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cidoku

2 months ago

Happy 10th anniversary to my site.

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dc-blog 2 months ago

damn your site is 10yo? surprising XD, happy 10th anniversary.

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cidoku 2 months ago

Yes. Fun fact: it's older than people who are 9 years old.

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dc-blog 2 months ago

Omg my site is only 2yo so its older than ppl older than 1 *dies of shock*

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angeleyesprings 2 months ago

Wow your site is almost middle school age! congrats!!!!

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cidoku 2 months ago

@amy thank you! it's almost the right age to become a precure.

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blight 2 months ago

happy birthday to your site!

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colexdev 2 months ago

That is amazing. I haven't heard of many running sites this long. Hats off to you.

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cidoku updated The Cidoku Network

2 months ago

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satyrwoud 2 months ago

I have an internet friend who spent some time in Ushuaia recently. Seems like a lovely part of the world… and if nuclear war breaks out you’re pretty well insulated from it, which is a bonus. ;)

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ongezell 2 months ago

Patagonia is my favorite place in the entire world, tbh, I'm happy being anywhere near the Andes.

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cidoku 2 months ago

I sure am lucky to live in the country that owns the green part of Patagonia. The Andes look beautiful in winter!

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rbuchanan 2 months ago

I've only seen the Southern Cone in photos and videos. As much as I admire its largely unspoilt beauty, I wouldn't care to live there. Its appeal is perfectly fathomable..

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cidoku rbuchanan

2 months ago

"Conformity to W3C versions and specs thereof are a waste of time after '97" My primary concern is extensive backwards compatibility, not standards. If those elements had been in HTML 4 it's (barely) more likely that my target browsers would support them. Since they don't, I can't use them.

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rbuchanan 2 months ago

Are your specific criteria for inclusion and retention of elements and attributes thereof based primarily on compatibility with the browsers listed on your page?

cidoku 2 months ago

Yes. Basically, I target IE4 and Netscape 4 as a conscious design choice and constraint. Standards never mattered as much as "what browsers can actually do". This was true during the browser wars, it was true during the IE6 dark ages, and it's true now (the html living standard = what chrome does)

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mikegrindle updated Mike Grindle's Webpage

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nohappynonsense 2 months ago

Yesterday I hemmed and hawed inside my local thrift store for nearly 20 minutes deciding if I should buy the Season 1 and Season 2 box sets of The Simpsons on DVD. They were priced at $5 each; if I had UK prices I'd probably have an entire collection of DVDs already.

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mikegrindle 2 months ago

I haven't seen any Simpsons yet, but I did find a boxset containing two seasons of The Office (the UK version) for effectively 10p. So, it's theoretically possible that you could get the entire golden era of the Simpsons for like a quid if you were super lucky.

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nohappynonsense 2 months ago

Okay but what is a quid, some kind of bird or something?

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sorbier 2 months ago

"I'll also spare you a lecture on why I dislike the current state of streaming." what? noooooooooooo

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mikegrindle 2 months ago

@nohappynonsense it’s a pound sterling (‘init, bruv?’)

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mikegrindle 2 months ago

@sorbier maybe another time when I feel like having a good moan

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colexdev 2 months ago

I agree with sorbier. I would love to hear your thoughts on that! I have been doing some thinking about "real things" (physical things) recently too, and the pros and cons. As I am with you, streaming can suck :(

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vegacollective 2 months ago

There can be something tactile about physical media, especially things like vinyl. But in an ecosystem where anything could be pulled from a streaming library there is a comfort in being able to hold any physical object that cannot be taken away and potentially even added to a collection of media that can be held in esteem rather than immediately discarded.

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cidoku angeleyesprings

2 months ago

Hey Amy! Did my reply reach you? Grats on the follower milestone, by the way.

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angeleyesprings 2 months ago

Hi! Yes, your email reached me! I will write a reply soon... and thank you!!

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cidoku updated The Cidoku Network

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dc-blog 2 months ago

based laptop chad

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rbuchanan 2 months ago

Had I been here upon your first annunciation, I would've warned against the sale or relinquishment of such a useful tool, and advised you to cultivate some discipline to eschew online activity when you'd rather read and draw. Otoh, I'm glad that you're more interested in books than sites.

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ongezell 2 months ago

I don't believe getting rid of your personal belongings will help achieve your goal, for me, being completely honest, that's a bad way to cultivate self control. especially with your objective because it doesn't make sense at all, if the computer is something that is in your way, the laptop will be just as much in your way lol

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cidoku 2 months ago

It's fine; I don't do anything on the machine I gave away that I can't do on my old trusty laptop. Not being nailed to a single place will benefit me, and I'll reclaim a lot of space occupied by the screen, keyboard, etc for more useful stuff.

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cidoku 2 months ago

@ongezell No, because I can't be fucked to use my laptop for anything but work. I get home and I forget it exists.

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cidoku 2 months ago

And, well, although it's important, self control is not even my main goal. It's just I don't see much use for it anymore. It's a big bulky powerful machine that I don't use for anything but to update my site. It's a waste! I might be whimsical, but this is something I've been meditating for a year or so.

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rbuchanan 2 months ago

All else aside, any summer is well spent reading :)

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cidoku blight

2 months ago

Good site. I'll link back. Cheers!

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blight 2 months ago

thank u so much! :)

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cidoku

2 months ago

Forever salty that the "details" and "summary" elements are not in HTML 4

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rbuchanan 2 months ago

Conformity to W3C versions and specs thereof are a waste of time after '97

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uranonaut updated THERESE'S HOMEPAGE !!

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2 months ago

webcomic updates coming soon <3

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nekonokuni 2 months ago

I understand with with how taking a show with cold water, because when the eletricity is out (we have electric showers here) we have to heat the water on the stove then mix with cold water in a big bucket and take a bath like it was 1800 probably lol Luckily it usually happens on summer when the cold water is actually enough (unfortunately lol)

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amriel 2 months ago

@nekonokuni Yeah, it's a small blessing that this mishap is occuring for me when it's summer here instead of winter!

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disuko updated ☆*:.｡.disuko's web corner｡.:*☆

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cidoku

2 months ago

People should write more articles as dialogues

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ongezell 2 months ago

Like Hunter S. Thompson?

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cidoku 2 months ago

Kinda but not necessarily. I was thinking more in the style of old books that made up a conversation between two or more fictional characters (e.g. a teacher and student) to communicate the thesis of the work. Think Platonic dialogues.

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cidoku 2 months ago

The other day I was reading a book on heraldry from around the 16th century and it was interesting in that it taught the subject in form of a dialogue between three dudes. The book "Surreal Numbers" by Conway is a math book written as a conversation between a guy and his gf who find a weird inscription on a rock while on vacation and try to decipher it.

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cidoku 2 months ago

"Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata" by Ørberg, a Latin language learning book, has many chapters written as dialogues too. It teaches you latin by following the story of a roman family and their slaves, lol.

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cidoku 2 months ago

And I remember at least one japanese (travel?) blog in which the author made up a few characters who discussed his whereabouts. Fun stuff. It's difficult, but more people should do it.

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saint-images 2 months ago

It's Alf's Room! A true Internet legend and a punk in the best sense of this word https://alf-s-room.com/etc/nandarou/mdwalkman/index.htm

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cidoku 2 months ago

That's the one! I couldn't recall the exact name. Thank you.

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cidoku updated The Cidoku Network

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angeleyesprings 2 months ago

I've been having similar thoughts on this subject. I don't agree with 100% of your takes... but I'm also concerned about where this is going. It kind of reminds me of crochet vs knitted pieces in a way. Crochet cannot be done by machine whereas knit obviously can. But both have so much value when lovingly crafted by human hands.

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angeleyesprings 2 months ago

I'm also concerned about everything online becoming unverifiable, and AI flooding every site / search machine with slop (which is already happening). Tricky and nuanced subject.

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ongezell 2 months ago

Tbh, AI is just one of the symptons of late stage capitalism, even if AI wasn't a thing, shit had already hit the fan years ago. AI is just being used to replace people in sweatshops (mind you, not 100% yet because they still are still incapable of not producing slop)

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ongezell 2 months ago

Also, I don't agree with the AI thing being indistinguishable from an actual human made art, 9.99 out of 10, AI art will be slop, maybe, high quality slop, still SLOP. AI art is just aalgorithms consuming and regurgitating art that already exists. you can pretty much and I kid you not distinguish art made by AI to art made by a human. at least if you are a artist yourself.

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ongezell 2 months ago

Mega corporations will use whatever slop they can get to get those few cents of profit tho, it doesn't even need to look good. so looking realistic or passable isn't even a problem

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cidoku 2 months ago

@amy I'm aware of that and while it's true that it's a cause for concern, search engines being flooded with slop has been a thing since SEO's been a thing (obligatory thanks g**gle for ruining the internet), and the damage can't be repaired. That's why I didn't mention it.

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cidoku 2 months ago

@ongezell I'm not sure if it's 100% distinguishable. Yes, slop is slop no matter what, but with some slight taste you CAN generate stuff that looks legit. It's fortunate that most people who generate art aren't artists, and most importantly, have no taste.

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cidoku 2 months ago

@ongezell but here's the thing: most people aren't artists, so slop WILL end up winning out as it becomes easier to produce and especially more profitable to produce. "Consumers" don't care as long as it looks alright, and no creator will want or be able to compete against the endless, almost oppresive amount of slop! Unless... they prevail?

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cidoku 2 months ago

@ongezell then again I only have in mind people who do art for a living. Hobbyists will just keep on truckin no matter what since they don't depend on it.

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ongezell 2 months ago

My point is, AI is a symptom not a cause. I don't actually believe AI is that much of a threat to Us, the threat is in the hands of those developing it. I honestly don't see AI endangering us more than any of the existing average suspects (mega corporations) that being said I honestly don't believe AI will get better than this too honestly.

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ongezell 2 months ago

If you take a notice on all the AI technology being produced, it's honestly just a fancy search engine at best and even then it can get pretty bad, just look at google and chat gpt with their products. ChatGPT is hot garbage when it comes to anything that is actually just a little bit complicated, gemini? lmao Not to mention the amount of energy this shit consumes

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ongezell 2 months ago

I don't know how to describe it but everything about AI is just so pathetic to me it doesn't even makes me worried.

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cidoku 2 months ago

I do agree AI is a symptom of this lovely anti-human illness we have as a society. As for generative AIs being crap, I would tread with care. There's no way that what they show us is the best there is. Oh, also, I didn't want to mention the energy usage argument because it's always tackled to the end as an afterthought, never the main argument against this stuff.

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rbuchanan 2 months ago

You may have erred in assuming that one of several functional corollaries fatalistically determines an essence of technology. We can't know whether AI is a truly effective succedaneum for human intelligence until it produces genuinely substantive works. At present, its imitative faculties are superficially applied without any profundity of style or substance.

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rbuchanan 2 months ago

Ongezell observes that most AI is slop; I'd contend that one of many reasons why is that those who opt to use it professionally (whether mendaciously or otherwise) are perforce uninspired. It's an easy means. I'll always collaborate with human artists because no AI can illustrate my stories satisfactorily. In that regard, I am by no means special.

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cidoku 2 months ago

@rbuchanan you're right in that my wording implies that I determine the essence of technology from AI; this is not so. I meant it more generally; AI is not the first or the last in a long series of anti-human technologies. As ongezell mentioned, AI is just another symptom, but not the cause.

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