hypolite

LuciferMorningstar, 3 months ago to random

It's a good question, really

nixCraft, 2 months ago to random

😂 Elon Musk just crawled from under a rock and discovered something that has been bothering people for years. It is just too funny not to share this one.

RickiTarr, 11 days ago to random

It still tickles me that the TERFS and Transphobes tried to claim Terry Pratchett as their own, and everyone who actually knew him, including his daughter, and co-author Neil Gaiman, was like WRONG, WRONG, WRONG, you couldn't be further from the truth.

RickiTarr, 1 month ago to random

This is school lunch in Italy, I'm pretty sure I paid $50 for this same thing awhile ago.

hypolite, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to random

Despite the sadness of seeing them leave the platform I'm working on, I can't express how cool it is to be able to still follow people who moved to any other platform #Friendica is compatible with, including Mastodon, Diaspora, and more, all from my same account.

It's completely unheard of in most other social media context, and yet here it's completely seamless.

RickiTarr, 4 months ago to random

Okay, all Superheros are, at least, marginally problematic, but what Superhero do you think is the most problematic, and why?

hypolite, 7 months ago to random

It's so egregious I thought it was made up.

It's not.
♲ chaos.social/@isotopp/11121516…

hypolite, 1 year ago to php

I'm looking for a simple #Wordpress Cache plugin but after staring at the dozens of available candidates, I must admit I have no idea where to turn. I don't need an All-in-One SEO/PageSpeed/etc..., I just need a simple server-side cache that I can set up and forget. Memcached support is a plus as it's already available on my machine.

Any recommendation?

hypolite, 12 days ago to privacy

It’s often hard to get a sense of how well you are protecting your privacy online, but today in the mail my partner received two home loan spams from different banks that she could link to her recent browsing of Zillow to help a friend move. 😒

#privacy

hypolite, 9 months ago to random

[…] Worldcoin has emphasized its privacy protocols throughout the process—biometrics data is deleted after the scan, leaving only the numeric code, which is securely encrypted—[…]

The numeric code is the biometric data.

It would be a shame if privacy-conscious citizens started smashing these orbs or at least throwing them out or bag them. I have no doubt Worldcoin would happily cooperate with law enforcement to catch those troublemakers but until the inevitable RGPD lawsuit goes through in Europe, it sounds like the only way to stop this privacy nightmare.
♲ social.treehouse.systems/

JonathanMBR, 9 hours ago to random

X, formerly twitter, has attracted mostly racists and misogynists, all in the name of free speech calling people who disagrees with them names like monkey if you're black.

hypolite, 4 months ago to ADHD

I had a pretty busy day yesterday Sunday, and yet at bed time around 11:30 PM I still was restless and played Cyberpunk 2077 for about 3 hours before finally hitting the sack.

These 3 hours are an #ADHD tax, and I’m going to pay for it in reduced energy until Wednesday, if and only if I don’t get restless again at bedtime for a couple nights, which may not happen, independently of my will.

I couldn’t have slept on time even if I had tried, I know it because it has happened to me before and I just ended up lying in bed, wide awake, with my brain still obsessing over something. In this case the best I can do is give in to my brain’s terrorism and do the thing I’m obsessing over before finally be ready for sleep a few hours later.

And it has nothing to do with my mood, I can be content like yesterday and still need this time for my brain to quiet down.

How does it work for you?

hypolite, 2 months ago to VideoGames

I've had a bout of nostalgia for the original campaigns of Supreme Commander (early 2007) but playing the base game in 2024 isn't a fun experience after having mostly played the standalone expansion Forged Alliance (late 2007). Since both games are really close, I was wondering if anyone took the time to import Supreme Commander campaign maps in Forged Alliance.

It turns out a community effort did it, even though my initial delve into Forged Alliance Forever (2011) was a little rough around the edges. To help anyone else make the most of this awesome endeavor, I wrote a little something.

#VideoGames #SupremeCommander #ForgedAlliance
Play Supreme Commander campaigns in Forged Alliance Forever – MrPetovan.com

hypolite, 20 days ago to random

E.T. in 1982: Kids routinely bike in the US streets, an UFO is extra-ordinary.

E.T. in 2024: UFOs are routinely sighted sparking a Congressional hearing, kids biking in the streets are extra-ordinary.

liaizon, 5 months ago to random

I need to stop starting all my posts with "I just"

jonny, 5 months ago to random

I know the answer to this is probably "thats exactly the opposite of what they're supposed to do," but the thought has been sticking with me - I am wondering if there is some kind of "semantic hash" algorithm, sort of like vector embeddings, that puts hashes nearby in hash space that are nearby in source space.

Usually you hash over undifferentiated binary, but say you were instead hashing over a graph where you wanted similar graphs (similar terms, structure) to have close but unique hashes, but still collision resistant in the sense that you couldnt trivially tell which terms were giving you proximity (and thus engineer a collision).

This feels like a thought that will get me fedi spanked by cryptographers

hypolite, 4 months ago to ADHD

10 Restlessness
20 Take on too many projects
30 Anxiety about amount of work
40 Painfully power through/Ditch projects
50 GOTO 10

And on and on...#ADHD #ADD

hypolite, 4 months ago to fediverse

I'm super excited about the #Fediverse. I've been online since the 90s, been through most evolution stages of the internet, and it feels like we're changing it once again - and this time in a good way.

Quoting this post anonymously because I don’t want to be the one to burst their newly reformed bubble. However I believe the honeymoon’s almost over with Threads entering the space, regardless of their intentions. They’re just too massive of a player not to shift the power dynamics in their favor.

People have long been angry at Gargron for sucking most of the Fediverse attention towards Mastodon through no particular fault of their own, and I believe it’s about to change, and not necessarily for the better.

For fringe projects like #Friendica, it won’t change much though, we never were prominent in the space and Threads’ arrival will not change that. @heluecht ’s willing, we’ll start supporting the new API quirks Threads will inevitably put forth and leave the decision to interact with Threads or not to Friendica administrators and individual users.

hypolite, 4 months ago to random

#Friendica cc @lightone
♲ loma.ml/display/373ebf56-5565-…

hypolite, 2 months ago to random

Does anyone know what #Friendica is missing to correctly generate post link previews on remote systems? #OpenGraph #Interoperability
When a Friendica post is linked on any social network, it is never possible to preview it (unlike what happens with Mastodon or Pleroma: perhaps does it depend on the absence of open graph tags?) · Issue #13959 · friendica/friendica

hypolite, 3 months ago to VideoGames

I’m tired again of turn-based tactical video games where you attack immobile opponents because it isn’t their turn to act. Mode 7 Games introduced me to simultaneous turn-based gameplay in Frozen Synapse (2011) and Frozen Cortex (2015). Has any other game successfully implemented a similar system?

#VideoGames

hypolite, 3 months ago to LEGO

The world of second-hand #LEGO sellers is very diverse. You have the opportunists eager to make a quick buck, the meticulous hobbyists, the small brick and mortars business owners… And then there’s this tucked into a package.

hypolite, 5 months ago to LEGO

Me: I love the standardization of #LEGO that allows me to easily find replacement parts for incomplete sets!
Also me: enjoys purchasing the most unique lots like individually stickered parts and rare color elements

hypolite, 4 months ago to infosec

Someone from Bardstown, Kentucky has just been trying to log into my LinkedIn account using credentials leaked from elsewhere, and I'm here chuckling about the little they would stand to gain from this fraudulent access. What's the endgame for compromised LinkedIn accounts? #InfoSec

hypolite, 5 months ago to windows

It's hard for me to emphasize just how much #Windows 11 is just a nasty lead paint coat over Windows 10. Still, I'll present you this nugget for your consideration: behind every round corner Windows 11 contextual menu, there's your good old square corner Windows 10 contextual menu with more options.

It isn't hidden, there's a contextual menu entry just to bring up the old menu! 🤯

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