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@ salarua @sopuli.xyz

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  • “Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement

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  • oddly specific objection aside, where podcasting really shines is fiction. it's the modern version of the radio drama. fiction podcasts like Welcome to Night Vale and Find Us Alive have narratives that are tailor-made for episodic audio and would not work in any other medium. a good fiction podcast is truly wonderful to listen to

  • are code editors just text input clis and an interpreter you select

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  • they are so much more than that. Builder for example has a full tree view of your project, instant compiling (well, instant in the sense that the compile button is always accessible and you don't have to leave the application to do it), live preview for markup languages, Git integration, unit tests, profiling, and several other things I can't remember right now. so no, an IDE is an entirely different beast from a text editor

  • online multiplayer in pirated games?

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  • one Discord server i was on had a Minecraft server with a specific mod installed that allowed cracked copies to join, and it allowed people to lock names in with a PIN so people couldn't impersonate each other. i can't remember which mod it was though

  • online multiplayer in pirated games?

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  • oh, good point about console games. i wonder if you could use multiplayer on a pirated console game with crossplay

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  • the ones I build. I have to admit the Switch is really fun, but at the end of the day it's just another DRM machine. I'd rather have a rig sitting somewhere that I built to my exact specifications, that I can connect to from wherever, and that will run whatever I want

  • Realistically, how can Palestine gain it's freedom?

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  • on the other hand, there could be an enemy of my enemy situation, because everyone in the Middle East hates Israel (and for good reason too: not only is Israel run by genocidal fucks, but they stole everyone's land). it's not impossible that Jordan, Egypt, and neighboring countries would gang up on Israel.

  • "Piracy is a service issue.." (Image is a real story btw, link in post)

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  • why is this an L? Linux is fully capable of 4k playback. any Linux user (with a 4k screen) can go to YouTube and watch a 4k video in full quality. Linux support is there, the bandwidth is probably there, the hardware power is there (Asahi Linux is for removed hardware), so the problem is either Netflix or DRM in general

  • What's the best way to pay an online merchant using Crypto for someone who has never bought/used it before?

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  • don't forget the part after "open crypto app" where you find out your favorite coin crashed overnight and you now have 29 cents

  • What's the best way to pay an online merchant using Crypto for someone who has never bought/used it before?

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  • I'm not gonna speculate on what you're buying, but I'm afraid you're gonna get involved with shady people no matter what if you're using cryptocurrency. the entire industry is in the midst of a cascade failure thanks to Three Arrows Capital going toes up, and con artists and thieves are cashing in. cryptocurrency exchanges are using their own customers' money for not-so-good purposes, stablecoins are rapidly losing their pegs, and it seems like a bridge gets cracked every other day. my advice? if you don't want to deal with shadiness, you really shouldn't use cryptocurrency at all.

  • What was the piece of media so emotionally overwhelming you just stopped it?

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  • Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye. i can handle horror just fine, but Echoes of the Eye is on entirely another level of horror than most everything else. i was only able to complete about a third of it before i got too psyched out to continue

  • Android users could soon replace Google Assistant with ChatGPT

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  • I can sort of see the appeal if it were able to plug into your smart home or something so it could respond to queries like "where's the dog", but as a general knowledge assistant it's worse than useless (unless it magically doesn't confabulate anything anymore)

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    How do I know that I've been banned from a sub?

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  • if you try to upvote/downvote or comment on a post from a community you're banned from, you'll get a message informing you that you're banned

  • solar punk centered movies

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  • I'm not too keen on Tomorrowland. it's got a lot of great man theory messages in it, which isn't surprising since it was written and directed by Brad Bird, a notorious Objectivist

  • What is the Linux equivalent of a MacBook Air? Unless its literally MacBook Air and the virtualization just hasn't come far enough

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  • Decentralized Matrix messaging network says it now has 115M users

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  • opt-in analytics! servers running Synapse can choose to send a bit of analytics information like number of users, but it's opt-in so the number is potentially even higher

  • in your opinion, what is the biggest downside of Flatpaks?

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  • i'm not informed much either, but here's what i gather; it's centralized around the proprietary Snap Store and you can't run your own Snap repositories, Snap apps take ages to start up, and each Snap app is mounted as a separate partition (???). there's a whole bunch of technical issues that go over my head too, and Snaps have seen so little adoption that Canonical basically had to twist the arms of flavor maintainers to drop Flatpak support and support Snap out of the box. it's evidently so bad even Ubuntu's official flavors wouldn't support it until Canonical forced them to

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    AI tidies up Wikipedia’s references — and boosts reliability

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  • yes. it only surfaces citations that may back up the content better, an editor still has to read the source and approve the change

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    AI tidies up Wikipedia’s references — and boosts reliability

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  • Wikipedian here - AI on Wikipedia is actually nothing new. we've had a machine learning model identify malicious edits since 2017, and Cluebot (an ML-powered anti-vandalism bot) has been around for even longer than that.

    even so, this is pretty exciting. from what i gather, this is a transformer model turned on its side; instead of taking textual data and transforming it, it checks to see if two pieces of textual data could reasonably be transformations of each other. used responsibly, this could really help knock out those [dubious] and [failed verification] tags en masse

  • SSSniperWolf doxxes jacksfilms

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  • lmao nice catch, i'll edit the date

  • SSSniperWolf doxxes jacksfilms

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  • to be honest i'm not entirely sure what the draw is either. many reaction videos are based around a theme, like "school tiktoks i watch instead of doing homework", so maybe it's an easy way to find more-or-less quality content about a particular subject without having to actually look for it. or maybe people just watch for the funny faces, given that SSSniperWolf's audience tends to be very young.

    i do like "[expert] reacts to..." videos where an expert does a thorough analysis of some media featuring their field of expertise, like "Traçeur reacts to Mirror's Edge" or "Martial artist reacts to Avatar: The Last Airbender" or "Chemist reacts to Breaking Bad", but that is an entirely different thing than freebooting because it's thoughtful commentary that's transformative and adds to the video

  • Technology @beehaw.org
    salarua @sopuli.xyz

    Stack Overflow mods go on strike

    openletter.mousetail.nl
  • Piracy @lemmy.ml
    salarua @sopuli.xyz

    Netflix crackdown on account sharing hits US with $8 fee for each extra user

    arstechnica.com /tech-policy/2023/05/netflix-crackdown-on-account-sharing-hits-us-with-8-fee-for-each-extra-user/
  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
    salarua @sopuli.xyz

    Anti-Piracy Program Accused of Violating Citizens' Fundamental Rights

    torrentfreak.com /anti-piracy-program-accused-of-violating-citizens-fundamental-rights-230519/
  • Self Hosted - Self-hosting your services. @lemmy.ml
    salarua @sopuli.xyz

    what hardware is ideal for a beginner looking to self-host on Yunohost?

  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml
    salarua @sopuli.xyz

    Introducing Calckey!

    calckey.org /blog/en/calckey/
  • Open Source @lemmy.ml
    salarua @sopuli.xyz

    drones run linux: the free software movement isn't enough

    j3s.sh /thought/drones-run-linux-free-software-isnt-enough.html