Skip Navigation

InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)Y

Yaky

@ Yaky @slrpnk.net

Posts
4
Comments
270
Joined
1 yr. ago

  • NSFW Deleted

    Permanently Deleted

    Jump

  • When I read books, picturing everything in my head is a part of the enjoyment. Often, books describe senses and feelings that would be more difficult to portray in images or video. Some examples:

    Right now, I am reading Ancillary Justice (by Ann Leckie), and the main character (who is the narrator) has difficulty with recognizing gender, so, unless explicitly stated, it is up to me to decide how characters look. Also, main character controls multiple bodies at once, and some paragraphs are full of parallel events and thoughts.

    Annihilation (by Jeff Vandermeer) has a movie adaptation, but it's different from the book. The book goes deeper into the main characters own thoughts, concerns and regrets. It also describes smells and physical senses quite often, and the creature the main character encounters evokes emotions more so than just a description. And throughout the story, in addition to the general eeriness of Area X, there is just a feeling of being lost. (I should give credit that It Follows does the uneasy feeling really well, too)

    And just to be annoying, I can extrapolate your logic to "video does not show what happens around the camera, VR is better", and "VR does not bring the senses of touch, smell, and heat, fully immersive simulators are better" :)

  • AI Annoucements (Art by Smooth Dunk)

    Jump

  • What's the opposite of Poe's law? I see an article like this and I can only interpret it as satire.

    It’s a chatbot that encourages people to tap, tap, tap on hand-held small screens as they watch films on a big one. Users gain access to exclusive trivia and witticisms in real time (synced with what’s happening in the movie).

    So like live-tweeting (why was that a thing?) but with bots. Got it.

  • Deleted

    Permanently Deleted

    Jump

  • forcing the prosecutor to move to Proton Mail, a Swiss email provider

    Whose CEO publicly stated that "Republicans remain more likely to tackle Big Tech abuses". Oh, the irony.

  • Google Says iPhone Adoption Of RCS Has Led Users To Share 'More Than A Billion' Messages Daily, Yet SMS/MMS Still Reign Supreme In The U.S.

    Jump

  • I run GrapheneOS and can send RCS to both Androids and iPhones mostly without issues. But then, my GrapheneOS is still the actively supported version, so I don't know what will happen in a few years.

    The only reason I have Google Messages is for RCS.

  • How I view others in social media

    Jump

  • I am the same way, if I write something, I try to make it a complete, and informative statement.

    IMO this trend started with Twitter 10+ years ago, where short messages were equivalent of shouting into the crowd, and more frequent shouts got more retweets. Then there was the trend of "first" comments, glad that is mostly gone.

  • What is iNaturalist? The citizen science app playing an unlikely role in Erin Patterson’s mushroom murder trial

    Jump

  • Slighty altered:

    when prosecutors reportedly alleged the murderer used Google Maps to locate and visit places where handguns were known to be sold.

    Sounds kinda dumb, doesn't it? Once again, a lesser known app gets a portion of the blame because of shitty people.

    P.S. I use iNaturalist and greatly appreciate all the people who correct my identifications.

  • Republicans say EVs don’t pay their fair share. Here’s the math. | With new fees, EV and hybrid owners would pay much more annually than the drivers of gas cars

    Jump

  • Lived in Ohio, had that BS. My PHEV (which still uses gas for long trips) was taxed additional $200 a year, same as an EV.

    My calculations came out to something similar - at ~15,000 mi driven a year and optimal battery use, I paid about the same as a car/truck with 20-25MPG. That is the MPG my first car, a 90s sedan, got.

    Real incentives for efficiency and progress. /s

  • Android’s next big feature turns your phone into a desktop

    Jump
    • postmarketOS for older mainstream phones
    • Librem 5
    • PinePhone and PinePhone Pro
    • FuriLabs FLX1
    • Liberux Nexx (upcoming)

  • Using AI in Coding

    Jump

  • Just yesterday, saw a fairly long article on how to properly train an LLM to send short email replies, and the time the guy wasted on prompts and writing the article would have been enough for a hundred responses.

    I still read HN, but I swear, they are in their own world at times.

  • I have used Windows all my life, and I have some questions.

    Jump

  • .NET applications using .NET Core or later are intended to be cross-platform, so technically, Linux can run .NET apps. (The use-case I know is running .NET sites on Linux servers)

  • Short summary of feature phone market in 2025

    Jump

  • Not looking for a dumbphone at the moment, but

    There’s a KaiOS jailbreaking community ... I’ve seen an XMPP client and a Matrix one too.

    This is good and opens up a path for using other messengers via bridges.

  • Elon Musk: your new Tesla will drive from the factory floor, to your house 'this year'

    Jump

  • Right... My favorite "promise" so far was the Tesla SpaceX edition (with rocket boosters or microjets or some shit, IDK doesn't make sense) and die-hard fans defending this PR stunt as "the car that might fly".

  • Quick everyone, prevent a warning text or something

    Jump

  • I don't find it difficult, and have enjoyed sxmo on the PinePhone. I understand the suckless approach, but I do have to admit that many people that I know, even tech-savvy ones, probably would not want to rebuild to configure something.

  • Quick everyone, prevent a warning text or something

    Jump

  • To configure most suckless tools you need to... recompile them. The readme says:

    Because dwm is customized through editing its source code, it's pointless to make binary packages of it. This keeps its userbase small and elitist. No novices asking stupid questions.

    But if you are trying to compile suckless tools, you are already in too deep.

  • how do I avoid becoming conformist, lazy and completely incapable of learning something new?

    Jump

  • I knew a guy in his 30s that has similar attitudes: thinks that his ways and opinions are the only valid ones, thinks he is smarter than most people, has instant assumptions about people based on appearance, and does not take criticism well.

    From talking to him, I would say that to avoid becoming someone like him:

    • Do not define yourself in terms of work or money. Yes, most people need a job to pay bills to live. But find a hobby, passion, or charity that you like. Trying to make / hustle / gamble money for the sake of a larger number in your account (with no other goal) is honestly sad.
    • No one is out to get you. Stop seeking enemies or blaming problems on others.
    • Do not make IRL opinions from online "content" (I don't even wanna know which subreddits and YouTube people this guy follows) Interact with real people.
    • If your friends are repeatedly calling you out on questionable or insensitive actions and opinions, listen and think for a minute.

  • when did they bring back the "clear all" button

    Jump

  • GrapheneOS has it on the very left (as shown above), which requires scrolling, modern Samsung and IIRC older LineageOS has it on the bottom, always visible.

  • What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts?

    Jump

  • It also works as a weather provider for Gadgetbridge!

  • What programs do you wish a good FOSS alternative existed, but doesn't or most of the FOSS alternatives simply aren't good?

    Jump

  • I have been using OpenSCAD to make models for 3D-printing. I know this is a specific use case, and I have no experience with the "real" CAD software, but OpenSCAD makes sense to me as a programmer.

  • What programs do you wish a good FOSS alternative existed, but doesn't or most of the FOSS alternatives simply aren't good?

    Jump

  • You might be interested in postmarketOS They try to mainline older Android devices. It works pretty well on the PinePhone, too.

    As far as I understand, the hardware-adaptive part is difficult to implement because ARM systems do not have automatic hardware detection like x86/x64 PCs do, so the hardware list (tree) has to be known for each device, that hardware is mostly proprietary and requires proprietary drivers. All of which results in Android phones using different per-phone-model kernels.