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- Comment on me, being surprised at how good radishes are 1 day ago:
Was the beet from a can? They often carry over a metallic taste that is not good.
Non canned Beets are delicious. Very earthy and savory, with a hidden sweetness. They are great in salads, but really sing in soup. We make a vegatarian bousch with Beets, potato, carrot and serrano that I could literally eat every day.
- Comment on Meta progression in roguelites was fun for a while, but it's starting to feel unrewarding 2 days ago:
I think the harder versions add a lot of variabilty to the fight. The “default” Scylla fight is almost an afterthought after your first dozen times, but the harder version is immensly more complicated. Same goes for prometheous + spoiler, etc.
I think with a hundred more runs, these would also get old hat, but thats true with hades 1 as well. If you run the bosses 112 times there, the occasional “suprise” boss isnt really that intersting, esoecially if you’ve seen them 35 times. Seeing ol “muurrder…” was novel, but only to a point.
- Comment on A lot of the laid-off staff from the Washington Post should start a news cooperative. Seriously! 2 days ago:
The pirate bay guys tried to spin up somthing called flattr a decade or two back. You put in a fixed amount per month, then when you engage with media you like you click a “flattr” button and that media gets a slice. You coule alao setup differnt people to always get a cut.
Say you put in $10/month and flattr 100 things? Everyone gets 10 cents. $100/month? $1 each.
It didnt catch on, likely due to processing fees, but I always like that idea. Signing up for dozens or hundreds of patrons/ghosts/etc is just too hard to manage and fund, but if I and several million other people could hand out pennies a month, it might really matter to small artists/journalists.
- Comment on Meta progression in roguelites was fun for a while, but it's starting to feel unrewarding 3 days ago:
Hades 2 lets you amp up the difficulty to vary the bosses. By the 1000th attempt, you would likely be playing with them on their hardest and most intersting mode.
- Comment on Work smarter, not harder 4 days ago:
Yes and no. Up to 2 years ago my company was still manually requesting criminal background checks. A 3rd party company did them, but HR had to open a case each time. Now that is automatic, but tons of processss at tons of companies are still antiquated for various reasons.
Its entirely possible vetting is minimium because of cost and labor involved.
- Comment on Microsoft Just Killed the "Cover for Me" Excuse: Microsoft 365 Now Tracks You in Real-Time 1 week ago:
The above is just modern network security. Thr model is called zero trust.
Zero trust assumes there is no implicit trust granted to assets or user accounts based solely on their physical or network location (i.e., local area networks versus the internet) or based on asset ownership (enterprise or personally owned). Authentication and authorization (both subject and device) are discrete functions performed before a session to an enterprise resource is established. Zero trust is a response to enterprise network trends that include remote users, bring your own device (BYOD), and cloud- based assets that are not located within an enterprise-owned network boundary. Zero trust focus on protecting resources (assets, services, workflows, network accounts, etc.), not network segments, as the network location is no longer seen as the prime component to the security posture of the resource.
Google pionnered it in the 2010s I believe, but its very common now.
- Comment on Meta's latest subscription move is an attempt to offset its AI bets 1 week ago:
Yup, its predictable. “No ads for money,” then “no ads for money and light ads for free” then “no ads for lots of money, light ads for money, unbearbale ads for free” is literally always the model these fuckwits push too now.
- Comment on China’s Four-Year Energy Spree Has Eclipsed Entire US Power Grid 1 week ago:
The sky is generally bluer than water.
I dont get the pink shit though. Hydro should be a brackish green blue.
- Comment on "Oh wow a kryptonite radiation machine, I volunteer Superman to go inside! Doesn't feel so good does it?" 2 weeks ago:
In Supes defense, he could just fly out to a gold asteroid and knock a chunk off to pay for it himself.
- Comment on Wokeness ended, check mate leftists 3 weeks ago:
Hes a bucket of shit that was and out and proud “race realist” until he got popular and backpedalled his earlier articles.
- Comment on What a great idea 3 weeks ago:
Go to costco.
Extra cluster fuck challenge: go when they jave samples.
- Comment on Every anime ever… 3 weeks ago:
There are whole seasons of the anime that are a break, and im not even talking about the “catch up” ones that are 8 episodes long.
- Comment on This EV Was Already Cheap, Then Dacia Knocked Off Nearly $6,000 4 weeks ago:
US still just averages 65 kilometers per day.
- Comment on Electric motorcycles with solid-state batteries seem to be coming soon. 4 weeks ago:
That is wildly expensive for a emotercycle, but maybe not if they are legitimate solid state.
- Comment on YSK that electric blankets are cheap and incredibly cozy 5 weeks ago:
Great info, but want to add that heat pump efficency is normally around 300%, which is why they are so cost effective. 1500w in a heat pump is around the same as 4500w resistive.
- Comment on The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down. 5 weeks ago:
Mythbusters tested this and I beleive found no difference at all.
If you want a sanitized toothbrush, you’ll need to use one of the UV cases.
- Comment on Microwave does not make room a flat, judge rules 5 weeks ago:
Theones in the article had a fridge, microwave and kettle. No sink, countertop or actual plumbing, which is a pretty core part of a kitchen. At least the above looks like a barely functional kitchnet.
The UK landlords just slapped cheap, non permanant appliances in the room and called it a kitchen.
- Comment on Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents 1 month ago:
Likely cloned Netflix’s “netflix in a box” arctecture, where they drop a large 200TB+ NAS in different CDN datecenters with their most populuar content cached so that total traffic is minimal across the internet at large.
Spotify mainly being music with very little video likely makes this even easier.
- Comment on After GOTY pull, Clair Obscur devs draw line in sand: 'Everything will be made by humans by us' 1 month ago:
The AI assets were only patched out at day 5 because fans noticed them.. The devs likely rolled it into that patch because of the fans catching it in the live game.
The issue at hand, as the article above goes into, is that the devs said that they used no AI at all in developement, which is a condition of the award. They did however, as these assets and the devs themselves comfirmed in various interviews. They lied to the Indie game awards and violated its conditions.
Revoking the award seems like a pretty reasonable response on the IGA’s part when the dev explicitly lied to you to win an award.
- Comment on Activist group says it has scraped 86m music files from Spotify 1 month ago:
They have lost dozens of court cases in as many countries. They are still up.
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 1 month ago:
Thats not ambuguity. AI will be opt out in firefox, which is them abandoning core principles like user choice and privacy.
They can do that, but playing like they arebt by redefining well established term in UI/UX to try to hide the fact that they are is disengenious, and cuts right through the “we will earn your trust back” messaging made by the same dev.
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 1 month ago:
No, go deeper into that thread.
The dev has a really hinky defention of “opt-in” thats basicslly “yes we push all this on by default and realize it will be the nirm for most of our users because of that, but you technically dont have to interact with it so thats opt-in.”
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 1 month ago:
“On by default unless you run down a setting buried in a menu” is the thinnest type of optional in computing.
- Comment on Backing up Spotify 1 month ago:
They have had to hop countries a half dozen times. They are already enemy #1, in piracy terms, so I expect they are okay leaning into it and doijg mkre good for the world.
- Comment on Amazon will allow ePub and PDF downloads for DRM-free eBooks 1 month ago:
Losing some market share to other vendors that allow it.
Its entirely an attempt to recapture the big name authors like Brian Sanderson peeling off to either their own or vendors like kobo that will publish drm free books.
- Comment on until next year 1 month ago:
The anime is hilariously padded. 24 minute episode with a 3 minute intro, 3 minute outro, 3 minutes of little animation action breaks, 3 minutes of actual plot, followed by 12 minutes of broekn up reaction shots from wach of the 26 charectors in any random episode.
Art.
- Comment on happy fuck cops day to those who celebrate 1 month ago:
Bang apprently is cops energy drink of choice.
- Comment on Chart: Geothermal energy is attracting more and more investment 1 month ago:
Its not. Its still experimental, but geothermal is showing real promise for clean, steady state power pretty much anywhere with no fuel requirements.
Some estimates place the power potential of geothermal in the US to be around 20% of power needs.
- Comment on I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right. 1 month ago:
Ive worked with a fractional CISO. He was scattered, but was insanly useful about setting roadmaps, writting procedure/docs, working audits and correcting us moving in bad directions.
Fractional is way better than none.
- Comment on I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right. 1 month ago:
You can vibe write and vibe edit a movie now too. They also turn out shit.
The issue is that llm isnt a person with skills and knowledge. Its a complex guessing box that gets thing kinda right, but not actually right, and it absolutely cant tell whats right or not. It has no actual skills or experience or humainty that a director can expect a writer or editor to have.