umbraroze

@umbraroze@slrpnk.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many instances have you been orphaned from?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My first instances were mastodon.lol and kbin.social. Guess I was unlucky.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨mmm... tastes like chimkin⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Tortoise: “I’m not a goddamn rock! You pooped on me for the last time! …Not so tough these days, eh, dinosaur?”

  But seriously, not surprising. I heard that many tortoises, while herbivorous, will just happily munch all snails that rest on the greens. (For nutrition. And also to demonstrate superiour speed!)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My father had an Acer laptop. It broke.

  One of my friends had an Acer laptop. It broke.

  I think my father had a 486SX Acer laptop which worked wayyyy past its reasonable age, but it’s in the closet and the hinges look crumbly and I kinda fear that if I touch it it will be atomised.

  Me, I’ve used Asus laptops since 2011, and these things are only slightly less resistant to nuclear explosions than Thinkpads

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The car of the guy who insists that you have a terminal case of TDS⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You just know the owner plastered the car with words like Joy, Knowledge, Self-control and Virtue because deep down they know they have none of those qualities and hope that this ritual will manifest them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can do anything at Zombocom⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not Zombo COM1:, that’s the serial port, the one above it. This is Zombo VGA.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 477 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh crap. Reminds me that for some reason or other (Mostly just time issues I guess, and because dualbooting Windows was pain I guess) I never completed Max Payne 2. As a giant fan of the first game I loved it.

  Wonder if I need to go dig out the discs. Wait wait what, I already have them on Steam? How? When did I get them? Never mind. Hope these aren’t a massive headache to get running

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “We’re building the Eschaton Immanentising Machine, from the famous theological treatise ‘Don’t Immanentise the Eschaton’”

  (Also, using LLMs sounds a lot less efficient than the exhaustive search described in The Nine Billion Names of God)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Python Foundation rejects $1.5M grant with no-DEI strings⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One of my recent software projects has an “ignore” list feature, but I guess I have to update the terminology to “include/exclude” if that means chuds will stay away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US government uses Halo images in a call to 'destroy' immigration, Microsoft declines to comment⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Come to think of it, the Covenant have a lot in common with American brand millennial Evangelists. Leaning really hard on immanentising the eschaton.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Heh, I’m getting back to physical media, and this big 4K TV is literally the first time ever where I’ve actually constantly noticed that DVDs might get a bit pixely.

  (And even so, I usually blame not so great digitisation. Some transfers of old obscure titles were really sloppy, you really didn’t need a great TV to see the problems. Original was a black and white movie, the DVD was a bunch of grey mush.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Reportedly Moving Ahead With Ads in Maps App⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Funny thing, over here, OSM actually got weird rural stuff for a couple of rural towns I visited frequently about a year before Google Maps (and other proprietary services) was usable there. I think it had to do with some open-data drop from the government.

  And seeing the services grow side by side also kind of gave away what their priorities were. Google: putting the local businesses and services on the map. OSM: document every single cool and convenient foot and bike trail.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Banana⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re completely safe what comes to Potassium-40 radioactivity! You need to eat a massive amount of them to even reach the point where you experience radiation sickness. Actually, you might experience excessive potassium toxicity levels first. (Or you might not! Human bodies are equipped to get rid of excess potassium.) Or, you know, you might experience the problems of stuffing too much stuff down your gullet. There’s only so much stuff you can fit in your stomach at one time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DirecTV screensavers will show AI-generated ads with your face in 2026⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m fed up with the streaming services, so I’m getting back to my big pile of DVDs and Blu-Ray discs.

  I was randomly reminded of the “BD-Live” thing that I tried long ago. One of the most janky joyless things I had ever seen. Some marketing person had decided to do a marketing thing for movie promos and trailers and had forgotten that the thing was to be visited by actual people.

  This sounds like it was cooked up by the same people. Looks like marketing people building a Thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japanese Government Calls on Sora 2 Maker OpenAI to Refrain From Copyright Infringement, Says Characters From Manga and Anime Are 'Irreplaceable Treasures' That Japan Boasts to the World⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Like I said, the AI companies are not on the same side. The AI companies in the fight for their own selfish reasons. They’re eventually just going to make the copyright situation even more byzantine. They also make the copyright reform/abolition people look bad.

  It’s like if I say I’m an Anarchist and then I have to constantly say “well actually I don’t advocate for looting and vandalism nonsense, those dipshits don’t know shit about Anarchism”. Do you know how hard it is to advocate for more reasonable copyright policy reflecting modern times, when the current big crisis in the mind of artists and creators are the dipshit companies blatantly violating the law?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨oh no! reddit gives up on totally not NFTs!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to use Reddit, and I remember when collectible avatars were introduced.

  The experience paraphrased:

  “Hey, click here to claim a free collectible avatar!” *open in new tab* “Here it is! However, you first need to set up crypto wallet—” *close tab*

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japanese Government Calls on Sora 2 Maker OpenAI to Refrain From Copyright Infringement, Says Characters From Manga and Anime Are 'Irreplaceable Treasures' That Japan Boasts to the World⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  AI companies are not on the side of copyright reform or abolition. They just want an exception for themselves. They very much believe in trade secrets. They probably want copyright to eventually cover the current grey areas so that they can stop pretending they give a damn about open models.

  It’s not unreasonable to demand AI companies to play by the same rules as everyone else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨International Shitpost Wednesday! ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Turtle robot! 🐢🤖 Cutest robots of them all. Very programmer friendly. Very artistic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨oh no! reddit gives up on totally not NFTs!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Lemmy (and Piefed) have avatars and bio, and Piefed also has the custom fields thing that Mastodon has, but not all clients show this stuff. Voyager is probably the best Lemmy/Piefed client that basically has no support for profile details.

  One of the things that bug me about Fediverse is that the amount of profile features varies so much between the services and it’s kinda inconsistent too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sunlight special⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I see no problems with cooking meals with sunlight. (…as we say here in the solarpunk instance)

  However, I do see the practical limitations what comes to attempting to cook meals with sunlight in the UK. I have heard the weather is often not favourable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh good, the current profile management is a little bit clunky. Having the option to launch random profiles wherever and whenever would be nice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨kurzgesagt – AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Astrum makes space stuff videos? I dunno, been a while.

  Fireship makes videos about programming. Has series about “(Programming language/Framework) explained in 100 seconds”, for example. I think people are complaining that the channel is slipping into AI dudebroery.

  Hoog is a history/explainer type channel, I think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yes. The Great pathlib. The Blessed pathlib. Hallowed be it and all it does.

  I’m a Ruby girl. A couple of years ago I was super worried about my decision to finally start learning Python seriously. But once I ran into pathlib, I knew for sure that everything will be fine. Take an everyday headache problem. Solve it forever. Boom. This is how standard libraries should be designed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung brings ads to US fridges⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In the 1980s, home computers were sold like this:

  “Look at these awesome games, kids! And as for your parents, uh… well, you could use the computers to… uh… I dunno… keep track of the contents of the fridge? Yeah, let’s go with that.”

  Nobody ever did that. Not then, not now.

  Don’t buy a smart fridge, it’s a scam

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EuLeR iS nOT a PHySicIST⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  An old bit of wisdom: “Most scientific concepts are named after the second person to discover them”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many hands long do they get?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Easiest way to avoid formatting the list is to put a backslash before the dot:

  12345\. Blah blah...
  

  This was a common problem in Reddit in NaNoWriMo when people posted their daily wordcounts and what they had been doing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sweet dreams are made of these?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Chud: “There are some who seem to be ignorant of my ancestry. As I have subtly hinted for some time, the answer should be very clear: very European.”

  Europeans: “…We’re kindly requesting you should never set foot on our beautiful continent. Thank you.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Limiting the power mod reach is a good thing, but still, this will break Reddit. Ordinary users will not be lining up to step in as small time moderators. Especially if Reddit Inc is going to remove them if they do anything they don’t like.

  Reddit Inc will just go “what the hell, we’ll throw more AI shit in the Automoderator. It’s not like it’ll do worse than the current arbitrary quagmire of moderation rules - or maybe it will be, who can tell the difference anyway”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, whoever right-wing funnyboy made the original never went to school, so how would they even know?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There aren’t that many Premium™ Gamers®, and trying to pretend that that is, like, a legitimate target demographic to pander to is just sad, folks.

  (The funniest gamer influencer backlash I’ve seen lately was against some YouTuber who blew ~$2K on gaming desk and a chair and called it a “minimalist” setup. People at large rightfully went “are you shitting me”.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who plays like that x_x⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I use inverted Y look with pad controls. Because that makes so much more sense. (Normal mouse look is fine)

  I like how many new games show accessibility settings on start but it’s still rare for them to have both subtitle settings and invert Y right there. And always a celebration when they are.

  Games that don’t even let you invert Y are hella silly. I’m so glad Xbox lets you force the invert. Gotta figure out if you can do that in Windows/Linux.