Alyx Hinata 🇹🇩🚫💀 @alyx@gameliberty.club

@matrix And by "35" they mean "eternally 17".

@YeetLibs Who let Kanye program an AI?

In other news, I just thought of an idea for one of these media review sites. Because brigading and generally poor thought out reviews usually come with either a 1 ⭐ or 10 ⭐ attached, just ignore these reviews when doing the average. Only add in those reviews to the average when the 2⭐ or 9⭐ ratings exceed a certain proportion.

If a movie has a large proportion of 9⭐ ratings, then it's likely good, so the 10⭐ reviews are likely legitimate too, so they should be included in the average. But say it has a large proportion of 5-6⭐, barely any 9⭐, and more 10⭐ than all the others combined, you know that's gonna be brigading, and because they're not representative of the product, you shouldn't include them when doing the final score.

Looking at IMDB Snow Shite ratings... 1.5... damn...
But that's a lot of 1⭐ spamming, so I though I'd do the math while completely ignoring ALL 1⭐ . You still get a 6.2 rating, which is usually awful for IMDB. And if you really want to get rid of all brigading, you probably need to eliminate the 10⭐ ratings too, and that gets you a score of 4.6.
So however you look at it, bad movie is bad.

I wanted to look up how Snow White is doing in ratings, and I accidentally typed: "Snow Shite".... lol

@beardalaxy Did a speedtest, but changed the test server to what would be my normal local server, and got full download speed. So either it's not limited, or the limit coincides with my normal download speed.
Upload speed seems indeed to be limited a bit, but my upload speed is bad anyway, so it doesn't actually matter much. And I'm not planning to do p2p with my browser anyway, so that's not an issue.

For just small browser stuff, this might be surprisingly useful.

@mushroom_soup Hunter-gatherer society of the 21st century.

So Vivaldi partnered up with Proton, and integrated their VPN in the browser. Not really something I normally feel the need to use, but I decided to give their free VPN a try since it's right there.

I'm not seeing an immediate speed impact, which is surprising considering I'm not paying anything, and a VPN inherently adds overhead. There's probably just a small amount of latency that isn't that noticeable while browsing.

I tried out Google Maps, Bing Maps, and OpenStreetMap to see where they think I am now. Neither of them can get an exact location, but some pick a vague default location. Google thinks I'm somewhere in India for some reason. Bing thinks I'm in the Netherlands, which makes sense, cause that's the free server ProtonVPN assigned me to. OSM has simply no clue, and just opens up the map wherever I was last looking.

Found a small forum that apparently just hates VPNs. Otherwise... yeah, it does what it says.

@beardalaxy @matrix Sabine Hossenfelder (left of Technology Connections). She's a good science communicator. She actually used to be a physics researcher, but apparently got fed up because the science field is kinda broken right now. If you're looking for trustworthy reporting on particle physics and cosmology news, she's probably the best there is.

@matrix Hey, at least there's two channels on the right that are good.
But yeah, old YT was definitely more fun. It went downhill fast when it tried to take itself too seriously.

@cowanon @WhitestTemplar
If the nasty girlfriend is by chance Asami, apparently she somehow turns Korra lesbian and shack up by the end of it. Don't ask me how, I have no clue either.

@matrix If you pan the map a little to the south-east you'll find Dracula Land.

@mushroom_soup This immediately came to my mind.

@theorytoe
Shaders have been around for years, Minecraft is still there.
Also, the setting is optional anyway. You can still play it however you want.

@Fash-E Proof that God was drunk off his ass when he made us.

I still don't get how the creators of Aang though Korra would be likable in any way.

But when the world needed him most, he turned into an annoying woman.

Nice clock bro