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hypolite, 6 months ago to random

I put a @Bouletcorp cheese sticker on the back of my phone case and I wanted to take a picture, but I only have my phone for that. 🤷‍♂️

hypolite, 6 months ago to random

Gentle reminder that fictional depictions of space travel have to use heavy space and time compression to make it any interesting. In real life, there would be a whole lot of nothing for extended periods of time in between the interesting bits. These down periods would be longer than maritime travel while being even more dangerous in case anything goes wrong.

hypolite, 6 months ago to random

As dramatic as deep fake video sounds, the past few years in the United States has shown disinformation can be achieved at scale even without it, and so its usage would likely not have a significant impact on an already poisoned public discourse.

hypolite, 6 months ago to climate

Sun’s shining, air is crisp and brisk but not cold, what a perfect October day in Brooklyn. #ClimateChange

hypolite, 6 months ago to random

My partner offered to provide supplies for making bookmarks during my kid’s school non-denominational “Winter fest”. Another mom suggested a Christmas tree ornament making activity, to which my partner replied she didn’t have much to contribute to this activity, being Jewish. This detail was completely ignored as the same mom continued on the Christmas ornament plan.

White supremacy doesn’t only express itself in red states’ school boards, but also in less newsworthy ways on the fest committees of diverse schools in Brooklyn, NY.

hypolite, 6 months ago to helpers

Hi ,

is anyone using the keyboard shortcut to pause the automatic updates in the background on the current page?

I'm ready to cut this niche feature from Friendica but I'd prefer to ask users first.

hypolite, 6 months ago to random

I'm done with Chromebooks. Years ago I thought the small size laptop with a simplified OS was a good idea. And then I had to interact with one during the pandemic. The New York City Department of Education contracted with Google to provide accounts for all students and enable remote schooling.

So I bought one refurbished in 2020 and signed in with my kid's DOE account credentials. The strong password was auto-generated and impossible to remember, but it's used each time the computer starts or unlocked, so I set out to change it to something maybe less secure, but that would be usable.

This proved absolutely byzantine as I figured out I had to change the password in two separate places, in Google itself despite its insistance that the account was managed by the NYC DOE and in the NYC DOE despite its insistance that it's a Google account.

This worked great until the next school year when the account password was automatically reset to another strong one. I couldn't remember the exact process so I made a label with the password and stuck it to the screen frame.

Equally frustrating were the organization-set limits on the Google account. It wasn't possible for my kid to mail their work to me, GMail would refuse to send the email to my personal address "per organization policy".

Then my kid attended a writing workshop where they were given yet another Google account to write their stories on Google Docs and lo and behold, when I tried to sign in with this new account in the Chromebook, it was refused "per organization policy".

Fed up with the NYC DOE "policies", I reset the Chromebook and signed in with the writing workshop account. This went well, and my kid was able to access her work on the computer. But then when I tried to share her document with my personal Google account so that I could provide feedback as a commenter, it was refused "per organization policy".

We ended up having to create a document on my personal Google account and give authorship to my kid's account for this to work.

hypolite, 6 months ago to random

How do people on social media dare to write in their native language and not in any of the two I read fluently?

hypolite, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to cycling

Yesterday night, on our bike ride from school, as my helmeted kid and I were stopped at a red light on the painted bike lane, the driver next to us lowered their window to ask me where my helmet was.

Initially taken aback by the sheer entitlement of the request, I curtly told them to mind their own business, after all they were driving 2 tons of metal so where was their helmet?

Visibly on the back foot, they tried to justify that they were a “concerned [citizen]” (wink @bekopharm ). I replied I was concerned cars like theirs could kill me, which gave them an opportunity to mention the hypothetical usefulness of a helmet (in a collision with a car, it’s near useless).

Then the light turned green and while we started to ride away, they pretended to ram me by swerving at low speed into the bike lane.

At this point I’m used to drivers simply annoyed at bicyclists, probably because they would like to cross at the red too, but this was a new one for me.

#BikeTooter #Bike #Bicycle #CarCulture

hypolite, 6 months ago to VideoGames

1. Install a game via Steam.
2. Play the game until ragequit.
3. Uninstall the game.
4. Years pass.
5. "Oh I'd play that game again".
6. Install the game.
7. Find old save, resume the game at the exact point I initially quit it.
8. Uninstall the game.
9. Go to 4.

#VideoGames

hypolite, 6 months ago to random

In the United States, what is the deal with car selfie/videos? Is this a status symbol? The place these people spend the most of their day? Something else?

hypolite, 6 months ago to random

9yo: “3 like the Musketeers”
Me: “I’m pretty sure they were four of them.”
9yo: “No no, there are only three of them.”

Of course the only 3 Musketeers she knows about are the chocolate candy.

hypolite, 6 months ago to VideoGames

I played Jagged Alliance 2 (1999) about 20 years ago and while I remember it being somewhat of a tactical slog with sometimes indecisive firefights, I was able to get through about 75% of the game. This week I tried Jagged Alliance 2: Wildfire (2005), a mod turned standalone expansion, and I ragequit during the second campaign mission (the airfield) because all 7 of my mercs were wounded by the time I eliminated just three guards.

I remember there was a fair bit of turtling, progressing slowly by crawling to the enemy positions, peppering them on the way, but this hasn't seemed to be effective in my new game, where my team regularly miss all of their shots while the enemies get a much better hit ratio despite carrying handguns and SMGs which have poor optimal range.

Of course, if my mercs get closer any faster than by crawling, they either get more chances to be successfully hit or uncover more enemies with more bullets coming their way.

Is there something I'm missing to be practically stuck at the second campaign mission?

#VideoGames #help

hypolite, 6 months ago to random

So, what's the purpose of "login verification" processes where you have to give a code from a text message to a number you just entered after successfully signing in with the login credentials?

I had this experience with both Google and Microsoft accounts over the past couple of days, and so far the only purpose this step serves is to harvest phone numbers allegedly for security reasons.

hypolite, 6 months ago to random

Jaime Sin, Archbishop.

What was the word for when your name matches your occupation?

In Nominative determinism
Et Filii
Et Spiritus Sancti
Amen

hypolite, 6 months ago to random

The Reader View is the best user-facing feature to have landed on web browsers since bookmarks.

hypolite, 6 months ago to random

Recently I learned about "solo polyamory", polyamory without a primary partner, and to me it sounds like all the drawbacks of romantic relationships without the advantages.

hypolite, 6 months ago to random

Seen on #NextDoor :

“Please don’t make this a political debate because it won’t take us anywhere”

This is a curious closing paragraph after vaguely despairing about the results on Election Day evening and asking what can be done to prevent a local drunk driving incident described in great details.

I really don’t understand what this person is expecting with a post like this.

hypolite, 7 months ago to random

Just saw someone astonished that the raw materials used to make a smartphone are worth $1-$2.

Then they went on a ramble about how billionaires are destroying the planet to line their pockets.

I agree with the sentiment, but there’s absolutely no direct correlation between the initial fact and the exposed opinion.

The industrial processes needed to go from $1-$2 of materials (in bulk!) to the individual electronic devices multi-capable we are familiar with and retailed for $200-$1000 apiece are a little more complex than mixing them up over moderate heat.

Now it’s my turn to be astonished that you can somehow make this logical jump from an irrelevant fact and arrive at another opinion I hold.

hypolite, 7 months ago to music

Listening to Wintergatan - Paradis I’m reminded how finicky it is to tune a Theremin for a live show because of how everything can affect the magnetic field it’s using.

#music #np #NowPlaying
Paradis - Wintergatan LIVE

hypolite, 7 months ago to random

Today I got a flat tire on my bike right in front of a bike shop which replaced the tube in about 10 minutes. Most convenient flat tire ever.

hypolite, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

Today for the first time I printed a Wikipedia page and gave it to my kid to read, I feel a million years old.

hypolite, 7 months ago to LEGO

Over the past couple years I've used our plastic kitchen bowls a couple dozen times to sort #LEGO bins, so much so that yesterday my kid was surprised I served chips in the "LEGO bowls".

hypolite, 7 months ago to random

Yesterday I got yelled at by a turning driver stopped at the crossing walk I was using while the pedestrian signal was green because I was texting as I was walking at a pretty good pace.

Nothing would have changed for them if I didn't have my phone or even if I wasn’t there as other people were crossing too.

What an asshole.
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hypolite, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to VideoGames

#MiniReview #VideoGames Cultist Simulator produced and distributed by Weather Factory is intriguing at first, with its board of cards not all permanent, its timed processes and an occult lore that unveils little by little. Unfortunately, the required time to just approach the mid-game is counted in hours (even at 2x speed) and then the chances to run into the really mean traps increase sharply.

Just like in the Fallen London universe that was written by the very same Alexis Kennedy, the cryptic writing is captivating, but ultimately the repetitive tasks over long periods of time just to succumb to a chance percentage isn't my thing.