Areldyb [he/him]

The game may not be for you, and that’s okay.

Not sure whether it matters, but Guy 3 and Guy 1 are the same Guy, who also sent death threats to the author years ago. Dude needs some serious help.

Go for it!

(One thing though: I released YLINAT under the GPL-3 license. I’m not a lawyer-guy but I think the way the GPL license works is that if you take actual code from it, then the GPL license will apply if you distribute Karit? Something like that. But ideas/lessons, totally fine.)

Looks cool! I wrote something along similar lines a couple years ago that might interest you: https://github.com/areldyb/ylinat

The article talks a little about it. It’s more of an unwind+rewind cycle:

The pull from this force then rotates the ground-based drum at a high speed.

This rotation then generates electricity that can be stored in a battery system for deployment wherever and whenever it is needed.

After 45 seconds, the kites are levelled up so that the pull from the wind is momentarily minimised.

This enables the tether to be wound back in, using only a fraction of the electricity generated when it was being spun out.

The result is a net gain in renewable power at the simple cost of flying a kite.

Then the cycle is repeated, again and again, potentially for hours on end.

It makes sense to me. I hope it catches on!

a glance at their artist image and bio should be enough to persuade even the least skeptical observer.

At least we know the article was written by a human.

It once was. Sounds like it could be again!

I mostly rely on built-in “scheduled send” features these days, but in the past (and possibly future, can’t remember!) I’ve used Time Cave and been happy with it.

Pinball Deluxe Reloaded has been an excellent time-waster on my phone for a while now. It’s available on PC too.

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This is an argument for why Biden is able to lead. Speaking for myself, I’m not so worried that Biden is unable to lead. He’s old and obviously slowing down, but he’s got decades of experience and, as you say, a whole administration’s worth of expertise.

I’m worried that he is unable to win.

“This campaign is bigger than me or you. Everything we believe in, everything we stand for, and everyone we are fighting for are at risk in this election.” --Joe Biden campaign email, July 4th

“if I lose it’s cool lol” --Joe Biden on ABC News, July 5th, paraphrased

Please don’t assume that it’s all Russian bot bullshit. Thursday night’s “debate” performance was a catastrophe that affirmed a lot of people’s worst fears, my own included. I just don’t know how he wins after that, and if he can’t win, then I’m sorry but it’s time for an open convention.

If your router isn’t even a Linksys router, then it’s most likely a false positive result and can be safely ignored. If you want to be extra sure, you could attempt to actually exploit the vulnerability with routersploit and see whether you get anywhere.

In general, the fix for a vulnerability in an end-user network device is some combination of “update the firmware” and “disable the vulnerable feature”.

… … are you secretly a mosquito

Hey, um, you’re all over this thread and you seem like you’ve really got an axe to grind here. What’s your story?

Promising, but not ready for primetime. I spent the last two days using it as my phone’s default search after you mentioned it, and… well, I went back to Google, at least for now.

My second proposal — and this is a wild one — is that promotional notifications should just not be allowed. Or you can opt in to them if you desperately want to hear from the Starbucks app every single day, but you should have to go out of your way to do that and should not be the default behavior when you choose “allow notifications.” Just an idea!

The author calls out the Starbucks app here, but doesn’t mention how blatantly dark-patterned its notifications really are. Android allows apps to set up multiple notification channels, so you can selectively prioritize (or, more often, mute or block) notifications based on their content. Starbucks uses this feature… to create a single channel called “Promotions & order status”. You wanted to know when your order’s ready? Fuck you and your concentration, get double stars today!

I appreciate the notification controls Android gives me, and I use them aggressively. If an app pushes a notification that doesn’t actually require my attention, I block that channel, and if it does it again, I block notifications for the whole app. I agree with the author, though: I shouldn’t need to do that.

Can you recommend some Sonic Adventure mods?

It’d be dictionary length to the fifth power, not times five.