[-] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 12 points 9 hours ago

Currently the best way is with Lemmyverse

[-] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 1 points 9 hours ago

He posted this update a few months ago, it seems to be progressing well!

[-] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago

Woah, that unlocked a memory of how my parents said giving sweets to our dog would give him worms. Wonder how that pervaded so widely.

[-] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

block women, not black. I misread it as well, especially since it'd be easy to believe he'd target black women specifically.

EDIT: I was wrong! Listened to the audio and he does explicitly say black women!

[-] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 days ago

Approval voting would help, but neither party will ever vote in favor of it.

[-] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 days ago

That description of your process reminds me of this video on consciousness, and how the creator describes how he has no inner monolog, or even conscious thought of some of his actions, and instead it's like a black box that he can query. Is your experience similar to that?

[-] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

There's a number of excellent documentaries over at !documentaries@slrpnk.net and !documentaries@lemmy.world.

I'd recommend Connections by James Burke, which there should be a link to on the .world community.

[-] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

That sounds similar to this quote:

"It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration." — Edsger Dijkstra, 1975

But there's been a good deal of programmers who have said that BASIC, and its ease of use and seeing almost instant results is extremely useful to not turn people off learning to code to begin with. Python is functionally the new BASIC in that regard, and while the language itself may not teach you to become an expert programmer, it may have gotten more people in the door than otherwise would have.

But that's just my 2 cents.

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[-] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 6 points 6 days ago

As someone who has attempted to draw a lot of spaceships: that's a dam good spaceship.

[-] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 80 points 6 days ago

Unfortunately didn't apply to the creator of Ren & Stimpy.

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Link to sign EU initiative: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home

Guides on how to sign EU initiative: https://www.stopkillinggames.com/eci

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[-] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 404 points 1 month ago

TL:DW, JPEG is getting old in the tooth, which prompted the creation of JPEG XL, which is a fairly future-proof new compression standard that can compress images to the same file size or smaller than regular JPEG while having massively higher quality.

However, JPEG XL support was removed from Google Chrome based browsers in favor of AVIF, a standalone image compression derived from the AV1 video compression codec that is decidedly not future-proof, having some hard-coded limitations, as well as missing some very nice to have features that JPEG XL offers such as progressive image loading and lower hardware requirements. The result of this is that JPEG XL adoption will be severely hamstrung by Google’s decision, which is ultimately pretty lame.

[-] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 193 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Please be aware, Odysee was recently purchased by a Crypto company that also acquired an NFT company.

For more info, see my comment here: https://slrpnk.net/comment/9749921

I would not recommend investing any time or money into the platform, as it will inevitably crash and burn as the owners walk away flush with cash while everyone else is left holding the bag.

Peertube is not ideal, but it is currently the only alternative that isn't tied to a shady crypto scheme.

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