314xel

joined 1 year ago
[–] 314xel 5 points 6 days ago

He never played Hades, huh?

[–] 314xel 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, I saw the post after watching this video, and I thought "this is one of those movies!", but I didn't realize it's also one of the generally bad movies.

[–] 314xel 2 points 2 weeks ago
[–] 314xel 7 points 2 weeks ago
[–] 314xel 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

I remember it, and I'm a sucker for any SciFi with new ideas, but the delivery on this one had the subtlety of a brick. The idea of the plot is the punchline and that's it, no other social commentary. Justin Timberlake was mediocre at best and to me so obnoxious that it was very hard to identify with him as a justice warrior. 5/10.

"Don't Look Up" was not subtle at all, but it had the kind of in-your-face so well done, that proofed exactly that the target audience it was mocking will not understand the direct slap they were getting.

"The Menu", or "Parasite", or "The Platform", or "The Hunger Games" are also orders of magnitude better if you want to watch a "eat-the-rich" kind of movie.

I'm bad with words and not a movie critic, but hope you get the point.

[–] 314xel 47 points 3 weeks ago

Three of the top 10 viewed stories on the Post’s website Sunday were articles written by Post staffers outraged by Bezos’ decision. The top one was humor columnist Alexandra Petri’s piece, headlined, “It has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to endorse Harris for president.” 

[–] 314xel 6 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

How about... the tanks could be empty?

[–] 314xel 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Cards For America

[–] 314xel 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

They're paying people to apologize for not voting last time. What that means is up for the reader. Not the same.

[–] 314xel 9 points 1 month ago

And some copyrighted shit from Dolby. Granted, header files only.

[–] 314xel 82 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

At first I was... wow, no shit! Open source Winamp!

But then I went through the Github issues (because, 6 hours since first commit and already 5 issues open?). As someone else put it, "This has got to be the most embarrassing open-sourcing i've seen to date.". The licensing is a mess, the coverup is a dumpster fire. By tomorrow this is going to be as viral as Twitter's "open sourcing" of its recommendation algorithm they did last year. Not sure if I should make coffee or popcorn in the morning.

[–] 314xel 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Those share buttons are trackers themselves. So it's not about "supporting" those websites by publishing content to them, it's about undermining the privacy of your readers and doing the opposite of what you preach, and "supporting" those websites by feeding them much more valuable user data. As another comment said, just put a button to copy the permalink and let them paste themselves if they want to share.

As for you sharing a link on the mainstream social media platforms yourself, I'd actually encourage that. Cory Doctorow auto-publishes links (not content) to his articles on as many social media platforms as he can (sorry, can't find the article in which he describes it). The point is that he still retains control over his content by hosting it himself, he controls the (lack of) trackers and ads, and gaining traffic from these platforms is still to his and his potential readers benefit. Bending your rules a little to reach more people and maybe even convert them to be more privacy-aware is fine.

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submitted 1 year ago by 314xel to c/liftoff
 

So far I'm enjoying Liftoff, it's superior to Jerboa and the dev is a god moving so fast with its development.

That being said, here are my thoughts so far:

  • There's a bug when sometimes when I hit back from a post, on the home tab the keyboard pops out
  • I miss the downvote count for posts and comments (yeah, I've found the "nerd" section, but it's just cumbersome) - it could be an interface option in the settings (I understand if some people don't want their feed cluttered with that info)
  • I miss the menu option to block a community directly from the 3 dots on a post in the home tab that Jerboa has. Currently I have to click the community in the post title. The quicker way would be appreciated especially in this Lemmy starting phase when a lot of new communities are created and we tailor our interests
 

Yumi Matsutoya (松任谷由実) / Yumi Arai by real name.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by 314xel to c/fediverse
 

Found it on Reddit. It's most probably incomplete, but it has a "Suggest link" button.

The rules for submitting a link are (as of recent):

  • No links to communities who break their service's ToS or share any illegal content (this should be self-explanatory).
  • Link must be an alternative to an existing subreddit. I don't see sub.rehab as a general fediverse directory (for now).
  • Community must have a minimal amount of activity. I am thinking - at least 3 posts that are not submitted by the community's moderator team. This does not apply for communities that are verified and proven as official replacements of the original subreddit
 

Am I the only one not being able to use a controller in first-person games that usually require a mouse to look around / shoot / etc?

This is the reason I avoided buying and playing FPS games or ie Portal, BotW, etc. I find it clunky and first game I tried with sticks on the controller I dumped after the first 10 minutes and switched to playing on a PC, regretting spending the money.

I just prefer scrollers or fixed-cam games for this reason.

Maybe I'm old, but I don't get the 30-minus year-olds being so agile with it.

Do you have any tips on improving myself on this?

 

I've learned of Yumi Matsutoya (松任谷由実) / Yumi Arai by real name from the anime The Wind Rises (Kaze Tachinu).

I don't normally watch anime, but big studios like Gibli and directors like Hayao Miyazaki are the exception. A few songs from Yumi made to my playlist since then.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by 314xel to c/[email protected]
 

Fishmans got me into Japanese music. This live especially is legendary - 42 minutes of continuous live play, just like the album.

Obligatory:

  • lights out
  • eyes closed
  • headphones on
  • enjoy!

More about Fishmans on Wikipedia if you are not afraid of falling into the rabbit hole.

 

Given that

  • there is no auto-preview / download of youtube thumbnails for posts
  • the post URL must be the youtube link; uploading an image replaces the URL with the one if the image, so no bueno

What is the format to embed the thumbnail of the youtube video (downloaded manually) in the body of the post and also link it to the video itself?

The reason I'd like to include a preview is that I find it hard to find and click the external link for a post. Sometimes I don't even realize it's a post with a link (both in the listing or after opening the post) - Reddit apps (at least in the 3rd party Slide app that I used) made it clear what type of post it was by clearly specifying Video / Image / Link / Self.text etc

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by 314xel to c/[email protected]
 

I highly recommend Ben Eater's channel. He's a good teacher, took his time and dedicated months to build quality content in video format, which is a rarity on Youtube these days.

 
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Holy variable! (lemmy.world)
 
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rule (lemmy.world)
 

First time I learn about 196

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