Routhinator
@Routhinator@startrek.website
- Comment on So close! 1 day ago:
Many people have FODMAP sensitivities and confuse them for gluten.
- Comment on Google is Using AI to Censor Independent Websites 6 days ago:
Man I miss Webrings.
- Comment on Google is Using AI to Censor Independent Websites 6 days ago:
It really was a great thing. It happened natually too. Started as just a site I posted my writing to, a personal site in 1997, and friends wanted to add their stuff. By 1999 it was renamed from Routhy’s Den to the Den of Amateur Poetry, and then the domain was purchased and the site renamed to The Den of Amateur Writing.
I still remember the pre-PHP days. People would email their works to me and I would manually build an HTML page and update the site within 24 hours.
- Comment on Google is Using AI to Censor Independent Websites 6 days ago:
Yep, I fought against it for years but eventually my new user intake was lower than the rate at which the typical user would fizzle out and move on. We had users that were there for 20 years and regulars, but without fresh ideas and posts things would get stale. So I had to yield and start adhering. Around 2018-2019 things really took a dive in traffic and I could not afford ads as it was all completely out of pocket, so I started a new codebase and rewrote it over 4 years in my spare time. The site before it shut down had a top grade from all of Googles site scanners and I had thought “Perfect… now folks will trickle in again at the right rate.”. And then the delisting.
- Comment on Google is Using AI to Censor Independent Websites 6 days ago:
This is why I shut The Den of Amateur Writing down after 25 years of running and developing it. I had written the entire codebase for Googles SEO, rolled out the update so my users would see a bit more traffic trickle in, and then watched them delist all my URLs 3 months later when this change rolled out. I just gave up. It was taking way too much of my life fighting googles bullshit to provide a free community.
- Comment on Your help needed: PhD research on why people choose to self-host 1 week ago:
Because I dont need to pay rent for my files and I don’t have to worry about AI and VCs trying invade my privacy.
- Comment on Realtek's $10 tiny 10GbE network adapter is coming to motherboards later this year 1 week ago:
Yeah, Im excited about the cards but getting a 1GB switch with a 10g uplink was expensive… 10g switches are… a lot.
- Comment on The PS3's comeback was insane 1 week ago:
I still have my original PS3. Had to replace the hardrive once.
Still have the Wii, which had a bad disk reader in the first 30 days. I had to send it to the repair shop in Toronto and they had it fixed and back to me within 48 hours for free.
My first XBox 360 lasted 2 days past it’s 1 year warranty date and died. Disk drive thought everything was a DVD. MS wanted $100 for repairs plus shipping. I bought a used 360 instead for $80. That one also died 1 year later, red ring. Next one I bought a replacement, one of the lower end models. Lasted 10 days past the 1 year warranty… Then thought everything was a DVD… This keeps going. By the time 2016 rolled around I had gone through 10 of those pieces of shit. I finally gave up on the games I liked on that system, and I’ve never bought a new MS system since. I honestly wonder what their true sales were if you deduped it by removing replacements from their tally.
I have my original PS2, PS3, PS4, GameCube, SNES, Wii, Switch.
There are quality gaming consoles out there, and then there’s whatever the fuck MS spews onto the market.
- Comment on When you see danger coming 2 weeks ago:
A tale of how a plastic eating bacteria moonlighted as a flesh eating one.
- Comment on Microsoft pulls the plug on Bing Search APIs 2 weeks ago:
Well, that will mess with DuckDuckGo, won’t it?
- Comment on Finally a map to show me 3 weeks ago:
C is for Canada.
- Comment on Oh god 3 weeks ago:
Well… it’s a door. At least my ass will be closed for business after that.
- Comment on A Judge Accepted AI Video Testimony From a Dead Man 3 weeks ago:
Trial at Bernies? OK WERE DOING TRIAL AT BERNIES! This is going to be legend-wait for it…
- Comment on The Beauty Of Having A Pi-hole · Den Delimarsky 4 weeks ago:
The beauty is that you can shove Pi in it of course.
- Comment on Data hoarding is more important than ever 5 weeks ago:
I just hoarded this gif
- Comment on Google’s dominance on search is declining – for the first time ever! 5 weeks ago:
Thats because for some ungodly reason they use Apple Maps. Not sure why they dont integrat with an OpenStreetMaps like service. At least that way users can start contributing to fill the gaps
- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 5 weeks ago:
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- Comment on I LOVE POTATO SALAD 5 weeks ago:
Yes, good points. I didn’t mean they were exclusive or invented in north america, more that the concept of viewing mayo as a required part of a meat/starch based salad is a very NA perspective.
- Comment on I LOVE POTATO SALAD 5 weeks ago:
Nah, Germans have a delicious hot potato salad with no mayo, mayo salads are a North American thing. The French have a potato salad with no mayo as well.
- Comment on woag 1 month ago:
I’m not trolling. This is simply not an illusion.
- Comment on woag 1 month ago:
Ok those rooms are certainly illusions. My mind was tricked and even after reading how they work I still cannot quite see how when I watch the video. A perfect illusion.
I still wouldn’t call the post for this thread an illusion as there is no trick, just pure perspective. You simply tilt your phone, you see what is happening, and you understand it because its basic physics you were taught in elementary.
This is like the amateur magician. A trickster that knows a few party tricks but is so bad at executing them they are no illusionist. But a master magician uses simple things like perspective and skill to create tricks that are such great illusions that the scientific mind cannot quite work out what has really just happened even though they know it’s a trick. This post is the amateur magician, the Ames room is the master. Both use perspective but in different ways on different levels.
- Comment on woag 1 month ago:
There is nothing erroneous about this perception.
- Comment on woag 1 month ago:
I have no context for this example, have a link? I’ve seen the crazy kitchen at the Museum of Science and Tech in Ottawa that has a similarly themed illusion, but in that one the floors are level but painted in a way that tricks your brain into thinking its angled, but its not, which is 100% illusion.
Thus what I am imagining for your example is that the floor is in fact angled, but the paint makes it look straight, so the short person is infact elevated above the tall person in a way you cannot tell, creating an effect where perspective due to a physical difference makes you think they are on the same level but the illusion provided by the floor messes with that, creating an illusion that is really just perspective.
But there is no trick in this post. You know you’re tilting the phone, there’s no illusion. Its pure angles and you’re completely aware of what is occuring, thus no illusion. The definition of illusion is pretty clear, what you are seeing must be false or erroneous.
noun
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An erroneous perception of reality.
“Mirrors gave the illusion of spaciousness.”
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An erroneous concept or belief.
“The notion that money can buy happiness is an illusion.” 3. The condition of being deceived by a false perception or belief.
“spent months flailing about in illusion.”
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- Comment on woag 1 month ago:
Haha, ok I can agree with that take.
- Comment on woag 1 month ago:
Illusion is seeing something that isn’t there. They can be caused by multiple factors be it one affecting the observer or one that arises from the subject being observed.
This demonstrates perspective and at no point do you see something that is not there. The text is there, it says the same thing. It does not appear to move or distort but rather as you tilt the phone the same light is viewed from a narrower height due to angles and it can be read as though it is not stretched.
An optical illusion makes you see something that simply does not exist, for example this picture that makes you think you see red in spite of there being jo red at all. popularmechanics.com/…/theres-not-a-single-red-pi…
- Comment on woag 1 month ago:
Is perspective really considered an “illision”? While this demonstrates perspective it at no point makes me see something that isn’t real.
- Comment on When I finish a delicious bowl of Malt-O-Meal® cereal [Day 89] 2 months ago:
Huh… as a Canadian Ive only ever had Cream of Wheat and Red River cereal. Never heard of Malt O Meal
- Comment on Do you want me to heat that up in the "Michael Wave"? 4 months ago:
- Comment on Bombs Awat 6 months ago:
I have never seen this and thank you for sharing it because good god I needed it.
- Comment on Bombs Awat 6 months ago:
Gotta weed out the weak ones with the fall.
