Steve

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Steve, (edited )

I wouldn’t put a timeline to it. Just a list of features, broad and specific. As time goes on, they can be marked as “in progress” or “included”. New things can be added over time, or made more specific. All without timetables. For now call it a wishlist.

Steve,

I’m pretty sure all user data is public already.
PMs might be the only thing not everyone can see.

Steve,

Granted, my memory isn’t great. But I think so. Maybe? I’m not sure any more.

Steve,

Why is 2018 and 2021 skipped over?

Privacy Concerns on Lemmy: A Call for More User Control (github.com)

I’ve been grappling with a concern that I believe many of us share: the lack of privacy controls on Lemmy. As it stands, our profiles are public, and all our posts and comments are visible to anyone who cares to look. I don’t even care about privacy all that much, but this level of transparency feels to me akin to sharing my...

Steve,

The very nature of Lemmy and most social media, is that what you put out there is public. If you don’t want everyone in the world to read something you wrote, then social media may not be your kind of thing.

Steve, (edited )

That’s because most people don’t know how to make them. When your presenter is basically reading the slides to everyone and making a few comments, they’re doing it wrong.

  1. No text slide should be on the screen for more than 4 seconds. (2-3 is better) And it must be fully readable in that time.
  2. Charts, graphs, and images can be up for as long as needed, but the only text should label specific parts.
  3. Don’t use fancy transitions or pretty backgrounds for anything.
  4. Breaking the above rules is okay once or twice, if you have a very specific reason for that specific slide.
Steve,

You’re still just thinking of how everyone currently uses them. Which I said was the wrong way. None of the uses you mentioned has anything to do with the presentation it’s self. You know, the part where you’re lecturing in front of a group of people. Knowing how to make a slide deck is all the difference in how useful they are.

What I suggested, flat out, can not be used for anything you said. You might have 70+ slides for a 10min presentation. But it works great during the presentation itself. (What it’s supposed to be for). My style guide works for emphasizing points, entertaining and maintaining attention, so people remember more and don’t need to reference as much later. It makes the actual presentation better. Not just something to replace notes or reference materials for later. If you’re designing your slide deck to actually hand out for people to read, it’ll be rubbish for the actual presentation.

Steve,

I would push back on 7 and 8, and say footnotes shouldn’t be part of your slides at all. Those are for documentation and reference materials you hand out, not the slides during the presentation. Avoid any incentive to look at something other than the screen.

I would double down on 9. Presentation flow is absolutely number one. Looks don’t matter much at all. I only use simple black text on white backgrounds, inverting it for impact. Nothing fancier.

I just assumed 5 and 6. If you ever have to go back to a previous slide, I just thought you made a mistake and forgot something. Planing to do that is just kind of insane. And yeah, people with poor eyesight should be able to read it from standing against the back wall.

Steve, (edited )

There are a lot of things I don’t like about academia’s traditions.

Having references and sources is a must. Putting them on screen during a presentation is not.
The presentation is not the authoritative final version of the research for others to reference. It’s the quick entertaining version. It’s the advertisement for the paper. The paper needs the citations. The presentation just needs to entertain and entice. A presentation is a kind of performance. A one person play of sorts. Audience members don’t stop a play in the middle to check sources, or ask questions. Q&A comes after the presentation is finished. You can have a separate slide deck, of only charts and graphics with corresponding numbers that you hand out to the audience specifically for questions. But that’s not part of the presentation.

Or at least it should be that way.

Steve,

I wouldn’t have one.

It honestly always seemed silly to me. Unless I told the helmsman to wait for some reason, they should just go as soon as they’re ready. Why wait an extra moment just for me to say “go”?

That said, if it was some kind of required protocall, I’d pick a different silly term each time. Like “Banana Bread”, “Pencil”, or “Fuck off”.

Steve,

I think you probably mean “It looks like I won’t like it.”

That way you aren’t making an objective claim about its quality.

Steve, (edited )

The apps you want to block entirely, you can go into Android settings for each of them individually, and turn off all their Mobile Data & WiFi access options.

https://communick.news/pictrs/image/16aa2b1b-c908-4fdd-81ea-d2a030efff37.png

Apps that you want to allow outside Proton VPN, you can add to the Split Tunneling list in Proton VPN. But you have to turn off the Block Without VPN option.

It sounds like that’ll get you what you want.

Steve, (edited )

BURN

Steve,

I didn’t see that. That’s awesome!

Steve, (edited )

Of course it’s photos only, and not an arbitrary folder sync, which would be able to do the same and much more. So annoying.

Steve, (edited )

Basically yes. He is going to remove much of the humor and replace it with more real character moments.

As the story is know so far. The company that made the popular trailer was hired to completely re-edit the entire movie, without Ayer’s involvement at all. The studio wanted something more like Guardians of The Galaxy. Which was not what Ayer made. So they just replaced him in the editing room, and made the mess we all know.

Steve,

You got COVID for Thanksgiving!?
I’ve got COVID for Thanksgiving!

This Thanksgiving’s gonna be SICK!!

Steve,

Stovetop is a brand of prepackaged stuffing/dressing

Steve,

It’s standard in plays to have an intermission. Almost no matter how long it actually runs. Even a 90min movie could have a 5min intermission.

Steve,

I’m not sure I’ve seen somone so proud of being a snob.

Well done.

Steve,

Wouldn’t he say “The question we were looking for”?

Been a long time since I watched Jeopardy.

Which sequels/prequels/spinoffs made the originals somehow worse?

The Matrix is an often used example, but for me it’s the Alien Prequels - especially Alien: Covenant really makes the Original Alien much worse. When the original was released in 1979 it had the perfect Monster. A dangerous killing machine of unknown origin. The missing background of the alien is a big part of its scary mess....

Steve,

But that changes you, not the movie.

Steve,

Many albums are made around a theme or idea. Or at least that’s the way musicians I like tend to do it.

Steve,

How does one movie change the quality of another?

Do bad songs in an album make the good songs worse?

Steve,

"A lot of the top earners want to be part of the solution,” the two-time Oscar winner told Deadline. “We’ve offered to remove the cap on dues, which would bring over $50 million to the union annually. Well over $150 million over the next three years. We think it’s fair for us to pay more into the union. We also are suggesting a bottom-up residual structure — meaning the top of the call sheet would be the last to collect residuals, not the first. These negotiations will be ongoing, but we wanted to show that we’re all in this together and find ways to help close the gap on actors getting paid.”

That’s really great actually. It isn’t about helping the studios end the strike sooner. It’s about helping making the union stronger. And ensuring those need residuals more, get them.

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