Currently studying CS and some other stuff. Best known for previously being top 50 (OCE) in LoL, expert RoN modder, and creator of RoN:EE’s community patch (CBP).

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Cake day: June 17th, 2023
  • MHLoppy@fedia.ioOPtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•Buying happiness
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    6 days ago

    You’ve gotten a few replies from people who are talking about e-ink, which I can’t comment on without having used an e-reader, but I nearly universally prefer to read things on a screen bigger than a phone. I guess it’ll depend a bit on your phone’s screen size (mine is on the small side for recent phone generations), but it always feels like the screen is closer to my face than I want, the font is too small to be comfortable, and/or I can’t fit enough on the screen. Plus the aspect ratio of modern phones is very tall, meaning each line of text is pretty short which is kind of annoying for long-form content like books. If you have a big 6.5" screen that’s similar to a small e-reader’s screen size anyway then I guess it might not be as much of an issue though!

  • MHLoppy@fedia.iotoFediverse@lemmy.world•Fedi On Fire
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    10 days ago

    The feeling is that simply having it be public isn’t an automatic license to re-use or “re-appropriate” the content outside of what’s required for normal network functionality. From that perspective, federating a post to a normal Mastodon / fediverse server = OK, viewing that post in your browser = OK, but many other uses = not OK.

    This subset of the userbase want the norm for “extracurricular uses” of people’s posts to be opt-in only, even for public posts. I kind of envy the idea in some ways (aggressive requirement of consent), though in the world we currently live in, it does seem unrealistic without a team of lawyers behind it.

  • MHLoppy@fedia.iotoGames@lemmy.world•Ray Tracing Has a Noise Problem - Hardware Unboxed
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    26 days ago

    Different people also have different sensitivity to different types of artifacts. No doubt a degree of the complaints is overblown due to a big of tribal / mob mentality going on, but a few of the people complaining might just be more sensitive to it.

    With TAA specifically there’s probably also implementation differences going on, where someone has a bad experience with it once or twice and then generalizes that experience to all implementations of it.

  • MHLoppy@fedia.iotoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Is there a single place that lists instance ideologies?
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    1 month ago

    The decentralization is good if you can get the numbers high enough for the individual communities to be useful, but having them concentrated creates a mini network effect, where each user is automatically exposed to all of the local communities, which would be harder to seek out and find individually. So I think there’s tradeoffs, and mostly-centralized and mostly-decentralized community-instance pairing both have pros and cons.

  • MHLoppy@fedia.iotoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Is there a single place that lists instance ideologies?
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    1 month ago

    Instance does affect moderation policy though. For example, someone who likes the vibe of specific “controversial” instances like hexbear would likely find many instances to be dissatisfactory because many instances are defederated with it. Someone may also have strong preferences about “free speech vs safe space” kind of moderation.

    General-purpose medium-sized instance is probably “good enough” (especially if picking your first instance, with a willingness to migrate later if needed), but someone will feel more at home if their preferences more closely align with the instance they’re on. For example, beehaw users generally seem to love being on there from what I’ve seen, and I think they would feel less at home on most other instances.

    There’s also value in making use of an instance’s local feed in some cases (less so for most general-purpose instances though!). I participate in aussie.zone regularly, and at times it’s a pain to use from a remote instance. For example, if I want to submit a new post, I have to manually check several loosely-related communities to make sure it hasn’t already been posted to the instance (cross-posting intra-instance is not ideal imo). If I were a local instance user, I could just check the local feed, which most of the time I just end up doing anyway because it’s faster than checking several communities manually. It would definitely be easier for me in that regard if I just migrated there or had started there to begin with.

  • MHLoppy@fedia.iotoFediverse@lemmy.world•Corporate Social Media is Junk Food
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    1 month ago

    organic food for your brain

    High quality, positive content boosts mental health

    Browsing shallow memes and political outrage here is basically just home-made junk food instead of store-bought junk food. Likely less unhealthy, but that’s not exactly eating a bowl of vegetables lol - that would perhaps be reading a book or something. Not a great fit for the comparison imo.

    (as an aside, it seems plausible that junk food in small quantities as part of a balanced diet might boost mental health vs strictly never indulging)

  • MHLoppy@fedia.iotoClimate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•How I Can Green Up My Investments | It’s not that hard, and there’s a bonus: Portfolios without fossil fuels have generally performed just as well as the broader market.
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    1 month ago

    I doubt anyone (except maybe OP due to notifications) will be seeing this, but I sometimes browse stuff on my phone then come back to it later on my PC.

    There’s some discussion and debate about whether increasing / decreasing the share price of a company as an “ESG investor” makes a difference, but I think this is missing something way more important. The problem with doing this from an “activist” approach is that you’re doing it in a market where the primary incentive of most of the other actors is monetary. They basically just want whatever makes the most money.

    Let’s say that the entire stock market is 3 companies: Ace, Brilliant, and Catastrophe, and the share price of each is $10. If a bloc of “green investors” switches their portfolios to exclude Catastrophe due to the company’s environmental impact, the share price of Ace and Brilliant goes up, and the share price of catastrophe goes down. However, the majority of this effect is wiped out by other investors, who now see that Ace and Brilliant are overvalued on a purely monetary level, and Catastrophe is cheap - so the market corrects back to either the status quo (where all three are $10), or something very close to it.

    Because the likely impact is negligible, it seems pertinent to only do this if the cost (compared to the alternative) is also negligible. For example, you can find not-as-shit ETF replacements that have only basic ESG / climate screening, but are consequently similarly priced to unscreened ETFs in terms of total fees.

    Something else to consider (that’s more difficult to action) is how your ETF provider (etc) votes, since voting isn’t counter-weighted by other investors in the same way. I haven’t personally found a good summary resource for taking (easy) action on this as a retail investor, though some/most (?) ETF providers (etc) do publish both their voting record and what their voting policy is. Sifting through the voting records yourself is a good way to experience despair (there’s too many), but you can at least see if their stated voting policy has any concern for ESG etc. Of course, then you have to wonder if they’re just paying lip service to a “casual ESG investor” or whether they do actually vote differently or not, but hopefully it’s better than nothing.