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hybridhavoc

@hybridhavoc@darkfriend.social

I live in beautiful South Carolina, USA. I work in #HigherEd #IT as a Business Analyst working with #EllucianColleague. Fan of #Fantasy like #TheWheelOfTime and #SciFi like #RevelationSpace. Admin of darkfriend.social.

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RickiTarr, to random
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Who is the best Batman villain and why?

hybridhavoc,
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@RickiTarr Mr. Freeze because he's so cooooool

Alice, to random
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Should I change my profile pic to this cute illustration of an anthropomorphic hotdog?

hybridhavoc,
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@Alice
Saw this and thought of you.
https://www.axios.com/local/richmond/2024/03/26/mlb-hot-dog-connoisseur-job

GossiTheDog, to random
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AI Tech Bros are VERY UPSET that reviewers are REVIEWING PRODUCTS

hybridhavoc,
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#Alt4You #Humane #AIPin #MKBHD #Technology

hybridhavoc,
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@GossiTheDog "First, do no harm" like reviewers are out here taking some kind of Hippocratic oath.

EighthLayer, to Spotify
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I’ve started testing out alternatives to as they’re putting their prices up yet again! £20pm for Family plan now. 🙄

I’ve started with as I had a 2-month free trial, but the Windows app is trash. It keeps telling me playback has stopped on another device. It wasn’t playing on another device in the first place. Also songs just randomly stops playing or starts from the beginning again. 🤦‍♂️

Might try and next.

Anyone got any recommendations?

hybridhavoc,
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@EighthLayer I only keep coming back to YTM because I already pay for YouTube Premium, and get YTM as a part of that. That means it feels silly to then pay for another music subscription service on top of that.

hybridhavoc,
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@EighthLayer I really want to like #YouTubeMusic. I never had any problems with the #GoogleMusic app or service back when that was a thing. But I just generally dislike the YTM app interface.

The biggest issue with it is on desktop though - because I have a YouTube brand account tied to my personal YouTube account, it treats the two as having separate libraries in YouTubeMusic for some reason. So if I'm on YouTube with the brand account then pull up YTM, I have to swap accounts.

scy, to accessibility
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Hey users: How problematic is it when people abuse alt texts to add image credits, license information, or URLs?

Of course I'm aware that it's not what they're intended for, and that, given the choice, you'd rather not have people do this, but how much of an issue is it in practice? I have never really used a screen reader, but I'd imagine you can just skip over an alt text like that, and that it's maybe just confusing for a moment?

hybridhavoc,
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@scy
I'm mostly just curious at this point about the framing of the question. Like, if you know that's not what alt text is there for and that it's better for people to not do it, then what do you hope to do with whatever answers you get here?

I do not personally use a screen reader day-to-day, though do occasionally use screen readers for testing accessibility. In my experience this sort of use would be extremely annoying.

If they are willing to speak on it, @9ValleyMaiden could say more.

hybridhavoc,
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@scy You ask if they can "just skip it" but the issue is that when you're listening to the alt text of an image being read out and it gets to something like a URL there is no way to know 1) how long the URL is going to be, or 2) whether there is still useful information on the other side of that URL. The same would go for something like copyright information.

A sighted individual can look at a paragraph and instantly have that context. That isn't available through a screen reader.

Alice, to random
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I was married on April Fools' Day which probably explains why I'm referring to the anniversary date of my first marriage rather than my current marriage.

hybridhavoc,
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@Alice
The things people will do to save money on car insurance.

Animation of the Geico gecko holding his forehead then rubbing the side of his face in disbelief.

mike, to random
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⚠️Warning! Any inspirational drivel in my timeline first thing in the morning will get an instant mute. That is all.

hybridhavoc,
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@mike Truly an inspiration.

cliffwade, to bapcsalescanada
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After only 57 1/2 hours of play time, I have beaten Horizon Forbidden West's main story.

I did do quite a bit of the side quests as well, but not all of them.

I've now unlocked the Burning Shores DLC which I'll jump into at some point soon.

Super fun game, just like the first one was. Glad to have completed it on PC.

#HorizonForbiddenWest #Nixxes #PC #VideoGames #Gaming #Gamer #Tilda

hybridhavoc,
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@cliffwade If someone didn't enjoy the combat from the first game at all, should they even consider the second game?

hybridhavoc,
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@cliffwade Cool. That was my assumption, but thought I'd check. Might lookup a good story explainer because I thought the story was shaping up to be interesting.

hybridhavoc,
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@cliffwade Honestly it was hard to put into words. I played it for about 15 hours and combat was becoming so incredibly unbalanced, it felt like everything I was fighting was way out-classing me. I never liked melee combat in the game at all so kept leaning on ranged combat, but then would have to constantly stop mid-fight to craft more ammo. It just became completely un-fun to me.

PixelBandits, to VideoGames
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Went off to a car boot sale today. Sadly beaten to the games by resellers buying anything they could see, but I DID find this little chap in mug form.

hybridhavoc,
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@PixelBandits interesting. Like a pop-up community yard sale sort of

hybridhavoc,
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@PixelBandits For the uninitiated, what is a car boot sale?

reginasbread, to random
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thinking about short guys because I once again heard a straight woman say that she wouldn't date a short man. apparently, "it would never work out because of social prejudice".

hybridhavoc,
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@reginasbread the call is coming from inside the house

WhyNotZoidberg, (edited ) to fallout
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Have I just been playing this game too much? Because I did one of the first boss fights this morning and I had basically just to sneeze at him and he died. I remember having to reload 3-4 times at least.

hybridhavoc,
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@WhyNotZoidberg Kellogg?

hybridhavoc,
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@WhyNotZoidberg I didn't have much difficulty with him either, or much of anything so far. I chalk it up to playing on PC this time around, versus Xbox the first time I played it. Mouse and keyboard makes combat significantly easier IMO.

reginasbread, to random
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I was on the phone with a person from another department, and she finished the conversation with "bye, have a nice weekend."
ma'am, are you living in the future?

hybridhavoc,
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@reginasbread And if so, what does she know about the rest of your workweek? Give up hope on that, won't be good.

cliffwade, to random
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It's now been about 2 weeks or so since the wife and I got our first memory foam mattress, which we decided on a Nectar brand.

During these two weeks or so, I've been sleeping considerably better. I sleep a bit later than I was there for a while as I now wake up around 6am instead of between 4am - 5am.

I also don't wake up with a sore back, headaches or feeling like I want to immediately go lay down on the couch and take a nap. (cont...)

hybridhavoc,
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@cliffwade Which Nectar mattress did you get?

moira, to random
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fucken HEATER won't turn off now

annual service should NEVER MAKE SHIT WORSE

hybridhavoc,
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@moira in all my life I've only ever gotten an annual maintenance on my HVAC once. A few days later my AC went out.

I know that because we are pattern-finding machines we often attribute cause where there is just coincidence but still.

Hope your shit gets fixed.

bitprophet, to random
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lmfao, so did it never occur to TriNet – the main HR portal used by just about every tech startup with <100 employees – that individuals might, shockingly, work for /more than one such company over the course of their career/?!

Christ on a pogo stick.

hybridhavoc,
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@bitprophet oh no

hybridhavoc, to PUBG
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Watching the #PUBG Americas Grand Finals, day 1.

https://www.twitch.tv/pubg_battlegrounds

#VideoGames #Esports

hybridhavoc, to twitter
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Techdirt: Elon Claims Twitter’s Traffic Is At An All-Time High Because He Can’t Be Bothered To Understand The Misleading Data People Show Him
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/04/10/elon-claims-twitters-traffic-is-at-an-all-time-high-because-he-cant-be-bothered-to-understand-the-misleading-data-people-show-him/

#Twitter #ElonMusk #Techdirt

hybridhavoc, to random
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Finally got around to moving my personal domain email addresses over to #ProtonMail. Not sure why I took so long honestly. But a recent email delivery failure was the motivation I needed. Was already using it for my darkfriend.social email addresses.

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