wizardbeard
@wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Office.eu officially launches in The Hague as Europe's fully sovereign office platform 14 hours ago:
- Comment on relatable 1 day ago:
I have a playlist of somewhat relaxing (wife disagrees on it being relaxing) music I’ve heard a billion times before (mostly instrumental game music). Paired with a “soft” EQ preset that also drops the volume. Put it on with a sleep timer for 30 minutes.
Over top of that, a set of ambient relaxing noise, set so it almost, but not quite, drowns out the music. Basically I have to focus a little to pick out the music. Set that with a sleep timer for 45 minutes.
Into one headphone in whichever ear isn’t against the pillow.
All the noises are relaxing, and the need to focus to hear the music helps keep my brain from getting wrapped up in other thoughts. Once I focus on the music, it’s stuff I know intently so eventually it filters out into no thoughts and I’m out.
If I’m having a particularly rough night, jerk off first and/or melatonin.
Also, blue light filtering and reduced brightness on all screens starting at least 30 minutes before you lay down.
- Comment on Share this with 5 people or it gets ya 1 day ago:
I am now vacuum sealed. This is, perhaps surprisingly, not one of my fetishes. Send help.
- Comment on Lemmyshitpost lately 2 days ago:
Man, I can’t be the only one that feels like it’s just a little creepy to talk about someone any of us only barely know through the internet like that. Especially knowing she’s literally 18 vs the average age around here seeming to start at the upper 30s.
Anyway, from what I can tell she doesn’t have much issue getting it, she’s just still horny. Having the collective of lemmy effectively cheering her on probably doesn’t help, even if her posts are legitimately entertaining.
I remember being a sexually active 18yo. Hormones are a motherfucker. Young, dumb, and full of cum. Had a long term GF who was just as much of a freak as I was. We used to try and beat our “high score” of orgasms per day. I was in no way “deprived” yet it was still easily 75% of what I thought about at any given moment. I found an old reddit account of mine from that time, and it is embarassingly horny as hell.
So cut the (quite) young adult some slack and don’t be parasocial about it please.
- Comment on Lemmyshitpost lately 2 days ago:
I assume you must have blocked the anime lemmy instance, or ml doesn’t federate with it. It’s not contained to reddit by any means.
There’s a small cadre of users posting fan art of various shows and games on lemmy too, where I regularly can tell at a glance that whatever artist they’re posting also does hentai. Sometimes what they’ve posted is even just the one SFW image from a set. Thank god for the block button.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
Hearbeat notifications man. “Yes I am online” email once a day or so. Yeah it’s more emails to delete but it can be a lifesaver.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
I’m remembering a very not fun discussion my team had about “the monitoring system not sending any alerts doesn’t inherently mean everything is ok” after an outage that was missed by our monitoring system.
You need to make sure you’re monitoring connectivity as well as specific problem states. No data is a problem state often overlooked, and it’s not always considered for every resource type in these systems out of the box.
And you probably want a heartbeat notification. Yes, it’s noise, but if you don’t see anything from monitoring you need to question if monitoring is the thing that broke. It sending out a notification every so often going “yes I am online” is useful.
- Comment on you won't regret it 3 days ago:
My last wife isn’t into sharing, sorry. You’ll have to fight to the death.
- Comment on JPEG is pronounced Jay-Fegg 4 days ago:
Juh-feg
- Comment on What's your favorite band? (Of frequency that is) 6 days ago:
Great callout! That’s where the audio player app I use, PowerAmp, gets its presets! I was blanking on the source of them when I made that comment.
- Comment on What's your favorite band? (Of frequency that is) 6 days ago:
There is no fucking way that anyone can sum this shit all up in a simple sentence like that, which would apply to every situation.
Different headphones and speakers have different frequency response. If you’re using speakers, the acoustics of the room can have a large effect as well. Are we supposed to go out and buy the same equipment the person mastering used? Build a specific room layout for the specific acoustics intended per track? What if the person mastering already took responses of different equipment and rooms into account? It’s not like you get “intended listening guidance” notes with most music.
Personally, if I can tune the EQ towards a flat response graph for my particular headphones I will (Poweramp for Android has these presets built in for a ton of headphones, but you have to apply them yourself), otherwise I don’t fuck with it unless some section sounds particularly blown out. My car overenphasizes bass, which is fun most of the time, but I turn it down for some tracks where it drowns out finer details.
Ultimately there’s a shit ton that is up to taste.
- Comment on Did you know traffic cones are free to take? I have 78264 traffic cones at home. 1 week ago:
Much like ducks at the park.
- Comment on I want to replay Skyrim but 1 week ago:
I would look at mod collections on nexus or wabbajack. Beyond that, there are mods that allow you to have a different start to the game than “so you’re finally awake”, which delay the main quest until you effectively start it yourself.
- Comment on Me when I installed a game on Steam with only 150 downloads 1 week ago:
Likely Yakuza members, or people imitating the style (which is a dangerous game to play).
- Comment on I know an invitation when I see one 1 week ago:
Legs up to where?
- Comment on Humans Have a Third Set of Teeth. New Medicine May Help Them Grow. 2 weeks ago:
You liked Wisdom Teeth, have you tried Wisdom Teeth 2?
- Comment on "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens 2 weeks ago:
Oh, well today I learned. I had assumed that even the world’s dumbest government officials wouldn’t refer to themselves as being part of a department that doesn’t actually exist, but here we are.
Thanks for laying it out for me!
- Comment on "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens 2 weeks ago:
I think you missed some news. There is officially a Department of War again.
- Comment on "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens 2 weeks ago:
Also, mass surveillance. Not surveillance itself. And fully autonomous weapons.
Don’t get distracted by the birdy folks, Anthropic is not your friend, or some great protector of the American people. They were already deeply embedded in the US Government as their product was the only one certified for use with classified documents.
They weren’t standing up for us, they were splitting hairs on exactly how far they’d openly go.
I’ve also seen statements that Anthropic’s stance against fully autonomous weapons was simply due to results not yet being as consistent as they were comfortable putting their name on, not due to any opposition towards use in/with weaponry.
OpenAI also claims to have the same limitations. So someone’s lying.
- Comment on Anthropic says it ‘cannot in good conscience’ allow Pentagon to remove AI checks 2 weeks ago:
While I’m glad they’re drawing a line, they’re only splitting hairs. Anthropic is already deeply working with the US gov.
- Comment on Anthropic says it ‘cannot in good conscience’ allow Pentagon to remove AI checks 2 weeks ago:
You’re spot-on. As some additional context, Anthropic is already working tightly with the US government. Until the recent announcement regarding Grok, Anthropic was the only approved AI for US government work, as it is/was the only one certified for safely woeking with classified data.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
What are you doing, leaking the next Gray Leno guest like that?
- Comment on The State of the Union 2 weeks ago:
I get you, but the fediverse is small enough that you can get by with just blocking accounts that do stuff like this. Complaining about it is just pissing into the wind, unless you want to start another resistance movement spamming corn. Probably overdue for it again.
- Comment on Finally a possible path toward peace in this long war 2 weeks ago:
Do your part! Reduce, reuse, recycle!
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
They’ll refill it forever too, even if it was supposed to just be a recovery aid. Seen more than one elder become addicted.
- Comment on Never make plans that far ahead around Hercules 🥶 3 weeks ago:
You mean HUNK-ules
- Comment on Day 584 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 weeks ago:
The switch supports usb ethernet adapters. Look up the supported list. They plug into usb ports on the dock.
It’s pretty much mandatory for any online gaming on it.
- Comment on Microsoft AI chief gives it 18 months—for all white-collar work to be automated by AI | Fortune 3 weeks ago:
Just another trillion dollars guys! Just another year and a half! I swear!
- Comment on YSK that murder is now legal in California. Fully legal. Slaughter a family of four by driving over the speed limit. Go home. 4 weeks ago:
While technically true, you have to be kidding me if you think there aren’t relevant laws for a situation like this.
- Comment on YSK that murder is now legal in California. Fully legal. Slaughter a family of four by driving over the speed limit. Go home. 4 weeks ago:
Does a shocking and infuriating result of a court case really qualify as a “You Should Know”?
On top of the outrageous hyperbole going on here. Just because someone got away with something heinous doesn’t mean the laws have changed.
