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Deebster

@ Deebster @beehaw.org

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It's nice here, but a bit under-federated. Other @Deebsters are available.

  • Hot take: It’s okay if we don’t consume all of the world’s information before we die

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  • 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?

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  • 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.

  • UK pledges $416 million to buy 10,000 drones for Ukraine

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  • 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

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

  • Virtue Signalling

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  • 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.

  • Idea for niche communities

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  • 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?

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  • 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?

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  • 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

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  • 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?

  • 28 Years Later in Development as Sequel to Beloved Zombie Classic, And it Could be a Trilogy - Report

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  • Maybe it'll be like the final episode of Attack on Titan where the last season was split into multiple parts, and the final part was split into multiple chapters. Was it also a two partner? It got stupid, anyway.

  • Atuin is an open-source shell command history app for Linux with syncing, unlimited history, and with contextual search

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  • Ah, ok, that makes more sense. That also solves any ordering problem if you, say, you're running local and elsewhere commands and a sync means pressing up gives you an unexpected item.

  • Atuin is an open-source shell command history app for Linux with syncing, unlimited history, and with contextual search

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  • Sync seems like it's going to be more pain than its worth unless you have all your machines configured the same. I'm not even running the same distros between machines...

  • The "10,000-hour rule" was debunked again. That’s a relief.

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  • I like this author's attitude. I scoffed a bit when I read about "joy that can be found in mediocrity" but he's right that you can (and should) just do something because you enjoy it or it's good for you.

  • Heroic USA

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  • They sold that stuff to the Brits (the £27bn in today's money was only finally paid off in 2006).

    If memory serves, the US were also supplying the Nazis at the start of the war.

    I agree that US involvement was vital to winning WW2, but the idea that they won it themselves is pure American propaganda.

  • FOSS Games are actually pretty good!

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  • I've just installed this from your recommendation and it's brilliant. I love the amateur graphics, it just adds to the charm.

  • You SHOULD connect to Tor via a VPN, actually

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  • Agreed - it's 25 minutes without filler or repetition. Good stuff.

  • What are some dying and dead niche lemmings?

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  • I'm not sure what you're asking. Do you mean Lemmy communities, Lemmy instances, or something else?

  • Ada Lovelace: What did the first computer program do?

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  • Bad link 👎

    This article seems to be an incomplete pasting of an old article: What Did Ada Lovelace’s Program Actually Do? I was suspicious when it said "A contemporary interpretation of Ada's punch card stack using JavaScript might resemble the following" but didn't have any code.

    The real tl;dr is it calculated terms of the Bernoulli series.

  • Looking for kernel development/OS development/general programming tutoring (Zig & Rust)

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  • Tris, who's behind the excellent No Boilerplate YouTube channel offers mentoring. I don't know if he has spaces or if he's in your budget, but he's got experience explaining things and clearly knows his stuff.

  • boardgames @feddit.de
    Deebster @beehaw.org

    US-Sino tensions help spawn China card game craze

    www.reuters.com /world/china/us-sino-tensions-help-spawn-china-card-game-craze-2023-08-28/
  • World News @beehaw.org
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    Canadian lake chosen to represent start of the Anthropocene

    www.theguardian.com /environment/2023/jul/11/nuclear-bomb-fallout-site-chosen-to-define-start-of-anthropocene
  • Amiga @sopuli.xyz
    Deebster @beehaw.org

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

  • Literature @beehaw.org
    Deebster @beehaw.org

    What do you use to track your reading?