what a surprise... people dont like subscriptions? i wonder how many people it took to invent this idea in the first place...
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BMW's terrible heated seats subscription didn't even make it to a second winter
BMW is one of several automakers that have been nickel and diming customers, including with a monthly subscription for heated seats in certain models and...Kris Holt (Engadget)
warum auch nicht...
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"Völlig unverantwortlich": KI-generierte Pilzratgeber bei Amazon angeboten
Auf Amazon wurden mehrere englischsprachige Pilzratgeber gesperrt, die offenbar aus einem KI-Textgenerator stammen. Die Tipps waren teilweise lebensgefährlich.Martin Holland (heise online)
service announcement!
because chase roberts first book "computer engineering for babies" (the one with the pushbuttons, and the led, explaing logic gates and latch) is a big hit here at home: the guy is kickstarting the successor with switches and more leds! why dont you go over there and order one or two for yourself? while you are at it, you can add a copt of the original book, this is fantastic stuff to show off your nerdyness on the living room table while not alienating normal people (they love the books as well). here you go: kickstarter.com/projects/babye…
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this is an important article. it is from the us, but it also applies here in europe and everywhere else. please go read it.
armoxon.substack.com/p/if-you-…
If You Want To Be Friends, Then Why Aren’t You Friendly?
A look at one of the most alarming and pressing problems of our age: the much-lamented fact that "the left" won't be friends with "the right," over "political views."A.R. Moxon (The Reframe)
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while I do not have the same condition as this person, i also get negative effects from dark mode. for me, it's mid-term persistent afterimages after reading high-contrast white-on-black text, the world will look like it has scanlines for 5-10 minutes after reading just a short paragraph. i use a program called NegativeScreen for software that doesn't have a light theme...
Hello tech bros a reminder that dark mode gives some people with certain kinds of astigmatism (me) eye strain and headaches and so no it's not always "the accessible option"Test your software on light mode please
If the icons on your buttons are now white on a white background because you never did this, you made an app that I can't use
es ist so genial. überall auf der welt erlobbyen(?) sich verlegerverbände sowas wie das kaputte deutsche #Leistungsschutzrecht, und heulen dann rum, wenn plattformen halt keine previews für links mehr anzeigen. meine fresse, was für eine überraschung, in jedem land aufs neue. protip für die politiker unter euch: hört halt mal mehr auf die menschen, die sich mit diesem #neuland internet auskennen, bevor ihr euch scheissgesetze von der contentindustrie diktieren lasst?
liebs einfach wenn begriffe das gegenteil von dem bedeuten, was sie bedeuten:
rasanter anstieg
quantensprung
atombusen
was gibts noch?
SysWOW64
Windows Subsystem für Linux
Verfassungsschutz
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Questions about art
I watched this yesterday, and it make me wonder
What will be left of the value of art, if everything claims to be art?
What should make anyone keep pursuing such creative pursuits, if the pursuit in itself is rendered useless?
Why go to great lengths developing something like a personal, creative style, if there's no reason to do so?
Which body of work will society refer to as 'great art from the 2010s and 2020s'?
Which body of work will stand out so much that people in a century will want to immitate it
Why This Artist Kept Painting The Apocalypse
John Martin made incredible paintings depicting the apocalypse through, notably, The Great Day of His Wrath and Sadak In Search Of The Waters Of Oblivion.Sup...YouTube
*bonk*
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"I'm a Barbie girl" again, but in the style of 6 classical composers 🎹 🎤 - Josep Castanyer Alonso
On the day of the ”Barbie” film premiere and almost exactly one year after my Barbie Girl Fugue, nothing less could be expected than a follow-up!In the same ...YouTube
antisocial networks
phew. accounts deleted:
- personal instagram
- telegram
- facebook (deactivated for now)
feeling good about it.
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We released a thing at Evoke
hydra - demo by mfx
https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=94731-----------------------------Official cables.gl Discord: https://discordapp.com/invite/AGTarWvDrop by and ask quest...YouTube
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updates done
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Finally I can use my account again. It was stuck in an unsupported theme.
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Buzz2k1: The 'reviving old Buzztracker projects'-project
Enough itching about being unable to revisit eg my early rktic releases, a lot of Demoscene soundtracks (including stuff like Ferner and debris). Having extensively used VST plugins, and pestering devs to fix bugs, I potentially caused this mess of a VST adapter landscape.
Because they all try to index the same location for VST plugins, over time, Buzz inevitably crashed.
Testing a quick'n'dirty dll resource hack, I changed the folders for each loader. Seems to do the trick: Buzz is much less likely to crash in an instant. I tried this with about 50 projects so far, and it works (given the old plugins are there...).
ronnypries.de/notes/music/prod…
Hope this is useful for anyone else, too!
Now, how does one extract the included Jeskola Mixer and aux return from 'old Buzz' into separate .dll's?
Improved RnZ... VST adapters for Buzz 1.2b - rktic's working notes
These RnZnAn...VST adapters hopefully enable you to load your old Buzz projects, too.ronnypries.de
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Feel invited to connect with me at mastodon.gamedev.place/@parala…
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Well, I don't know if it's my setup (I'm using Firefox with quite a lot of extensions) or if it's the site itself but coming from Twitter I found it relatively hard or cumbersome doing basic things such as attaching images to a post, integrating with third party apps on PC and mobile and even simply following other people.
The more popular third party apps I had a look at seem to mostly be made for Mastodon and so despite the underlying Fediverse protocol I had a mixed experience. For Friendica this means that often I could kind of get them to work but then I couldn't enter certain screens such as the settings screen or toggles wouldn't work here or there.
I wanted a comparison with Mastodon and so I set up an account to see for myself. Turns out, that over there - at least for the specific server I chose - all those things tend to be a little faster, with way less clicks and just feel a bit more modern. Mastodon doesn't have a calendar tab but that's okay for me. It also seems to go for an overall design more in line with the one from Twitter. No problem with app integration either.
Following people on Friendica - unless I misunderstood the approach - is this whole process where I have to copy a user's handle into a form and submit everything, pulling me out of my current context, while on Mastodon I can just click the follow button and I'm done.
I get that Friendica focuses on privacy and so this may involve some tradeoffs here and there. For me personally I just found that for continuous use things have to be streamlined enough for me to want to come back and I'm getting that more with Mastodon.
I might not have wrapped my head around Friendica entirely though because, at least on paper, the platform including its UI seems way more customizable and interoperable with other decentralized social media platforms. It seems to be more focused on power users which I am admittedly not ;)
Mastodon is not Twitter - it's way less addictive by design and has its own little quirks but I guess for me it's somewhere in the middle between a power user system like Friendica and Twitter itself.
In any case, I know that managing a server is hard work and so thanks for putting in the effort and providing this service for free! Since Twitter is morphing into this democracy endangering lunatic platform it's even more important getting people off there and providing sensible social media alternatives out of reach of sociopath billionaires and unaccountable corporations.
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Always take the least important item from your to-do list, obsess over it to an unhealthy degree, rinse and repeat. #burnside #automated-release-announcements
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We made a thing, and it's kinda flashy.
And of course, it looks much better in realtime:
mfx.drastic.net/view/bunker/
Fun facts:
- I iterated through 21 edits and versions of the track until final
- the communication between unclex and me resulted in the longest chatlog i ever had making a demo, and it was cool
May your eyes hurt less than his.
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