M. Orange
a big neurodivergent pile of vegetable matter // 29 // sf bay area
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Technology@beehaw.org•X's Objection to the Onion Buying InfoWars Is a Reminder You Do Not Own Your Social Media Accounts
6·1 year agoYour complaint is really just a symptom of the problems inherent in the centralization of the internet. The terms of service of basically all tech platforms gives them unilateral control of how those terms are enforced. If one doesn’t like the terms of service set on a given platform, one should not use said platform.
I tend not to agree with them, so I don’t use them. Others should probably do the same.
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Gaming@beehaw.org•Horizon Zero Dawn Dev Addresses Criticism Over Aloy’s Remastered Look
4·1 year agoThe perfect filled-in eyebrows, looks like she’s wearing lipstick and eyeliner. It’s a little… strange.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Covert Racism in AI: How Language Models Are Reinforcing Outdated Stereotypes
23·1 year agoYou mean the problems that experts said 10+ years ago would happen are happening?

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Technology@beehaw.org•The burning of the Library of Alexandria for fandoms
16·1 year agoIt was actually a reference to Eminem’s song “Stan” about an insane fan who murders his family or something.
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Technology@beehaw.org•X goes offline in Brazil after Elon Musk’s refusal to comply with local laws
4·1 year agoToot actually isn’t official anymore. They changed it to notes (p sure), but the userbase decided to keep using toots because it’s cuter.
Godzilla: Domination! Developed by WayForward, which is probably why it’s so good.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Firefox plan to show ads and shopping in the near future in the browser as an opt-out
3·2 years agoLast I heard, which was admittedly a long time ago, Pale Moon was dangerously out of date with respect to security and web standards and not much more than a meme. I feel like I remember a significant change in leadership relatively recently, but has Pale Moon actually become a viable alternative?
Beyond that, WebKit is still a thing. Ladybird is too though it’s still quite a ways from primetime.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Gen Z is bringing back landline phones because they think they look ‘cool’: ‘I love to twirl the cord’
2·2 years agoMost available “landlines” nowadays are just VoIP anyway tho. It’s why my dad got into ham radio.
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Technology@beehaw.org•The Global Green Energy Transition Has an Uyghur Forced Labor Problem, Report Says
6·2 years agoIs “forced labor” any different from slavery?
My interests are being gay and TV shows about middle aged women.
I tried it, but it was way too full of cryptobros. I felt like I didn’t fit in.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Sam Altman ‘was working on new venture’ before sacking from OpenAI
5·2 years agoWell, she’s the former CTO.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Meta given 30 days to cease using the name Threads by company that trademarked it 11 years ago
4·2 years agoIt reads to me like they’re saying that they feel like they might be attacked by Meta employees.
That said, it’s uh… quite a choice to have made to say that.
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Technology@beehaw.org•The cult of Obsidian: Why people are obsessed with the note-taking app
15·2 years agoI love it, but I wish it were open source. I have since switched to LogSeq, and now I’m even trying out TiddlyWiki.
It’s a multilayered visual pun. A visual punion, if you will.
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Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•What has been happening to Piped (YouTube Frontend)?
6·2 years agoIf it helps, the NewPipe developers have been working on a full rewrite of the app, but I don’t know when it will come out.
That said, I would probably use invidious in browsers. I haven’t really had any problems with it whereas I’ve had nothing but issues with Piped for months.
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Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•Free software pioneer Stallman reveals cancer diagnosis
15·2 years agoI don’t really have anything notable or profound to add. I just want to say that, setting all controversy aside, RMS is a titan, an icon, and a living legend, and I’m so happy that his treatment is going well. Here’s hoping that he and his beard make a good recovery and he’s around for a while longer.
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Gaming@beehaw.org•Penny Arcade sums up the Unity debacle in the first panel.
2·2 years agoI would actually highly recommend the [World, Star, Citie]s Without Number systems. They’ve been going for about ten years, and while the individual systems themselves are genre-centric (fantasy, sci-fi, and cyberpunk respectively), they’re all inter-compatible and offer a good midpoint between crunchy systems and rules-light.
Also, I think Savage Worlds is setting agnostic and a little bit crunchier than most rules-light systems, but I have little experience with it.
Not yet, but Conduit is fairly close if I’m not mistaken.