The Picture of Dorian Grok.

I’ve never understood the original (non-meme) version of this graph. Too much by whose standard? Maybe I wanted them extra buttery or sugary or whatever, make your own fucking cookies if you want them different.

I think of it as, if you got shot halfway through telling me the date of something, “December” on its own is more useful information than “12”. Technically, “12” narrows it down to fewer possible dates, but it could be at any time of year, while December only happens once a year, in March or whatever.

Perhaps the most relevant of all: time of day. 9:30. Hours first, then minutes. I’m not from a location that does month-day ordering, but I think largest to smallest works excellently for time measurement, hence ISO 8601.

or for thinking that other people would buy that bullshit.

Look around. Religions exist. Cults exist. Plenty of people have found great success by starting a religion/cult, whether that means access to power, money, wives, children, etc. If they got what they wanted out of the deal, then I’d be more keen to hone in on greed or selfishness as their most prominent character flaw rather than question their intelligence.

To my darling Candy. All characters portrayed within this book are fictitious and any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.

(Joke stolen from Red Dwarf series 2, episode 2, “Better Than Life”.)

My name was perfectly fine until big pharma stole it and sold it back to me: Ex-Lax.

You seem like you might like osgameclones.com. It’s absolutely massive because it includes projects even if they’re unfinished or abandoned, but you can sort by playability, development status, even programming language if you’re looking to contribute.

Is it possible to require a passkey for login, or is it currently an alternative to the traditional user name and password login? If not, is that a future goal? I’ve never used passkeys, just trying to understand the end goal, presumably you want to replace username and password with passkeys eventually, otherwise you’re not really making login more secure.

How solid are they? From the picture it’s hard to tell if they have a crisp texture or more chewy, brittle, you get the idea. They sound delicious though, might have to try this.

I grew up before the Internet was mainstream and I don’t remember this. We all had access to basically the same information and some of us still had worse or better ideas than our peers. Access was always only one part of the equation; beyond that, you need the information to be useful and accurate (big problem on the Internet), you need the desire to engage with that information, the ability to process and understand it correctly, the ability to discern when factual information is being cherry-picked or otherwise used in misleading ways …

If you trip over on any of those points or whatever else I’ve forgotten to mention, you come out the other end with bad information, access be damned.

Lemmy section starts at 9:31 if you just want to see that part.

Too bad she says she wait until more controversies occur before she considers adding the platform to her social media list.

Yeah, this is a shame. I don’t know the channel, but it seems like this video is more of an experiment in trying EU tech rather than actively recommending people move off US services. The creator is content (a content creator?) to stay on Reddit for now, so she’s not necessarily ideologically motivated to switch to an EU alternative, decentralized platform, etc.

The “too complicated” criticism is her main reason for not adding Lemmy to her list of accounts. She does talk about it in terms of “adding” rather than “replacing”, which is interesting. When I came over to kbin (RIP) in the APIcalypse, it coincided with leaving Reddit. I had no intention of using both. I can understand how treating Lemmy as an extra social media platform might change how you feel about it vs. dropping something else.

We almost always talk about fediverse platforms in terms of which centralized platform they’re an alternative to. Some proportion of people clearly don’t treat them that way. I wonder how you appeal to those groups. If they’re currently happy with an existing service, saying “It’s like that” isn’t necessarily going to get them to join the federated equivalent.

In short, are there any advantages of the fediverse for people who don’t have a problem with centralization?

High quality scan for anybody who wants to make memes or whatever: https://books.kolbe.org/cdn/shop/products/2116_The_Parables_of_Jesus_Text_Page_5.jpg

Not even fake, here’s a news story from 15 years ago featuring the same image: https://phys.org/news/2010-12-million-years-oxygen-drove-evolution.html

That’s eight years before Among Us was released. I checked archive.org as well because … well, it’s sus. But they have captures there too, it’s not a backdated modern post.

It does, yeah. I’m not sure if there’s any advantages to Floorp’s implementation or anything else that makes it preferable to upstream or a more shallow fork.

Yeah, it’s a Firefox floork where the main differentiator is vertical tabs, IIRC.

The last subheading in the article is “Who cares?”, by which they mean “Which chimpanzees within the social group are responsible for providing medical care?” I didn’t notice the final section initially, so I thought I had reached the end of the article then there was just an exasperated large print:

Who cares?

You could try something like a network filter that is out of the control of the user (e.g. on the router or something like a Raspberry Pi running Pihole), but you’d probably have to curate the blocklist manually, unless somebody else has published an anti-LLM list somewhere. And of course, it will only be as effective as the user’s ability to route around that blocklist dictates.

LLMs can also be run locally, so blocking all known network services that provide access still won’t prevent a dedicated user talking to an AI.

I wonder how Konami decided which of their licensed beat-'em-ups did or didn’t get console ports. In order of release, they go …

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1989 arcade, 1990 NES)
• The Simpsons (1991 arcade)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time (1991 arcade, 1992 SNES)
• X-Men (1992 arcade)
• Asterix (1992 arcade)

Maybe the answer is just “TMNT was a juggernaut”? The Simpsons was extremely early in its run (mid-season 2) when the game launched. The X-Men cartoon hadn’t even started yet. Asterix is just aggressively European. The games probably all did well, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the TMNT titles eclipsed them in earnings.

I don’t think it’s a hardware capability thing, or we wouldn’t have console versions of the TMNT games, either. While the SNES hardware is obviously less capable than the original arcade cab, many consider the SNES port of Turtles in Time to be definitive. There’s no reason Simpsons couldn’t have been similar.

In a two-party system like the US, assuming all supporters of a particular candidate share their ideals is folly. There’s a major difference between being someone who actively describes themself as a “moderate” or “centrist” and somebody who just happens to be a voter in a flawed democracy.