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@tojikomori@kbin.social

Conscientious spectre making a home in the threadiverse.

I also toot as @tojikomori.

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We have https://kbin.social/m/mechanicalkeyboards on kbin.

If you're on a Lemmy instance then the best way to add it is to paste the full URL into search while logged in. It won't show up right away, but if you wait a few seconds then it'll appear in the search results. Every now and then it gets stubborn and you have to refresh the search results page to see it.

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I like this. I keep seeing and saying "Lemmy/Kbin" which is awkward in all sorts of ways.

"Threadiverse" has a good denim feel to it.

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I think you're right. There's a "Blocked Domains" section to manage blocked hosts in Settings but I don't see a UI to add domains to it yet. (It's also unclear if it'd be for blocking instances, link posts, or both.)

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  • To block users: when you go to someone's profile there's a 🚫 button to block them. It's next to the "Follow" button, below their name.
  • To block magazines/communities: the 🚫 (block) button is next to the Subscribe button in the sidebar. On mobile the sidebar gets moved to the bottom of the page, so you have to scroll down a ways to see it.
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Always on the lookout for light, fluffy shows like these. Strawberry Marshmallows. Thanks to the Kickstarter we rewatched Aria over the pandemic, and I credit it for keeping total misanthropy at bay.

Hakumei & Mikochi is a recent one that feels close in spirit. I started re-reading the manga the last few nights and it's that same positive slice-of-life energy.

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I re-watched Outlaw Star when the Blu-rays came out. I'd forgotten most of the story but wow, not the tunes: I was a little emotional seeing the OP & ED again.

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This will sound boring but I'm curious about reading books and comics on the Vision Pro. It'd be interesting to experiment with eye tracking and hand gestures for turning pages, setting highlights, and searching through a book with a feature like Kindle's x-ray.

Comics might be tough because the page format conflicts with comfort guidelines (windows should be constrained to 60° horizontally and 30° vertically) but maybe eye tracking could allow you to create a comfortable loupe of that size that naturally pans over the page as you look around.

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I have a PARA structure in DEVONthink, though it's mostly "Resources" for interesting web articles.

It's getting hard to find old articles in search engines (even DDG), so if I see something interesting then I add it to Pocket. DEVONthink then reads my pocket RSS feed and stores a PDF version which goes into its full text index so I can find it again later.

I have a lot of papers and manuals and things in there too – anything I think might want to find later.

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DEVONthink gives me a leg up with the Pocket flow because it has a built in option to automatically create PDF versions of articles in an RSS feed. Other than that, I don't really take enough advantage of its power user features. If I were to start over today, I'd probably take a serious look at Keep It which seems like a lighter tool. It's really its full text index and some of the incidental metadata features (like having the source URL for anything exported from a browser) that keep me using it.

The papers I stash there usually come to me as PDFs. When I need to scan a physical paper I usually use Scanner Pro from my phone and export to DEVONthink from there. It has built-in OCR that's always been good enough for searchability.

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I wish it were programmable in VIA instead of NuPhy's software but otherwise their low profile boards look really good to me. I tried a Keychron K3 in the past but strongly dislike their keycaps, and their stabilizers make them incompatible with other brands.

The Odin looks really cool! That little screen should be fun to play with.

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I had the same experience bottoming out with linears. Mine were K-Pro reds, which are fine switches otherwise, but I'm more comfortable with browns. On the plus side they let me type quietly when needed so I'm thinking of trying them in a mobile/tablet/travel keyboard – maybe an Ajazz K620T.

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It's not listed here but we settled on flax milk as our everyday option in the fridge. It's less energy & water intensive than nut-based milks and has fewer calories than oat milk. It's a slightly thinner, less creamy texture, so I'm not sure it'd work so well for baking, but it's great over cereal.

I also think it tastes better in coffee than oat milk, but few coffee places have it. I'm not sure if it's a reaction with the coffee or the steaming process but I find oat milk tastes sort of papery when added to lattes. Usually the alternatives are almond or soy, which aren't as good environmentally (though much better than dairy options). I'll just have an Americano.

Apple TV+’s “Monarch: Legacy of Monsters” supposedly filming with Vision Pro in mind. (twitter.com)

I do wonder if they’ll adopt the format for all TV+ shows at some point, or if it will just be limited to shows that may make better use of 3D than something like Ted Lasso or Severance. They’ll need more than just TV+ shows and movies in the format for it to take off, however, so it’s still unclear how successful 3D...

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Gotta admit my heart sank when I realized Vision Pro means there'll be more 3D movies, because so far it's always seemed to detract from a film rather than enhance it. It's even a detriment when watching in 2D, where those gimmicky rollercoaster scenes are even more noticeably pointless and awkward.

That said, I think this is a perfect series to play with the technology. Godzilla productions are fascinating time capsules, and if this effect falls flat or is quickly outmoded then it'll be another interesting snapshot in that history. "This one was made when Apple released the first good headset thingy." If anything, it explains why Apple picked up this series at all.

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I see the "Pro" monicker as a signal that this is exactly what they intend, too. This first release is aimed at enthusiastic early adopters and developers wanting to explore the system and use it for device testing. That second group is especially important for seeding the new platform with useful apps, and I think the high price is partly intended to control demand so interested developers have an easier time obtaining it.

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I bet Japan will be a popular one. A lot more Japanese media makes it overseas these days, but that also creates demand for more. It's wild to think you have to reach through Japan to watch a series as internationally popular as Star Trek, though.

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Similar here. Our new Sony came with Google TV, but it turns out you can set it up in "basic TV" mode which is nice for this: it strips away the clutter and leaves you with what's effectively a dumb TV. I can still install firmware updates via a thumb drive.

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Ah, you must be in AU. We got Magi a bit earlier in the US. I wonder if that's related to you dropping it: I remember it being a very strong series, but it's always more fun to watch with others.

And yep, pretty much every item in this list got a "Nooo… that was 10 years ago?!" from me. I think the covid period permanently addled my sense of time.

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The nearest I've been to trying it was in this post which links directly to a thread on another instance. It didn't do anything special, and I think it might've been more confusing than beneficial.

It's a low enough priority for now that I'm waiting a bit before bringing it up in kbinMeta, but would be nice to improve that some day.

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I had a similar experience. (Almost the opposite preferences, but a similar experience anyway!)

I think it only makes sense once you've tried a couple of different profiles to learn what your fingers like. After that it almost feels like a cheat code.

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Interesting, didn't know that was a thing! Given their reasons for choosing Swift, I was curious why he didn't discuss Rust. Later in the video he mentioned they started this project in 2017, which may partly explain it: it was only around that time that Rust really started to get traction, whereas Swift came out of the gate with fanfare and accolades. That also means they started this effort before SwiftUI had been announced.

Their approach to app also seems quite different from the typical promise of Electron, Flutter, or React Native: rather than trying to apply the same UI design and codebase to multiple platforms it sounds like they're trying to use the same toolkit to cut down on context switching but want to approach each platform with the design principles of that platform. That's pretty cool. Some of my biggest frustrations with Electron apps come from things that are missing or implemented differently just because they don't translate well for the Windows versions.

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This reply's interesting:

How can data licensed under the CC-BY-SA licenses (that SO content is licensed under) be "misused"? The license explictly allows others to do essentially anything they want with the data as long as attribution is given, in particular profit off of it.

When SO content is applied as parametric knowledge I'd expect the outcome to fail both the "BY" and the "SA" clauses, since model interpreters can't provide attribution for it and their output won't share the license. That's true even if output is considered public domain: CC-BY-SA content can't be moved into a public domain equivalent license. It seems practically indistinguishable from using any other in-copyright content as training material.

None of that's to say SO is right to stop data dumps. It feels like they're trying to find a technical solution to a legal problem, perhaps even one that rises to criminality on the part of Open AI and others?

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Yeah, it's been hard getting any otaku fandoms going in the Fediverse, and Holo's an especially fragmented one.

@AlbertScoot just an idea but it might help to add some tags to this magazine so we start pulling in microblog posts. I bet there are people occasionally posting things to places like urusai.social and sakurajima.moe who'd love to join us here if they knew about it. (Ahem: may have to wait until the server situation calms down a bit, though! 😆)

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