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mylasttour··on Pixel 11 doesn't yet meet the GrapheneOS security standards and may be skipped
My Pixel 3 is still going strong! :)
mylasttour··on Online Friends Are Real Friends
This felt incredibly warm to read, thank you for sharing.
mylasttour··on We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot
Before it was: "Shop for balding pills", Now it's going to be: "Your calendar indicates your mother's birthday is tomorrow, your album photos of her living room seem to indicate she likes elephants. In a past LLM conversation you mentioned she has trouble with technology. A good gift idea is the new Google Geminibook with this animal laptop skin. Add to cart?"
mylasttour··on Game devs explain the tricks involved with letting you pause a game
There used to be a funny bug in Dota 2:

While the game is paused, if a player were to click on the "level up" buttons for their skills, each click actually advanced the game by 1 frame - so it was possible for people to die etc. during a pause screen.

mylasttour··on Show HN: Claude Code skills that build complete Godot games
I think the point of this is to help people into creating full, "life-full" games. A person can use this as the boilerplate base game, so that they can focus on the narrative, designs, and adding specific and quirky mechanics that make the game feel like a full game.

It helps to not have to sink most of your initial motivation energy on setting up the most basic mechanics like player movement physics from scratch and demo level templates.

mylasttour··on I am rich and have no idea what to do
It's unfortunate that this is a good cautionary tale for women who choose to play the "unconditionally loving wife" role for boyfriends.
mylasttour··on Kokuhaku: Japan’s Love Confessing Culture (2013)
The successful, reliable format is right there in the beginning: Saying that one sentence face-to-face in private.

That's half the point of the article, that the culture is to follow that one clear format to avoid ambiguity, and that other formats are seen as creepy, privacy-invading, etc.

mylasttour··on With all social media fucking up severely, what's next?
Not OP, and not points that make Twitch "unusable", but some changes that make it unpleasant:

- Really pushing softcore porn by putting their icons in the sidebar and over home page by default (they disappear once your stream viewing history is something other, but default behavior is to recommend it to all)

- Adding more noise to chat: Obnoxious particle effects once "enough people pay money to Amazon", highlighted flashy banners

- Overlays over the video that you can't turn off, makes the player very heavy, popups over the player that you have to click to close

- Autoplaying media on home page

- Strange inconsistent regulations of streamers (who/when they get banned and how long)

- Strange attempts at noisy virtue signalling - such as overlaying sombreros and maracas on emote images for "Hispanic celebration month", which is so unnecessary and comically unthoughtful

mylasttour··on The dark forest and the cozy web (2020)
It really is an arbitrary diagram. Any regular user of any of these levels can confidently say all levels have "decomposed morals". All levels have videos of animal abuse, posts for teen prostitution, et cetera.

And there really is nothing cozy about data-hoarding closed mega-corp software like Discord and Snapchat. As convenient as they are, 'cozy' is not the word.

The writer likely just thinks "LinkedIn and Facebook == Bad!" and "My two Discord servers with my friends == Good!" and just made huge generalizations from there.

mylasttour··on Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content
It effectively is for large Reddit communities, as most of them rely on Imgur to upload NSFW content. There aren't many free image hosting sites as "generous" as Imgur (unlimited bandwidth, large sizes, no visible compression, "permanent") so it'll be interesting to see where they move to.
mylasttour··on Telemetry settings in Kibana
"Telemetry settings in Kibana" indicates that it is about telemetry settings in Kibana. Which is what the article is.

"telemetry.optIn defaults to true" indicates that some setting, somewhere out in the world, defaults telemetry to true. It's a clickbait title.

Poster should have titled it "Kibana Telemetry Is Opt-out" if they wanted it to be a proper title.

mylasttour··on I Tried to Visit OpenAI's Office. Hilarity Ensued
His due date to publish an article was still there.
mylasttour··on Ask HN: How do you protect your children from internet addiction?
Quite sad to see this hands-off approach being praised. I was raised in this kind of environment, along with most others I know, and that's how we all got to see our first beheading, suicide, or some grotesque sexual content before we even hit 12. It's not something you seek as a kid, but you get presented with it.

Sure, this would be considered the "excess", but I'm not sure if it's the kind that children should be made to deal with at such an age in such high volumes.

mylasttour··on Ask HN: Which books you have read till now that were worth investing time in?
Agreed, I found that writing also chose to use quite manipulative, or even emotional language to subtly get the lean towards the author's way. Which is completely fine if the book were presented as "Here's just my opinion on what may have happened", rather than presenting it as "Scientific history of mankind" - this aspect is what bothered me the most.

But we suppose the group who would fall for this kind of strategy is the exact audience the author was going for.