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melonpunk

@ melonpunk @lemmy.world

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  • In this imaginary scenario we can do anything. So that's a full round of color for the table, and heck, why not for the whole VIP suite! Lets spray it like a rainbow round here!

  • "Being overweight not linked to dying early, study says, but questions remain | CNN"

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  • Reading through the article it sounds like not a great study, not asking enough questions and not tracking key information, such as cause of death.

    Sounds like one of those things where people are going to headline what they want out of it and use it to champion their bias. "Being overweight doesn't kill you, yay!" Nah, it's way more complicated than that. People with cancer and other diseases often lose weight, a lot of it, and studies like this don't do a good job of tracking this info.

  • The customer is always right

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  • I did web design in the 90's and remember one customer reviewing the site that I'd designed her. She said she liked it, but asked if I could add something like that neat little paper clip she has when she opens up Word, so it can help people navigate her site.

    Note: Javascript was in its early days around this time so the idea of a dynamic/interactive site like this was not on the cards.

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  • I'll Infoseek an answer on that.

  • Great audiobook narrations?

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  • Jonathan Keeble is great. I loved his reading of the Saxon Stories series (The Last Kingdom). I'm currently listening to the Warhammer Gotrek & Felix series, which he brings his great range of voices to as well.

    Bonus note: He voiced Maliketh in Elden Ring and Lord Rydell in the Demon's Souls remake.

  • AI girlfriend ‘told crossbow intruder to kill Queen Elizabeth at Windsor Castle’

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  • He sent the bot, called “Sarai”, sexually explicit messages and engaged in lengthy conversations with it about his plans which he said were in revenge for the 1919 Amritsar Massacre in India.

    Such a classic love story. Man meets girl bot, they flirt, they chat about the Amrisar massacre. So romantic.

  • YouTube recommendations (dramatization)

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  • Needs a shocked looking face in the corner like something explosive just went off downstairs.

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  • 100% Google has been the best place to put effort it. If they slide down the popularity ladder then the next will become the zone of battle. I'm firmly of the belief that all options are temporary and on an eventual course of becoming bad, some faster than others. It's a case of being able to just adapt and move on. Be it google, reddit, netflix, whatever.

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  • Good to know, thanks. I'd heard that DDG sources its results from other engines, though I thought they were ramping up their own index. Honestly, I haven't paid close enough attention to it all. Nor have I tried Bing given that DDG has generally been good enough for me to not bother looking elsewhere.

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  • Magellan, looking good.

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  • I think Hotbot did that back in the 90's, and it's relaunched (well, the name and domain have been put to use again) as a privacy focused search that combines an AI style question/answer style system as well as traditional link list result. https://www.hotbot.com

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  • For those wanting to know what the ink costs for comparison it's £2.04 per ml.

    Next time I'm in the club and want to show how baller I am then I'm buying a round of HP light magenta.

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  • I'd recommend avoiding Google for web searching. Duckduckgo has been a good alternate for me for about 5 years now. I've heard that Bing is a good alternate, even though its a Microsoft service. ChatGPT is also a good option to compliment web searches, though I'd recommend getting a second result from another service if looking up an answer to a question, but when doing general questions/suggestions it can outperform a web search in both detail and ability to refine/filter.

    Google is just a ranked ad delivery service based on an abused and gamed SEO system, it's fucking awful for delivering useful links.

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    YSK: Keeping your accounts/online identity safe in the age of the fediverse/federated networks

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  • duckduckgo.com offer that service too. Using a browser plug in it can generate @duck.com email addresses when signing up to sites and forward them to your standard email address.

  • Can we have an option to open links automagically in a new tab?

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  • Oh yeah, I think it was RES for Reddit that supported opening links to new tabs. So much easier than middle clicking on links (because I often forget and end up closing the tab).

  • Do you have any games that you like but you never finished?

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  • Quite a lot I'd say. I often find that though I enjoy a game, it outstays its welcome and loses steam towards the end so I stop playing. I'd rather walk away still enjoying a game than end up pushing through to finish and ruin the fun.

  • What game encouraged you to make your new PC, or upgrade?

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  • Quake 1 - though not quite at launch, it was the game that pushed me to get a Voodoo 1 card. Half-Life 2 - due to the delay I ended upgrading my video card twice, ending on an ATI Radeon 9800

  • Daedalic Entertainment Ending Internal Development, Work on New Lord of the Rings Game Halted

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  • They've had a rough run over the years with their previous majority holder running into financial issues and them getting sold to Nacon (Bigben Interactive) in 2022. I'm guessing there was a push internally to go big, and Gollum was the efforts of that. Also Nacon don't have a stellar record for doing well by developers, see: Frogwares and the Sherlock Holmes debacle.

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  • That's a shame. They've been around for a good while now and produced a good run of point and click style adventure games. They took the wrong path with Gollum though.