@anon_opin really missed a trick there by not claiming it’s an artifact of robots being sent back in time to erase the creation of those films.
Nerd sniped a Discord full of lifelong gamers by mentioning my 70 year old Dad has decided it’s time to give these new fangled video games a try. Other than Forza Horizon I have no idea where to start. Requirements are that it’s on Game Pass or Apple Arcade, because I’m not stumping up for a whole console so he can decide he doesn’t like it a week later.
@gsuberland sorry to hear it. Arthritis runs in my family so I’m currently making the most of things until it catches up with me.
@gsuberland I can recommend climbing. Always failed with traditional gyms which I’d get bored off fast, but climbing comes with a levelling mechanic and frequent DLC as they re-route the walls.
Ugh. The internet is dying under the weight of SEO/ad slot optimised content. I just read what felt like about 3,000 words on how to clean climbing shoes which came down to “use warm water soap, don’t machine wash”.
Ok I got it working on the iPhone too! It’s … hilarious. #LetterSet #PencilKit
@internetsdairy pretty sure that’s about how long it would take to watch every episode of every incarnation of the show.
@internetsdairy it’s alright. Sci-fi that mostly doesn’t take itself too seriously, good easy viewing.
My taxi driver on the proliferation of flags along the route home “oh, I think they’re just trying to send a message to the government”. I don’t think he was ready for me spending the rest of the journey shooting down his straw man arguments. “You can’t call that many people racists”. Just fucking watch me buddy.
What is the phenomenon that causes all TV shows to eventually make a fake documentary set in the world of their TV show? Is it that script writers have a burning desire to tell the story of how hard it is making TV?
@an0key sadly I don’t even slightly trust Google to redirect that money to the people who’s ads are being skipped rather than this week’s messaging app.
@an0key in summary, automated ad skipping is good but a model that doesn’t depend on the whims of multinational corporation’s marketing departments would be even better.
@an0key I’m split on how I feel about that. From my perspective it’s great, I skip the ads with minimal effort, but I’m also aware those ad reads are in many cases the difference between making money on a video or not, and if the companies buying them see the audience they want to hit are skipping them the whole house of cards collapses.
@an0key at least on the TV app I’ve been added to what appears to be a test group for skipping over those bits exactly (presumably based on data from other people’s skipping) which is marked as a YouTube Premium feature.
@fromjason @catsalad speed running a bubble pop with this one I see.
@andrew it is indeed a lovely architecture to work with for most things (with a few hairy edge cases for stuff where you really do just want to take an action right now, and if reconciliation is delayed by more than a few seconds there’s no point doing it later).
@andrew not sure if it quite counts as a framework, but AWS IoT (and most IoT devices in practice) use the same sort of reconciliation loop. Client pushes desired state to a central data store which then gets replicated to a device, the device takes that state, adjusts to accommodate it, and sends a reported state back for the client.
Just walked into the kitchen to find my washing machine seems to be draining into the cupboard under the sink, which isn’t an ideal setup. Guess I’ve got some plumbing in my future.
HR, giving a safety meeting:
Staring at a screen for 8 hours is bad for you.
Sitting for 8 hours is bad for you.
Standing for 8 hours is bad for you.
Me: So, you're saying the 40 hour work week is unhealthy, and unsustainable?
@arclight holy shit, that’s fantastic. Please look after it, and donate it to a museum in your will.
@dave this is up against products like AWS Transfer, which in its most basic configuration costs $216/month. Half the finance industry runs on CSVs being sent via SFTP to other places, and in that industry $600/month for SOCS compliance is pocket change.
@0xabad1dea hey, at least it’s not a zip file in a PowerPoint presentation.