span><span style="color:#323232;">>>> ''.join([random.choice("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789") for x in range(5)])
</span><span style="color:#323232;">'e0qdk'
</span>

    I have that literally in my kbin profile, but it’s not on my reddthat one. (I think I tried to copy it there originally when I set up the account but ran into some issue with Lemmy’s UI – been long enough that I forget what exactly.)

    e0qdk,
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    github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS

    Discussion on HN yesterday: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40163405

    e0qdk, (edited )
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    I spent a while looking thanks to your post and only found stuff from 2022 as well. My Chinese is basically non-existent though. (I can pick out a word here and there from knowing some Japanese, but that’s about it.) Someone who knows Chinese might have better luck digging.

    I did find this file from 2022 (14999x6982 – ⚠️ 100+ MB PNG): …wikimedia.org/…/The_geologic_map_of_the_Moon_at_…

    Associated information (and preview): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_geologic_map_of_the_Moon_at_1-2.5M_scale.png

    I assume that’s the one you’re referring to from 2022?

    All the news stories just have low-res previews.

    Is there a preview that looks different from this? I don’t see a preview at all (just a picture of people at some sort of presentation) in your link – but my browser might just not be loading it if there is one. (I generally block scripts.)

    Edit: tweaked wording slightly

    e0qdk,
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    I think this is just using SpeechDispatcher from the system – so it’s not a Firefox specific thing. I get a similar (but very slightly different) voice on my own system by default – which matches what I get when I run a command like spd-say --wait “Hello world” from the command line.

    I’m pretty sure SpeechDispatcher can be configured to use a different synthesis engine – Arch’s wiki has some suggestions: wiki.archlinux.org/title/Speech_dispatcher – but I haven’t dug into it yet.

    e0qdk, (edited )
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    Gundress (1999) is the most obscure anime movie I’ve seen and maybe also the most obscure movie overall – of stuff that was actually professionally made and shown in theaters, anyway. I posted about it in one of the weekly anime threads a couple months ago with some screenshots and additional details.

    Outside of anime, I’ve seen a number of cult films and non-English films that are probably obscure to English speaking audiences, but I have no idea how obscure they actually are. (The one above I know is obscure since it doesn’t even have an English Wikipedia page – unlike every other anime show and movie I’ve seen.)

    Some examples are Wonderwall (1968) with music by George Harrison, eXistenZ (1999), Cemetery Man (1994), and I Served the King of England (2006). I know at least one other person on Lemmy has heard of Cemetery Man since it was brought up in a thread around Christmas, but they were surprised I’d seen it.

    Primer (2004) and Dark Star (1974) also came to mind, but I don’t think those are actually that obscure. They are interesting though.

    Edit: rephrased for clarity

    Edit2: typo in title fixed (“Kind” -> “King”)

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    Steam has a soundtrack listed for the more expensive releases of the game (“deluxe edition”, etc), but I’m not sure what format the audio is in exactly or if you can buy it separately from the game itself there. (I don’t have very many soundtracks from Steam, but the ones I do have are either in MP3 or WAV)

    e0qdk,
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    Seriously?! It doesn’t put it in Steam’s soundtracks with actual music files available? That is straight up fraud!

    Thanks. I definitely will not be buying P3R now.

    gmr_leon, to games
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    What kinds of games might you recommend with deep worldbuilding and interaction that aren't RPGs?

    I like worldbuilding and stories, and I like when they're mixed with the interactivity of games, so RPGs seem like they should be a natural fit. Problem is, I dislike the stat-heavy, grindy progression of many RPGs.

    I enjoy point & click adventures and visual novels but they're often more limited in their interactions. What kinds of game might I be missing combining the two?

    @games

    e0qdk,
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    Have you explored text adventures / interactive fiction? They’re even more niche than VNs but there’s some good ones out there. I remember liking Worlds Apart back when I played it. (15+ years ago… o___o)

    One of these days I should go dig back into them again.

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    you might check out Trackless if you like interactive fiction

    Thanks. I’ll check it out.

    BTW, I thought of another game that might be of interest to you. Have you seen Not for Broadcast? It’s an unusual game where you play as the controller in the studio switching between multiple video feeds of actual actors presenting the news on TV. You get to make choices about what to show, what to cut, and what ads to play in your broadcast – which affects the world in an exaggerated fashion. The game timeskips to show you how things play out over the years. There’s some distractions that make it a bit more gamey than a VN but you can turn most of them off if they’re too annoying, I think.

    When was the last time you answered a Lemmy or Reddit post/thread that was more than five months old?

    I think there should be some incentive for that, like make those kinds of comments a spotlight or something. Maybe make a community called “late replies” that showcases the best such replies, or have a rule saying they grant free karma (in Reddit’s case).

    e0qdk,
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    Just the other day, I got a reply to a thread from ~6 months ago on kbin!

    It was spam. :/

    e0qdk,
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    I think the term would be “necrobump”

    That’s from old school forums where posting to a thread bumped it back to the top of the feed and thus thrust old info prominently into everyone’s view again. You won’t get that same bump effect with most sorts on Lemmy. (“New comments” sort might work like that though? I’m not sure exactly how that’s handled.)

    otherwise everyone has moved on

    It’s pretty rare to get much of a response even after just 24 hours or so – not just in terms of comments, but even for upvotes. I think after that point, posts are usually so far down people’s feeds that almost no one sees it any more. That probably also discourages most people from replying since basically no one will see it. (Maybe the poster of the thread or comment you’re replying to will see it, but probably almost no one else will if it’s more than a day or so old.)

    Some people do dig through community archives and/or user profiles – particularly after a new thread is posted – and they’ll occasionally upvote old posts, but they very rarely comment.

    Are there audiobook releases that have a visual component?

    I listen to a decent amount of audiobooks and I’ll occasionally miss a one-off description of something important. I was wondering if there are projects to add a visual component to audiobooks? Official or fan-made it doesn’t matter. If it does exist what would I search for to find something like this?...

    e0qdk,
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    Maybe you’d be interested in “kinetic novels”? They’re basically VNs without choices.

    e0qdk,
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    I’ve seen 20+ car crashes outside my window in the last few years and cars usually either stay right where they stopped until police (and later tow trucks) arrive in the case of serious accidents or else pull over to the side of the road to exchange insurance information in minor accidents. In some of the moderate cases, I’ve seen the drivers try to move their cars out of the way of traffic but they still stay at the scene. I’ve never seen a car pull into a parking lot after an accident despite there being one literally right there where I live.

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