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Reply to comment by twovests in sonic mania is so good. there are so many things happening and i don't have time to process all of them. like a really good sketch comedy scene, except instead of funny it's games by twovests
nevermind it ends the game if you get a game over? come on what year is it
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Reply to sonic mania is so good. there are so many things happening and i don't have time to process all of them. like a really good sketch comedy scene, except instead of funny it's games by twovests
this is one of the best games i have ever played
i thought i didnt like sonic
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Reply to I want to buy a domain and have a web server but I have no idea what to put on it. by flabberghaster
inspiration sites:
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Reply to comment by Moonside in So what's a nice way to keep a blog in 2022? by Moonside
The onlt issue with it being ugly is that my CSS skills are limited. But the static site is pure HTML, CSS, and a teensy bit of JavaScript (for rendering LaTeX).
I'd write pure HTML but I just get in a flow better with Markdown
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Reply to So what's a nice way to keep a blog in 2022? by Moonside
If you want to go the self-hosted route, there are a number of static-site generators out there with many themes available. As mentioned in this thread, Jekyll is one of them!
I can't recommend one because I ended up making one my own (just a script that uses pandoc
to convert markdown to html) but it's ugly lol.
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Reply to comment by cute_spider_ni_srsly in "Steeb" spelled backwards is beets by twovests
sipeb
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Reply to 2023 prediction by emma
Even if BotW2 does not improve on BotW1 in any regard, it'll still be a very fun and good game
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Reply to comment by Seirdy in cohost! is a place to post by devtesla
It kinda brings me back to the time of phpBB and proboards and whatnot. I loved having all these tiny forums, sometimes run by some narcissistic teenager, etc.
Now people are building their social media from scratch which is kinda rad. Jstpst has been my favorite place to post
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Reply to cohost! is a place to post by devtesla
The privacy policy is good! I read it: https://cohost.org/rc/content/privacy
It lists types of personal information, including ones it does not even collect. Notably, they include keystrokes under biometric information. This is a rare and non-obvious insight!
A quick look at their posts also tell me they're cool and good. Thank u for sharing this new site to post on
EDIT: Yeah I skimmed out the admins and their manifesto and stuff. Very good, very in line with the community we have here
EDIT: One thing is they have a binding arbitration and class action waiver, and you can't opt out of. This is shitty, and they're implicitly banking on the far-right US Supreme Court here. (Not that Dems are much more consumer friendly.) Kind of surprised to see this
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Reply to comment by Seirdy in the best programming language is Rust by twovests
true though
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Reply to Did you know that whale milk has the consistency of cottage cheese so calves can "eat" it underwater by Seirdy
wow that's both horrible and endearing
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Reply to Can someone go into the database and change all my posts to make them good? by flabberghaster
but your posts are already so good! they raise the standard on what a good post is. renown across the postlands
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Reply to comment by emma in Can someone go into the database and change all my posts to make them good? by flabberghaster
im rusty enough on my SQL to understand the joke but also learn from it
thank u for commenting
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Just smuggled in human intelligence in figuring out which prompts produce cool results.
People in ML have been (somewhat derisively) calling this "prompt engineering."
Very tangential, but I imagine this has implications for how people view "curation" as art. I wonder what people in Art have to say about that.
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Reply to comment by neku in someone alive when the first candies flavored like a fruit and pressed into a simple shape representing said fruit en masse: "ok this is the end of society". (and they were right) by twovests
writing this as i eat fruit flavored candies representing said fruit
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Reply to comment by cute_spider_ni_srsly in oops I accidentally became an hoa board member by cute_spider_ni_srsly
make grass lawns illegal first
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Reply to comment by voxpoplar in the fact that nft people get angry at right clickers is hilarious by twovests
so apparently commercial rights have actually been tied to nfts already? i don't know how this works, but, i know about this because seth green lost an nft and can't make his tv show now. so this is hilarious
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This is horrible, but I also hope these discussions gets us talking about all the other surveillance people perpetuate. Like, downloading apps which wardrive on your phone for wifi networks, giving apps ALL the data of your contacts, cameras on ordering kiosks (???), etc being pretty horrible AND widely accepted.
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Reply to comment by flabberghaster in does anyone else get anxious every time Apple has a new announcement coming up by twovests
Yeah, it's basically just transport encryption.
With basic SMS, anyone with $100 or so of equipment (like, police, or even a bored and resourceful child) can fake a tower and force-downgrade your encryption to read your messages. Your cell provider also sees your messages.
At least with iMessage or whatnot, you can rest assured that only Apple can open your messages. And, I assume it's not standard to open them (for analytics and marketing) unless there's a warrant.
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Reply to comment by flabberghaster in does anyone else get anxious every time Apple has a new announcement coming up by twovests
I think E2EE is available but only for 1-on-1 convos and only by Google's flavor of RCS and I think they store your keys like Apple does anyones
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Reply to comment by Dogmantra in does anyone else get anxious every time Apple has a new announcement coming up by twovests
god i would prefer literally anything else on this list. if portless buttonless phones become the norm i'm going to be come the joker
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Reply to comment by voxpoplar in the fact that nft people get angry at right clickers is hilarious by twovests
I agree with you and I think it's great when coinbros feel threatened, but I also am pretty sure most of the cryptocoin hype people don't understand it either. I think most understanding goes as deep as "Here's the benefits of decentralization, cryptocurrencies will bring those benefits I swear for real, and you can get in on the ground floor with snakeoilcoin NFTs."
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Reply to comment by neku in the fact that nft people get angry at right clickers is hilarious by twovests
Also proof of ownership only works as long as people recognise that proof of ownership as valid
Yeah, that's one of the main issues. You'll still need to rely on traditional legal systems.
In the most generous interpretation, NFTs can help with that? A little? "Here's a hash of the document, here's a hash of the document with my signature on it, and here's that same hash on the blockchain, which can be independently verified."
The second main issue is that you can do most of that without any cryptocurrency shit! The only benefit is that it becomes harder to fake and easier to verify.
But the third main issue is that that's not even how it's being used! NFTs aren't storing hashes of some piece of art, it's storing a URL to a centralized platform. This URL can change (and absolutely will when the platform goes down.)
So, in even the most generous interpretation of NFTs, they have little value. And that little value is completely undermined by how they're used in practice.
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cheers