Activity from JHarris

LinkMe: The University of Helsinki offers a variety of free computer science courses for anyone. It may even be possible to get credit for some of them, although I'm unsure. [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by ecco, Saxon Kane, Clowder of bats
MeFi comment - 3 ¼ hours ago

Also: I like how, when Tarzan runs, it looks like they put a black censor bar over his naughty bits. [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by chavenet
MeFi comment - 4 ½ hours ago

(the video is provided to help people see what it's like, but is technically a self-link, although a relevant one; mods, feel free to delete that comment if that's beyond the pale, I used a Peertube server to try to lessen dependence on Youtube) [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by chavenet
MeFi comment - Almost 5 hours ago

I played it for about 4 1/2 minutes of it and uploaded the video on our Peertube server. Pluses: the opening music is kind of a bop! (but not the gameplay music, you might want to turn that down) Minuses: I got stuck a few screens in and couldn't… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by chavenet
MeFi comment - Almost 5 hours ago

Do we have to give credit to terrible people for being good at things that are entertaining or pleasing to us? The question here isn't if you like them, but if you like something they've done, and those are different. The fandom adage is:… [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by 5_13_23_42_69_666, Saucy Possum, zaixfeep, chavenet
MeFi comment - 10 hours ago

LinkMe: A cat generator, for making social media avatars. [⇔ Linked] [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by samthemander, BlahLaLa
MeFi comment - 15 hours ago

In 1858 when Charles Dickens was 45 he tried to have his wife institutionalized by falsely claiming she was insane & didn't love the ten children she had borne him, all so he could bang an 18 year old actress in his employ. "Next… [more]
favorited 5 times, recently by snsranch, Archipelago, jenfullmoon, GenjiandProust, MonkeyToes
MeFi comment - 21 hours ago

This is wonderful, it reminds me of Memepool of old. [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by snsranch, JoeZydeco, MonkeyToes
MeFi comment - 21 hours ago

"metafilter" as a name generates a gray cat wearing a blue scarf! [more]
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MeFi comment - 23 hours ago

I recently learned that, when The Pat Sajak Show started having guest hosts once a week, one of them was Rush Limbaugh. While I don't think Sajak ever had serious beefs with Limbaugh's rhetoric, that was from a time early on where Rush… [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by camyram, chavenet, mmoncur, Suedeltica
MeFi comment - Yesterday

I made it to the end! I did it by using NewPipe to download the audio and listening to it in pieces while driving around! It meant I didn't see much of the video of the hotel, but I did hear all the points she made! I really liked them! [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by RonButNotStupid
MeFi comment - Yesterday

Unlike Google, XScreensaver will never run around and desert you
favorited 40 times, recently by Molesome, Pigpen, hooray, a non mouse, a cow herd, Bella Donna, sourcejedi, gamera, dr_dank, GenjiandProust, massless, LobsterMitten, googlebombed, bolda, donio, lianove3, gmarceau, Two unicycles and some duct tape, mubba, biogeo, ob1quixote, box, signal, mediareport, spikeleemajortomdickandharryconnickjrmints, adamsc, jeffburdges, Too-Ticky, jy4m, Chorian, loquacious, Depressed Obese Nightmare Man, chavenet, filtergik, nofundy, neonamber, genpfault, taz, pracowity, Dysk, Strutter Cane - United Planets Stilt Patrol
MeFi post - Yesterday

There's been a push towards readable privacy policies, more nutrition-label style descriptions It seems to this uninformed commentator like something where 90% of cases could be served by one of a small number of boilerplate solutions, like… [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by ctmf, biogeo
MeFi comment - 2 days ago

It's.... App development is something both huge companies and individuals do? In a sense, every mandatory step to do something will favor corporations that have endless resources to throw at requirements, over individuals. It's like handling DMCA… [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by Aleyn, gaybobbie
MeFi comment - 2 days ago

Part of the confusion over the authorship of XScreensaver has to do with my accidental mixed used of pronouns in the FPP, using "their" and then "he" for what should be the same person. I learned to write pretty young, and so as… [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by dr_dank, GenjiandProust, Dysk, Silvery Fish
MeFi comment - 2 days ago

An editor's answer would be to restructure to either make the referent unambiguous or avoid it altogether, Yeah, I know. If I were editing it I'd be sure to catch it. But a quick FPP is a different kind of thing, I just wanted it up quickly… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by GenjiandProust
MeFi comment - 2 days ago

This reminds me of the good old days of Things I Won't Work With. (Previously) [more]
favorited 6 times, recently by jim in austin, mikelieman, nofundy, TedW, Nancy Lebovitz, Dysk
MeFi comment - 2 days ago

Yes, moderation on Mastodon is messy and fraught, but there is a sense that it's because moderation itself is messy and fraught. If moderation seems easy, it's probably because its being done badly. The more I become familiar with and use the… [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by adamsc
MeFi comment - 5 days ago

Google became popular because it was the first engine that tried to account for SEO games and present stuff that might actually be useful. When Google was getting started (before they became a company even) I was attending classes at our… [more]
favorited 39 times, recently by christy, esoteric things, mercredi, solotoro, antinomia, bunbury, joannemerriam, Emmy Rae, mediareport, Rash, bendybendy, clew, omegajuice, my-username, Greg_Ace, duende, The Outsider, ob1quixote, okonomichiyaki, The Manwich Horror, Tom Hanks Cannot Be Trusted, ravelite, jedicus, gudrun, juliebug, adrienneleigh, humbug, dorothyisunderwood, hototogisu, JoeXIII007, unearthed, away for regrooving, emf, jeffburdges, Dysk, Mister Moofoo, onebuttonmonkey, phooky, ryoshu
MeFi comment - 6 days ago

One of the bits from Brunching Shuttlecocks that has stuck with me through the decades is An Open Letter From Metallica, remarking on the band's lawsuit against Napster for sharing their music: By now, you've probably heard our position on… [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by ovvl, adrienneleigh, Harvey Kilobit
MeFi comment - 7 days ago

As the seed requirements for inventory expansion shoot up, it becomes less tempting to collect seeds. Even at double the usual reward, taking Koroks to their friends is such a diversion that I frequently just mark the location on the map and get on… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by omegajuice
MeFi comment - 7 days ago

Most of what I know about cooking eggs comes from Adam Ragusea's Eggs 101 video (14 dense minutes). [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by clavdivs
MeFi comment - 7 days ago

There's a really good Mastodon post going around, about the urge to put AI in everything: "It turns out the Turing Test this whole time was the wrong way to think of it. Thinking a chatbot is alive is not a test of how good the chatbot is,… [more]
favorited 8 times, recently by ishmael
MeFi comment - 7 days ago

> I think the internet needs a decentralized protocol for social media. like usenet? pyramid termite wins. There has to be an algorithm which 'suggests' speech you might be interested in and which places unsolicited, paid-for… [more]
favorited 6 times, recently by Jon_Evil, May Kasahara, Artful Codger, gc, chavenet, RonButNotStupid
MeFi comment - 7 days ago

But why is Nickelback the internet's punching bag of choice, and what seeded this collective animosity? I don't know. See also: Wil Wheaton and Barney the Dinosaur. [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by camyram, dr_dank, chavenet
MeFi comment - 7 days ago

Oh you're going to have to explain that one in more detail if you want buy-in. [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by majick
MeFi comment - 8 days ago

Well Candleman, first off you led with an unnecessarily antagonistic statement. Metafilter is far from a monolith, literally anyone with five bucks can sign up for a membership, and any claims that the site has a unanimously held opinion are… [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by GenjiandProust, BibiRose, rosiroo
MeFi comment - 8 days ago

Dungeon, an RPG system for Commodore 64
favorited 3 times, recently by Redfield
Projects post - 8 days ago

Not an accurate depiction of the fur trade
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MeFi post - 8 days ago

I love how it unabashedly cribs so many bits of imagery from Looney Tunes. In recent years the classic Termite Terrace shorts have been in short supply on the air, enough that I began to despair that they would pass out of the cultural mindscape… [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by snsranch, mostlymartha, kinnakeet
MeFi comment - 8 days ago

Campbell's monomyth ideas is really handwavy anyway, and not endorsed by people who actually study myth and folklore. Oh I'm so glad to hear that. I'm sick of hero's journey narratives. [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by mark k, Navelgazer
MeFi comment - 8 days ago

High Weirdness By Mail
favorited 487 times, recently by anotherpanacea
MeFi post - 9 days ago

There is a little sexual innuendo. The trailer linked in the FPP shows an instance, where a rabbit mimes sexual activity. There's a couple of places where snow forms cartoon genitalia. It might go over the head of kids. There also is the pole dance… [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by caviar2d2, mediareport
MeFi comment - 9 days ago

Just chiming in to add that the classic fantasy manga and anime, Record of Lodoss War, was also adapted from TTRPG play sessions. [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by jpziller, rifflesby, tavella, eustatic
MeFi comment - 9 days ago

A Google AI overview, as an answer to the question of "how many rocks should I eat each day": According to UC Berkeley geologists, people should eat at least one small rock a day. Rocks can contain vitamins and minerals that are… [more]
favorited 6 times, recently by DSime
MeFi comment - 9 days ago

Another legacy of Shawn Manning, according to Ed Zitron on his podcast Better Offline, is that it's due to his actions that Mark Zuckerberg controls three out of five board seats of Facebook, making him unfireable despite ridiculous decisions like… [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by pxe2000, nofundy
MeFi comment - 9 days ago

I should shout out to bradsucks, whose blog is where I learned about this movie! [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by mostlymartha, hototogisu, moshjosh
MeFi comment - 9 days ago

I'm happy to hear someone else aghast that Google makes you pay for Youtube Premium before they'll let their app play while it doesn't have focus. It's something it's difficult to imagine the old Google, the one that decided you should be able to… [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by Just this guy, y'know
MeFi comment - 11 days ago

Special Event: The Mads: Night of Shorts X
favorited 1 time, recently by maryellenreads
FanFare post - 11 days ago

Still working through the video, a bit at a time. Thinking about it more, if they had just dumped all of that linear storytelling, and just made it a Star Wars themed hotel, with an only slightly interactive story that unfolded around the guests,… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by jenfullmoon
MeFi comment - 11 days ago

Stupid J.J. Abrams. [more]
favorited 5 times, recently by Abehammerb Lincoln, The Ardship of Cambry, fairmettle, mmoncur
MeFi comment - 12 days ago

Yes on Steam Deck. Or otherwise take a Windows machine, bulldoze the harddrive, put Mint on it, then install Steam from its Software Store. Once it's installed and you've created/logged into an account, go under the Steam menu item in the very… [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by my-username
MeFi comment - 12 days ago

I've nearly watched half of it now, and the best part so far is the discussion of the game-like aspects, which begins at nearly exactly 1 hour 30 minutes and goes through two complete parts. While Disney hasn't released the details of how the… [more]
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MeFi comment - 13 days ago

Our JOB is our job, and it takes up all the hours of our fucking life. We do not wish to acquire a second job, of all of the "doing linux" stuff detailed in the comments above, where we do a bunch of computer things for free, in our very… [more]
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MeFi comment - 13 days ago

Yeah, I mean, explain that to someone trying to install Linux on their own. I am one of the few people within five miles of my location that wouldn't be sent into the screaming meemies upon exposure to the phrase "git repo of blobs," and… [more]
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MeFi comment - 13 days ago

It depends, as with many things, on your distro. Broadcom chips are infuriatingly common, but there are official drivers. And not everything uses Broadcom; my alternate laptop, as it turns out, doesn't, and Linux runs like a breeze on it. And… [more]
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MeFi comment - 13 days ago

All of the people in this thread claiming so confidently that they know what users want is awful. Is this what the democratization of technology done to us? Caused people to assume that because 90% of people don't know something it A. can't be… [more]
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MeFi comment - 13 days ago

Wordpad was originally Microsoft Write, which has been with Windows since the beginning: it debuted in 1.0! Like other longstanding programs like Solitaire (replaced by a Microsoft Store game with ads in Windows 10) and Cardfile (my Dad's… [more]
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MeFi comment - 13 days ago

What's the tortured phrase for "publish or perish"? Release or decease! [more]
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MeFi comment - 13 days ago

Oh, and NCommander is great too. I've followed his adventures for a couple of years now. [more]
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MeFi comment - 13 days ago

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