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ethanholt1 | 1 year ago | on: not(hot)wheels

I’ve always found MSCHF very strange. They sell strange products for exorbitant amounts (see the series of boxes with keys in them,) and I theorize they may be a money laundering scheme.

They even sold those big red boots for $350.00!!

ethanholt1 | 1 year ago | on: Immersive Linear Algebra (2015)

I hope that this sets a standard for future textbooks/publications. I haven’t been able to grasp several concepts in math unless I was able to properly visualize it, which most modern textbooks do with a terribly compressed and unsaturated JPG.

ethanholt1 | 1 year ago | on: Book people think they know why 9-year-olds stop reading for fun

Whenever I was about 9-10, I used to love reading books, and I read about 1-3 full novels a month. Whenever I graduated elementary school and went into middle school, the required reading that was assigned left me to have no more time reading what I found interesting, which eventually led to me just losing my interest in books.

ethanholt1 | 1 year ago | on: Deletion of user account

This has to be illegal, right? There’s no way this is allowed. It can’t be legally or morally correct to hold someone’s data, and when asked to remove that data from your servers via account deletion, ask for 20 dollars. Adobe does this too, and I feel that subscription based models and hypermonetization is going to become more and more common in the next 10 year.

ethanholt1 | 1 year ago | on: The fishy death of Red Lobster

I haven’t been to Red Lobster since 2019, and even during that trip the quality of the food was severely degraded from what I remembered it to be. Their garlicky biscuits were quite nice, though. What baffles me about this story is the fact that they’re continuing to sell the endless shrimp, despite the fact that it lost them 11 million dollars. Old habits die hard, I guess.

ethanholt1 | 1 year ago | on: AI Photo Geolocation

It was correctly able to identify several photos of my vacation to NC, down to the exact location where the photo was taken on the hiking trail. Pretty scary. Additionally, just to be sure, I used an EXIF data wiper to make sure it wasn’t pulling data from there and tried each photo in a seperate Incognito instance. Still got it correct, all 3 times. Mind boggling.

ethanholt1 | 1 year ago | on: The Snapdragon 855's iGPU

I was able to get Counter-Strike 2 running on an iGPU of a fourth gen Radeon chip. Don’t remember the name, but I got barely 10FPS and it was unplayable, but it ran. And it was amazing.

ethanholt1 | 1 year ago | on: Roblox players to start seeing video ads in its virtual realms

Roblox has been on a constant downward trend. They’ve been doing some pretty awful stuff, including exploitation of children developers [0], unregulated market which encourages kids to gamble, lackluster moderation allowing kids to be harassed or worse, [both 1] and allowing manipulative and predatory games on their site [2].

[0] https://youtu.be/_gXlauRB1EQ?si=Cwfswyot9_FT29Fy

[1] https://youtu.be/vTMF6xEiAaY?si=MbT71UNeO0vEPSrr

[2] https://youtu.be/cGAXGroHZKA?si=mlCDY02aUXaJ9EPQ

ethanholt1 | 1 year ago | on: BASIC turns 60

Happy birthday to the language that got me into software. Admittedly, BASIC as a language was quite limiting, and, well, basic. At least the flavor I was using. I made quite a few rudimentary games on my dad's old TRS-80 Color Computer, and eventually learned C because of it. BASIC may not be the greatest language power-wise, but it damn well may be the greatest just because of how iconic and important it was to the programming sphere as a whole.

ethanholt1 | 1 year ago | on: Cyclic Is Shutting Down

I briefly used Cyclic for my web hosting solution. It wasn’t great, it felt like their website was barely hanging on and took several seconds to load select pages of my dashboard. I guess they finally caved.

ethanholt1 | 1 year ago | on: Please don't share our links on Mastodon

That seems like a problem of It’s Foss’ website, not Mastodon. If you’re hosting a presumably static website, a news website no less, it should be able to handle a spike of viewer influx if you make a viral article. Seems like they’re pinning the blame on Mastodon rather than fixing their site.

ethanholt1 | 1 year ago | on: The Internet Archive's last-ditch effort to save itself

If this makes the IA website go down, we are going to lose so much important internet history. For example, Garry’s Mod recently had almost all of its Nintendo addons taken down, and they were republished on the IA. So if we lose the IA, we might honestly lose quite a lot of preserved media, between games, videos, audio, and everything else.

ethanholt1 | 1 year ago | on: Neofetch Has Been Archived

NeoFetch hasn’t had a commit since 2022, and a release hasn’t been made since 2020. I guess the writing was on the wall. There’s several nice alternatives, but I usually just use fastfetch.
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