eidolon @shaderphantom@awoo.space
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Having trouble parsing the phrase "literally falling apart Pixel 3", while I type this on my serviceable Pixel 1
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@jk very much agree
I get an email whenever someone I follow on itch.io or bandcamp publishes a new thing, but that's far from ideal, twitter/masto etc are useless for this because it just gets drowned by all the other stuff, blogs+RSS would fit the bill but that obviously hasn't taken off (meaning there are issues to investigate)...
it's also bad for people who produce stuff because the current solution (maintaining multiple social media accounts so the algorithms don't ignore your announcement post when you release something) is just unsustainable
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itd be good if there was a social network for following lots of people who each only actually need to post every 1-5 years, like musicians or animators or whatever, where you don't want to see hourly posts by them but you DO want to keep tabs on them because you love their work. i guess maybe patreon etc. fills that niche? in theory you could just make social network alt-accounts. but nobody really seems to do that and "1 post every 18 months" isn't really how most stuff is supposed to be used
i can't believe jerma casually showed an adult game called Chronicles of Dick Ass. what a sick fuck
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Oh here we go again.
"GDQ is obviously so sterile and forced, you can tell"
Meanwhile when I dropped in at GDQ there were no rules, no visible enforcement except for the guy checking badges at the door.
My briefing for my commentary slot was how to signal for audio to mute my mic. I had free, full control over what I said outside of what's in the same CoC everyone can freely read.
The "A shadow cabal is controlling everyone at GDQ" theory is horse-shit.
"GDQ is obviously so sterile and forced, you can tell"
Meanwhile when I dropped in at GDQ there were no rules, no visible enforcement except for the guy checking badges at the door.
My briefing for my commentary slot was how to signal for audio to mute my mic. I had free, full control over what I said outside of what's in the same CoC everyone can freely read.
The "A shadow cabal is controlling everyone at GDQ" theory is horse-shit.
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Belarusian anarchists wrote a long read explaining situation in #Belarus in perspective of longer political and social development. Must read - https://pramen.io/en/2020/08/how-did-the-belarusians-come-to-rebellion-against-the-dictatorship/ #Elections #ACAB #Anarchism
(To be clear, Shift-JIS is still the clear winner in terms of encodings for Japanese text; I'm just making the observation against UTF-16 in a context where I'm using widechars)
TIL CJK character codepoints often need 3 bytes to encode in UTF-8, which is significantly worse than the 2 bytes needed for Japanese in UTF-16. No wonder UTF-8 has poor Japanese adoption.
re: uspol, not useful doomerism
Telling people to vote isn't going to help if Biden wouldn't even be in office before the winter starts and there is mass starvation and homelessness that easily could have been prevented by the federal government. And there's no guarantee an election is even going to happen, or that its results would even change things.
uspol, not useful doomerism
We are going to be so catastrophically fucked in 4 months. I'm not really convinced this country is going to exist in 2021, without people mass rioting burning everything down because there is literally nothing left to lose.
Fly the black flag, seadogs, the age of digital piracy returns.
As the film industry moves away from physical media, we are going to end up with the shittiest possible encodings of films and shows because they don't want to spend more than the bare minimum on streaming.
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Oh so now he's issuing executive orders to give out financial support/student loan deferment and threatening to revoke them if he isn't re-elected?
Gee, that sure doesn't sound good.
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try confidence
Final Successor Class is called Luster and holy fucking shit it is so broken
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covid tests are bad
A friend wrote this longer, less technical explanation of what it means to have a high false negative rate: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/07/22/opinion/what-does-negative-coronavirus-test-really-reveal/
- If you have COVID symptoms, assume you have COVID.
- Testing when you don't have symptoms is pointless. Don't use a prophylactic test to shorten the isolation period before you visit vulnerable relatives or w/e.
- Don't tell your wedding guests to get COVID tests. Cancel your fucking wedding jfc what is wrong with you.
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covid tests are bad
Okay so I just looked up the actual false negative rate for COVID tests and omfg, I knew it was bad, but I didn't know it was THAT BAD.
67% of tests on day 4 of illness (which is on average the day before people start getting symptoms, when they are deffo super contagious) are false negatives. 𝟞𝟟％. TWO THIRDS.
It drops to 20% during the first few days after people develop symptoms. That's still bad.
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