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iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Sunday, 26-Apr-2026 15:04:03 JST
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invincible
:blobcatderpy: what if we declare war on the biggest chunguses ever. nice park.
:blobcatderpy2: oh nyo they blew up the park
:comfystoner: shoulda built the place like cadia, smh -
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iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Sunday, 26-Apr-2026 14:54:49 JST
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@cyb3rm0shp1t @nyx being concerned with being clocked is probably the real lesson. :cat_sad: the power of giving zero fucks is strong in social spaces. -
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iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Sunday, 26-Apr-2026 14:49:00 JST
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@labtoast game studios increasingly use some form of machine learning, so you won't have to worry about having any games to play. -
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iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Sunday, 26-Apr-2026 14:45:12 JST
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TIL something called ordoliberalism tried to exist once -
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iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Sunday, 26-Apr-2026 14:44:23 JST
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@ElDeadKennedy when your thing's power supply is broken and you have to resort to DIY chargers :gutkato_konsternita:
my newton was like that. had to trickle charge it with an under-amped universal plug because it didn't come with a charger. and there wasn't like a ready supply of cheeky cheap lab bench supplies at the time. -
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iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Sunday, 26-Apr-2026 14:42:24 JST
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@jacqueline instructions unclear, server running in a BSD jail :blobcatwaitwhat: -
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iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Sunday, 26-Apr-2026 14:41:47 JST
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trade offer
i recieve :gutkato_roboto:
immunity to AI hate
you receive
housing and water as a basic right
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iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Sunday, 26-Apr-2026 14:25:24 JST
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@strypey You don't really need to mandate the protocol itself. Matter kind of sucks because it does this (you get specific interfaces allowed by google, and then do paid vigs for certifications, and custom behavior is right back to proprietary apps anyway.)
You just need to say the I/O layers are expressly exempted from all IP laws and either a specification "suitable for a practitioner of the arts" (or whatever the patent language for "someone who works in this field") or the source code form used to do the encoding.
a lot of companies are bullshitters about this. i love supernote, but their "we can't open source the format because we can't decide how to spec it" is absolute cap and we all know it. -
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iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Sunday, 26-Apr-2026 14:22:34 JST
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@strypey i don't believe the concept of "non-captured" regulation exists in the current climate. the only agencies that aren't compromised are the ones where there isn't economic value in doing so (ex. OSHA.) it's cheaper to outsource to china than it is to defeat OSHA, so they do that instead. vs the FDA has to be compromised to sell shit drugs here, so its a revolving door between the most corrupt pharmacorp in american history (by legal judgement--bribery charges, etc)
stipulating normies were actually functional popperians then, sure, although its questionable if they would still need regulators if they were savvy enough to ensure regulators themselves could behave
it still leaves the problem that regulation of process is typically a disaster. regulation of outcome is better since it allows engineers to work within the spec. regulation of process leads to dead economies (medical stagnation, and one i'm more familiar with, Stenomaster theory winning speed records but still taking years to get the national regulator to allow it because they were certifying pedagogy and not results.)
lawyers don't update fast or precisely enough to regulate tech without contributing to stagnation, is my main problem. -
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iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Sunday, 26-Apr-2026 13:23:56 JST
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i wonder how much of seal clubbing is the monopoly studies again. the ones where they found people with handicaps at monopoly come to genuinely believe they are good at monopoly and deserve to win.
i watched one on stream once and he kinda had that energy going on. kept bragging about killing rats and it really makes you wonder about how poorly they take it when someone of the same gear check + elo shows up :neocat_thonk: -
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iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Sunday, 26-Apr-2026 12:43:00 JST
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i fail to understand how anyone manages to enjoy gear check games. do monotonous task for an artificially throttled maximum xp/hour to make number biggest so you can.. go hold mouse button one and club seals in wooden houses.
i just see these things and laugh about how the game designer is the biggest superpredator of them all because you're doing meaningless shit on their treadmills and paying for the privilege of being abused :blobcatgendou:
i'm sure this is just a lack of functional dopamine cycles in my brain :blobcatnomouth: -
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iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Sunday, 26-Apr-2026 12:20:35 JST
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@strypey while i tend to be strongly against tech regulating, one of the few i do post about is interop protocols should be open by mandate.
there are good technical reasons to outsource interfaces to glassware, but no legitimate social reasons for the interface to be secret. -
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iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Sunday, 26-Apr-2026 12:07:53 JST
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@Nimbius666 i remember that bodyguard game from the gentoo repos -
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iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Sunday, 26-Apr-2026 11:38:17 JST
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apparently the class of people who audit their own thought trails is called metanarrative intelligence or somesth and its also among the rarest in the population. -
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iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Sunday, 26-Apr-2026 11:36:20 JST
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the funny part about autism vs modern books is that a lot of modern books do in fact just restate the thesis 3 times to pad page count. which is something that gets you censured as a human being but is hypernormalized in publishing. -
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iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Sunday, 26-Apr-2026 11:28:34 JST
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@mr_penguin the thing with the torment nexus is you don't use it and then become demonstrably sad. you experience it and time passes but you neither feel particularly happy for having used it or frustrated enough to walk away. by comparison people who do something they actually like (say they were decent at music, got an instrument, weren't socially destroyed trying to learn it..) by comparison they are a lot happier doing that.
afaik the 'happier without social media' crowd tends to have an actual tribe instead, which is why they are happier by comparison.
like i mentioned originally if they're just locked in a closet they won't be happier, i don't think. -
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iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Sunday, 26-Apr-2026 11:24:05 JST
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@mr_penguin millions of dollars goes in to tuning the platforms to avoid psychological triggers where someone would organically walk away from it. they like them just under the level where you'd have any sense of fulfillment.
something that took me a while to identify as an adult and paying a lot of attention to time records. somewhat publicly documented nowadays.
then there's the issue that alternatives may not really be available. as a child i couldn't get any encouragement from anywhere to keep doing other more productive things. -
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iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Sunday, 26-Apr-2026 11:06:14 JST
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log in to soulmask
one guy in super endgame whatever rolling through the base
yeah thats my problem with conans in general :blobcathuh: PVP in those is about 0% skill. i've seen fights where people parry/roll/reads and they just lose to someone holding M1 because "well they had tier n+1 gear, so."
its kind of funny how in systems like GURPS you can still get shot in the head wearing n+1 gear. like you are more likely to win if your tech is better, but it's not guaranteed, and its something D&D folk don't adjust to well -
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iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Sunday, 26-Apr-2026 10:57:27 JST
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@mr_penguin i've been hearing that my whole life. including just using computers or something. parents were even like "we wouldn't have given you one if we had to do it again"
i think it'd be possible to do A/B studies on the subject. you'd also need to deal with a handful of other controls, though, because i have a feeling if they had access to social media and choose not to use it they probably have a more supportive environment and those are already known to result in less depression. if they have the same helicopter parent enforced isolation and now don't have the computer outlet, they're probably not going to be less depressed. there's a lot of confounders. -
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iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Sunday, 26-Apr-2026 10:54:21 JST
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latelty attempts to be awake during daylight hours are met with sickness resulting in being awake at night anyway :blobcatpain:
go to bed a reasonable our, sleep for 12 anyway. try to get up and just can't.