colin

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[–] colin@lemmy.uninsane.org 4 points 2 weeks ago

just heads up if you're getting captchas on YT you'll probably start getting those on other Google services over time too.

it snowballs like this: YouTube decides you're a bot => you use less YouTube => Google/Alphabet gets less information/fingerprints of you => Google Search decides you're a bot => you switch to a different search engine => Google Maps decides you're a robot ...

[–] colin@lemmy.uninsane.org 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

how to piss off your garbage man:

  1. place garbage outside bins.
  2. obstruct all paths to the garbage bins.
  3. stack garbage so it's impossible to lift any bin without spilling its contents.

you better be tipping him real good or he gonna leave you

[–] colin@lemmy.uninsane.org 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

bruh keep this twitter-style discourse over on twitter, or why are you even here.

[–] colin@lemmy.uninsane.org 88 points 4 months ago (3 children)

if you're arguing that violence is a poor way by which to shape a society, preach that to the police. it's literally what they do for a living.

[–] colin@lemmy.uninsane.org 3 points 5 months ago

they probably meant 512 Gb per IC, not per DIMM (which usually has 8-9 DRAM chips).

you're right about that last part though.

[–] colin@lemmy.uninsane.org 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

i think "autistic" would be perfect, as there's a reasonable case that Frieren is neurodivergent (at least by human standards).

anyway @jerkface@lemmy.ca, i will tag my posts more once Lemmy has better tagging. right now at the post-level it's just NSFW or not NSFW, and the sidebar's pretty clear IMO on where that line's to be drawn. at the comment level, there's only block-level spoilers, with no way to spoiler individual words. my honest advice if it bothers you is to get in contact with the devs and discuss better features around that. this isn't meant as a dismissal: the nice thing about stuff like Lemmy v.s. reddit is that you actually can speak with the devs just by searching the software on GitHub and then joining the chatroom(s) linked from the readme.

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[–] colin@lemmy.uninsane.org 2 points 7 months ago

i keep my music organized on-disk so that each song is placed at <artist>/<album>/<track-number>-<title>.flac. then i just use any file browser (e.g. rofi, or portfolio) to navigate it, and when i select a song it opens in mpv. i installed the playlistmanager mpv script so that when i open any song, mpv queues everything else in that folder (so if i open track 01, the default behavior is gapless playback of the whole album). i also installed the uosc script, which provides a UI that's much friendlier than the default IMO.

i find i prefer configuring just one media player and then using that for everything (music, audiobooks, videos, podcasts, etc). then for example when i decide i want to cast music to my TV, i only have to solve that once, and not separately for casting youtube, local videos, etc.

[–] colin@lemmy.uninsane.org 10 points 9 months ago

i want this to be true.

but it's probably just the TA who's using it.

[–] colin@lemmy.uninsane.org 2 points 9 months ago

My head cannon

intentional or not, the image fits 👍

[–] colin@lemmy.uninsane.org 2 points 9 months ago

if it read "what's the problem", i'd agree. otherwise, i'll toss it to whoever's well-versed in Chicago speech styles. perhaps the passive-aggressiveness of Seattle is coloring my view 🙃

[–] colin@lemmy.uninsane.org 18 points 9 months ago (2 children)

half of the clergy said "what's your problem", which would usually mean "the answer to whatever you just asked is so obviously 'no' that you're a bad person just for asking it: what's your problem". i have to respect that some topics are simply off-limits for some people: if you're going to someone asking for advice about a moral quandary and their convictions are strong enough they don't wanna discuss the topic beyond "hell no", i don't fault them for that.

[–] colin@lemmy.uninsane.org 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

in my head, there's a direct causal chain:

  1. the court presents me with the accusation and the evidence.
  2. i declare if the evidence supports the accusation.
  3. the judge declares a punishment in response to that verdict.
  4. law enforcement delivers the punishment.

if i believe (3) and (4) will function as stated, then it's equally accurate to say that in step 2 i am deciding whether or not to confiscate $250,000 from this mother and cancel her home internet connection.

but a huge number of people i present this to refuse to admit that equivalence. there is some question about whether weakening the norm might cause more damage than mistreating the mother, but does that even weaken the point? the common answer from those who bring it up is "there's too much uncertainty to say": build a complex enough machine, and people are eager to deny the downstream effects of their actions.

(you can overcome most of the degradation-of-norms issue by making this a secret hearing, and still a lot of people will hesitate to admit the equivalence between their verdict in step 2 and the effects of step 3/4)

 
 
 
 
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