kazerniel

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[–] kazerniel 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Newsblur can do the first kind of filtering. You select "best gadgets" in the title, and all posts on that feed with that phrase in the title will be hidden from then on.

[–] kazerniel 4 points 12 hours ago

The less its posts are shared, the less its relevance is to the world. I can't see that as a bad thing. It always baffled me how outsize Twitter's influence was on world events/news while having 1/5th the active userbase of Facebook.

[–] kazerniel 2 points 12 hours ago

I used Feedly since Google Reader was shut down. Then 1.5 years ago, as Feedly was getting more paywalls and AI-crap, I switched to Newsblur, and have been a happy user ever since. I love its Intelligence Trainer that lets me hide posts with certain tags/authors/keywords.

Unlimited hosted-by-them Newsblur costs 36 USD / year. It has a FLOSS version and a more limited free hosted-by-them version, but the 2.5 GBP / month was worth the QoL increase for me.

[–] kazerniel 3 points 12 hours ago
  • Look around in your online communities and see what publications get shared.
  • Once you find some sites you like, search the web/communities for alternatives with the same topic/vibe.
  • If you find journalists you like, see where else they publish their works, or what publications they used to work at. For bloggers / content creators, see who they collaborate with.
[–] kazerniel 9 points 5 days ago

Good, fuck gacha mechanics (saying this as a Genshin player lol.) A guaranteed 5* character costs 400 USD. (Would be ~356, but they don't let you buy exactly that much virtual currency.)

[–] kazerniel 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Newsblur in desktop web browser, 36 USD / year

It has a FLOSS version and a more limited free version hosted by them, but the 2.5 GBP / month was worth the QoL increase for me.

[–] kazerniel 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I used Feedly since Google Reader was shut down. Then 1.5 years ago, as Feedly was getting more paywalls and AI-crap, I switched to Newsblur, and have been a happy user ever since. I love its Intelligence Trainer that lets me hide posts with certain tags/authors/keywords.

[–] kazerniel 3 points 1 week ago
  • Look around in your online communities and see what publications get shared.
  • Once you find some sites you like, search the web/communities for alternatives with the same topic/vibe.
  • If you find journalists you like, see where else they publish their works, or what publications they used to work at. For bloggers / content creators, see who they collaborate with.
[–] kazerniel 8 points 1 week ago

They have no ethics, so they follow ~~what’s trendy~~ what they predict more profit from

[–] kazerniel 4 points 2 weeks ago

I hope they leave it an option to keep the search engine selector on the bottom, that way it's just one click; having to do an extra click on a dropdown would be of no use to me.

[–] kazerniel 3 points 3 weeks ago

I'm still using Pocket 👀 (though an unofficial version)

[–] kazerniel 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This is why I was much more into mangas than animes as a teenager. Each anime episode took more than an hour to download... I could at least download mangas faster than I could read them.

 

Of the 73,257 NFT collections we identified, an eye-watering 69,795 of them have a market cap of 0 Ether (ETH).

This statistic effectively means that 95% of people holding NFT collections are currently holding onto worthless investments. Having looked into those figures, we would estimate that 95% to include over 23 million people who’s investments are now worthless.

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I admittedly don't know much about its historical background, but I found this a fascinating read about the legacy of the nineties' Bosnian war that is still acutely felt throughout the region.

 

Following ChthonVII's idea, I'm mirroring my probably only interesting post on the subreddit :D


Finally got around to watch the 2-hours long GW1 segment of the recent Extra Life 2022 ArenaNet livestream. The devs had a lot of interesting insights and amusing anecdotes, so I made a bunch of clips - sharing them here in case someone else haven't had the time to watch the whole thing.

The participants were:

  • Bobby Stein - writing team lead

  • Darrin Claypool - level designer

  • Colin Johanson - game designer

The clips in order of appearance:

A few more bits that were too short to worth clipping:

  • Early in development there were no professions, you could slot any skill.

  • They spent 4-5 months working on Sorrow's Furnace compared to their usual couple of weeks per zone.

  • GW1 development team was around 70-80 at launch, and peaked around 100 with EotN. (GW2 had 350 developers at launch.)

Twitch only allows max. 1 min long clips, so sometimes I had to cut off an interesting follow-up - if you want to see how a clip continued, click Watch Full Video.

PS.: For the story of the hideous leopard-print couch go to this timestamp in the VoD :D

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