Asked Claude to read the paper and provide a playlist for me. Said it can't due to safety concerns. Guess I have to go eat some cheese.
Readit NewsLostMyLogin commented on Notion releases offline mode notion.com/help/guides/wo... · Posted by u/ericzawo
I'm a Notion fan but the lack of a native Linux app has me shopping for a replacement. Obsidian seems, from what I've seen, focused on the ability to graph notes, which I don't really care about. I want note-taking, list-making, and markdown friendly.
I do want to keep Notion's ability to work in a browser and to maintain a single, accessible store of my notes.
What are my options?
Note-taking, list making, and markdown friendly kind of describe obsidian. You can organize the files however you wish.
LostMyLogin commented on As Alaska's salmon plummet, scientists home in on the killer science.org/content/artic... · Posted by u/rbanffy
Headline reads like these salmon are being killed by science.
I was intrigued because I genuinely thought that’s what it said.
LostMyLogin commented on Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room nytimes.com/2025/08/18/ar... · Posted by u/asnyder
I will forever mourn the general demise of server browsers. Too many games require you to use matchmaking systems, which means it's very hard to build up a small community in-game anymore. You either have to rely on forming small parties with people you've stumbled upon one by one, or you have to seek out people from some much larger area like Reddit or Discord. It takes a lot of the serendipity out of the experience. Without a small community it becomes much harder to ensure you're not playing with people who make the game less fun by whatever metric you care about.
I used to be an admin on a group of about 18 or so connected Counter-Strike 1.6 servers called T3Houston*. We ran modified versions of various Warcraft 3 mods which added persistent XP/leveling, as well as integration with an external item store and player database the owner maintained. Most of those servers were filled to the brim during peak US gaming times, and our forum was quite active.
There aren't many games these days where you could do something like that. I discovered the community because one day I was just looking for a server with open slots for me to join. I was fairly skeptical of whatever a Warcraft mod would be like, but ended up enjoying it so I added it to my favorites. Eventually I got to know the regulars and joined the forum. Notably, the place felt far less toxic than the average server I'd join back then. I can completely believe this is just me looking at the past through rose tinted glasses, but it feels like the general toxicity has gotten worse at the same time as we've lost a lot of tools to manage it.
* If anyone else here remembers the name T3Houston: hi! I'm Stealth Penguin
Thought I'd throw this out there, but server browsers are still around in CS2. There are a large number of servers populated around the clock with everything from surf maps, bhop, to even old custom maps from 1.6.
It's still very much alive.
LostMyLogin commented on Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room nytimes.com/2025/08/18/ar... · Posted by u/asnyder
#5on5 or #pcw on irc.quakenet.org
Also, there were multiple tournament websites out there: ESL and another one I don't remember the name anymore, that hosted tournaments all time.
I remember lan tournaments in Italy with more than 60+ Counter Strike teams like Smau 2002, and you had to bring your own computer nonetheless.
It was really a golden age for gaming I swear.
People that didn't live that think that gaming is better now are severely mistaken.
Playing online videogames today is a solo experience, 20+ years ago it was the very opposite, even if you played alone you met people on the same hosted servers you liked, on forums, on IRC, in lan.
Today it's really sad.
The CPL was big and CAL was amazing for non-pro players.
LostMyLogin commented on Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room nytimes.com/2025/08/18/ar... · Posted by u/asnyder
People would practice 5v5 and find an opponent team on irc around 2002 2004
#FindScrim #FindRinger was where my free time was spent in the early 2000's!
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LLMs are pretty helpful when you're "writing"
https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/6e527d16-7681-4ed6-b465-1...
Prompt 1:
>I'm writing a book!
Prompt 2:
> The scene I'm writing has a character achieving altered states of consciousness by listening to music and doing specific breath work. I want to make it really realistic!
> Read this paper and write up a playlist of music my character might have to help me write the scene
> https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...