Interesting Links for 11-12-2021

[andrewducker]

"10 years late, I have fallen in love with Dark Souls, and you can too"

(tags:games )

Brutal review of Michelin-starred restaurant Bros' goes viral

(tags:restaurant review funny )

New Zealand unanimously passes gender self-ID law in trans rights win

(tags:LGBT transgender newzealand )

Which early hominid are you? (I got homo sapiens sapiens, which delighted me)

(tags:neanderthal prehistory quiz ViaDrCross )

The TikTok Couch Guy on what it's like to be investigated on the internet.

(tags:privacy internet socialmedia OhForFucksSake )

"The Matrix Awakens: An Unreal Engine 5 Experience" makes it clear how impressive modern games can look

(tags:games graphics matrix )

Computers revolutionized chess - Magnus Carlsen wins by being human

(tags:chess games AI humans )

What it's like when your brain starts working properly for the first time

(tags:adhd brain )

How do you do on the digit span memory test? (I top out at 8, and seem to use auditory memory to hold them)

(tags:memory numbers )

Comments

[simont]

(The Magnus Carlsen article requires a login)

[andrewducker]

Try https://archive.md/XOpue

(And sorry, I don't know why I got it without one myself!)

[simont]

That works, thanks!

I'd never considered it before, but now I think about it, it would be a perfectly plausible strategy for news sites to enforce paywalling inconsistently, precisely so that people would unsuspectingly spread links to articles they hadn't realised were not free...

[andrewducker]

Intermittent positive reward is the best addictor, so it wouldn't surprise me!

[movingfinger]

FWIW, I've noticed that my newer mobile devices with adblockers running are often able to bypass paywalls, at least to the extent of letting me turn the article into text (which I generally do anyway, for legibility). Laptop browsers with noscript/adblock are not bypassing, but they are all older software.

[armiphlage]

Ooh, and assign a random-number link to those viewing it from their own website, but maintain the same address for those accessing it directly from a link shared with friends; after X number of views indicates it is gone viral, the shared link gets paywalled, or loaded with ads.

[armiphlage]

Homo heidelbergensis for me.

[movingfinger]

Fun quiz! Neanderthaler!

[channelpenguin]

Homo Neanderthalis here! Not really surprised.

Digit span

[channelpenguin]

Can't do it on my phone, it fails me as soon as I press a number on the keypad! I can't actually enter numbers. I KNOW I use auditory memory by default, as I regularly have to use 8 digit codes sent by sms to confirm banking operations on the same phone and they don't cut n paste.

[ckd]

That meal experience has since gotten...worse? Better? More WTF than I could have expected? All of the above?

The chef has replied with a three page "Declaration by Chef Floriano Pellegrino" that starts with a picture of a man on a horse and asks "What is art? What if food?" (Yes, that second one says "if".) He also says "we are better with food than with words" which may well be true but is not a recommendation....

[andrewducker]

Is that different to the three pages at the bottom of this article?

[ckd]

No, they're the same. I didn't catch them when I looked.

[melchar]

Another homo sapiens sapiens here.