HarkMahlberg

Mozilla is adding tab grouping, vertical tabs, profile management, and local AI features to Firefox (connect.mozilla.org)

YouTube videos are skipping to the end for users with adblockers (9to5google.com)

Sovcit made her own license plate out of cardboard. (lemmy.world)

Neil Druckmann Teases Next Naughty Dog Game: 'It Could Redefine Mainstream Perceptions Of Gaming' (www.gameinformer.com)

Estonia | The Digital State (youtu.be)

Most states rely on paper bureaucracy to ensure that the state can function and provide services. Paper bureaucracy has been part and parcel of how we maintain states and corporations since the Chinese invented the first paper bureaucracy systems of management 3000 years ago. But as you all probably know, bureaucracy kinda...

HarkMahlberg, 7 months ago to random

I finally fell victim to YouTube's anti-adblock system. But if they think that's going to get me to watch their ads, they can shove it up their ass sideways.

I have no problem with going back to the days of watching Red Vs Blue by downloading the fucking WAV files and playing them with Windows Media Player.

Piss into a jar of bleach, Google.

Connecticut Department of Labor says 75% of unemployment claims now are fraud (www.wtnh.com)

HarkMahlberg, 8 months ago to random

I realized there's a minor movie trope where characters misinterpret a typo or reference to something you the audience would recognize, but that misinformation is used as a lynchpin in the plot.

Examples: Zardoz, the Wizard of Oz. Kragle, Krazy glue.

What is this phenomenon called? And what are other examples?

#movies #tropes

HarkMahlberg, 5 months ago to random

"This article is terrible and nonsensical, it must have been written by AI."

Comments like these forget that real people can also create terrible and nonsensical articles. Or they don't agree with the point being made so they just claim it wasn't a real person's idea. Or both.

On Day One of Gaza cease-fire, Hamas and Israel carry out first swap of hostages and prisoners (apnews.com)

On the first day of a four-day Gaza cease-fire agreement, Hamas released 24 hostages abducted by militants from southern Israel seven weeks ago. In return, Israel freed 39 Palestinians from prison on Friday.

"In 1 hour" post at the top of microblog/newest: bug or feature?

Does anyone else see this post by t2aki at the top of https://kbin.social/microblog/newest ? I'm not sure if it's a federation bug, like some kind of miscommunication between kbin and their instance on the timestamp of the post, or some kind of scheduled-in-advance post that is set to go live one hour from now. I'm not even sure...

HarkMahlberg, 10 months ago to random

I've been thinking about how I was introduced into internet meme culture in the first place. For a while I thought it was when I found ICanHazCheezburger around 2007-8 and started sharing it with my friends over Google Talk. But then I just remembered that in 2004, my father showed me a remix he made of Hey Ya! by Outkast, replacing every "Ya!" with the Howard Dean scream, which he shared with his friends over e-mail.

Apples don't fall far from trees I guess.

HarkMahlberg, 9 months ago to random

I finally found some way to empathize with you folks out there who crave pumpkin spice coffees. My local breakfast place has Kahlua Creme coffee and I would fight for it.

HarkMahlberg, 10 months ago to programmerhumor

DuBois is my spirit devops engineer.

HarkMahlberg, 10 months ago to random

I spend too much time photoshopping images together.

HarkMahlberg, 8 months ago to random

With the new #googlemaps colors, a city like Stockholm becomes a really fun game of The Floor Is Lava.

Can YOU tell what's land and what's water?

HarkMahlberg, 9 months ago to random

I know what you do at night. When you're all alone, curled up in bed, looking at your phone, headphones in your ears. You know that no one can ever accuse you of your dastardly deed. You'll never admit it, but I know the truth.

You skip your favorite anime opening.

HarkMahlberg, 8 days ago to random

Tfw your roommate returns at 1am and leaves by 6am. Mofo you wonder why you always eat sleep for lunch, it's because you out like the Batman. Bought yourself a whole ass bed, sleep in it 2 days a week for 5 hours at a time. Good purchase homie. Do me a favor, you out visiting your bae? Stay the fucking night.

HarkMahlberg, 8 months ago to random

You ever check your temperature and read 166 and go holy shit I'm gonna cook! Then you realize the thermostat is upside down and it's really 99.1.

HarkMahlberg, 10 months ago to random Swedish

The Swedes got me reading patch notes again.

HarkMahlberg, 8 months ago to random

I have an idea for a game where the premise is to go from living paycheck to paycheck, to being a billionaire. I could include an in-game stock market, in-game jobs of various salaries and recreational activities, so you have to balance the amount of money you gain with how much you spend, and you have to upkeep your own physical and mental well being.

I'd also have your expenses scale proportionately with your earnings, have your landlord raise your rent for no reason, have your job reduce your hours or cut your bonus, etc. The tutorials that tell you how to play the game are in-game items randomized in a loot box format, and you have to pay in-game currency to unlock them. But no matter how closely you follow the advice, no matter how many of them you unlock, and no matter how much grinding and climbing you do, you can never succeed. But then the kicker, I program in a microscopic chance that you start the game with $50 million dollars, and parents/lawyers who bail you out no matter how much you lose, such that you are guaranteed to eventually succeed.

I wanna see A) how long it takes for regular people to figure out it's impossible to win, B) how long it takes for the randomly selected billionaires to brag how fast they could beat the game, and C) how long it takes for those people to collide.

Diplomas for sale, $465: Inside one of Louisiana’s unapproved schools (projects.apnews.com)

Louisiana’s off-the-grid schools are a rapidly growing example of the nation’s continuing fallout from COVID: families disengaging from public school.

HarkMahlberg, 6 months ago to random

#citiesskylines2 I know the game was basically released unfinished, but I think it's really strange that the only way to tax residential is by education level. I think they tried to equate education level with zoning density? I've noticed that the demand for various densities depends almost entirely on how many students at each education level you have: university students demand high density, college students demand low rent and mixed, high school demands medium density and row houses, etc.

Seems like it would make more sense to tax based on wealth (which the game tracks with Wretched, Poor, Comfortable, Wealthy) and/or the zoning density (Low, Row, Medium, Mixed, Low Rent, High). That would line up with real life a lot better, like income tax and real estate tax respectively.

HarkMahlberg, 4 days ago to random

I don't shit 𝓪 𝓷 𝔂 𝔀 𝓱 𝓮 𝓻 𝓮 .

HarkMahlberg, 8 days ago to random

When I was a kid, I thought Joe Pesci was actually a dirty cop in Home Alone. As an adult, I have to admire how he finessed information out of his targets.