grrgyle
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- Comment on Hmmmmm 12 hours ago:
Do it
- Comment on The Toilet Theory of the Internet: Google is serving an audience that wants quick and easy results. That may lead to disaster. 12 hours ago:
You’re great
- Comment on I Don’t Want To Spend My One Wild And Precious Life Dealing With Google’s AI Search - Aftermath 2 days ago:
Damn now I want to make a third, super-secret email address that I re-forward to. Darn that blasted nosey goog
- Comment on Later, losers 3 days ago:
Is this a mother’s day post?
- Comment on I Don’t Want To Spend My One Wild And Precious Life Dealing With Google’s AI Search - Aftermath 3 days ago:
You can also forward emails from your old Gmail to your new email as a bridge to ensure you don’t miss anything.
- Comment on I Don’t Want To Spend My One Wild And Precious Life Dealing With Google’s AI Search - Aftermath 3 days ago:
Just start. I made another email a few years ago and just started using it for new accounts, moving others over when I thought of it…
Slowly but surely my Gmail has become a ghost town that receives mostly just spam, and the odd password reset link for accounts I haven’t bothered updating.
Sure it’s not a 100% but it’s a lot, and it’s a little bit less of myself getting to google
- Comment on Meirl 3 days ago:
Every day
- Comment on Funny, those guys don't usually agree on that much 4 days ago:
Just throw workers owning the means of production on there and we’ve got a
stewreal progressive. - Comment on Wish for your greatest desire 4 days ago:
but what’s your third wish
- Comment on i hate this meme 5 days ago:
The expressions are also subtly hilarious
- Comment on i hate this meme 5 days ago:
Yeah it’s like “reacting” to live content (a human conversation) while it’s ongoing. The joke is bro is acting like an anonymous member of the chat (chorus or peanut gallery, for my fellow olds) in a face to face convo, which is not appropriate.
I have actually noticed this trend of people of youth making little chirps or ironic barks (to use vg nomenclature) under their breath while a conversation is ongoing. This isn’t totally new ofc, it’s just my generation would be more like “uh huh” “yeah” “oh totally” as non-interrupting encouragement, but not so much with the ironic riffing.
I think it’s kind of funny, but like anything there’s a time and as place
- Comment on As someone who is aging. Late thirties. How can I keep my finger on the pulse of current trends, particularly in music? 5 days ago:
Yummm it gives the feeling of rebelling without actually doing anything or stopping working for even a moment 😋
- Comment on As someone who is aging. Late thirties. How can I keep my finger on the pulse of current trends, particularly in music? 5 days ago:
Ahhh to be 30 again
- Comment on A literal depiction of how capitalism invades all aspects of life 6 days ago:
I’m not sure it is better
- Comment on A literal depiction of how capitalism invades all aspects of life 6 days ago:
Do you think people raging over pictures of it on socmed are part of the appeal to marketers?
- Comment on Stack Overflow Users Are Revolting Against an OpenAI Deal | WIRED 6 days ago:
What do you think the hardest challenge would be?
I honestly wouldn’t know where to begin. Hardest to start would be learning enough of the problem space to identify p problems, but that’s just what’s in front of me
- Comment on Stack Overflow Users Are Revolting Against an OpenAI Deal | WIRED 1 week ago:
is that someone is going to create a defederated stackoverflow alternative?
God I would love that. But as simple as the UI is, it would be some real work.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey claims Bluesky is 'repeating all the mistakes' he made at Twitter 1 week ago:
As a member of some unmod groups back in the early internet I can’t but concur
It can be safely done with very small, or very cool, groups of folks, but not on the open internet.
- Comment on Womens fashion guide 1 week ago:
It smells like the fun slightly problematic aunt
- Comment on Too soon? 1 week ago:
Too soon
- Comment on Never look rule 1 week ago:
What is?
- Comment on The Trouble with Forking Mastodon 1 week ago:
There’s no such thing as perfect software.
This was a huge learning in my journey. Realising that every technical decision is a matter of tradeoffs - that there is no perfect pattern/framework/library/implementation/architecture/whatever.
Once the obviously bad choices have been eliminated.
- Comment on Perfect Dark Reboot Is Allegedly In Bad Shape 1 week ago:
The writing in Disco Elysium is so good that it wouldn’t matter if the gameplay between dialogue was just some match 4 bejewelled ripoff, it’d be worth it.
Anyway, I agree we’ve got so much better in the last decade+ at fitting fiction and gameplay together in a satisfying and complimentary manner.
I remember finding games like Chrono Trigger being as stumbling upon an overflowing oasis, compared to the paltry and usually badly translated heroes journeys that we typically got.
But now I can think of dozens of games, many of them indie, that have stories on par (and if I set aside my nostalgia goggles, even surpassing) that of old classics like CT.
- Comment on Perfect Dark Reboot Is Allegedly In Bad Shape 1 week ago:
Mid dark.
Actually has a kind of ring to it…
- Comment on xkcd #2929: Good and Bad Ideas 1 week ago:
You know, we’re generalising, but you’ve got a point. None of my male friends have glasses in any kinds of shapes other than “boring grey ovoid.”
- Comment on xkcd #2929: Good and Bad Ideas 1 week ago:
I don’t know. I think it’s because they’re practical?
- Comment on xkcd #2929: Good and Bad Ideas 1 week ago:
I could never get a straight answer. I think it’s fashion.
- Comment on xkcd #2929: Good and Bad Ideas 1 week ago:
I want transitions lenses so bad, but the women in my life won’t let me 😔
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
Good article, thanks. I had no idea
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
TIL beans are expensive and privileged.
Pardon my flippant remark. I couldn’t help myself. I appreciate you weighing in on this thread.
I can appreciate how avoiding animal products can seem challenging if you have no direct examples to refer to, but it’s really not. There are literally entire ethnic groups that live cradle to grave without eating meat.
Like for me growing up poor, a defacto vegetarian diet was the norm for us, so it’s just how I eat 90% of the time. Likewise, if you grew up around people who know about nutrition, you get used to planning your meals without relying on meat/dairy/etc to fill in the gaps.
I do believe it’s more ethical to avoid meat entirely, even though I myself don’t. I just try my best to keep it lower impact.