Deebster

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don't use ladybird browser lol in c/technology
[–] Deebster 31 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Arguably, the fix should be to "it" since anon is a utility account, not a user.

Hot take: It’s okay if we don’t consume all of the world’s information before we die in c/humanities
[–] Deebster 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

footnote 3: And by extension: any feature that speeds up the audio or video we consume

I disagree that speeding up something is the same thing at all. Playing something at a constant rate (faster or slower) still maintains the editorial choices that the author was talking about.

I speed up plenty of things I listen to, and it's not (primarily) to get through them quicker.

Across the world it's the case that city folk tend to speak quicker than their rural countrymen. American speak slower, on average, than Brits. And that's fine! However, I find it hard to maintain focus when the speech is too slow - so speeding it up allows me to enjoy it like intended.

I definitely agree that the trim silence feature sound awful.

Yo , tell me something? in c/startrek@startrek.website
[–] Deebster 2 points 8 months ago

In Deep Space 9, Jake Sisko (the station commander's son) is a journalist for the Federation News Service. There's a good episode where he ends up in a war zone and the story covers cowardice and PTSD.

What is your socially unacceptable guilty indulgence? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] Deebster 8 points 8 months ago

This a great answer in a sea of slightly odd food choices. It's healthy for kids to do this, apparently.

UK pledges $416 million to buy 10,000 drones for Ukraine in c/ukraine@sopuli.xyz
[–] Deebster 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Those marine drones are five and a half metres long - so they're like speedboats, not those little hovering ones or those enormous UAVs.

Cannabis cravings: Why smoking weed makes you hungry in c/science@mander.xyz
[–] Deebster 6 points 9 months ago

I assume it's just a coincidental interaction. I mean, it's not like yeast wants us to get drunk [citation needed].

Virtue Signalling in c/humor
[–] Deebster 7 points 9 months ago (4 children)

I'm happily oblivious much of to (I assume) US politics, so I'm going to read this as if you're talking about Magic the Gathering.

Japan’s moon landing picture might be the space photo of the decade in c/astronomy@mander.xyz
[–] Deebster 5 points 9 months ago

TIL that Takara Tomy (the company that made the Transformers toys) designed the Transformable Lunar Robot LEV-2, aka Sora-Q ("sky sphere"):

Idea for niche communities in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] Deebster 7 points 10 months ago

I think part of the problem is that even when you're subscribed to the small communities, it's easy to miss the posts. Sorting by Scaled helps a little, but I still often find a post from days ago that I missed.

I'd like an option where you could "super subscribe" or something which makes those posts show up first, or even in the inbox.

Anyone else a fan of Bevy? in c/rust@lemmy.ml
[–] Deebster 4 points 10 months ago

I've enjoyed what I've done with it so far, which is mostly little wasm projects. Once they finally get a proper editor I think it'll really pick up adopters.

Would changing useragent to chrome cause me problems? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] Deebster 4 points 10 months ago

No, it'll be fine 99% of the time.

Nowadays, feature detection is done within browsers, and the differences between browsers are small enough that servers generally will serve the same version of a page to all.

Valve's taken down Portal 64, a passion project to demake Portal for the Nintendo 64 in c/gaming
[–] Deebster 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The fact that it's Nintendo's IP seems the key thing here.

So did Nintendo get Valve to do this, or is Valve just covering its back from the notoriously-litigious Nintendo?

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US-Sino tensions help spawn China card game craze (www.reuters.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/7415121

The game in question is Guandan, where you and your teammate try to make poker hands to discard your cards before the opposing pair does, which lets you level up. Teams can only win the entire match by reaching level A while avoiding having the player who discards all cards last.

The game looks interesting, has anyone played?

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US-Sino tensions help spawn China card game craze (www.reuters.com)
submitted 1 year ago by Deebster to c/tabletop
2 comments fedilink
 

The game in question is Guandan, where you and your teammate try to make poker hands to discard your cards before the opposing pair does, which lets you level up. Teams can only win the entire match by reaching level A while avoiding having the player who discards all cards last.

The game looks interesting, has anyone played?

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Canadian lake chosen to represent start of the Anthropocene (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 1 year ago by Deebster to c/news
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AI summary:

Scientists have chosen Crawford Lake, near Toronto, Canada as the site to mark the beginning of the Anthropocene epoch. Sediments in the lake show clear spikes in plutonium from nuclear tests and particles from fossil fuel burning starting in the 1950s, indicating the massive impact of human activity on the planet. The presence of plutonium isotopes from H-bomb tests in the lake sediments provides a stark indicator that humanity has become a dominant force shaping the Earth. If approved, the Crawford Lake site will officially declare the start of the Anthropocene in 2024, testifying to the scale of planetary transformation unleashed by industrialized humanity like the climate crisis.

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What does "diagram" mean in translations from Chinese? (self.baduk)
submitted 1 year ago by Deebster to c/baduk@lemmy.ml
22 comments fedilink
 

I've come across "diagram" in translations from Chinese weiqi sources, but I'm not sure what is meant by this. Would the usual term in English be something like game record/kifu, opening patterns/fuseki, patterns generally or an idea that's not got an easy translation?

It's apparently translated in Chinese-English Dictionary of Weiqi Terms but I don't have access to that.

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What resources, tools (emulators, e.g.) should I know about? (self.amiga)
 

I absolutely loved my Amiga back in the day, and we had a few throughout my childhood home.

What are the things I need to know about to geek around today? I see there's multiple emulators (some free, some not - are they official?), and I assume there's places with old ROMs of the games and software I used to use, like Zool, SWIV, Cannon Fodder, Skidmarks, Speedball 2, Deluxe Paint, etc, etc.

Share your retro wisdom with me!

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What do you use to track your reading? (self.literature)
submitted 1 year ago by Deebster to c/literature
30 comments fedilink
 

I'm still on Goodreads but it's so slow, the app's just an even slower webview of the site and the redesign has made me have to click more to do what I want.

What's the alternative? Obviously we're on the fediverse and I see people talking about Bookwyrm.

I used Anobii till 2010 and I can't remember why I left but it's still there. I've poked StoryGraph a bit but it was lacking several of the books I wanted to add.

There must be more! What do you use/recommend?

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