Thanks for the reminder! I saved a bunch of interesting and useful stuff with that interface, I should definitely grab it all before I go.
I'm still conflicted about deleting my accounts tbh. I shared a few useful things on Reddit, and even followed up on questions that I'd later answered for myself. Someone might find it useful, and it seems a shame to take it back just to spite a corporation.
I downloaded all my old comments and I'll certainly use them as a resource here if the same questions come up again. It'll be a while before kbin.social shows up in search engines the way Reddit does, though.
I hope enough interesting people stick around to keep the threadiverse fun.
Kbin's an alpha product. It'd only just been released when Reddit went Hinamizawa on us, and despite the alpha snags it seems to be serving lots of us pretty well already. It's amazing for an open source project to have this much interest and excitement out of the gate, and I hope that continues… maybe not at the same pace, though. ernest needs coffee, but ernest also needs sleep.
"The suit claimed that the agreement essentially killed the market for refurbished Apple goods on Amazon while giving Amazon a discount of up to 10 percent on its own sales of Apple goods."
Although my first anime was back during early childhood (back when anime programme block was a regular thing in Indonesian television). Vulcan just really started following anime seriously during junior high school back in 2012 (classmates are into Attack on Titan and Sword Art Online during that time, and we often chatted about...
That's pretty amazing, and also makes me a little jealous because it's been out of print ever since I got into Leiji Matsumoto. I'm of the generation that was introduced to the Leijiverse through Rintaro's Galaxy Express 999 movie. I think appreciation's been gathering the last few years (we've had multiple manga releases, and Discotek brought out the entire GE999 series) so there's hope yet!
A couple of school friends were obsessed with Bubblegum Crisis. It took a long time for them to get me to watch any anime – the Patlabor movie was the first thing I saw – but I'd been hearing them talk about it (and post on forums, and maintain Geocities fan pages, and draw and draw and draw) for so long that I was practically brainwashed by their enthusiasm.
And yet: it was years before I saw Bubblegum Crisis itself. 🤣 I think the first fansubbed series I got around to watching was a terrible DivX copy of Angelic Layer, which still has a place in my heart. (The first e-sports anime! CLAMP! A toy tie-in you'll wish could be real!)
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...
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.
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.
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.
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! 😆)
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.
Yeah, a lot of the hands-on reviews talk about the apparent permanence of objects in Vision Pro – that they don't shift about like objects in ARKit and other implementations. That alone would make a huge difference for applications like this.
"On the surface, these results seem to show that the GPU in the new M2 Ultra is highly formidable, offering GPU compute performance somewhere between a GeForce RTX 4070 Ti and RTX 4080."
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.
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?
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.
I recently used linked thinking in Obsidian to do some critical meme analysis for therapy. It was a good exercise in creating index notes, e.g. a meme crossing over Marvel and The Good Place wouldn't fit in a folder for either one.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
For reasons no one can fathom, McDonald’s has released a new Game Boy Color game (arstechnica.com)
Grimace's Birthday was developed by Krool Toys, a Brooklyn-based independent game studio.
Apple’s Original Vision Products Were a Line of CRTs (512pixels.net)
The Apple Vision Pro may be ushering in the era of spatial computing, but like many other Apple products, it's using a name steeped in history.
Reddit communities with millions of followers plan to extend the blackout indefinitely (www.theverge.com)
This will get interesting.
A lot subreddits end their blackout tomorrow. Will you go back to Reddit, or continue with kbin and the Fediverse?
I haven't used Reddit at all since the blackout began. Even if they change course, the Fediverse is growing on me, and I think I'll stay here....
Judge denies Amazon & Apple’s motions to dismiss class action price-fixing suit (arstechnica.com)
"The suit claimed that the agreement essentially killed the market for refurbished Apple goods on Amazon while giving Amazon a discount of up to 10 percent on its own sales of Apple goods."
How did you get into anime?
Although my first anime was back during early childhood (back when anime programme block was a regular thing in Indonesian television). Vulcan just really started following anime seriously during junior high school back in 2012 (classmates are into Attack on Titan and Sword Art Online during that time, and we often chatted about...
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...
What are some of your favorite Anime to re-watch?
I've been re-watching Hunter x Hunter lately. It has been really fun. What are some of the anime you keep going back to?
This Week in hololive June 4 – June 10, 2023 (thisweekinhololive.wordpress.com)
Kaela introduces Ckia, Watame's birthday, Nene's new outfit, and new original music…
Question Of The Week: What's an app you'd like to try in visionOS?
Can be an app that exists on other platforms or a new idea, as long as you don't mind sharing....
M2 Ultra appears in Geekbench 6 and GFXBench benchmark indexes (www.tomshardware.com)
"On the surface, these results seem to show that the GPU in the new M2 Ultra is highly formidable, offering GPU compute performance somewhere between a GeForce RTX 4070 Ti and RTX 4080."
The Browser Company on the business decisions and tech behind building Arc for Windows using Swift (youtu.be)
An interesting insight into the first major project using Swift for Windows development (that I’m aware of)
Stack Overflow stopped publishing its Data Dump (meta.stackexchange.com)
Apple TV to Support VPN Apps on tvOS 17 (www.macrumors.com)
"VPN apps could allow for Apple TV users to watch geo-restricted content… however it is possible that Apple could restrict usage of the apps."
What are folks using PKMS for?
I recently used linked thinking in Obsidian to do some critical meme analysis for therapy. It was a good exercise in creating index notes, e.g. a meme crossing over Marvel and The Good Place wouldn't fit in a folder for either one.
John Gruber's first impressions of Vision Pro and VisionOS (daringfireball.net)
"I got to spend about 30 minutes Monday afternoon using a Vision Pro and VisionOS at Apple Park…"
Keycaps.info (www.keycaps.info)
Tool for comparing keycap profiles.
The Anime You Should Have Watched in Spring 2013 (www.animenewsnetwork.com)
Travel back ten years and revisit some fan favorite anime and hidden gems.
App Store Story: What the Heck Is Mastodon? (apps.apple.com)
App Store story highlighting Ivory, Mona, Mastonaut, and other Mastodon apps for Mac and iOS.