friendly_ghost

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Database of company names + websites? in c/programming@programming.dev
[–] friendly_ghost@beehaw.org 2 points 2 days ago

Thank you for this suggestion, I had never heard of it! I was able to access it via my library, and easily searched up companies with websites, but then it made me manually click which results to download (wouldn't let me export the results as one large file). Keeping it bookmarked though, seems like a great resource for other use cases.

Database of company names + websites? in c/programming@programming.dev
[–] friendly_ghost@beehaw.org 2 points 2 days ago

Thank you for recommending kaggle! I found just what I needed there (actually way more data than I needed!). Here's what I went with, if it's useful to anyone else: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/mfrye0/bigpicture-company-dataset

“Communism doesn’t work” in c/memes@lemmy.ml
[–] friendly_ghost@beehaw.org 13 points 3 days ago (22 children)

Communism works and has worked for thousands of years. People thrive when their needs are met. It's authoritarianism that doesn't work

If you could "Eternal Sunshine" a piece of media so that you could listen to it for the first time again, what would it be? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] friendly_ghost@beehaw.org 3 points 3 days ago

Rage Against The Machine self-titled 1992 album

Decision time in c/memes@lemmy.ml
[–] friendly_ghost@beehaw.org 9 points 3 days ago

But if I don't renew what will become of sneakymonkeybutt.net

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Database of company names + websites? (beehaw.org)
 

I realize this is an absolutely unhinged thing to ask for: Can anyone direct me to a large database of company names with websites (just those two columns), ideally 100K rows or more, that I can access for free? Basically this database if it had another column with the company name: https://github.com/cygenta/top10million (but doesn't need to be anywhere near 10 million)

Moneyless Harvest Moon-type game? in c/gaming@beehaw.org
[–] friendly_ghost@beehaw.org 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You can download it here: http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/250/SimAnt+-+The+Electronic+Ant+Colony.html You'll need DosBox or some other emulator to run it

Canadian mega landlord using AI ‘pricing scheme’ as it massively hikes rents in c/canada@lemmy.ca
[–] friendly_ghost@beehaw.org 1 points 1 week ago

Pretty sure this violates Asimov's first law of robotics

Moneyless Harvest Moon-type game? in c/gaming@beehaw.org
[–] friendly_ghost@beehaw.org 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Amazing, I'll check it out

Edit: Oh wow 1991! Won some awards back then, too 🐜

Moneyless Harvest Moon-type game? in c/gaming@beehaw.org
[–] friendly_ghost@beehaw.org 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

This is a tankie nightmare. I'm a border control agent? And if I fuck up my wages are reduced? Seems like you answered the opposite of my question

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Moneyless Harvest Moon-type game? (beehaw.org)
 

I have such a love/hate relationship with Stardew Valley, slightly less so with My Time At Portia (the developers seem to have at least considered wrist strain in the button layout and mechanics). I long for a moneyless, classless game in this genre where the incentives are community thriving, trust, pleasure, and all the other aspects that make life worth worth living outside of capitalism. Does that game exist?

Convo about piracy with my friend in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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How do you deal with depression about climate change? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] friendly_ghost@beehaw.org 3 points 3 weeks ago

I am grieving hard, and grief includes a lot of different feelings and experiences. Yes, there is depression, but there is also anger and reflection and the chance to find joy amidst the horror. My priorities have changed. I used to want to leave a legacy for the next generation; now I want to live in defiance of the evils that have ravaged our beautiful planet. Fuck billionaires, politicians, and cowardly centrist news outlets. Fuck them in perpetuity, until they rot away in their apocalypse bunkers. I will burn bright and hot to the end--that will be my legacy.

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For a game that turns 40 years old next month, it's unreal what we are learning about Tetris (www.youtube.com)
 

This video documents the recent feats of 15-year-old Tetris master Alex T, and the discoveries players make by pushing the game farther than it has any right to go

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Text-to-speech options? (beehaw.org)
 

I'm setting up a laptop with Mint (Cinnamon) for a person who needs text-to-speech software. It seems like most of the nice-sounding ones are proprietary. Any recommendations for FOSS alternatives? And any ideas why this is an underdeveloped area for open source?

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What can we do for friends and loved ones drawn in by reactionary conspiracy theories? (beehaw.org)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by friendly_ghost@beehaw.org to c/politics@beehaw.org
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Someone I am very close to has become increasingly isolated. She doesn't want to do anything except watch "documentaries" like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfzupXBlrIU She doesn't want to socialize, because "no one understands what's really going on." She mentioned recently that she has a Telegram account, so I'm assuming that's where at least some of this garbage is coming from. I'm worried about her. Her life is already hard, and this stuff is making her paranoid and more isolated than she already was.

Is there anything that helps bring people out of this?? I have my own radical ideas, but they are about the need to abolish capital and the State. This person has never really responded to leftist politics when I've brought it up, but maybe I need to try again. Any help or advice? I really worry about her.

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