Looking at the comments on the article, I get why people are so anti-influencer. I would argue that Mark Rober is one of the “good guys” who doesn’t seem to entertain the bad side of influencer culture, but instead has some incredibly entertaining yet educational videos.

My Netflix has been a steady stream of serial killer/murder documentaries - to the point where I barely visit Netflix any more as it gets far too depressing. Stuff like this I feel would make a real splash in making Netflix watchable, and I think if Netflix (as well as streaming companies) can fetch interesting content creators from YouTube, then that could mean the start of a viable, interesting streaming service that really competes with the firehose of crap that is YouTube.

So much of the content there is just reactionary content of stupid drama either in person or online that I would prefer a bit of a controlled oasis to the online drama stream that is YouTube.

Thank CHRIST. It was a badly needed feature, especially if Valve wanted me to use their Steam Client over everything else (I’d be happy to add external games to Steam, but not seeing the nice artwork really ruin things)

So a few weeks back it’s been officially confirmed I’m being made redundant.

I had a job interview last Friday - late stage. I’m hoping they come back with some positive news. The interview went okay. I think I did well with the Java stuff, but when I was asked about Javascript Event Loops, I was completely befuzzled.

Back at work, and we all have to act like we give a shit. Not too great, I wish I was done with the company overall.

Luckily I have another job interview next week - something to look forward too!

Overall, a pretty resounding “meh”.

I think OP is trying to say:

• There was the Reddit API catastrophe
• That led him to lemmy/ActivityPub
• Which gave him exposure to Linux
• Which he used to give Linux a shot

And he seems to be having a great time with LInux

That cat accepted his fate with surprising calmness

Fun fact, back in 2018, Tesla factories have less safety signs and signals because Elon Musk hates yellow (so no safety tape telling people where not to stand) and cannot stand the beeping noise forklifts make when they reverse.

Source: https://revealnews.org/article/tesla-says-its-factory-is-safer-but-it-left-injuries-off-the-books/

Absolutely baffled how more people aren’t killed at Tesla factories, tbh.

OK this made me giggle like an idiot.

I absolutely love this song. I’m glad someone else in lemmy land loves the song too!

D:

zapper lads

It’s funny. When I saw this last night, I was in such disbelief that I was watching the real trailer that I was nitpicking all the way going “Nah, this looks bad, R* wouldn’t do that. That looks too good for a GTA game” etc until I double-and-triple-checked the links and went “oh”.

Now I’ve had a few hours to digest:

• The buildings and environments look absolutely beautiful
• It seems to be running at 60FPS? Thank goodness
• The characters look… waxy… I will say that black characters look absolutely phenomenal - much better than previous entries
• This whole game sort of feels like “GTA V+”, which makes sense. Unfortunately, I’ve overhyped myself to a level that R* could never achieve. Not really R*'s problem, but still a bummer.
• Looking at some of the social media/news freeze frames, it seems a lot of the satire’s edginess has been toned down a lot. Honestly? Thank goodness. GTA V was nauseating in how much it was trying to be a shock-jockey. However, I hope R* will still have its political leaning. Even if I don’t agree with R*, it (usually) is something of substance and is usually somewhat grown up (with exception of GTA V)
• I would bet money that GTA VI will be delayed to 2026.
• It will be interesting to see how the writing will be now that Dan Houser has left. It seems OK so far.
• Everyone’s faces look so expressive except for the two main characters. They just look kind of robotic

EDIT: One massive thing I forgot - the marketing for this was so stupid. R* kept saying “Upcoming Grand Theft Auto title” as if it wasn’t going to be called “Grand Theft Auto VI” like they called GTA5 “Grand Theft Auto V” and the one before with roman numerals. Like, for goodness sakes guys, get over yourselves. We know it’s going to be called Grand Theft Auto VI.

How to tell if you are chatting with an AI chatbot

It’s weird. There have been folks who have been charmed endlessly by this man, and then there are folks like me who saw him for the hypersexual creep that he has always been.

Also, it’s been known that Katherine Ryan has effectively called him out to his face on a panel show, and also did a documentary with Louis Theroux and talking about Russel Brand’s behaviour without directly or indirectly addressing him for litigious reasons.

Just checked the guy’s YouTube, and it seems he is on the anti-vax, right-wing train for some time.

Here is a reddit thread from about 9 months ago when it was just rumours:

https://old.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/z2pnjz/which_famous_british_comedian_is_katherine_ryan

Well… it has a headphone jack (at least according to this)

For anyone who wants a bit more condensed version, you can read his Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrissey#Race_and_support_for_Anne_Marie_Waters

The funniest thing to come from Morrissey acting like an utter bellend was when The Simpsons did a parody of Morrissey and he got very upset: https://www.morrisseycentral.com/messagesfrommorrissey/hello-hell

About damn time

I was using unhook to do the same thing! Thanks, Google!

So I have phenylketonuria, and a big part of this is being in tune with my brain and my mental/emotional/physical well-being as to try and gauge when my phenylalanine levels are high.

Since I’ve had my phenylalanine levels so low, I was able to correctly find out my levels were high.

As to catastrophising, unfortunately that is a symptom of high phe levels. I’ve been working on lowering my phe levels, and today was the first day I didn’t feel any anxiety or catastrophe despite starting something 24h support at work today for a week.

Sorry to hear about your depression. Sounds like a hell of a bump from your old job - good on you for getting the job!!

I feel a lot better today. I think part of it is writing things out and actually visualising my situation. I think another part was your reply, which helped me feel seen, so thank you.