bardan

I think I get this sometimes, lying on my back falling to sleep. What feels like an "electric shock" hitting me between the eyes and jolting me awake.

I used to bind 'jk' to escape but it led to a few problems, in particular I would compulsively use jk as escape on remote systems I hadn't configured myself. In the end I realized I didn't mind ctrl-[ and have used that since.

In the past they have done week long SSTV events, often over the Christmas / New Year period. They haven't had a long one in a while as the SSTV unit was malfunctioning, but just a couple of weeks ago they did a successful test so I think they might do another long one soon.

The broadcasts are very loud and you can pick them up with a basic hand-held radio using the provided antenna. If anybody's interested, get a radio capable of listening to the 2m amateur band (specifically 145.8 MHz), a satellite tracker app (eg. Look4Sat for Android) and preferably a way to record what you hear. Later you can decode the transmission with a program like MMSSTV or QSSTV. You can decode it live but I feel safer getting a good recording. The ARISS-SSTV images blog [0] is what I check to see when an event is coming up.

Bit of trivia is that the SSTV unit was brought up to the ISS by (or at least with) Richard Garriott, who created Ultima and sent out some of the first SSTV images.

[0] https://ariss-sstv.blogspot.com/

The endless open world / survival / scavenger games are all like this for me. You learn the ropes, start playing well, and after a while go "now what?" In Rust for example people seem to wind up mindlessly picking off new players, or blowing up peoples bases to steal materials so they can... make explosives to blow up peoples bases.

I don't use AdNauseam but I have been thinking about it more lately, not out of malice but because I wonder if it's simply a more efficient way of preventing trackers from learning about me than by standard blocking. I am concerned no amount of blocking is going to cut it, and there will always be little leaks of my data. If I stop trying to hide from them and instead jam their systems with as much noise as possible, maybe they will have less useful information about me than if I continue to hide while dropping inevitable, accidental breadcrumbs.

Yeah this is what bothers me. Any argument that has an innate, automatic means of dismissing criticism is innately worth dismissing automatically.

I suppose the leaders and associated militaries of these countries would beg to differ.

Yeah. I feel like Western cinema right now could use a movement like the Pinky movies of 80's/90's Japan - cheap, titillating, often thoughtful art movies that were also basically softcore pornography.

I appreciate the work good mods put in but I'm only loyal to the concepts of my favourite subs, or to the people who post on them. I don't know of anything online like /r/signalidentification, for instance, and I'll continue to go there in the future even if the blackout has given me a chance to move back from Reddit as a whole.

> Maybe the musicians who just do studio work have to start touring instead.

No more value in composition, only in live performance? What if you're a great composer but not much of a performer? Most people remember The Beatles for their studio work.

Sometimes people say "you only hate TikTok because it's a foreign company doing it better than American social media". Maybe that's right, maybe TikTok is just doing it better than American social media platforms, but what have we been saying about American social media for the last decade? (generally not positive things)

Maybe at some point this was all going to hit some kind of threshold where it is just no longer reasonable to call the effects of social media a net good. Maybe TikTok has passed that threshold. We can give them a trophy for that, but then plan some ways to finally restrict social media's addictive and anxiety-provoking qualities.

So restrictions on infinite scroll, or require the user to actually press a button before the next video starts. I'm sure there are a lot of ideas, and people more qualified than me to suggest them, but I think these two alone would be reasonable restrictions.

It disturbs me that TikTok being a Chinese company is being used right now as an excuse as to why these social media platforms shouldn't be made to change their deliberately addictive designs.

A counterpoint would be the Encyclopaedia Dramatica article for Australia (or any other developed country).

just a little joke

    A) is the thing maybe gonna intersect with the thing?

    B) how much does the thing intersect with the thing?

    C) move the things so they aren't intersecting.

I don't know, the author might go into more detail.

> more like an old-school RPG soundtrack rather than a song

Well I'm just going to go ahead and pretend I didn't hear that.

At this point in time trades seem like a pretty good bet. They pay well (in my country at least), you will always have work, and the skills you develop are very practical. Nice to be able to look at an issue with your own living space and comprehend what it will take to get it fixed.

But that isn't a very hacker news response. I guess you would also develop these sorts of skills in eg. industrial engineering.

There are plenty of other options if what you're spooked about is automation and language models erradicating all of our jobs. If you enjoy baking you might consider getting into it.

On the other hand, it might be best to ignore all the hype about LLMs and automation and go into whatever you feel most passionate about. Learning and working in whatever field will always lead to growth. It may eventually be GPT'd away, but then I know a lot of people who have completely changed career later in life and achieved success and satisfaction.

I would assume a friend finding app would turn into a lowkey hookup app.

Lucas Pope's dev logs are great.

Friday Night Funkin' got pretty huge for a while there. Open source, too (not sure about the license) https://github.com/FunkinCrew/Funkin

Also, here is an official repo where you can look at proposed and accepted changes: https://github.com/HaxeFoundation/haxe-evolution

Sure, but the most interesting thing about the dogme movies is what they manage to do in spite of the restrictions, as you said. These are beautiful shots but they don't have anything specifically to do with those restrictions.

These are all great shots but they would be great in any film. The video doesn't demonstrate the idiosyncrasies of dogme films, like the restrictions on sound and lighting.

(Also was the soundtrack added just for this YouTube video, or is Lars Von Trier breaking his own rules?)

> (((:::)))

Is this a reference to something? Or an attempt to confuse potential AI commenters?

And don't forget that your selection is printed to stdout:

    git log --oneline | fzf | cowsay

Sky's the limit.

"And then I started to make money from people who were interested in my Twitter thread"? I like the concept but this doesn't seem very interesting.

I'm talking about a big red button "spam/harmful" rather than a personal preference list.

To be a little clearer: you have your own private filters and a separate, distributed block list shared amongst your friends, which is for bad content. You use the big red button when you encounter spam or harmful content, and this bad content/user/node/etc is added to the shared block list.

You initially trust all of your friends to use this block list properly, but if you find one of your friends is misusing it you can revoke trust from them and ignore their contributions.

How about you initially "trust" all of your friends. If one friend blacklists a bad actor, all their friends automatically blacklist them as well. If it turns out the friend blacklisted an innocent person out of spite or something, word should eventually get around and people can manually revoke trust from that friend.

She certainly doesn't. Always comes up with something unique and interesting.

If these networks were only being used to model other systems, like protein folding or something like that, people wouldn't be mistaking them for anything other than clever prediction engines.

Since they're modelling our own languages, people get spooked and start bringing up theory of mind.

dang!