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- Comment on IT’S THE FEDS! 6 days ago:
There definitely have been a case where the police, observing things with thermal cameras from a helicopter (for it is in the US where this tale happened), observed some house with a highly suspicious heat signature. …Some dude’s crypto mining operation.
Well, that was definitely indirectly drug related.
- Comment on Former Meta exec says asking for artist permission will kill AI industry 1 week ago:
The AI industry doesn’t want to abolish or reform copyright law, they just want an exception so that they can keep appropriating shit. On the contrary, they’re pretty mad that AI stuff isn’t covered by more copyright.
AI bros are not on the side of open culture.
- Comment on This graph but with fediverse apps? 1 week ago:
Pinterest is mostly useful for saving images from the web, so you can keep all images from related topics together and have a handy backup too.
I mostly use it for saving all the cute turtle photos I found.
- Comment on This graph but with fediverse apps? 1 week ago:
Unemployed people use LinkedIn mostly for the job board. The employed people use LinkedIn for the social media features, and oh boy
- Comment on Amazonian tribe that received Starlink satellite internet sues The New York Times, TMZ, and Yahoo for $180M over defamation and more, claiming a viral 2024 NYT story smeared members as porn addicts. 1 week ago:
Site that lets you build a contact info page, such as a list of links to various social media pages (some even not operated by Meta). As I recall it was originally made because Instagram only lets you have one link on your profile. Incidentally, Instagram doesn’t like them very much and has banned it before.
- Comment on Techno feudalism, here we come 1 week ago:
I’ve found them useful for very broad level stuff (e.g. asking “I’m trying to do X in programming language Y, are there any libraries for that and can you give me an example”). Copilot has been good at giving me broad guesses at why my stuff isn’t working.
But you have to be very careful with any code they spit out. And they sometimes suggest some really stupid stuff. (Don’t know how to set up a C/C++ build environment for some library on Windows? Don’t worry, the AI is even more confused than you are.)
- Comment on User Experience Study on BookWyrm – Looking for Your Feedback 1 week ago:
What do you like most about BookWyrm? Which features do you use most frequently?
Been using BookWyrm for a few months. I add books to my shelves and track reading progress, mostly.
I loved it when I realised that it just lets me add all random books and edit data from the get-go. The service may not have all of the books I have, but I can just add them.
Are there any features or interactions that you find frustrating or unintuitive? What features do you think are missing or could be improved?
BookWyrm absolutely needs far better abilities to split/merge/consolidate author and book information and do more of the Librarian Stuff. The current system of “you can bring in data and stuff just sits there on its own” is nice if you want to manage a personal library and track individual book progress, but a well-maintained book database is an entirely different beast, and pretty much mandatory for enabling more social stuff.
Also, the ability to import book information from sources is nice, but could use some more integration to a whole lot of other places. I really loved LibraryThing’s integration to bazillion different library services.
One minor quibble I have about BookWyrm is that there’s still the notion of “shelves” and that one book can be on one shelf and different editions of one book don’t count. This is good for casual use - “oh yeah I read this one” - but it’s not enough for true book nerdery. I may have a physical, ebook and audiobook edition of one work in multiple languages and the UI doesn’t show me that yes, I own/have borrowed these exact editions and I have reading activity on this and that and that one.
On that note, yeah, should also have some kind of labeling system for individual editions, along the lines of “I own a copy of this and I’ve stored this in the closet” vs “Borrowed this off the library” vs “I had this one, before the drama queen of an author removed it from Kindle”.
How do you feel about the interface (design, readability, navigation)?
It was a little bit confusing at first, but once I got over the initial weirdness I realised it wasn’t that much harder to use than, say, Goodreads. I don’t really have much complaints at this point. It’s good at what it does.
Do you mainly use BookWyrm on a mobile device or on a computer? And why?
Book nerdery is a big girl thing so I use computer for this. The mobile UI is adequate but could use a dedicated app.
Do you also use other platforms (e.g., Goodreads, StoryGraph, LibraryThing)? If yes, what makes you prefer one over the other?
I used LibraryThing long ago, and Goodreads more recently, both with librarian privileges (i.e. ability to edit data, which BookWyrm gives you from the get-go). I think Goodreads is pretty good at what it does, but it did have some mild jank, and of course, I always got the impression that I was doing unpaid labour for Bezos. So I think I’ll go with BookWyrm in the long run, thanks.
- Comment on negative rizz 1 week ago:
I wanted one!
…In Forza Horizon.
Real life, not so much. There’s a bus stop right by the street
- Comment on Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews. 1 week ago:
Could have been back when the button was part of the address bar. But that was forever ago.
- Comment on Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews. 1 week ago:
It’s literally in the same place as all other UI customising, though. I consider that as convenient as it gets.
- Comment on Speak American 1 week ago:
At this point point, people who speak English as second language usually go “awww, how cute, the native speakers really think this is the biggest controversy of English orthography.”
(Instead of, you know, everything.)
- Comment on GeoGuessr Map Makers Make Most Popular Maps Unplayable In Protest Of Saudi-Backed Esports World Cup 1 week ago:
Farming Simulator has an esport. Microsoft Excel has an esport. At this point it’d be weird if Geoguessr didn’t have an esport.
- Comment on $80 for Borderlands 4 too costly? Randy Pitchford says, "If you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make it happen" 1 week ago:
Yeah, Randy, I find a way to make it happen, it’s called Xbox sale. That’s how I bought Borderlands 3. Which I haven’t played yet. And don’t get me wrong, Randy, Borderlands 2 is one of the most fun games I’ve played, I’m definitely a real fan! I’m definitely a video game enthusiast, I have a ginormous backlog on both Xbox and Steam.
- Comment on And sir cumference, the sphere 2 weeks ago:
Sir Cumference the sphere
Oh yes, and the monastery near Camelot also a nearly spherical oblate
- Comment on Student Demands Tuition Refund After Catching Professor Using ChatGPT - Slashdot 2 weeks ago:
Oh crap, the last time I looked at Slashdot comments, systemd didn’t exist yet
- Comment on Company Regrets Replacing All Those Pesky Human Workers With AI, Just Wants Its Humans Back 2 weeks ago:
I’m from Finland so technically not from Scandinavia. But yes, we do have multiple proofs of the strange and disturbing things happening in Sweden. Here, hardly a week goes by without someone asking “why is PostNord?”
- Comment on Company Regrets Replacing All Those Pesky Human Workers With AI, Just Wants Its Humans Back 2 weeks ago:
Ah yes, Klarna. The proof that not everything is all right with Sweden. Proof that Nordic countries, too, are capable of incredibly dark things. …Do I need to continue?
- Comment on Finally finished dumping my entire library of GameCube and Wii discs for Dolphin! 3 weeks ago:
I don’t want to be condescending. Dolphin Wiki has an article about ripping games. You have to Google it. Or something. I can’t give a link because 🎶 Nintendo has orbital lazors 🎶 /bill wurz
- Comment on Finally finished dumping my entire library of GameCube and Wii discs for Dolphin! 3 weeks ago:
Would love to, but Nintendo nukes people who do that from the orbit. (Actually, this whole thing started when I tried to download ISOs and found most of the sites down.)
However, if you do personal archival projects, they legally can’t do shit! We have laws here.
- Comment on Finally finished dumping my entire library of GameCube and Wii discs for Dolphin! 3 weeks ago:
Ripped all of the discs using a softmodded Wii. Used a few homebrew apps, CleanRip (disc dumping), GCMM (for GameCube memory cards) and I think there was another tool for backing up the Wii NAND (could have been just part of bootmii/homebrew channel)
- Comment on Finally finished dumping my entire library of GameCube and Wii discs for Dolphin! 3 weeks ago:
Yup, those times sound about the same as what happened with me. Plus the time spent swapping SD cards, because I couldn’t get CleanRip to work with the USB drives I had at hand, only FAT32 SD cards.
Also, at every step of the way when converting ISOs to RVZ, I ran Dolphin’s verification thing, just for paranoia I guess.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to retrogaming@lemmy.world | 18 comments
- Comment on Nintendo reserves the right to brick your console following "unauthorised use", in bid to prevent piracy 3 weeks ago:
That’s it, I’m going to get a Steam Deck next. And I’ll stick to stuff that can run Dolphin.
(Learns that Xbox Series can also run Dolphin without modding) Well shit, I’m set for life
- Comment on The clueless people are out there among us 3 weeks ago:
And in the big touristy cities in Europe, there’s so many scam currency exchanges, while if you just take the time to go to official government exchanges, you get reasonable exchange rates. The problem isn’t the locals, the problem is that you didn’t do the research and you did a dum-dum. (Also fuck the people who are scamming tourists, that’s just low.)
- Comment on “This is a huge moment for creators and their businesses,” - Patreon will update its iPhone app to sidestep Apple’s payment system. Patreon was forced to pay 30% fees 4 weeks ago:
I didn’t even know Patreon had a mobile app. To me, Patreon is just one of those Big Adult Things you have to do on a computer. Seems to work just fine on mobile browser (Firefox for Android) though. Apple being mega greedy as usual.
- Comment on What is your favorite indie game? 4 weeks ago:
Can’t really add much to all of the great games already mentioned. But I’ll add one, because it was one of the best games I played in recent memory. Chants of Sennaar. Where to even start? Point-and-click adventure/puzzle game that is all about language puzzles. With great visuals and music. Really dig the eurocomics inspired style. I don’t know why, but this game really touched me - maybe it’s because the game is about uniting people in an age of discord.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Game prices have nothing to do with inflation (or even production costs) and everything to do with arbitrary price points the industry just settles upon. Nothing forces them to charge that much, yet they do it because they think they can get away with it for now.
Rising prices have had an effect on me - I’m definitely not buying as many games as I used to, least of all impulsively on hearsay, and I’m not trusting any publisher enough to preorder stuff anymore. So they went past my pain point, sorry. If they keep doing this, they’ll run over everybody. I don’t think this is a sustainable direction.
- Comment on Liquid Trees 4 weeks ago:
Insert random copypasta about biotech breakthrough that turns water and CO2 and nutrients into building materials which sounds like space age technology but it’s just trees
- Comment on Don't be Evil 4 weeks ago:
Parody account
…Basically indistinguishable from any regular Twitter account. Why did Elon want these accounts labeled, again?
- Comment on Recommendations for "girly" games? 4 weeks ago:
If you like puzzles, and greenery instead of pink:
Botany Manor, which is fundamentally about the feminine urge to go alone into a giant mansion and grow some cool flowers
Terra Nil, which is about going to a desolate planet and using the power of technology to grow some cool flowers
