whotookkarl
@whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Progress 3 days ago:
Someone is getting serious about their chess game
- Comment on for future fireflies 3 days ago:
Still cleanup sidewalks and walkways please, those leaves can be slippery little guys
- Comment on concert 3 days ago:
It’s about $42 just from inflation not accounting for decreased spending power with many prices increasing faster than inflation itself.
- Comment on If I were a waiter, I would describe the days soup as "Very hot, and very wet" 4 days ago:
Tomorrow’s soup is an ancient cloud of ambient consternation with a hint of mint
- Comment on More than 1,200 games journalists have left the media in the last two years | VGC 5 days ago:
Special interest journalism is usually overrun by corporate interests and inflated reviews. Find someone who was fired or left an organization for something like reporting a low review to search out integrity for individuals.
- Comment on Got 'em 1 week ago:
The haversine formula is more accurate than a straight line in measuring distances around the size of cities or zip codes. Geodesics are even more accurate because they take into account the stretching around the equator, both require curved earths to calculate more accurate distances than flat calculations. But obviously math, especially addition, is a conspiracy to cover the truth of the Time Cube™. /s
- Comment on Honestly Bizarre 1 week ago:
Maybe dipped in some oily legume seed paste that has a name including -nut but isn’t one
- Comment on Fucking idiots 1 week ago:
And the earth is flat, nobody is going to carbonate all the oceans
- Comment on Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it 1 week ago:
If a tech executive says we’re on the cusp of a technology breakthrough it means less than nothing and we should be more suspicious of it than already. These are people who don’t know how to manage an organization based on the frequent layoffs (2009, 2014, 2023-2025 over 20k workers). People get fired because they fuck up, management layoff people because management fucked up.
- Comment on one bright second 1 week ago:
Time can stretch and squish and follow physical rules, if the passage of time is an experience of the mind time itself would remain existent without minds just as real as distance and the passage of distance via movement between objects would remain without minds.
One interesting thing I heard is the DESI data from a telescope observatory in Arizona that was trying to build a more accurate map of the universe identified the dark energy acceleration as slowing. That could mean if the trend continues eventually gravity will overpower dark energy and everything collapses back together again. I don’t think it’s conclusive, but it is evidence maybe heat death isn’t an ending phase.
- Comment on ‘Death to Spotify’: the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the music app 1 week ago:
There used to be audio scrobbling programs I think they called it that would run on your computer to keep track of what you listened to and publish on a user page and also use the site to get recs, check out what your friends are listening to, etc. I think last.fm fucked up the official client or something but there were a couple open and universal scrobbler that might still work, but they do still only connect with last.fm I don’t think there’s a self host option.
- Comment on Hackers can steal 2FA codes and private messages from Android phones 2 weeks ago:
Sandboxing by default and preventing Google and others from spying in and manipulating apps are good steps phone OS developers should use, but I don’t think those kind of things would help for this particular case.
- Comment on PS6 and next Xbox console are both aiming for 2027 release, separate reports claim | VGC 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Lasagnaius 2 weeks ago:
We might be related I’m Fried Eggius
- Comment on THE CRAZY PILLS 2 weeks ago:
Uneducated weirdo pretending to know science and medicine to bully people they don’t like and grift everyone else calls other people strange, and he’s in charge of the HHS
comic book panel with a woman looking out the window saying what a dumb time to be alive
- Comment on wax on 2 weeks ago:
Weird bee teeth
- Comment on JP Morgan staff told they must share biometric data to access headquarters 2 weeks ago:
Biometrics aren’t passwords they are usernames, passwords necessarily change I’m not changing my fingerprints or iris or bhole or whatever they want to scan.
- Comment on What's your greatest "gaming high" you've been chasing ever since? Please take care not to spoil anything, if you are going to be story-specific. 2 weeks ago:
Accomplishment-wise playing in a few ProAm counterstrike tourneys, beating any of the dark souls/elden ring/Bloodborne was great, beating a couple of the xwing missions felt like an accomplishment too, topping the score board in online shooters like TF2, tribes 2, quake arena etc
Just overall hitting max level in wow and raid level in EverQuest back in the day, and a couple rpgs Chrono trigger, phantasy star 4, pillars of eternity 1/2 for the story and characters. Monster sanctuary ng+ randomizer is a lot of fun too
- Comment on I Quit 2 weeks ago:
Just imagining a world where there’s no antidemocratic inheritance and all income is between 20-230k per year
- Comment on I Wanna Be The Guy: The Movie: The Game, hardest game I ever played 2 weeks ago:
And boshy, I can’t see iwtbtg and not think of boshy and that early twitch streamer what’s his face
- Comment on I finally decided to go full piracy against big companies 3 weeks ago:
I think you can generalize it even further to don’t reward bad behavior. That should include purchasing goods and services from organizations that try to exploit people or commoditize art.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Reminds me of one of my favorite articles
- Comment on In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information 3 weeks ago:
Exported and cut out the local stuff, not sure on the etiquette so just posted under a spoiler. A couple like AP and Reuters are re-streams from a third party.
Tap for OPML with links
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- Comment on In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information 3 weeks ago:
I tend to go for the fire hose approach with news agencies AP, democracy now, CCN, RT Al Jazeera, BBC, France 24, Fox, common dreams, NPR, pew research, open source post, and a few geographically local sources. Entertainment pbs has a few, tvline, xkcd. Using capy reader.
- Comment on Zuckerberg hailed AI ‘superintelligence’. Then his smart glasses failed on stage | Matthew Cantor 4 weeks ago:
Snake oil: sure I can promise you anything
- Comment on What's your favourite menu music in a game? 4 weeks ago:
Some of the jrpgs like final fantasy are great, octopath traveler, dwarf fortress menu is up there as a minimalistic folk. I’ll go with pillars of eternity
- Comment on Setting up a DOS/Win98 system for gaming 4 weeks ago:
Yeah that’s true, if you want to expose the file system to them to add/remove ROMs it’s probably not the right option without a dual boot or USB stick with another distro on it.
- Comment on Setting up a DOS/Win98 system for gaming 4 weeks ago:
Another option to consider is batocera if they are going to use it exclusively for retro gaming and you want to keep the UI simple and easy to use. Dos x86 emulation and a bunch of other emulators including scumm, consoles, handhelds, etc.
- Comment on proof of wormholes 5 weeks ago:
Snake oil don’t sell itself
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Inviting the grim reaper himself to a funeral seems tasteless, but what do I know about product placement
