SleepilyLimping

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by SleepilyLimping 2y ago
> so that automation makes things cost less instead of siphoning the money into the coffers of megacorps I cannot trust any company with any modicum of success not to immediately exit into the hands of megacorps. I cannot hope that compa
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by SleepilyLimping 2y ago
One-to-one calls won't work on web Teams for me using Firefox, but group calls will, for some reason.
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by SleepilyLimping 2y ago
I mean, it's the only meaningful way of punishing the company/site. It becomes unusable, people don't contribute anything further because it stops being a hub/valuable site, and eventually their costs outweigh their bene
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by SleepilyLimping 2y ago
The incentive to contribute is based on the potential return of social currency (prestige, togetherness, etc). If it's evident that you won't generate enough currency to outweigh enriching Reddit, why bother?
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by SleepilyLimping 2y ago
Canada has neither, though. My parents and their parents assimilated quickly from Eastern Europe, forgot their language, and then set up a system where they pulled up a ladder behind them for housing, opportunity and stability. Boy does it
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by SleepilyLimping 2y ago
I go to a Dollar Store fairly frequently in my city, and it's just a nightmare due to self-checkout: one physical cashier open with anyone over 50 lining up to use, and another overworked worker dealing with errors in the self-checkout
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by SleepilyLimping 3y ago
Would love if I could self-host this with Docker.
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by SleepilyLimping 3y ago
>I sometimes wonder what western historians will think when they study this era 100 years from now? I sometimes find myself wanting aliens to find us and make contact, just so we can have an outside, hypothetically enlightened source (if
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by SleepilyLimping 3y ago
My benchmark is how much social capital one stands to lose by admitting to be a member. If you're still admitting to be a Juggalo despite knowing what's associated with it, and how the mainstream is going to treat you, you're
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by SleepilyLimping 3y ago
I feel like the Internet where forums thrived is very different from the present Internet. Forums won't make a comeback because they're much harder to make money or clout from, and the owners get to assume all the risk of hosting
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by SleepilyLimping 3y ago
The past tense of "bias" is "biased." "Gemini isn't biased because of the training data, it's biased because Google chooses to make it biased by hijacking your prompt."
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by SleepilyLimping 3y ago
Isn't it wondrous what lobbying can do?
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by SleepilyLimping 3y ago
It's always uncomfortable with a new therapist because they lack the context to know what you're going through, for how long, and the factors that are affecting it. I've seen mine for over a decade at this point, and when I t
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by SleepilyLimping 3y ago
This is similar to what people found when they went back to World of Warcraft after it introduced an automated "dungeon finder" that matched you with people doing the same content across multiple servers. You had no real social in
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by SleepilyLimping 3y ago
It's a US election year /tinfoil
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by SleepilyLimping 3y ago
Learning how to import bulbs into HomeAssistant, or learning how to flash different firmware onto bulbs has been a difficult (yet kinda fun?) way to give myself peace of mind about that. Having that all run on NAS has at least given me some
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by SleepilyLimping 3y ago
>It's unfortunate that bitcoin became a hoarding/speculation thing, rather than a useful thing. Brave tried to do this with their Basic Attention Token, but they seem to be focused on adding generalized crypto features like wal
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by SleepilyLimping 3y ago
Learning how to self-host things on Docker and a NAS has been a lifesaver for me. Almost every SAAS I've wanted to use at a consumer level has an open-source equivalent on Docker that I can reverse-proxy to access from anywhere.
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by SleepilyLimping 3y ago
>I wonder if Threads and Bluesky will eventually be as nasty as old Twitter of if they'll manage to foster better discussions somehow. Both of those places seem to have gotten their initial swell of "actually using it" use
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by SleepilyLimping 3y ago
>FB is still surprisingly strong in growing markets. In a lot of those growing markets, Facebook is the main (or only) way of having a web presence for their business. WhatsApp is similarly the main way to have IM support, as well.
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by SleepilyLimping 3y ago
I'm glad that the consultants and people who stage photo ops get a decent payday, at least.
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by SleepilyLimping 3y ago
I've had two family doctors over the last four years, and they've both closed their practice to become specialists; much better paying, much easier work. I've been going to walk-in clinics who technically have "consisten
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by SleepilyLimping 3y ago
>Pick a smaller town In Canada, good luck getting non-dialup if you move too far out. Getting decent Internet service is harder when you go remote.
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by SleepilyLimping 3y ago
This site is a bunch of ex-Gawker, ex-Vox and ex-Vice people submitting articles en masse to places like Reddit and HN. Why would it have anything of substance?
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by SleepilyLimping 3y ago
"Now, potions are traditionally a good way of getting healing in RPGs. Potions were first introduced in..."
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by SleepilyLimping 3y ago
Prime USED to remove ads site-wide, but that was shuttered. Turbo will probably go away sometime in the future as well, as it's mostly there to offer a product for developing markets where Prime doesn't exist yet. I don't sub
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by SleepilyLimping 3y ago
Kick is narrowly avoiding the Truth Social/Gab "this is the platform where all the people banned from Twitter are" stink by basically throwing money at non-problematic streamers until they can't refuse the payout. The st
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by SleepilyLimping 3y ago
Or they'll find a massive brain drain, unless you find some non-authoritarian way to leave. China probably has a lot of netizens that want to experience the rest of the Internet, or game more than two hours a night, but they won't
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by SleepilyLimping 3y ago
>There are TONS of live streaming services to choose from, this one is meant to be for gaming. Those ones have more competition, or less potential viewership, or a worse feature base than Twitch does. It's like saying "Yeah tot
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by SleepilyLimping 3y ago
Ah, the "two-stick FPS? this will never work" game.

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