Maven

Maven , 1 day ago

Organoids are largely homogenous lab-grown mini-organs.

Maven , 21 hours ago

Tom's, of course

Maven , 19 days ago

He got got because the user used an Apple ID that was linekd to their real identity, which is one of the things Proton is obligated to provide in cases like this.

Proton says all the time, they are obligated to comply with the letter of the law, so do not store anything identifiable anywhere they're legally required to provide it. They tell you exactly what not to do, to avoid this precise case. They do not want to provide anything they don't have to, but they also do not want their company shut down.

Maven , 23 days ago

What's stopping me? The fact that they need me to generate ad revenue to fund those trees, and I'd rather not be advertised to.

Maven , 23 days ago

"Better" is such a strong word. It's a kludge where you have to connect your phone and switch to a virtual wifi and then you can send up to ten photos at a snail's pace. I kept using twitter because it's such an annoying process.

Maven , 23 days ago

The point is that this is the opening paragraph about something going wrong in human brain surgery, and the first thing they tell us is "don't worry, the data's fine", rather than anything about the human. Indeed, you have to read to the last paragraph to find:

Arbaugh's safety does not appear to be negatively impacted.

Maven , 23 days ago

No, I understood that, I did read the article. I'm lambasting the fact that in an article about "brain chip gone wrong", burying the "but human seems to be unharmed" at the end of an article is indicative of a set of priorities wildly different from my own.

Maven , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

I disagree? It skips to the highlight. If I came here to see the cool table, I wanna see the cool table, not the 15 minutes beforehand of the guy talking about tableology and his quest to find the optimal oak polish. Highlights don't skip automatically by default, so it harms nothing having it there for videos you personally don't want to use it on; if I'm in the mood to see a longform video, I will, and if I just want to see the cool thing displayed in the thumbnail, I will.

I also kind of enjoy the memey ones, like how most uploads of the beatmania song Second Heaven have the infamous SOMEBODY SCREAM tagged as a highlight. It's a fun little moment of "someone else was here before me for the same thing, and they left a trace", kinda like a dark souls message.

Maybe you might argue that should be a different category? But personally I think your definition of highlight is rather narrow

Maven , 2 months ago

No, you see, you just get every citizen to pay a little bit into the bridge, and then everyone can use it. Maybe we put some of that money aside and establish a group of people to care for the bridge, upkeep and whatnot. It wouldn't be fair to just pick them arbitrarily, so we should probably hold some kind of vote. And, well, I guess the money will run out, so maybe we take a little more from everyone every year, just to keep it in good shape

Huh? That sounds like what? Gov--

Oh fuck wait shit i mean DONT TREAD ON ME

Maven , 2 months ago

Now imagine it in, say, fog, or a storm, or any other low-visibility condition. You can see the vague outline of a car 20 feet ahead, and a blinking arrow pointing to the right, but not in line with where a right blinker should be.

Maven , 2 months ago

Before I quit, it was a pretty open secret that r/worldnews was a shithole, and the place to get news was r/anime_titties

I don't know if they've gone under too by now, though

Maven , 2 months ago

My friend, you're on !MildlyInfuriating

An annoyance is still an annoyance even if there's a reason for it

Maven , 3 months ago

I want to play this game.

Maven , 3 months ago

And they're going to fight it. A literally insignificant slap on the wrist, and they're still going to the wall. Burn amazon down.

Maven , 3 months ago

These are wildly different medications. Meth is occasionally used for ADHD when nothing else works, but it requires careful medical supervision, for life. A pharmacist subbing out your amphetamine salts for meth will go to jail. Adderal is not meth, any more than caffeine is adrenaline, or morphine is fentanyl.

You say you "have family" with ADHD; do you mean you have multiple different family members on different medications? Because 9 outta 10 times someone tells me they know someone on "meth" for ADHD, they've misread methylphenadate; Ritalin.

Maven , 3 months ago

Gisnep

Maven , 3 months ago

Anecdotally, and perhaps ironically, they were right, I am dyslexic, and I definitely do perceive letters as permuted quite often. The second link really chuffs me because it's clearly a non-dyslexic person openly speculating as if they're authoritative, but this theory of "3d processing" words jives with neither other literature about dyslexia, nor my own experience. I'm pretty sure this is just someone showerthinking about a disorder. The errors I make are pretty incompatible with seeing whole words from the wrong "angle"; letters are switched, sometimes even between adjacent words (I might see "angle" as "angel", or "and rain" as "an drain"), similar graphs are misread as each other (the classic example is [b / d / p / q], sometimes also g depending on font; [w / m / E], [e / a], [T / L], so on), words can be entirely displaced elsewhere in a sentence...

So yes, like, I definitely do see some letters backwards or upside down or mirrored, etc.

Maven , 3 months ago

It's fiiine, I thought it was funny and also possibly true

Maven , 3 months ago

No AI generated content; there's a pinned thread of rules, but i've noticed it doesn't show up for other instances.

Maven , 3 months ago

Oh, neat, thanks

Maven , 3 months ago

Is that an actual rule? I don't see it anywhere, but maybe I missed something

Maven , 3 months ago

Ah, now this is an interesting question. I can certainly see an argument that ads are necessary to support “free” content, although personally in many cases I prefer to pay a subscription to support content rather than being subjected to ads.

On the other hand, not everyone can afford a subscription, so offering a both ad-supported and paid-for options is ideal, imo. Well, at least as ideal as it gets in a "grind your hustle or you'll starve" economy.

Maven , 3 months ago

The headset even says "Mac User" a few seconds before this.

Maven , 3 months ago

Bloahai, since that's his name

Maven , 3 months ago

What is this, the fourth "recall" in the last year that's literally just an automatic OTA update?

Maven , 3 months ago

Yo, I came here to post this, I'm using his cursors right now (with the optional middle-finger addon)

Maven , 4 months ago

Even more technically, the line between dialect and language is a blurry one, decided in part by the speakers' intent and identity. British English, American English, Canadian English, Australian English, and Indian English are dialects, but Scots is its own language? Danish, Swedish, and Norweigan are separate languages, but Française French and Québécois French are dialects?

English speakers tend to have a very binary view of language vs. dialect, because English exists in this weird linguistic zone where its closest living relatives are all.. slightly different English. Sure, it can be a bit difficult to grok some terms from across the pond, but with a short list of vocab words you can generally understand other Englishes just fine, whereas you'll understand other languages pretty much not at all. There's not really any mutually-intelligible other languages that English speakers can more-or-less communicate with. At best, you can pick out a handful of similarities in germanic/scandi languages because of shared heritage.

That's not the case, globally. The Scandinavians (sans Finland) can all talk to each other, (the old running joke of <x language> sounds like <y language> drunk and/or with a potato in their mouth) but they're "different languages". Germans and the Dutch can generally understand each other, maybe not at full speaking speed, but at very least reading. A lot of African languages are essentially a spectrum of regional variants on each other, and so speakers of one will be able to make themselves understood to varying degrees to speakers of another depending on how far diverged they are; the same is largely true for the Middle East. But then we say Portugal and Brazil both speak Portugese; Spain and Mexico both speak Spanish. Even though there's quite the adjustment period for a person from one visiting the other.

There's no objective standard of what's "dialect" and what's "different language", but a large deciding factor is clearly national identity; people from different countries usually speak different languages (again, English is rather an outlier). The language spoken in Ukraine is not identical to standard Russian. They're at least as different from each other as some separate languages. So if Ukranians say they speak the Ukrainian language, not Ukrainian Russian, that's their call.

Maven , 4 months ago

I've seen this probably a dozen times or more in cautionary scifi stories about why we don't want that, but like, somehow I still want that.

Maven , 4 months ago

And then once a quarter as part of their "feature update" they'll ask if you're suuuure you don't want to change your default browser to Edge instead of your normal browser.

Maven , 4 months ago

Like, the first paragraph explains.

Until last week there were about 1,900 official governmental application procedures that stipulated businesses must submit floppies or CD-ROMs (specifically) containing supplementary data.

Not "the government had to accept them", but "businesses were required to submit them".

It's not a hypothetical problem, there was even news a few years ago about how businesses were complaining they had to send in a dozen+ disks at a time because of file formats.

The laws were written at the dawn of the digital age, in the 70s and 80s, stipulating specific storage media, and just never got updated because the government didn't view it as a problem.

Maven , 4 months ago

The last manufacturers stopped making them 10 years ago. There's basically just one guy "making" floppies these days, and he doesn't actually manufacture them, he just buys used ones for pennies on the dollar, formats and tests them, and sells them on. Not one company has made new floppies in a decade. A shocking number of industries are dependant on just like, this one random dude.

Maven , 4 months ago

You're welcome to do your own research, then. Or just make a call based off your read of their vibes, doesn't matter to me.

Maven , 4 months ago

What are you talking about? Firefox has had literally Sync since before Chrome existed.

Firefox Sync initial release: December 21, 2007

Google Chrome intial release: September 2, 2008 (Beta), (1.0) December 11, 2008

A full year, my guy.

Maven , 4 months ago

Not necessarily. All DRM punishes paying customers, but some also punishes pirates. Very few games with Denuvo ever get cracked, instead the publisher removes it after a while because Denuvo charges a license fee as long as its in your game. E.g. the Hatsune Miku game on steam hasn't been cracked in the two years it's been out. So there's an argument for using it, even if it's a flawed one.

But these games already went without DRM for years. They're long since cracked. The only purpose this DRM serves is to make it harder for paying customers to use mods. Not pirates, they can keep using the same mods they've always used. This is literally for the purpose of degrading the experience of paying customers. That's what they mean by "only punishes paying customers".

Maven , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

There's an r/crackwatch, with a pinned list of Denuvo games.

For example, in 2021, only 7 games released with Denuvo were cracked (out of an approximate 30). In 2022, only one. There was only one cracker in the world who was any good at breaking Denuvo, and Denuvo hired them, so it almost never happens anymore.

(Be careful when reading the crackwatch updates, because they mark 'denovo removed' the same colour as 'denuvo cracked', you have to read the notes) My mistake, they stopped doing this a little while ago.

Maven , 4 months ago

"Denuvo removed" means, like I said before, the publisher stopped paying the denuvo license and voluntarily removed it from the game themselves.

Maven , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

One success does not put the lie to the idea that there are few successes.

The most recent update to the list was literally less than 1 hour ago. Of the 229 games that have been released with Denuvo since 2020, <30 of them have been cracked. 119 of them had the Denuvo eventually removed by the publisher.

Empress was essentially the only person who cracked Denuvo with any regularity, and even they only succeeded at a few games, and only extremely popular ones (because they worked off a donation scheme). I use the past tense, because Empress works for Denuvo now.

Maven , 4 months ago

Around here we call them "bootleg trails"

Maven , 4 months ago

Look up sous vide cooking times, those people are obsessed with finding the minimum amount of time to cook any given thing at any given temperature. "If you're willing to cook your chicken for 4 hours, you can cook at 130 F. I don't recommend it, because it has the texture of raw chicken, but you can."

Maven , 4 months ago

Trueee. Just today I cooked a steak at 130 for 24 hours, and it was incredible (but since it was a blade, the connective tissue was still pretty tough, so I'm gonna try the other one from the pack at a higher temp to break it down)

Maven , 4 months ago

The point is that it's extremely common practice to call your ISP and tell them you're cancelling so they'll send you to Retentions and you can get a few more months at "50% off" (a reasonable price). This would be included in those "3/4 people stay", but those were never actually going to cancel anyway, they only say they are so they don't have to pay the insanely inflated sticker price.

Maven , 4 months ago

The article says, people might accidentally cancel their whole package when they only mean to cancel a single item, or they might cancel a single item and not realize it loses them a bundle discount.

Maven , 4 months ago

Dunno, sounds hard.. what if we just don't let em cancel?

Maven , 4 months ago

I've been with all three major Canadian ISPs and it's the same everywhere. Like clockwork, once a year you call them. You could say "I'm looking to cancel" but at this point they all know why you're calling, don't waste anyone's time, just ask "hey could you please transfer me to Retention" and they'll be glad not to have go through the song and dance. Retention picks up, immediately offers you a bad deal because it's protocol, you reject it because you never take the first deal, they offer you a better deal, you take it, job done. Easier than changing, cancelling, or paying for something, by far.

Maven , 4 months ago

climate crisis

Nuclear winter in the wake of the Eugenics Wars. Cooled us right down. Even in Star Trek, our immediate future is... bleak.

Maven , 4 months ago

I never realized til now how trans D. Va's bodysuit is

Maven , 4 months ago

I translate:

be a biologist
research clovers
everyone says "clovers have 3 leaves"
its a law of nature
go outside
find 4-leaf clover
i better take it to court for violating laws of nature

This is obviously stupid. Discovering something that violates a descriptive 'law' means the law was wrong. And yet, people do this in conversation all the time.

Sometimes casual conversation begins with a "But". E.g., someone might say "But anyway, have you seen that new movie Oppenheimer?"

Grammar nazis react to this by saying "You can't say 'but' at the start of a sentence if that sentence isn't a rebuttal of the previous sentence! It's a law of english!"

'Laws' of english are meant to be descriptive, not prescriptive. But alas, we live in a society 😔

Maven , 4 months ago

"I am annoyed when people correct me for using casual language. Doing so is stupid. Language isn't static. The purpose of language is to be understood, so as long as you understood me, I did it 'correctly'. Here is an analogy using plants."