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  • Arguably, the fix should be to "it" since anon is a utility account, not a user.

  • Hot take: It’s okay if we don’t consume all of the world’s information before we die
  • footnote 3: And by extension: any feature that speeds up the audio or video we consume

    I disagree that speeding up something is the same thing at all. Playing something at a constant rate (faster or slower) still maintains the editorial choices that the author was talking about.

    I speed up plenty of things I listen to, and it's not (primarily) to get through them quicker.

    Across the world it's the case that city folk tend to speak quicker than their rural countrymen. American speak slower, on average, than Brits. And that's fine! However, I find it hard to maintain focus when the speech is too slow - so speeding it up allows me to enjoy it like intended.

    I definitely agree that the trim silence feature sound awful.

  • Yo , tell me something?
  • In Deep Space 9, Jake Sisko (the station commander's son) is a journalist for the Federation News Service. There's a good episode where he ends up in a war zone and the story covers cowardice and PTSD.

  • What is your socially unacceptable guilty indulgence?
  • This a great answer in a sea of slightly odd food choices. It's healthy for kids to do this, apparently.

  • UK pledges $416 million to buy 10,000 drones for Ukraine
  • Those marine drones are five and a half metres long - so they're like speedboats, not those little hovering ones or those enormous UAVs.

  • Cannabis cravings: Why smoking weed makes you hungry
  • I assume it's just a coincidental interaction. I mean, it's not like yeast wants us to get drunk [citation needed].

  • Virtue Signalling
  • I'm happily oblivious much of to (I assume) US politics, so I'm going to read this as if you're talking about Magic the Gathering.

  • Japan’s moon landing picture might be the space photo of the decade
  • TIL that Takara Tomy (the company that made the Transformers toys) designed the Transformable Lunar Robot LEV-2, aka Sora-Q ("sky sphere"):

  • Idea for niche communities
  • I think part of the problem is that even when you're subscribed to the small communities, it's easy to miss the posts. Sorting by Scaled helps a little, but I still often find a post from days ago that I missed.

    I'd like an option where you could "super subscribe" or something which makes those posts show up first, or even in the inbox.

  • Anyone else a fan of Bevy?
  • I've enjoyed what I've done with it so far, which is mostly little wasm projects. Once they finally get a proper editor I think it'll really pick up adopters.

  • Would changing useragent to chrome cause me problems?
  • No, it'll be fine 99% of the time.

    Nowadays, feature detection is done within browsers, and the differences between browsers are small enough that servers generally will serve the same version of a page to all.

  • Valve's taken down Portal 64, a passion project to demake Portal for the Nintendo 64
  • The fact that it's Nintendo's IP seems the key thing here.

    So did Nintendo get Valve to do this, or is Valve just covering its back from the notoriously-litigious Nintendo?

  • 28 Years Later in Development as Sequel to Beloved Zombie Classic, And it Could be a Trilogy - Report
  • Maybe it'll be like the final episode of Attack on Titan where the last season was split into multiple parts, and the final part was split into multiple chapters. Was it also a two partner? It got stupid, anyway.

  • Atuin is an open-source shell command history app for Linux with syncing, unlimited history, and with contextual search
  • Ah, ok, that makes more sense. That also solves any ordering problem if you, say, you're running local and elsewhere commands and a sync means pressing up gives you an unexpected item.

  • Atuin is an open-source shell command history app for Linux with syncing, unlimited history, and with contextual search
  • Sync seems like it's going to be more pain than its worth unless you have all your machines configured the same. I'm not even running the same distros between machines...

  • The "10,000-hour rule" was debunked again. That’s a relief.
  • I like this author's attitude. I scoffed a bit when I read about "joy that can be found in mediocrity" but he's right that you can (and should) just do something because you enjoy it or it's good for you.

  • Heroic USA
  • They sold that stuff to the Brits (the £27bn in today's money was only finally paid off in 2006).

    If memory serves, the US were also supplying the Nazis at the start of the war.

    I agree that US involvement was vital to winning WW2, but the idea that they won it themselves is pure American propaganda.

  • FOSS Games are actually pretty good!
  • I've just installed this from your recommendation and it's brilliant. I love the amateur graphics, it just adds to the charm.

  • You SHOULD connect to Tor via a VPN, actually
  • Agreed - it's 25 minutes without filler or repetition. Good stuff.

  • Trust in nature – and stop raking up your garden leaves
  • I think you linked to the wrong page; that one's about the different types of roots and root systems.

  • US-Sino tensions help spawn China card game craze
    www.reuters.com US-Sino tensions help spawn China card game craze

    China's bankers and business executives have become increasingly reliant on domestic capital in recent years as foreign funding has dried up, but a popular way to unlock that cash may very well involve "throwing eggs".

    US-Sino tensions help spawn China card game craze

    cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/7415121

    > The game in question is Guandan, where you and your teammate try to make poker hands to discard your cards before the opposing pair does, which lets you level up. Teams can only win the entire match by reaching level A while avoiding having the player who discards all cards last. > > The game looks interesting, has anyone played?

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    US-Sino tensions help spawn China card game craze
    www.reuters.com US-Sino tensions help spawn China card game craze

    China's bankers and business executives have become increasingly reliant on domestic capital in recent years as foreign funding has dried up, but a popular way to unlock that cash may very well involve "throwing eggs".

    US-Sino tensions help spawn China card game craze

    The game in question is Guandan, where you and your teammate try to make poker hands to discard your cards before the opposing pair does, which lets you level up. Teams can only win the entire match by reaching level A while avoiding having the player who discards all cards last.

    The game looks interesting, has anyone played?

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    Canadian lake chosen to represent start of the Anthropocene
    www.theguardian.com Canadian lake chosen to represent start of Anthropocene

    Nuclear bomb fallout marks dawn of new epoch in which humanity dominates planet

    Canadian lake chosen to represent start of Anthropocene

    AI summary:

    > Scientists have chosen Crawford Lake, near Toronto, Canada as the site to mark the beginning of the Anthropocene epoch. Sediments in the lake show clear spikes in plutonium from nuclear tests and particles from fossil fuel burning starting in the 1950s, indicating the massive impact of human activity on the planet. The presence of plutonium isotopes from H-bomb tests in the lake sediments provides a stark indicator that humanity has become a dominant force shaping the Earth. If approved, the Crawford Lake site will officially declare the start of the Anthropocene in 2024, testifying to the scale of planetary transformation unleashed by industrialized humanity like the climate crisis.

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    What do you use to track your reading?

    I'm still on Goodreads but it's so slow, the app's just an even slower webview of the site and the redesign has made me have to click more to do what I want.

    What's the alternative? Obviously we're on the fediverse and I see people talking about Bookwyrm.

    I used Anobii till 2010 and I can't remember why I left but it's still there. I've poked StoryGraph a bit but it was lacking several of the books I wanted to add.

    There must be more! What do you use/recommend?

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    Deebster Deebster @beehaw.org

    It's nice here, but a bit under-federated. Other @Deebsters are available.

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