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fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Yeah alright, the Switch is super successful. It's still Nintendo's weirdest console since, uhm, their last console, the Wii U.

I don't get why there isn't a cheaper, screen-less version of this device. The ergonomics are so lousy I can't play this on the go for more than 10 or 15 minutes anyway. So why do I have this massive OLED display, when all it ever does is sitting in its dock at home?

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

Pros and cons of Bluetooth

Con:
- Need to constantly recharge
- Setup takes time
- Flaky connection
- Latency
- Can't work without power
- May connect to wrong device
- Consumes more power on playback device
- Subject to interference
- Much more expensive
- Harder to switch between devices
- Hard to share devices; might need to ask someone else to disconnect first before you can connect

Pro:
- No cord. That's it. That's the entire list.

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

brennen@federation.p1k3.com wrote:

a surfeit of useful thoughts in this piece:

https://lithub.com/rebecca-solnit-how-to-comment-on-social-media/

> All of the O.P.’s feelings, experiences, interpretations, and values should be in the first sentence anyway. Only fascists hide those things in militarized outposts throughout the terrain of the piece.

> While we’re at it, everyone ever born should hold the values of this very minute

> There can be no good things until there are no bad things at all, which is why good things are bad.

(via @jack)

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

A podcast on Sex & Gender:

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/02/10/another-podish-sortacast-coming-up/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIzlGrzvNL4

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adactio ("Jeremy Keith") wrote:

When people say “RSS is dead” what they really mean is “we couldn’t figure out a way to monetise RSS.”

🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/20871

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

bookandswordblog@scholar.social wrote:

You learned how much a shirt cost in the the middle ages! And how much a linen tunic cost in the Roman Empire. This week, find out how much a garment cost in the Late Bronze Age https://www.bookandsword.com/2024/02/10/how-much-did-a-garment-cost-in-the-bronze-age/ #histodons #egyptology #amarnaAge #materialCulture #cuneitoot

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Just asked my mom if she could make me a Pinterest board for some inspo and she said she's been training her whole life for this moment

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markwyner@mas.to ("Mark Wyner :vm:") wrote:

I don’t know who made this, but I’m glad they did. It’s an inspiring sentiment.

#Kindness #Helpful #Community

Attachments:

• Duotone image of a casual bicycle in a field. It’s overlaid with the message: I am not interested in competing with anyone. I hope we all make it. (remote)

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

did my usual early sat AM dog-walking volunteer shift at the #ROC City Pound. there are some really sweet pooches in jail now… foster or adopt? #dogs

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

finally figured out how to safely get/fail-to-get an environmental variable as a Result, extract & strip quotes from around what is returned if-gt-2, and then stuff what is left into a display element… I truly hate GUI programming, but I may hate this less than other times

#Rust & #Tauri leveraging #WebTechnologies

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sylvia_ritter ("Sylvia Ritter") wrote:

Happy Year of the Dragon 🐉 💚 :blobcat: . #art #fediart #speedpainting

Attachments:

• Speedy shapes from warm colors to cold travel to the center of attention. A dragon seems to be creating another universe and fills up the whole area. Destroying and rebuilding. https://www.deviantart.com/sylviaritter/art/Speedpainting-26012023-946761234

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Painted my first miniature. Got this Space Marine and the paints in Brussels the other day.

#WarhammerCommunity #Warhammer40K #Warhammer

Attachments:

• A Space Marine Captain with Jumping Rack painted in purple, red, and gold. Front view.
• A Space Marine Captain with Jumping Rack painted in purple, red, and gold. Side view.
• A Space Marine Captain with Jumping Rack painted in purple, red, and gold. Back view.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

I guess these are slightly more than doodles, but they're also not really finished things. I believe the doodle god will still be pleased.

#doodle #yaombaaa #sketch

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• Pencil sketch of a tree frog clinging to a branch. I'm not sure what the frog is thinking. It's very mysterious. Reference came from a recent Smithsonian magazine issue, which I cannot find at the moment. (remote)
• Maybe a dragon like creature floating in a dark space with its long body all twisted around itself. He's happy because he has some days off work after his shift is over. I don't really like the composition, but I decided to push this image of a maybe dragon to see where it would go. It's not quite as awful as it started out to be, so that's something. (remote)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Miscellaneous.

#doddle #yaombaaa

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• A being whose torso is a face posing as heroically as they can. There's some text that reads, "Faceguy grabbed sword and shield and did his best to look brave." He has only partially succeeded. (remote)
• Several faces all mushed together for reasons unknown. (remote)
• A morose looking being, perhaps a werewolf, struggling to motivate itself for the start of the week. (remote)
• Just random doodles. There's a ripoff of bugs bunny probably named something like "Rick Rabbit". There's a side profile of a bear like head. There's a person with a pinched looking face with huge cheeks. A little alien. And finally some eyes that are too close together. Maybe I should've left this out, but I really wanted 4 pictures in this post. (remote)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Birds on the brain.

#doodle #yaombaaa

Attachments:

• Long necked, long beaked bird sitting on the ground ruminating on the day's embarrassments. (remote)
• Head of a cartoon bird, slightly anthropomorphized, looking off to the distance towards the left. The bird's feathers are mildly wild and unkempt. He's worried about his future employment prospects. (remote)
• Cartoon bird waving hello. They are painfully shy, and this effort at being friendly is causing mild panic internally. (remote)

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

(Well, least favorite other than, you know, all the objectively worse things.)

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

My absolute least favorite thing about social media, of all kinds and on all platforms, is how the moment something becomes common or popular, a bunch of people suddenly start trying to be all cool and counterculture by posting snarky takedowns of that thing and going for the subtweet/dunk on anyone who isn't as cool as they're trying to be.

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

The YouTube algorithm has decided that I must want to see lots of Matt Dillahunty. That's OK -- he & I seem to have similar degrees of exasperation with Xian apologetics, but I already know it.

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Oooh. Morris got a challenging movie showing this week.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/02/10/poor-things-a-most-peculiar-movie/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjm0udI77KU

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andijah@brotkru.me ("Andrea") wrote:

299 years ago, on 10th of February 1725, Agostino Tinazzoli died. He was an Italian #organist and composer and left us various keyboard pieces, for example the "toccata no. 17", a very lively piece that I love playing (and hitting wrong keys occasionally).
So, here's an #organ video for you (and of course there will be another one tomorrow).

https://rankett.net/w/gssetEtLEDnaypt1cMcApR

#PipeOrgan #ClassicalMusic

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junglegeorge@mastodon.africa ("Jungle George 🌿🌳🌴") wrote:

🎷 🤝 🔒

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• The image features a handshake emoji centered between two blocks of text. The left text says "Jazz musician explaining a chord" and the right text says "Computer generating a password." Below the handshake is "F#7b9/Db," which could be interpreted both as a complex jazz chord and a strong password. (remote)

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

So many auxiliary conlangs try to be Latin-without-Latin, synthesizing its descendants back into a unified whole, that Latin itself could be reasonably mistaken for one of its own grandchildren

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

Latin has had such an overbearing influence on English, and has had such a long afterlife in both scientific and religious spheres, that direct contact with the thing itself feels like encountering something artificial, the same way that being in California as a non-native feels like being on a movie set.

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

Playing The Book of Hours, with all its mentions of books in ancient (and sometimes fictional) languages, has made me wanna open up Wheelock's Latin again. Maybe look for youtube videos

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Please, nobody tell Apple that being giant dicks to regulators generally ends poorly. There's a reasonable chance it could kill our fun:

https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/9/24067957/apple-right-to-repair-oregon-bill-parts-pairing-ban

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

The (relatively?) recently added support for Markdown in GDocs (auto-styling) has been a nice quality of life improvement for me when writing tech docs.

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

Is getting old just seeing endless examples of people repeating historical mistakes everywhere you look?

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bgm@octodon.social wrote:

With apologies to Anita Ward and Mike Oldfield, here’s some weirdness I did about 9 years ago.
https://soundcloud.com/fromabasement/ring-my-tubular-bell

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tinker@infosec.exchange ("Tinker ☀️") wrote:

Watching the documentary "The Black Panthers" (free / no ads on Kanopy App).

Seeing Ronald Reagan say that private citizens carrying guns isnt the way to solve problems is amazing.

Ronald Reagan, the world's biggest proponent of gun restrictions and gun control! Huh. I wonder why he advocated for it in this instance...

#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackPanthers #GunControl

Attachments:

• Ronald Reagan stating, "I don't think that loaded guns is the way to solve a problem that should be solved...And anyone who would approve of this kind of demonstration must be out of their mind." (remote)
• Ronald Reagan stating, "I don't think that loaded guns is the way to solve a problem that should be solved...And anyone who would approve of this kind of demonstration must be out of their mind." (remote)
• Ronald Reagan stating, "I don't think that loaded guns is the way to solve a problem that should be solved...And anyone who would approve of this kind of demonstration must be out of their mind." (remote)
• Ronald Reagan stating, "I don't think that loaded guns is the way to solve a problem that should be solved...And anyone who would approve of this kind of demonstration must be out of their mind." (remote)

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mysk ("Mysk🇨🇦🇩🇪") wrote:

This statement is from a court document submitted by Apple's lawyers regarding the App Store data privacy class action lawsuit:

"Given Apple’s extensive privacy disclosures, no reasonable user would expect that their actions in Apple’s apps would be private from Apple."

#Privacy #Security #Cybersecurity #Apple #iPhone #InfoSec #dataprivacy

Attachments:

• Excerpt from the court document: "Given Apple’s extensive privacy disclosures, no reasonable user would expect that their actions in Apple’s apps would be private from Apple." Civil Case No.: 5:22-CV-07069-EJD Case 5:22-cv-07069-EJD Document 122 Filed 12/08/23 Page 30 of 41