tuckerm
Here to talk about fighting games, self hosting web apps, and easy weeknight recipes.
My mastodon account: @tuckerm
My blog: https://tuckerm.us
Oh nice, I hadn’t heard of Tokodon before. I’ll have to check it out.
Added a new “Following” feed, to quickly page through your follows and their feed similar to the now discontinued Cohost social network.
That is so cool. I saw a former Cohost user mention that feature on Mastodon. A bunch of other ex-Cohost people agreed that it was one of their favorite features.
Congratulations for going on this adventure! IMO, living for a few days now and then away from human development is almost like a spiritual experience. Occasionally reminding ourselves that there is existence outside of the systems we are familiar with really changes the way we see things. I’ve only been dispersion camping for four days at a time before – this week+ trip you’re on sounds like it will be great.
Alright, I never mention this in real life because it sounds absolutely ridiculous, but… the first time I dug a hole to shit in it, I felt like a different person. I was like, damn, I can do that. I just did that. Anyway, have a good shit. I mean trip.
Absolutely. I mean, I love the fact that GOG has DRM-free games. It’s really incredible how many games are available without DRM because of them.
But I’m not going to make Valve out to be the bad guy here. Valve is like 99% of the reason why gaming on Linux is viable right now.
Valve seems like a great example of how, if you don’t sell your company to venture capitalists, you can just be cool nerds that make good products. As much as I want DRM-free to be the norm, I’m also not going to vilify a company that is one of the best examples of not enshittifying right now.
They keep using the term “motion sensor,” probably to avoid saying “this device that you will place next to your kid’s bed has a camera and an internet connection.”
(related community if that makes you nearly have an aneurysm: !privacy@lemmy.ml)
edit: OK, it probably doesn’t actually have a camera, see comment below. I assumed it had to, since it mentioned detecting “hand gestures.” However, that could mean that it just roughly detects you waving in front of it, which wouldn’t require a camera. I still hate it.
For anyone reading this thread that can’t turn on their speakers to check right now:
Beethoven’s 5th: Judge Judy intro Beethoven’s 6th: Fantasia
Spelling out all the potential consequences of an unknown party accessing your DNA is impossible, because scientists’ understanding of the genome is still evolving.
Honestly, this is something that I hadn’t actually considered before. I’m almost embarrassed, since I like to think of myself as someone who is always thinking about how my data can be misused, haha.
It’s not just about data that can currently be used unethically; there’s also the fact that someone may figure out a way in the future to use today’s data unethically. This is definitely true with something like your DNA, which is so complex that there are infinite things to learn from it. But it can be true of more simple things, too. There’s no way to predict what someone will be able to extrapolate from seemingly harmless information today.
It’s a reference to Paul, from the Bible (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_the_Apostle#Names). He was known as Saul when he was Jewish, and then later went by Paul after he converted to Christianity. The phrase “Saul to Paul” is often used to refer to someone who converted to Christianity, as opposed to being born a Christian. But it is also sometimes used more generally to mean something that turned around or improved. Like, if you want to say “glow up” but you also want to make it clear that you think Christians are better than Jews.
Ironically, the person who said it was Mormon, and most Christians do not consider Mormons to count as Christian.
