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Cake day: July 14th, 2024

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  • I don’t consider them hacks. They’re tooling and intended use. Even if most people don’t know them. They were designed deliberately.

    Using keyboard input is not a clever misuse of unintended functionality. It’s intended design.

    I hack websites through browser extensions. Adblocker, css inject, platform extensions. But even that is only hacking in the context of the original content. As a product it’s its intended purpose. So I wouldn’t call it life hack.


    Mouse gestures, keyboard key combinations, alt access, alt keypad character input, YouTube Sponsorblock, adblock, search bookmarks are - I guess - my most used.




  • I never feel bored. The closest, I guess, is feeling lost and not motivated for anything or stressed and jumpy between things.

    In those cases or more when I don’t “have anything to do” in general, I open Lemmy, or YouTube, or watch anime or some series, read manga, or watch documentaries. Depending on motivation and mood I open games or do open source or personal project work. Sometimes open specific news or test websites, or my RSS feed accumulator. Or do whatever else is open to do.









  • There are different kinds of cults. Cult is a different thing from religion. It doesn’t belong on the same axis. But we can continue the thought if we define it as religious cult.

    The scale is about excessive binding, control, rituals, restrictions, belief systems. If the left is the extreme, then towards the right we have weaker restrictions upon the belief system. The belief becomes weaker, and the beliefs do not have to restrict other and own people’s activities and beliefs.

    Religion in the middle makes no sense. It should be the label on the scale. “Religious extremism” or similar. Maybe narrow, restrictive, totalitarian.

    I don’t know specific terminology for the right side. Maybe open or unrestrictive practice of religion.



  • I don’t think a movie can be “really bad” only because of a voicing, so it also can’t be elevated to good with just a voice. There are too many other factors into what makes - or for me goes into - a good or bad or really bad movie. Even when a voicing can ruin a good or very good movie.

    They do have significant influence, though. Germany has a very strong dubbing industry, but I still prefer EN original voicing. And for JP anime, I much prefer original JP voicing. It makes a big difference.

    I can’t say I have seen and heard many in both forms, but only very rarely do I like/find equally good or prefer the dub. There are good ones. But in the wide industry, I find them largely sub-par.

    Maybe there’s more difference between different languages and societies compared to what you were asking. But I think they go into the same theme/aspect.






  • An industry develops, especially in poor societies and those without a good justice system where people of imminent death are kept (brain-)“alive” in a coma, and get sold as burning material for industry (factories and various production), engines like for big ships, and booby-traps in conflict zones.