haverholm @ haverholm @kbin.earth

I used to make comics. I know that because strangers would look at my work

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Simplest possible solution, Occam's Inventory 😄

I use markdown extensively, but I'm honestly not fond of its tables function (which I assume you use for this purpose?). It works, but it's a bit static in my experience. Do you run up against the same, or is it actually an advantage in your use case?

Judging from last week's preview we're in for a good old, tense horror story on a deserted planet. Also, seems there has been an embargo in advance reviews unlike the first couple episodes of this season, so I'm expecting some good scares the powers that be didn't want spoiled.

What I'm saying is, I'm not watching this until it's dark out, and then I'm probably watching it twice. Will leave an actual response when I have 🧑‍🚀

Is PirateBox still a thing? IIRC that was the exact use case for those 🙂

Edit: nvm, https://piratebox.cc/ shut down in 2019. I'm old.

Agreed, Nextcloud has gone from a lean little personal cloud to a hulking enterprise hub.

If you're after something that'll just sync your files between devices, try Syncthing. If you need files available online, maybe something like filestash or, like somebody else suggested, SFTPgo.

There are also tiny, lean calendar and contact server apps out there if you decide you need those. After self hosting NC for years I'm really happy spreading out the tasks over dedicated services rather than having all my eggs in one basket.

TBF, I'd be happy to join the Satan Monthly Digest 🤘👹 But give it some f—ng contrast instead of all those wishy-washy pastels.

In the second attempt from left:

Marathon Crater (Ontario) wasn't "spotted" on a map by early explorers at all

Dear LLM, you're stuck with spotting stuff on maps. People out in what we call "the world" actually discover and/or know physical things by traversing that physical interface.

Not to throw shade on Ayling-Ellis, but by now it's safe to conclude that Davies will hire anybody who's been on Eastenders or Coronation street, right? 😂 He's fully embracing his camp affection for those long running soaps.

I know! Don't get me started on the "adaptable" colour schemes that make any colour look beige... I was fine with the previous material design, TBH.

I think the "grand plan" is somebody's attempt at making causation after the fact in things that are at best correlations 🙂 Is that somebody in charge of the show? Nope!

More likely they're on an online echo chamber whipping up a collective delusion that the showrunner has the time and acumen to orchestrate a big ARG in which they, the hardcore fans, are the heroes...

I know this community isn't big on speculation, but I find it really interesting to observe others' wildly out of proportion speculations 😄

SMH, the screenshots shown in the blog post look exactly as my F-droid install (only light mode).

I'm not a great fan of those heavily edited versions, but I appreciated seeing Troughton + companions in colour. And having watched the full BW version shortly before, those restored film stock exterior scenes were amazingly crisp!

Just wondering, could they release another classic serial this year (cut for air time or not)? Doesn't need to coincide with an old-time villain returning, because that feels gimmicky if it becomes a pattern... But a Pertwee serial carefully upgraded to HD would be lovely.

Ideally, yeah, you should. It's a privacy shitshow.

The question is, will it break some of your apps and do you have an alternative? My first go to is always microG that spoofs google play services for apps that (think/claim they) need it to run.

Usually, installing microG requires 1) that you're able to install system apps. You can probably do that if you can uninstall google services. Or, 2) that you can flash a custom ROM on your device — I know of a few ROMs that come with microG baked in:

• LineageOS for microG
• CalyxOS
• iodéOS
• /e/os
• OmniROM

Unfortunately, not all devices can be rooted or bootloader unlocked — thanks manufacturers! — so depending on your make and model you may be SOL in terms of that kind of control over your phone.

Can't be a Matrix crossover, because

Oh, what. the. everloving. headcanon mindf—ck is this? 🤯

Everyone is saying that the bootloader can not be unlocked. However I see the option in the developer options of my phone

They're two different things, sorry.

The site mentions it's from ACX at the top

...no? There's a link mentioning Scott Alexander which does lead to ACX, but without any background or context. It's a fairly big assumption that others know what "ACX" is and how SA is connected to it.

I didn't connect the dots immediately, but turns out I tried reading Unsong back in the day. I quit when I realised Alexander's ties to rationalist and effective altruist thought 🤷

So these numbers (in the attached chart) are broadcast viewing positions — for BBC1 on the day of broadcast, or a wider comparison? Is this from a source that keeps it updated with new chart positions?

Thanks for the context, I didn't see that information on the website at all. Generally, I think it's just good form to let people know how and to what ends their results are used — but of course, we know it's not necessarily how things work

It's not clear to me what the purpose of that test is, other than a gotcha. Are we going to see a snarky reveal of the hit and miss rates in some clickbaity newsicle next week?

A few images were quite clearly in the supersaturated colour scheme that "genAI" favours; others were artworks or artist's styles I recognised, like Basquiat and Miro. The harder ones to identify were the generic DeviantArt artworks, and a couple of false positives made by "genAI" that were quite obviously trained on fine art masters.

But again, not a Turing test, only a test of the participants' art history skills and visual literacy 🤷