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m1gu3lon VRchat bans mods, embraces EAC

On the internet “most people” are an imaginary statistic we toss around thinking it means anything.

m1gu3lon A 1968 massacre in Vietnam

nice story but lord is Twitter awful for stuff like this.

m1gu3lon Plano man keeping Blockbuster alive

now i want to see a GPT-3 based "Dave" wrapper-ui for netflix/hulu

m1gu3lon Next-generation AI models

> I'm just describing what all programmers have done since the beginning of time

m1gu3lon Recession means less work from home, managers can now dictate their terms

convenient

m1gu3lon Nintendo Nemesis Max Louarn: Hacker, Rebel, and Wanted by the FBI

Discord will probably get you next to some script kiddies but i doubt anyone serious is on there.

m1gu3lon Nintendo Nemesis Max Louarn: Hacker, Rebel, and Wanted by the FBI

shaking your fist in anger at the moon

m1gu3lon Dear Spotify, can we just get a table of songs?

> "But what have we lost?!"

make a comment or thread about spotify/pandora/tidal and sit back and wait to see how long it takes for some “audiophile” to come along and to admonish you and tell you a story about their setup and music appreciation “workflow” and how it is better and somehow more correct.

we lost nothing. it is all still here. and, apparently, the added bonus of droves of sweaty people telling you you’re doing it wrong. life is grand.

m1gu3lon The Modern Gamer's Guide to Running Morrowind

Ok. we will be sure to consult with you before actualizing any nostalgia or imagined nostalgia to make sure we are getting it just right. Lol.

m1gu3lon My NDA is expired. It's worse than you know, AMA

> Like it's their job. The last thing they're gonna want to do on their time off is play it.

this is maybe why i have played more terraria and noita this year than Halo and GTAV. different strokes and all that, and i get that the triple A stuff demands larger staff with more diverse interests but sometimes it is nice to play stuff where the passion and focus of the devs is concentrated… and they play the game they are making.

m1gu3lon Brooklyn Public Library offers access to banned ebooks to teens across the U.S

I remember reading the first chapter and just writing the shortest possible essay i could based on that chapter reading and some janky synopsis I found online. Just couldn’t read that one at 16. I did read Man’s search for meaning (Viktor Frankl) in my late twenties and enjoyed it so maybe I should go back and give night another try now that I feel less depressed.

m1gu3lon Success and Failure at Pebble

Ha I had one of these and used it for like a day before it went in to the junk drawer. Cool idea though.

m1gu3lon Why we’ve canceled flights, and what we are doing to get back on track

Not alaska air but: Currently stuck from a flight canceled on Saturday, next available flight out is Thursday night. I’ve gone through every state of rage and have settled on just never flying again when i get home.

m1gu3lon Ask HN: Do you still monitor your SSL certificate validity?

At work yes. At home certbot does it’s thang.

m1gu3lon Ask HN: What are IoT's do and don't?

vlan with firewall rules to block it from the rest of you network. look at traffic logs every once in a while to see if anything weird is going on.

m1gu3lon Ask HN: Why do Americans speak about family by their names, like we know them?

“Why bother having any non-transactional conversation at all?”

lol this seems so wildly tone deaf. Good luck OP!

m1gu3lon Blade Runner RPG

Honestly I mostly come here to laugh at everyone complaining at everyone and “constructively” shaming others for one thing or the other. This is a prickly lot to say it in the absolutely kindest way.

m1gu3lon Ask HN: What do you think is all this? (this reality, existence, space-time, us)

The absurd dream of a sentient universe scale alien consciousness or a really bad series of jokes.

m1gu3lon Twitter is adding an edit button

Y’all REALLY care about Twitter and it is adorable.

m1gu3lon White House to extend student loan pause through August

I agree but then we should also shut down 80% of post HS education or at least stop promoting it with predatory loans.

m1gu3lon $44.52 is the average price of an 1/8th of cannabis in the US

No and please don’t normalize this. This isn’t a tipping service/industry let us not turn it in to one.

m1gu3lon Albini pitching Nirvana: “I would like to be paid like a plumber” (1992)

Respect for not wanting to take points and being straight up about his idea of a reasonable compensation.

m1gu3lon Positive Drug Tests Among U.S. Workers Hit Two-Decade High

US wants you fully awake, conscious, and sober for all the fun.

m1gu3lon The worst part of working from home is now haunting reopened offices

doubt the playstation kid is one of the office people, more likely a cube or open work area

m1gu3lon Twitter support tells user to try innocuous action and see if she gets banned

at a certain point wouldn’t you say ‘screw it do i really need Twitter’?

m1gu3lon Why People Are Acting So Weird

it’s free entertainment.

m1gu3lon “World’s best” Guitar Hero player was a cheat

This seems more sensible than freaking out and throwing the whole person away over this nonsense. Sorry for misunderstanding.

m1gu3lon “World’s best” Guitar Hero player was a cheat

so he cheats at a guitar video game and all of a sudden he isn't chill or cool to hang out with... i mean, ok.

m1gu3lon My own phone number is now spam texting me

semi related: is anyone else seeing hotmail addresses bypass apples ios known number feature?

m1gu3lon I hate what video games have become

Drivel. Don’t like it don’t play it. If i have to read one more person complaining about micro-transactions I will puke. Ffs go outside.