Can’t say that I have. Do you have a sample video with the kind of music you’re talking about?

• “Children of God” by Mary Doria Russell: Second and final part of a sci-fi series about a Jesuit mission to an alien culture that goes wrong. Like the first part, it’s an emotional rollercoaster with a great cast of characters that you really grow attached to (and who often meet tragic ends). The author also created a really interesting alien society made up of two separate species. Oh, and the title might sound like it’s a preachy religious book, but it’s very much not. Would never have expected it, but this is now one of my favorite sci-fi series.

• “Memories of Ice” by Steven Erikson: Third book of the “Malazan Book of the Fallen” fantasy series. All three books I’ve read so far were enjoyable stories, but also very complex and not easy to read for sure. I love how the author creates a fantasy world where stone-age cultures play a pretty big role and where pre-history in many ways shapes the current world of the book. Also, quite a good cast of characters, which I didn’t necessarily expect given that it’s “epic fantasy”.

Mag ja gute Absichten haben, aber empfinde ich als extrem problematisch und fehlgeleitet. Damit wird den Kindern beigebracht dass eine KI vertrauenswürdig ist und das Gespräch mit echten Zeitzeugen ersetzen kann. Es wird sogar explizit darauf abgezielt, dass die Kinder eine emotionale Bindung zu ihr aufbauen.

Menschen mit weniger guten Absichten können dann aber genau so einfach eine “Zeitzeugen” KI erstellen die den Holocaust leugnet. Und statt dass den Kindern eine Grundskepsis gegenüber KI-generierten Inhalten beigebracht wurde, sind sie dann umso vulnerabler gegenüber Manipulation und Desinformation.

I’m 100% sure they exist and I’m 99.9% sure there won’t be any contact over the next 10 years. It’s entirely possible there will never be, though I do hope otherwise.

Ich sehe das ähnlich wie du. Ich bin nach 5,5 Jahren immer noch bei meiner ersten Arbeitsstelle. Hätte ich wie viele andere seitdem mehrmals den Arbeitgeber gewechselt könnte ich vermutlich inzwischen deutlich mehr verdienen. Jede zweite Woche schreibt mich irgendein Recruiter auf LinkedIn an. Aber irgendwie ist es mir den Stress nicht wert. Meine Arbeit ist relativ stressfrei, Kollegen sind freundlich, ich schufte mich nicht zu Tode, kann von Zuhause arbeiten und muss fast nie Überstunden machen. Ich verdiene genug um ganz gut zu leben und auch etwas zu sparen. Die Karriereleiter kann mir erstmal gestohlen bleiben.

I read books for personal enjoyment, basically never for learning or self-improvement or anything like that. I only ever read one book at a time and mostly in the evening before going to sleep.

I’m in my early thirties. My reading speed varies quite a lot based on the book and my mood, but I’ve definitely noticed that I’ve become “worse” at reading in recent years. Too many digital distractions I guess. That said, if I do manage to read for 2 hours before going to sleep, I sleep so much better than if I watch a movie or doomscroll on Lemmy or whatever.

I mostly read sci-fi and fantasy, sometimes historical novels. I think this year I’ve finished 4 books so far, and dropped one quarter-way through. There were definitely years where I’ve managed way more.

Just tried this out, it seems you’re right. TIL. Always thought it would be the local equivalent of defederation.

There are a couple active English-speaking communities there, like /c/europe@feddit.org, but you’re right that most content on the instance is in German. It’s more that their userbase is also pretty active on other, English-speaking instances and I’m pretty sure that by blocking the instance, you won’t see any of those posts and comments either.

Feddit.org is bilingual and has a lot of users participating on English-language communities. So maybe better to block the individual communities if you don’t want to decrease the userbase you can interact with.

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Just looked this up. It looks like the new generation just shows up as an MTP device instead of an external drive. That doesn’t stop sideloading books onto the device, it works as before.

However, they’ve seemingly stopped allowing the “download and transfer” option for Amazon-bought books, which was an easy way to get them into Calibre and remove their DRM. So that’s something to keep in mind for sure if you want to buy ebooks from Amazon.

As someone who has sideloaded a ton of books onto their kindle, why?

Sure you can become honorary Europeans along with the Australians. You’ll be expected to send a Eurovision candidate though!

From a Non-American perspective: Europe will hopefully become less dependent on the US and finally build a proper unified army. We might get more skilled migrants from the US, who will bolster our economy.

I had stick insects for a while. Very easy to care for. They multiply rapidly, so the main challenge is keeping their population under control. In the beginning I had males and females, but the males died out at some point. Not an issue for their reproduction though, as the females can basically just clone themselves into an egg.

Die Union wird sich etwas zurückhalten müssen wenn sie eine funktionale Groko-Regierung wollen. Das hat sich ja gerade jetzt gezeigt. Ich glaube es gibt viele kompromissbereite Politiker in der CDU, aber populistische Polterer wie Merz sind in der Tat ein Problem. Hoffe der wird zumindest nach dem Wahlkampf einen gemäßigteren Ton anschlagen.

Früher oder später musste es wohl kommen, aber hatte gehofft dass die Ampel zumindest noch bei den nächsten paar Versuchen die Chatkontrolle durchs EU-Parlament zu drücken die Sperrminorität aufrechterhalten könnte.

Uff, zwar gerechtfertigt aber gerade jetzt habe ich so gar keine Lust auf Wahlkampf mit anschließender CDU-Regierung…

Guild Wars 2. I’m not really into grinding for hours or optimizing my characters, so I appreciate that the game can be played quite casually. That’s also true of ESO, but that one feels basically like a single player game to me, while GW2 feels much more social with a lot of player cooperation just arising naturally through its design. Also love the zone design, having a lot of exploration and things like jumping puzzles. Story is pretty decent as well.

Yes, but it shows the town of Oxenfurt, not Novigrad. If it’s in the art book as Novigrad, they probably mislabeled it.