synthsalad

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[–] synthsalad@mycelial.nexus 7 points 1 year ago

My answer is the original BioShock, just like OP. The story, setting, soundtrack, and overall vibe made a lasting impact on me.

[–] synthsalad@mycelial.nexus 3 points 1 year ago

The “National Guitar” line is even more clever than first appears since there were also literal National guitars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_String_Instrument_Corporation

[–] synthsalad@mycelial.nexus 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Wikipedia article has these relevant quotes from the court opinion:

The question is thus whether the Betamax is capable of commercially significant noninfringing uses ... one potential use of the Betamax plainly satisfies this standard, however it is understood: private, noncommercial time-shifting in the home.[7] [...] [W]hen one considers the nature of a televised copyrighted audiovisual work... and that time-shifting merely enables a viewer to see such a work which he had been invited to witness in its entirety free of charge, the fact... that the entire work is reproduced... does not have its ordinary effect of militating against a finding of fair use.[8]

[–] synthsalad@mycelial.nexus 133 points 1 year ago (6 children)

In 1984, this issue made it all the way to the US Supreme Court, which ultimately decided that recording television to tape using a VCR for personal use (“timeshifting”) is fair use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Corp._of_America_v._Universal_City_Studios,_Inc.

[–] synthsalad@mycelial.nexus 1 points 1 year ago

You’re welcome!

[–] synthsalad@mycelial.nexus 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A free, open-source app that does this system wide on macOS: https://github.com/rknightuk/TrackerZapper

[–] synthsalad@mycelial.nexus 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Alpine.

I’m a longtime Arch user, and would have preferred to use Arch on a particular system, but didn’t want to deal with needing to babysit ZFS packages from AUR.

So, I decided to use Alpine after never having tried it before, and ended up sticking with it. Like Arch, it’s both lightweight and has a capable/sensible package manager, which are the main things that are important to me.

I haven’t had any growing pains from Alpine’s use of busybox/musl/openrc, things mostly Just Work!

[–] synthsalad@mycelial.nexus 6 points 2 years ago

I self-host https://miniflux.app/ and it has been working great for my needs.

[–] synthsalad@mycelial.nexus 2 points 2 years ago

White Christmas, which was written by Irving Berlin, who was Jewish!

I like it because of how intricately the melody is written. It ebbs and flows perfectly against the chord progression and feels much closer to a jazz standard than most other Christmas songs.

[–] synthsalad@mycelial.nexus 2 points 2 years ago

Endless Sky is open-source, completely free, and might be what you’re looking for!

[–] synthsalad@mycelial.nexus 3 points 2 years ago

AI does not require a raise for doing something right either

Well, not yet. Imagine if reward functions evolve into being paid with real money.

[–] synthsalad@mycelial.nexus 20 points 2 years ago (4 children)

From Ricky Mondello, who works on passkeys at Apple: “If it’s device-bound, it’s not a passkey”:

https://hachyderm.io/@rmondello/111188643228872151

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