JohnnyEnzyme
@JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social
- Comment on Reddit to lemmy reposter 1 hour ago:
Just leeching content from reddit will never get Lemmy anywhere.
I recently leeched some interesting post material from Reddit, shamelessly reposted it here, and it seemed to get lots of appreciation and a healthy amount of commentary.
I wasn’t acting as a bot, but does it matter? Most of the content’s probably not original to Reddit, anyway. Maybe using a bot in conjunction with hand-picking interesting material is a good idea, y’know?
- Comment on Intro to Pico-8? 2 hours ago:
Via browser on desktop or mobile, you can play a nice selection of featured carts here: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?cat=7&carts_tab=1#sub=2&mode=carts&orderby=featured
Another list here:
https://nerdyteachers.com/PICO-8/Games/Top200/I believe there are other ways to store and play the carts across other platforms, but you’ll need more help than I can give you on that stuff.
- Comment on How does internet advertising work? Where is all the money coming from? More... 3 days ago:
Well, I don’t know what you’re doing with that spinach over there, but yeah, makes sense to me. We have a natural bias towards the familiar & repulsion towards the unfamiliar, even in trivially-important matters, no doubt much like other advanced life on the planet. #2 on Maslow’s Hierarchy, I guess.
- Comment on Maybe the RAM shortage will make software less bloated? 3 days ago:
That reminds me… about 10-15yrs ago, someone scripted and CG-animated all new TOS episodes using audio samples of the original show, uploading them to YT. Me, I found the scripts surprisingly strong and the audio surprisingly effective and smooth. Unfortunately, the animation was by far the weakest link, but that was a long time ago in terms of advances. I’d love to see a modern effort.
Somewhat similarly, I love how these turned out:
TNG in TAS style:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jyz2pVqrEkIVOY in TAS style:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luEDui2zAUw - Comment on Maybe the RAM shortage will make software less bloated? 3 days ago:
Similar situation here, Chief; altho I got out of PS well before the absurd subscription hurdle.
It was definitely a powerhouse, but GIMP has been sufficient for me, too. I only use it sporadically these days, but GPT5.2 has been useful in helping me when there’s 3-4 ways to do something, and I simply want to know which is easiest and most efficient. Of course, it doesn’t yet talk in Majel Barrett’s voice yet…
- Comment on Maybe the RAM shortage will make software less bloated? 3 days ago:
Shit… that would probably require a long-arse, detailed essay.
- Comment on How does internet advertising work? Where is all the money coming from? More... 3 days ago:
Sales directors are more often gobshites than scientists.
Obligatory:
https://fatherted.gifglobe.com/scene/?id=4vy9TDObYPor - Comment on How does internet advertising work? Where is all the money coming from? More... 3 days ago:
I’m pretty sure they meant it as a colloquial, not a strict mathematical expression.
- Comment on How does internet advertising work? Where is all the money coming from? More... 3 days ago:
Well, there’s reasonable animal fear in terms of dangers and potential dangers, but when you’re talking about products? I’d think that curiosity is more common in such scenarios. Then again, maybe I’m once again overestimating sapiens.
- Comment on Maybe the RAM shortage will make software less bloated? 3 days ago:
When I was double-checking prices at Microcenter, I noticed that there was a mini (micro) Mac with modern processor, etc selling for a mere US$400. I had no idea such a thing existed, given their historically high prices. I reckon one could even use it somewhat like a laptop at times, or at the least, a portable. Just in general, though– seems like it could help out a bunch of people who like Macs.
https://www.microcenter.com/product/688173/apple-mac-mini-mu9d3ll-a-(late-2024)-desktop-computer
- Comment on Maybe the RAM shortage will make software less bloated? 3 days ago:
Well yes, Windows is pretty disastrous of an OS in the first place.
FWIW, I’m hoping to get Linux installed at some point.
- Comment on Maybe the RAM shortage will make software less bloated? 3 days ago:
Just curious– what would you say are the main ways in which modern GIMP doesn’t live up to PS?
@pantherina@feddit.org,
Windows 11 often requires new hardware.
This was true in my case, but it was also true that I’d been using a 10yr old machine, which is pretty ridiculous. Win10 was creaking along, and Firefox wasn’t helping. So, ahead of the deadline, I got myself a ~US$350 mini-computer with modern AMD processor and 16gb. It’s been flying.
So it was a comparatively tiny investment to stay with a modern machine, and also helpful in maintaining a chain of redundancy. (i.e. if this one has a problem for whatever reason, I have a temporary backup machine) So in a way, the Win11 jump actually helped me out a lot.
Checking just now, the computer has gone up US$50 since then.
- Comment on New Community: Made in Europe: A community dedicated to exchanging about consumer products made in Europe 3 days ago:
I guess most of the contents of my community could fit in to yours, assuming bande dessinée counts. :P
- Comment on What are some common *unforced errors* to be wary of? 4 days ago:
Perfect age for this fussing & fighting–
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John Sebastian, what a day for a daydream, genius again.
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- Comment on Dan Carlin’s Mania for Subjugation III Released (Alexander the Great series) 6 days ago:
Not my place to tell you what kinda soup you like.
¯_(ツ)_/¯No, no, I Insist it must be THIS…!!
(haha, obligatory humor, once I recognised you, u/dgdft)
- Comment on Dan Carlin’s Mania for Subjugation III Released (Alexander the Great series) 6 days ago:
You know, I tried Carlin a couple times in the past, and kept running in to the same problem, every time– i.e. no matter how genius and insightful one might be as an amateur historian, one must still be able to communicate effectively via chosen media.
I’m sorry, but so far, both Dan and his sound engineers are a general disaster in terms of communication. Specifically– the audio levels range all over the place in various ways, his voice goes from intimate to creaky, lows-to-highs all the time, with no smooth intermediate whatsoever transition and so on, and so on.
Sure, I assume you’ll take this as a personal attack upon the man, but from my part? I love that man’s content, and it’s not just hard for me -personally- to listen to, but thinking ahead– I’d love it if he could take some voice lessons, and his channel could improve their techniques and understandings.
Because that man could maybe be roughly on the level of David Attenborough IMO.
BUT– Key difference, THEY learned the medium of the message, and the message of the medium. Hopefully Carlin gets there one day…
- Comment on There should be more negative awards. For example: the most pathetic nation or the most monstrous person of the year. 6 days ago:
Makes sense to me, not unlike regulatory capture.
It really was a striking project that only should have grown in impact & awareness over the years, especially with the Bush Jr regime being such a disaster at the time.
- Comment on Capitalism only asissts innovation for the first few years of existence. After that its a grift. 6 days ago:
Even worse than that, our modern, high-tech capitalist civilisation, no matter its many ‘triumphs,’ has roundly failed to address what was obvious to anyone seeing the long view– that without addressing the mechanisms of its own unsustainability, it will still fail, as all earlier civilisations did.
So we’re headed for a collapse, faster with every passing day, while overpopulation, overconsumption, and capitalism have arguably been the primary drivers of that. And the richest people and corporations in the world, being uniquely placed to make a huge difference on that front, instead only think of the next quarter’s profits, or their personal wealth and safety.
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- Comment on There should be more negative awards. For example: the most pathetic nation or the most monstrous person of the year. 1 week ago:
There used to be a "The 50 Worst People of the Year" series of popular / notorious articles in the 2000’s. They were pretty savage, wickedly amusing, and tended to target Americans more than not. Not sure whatever happened to that series, but it’s beyond necessary in these dark times…
- Comment on I'm gonna need a walk-in shower soon enough 1 week ago:
I need to buy and install some of those no-slip rubber mat pieces in and around my tub. A couple years ago I slipped and cracked the back of my head, and was fortunately okay, but those events can be life-altering, or fatal.
- Comment on It's quite impressive that most English speakers across the world understand each other, despite variations in accents/dialects 2 weeks ago:
I’m sure you’re mostly right, but man… for me, trying to understand standard ‘Ainglish’ informed with various Scots / Celtic / Irish / British brogue (and sometimes Australasia brogue) is even harder than understanding certain American backwoods Appalachian dialects. 😵💫
For example, what’s that modern show with the two twin, Irish, mobster brothers? (played by a single actor IIRC) I really do need an interpreter for that one, and various other series… oO
- Comment on ELI5 why I logically understand McDonald's food is low quality and bad for me but I crave it like crack? 3 weeks ago:
Don’t forget loads of salt!
Like– every step of the way, fast food places have an opportunity to aim for ‘healthier’ or ‘more delicious’ choices, overwhelmingly with profit-making in mind. That’s the main thing to keep in mind.
IIRC, McD’s and various other chains even design venting and such to get the smell of the cooking food (chemically enhanced) in to the surrounding area. You know, so that more people can pay a fortune to get a food rush that doubles as a health disaster.
- Comment on People are completely used to autotune in music now, and the same will happen with ai usage 3 weeks ago:
Obviously S&G had nothing of the sort, it didnt exist at the time.
Of course it did. Just as I referred to as “manual-tune” in my original comment. George Martin was FAMOUS for that stuff, but I tend to think he wasn’t the first.
Me, I like people who can make brave, interesting points in life, but I also don’t value much people who have no idea WTF they’re talking about, literally without a shred of evidence to back up their nonsense.
- Comment on The Fediverse and Content Creation: Monetization 3 weeks ago:
I mean, you’re kind of lifting my point in to a broader area that I wasn’t speaking to at the time.
Of course I agree with all that you said. But I was talking strictly in the context of OP’s framework.
- Comment on People are completely used to autotune in music now, and the same will happen with ai usage 3 weeks ago:
You’ve made no real case that it’s used in any significant way upon any significant music I know of.
Used on modern pop? Of course it is. All over the place. Which is like saying that fast food and cold cuts contain a bunch of artificial stuff that enhances shelf life, flavor. We all know that, and most people know that fast food and cold cuts are the very bottom tier of food, despite the brief rush.
You can bet your bippy that Simon & Garfunkel never needed no auto-tune gimmicks to perform “The Sound of Silence.” Altho extra orchestration indeed helped.
- Comment on People are completely used to autotune in music now, and the same will happen with ai usage 3 weeks ago:
You haven’t heard a song NOT using it since at least 1998.
I have a very hard time believing that, unless of course sound engineers have been doing “manual-tune” for ages and ages (see below). Regardless, loads of singers who perform in front of others clearly have the ability to sing a song in a variety of ways depending on mood, venue, audience, occasion, etc. In short– good singers REALLY ARE that talented, generally with excellent pitch, and don’t need assistance in something as basic as singing notes close enough to pitch-perfect without the need to be absolutely perfect.
Just look at how improv singers can do so well, or people performing in front of judges, or opera and opera-style singers performing in concert halls, like Charlotte Church.
I would guess the one argument of yours that holds some water is with flawed singers who are otherwise good, but have chronic problems hitting close-enough pitch, or really good singers trying to perform songs slightly outside of their range. Stuff like that…
- Comment on The Fediverse and Content Creation: Monetization 3 weeks ago:
One seemingly enormous difference is that YT is a for-profit platform owned by a huge business (Google), not a decentralised network run by many small volunteers. FWIW.
- Comment on The Fediverse and Content Creation: Monetization 3 weeks ago:
I don’t have strong feelings either way, but money does touch everything, overtly or not, when it comes to civilisation. Time spent volunteering on Fediverse projects is effectively money spent (at least to some degree), and instances cost time & fees to maintain.
But I guess to argue against myself– you have to think that without some kind of ongoing responsible oversight, then the worst aspects of capitalism might predictably find a way to screw it all up if left to its own devices. Then again, maybe the scale involved makes that less likely. *shrug*
