fishbacon · HackerTrans

2 months agodiscuss

I was hoping for a kind of joke. Like saying "idiot" as the last thing in your post and getting "Please don't sign your posts" as a reply.

fishbacon

3 months agodiscuss

Excellent set of commands.

Of course the two most useful ones would never be useful in the code base I am currently working on.

"fix" might be the single most common commit message, and after that comes "."

Trying for two years, to get people to include at least some information in their commit messages, has exhausted me.

fishbacon

4 months agodiscuss

The pop-up is about disabling javascript, to avoid this kind of website doing this kind of thing.

I thought it was clever. But it also seems ham-fisted, and in poor taste.

fishbacon

4 months agodiscuss

The (very clearly AI-generated) watercolors were an immediate sign to be wary of this. But I read it because I liked the first paragraphs.

The prose is decent, I like the premise, thought provoking idea.

One issue though: I had to use firefox' reader mode, because the contrast between text and background was terrible.

fishbacon

7 months agodiscuss

Thinking about how my television was only ever on the internet for 5 minutes in 2016. It must think the world is tiny.

fishbacon

7 months agodiscuss

I swap back and forth between favorit movies. Every few days it may be Goodfellas. Some days it is The Room. But I always return to Kiki’s delivery service and Howls moving castle. Both are absolutely gorgeous and incredibly well told.

I also find myself quoting porco rosso a lot lately.

This a treasure trove of gorgeous lockscreen images. Very excited to put them into rotation.

fishbacon

8 months agodiscuss

The font you chose is borderline illegible. Password being 3-20 characters makes me nervous.

Fun idea though.

fishbacon

9 months agodiscuss

Looks amazing.

A recent game, Eclipsium[0], was a short horror game with a similar esthetic. I really liked it for the simple gameplay and the short (less than 4 hours) completion time.

I wonder if it can carry a larger scale.

[0] https://store.steampowered.com/app/2419670/Eclipsium/

fishbacon

10 months agodiscuss

If sponsored projects and in-video sponsor spots dried up because of low view count I feel like a +20% loss would be something they would feel on their bottomline?

I suspect their business still requires that revenue.

But my example could be better. Take any moderately sized youtube channel which has a sponsorship in each video. Maybe one of the gaming channels that figured this out? If they lose the sponsorships it would probably not be great for them.

fishbacon

10 months agodiscuss

This is completely unspoken by most of the youtube channels that are making videos about this. The reason they are worried is not because of the algorithm or vanity. Especially for channels like LTT it is economical. They get the vast majority of their money from getting a lot of views.

The interesting thing here is that since youtube did not change anything, it is actually adblockers successfully making sponsored content less viable. Something youtube has been trying to, at least on premium ([ytp]), where I get a little "Jump ahead" button on all platforms when sponcon is detected (in aggregate people skipping forward, it also does it for intros and similar).

I wonder if it will have a measurable impact on placement in the algorithm for channels like RLM that are seeing the drop. But rely on crowdfunding and youtube ads.

fishbacon

4 years agodiscuss

My favourite is when I get upset about someones driving and they react by honking or doing rude gestures.

Ah, the joys of almost getting killed by someone who is so rude that they don't even realise they were about to kill me.

I am blessed to live in a medium sized Danish city, so it only happens about weekly that I have to face the reality of death by demigod encased in steel plate.

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