Olgratin_Magmatoe
@Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world
- Comment on Coming on Lemmy and complaining because there are too many Linux users is like going in to a brothel and complaining that there are too many hookers 2 weeks ago:
Looking at you c/linuxsucks
- Comment on The EchoChamberinator 9000! 2 weeks ago:
You wouldn’t be the first:
- Comment on Actual Budget is a fantastic FOSS budgeting tool that you can self-host 2 weeks ago:
For me personally, it was easier to just write a few python scripts to parse the CSV files from my banks.
- Comment on Actual Budget is a fantastic FOSS budgeting tool that you can self-host 2 weeks ago:
I switched over to this last month, and I’m already a fan of it. It did take a bit of time to port over my old shtitty excel tracking, and to write a few python scripts to parse the export CSV files from each of my bank accounts, but it is very clearly worth it.
One of the nice things is that it uses a SQLite db to store everything, so if shit ever hits the fan with one of my drives or the software, it isn’t the end of the world.
- Comment on A TikTok alternative called Loops is coming for the fediverse | Users own their content, and Loops doesn’t sell or provide videos to third-party advertisers or train AI on them. It will be open source 3 weeks ago:
Ignoring the myriad of other issues listed in this thread, the bit about training AI is pretty misleading. It’s not hard to scrape webpages for whatever kind of data you like, even if loops doesn’t outright hand things over for third parties for that purpose.
And the kind of people who are downloading the entire internet to train AIs are the type to be willing to just scrape without permission.
- Comment on ... 3 weeks ago:
And how did we connect that, and rule out other things?
- Comment on Subnautica 2 arrives in Early Access in 2025 with 4 player co-op 4 weeks ago:
I’m looking forward to this. I quite enjoyed subzero even though I didn’t enjoy it as much as the original. So I am hoping they’ve learned from the difference in love the community has for them.
TBH half of the problem with subzero was the sea truck. I get that they wanted to innovate and do something new, but the original sub was just so much cooler. IMO a better innovation would have been to focus on building a nomadic fleet with friends.
Maybe friend A has a boat on the surface, friend B has a sub, friend C has a factorio-esc spidertron, etc.
- Comment on ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, this place is a very
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Grape fucking
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Endless politics
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Meta memes/drama/shitposting
pick two place
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- Comment on ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 4 weeks ago:
You’re not being creative enough. You could have a bowl/cup of grapes, and use that. Or maybe alternatively you could blend/mash them up, let them dry out a bit to stiffen up, then use that.
- Comment on ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 4 weeks ago:
That’s based on species though, so it would overrepresent unlikely encounters.
That is fair, but also consider that an intelligent species isn’t going to be limited by chance encounters. I regularly eat bananas, but I don’t live in India. I regularly eat pineapples, but I don’t live in Costa Rica. Very little of my diet is comprised of food that is native to my area. As an intelligent species, we farm food en masse, ship it around the world, and plant things outside of their natural habitat.
I do wonder how that data compares with other mammals though. Is it just average, or is it significantly higher?
Purely speculating, I’d wager slightly above average as a result of the thing I said about omnivores being a precursor to becoming intelligent.
- Comment on ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 4 weeks ago:
Potentially. But think of it this way, there are somewhere around 400,000 plant species out there.
news.mongabay.com/…/many-plants-world-scientists-…
Based on this list, something on the order of like 99.5% of plants are either not safe, or not useful/beneficial. If other species on our planet share a similar rate without complete overlap, then it’s practically a guarantee that there will be thousands of plants that are safe and useful for us but not for other species. That doesn’t feel particularly strange or unlikely. So even with a specialized diet, I don’t think the numbers would be much different.
It also could be the case that being scavenging omnivores is a strong precursor to becoming intelligent. If your species is on the rise in terms of intelligence, you’re probably using that to expand your food sources wide and far.
- Comment on ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 4 weeks ago:
Would aliens actually be weirded out by this quality of humans?
I feel like any sufficiently intelligent species living on a planet will have some degree of biodiversity on said planet. And the chances of something being made to be a poison/deterrent for creatures other than the intelligent species is probably a large one, because it’s pretty hard for plants and animals to make a poison/deterrent that kills everything without also killing itself. So if there is a gap for itself, there is a gap for other life to coexist with the toxin.
So I’d think it would be pretty natural for intelligent life to eat things that are harmful to huge swaths of other creatures.
- Comment on Tough Shit 4 weeks ago:
Would assuredly be a step up in quality
- Comment on Tough Shit 4 weeks ago:
“The Art of Defecation - How to turn your anatomy into a brown art factory”
- Comment on 7 years ago there were no billionaires worth more than $100 billion - today there are 18! 1 month ago:
Don’t forget you still need facial recognition data.
- Comment on Amazon will “ramp up” Prime Video ads in 2025 1 month ago:
- Comment on Amazon will “ramp up” Prime Video ads in 2025 1 month ago:
Paramount’s video player is ass. I have to fight it to start the video by reloading the page and clicking exactly in the right places. Then the player doesn’t pause when the space bar is pressed. And to top it off, the progress bar doesn’t disappear unless you click inside the window then float the mouse away.
Fuck that noise. It isn’t worth it.
Yar har.
- Comment on Amazon will “ramp up” Prime Video ads in 2025 1 month ago:
They aren’t, it’s just an excuse.
- Comment on Amazon will “ramp up” Prime Video ads in 2025 1 month ago:
No, they need to have perpetually increasing profits.
- Comment on I investigated millions of tweets from the Kremlin’s ‘troll factory’ and discovered classic propaganda techniques reimagined for the social media age. 1 month ago:
UniversalMonk potentially
- Comment on Nintendo Targets YouTube Accounts Showing Emulated Games 1 month ago:
I wouldn’t be surprised if this backfires a bit. The reason most publishers/IP holders don’t go after videos on youtube and twitch is because it’s basically free advertisement for your game.
If this behavior leads to people holding back on making nintendo based content, it could fuck them over in the long run. If you were a streamer or youtuber, would you feel particularly comfortable making videos and streaming nintendo games?
I know I wouldn’t. There is no guarantee that nintendo actually puts effort into determining whether you are using an emulator or not. And even for the people who do use emulators, they may not be looking to continue making nintendo content.
- Comment on Nintendo Targets YouTube Accounts Showing Emulated Games 1 month ago:
Ghoul behavior
- Comment on OpenBudgeteer: a selfhosted budgeting app made for Bucket Budgeting 1 month ago:
This is exactly the thing I’ve been looking for. It saves everything as a sqlite dB, and has csv export options. So you’re not fucked over if you need to switch to something else.
And the import options seem pretty good too.
Congrats, you’ve made me spend the whole day switching everything over to that lol.
- Comment on Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code 1 month ago:
just finished bioshock, wow!
Fantastic series, I’m glad you liked it, because I sure did as well.
I’m sure you’re already loaded up with a backlog of recommendations and games you bought but haven’t yet touched. But I’d highly recommend FTL: Faster Than Light, as well as Into The Breach. They’re both from the same publisher, and are both amazing games that arguably are a defining feature of modern gaming.
I hear there are cheats for call of duty type things that people pay subscriptions for. I don’t get it.
Yeah, I’m right there with you. Could not care less about subscriptions, let alone for cheat subscriptions.
Thanks for sharing your experiences mate.
Of course. Enjoy whatever is next on your list!
- Comment on stacked 1 month ago:
I’m too lazy and incompetent at statistics to do the math, but survivorship bias is very much relevant here.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
Turns out, if you build something that isn’t a bunch of stones in an organized stack, it won’t last thousands of years like the organized stone stacks.
- Comment on Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code 1 month ago:
Back in the day, there were cheats in computer magazines, a sequence of key presses that would give you loads of lives or money or bullets or whatever. I used those an loved em.
I still use those for my Nintendo DS. My dad had an extension card for his Sega genesis that did the same.
Cheats like that are as old as games themselves, and they’re not going to be going anywhere any time soon.
It’s just that now we have online versions, and if you’re on PC you can edit any memory address you like, directly, with any value you like.
- Comment on Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code 1 month ago:
Of course, you’re welcome
- Comment on Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code 1 month ago:
Aside from it being code you don’t want on your machine. I dunno, I don’t get why people cheat. Isn’t it a better feeling when you just play and get good?
I’ve done some cheating on GTAO, so I can speak to this a bit.
For me, the next biggest reason after the one you listed is that their game is grindy as fuck. I want to be able to play with the cool vehicles and toys in the game, but they’re locked behind hours and hours of grinding, even just for a single item. I understand some people like that, but it’s not for me.
So back when I used to play I had a script that would just give me shit loads of money. I could buy what I wanted, have fun, and move on. Games are for fun, not for feeling like they’re a second job.
What’s worse, is that Rockstar intentionally makes it grindy so you’re motivated to steal your mom’s credit cads and use real world money to buy fake world money that lasts you about 20 minutes. It’s very scummy behavior, and cheating is a way to get around that.
The script kiddies that just like to fuck with other people are a whole other can of worms. Those people can get bent.
- Comment on Youtube has fully blocked Invidious 1 month ago:
Freetube is still working on my machine as of today for what it’s worth.
- Comment on Youtube has fully blocked Invidious 1 month ago:
Or use freetube/new pipe