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rob_t_firefly

@rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world

Artist, writer, comic, hacker, loud voice, activist, and nerd of all trades from New York City.

He/him. 💙💜🩷

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The real question is, how many pee bottles did they force Dave Grohl to fill in order to make his song quota in time?

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It takes a lot to make a stew.

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Though I know it means "et cetera" when reading my brain has always "heard" that word - whether in the context of the word "etc." or the computing /etc - as pronounced "ettick." As in, "you need to edit your ettick f-stab file."

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Is that really an enforced rule somewhere, or just one of those loose intentions from the early days of domain names?

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I admit to being old and out of touch, but why is this meme a sandwich?

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Thank you!

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This warms my heart! Thanks.

EA wants to place in-game ads in its full-price AAA games, again (www.techspot.com)

EA has tried this before, with predictable results. In 2020, EA Sports UFC 4 included full-screen ads for the Amazon Prime series The Boys that would appear during 'Replay' moments. These were absent from the game when it launched, with EA introducing the ads about a month later, thereby preventing them from being highlighted in...

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*FuncoLand

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A business model wherein the thing someone makes and sells brings in a profit just by customers buying the thing, without the long tail of continuing to sell the customers' eyeballs to whoever forever after, is not an unreasonable concept. Countless indie games and smaller publishers have managed this for generations and still do.

If EA and the other massive blockbuster publishers can't figure out how to make their business model work in a non-exploitative manner, too damn bad about it. We don't actually need them.

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This thing seems to be a later iteration of the Atari Mindlink idea from the 1980s, which presented the illusion of controlling the game with just your thoughts/brain waves/whatever but which was actually just reading the neuromuscular voltage from your forehead (meaning you scrunch your forehead muscles around to control it).

I created a board game alternative for evil people (lemmy.today)

Guys, I have something to brag about. After almost a year of hard learning, I finally created my first mobile game! Storiado is a board game alternative that will make you wonder what's wrong with your friends. Play by answering simple questions, mix all the answers, and generate the most twisted story you've ever read. And then...

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The lack of response to this question by OP further reddens the flag.

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Your Pi doesn't have Edge installed, but your eyes do.

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In that they won't have any meaningful regulating done to them or suffer any actual consequences despite the obviously evil shit of which they're plainly guilty?

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Statement! One-love.

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From the article:

Quantum dots are already moving in the premium display category, particularly through QD-OLED TVs and monitors. The next step could be QDEL, short for "quantum dot electroluminescent," also known as NanoLED, screens.

Reddit Is Taking Over Google (tech.slashdot.org)

Reddit, Quora, and other internet forums that have climbed up through the traditional set of Google links. Data analysis from Semrush, which predicts traffic based on search ranking, shows that traffic to Reddit has climbed at an impressive clip since August 2023. Semrush estimated that Reddit had over 132 million visitors in...

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I’m surprised nobody mentioned the AI training data deal that Google and reddit have.

The linked article mentions it clearly.

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And we'll take at least ten minutes of the presentation time to try, fail, and retry to get the audio working.

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FDS is the Flight Data Subsystem:

Not to be confused with the Famicom Disk System, First Date Sex, or Feminine Deodorant Spray.

A German state is ditching Windows and Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions (www.theregister.com)

Schleswig-Holstein, Germany's most northern state, is starting its switch from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice, and is planning to move from Windows to Linux on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions....

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Ich verwende übrigens Arch.

Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads (www.lowpass.cc)

Roku is exploring ways to show consumers ads on its TVs even when they are not using its streaming platform: The company has been looking into injecting ads into the video feeds of third-party devices connected to its TVs, according to a recent patent filing.  ...

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Good luck finding an affordable "dumb" TV. They're just computer monitors and they cost a hell of a lot more at TV size than most people are able to spend. The smart TVs are so cheap because they are subsidized by the shit vendors paying the manufacturer to load their malware in front of your eyes.

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You know what people tend to forget?

Shareholders = Consumers of the product too

I wonder how many of the people getting rich in the tobacco industry are smokers.

Court Bans Use of 'AI-Enhanced' Video Evidence Because That's Not How AI Works (gizmodo.com)

A judge in Washington state has blocked video evidence that’s been “AI-enhanced” from being submitted in a triple murder trial. And that’s a good thing, given the fact that too many people seem to think applying an AI filter can give them access to secret visual data.

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According to the evidence, the defendant clearly committed the crime with all 17 of his fingers. His lack of remorse is obvious by the fact that he's clearly smiling wider than his own face.

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Screenshot of the "Privacy and Safety" section of the user settings in Discord desktop. There's an arrow pointing toward the switch controlling the "In-game rewards (aka Quests)" setting, with the text "Turn this crap off to stay out of the stupid new ad crap."

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And, generally speaking, ink is the stuff with a ridiculously draining business model which costs consumers far more than is justified for cartridges which quickly dry out over time even when not in use, while toner is relatively inexpensive stuff which basically lasts forever and keeps just as fresh and usable as the day you bought it.

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I didn't know they made a manga adaptation of The Room.

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Somebody rolled a five or an eight!

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It's appropriate that this post comes from the site sh.itjust.works.

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Found Cid from the next Final Fantasy.

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And they were also sold at incredible volume back in the day, for a couple of generations just about every household had a record player or two and shelves of record collections to play on them.

Nowadays vinyl is regaining popularity among people who buy physical music, but that is still a small fraction of the general public who have largely moved on to soft formats.

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If the keyboard has the same problem in multiple distros, surely the problem lives in the keyboard? Maybe you had a bad one.

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Maybe there's some glitch going on that Windows can ignore or self-correct for but Linux can't. Such things are not unheard of in hardware.

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I miss GIMPshop for that reason.

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This is a really good explanation! Thanks.

"Nancy" By Ernie Bushmiller - March 18,1945 (mastodon.social)

Panel 1: Nancy notices a fire hydrant on the sidewalk is leaking a small trickle. Panel 2: Nancy tells Sluggo, "The hydrant on Main Street is leaking." Sluggo responds, "Yeah?" Panel 3: Sluggo tells a girl walking down the street "Ya better keep away from Main Street... There's a hydrant shootin' water all over d' street." Panel...

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All this and you missed the chance to also point out that the meme misspelled "conventions."

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The main difference here being if a community has crappy mods you can not only start your own better one, you can start it on another whole server where said crappy mods have no power. Bonus if the server's general vibe happens to be a better fit for what you want to build.

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In other words: you only need a computer. 😱

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Rust seems like a great foundation.

The fact that I know you're referring to the programming language called "Rust" doesn't make this sentence any less funny.

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Th- This is my OS!

It was made for me!

"A dream. It's perfect": Helium discovery in northern Minnesota may be biggest ever in North America (www.cbsnews.com)

"A dream. It's perfect": Helium discovery in northern Minnesota may be biggest ever in North America::For a century, the U.S. Government-owned the largest helium reserve in the country, but the biggest exporters now are in Russia, Qatar and Tanzania. With this new discovery, Minnesota could be joining that list.

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Hopefully we stop wasting this limited resource on fucking balloons.

I don't recommend fucking balloons. The squeaks are annoying and the pops hurt.

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Firefox on Android is fine, except they insist upon disabling about:config on the main branch of the browser for some damn stupid reason. You have to use a nightly or beta build to be trusted with your own config that much.

Personally, I ended up switching to the Fennec fork over this.

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It’s not hard to know when machines need to be refilled. You just come regularly, take note of how much or little stock has been purchased, then adjust your refill amounts and times accordingly. This has to be done regardless of a handful of computerized machines because plenty of them still aren’t.

I worked in the arcade/vending business in the 1990s. That blind maintenance model was a crapshoot for the machine owners. We had to routinely send a crew (usually me and one other person) to drive to a location - near or far - with games, photo booths, vending stuff, etc. just in case the supplies in some machine or another ran out, something needed fixing, etc. Sometimes we'd arrive and learn we have hours of refilling and/or maintenance work to do on a machine, sometimes it had been a slow week or two and a crew had just spent their whole workday and a tank of gasoline to collect $50 from the cash box and go home again. Remote administration really changed the game for that whole business.

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Mercedes Bends.

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My favorite thing about widely-available blue LEDs was the effect on TV scifi.

Watch the Star Trek shows made in the 1980s and 1990s and the tricorders, alien gadgets, and other props were always twinkling with red, yellow, and green LEDs to look futuristic. A generation later and every single hand prop on 2000s Doctor Who, Torchwood, etc. glowed and twinkled blue because the LEDs had just become cheap enough for prop makers, but weren't yet widespread in day-to-day life so the viewers were seeing something strange and unusual.

Now every color of LED imaginable is just common and whatever, but for a good stretch of time glowy blue became the standard "scifi" color just because that particular tech happened to turn up at that particular time.

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Photoshop job depicting the Halle Berry Catwoman looking sultry while crawling out of a catbox.

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Which is an old use of "simp," far predating the modern online slang. "Simp" short for "simpleton" was being thrown around school playgrounds in the early 1980s to my knowledge, maybe earlier than that.

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Also it would have defeated the purpose of the story. Hobbes was a generic tiger doll, not anything magical or secret in itself. The point was that Calvin's wild imagination brought Hobbes and everything else in his fantasies to vivid life, and selling an "official" Hobbes doll would have flown in the face of that. The heart and soul of Watterson's story suggests that any kid could have their own Hobbes-style adventures with any toy they happened to have and love and give life, not that they needed their parents to buy them the "real" Hobbes.

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