[-] Deebster@lemmyrs.org 14 points 1 year ago

Darmok and Jalad on the ocean.

[-] Deebster@lemmyrs.org 28 points 1 year ago

I've been using Kagi for two months and I'm loving it - the ability to control your results is amazing. Some things I do:

  • remove or downrate things like pinterest and w3schools from my results
  • rewrite www.reddit.com/* to old.reddit.com/*
  • rewrite to send some sources through archive.today or similar to break paywalls
  • rewrite to set the language of some sites that GeoIP my location but ignore my language headers

Also, having keyboard controls - like Google used to have - is so welcome, and their AI summarisation tools are actually useful too.

[-] Deebster@lemmyrs.org 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What's this easy fix then? Just a lower number? That will just mean more publishers.

AI detection tools don't work, and humans aren't much better, unless they're subject experts. How do we stop AI books?

[-] Deebster@lemmyrs.org 19 points 1 year ago

I can only answer the first part: .jxl

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Deebster@lemmyrs.org to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

I want to mount some B2 buckets on Linux for read/write access. What do people recommend?

s3fs, rclone or GeeseFS seem to be the sensible choices, but please share your hard-won opinions with me.

edit: or goofys?

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Deebster@lemmyrs.org to c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works

This ~~month~~ week's free game is Spelldrifter:

Introducing Spelldrifter, a hybrid tactical role playing game and deck building game that features the best parts of both! Spelldrifter combines the puzzle-like positional tactics of a turn-based RPG battle with the deep customizability and replayability of a collectible card game. The result: a hybrid, wherein players must juggle the resources at their disposal using both time and space.

With Spelldrifter's innovative Tick System, players are challenged to think of card game strategy in a new light. With each character action, the turns interweave on a single timeline. With mastery of the timeline, players gain great advantage in battle and earn the satisfaction of decisive victory. Select your party of heroes, build your decks, and embark on an adventure deep into Starfall as you search for the entrance to the mysterious Labyrinth!

Has anyone played it?

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[-] Deebster@lemmyrs.org 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

socialism confirmed to be effective at the atomic scale, got it.

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[-] Deebster@lemmyrs.org 21 points 1 year ago

Yes, toothbrushes live uncomfortably close to the loo in my house too.

A friend gave me some light banter about closing the lid = under my wife's thumb but it's absolutely about me attempting to keep the toilet business contained to the toilet!

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cross-posted from: https://lemmyrs.org/post/257873

This seems like something that should be true, but I think I remember seeing a Mythbusters episode where they decided it didn't make a difference. That show was more about entertainment than science, so I wondered if there was a more rigorous study done? I've definitely seen splashes of water(?) come out from flushes so that alone seems to argue for closing lids.

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This seems like something that should be true, but I think I remember seeing a Mythbusters episode where they decided it didn't make a difference. That show was more about entertainment than science, so I wondered if there was a more rigorous study done? I've definitely seen splashes of water(?) come out from flushes so that alone seems to argue for closing lids.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Deebster@lemmyrs.org to c/mapporn@lemmy.world

For non mathematicians, ABS() returns the absolute (i.e. positive) value of a number, e.g. abs(5) = 5 = abs(-5)

[-] Deebster@lemmyrs.org 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

From the first paragraph:

And best of all, NASA says it will be “ad-free, no cost, and family-friendly”

Looks like you're one of those who just assumes they know what a story's about after glancing at the link title...

[-] Deebster@lemmyrs.org 17 points 1 year ago

I'm really glad they don't! There's so many ways to ask for a link to open in a new tab, but it's much harder to make links open in the same tab once target=_blank is set.

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[-] Deebster@lemmyrs.org 11 points 1 year ago

They do seem almost too good to be true. I might use those for when I want lots of little, disposable servers (like regional game servers) but I'd be scared trusting critical stuff to them.

On the other hand, https://lowendtalk.com/ users seem to have rated them highly (not that I'd heard of that site before today either!).

Overall, definitely worth the risk at that price, thanks for the heads up.

[-] Deebster@lemmyrs.org 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The line breaks haven't worked, here's it formatted correctly:

Explanation: it's mostly due to how js does type conversion.

For the Ls, it's:

  • [] is an empty array
  • ![] is treated as false
  • combining a boolean with the empty array returns "false" as a string (so true + [] = "true", false + [] = "false")
  • ! + [] is treated as true
  • ! + [] + ! + [] is treated as 2 since true + true = 1 + 1 = 2
  • so you have "false"[2], which is l

for the o it's:

  • [] is an empty array
  • [] + {} returns "[object Object]" as a string ({} + [] returns 0)
  • ![] is false
  • !![] is true
  • +!![] casts it to an integer
  • so that part is "[object Object]"[1], which returns "o"-
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Ruffle, a Flash Player emulator built in Rust, is being used on archive.org to allow modern browsers access to classics like n, All Your Base, Weebl and Bob, Strong Bag Emails, Happy Tree Friends and many more.

Jason Scott writes:

Thanks to efforts by volunteers Nosamu and bai0, the Internet Archive's flash emulation just jumped generations ahead.

Mute/Unmute works. The screen resizes based on the actual animation's information. And for a certain group who will flip their lid:

We can do multi-swf flash now!

A pile of previously "broken" flashes will join the collection this week.

[-] Deebster@lemmyrs.org 19 points 1 year ago

These are all brilliant

[-] Deebster@lemmyrs.org 11 points 1 year ago

I can only pray that that's some (bad) ORM-generated code because that's the only way I can bear to keep breathing.

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