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CarbonConscious [he/him]

@ CarbonConscious @hexbear.net

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  • Meditation

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  • I found this video to be a pretty interesting take. I brute-forced my way into zen-style mindfulness meditation years ago, and so now I don't have too much trouble just dropping back into it now, but this one suggests adding Om-chanting, which I think could be really helpful for someone struggling with getting started. Plus then you get to feel like a part of that real dope DOOM track too, so that's a bonus. https://youtu.be/DvuVhCIQgfQ

  • Liberals be like:

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  • Yeah just learned about Redot today.

    Oh a fork of Godot? Neato! Surely for a major technical reason or implementation beef.

    No, apparently Godot social media leaned into the accusation of "woke" and that was the split. So Redot is meant to be "non-political". Yay.

  • What dogshit game do you have a nostalgic soft spot for?

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  • Billy Bob's Huntin n Fishin on the GBC. One of the first games I bought for my Tommy Hilfiger GBC

  • How to make Karaoke tracks/videos?

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  • Also can we take a moment real quick to pour one out for Twitch Sings.

    Best free consumer grade karaoke software I've ever used (made by Harmonix no less) with a really strong library of tracks. Super good experience even if you never actually stream with it - we used to use it for house parties all the time and only occasionally live streamed our intoxicated debauchery onto the internet. A lot of those moments still get referenced in our friend group frequently, though sadly the actual vods got killed when they pulled the plug on the service a couple years back, so they live only in our collective memories now, as we lacked the collective foresight to archive them first.

    Really wish they would have let that live a little longer or bring it back, but obviously the licensing for all that music is certainly a nightmare (it had tons of disney stuff and Beatles tracks, wish they could have just rotated that stuff out at least).

  • How to make Karaoke tracks/videos?

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  • This is something I've been very interested in lately as well (though to be clear, have not done anything with yet).

    I love karaoke, but the bars never have the weird music I want to sing, and singing one song every 45 minutes if you're lucky can be a bit of a drag, so some kind of diy solution would be rad. Never have even been to a bar that would pull up the YouTube stuff lol.

    At one point I had one of those at-home karaoke stands that would cut the vocals out of any audio stream, and it did pretty ok at it, so that was tons of fun. Just plug your phone into it and pull up the Genius app (which can auto detect whats playing and do synced lyrics). That solution was 99% of what I wanted, just a slightly awkward piece of hardware in the middle. I've been dreaming about a piece of software that would do the same thing while being infinitely more flexible. Whatever hardware stuff it was doing for the audio, I'm sure we can do it in software, but I haven't found any other apps that do it so far.

    I do software by trade but haven't done anything with audio processing, so that part of it would be a new world for me, but the rest would be nbd. Definitely interested in contributing to that type of project.

  • Why Are New Appliances So Bad?

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  • !remindme 10 5 years

  • How do you come up with a strong password?

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  • Good info! And that's exactly what I meant - a word is weak, but several randomized words together is pretty crazy strong. Slightly less than random letters, but much easier to type in memorize when the situation calls for it.

  • How do you come up with a strong password?

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  • Another nugget I've heard, is if you include some random chunk in all of your passwords, like "*****" or something, even if it's predictable, just the sheer character count it adds already gives you a huge boost to entropy. At the end of the day, character count is king. (And the best way to remember long character count strings, especially when they are all unique per service, is a password manager. That's the actual real secret.)

  • How do you come up with a strong password?

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  • Ya know that's what they say, but I'm not so sure - is your dictionary-based brute-forcer doing strings of three words together? Allowing for interspersed special characters between? The sheer character length of three truly random dictionary words in a row is already staggeringly high amounts of entropy - I'm not sure I need to be worried about an attacker capable of that kind of sheer number-buggery.

  • There's an app called 'be my eyes' where you facetime blind folks to help them with tasks. Anyone use it?

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  • Reminds me though to launch it and keep it updated so they can actually come through though.

  • There's an app called 'be my eyes' where you facetime blind folks to help them with tasks. Anyone use it?

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  • I've had it installed for years, and I've only had 4-5 calls total, most didn't actually connect, and only one where I actually got to help someone. It was a nice older lady that needed help getting the cable box set to the right mode.

    10/10 very sweet idea. Seems like they have a lot more volunteers than actual users though.

  • shadow of the burger

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  • Well figure it out and let me know cuz that sounds cool lol.

  • shadow of the burger

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  • I mean sure big boss battles sounds cool too, but I'd be way more into a game playing as Mr. Bunyan, starting off as a regular woods-guy, but steadily growing bigger and bigger as your legendary appetite for flapjacks grows and you axe-ing abilities are sharpened.

    Even better, the industries grow and develop with you as you're able to supply them with an ever-increasing supply of lumber. Naturally though, you eventually get to the point where you are outstripping the regrowth programs, and you have to start wandering deeper into untamed wilds full of ever-more-vengeful crytpids that no longer have homes or natural resources to feed themselves and have turned to terrorizing human settlements to get by.

    In the end, Bunyan's connection to the wild allows him to realize the extent of the devastation he has wrought upon the land, and he realizes the only way for the natural balance to be restored is to stop the logging altogether, which naturally makes him the enemy of the insatiable appetites of the humans and their industry (acting as a narrative parrelel to his own pancake dependency), turning them against him and making for cool new lumber-mechas to battle in the last stage of the game.

    Even better, the player has the unspoken option to turn against human industry at any point in the game, but the battle gets harder and harder the longer you wait to pull the trigger, eventually just becoming nigh-impossible by the time the humans develop guns, bombs, drones etc. (The secret cheat code though is that you can collectivise and organize the other workers to join you and they can help you in the final struggle.)

    So basically it's Katamari Damaci but played out in a reverse-Zelda BotW progression structure.

  • YASD #27

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  • Timeless advice.

  • It came to me in a dream

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  • I mean to be fair, I think

    "he had a secret conversation"

    is a lot more forgiveable to believe than

    "he had a secret conversation\~\~\~frombeyondthegrave!!!\~\~\~"

  • Explaining conspiracy theories to an Amerikkkan. "Now imagine a burger..."

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  • Battle-tested? Like an F-35. [Full text inside]

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  • Idk if it was just my latent social anxiety interacting with that list of names or what, but those last few sentences were extremely hard to parse.

  • The Chad Guix hackers vs. the Artix treatlerites.

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  • } too late code blocks over, I'm outta scope now

  • The Chad Guix hackers vs. the Artix treatlerites.

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  • Could we maybe get some sexy, squiggly curlies { in there too?

  • Removed

    Terence Tao says ChatGPT helped him solve a MathOverflow problem and saved hours of manual coding

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  • Right? These kind of stories start to feel like the hunt for "good guy with a gun prevents a thing" stories, where it's like yeah, it does happen sometimes, but the cost of enabling it to happen is beyond catastrophic for the rest of us (and, of course, born mainly by society at large or even more acutely by vulnerable populations, rarely by the people also benefitting financially by the whole arrangement).