TootSweet 1h ago • 75%
M
TootSweet 10h ago • 92%
Right, because "if you don't get a job, you get to live in a cardboard box under a bridge" isn't duress at all.
I'm not saying I'm for OP's plan. I'm still thinking it through. But there's nothing "voluntary" about working for a paycheck, or about applying to do so.
TootSweet 1d ago • 100%
Did anyone else read the captions to the tune of "Call Me Maybe" by Carly Rae Jepsen and now feel unsettled that the stanza is unfinished?
TootSweet 2d ago • 100%
Fortunately my preferred means of locomotion is riverdance.
TootSweet 2d ago • 98%
"Shit, man, shit shit shit."
"Steve man. Calm the fuck down. What's wrong?"
"It's a customer, man."
"Please tell me they didn't take an orange from the bottom of the stack again."
"No, no. Worse. So much worse. He's buying the boule."
"Ha. You had me worried for a minute. Nobody buys the boule. You misheard."
"No, man, I'm telling you. He asked where it was. I made him repeat the question. He said again he wanted the 'sourdough boule.' He's got it in his cart now."
"...You're serious."
"Yes, man. He's about to fucking buy the boule."
"Shit, man. What are we going to do?"
"I don't know. I- I don't know. This has never happened before."
"We have to alert them."
"Them?"
"You know, them."
"Wh- you mean the simulation people?"
"You got a better idea?"
"Yeah, maybe drinking bleach. Not to mention we have no way to con-"
"H-hello? Um... Sim- simulation people? Um-"
"What the fuck are you doing, Ted? You fucking dipshi-"
"Yes?"
"..."
"..."
"Steve... you... you heard that, ri-"
"I don't have all day. What is it?"
"Shit, um."
"Yes sir, um, Mister Simulator sir, I-"
"Missus."
"Oh, um, sorry, the voice is just kindof... tinny an-"
"Look, we've got a problem. It's one of the... simulated."
"Mmm hmm?"
"He's on his way to the checkout now."
"And?"
"He's buying the boule."
"Mmm. Right. Thank you for alerting me. This anomaly will be dealt with."
"Oh. Um. O...kay. Um. Thank yo-"
"Wait, how exactly will it be deal-"
TootSweet 2d ago • 100%
All the better to make with the aforementioned flour and sugar.
Just don't buy the flour and sugar in a dark alley at night from someone with shifty eyes.
TootSweet 2d ago • 90%
New anxiety unlocked.
TootSweet 2d ago • 100%
Just off the top of my head, I'm thinking:
- They're probably expecting the GM and/or other players to respond with either "sorry, that schedule won't work for us" or "yeah, that works for us, tell us about yourself." Like, why type up a three-paragraph introduction when there's like a 50% (or more) chance that bit of information will quickly indicate that no, it won't work out.
- Are you sure they didn't just assume the chatroom owner was the GM?
- So far I think they're just trying to gauge whether it's going to work out logistically.
- Again, are you sure they haven't just mistaken the channel owner for the person is most responsible for organizing?
I guess just going on that information, it does feel to me like maybe you're reading too much into it. It's entirely possible I'm missing something that would change my take, though.
TootSweet 3d ago • 100%
ifwhen
TootSweet 4d ago • 66%
I and the OSI say otherwise.
TootSweet 4d ago • 64%
Anyone who disagrees ought to go get their own term rather than appropriating "Open Source" and/or "Free Software".
I've heard "source available" used.
TootSweet 4d ago • 100%
Neat!
::: spoiler spoiler
- Red. It was rubber.
- Male.
- Tall, thin. I don't remember a face, but he was wearing an old-fashioned formal shirt and sport jacket. The cuff of the shirt was unbuttoned and folded back. He also wore a wide-brimmed black hat. (I'm currently watching an episode of Hell on Wheels which probably influenced that.)
- Large for an apple, small for a canteloupe.
- Square, dinner-table-hieight. Dark-stained wood. I'm no woodworker, so I wouldn't know what kind of wood it was, but I've got a couple of bookcases of the same wood and staining.
Aside from that, I can say it took place in an old cabin and in the background, I saw an open doorway to a... foyer? The door to the outside was open. It was very sunny. And I saw green grass outside.
And, I knew all those things before I got to the questions. I just had to consult/replay the scene in my head to get all the answers.
Seems fair to say I don't have aphantasia. :::
TootSweet 5d ago • 100%
POV: Took too much DPH.
TootSweet 6d ago • 100%
Had I not had a routine dental X-ray at my second-to-last routine dentist appointment, they wouldn't have noticed my thoroughly fucked-up tooth anywhere near as soon and I'd have had a lot more pain and potential for major infection before getting it extracted.
At least that one particular routine dental X-ray, I was extremely thankful for. My only regret is that it wasn't a little sooner to save me more of the pain I did have.
TootSweet 6d ago • 100%
LLMs are a toy at best.
TootSweet 6d ago • 100%
Cryptocurrency is to economics as homeopathy is to medicine. As flat-earth-ism is to astronomy. As young-earth-creationism is to evolution.
TootSweet 6d ago • 100%
I can't see a 3x3 grid like this without thinking "alignment chart".
So, chaotic neutral.
TootSweet 7d ago • 19%
Needs more expletives.
So, there's this guy at work, right? And I've been working with him for probably a year or so by the time this story takes place. Same team and everything. Kindof elbow-to-elbow. Good guy. The company would take us all out to lunch occasionally. And this one time, 15 or so of us are all sat down at the chain restaurant and shooting the shit about whatever. And the music playing at the restaurant plays a song by Imagine Dragons. And then some other random song. And then another one by Imagine Dragons. I don't remember specifically how many Imagine Dragons songs they played before we even got our food, but it was enough in a short enough period that someone commented "huh, they're playing a lot of Imagine Dragons today." And this was in the period when it was in vogue to dunk on Imagine Dragons, right? And so I'm like "yeah, at least they're playing Imagine Dragons songs from back when Imagine Dragons was good." And I expect folks to banter back at me and maybe some folks would defend Imagine Dragons, but probably more would agree, or even take the position that Imagine Dragons was never good. (Again, that was in vogue at the time.) But everyone just kind of looks at me awkwardly. And I have no idea what's going on until the guy next to me leans over and lets me in on it. Apparently the guy directly across from me *grew up with* the Imagine Dragons band members and nearly ended up in the band at one point in his life. And I worked with the guy for a year and never knew that. And I kindof looked like an asshole over it. What are the chances! I don't live anywhere near Las Vegas where Imagine Dragons came from or anything. I appologised, of course. He kindof laughed it off, but I still felt bad about it. In retrospect, a piece of me wonders if the boss hadn't called ahead and asked the restaurant to play a lot of Imagine Dragons just to make the guy across from me feel special or something. But then again, the vibe this chain restaurant gave off was that probably the restaurant didn't really control the playlist at all. Probably it was just some XM station or something. (It didn't have a DJ or any speaking between songs or anything. Just music. So *maybe* that gives some credence to the boss-called-ahead theory? Dunno. Dunno.) Maybe some day I should call the restaurant and ask if they're able to take music requests or whatever just to get some closure. Lol.
This is one I've posted in a comment on Lemmy before. Originally in [this thread](https://lemmy.world/comment/6444227). But it got a lot of upvotes and it's apropos to this community so without further ado: >I remember something my first DM did. > >Player: Ok. I'll open the door. > >DM: You're turning the doorknob? > >Player: Wait. Never mind. I'll search first. > >DM: Too late. Which direction do you turn the doorknob? > >Player: *Sweating.* Um... clockwise? > >DM: And which hand do you turn the doorknob with? > >Player: Ri-... Left. > >DM: And do you push or pull the door? > >Player: Push... > >DM: The door swings open. > >The entire table was dead silent for a full 30 seconds. Nothing ever happened. Or if it did, we never made the connection to the door. > >That DM was a joker. Lol.
Yaaaaaaaaaaas! I'm excited for this community to exist on Lemmy. I'll be happy to kick it off with a nautical campaign mini-dungeon concept from a PF1e campaign I DM'd many moons ago. PCs found a map with an "X" on it. And you all know what an "X" means. It also had a password printed on it. They didn't yet have a ship, so they rented a ship to get to the "X". It was in a fjord with huge, tall straight-vertical cliffs around it. They spoke the password and the cliff face opened into a massive 50-ft wide, 100-ft tall doorway. The whole dungeon from enterence to the end was the same width and height as the doorway but ascending the whole way with a trench running down the middle of the floor. Old half-rotten barriers with doors divided rooms from each other. The creatures there were mostly slimes/oozes/jellies. The final door had a puzzle to it with keys they'd picked up on the way. The final room held an ancient, legendary schooner in dry dock. They boarded and the ship itself came to life, attacking them with animated ropes. After the fight went on for a bit, the ship recognized the fighting style of the pirate class PC. Turns out he was a reincarnation of an ancient legendary pirate. The very ancient legendary pirate who used to captain this ship. The ship accepted him as captain. The next trick was to get the ship out of the dry dock. It was then that they noticed the ropes, pulleys, and trap doors high up all along all the walls of this room. The party pulled ropes and the trap doors opened, unleashing a torrent of water washing the ship down the trench, crashing through all the wooden barriers as it went. (This ship had magically augmented ramming capabilities.) With great speed, it flew out of the cliff face, crashing straight through the ship they'd rented, cleaving it neatly in two. And now they had themselves a magical ship of their own for further nautical adventures. Though the folks they rented the other ship from were none too pleased when they didn't get their ship back.
Yesterday, I started watching [a video on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFhn3IO23lE&t=273s&pp=ygUJZ251IHRhbGVy) but closed out of my browser (Firefox) only a few minutes into the video. I've got my Firefox set to delete all cookies, history, form data, etc on every close. (Pretty much everything but bookmarks.) The image on this post is a screenshot of my relevant settings. Today, after having exited my browser and fully shut down my computer for a while, I remembered the video and decided to continue watching it. In Firefox, I searched for the video (I used the search term "gnu taler" -- something worth looking into especially for folks interested in this particular Lemmy community by the way). In the search results, [the video I was searching for showed the red bar at the bottom indicating I'd watched only the first few minutes of it](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/63e07f0e-4a01-4cd6-b282-baf8acd0556d.png). Which seems weird given that I'd cleared all my browser data since I watched the first few minutes. So I did some experimentation. I closed my browser completely again and opened it back up, searched in YouTube, and it still had the indicator. I updated to the latest version of Firefox in the Arch package repository. Same indicator. I tried the same in Chromium (which I've also got set to delete all browser data on close). Still the indicator. I installed Tor Browser Bundle (specifically torbrowser-launcher on Arch Linux), changed none of the default settings at all, and searched in YouTube. The indicator is present. In Tor Browser Bundle. W T F ? Anybody have any idea how that's possible? My only guesses are: * That search is so niche as to be literally unique (which if true makes me sad -- I really hope GNU Taler takes off and becomes widespread) and YouTube is using that to identify me. * YouTube doesn't know where I left off at all. Not even my browser knows (because if it was my browser keeping track, it wouldn't persist between browsers). It's something else on my system that my browsers depend on or tap into. The only other pieces of relevant info I can think to share: * There's another video (also about GNU Taler) that I watched all the way through the same day that I *started* the video this post is about. It doesn't show any indicator. * I tried searching on my phone's browser. No indicator. But then I'm not sure my phone ever shows indicators. I haven't tried this on any other devices on my network or anything. * I still haven't watched the video in question. Heh. Thanks in advance for any insight you might have. Edit: Sorry for neglecting to mention previously that at no point during any of the above did I log in to YouTube. And the "Sign in" button was visible at the top of the page indicating I wasn't logged in. Since multiple people asked, I figured I should edit my OP with that info. Edit2: Two more things to mention. I think some folks are thinking I copied the link and pasted it between browsers during the above test or something? The only reason the timestamp is included in the link I posted above is because when I copied it into this post, I didn't think to remove the timestamp. But I didn't do anything like copying the link from the search results in one browser and then paste the link into TBB or anything. In each separate browser, immediately after opening the browser, I went to YouTube (by typing "youtube.com<enter>" into the address bar) and put "gnu taler" into the search bar and hit enter. And in each browser, YouTube somehow remembered where I'd left off in a whole different browser -- with a different IP address in the case of the switch from Chromium to TBB. And no urls were copied between browsers in any of the above. The other thing to mention. Changing my search term to the full title of the video ("Building an Open Source Payment System - Sebastian Javier Marchano, Taler System" sans quotes) gives the relevant video as the top search result, but no "left off" indicator. And I'm in the Firefox in which I first noticed it had remembered. Oh, actually, one *more* thing to mention. After posting this, I continued watching. I'm probably about 3/4 done with it now. But I closed my browser again before completing it, reopened my browser, and searched "gnu taler". It gives the indicator, but the position of the indicator is roughly (possibly exactly) where it was when I first noticed it had remembered. Not where I left off after watching to roughly the 3/4 mark. Edit3: Wow! Ok. I'm 99% sure folks smarter than me have hit upon what's going on here. Thanks in particular to Tony N and Chozo for the right answer. It looks like YouTube has a feature where, depending on your search terms, it may automatically skip you a certain ways into the video. (Like "oh, you searched for 'gnu taler'? Well, in *this* video result, this bit in the middle is the part that's relevant to your search terms, so we'll just start you such-and-such-many seconds into the video.") The red bar doesn't mean "you've watched this" at all. And YouTube isn't "remembering me" between browsers. It's just consistently (as long as I use the specific search terms "gnu taler") suggesting that I start that video 273 seconds in rather than from the beginning. And anyone who searches that exact search term should get similar results... unless they're on mobile for some weird reason? That paired with the coincidence that I'm pretty sure I just happened to have stopped the video yesterday right about at the same place where YouTube recommends you start had me very confused. Whatever the case, I'm satisfied this must be the right answer. Thanks again, ya'll!
This post really isn't the usual faire of this community. Sorry about that. If there's a better place for me to put this, definitely feel free to point me there. But, to the point of my post, before Bitcoin became a *widespread* cult, back when all Bitcoin was was a couple of posts on Slashdot, back when mining it was comparatively extremely easy/quick/"profitable", I mined some Bitcoin. About 1/20 of a Bitcoin. Just by, like, leaving my computer on for a month or so. And I still have access to it. And Bitcoin ~~is worth~~ can be sold for $62,000 USD per bitcoin right now which makes my little 1/20 of a Bitcoin tradeable for about $3,100 of real money. *Now* I know that blockchain is just straight up a scam. But I've still got this Bitcoin in a wallet on a hard drive in my posession. (I know, the wallet doesn't actually "contain" the Bitcoin. Leave me alone.) The obvious thing to do with it would be to sell it now, but that would leave some poor chap(s) holding a $3,100 bag in a way that I wouldn't feel great about. I could just sit on it forever. I suppose I could sell it and donate the proceeds to some cause I thought to be worthy or anti-crypto. If there were enough crypto-skeptics had cryptocurrencies and wanted cryptocurrency to die in a fire, they(/we?) could coordinate to use our collective cryptocurrency in a way that most damages the market and hopefully hastens a crash-to-zero. (But the likelihood that there'd be enough cryptocurrency in the hands of crypto-skeptics to pull that off seems low.) Or I could print out my private keys, delete them from my hard drive, and ceremonially burn the papers while chanting "web3 is going great". And maybe this post is just me asking like-minded folks to give me permission to just sell it and leave someone holding a bag so I can buy myself a new OLED TV. Heh. Whatever the case, I wanted to hear you folks' takes. Edit: Thanks for the input, everyone. I'm gonna sell it.
I linked to MSN because (at least for me) it wasn't paywalled. The original source for the article can be found on the Washington Post's website [here](https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/06/15/amazon-one-medical-patient-safety/) but *is* paywalled.
If I had a nickel for every one I've seen, I'd have two nickels, which isn't much, but it's strange it happened twice. And I have no idea what it means. A couple of examples: [One](https://lemmy.world/post/16185922?scrollToComments=true) and [two](https://lemmy.world/post/16183003?scrollToComments=true).
This was on the Netflix login page until pretty recently. I can't be the only one who thought it was unintentionally... suggestive, right?
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Please tell me I'm not the only one still obsessed with these things. Edit: Woah. I *am* the only one still obsessed with Animutations, aren't I? They're mine! All mine!
It bugs me when people say "the thing is is that" (if you listen for it, you'll start hearing it... or maybe that's something that people only do in my area.) ("What the thing is is that..." is fine. But "the thing is is that..." bugs me.) Also, "just because <blank> doesn't mean <blank>." That sentence structure invites one to take "just because <blank>" as a noun phrase which my brain really doesn't want to do. Just doesn't seem right. But that sentence structure is very common. And I'm not saying there's anything objectively wrong with either of these. Language is weird and complex and beautiful. It's just fascinating that some commonly-used linguistic constructions just hit some people wrong sometimes. Edit: I thought of another one. "As best as I can." "The best I can" is fine, "as well as I can" is good, and "as best I can" is even fine. But "as best as" hurts.
And if you disagree with any of my answers, you're just wrong.
youtu.be
"Vindaloo" is a running joke in the series Red Dwarf to which this song is the theme song.
Apparently I'm banned from !imageai@sh.itjust.works now. That's a community for posting AI-generated images. My feed is set to "all"/"new". So I see every post that comes into the Lemmy servers that lemmy.world federates with. Or at least those that come in while I'm on and browsing. I downvote what I don't like. And I don't like AI-generated images. I downvote any that come across my feed. I don't seek out AI-generated images to downvite. (That feels too much like brigading.) So, I wouldn't, say, go to !imageai@sh.itjust.works and downvote every post there. Just the ones that "organically" come across my feed. Today, I clicked "downvote" on a post from !imageai@sh.itjust.works and the down-arrow wouldn't change color to register my downvote. Lemmy's error messaging is lacking, so I had to go to my developer tools to find out for sure, but the server clearly indicated the reason why it wouldn't accept my downvote was because I was banned from !imageai@sh.itjust.works . (I *can* downvote posts on other sh.itjust.works communities.) So, apparently one of the mods of !imageai@sh.itjust.works noticed I downvoted some posts from !imageai@sh.itjust.works and had never upvoted any posts in that community and decided to ban me. I'm honestly not really sure whether I or they (or both or neither) am/are in the wrong here. But I was interested to see that just downvoting could get me banned from a community. Anyone else been banned from any communities for similar behavior?
Over-the-counter diphenhydramine, for instance, at least in my country, says adults can take "1 to 2 tablets every 4 to 6 hours." If you decide "my symptoms aren't so bad; I'll just take one" and then two hours later your symptoms are still bad (or worse), is it safe to take a second tab then? And if you do, should you wait until "4 to 6 hours" after taking the *first* tablet or the second to take an additional tablet? Does it depend on the drug? (Maybe it's fine for diphenhydramine but not for ibuprophen?) I'd imagine blood levels of any particular drug tend to quickly spike and then exponentially decay back to undetectable levels. If you take two tabs, I'd imagine that graph is just twice as tall. If you wait a couple of hours between tabs, it's got two spikes and the second is a little higher than the first (but not as high as the two-tabs-at-the-same-time spike.) If the concern is total concentration of drug in the bloodstream at any one point, a second tab a couple hours later is less of a concern than two tabs at the same time. If the concern is total area under the curve, then probably there's no difference between two tabs at the same time and a couple of hours between. If the concern is total time spent with a blood concentration of such-and-such, I could see there being more concern with taking a second tab just a couple of hours after the first. And maybe there are other effects that I'm not aware of. Maybe if the blood concentration kicks up to two-tabs-at-once levels, the liver kicks into high gear, clearing the drug out quicker, but if you go a couple of hours between tabs, the liver neve kicks into high gear or some such. And maybe this question hasn't even been well studied and maybe there's not really any good answer. But if there is, I'm curious.
locusmag.com
This guy's one of the few and the brave actually saying publicly that AI is a bubble. I think most other public figures are scared to be proven wrong and made to look foolish. Doctorow's not committing to the idea that AI will never have any use, but at least he's countering a lot of the ridiculous claims the "AI Industry" is making lately.
I've got a pretty severe sensitivity to -- of all things -- sugar. (I know, "sugar" isn't very precise, but I'm pretty sure it's either glucose, fructose, or sucrose.) I virtually never eat anything with added sugar or anything with any significant amount of natural sugar. And I've eaten that way for like 20 years now. I'm practically blind to half the produce department (any "sweet" fruits like apples, pears, cherries, grapes, oranges, etc) at the grocery store, let alone the candy isle.
I've been thinking about this for a while now. Richard Stallman has been practically synonymous with Free Software since its inception. And there are good reasons why. It was his idea, and it was his passion that made the movement what it is today. I deeply believe in the mission of the Free Software movement. But more and more, it seems that in order to survive, the Free Software movement may need to distance itself from him. Richard Stallman has said some really disturbingly reprehensible things on multiple occasions ([one](https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/09/richard-stallman-leaves-mit-after-controversial-remarks-on-rape/) and [two](https://www.stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#23_September_2018_(Cody_Wilson))). (He has said he's changed these opinions, but it seems to me the damage is done.) He's [asked](https://www.fsf.org/news/rms-addresses-the-free-software-community) that people blame him and not the FSF for these statements, but it seems naive to me to expect that to be enough not to tarnish the FSF's reputation in the eyes of most people. And Richard Stallman isn't the only problematic figure associated with the Free Software movement.. Eben Moglen (founder, Direct-Council, and Chairman of Software Freedom Law Center which is closely associated with the FSF) has been accused of much abusive and anti-LGBTQIA+ behavior over which the Free Software Foundation Europe and Software Freedom Concervancy have cut ties with the SFLC and Moglen ([one](https://www.ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2023/10/11/moglen-sflc.html) and [two](https://sfconservancy.org/news/2023/oct/11/joint-statement-fsfe/)). Even aside from the public image problems, it seems like the FSF and SFLC have been holding back the Free Software movement strategically. Eben Moglan has long been adamant that the GPL shouldn't be interpreted as a contract -- only as a copyright license. What the SFC is doing now with the Visio lawsuit is only possible because the SFC had the courage to abandon that theory. I sense there's a rift in the Free Software movement. Especially given that the SFC and FSF Europe explicitly cutting ties with the SFLC and Moglen. And individual supporters of Free Software are going to have to decide which parties in this split are going to speak for and champion the cause of the community as a whole. I imagine it's pretty clear by this point that I favor the SFC in this split. I like what I've seen from the SFC in general. Not just the Visio lawsuit. But also [the things I've heard said by SFC folks](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUEeuNvX2UyTTyTYXR9dm_A). If the Free Software movement needs a single personality to be its face moving forward, I'd love for that face to be [Bradley M. Kuhn](https://www.ebb.org/bkuhn/), executive director of the SFC. He seems to have all of Stallman's and Moglen's assets (passion, dedication, an unwillingness to bend, and experience and knowledge of the legal aspects of Free Software enforcement) perhaps even more so than Stallman and Moglen do. And Kuhn excels in all the areas where Stallman and Moglen perhaps don't so much (social consciousness, likeability, strategy.) I can't say enough good things about Kuhn, really. (And [his Wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_M._Kuhn) doesn't even *have* a "controversies" section.) (Also, please tell me there aren't any skeletons in his closet.) Even if the community does come to a consensus that the movement should distance itself from Stallman and Moglen, it'll be difficult to achieve such a change in public perception and if it's achieved, it may come at a cost. After all, Stallman is the first person everybody pictures when the FSF is mentioned. And acknowledging the problems with the Free Software movement's "old brass" may damage the reputation of Free Software as a whole among those who might not differentiate between the parties in this split. But I feel it may be necessary for the future of the Free Software movement. That's my take, anyway. I'll hop down off of my soap box, now. But I wanted to bring this up, hopefully let some folks whose ideals align with those of the Free Software movement about all this if they weren't already aware, and maybe see what folks in general think about the future of the Free Software movement.