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We are about to watch the collapse of journalism in real time. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Democracy dies at WaPo

Rule in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

It had the lunchly cheese on it

‘Stop all time wasting’: Woolworths workers tracked and timed under new efficiency crackdown in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

https://marshallbrain.com/manna1

Oh good, someone finally built the Torment Nexus. I was so worried that the title "Don't Build the Torment Nexus" would have put them off of it.

Jill Stein hurts Donald Trump more than Kamala Harris, poll suggests in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

I don't listen to polls anymore. I've already voted, I don't give a fuck about who's leading who.

Microsoft's LinkedIn: If our AI gets it wrong, that's your problem in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

If I didn't need to have a profile there for work I wouldn't. I had two jobs that were kind enough to tell me when I asked that they immediately passed on me because my resume had no LinkedIn or Facebook, and I deleted my Facebook a year ago.

Microsoft's LinkedIn: If our AI gets it wrong, that's your problem in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

The only thing I use AI for is generating character art for tabletop portraits and when the well is sufficiently poisoned I will probably go back to Pinterest.

The Rocky Horror Video Game is a thing, and coming out this month [Eurogamer] in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

SAY IT!

Nintendo shuts down Switch emulator Ryujinx in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Nintendo's infamously protective of its IP, even to its obvious detriment. I know a lot of people who jumped on the nomoretendo bandwagon after AM2R got DMCA'd, because the smart and morally correct thing to do would have been to hire that person and pull his incredible talent into the next Metroid game, because they clearly had a lot of love and respect for the subject matter and the technical expertise to put it into action. It's hard to overstate just how fucking good and polished that project was, virtually identical to the Fusion/Zero Mission engine, except in the ways it was more improved. It was certainly better than anything Nintendo had done with Metroid in quite a while.

Nintendo has reportedly shut down Ryujinx, the Switch emulator that was supposedly immune in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

It's funny, I own a switch and I would have bought the game (and I probably will still if the technical and QoL issues get resolved) but I'm emulating it better than the hardware can run it right now.

how's your week going, Beehaw in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

He's been casually racist around most of the people in the office so I'm sure he'll fit right in.

Nintendo has reportedly shut down Ryujinx, the Switch emulator that was supposedly immune in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I like it more, but I'm a fan of the more classic Zeldas. It's good, but it's marred by the same technical issues that plagued the LA remake, and the lack of some basic QoL features like a Quick Select or Favorites wheel is bringing it from 'great' to 'good.'

Intel is releasing another microcode update to protect crashing Raptor Lake CPUs in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

My next board and all for the foreseeable future will be AMD. I'm only rocking a 13600K right now and I haven't had any issues, but the last bios update I did specifically to get the first microcode update wiped my GPU drivers, and the gigabyte update platform installed Norton and some other network monitoring software without my consent.

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Something disturbing about Hallmark movies (beehaw.org)
 

I was talking with a friend today about Hallmark movies because we all seem to have at least one grandma who loves them around this time of year, and we're hashing out the tropes they all share because they're so formulaic that you could probably boil it down to a mad libs prompt, and something dawned on me because of one particular similarity, not in every film, but a lot of them - the Heroine quitting her high-stress executive job to move to a quaint little town and settle down with Mr. Right. It struck me as deeply misogynistic that the movies imply she can't have both and that her career goals aren't worth it compared to getting some dick.

The other side of that coin is, in almost every single one of these movies, the guy is a Prince who needs to marry, or secretly loaded, or otherwise financially stable unless the plot revolves around his family whatever on the brink of closure that the Heroine steps in to help save the day, and he's shown to be a good-if-distant dad to his kids, if he has any, but needs help raising them because work keeps him busy, or his nanny's retiring. It's never implied that he should be the one giving up his lifestyle to be a better partner for her; The only thing Mr. Right is ever doing wrong in these movies, if anything, is just not already being with her, and I get that these films are basically wish fulfillment fics, but she is always the one who has to make a change for him, to basically be a stay at home mom, or step closer to it than she was at the beginning of the film. Does anybody else see that? Am I wrong in thinking that's absolutely fucking greasy?

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