twovests
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Reply to I have just learnt of the existence of Kagi, which is a paid search engine that promises no tracking by voxpoplar
I have heard of it, but I'm wary because I see its name on Hackernews-eqsue / freezepeach / libertarian-techy crowds. These are minor "guilt-by-assocation' things though. I think a lot of us vaguely fit some or all of these categories, but it makes me worry it could turn out to be another of the myriad poorly-secured righty grifts.
The head of Kagi was VP of Product for GoDaddy for awhile, and also has ventures in blockchain email and precision drones (for cargo delivery?) These are also just minor flags. (I can't blame someone too much for optimistically heading a blockchain app six years ago.)
All in all, I love the idea in theory, but a search engine is a deeply personal thing that's hard to build trust in. Google is the devil I know, etc etc.
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Reply to I still occasionally think of Holly's thread on the fempire "just post in space" by flabberghaster
i miss the fempire
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Reply to comment by emma in bootleg juicero by emma
yeah this makes sense.
i came across the indiegogo because someone was selling one on a norwegian marketplace at a 95% loss.
jeez i almost feel bad about finding this kind of funny in the way it really elegantly paints a picture of the juicing situation
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Reply to comment by voxpoplar in real-time 3D jpeg artifacts by twovests
he's coming may 2023 exclusively for the nintendo switch
in the meantime, why don't YOU try implementing a voxel-based discrete cosine transform when you can't assume convexity and when you don't even have a computational geometry background!! i am trying my hardest but it is not enough. im stuck trying to make the kernel tbh
edit: seems academics have already done 3D DCT. gotta look into that
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Reply to bootleg juicero by emma
strange question: juicero is just a hilarious execution of a decent idea right? why arent any of these good?
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Reply to check the blog on this site for a surprise by devtesla
i saw this!! this is great
i was also looking for a jstpst 88x31 somewhere theere
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Reply to COFFEE REVIEW: this fucked up roasted-seed tea pretends to be a bean when it's not even a legume. burnt, crushed to smithereens, and boiled away, it makes an astringent bitter brown brew that will leave you jittering and begging for more. 4/4, delicious by twovests
sorry i thought this was f/just_poets, because i am a poet
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Reply to comment by emma in Postmill Deanonymization Attack concept. (you have nothing to worry about, just something i thought about) by twovests
Oh that makes sense!! So even this extremely minor attack is not generally exploitable. Good to know c:
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Reply to comment by voxpoplar in lets burn down the earth by flabberghaster
hey this news is not very good at all actually
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rosemary foccacia
first bread i ever learned and it comes out so good every time
dont have the recipe on me though :<
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Reply to NateBrei, of vbforums.com, labelled "hyperactive poster" with a total of 270 posts. I make that many posts in a day! Nate remarked on April 5th 2002, "Boggles the mind doesn't it. That would be one honkin' machine to have 2+G's of memory." by twovests
thank u nate brei for ur contributions to early visualbasic development in conversation with <redacted>
it's kind of bonkers to see so many people using their full names on the internet in 2002.
EDIT: i redacted the name because, by pure coincidence, someone else with the same full name died and had some intense internetsleuth investigations. i don't want truecrimers coming here thinking they found a clue.
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Reply to comment by voxpoplar in Transy update!!! by voxpoplar
SIMPLESCAN MY BELOVED! I can't believe I did not recognize it. SimpleScan saved me from pain with XSane.
Thank you :>
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Reply to btw 𒐫 is a cuneiform numeral for 9 by hollyhoppet
i appreciate this!! this one i wasn't able to find about from internet searching
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Reply to Transy update!!! by voxpoplar
having just heard of transy, here are my top 3 reviews:
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wow, i love transy
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wow, i love transy being scanned and i wish i knew what desktop environment/wm that was and also the scanning app
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"don't worry transy" -- i would die for transy and transys friends. i hope sally knows what she is doing
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Reply to 𒐫Hey look at this unicode character I just found I think every post should just be this from now on!𒐫 by 500poundsofnothing
fun fact: the tallest unicode character 🗻 is 3776 meters tall. but no modern webbrowsers have the courage to render it properly.
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Reply to how do i not work by hollyhoppet
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I'm actually of the opposite opinion.
Stories are ephemeral and are lower effort and lower commitment, and it goes to all your friends. They usually come in a quasi-chronological order. It'd be inappropriate to post "makin soup", "empty bowl (done with the soup)", etc and tag every person i know
i wish signal had stories earlier, in time for each of the big adoption upticks.
also yah loosing the sms support sucks. in the forums they also cited that it was increasingly time consuming to support. but i really liked having sms in the same app.
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Reply to comment by Moonside in AI art endgame by twovests
Yeah, this is exactly what I fear. Disney gets stronger, copyright gets stronger, and individual artists lose out even more.
AI art generation is one of the most comprehensible horrors, but there are plenty which are harder to comprehend and which are more horrific!
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Reply to comment by neku in computer student in the 1995: "Wow! My professor brought in an IBM 3340 Direct Access Storage Facility disk from 1975! It was HUGE!" computer student student in 2022: "My professor brought in a flashdrive from 2002 and it was not surprising at all actually" by twovests
I think comparisons between desktop computers and SBCs would be the most common?
This 2002 high-end PC gaming guide has a 533MHz Pentium 4, 512MB RAM, a Ti 4600, and an 80GB hard drive. It comes out to $1070 without the accessories. (Probably like $2000 today?)
I don't know how well we can compare the graphics, but a Raspberry Pi 4B with a flashdrive handily beats this in many respects for under $100. Or a phone, etc.
I think VR is a fun one too, because we've settled on the idea of head-mounted displays decades ago but it took so long for it to be good enough to be interesting.
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Reply to comment by Dogmantra in john wick appreciation post. (spoilers, cw movie violence) by twovests
just so u know i would also subscribe to a blog where u review movies
yeah!! i didn't wanna sound silly espousing the fight scenes but they're quite refreshingly physical. i'm writing this while watching john wick 2, and they definitely get a bit silly at the end of the movie. (the start of what i assume is the third act?
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Reply to comment by devtesla in john wick appreciation post. (spoilers, cw movie violence) by twovests
just so u know i would subscribe to a blog where u review movies
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Reply to comment by neku in Florida Man found spamming small community website by hollyhoppet
we're retrofitting abandoned schools to be communes
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i know this is not the case but god i'd love for it to come from a crouton dot net domain
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thank u for posting this
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Reply to comment by flabberghaster in harry potter was an excellent found-family narrative and it's time to take it back. introducing: HARRY POTTER by Hatsune Miku by twovests
oh i agree with this, i like your ideas.
if those actually need to come up for some plot reason, then we can make them on the same canonical level as the imperius curse (and not sold in some silly prankboys jokestore)