CoderKat

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[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

I love Ubuntu. It's by far the most popular distro and that comes with the very helpful perk of it being easier to find support. More users means more people who can answer your questions. It means more people who might fix some issue that annoys you. And all the while, it is a solid and easy to use distro.

[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, women focus more on things like having good hair, clothes and makeup. Men could wear stuff like makeup, but most don't because it's "not manly". On dating sites, women also put more effort into taking flattering photos. It's almost hilarious how many men on dating sites, despite being there to try and attract people, use the ugliest, poorly lit, badly angled, generic selfie. And another huge chunk are sunglasses and ball hat in a car seat (you know the one).

I'm bi and women and find frankly most people attractive, but women are very disproportionately more attractive.

[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago (5 children)

What about the Canadian news companies that now won't get nearly as many visitors because many people see news through sites like google?

Or what about the Canadians who won't see as much local news? Even if they go look for it specifically themselves, they can expect to see less of it on social media because other people won't see as much (and thus won't share as much).

[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It does include just linking.

(2) For the purposes of this Act, news content is made available if

(a) the news content, or any portion of it, is reproduced; or

(b) access to the news content, or any portion of it, is facilitated by any means, including an index, aggregation or ranking of news content.

Indexing includes showing a basic result in search. Plus you can't show a normal search results without pulling at least a portion of the news content. I can only assume the author and those that voted for this have literally never searched for a news article online before.

[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

Well, that would certainly explain it. 100KB is pretty tiny though. It'd be nice to have it try to resize client side to get under the limit, too (I always wondered why more image uploaders don't do client side resizing).

[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

I wonder how much they make? Google says Horizon sold over 8 million copies. But it doesn't sound like financial data is shared and I'm not sure what the price is like around the world or how sales might be geographically distributed. But if they made an average of, say, $50 from each sale, that's over $400M revenue, or doubling their (huge) investment.

Well deserved in the case of these two games.

[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

You've never played Stardew? Oh, you're in for a treat. One of my favourite games of all time.

I didn't like Ori, though. Too difficult, for one thing. It has these especially frustrating escape sequences. It was a pretty game, but that wasn't enough to make me enjoy it.

[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Planet grape soda?

[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Agree. I suspect that the UX challenge of the Fediverse as well as the fact that you'd largely only migrate here if you're ideologically displeased with the admins means that people on this site skew more mature.

[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 13 points 2 years ago

I wish movie theatres would have regular showings with captions on the screen. I'm hearing impaired and need captions no matter what (doesn't matter what the audio mixing is like -- I need them). The chain theatres near me have caption devices available on request. They go in the cup holder and have a shared little screen.

Problem is, those caption devices suck. They are unreliable and sometimes skip lines here and there. I've also been to too many theatres where the captions just didn't work (every one has given me a refund and even consolation coupons, but I really just want to be able to watch the movie).

And then indie theatres straight up have never even tried to be accessible to me. There's a cool looking indie theatre in my city that I'm never gonna go to because they have no accessibility options.

[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I'm also hearing impaired and am just really glad that captions are becoming so popular.

It used to be that YouTube was rarely accessible to me. There would be a tiny amount of content that had subtitles (sometimes baked in, like epic rap battles of history does), but the vast majority of videos just weren't fun for me because I'd miss too much. These days a good chunk of popular YouTubers have curated captions and another good chunk are clear enough speakers that the automatic captions work.

I've actually been watching more YouTube in recent times than ever before specifically because I've been discovering all this content I previously wrote off. There was recently a post somewhere that introduced me to Technology Connections. And from there, I figured I'd check out some other names I had heard about that might be interesting, Linus's tech tips and ElectroBOOM, and both had captions, too.

[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Is it just "above the size limit"? I tried uploading an image in a comment in two different formats (first a PNG of about 1 MB and second a JPG of about 150 kb). Both failed with this error.

I eventually gave up and used an external host. As an aside, wow, imgur seems to have purposefully broke mobile desktop. It used to be possible to upload on mobile by using the desktop site, but now it errors out. It's hard to assume good faith when imgur has made so many bad decisions lately.

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