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When Is “Recyclable” Not Really Recyclable? When the Plastics Industry Gets to Define What the Word Means.
jmp242 1 month ago • 83%
Vacuum sealing meat kind of requires plastic though. And that's by far the best way to keep the meat good / fresh especially for freezing.
jmp242 1 month ago • 100%
Systems don't vote in the US however (at least in the context of this article) - we're talking about individuals voting.
jmp242 1 month ago • 100%
In this case, I think using the term racist here is diluting the term and causing confusion. I think it's better to us the anthropological term here of tribal, at least in your first and last paragraphs. If everyone is racist then I have trouble not considering that a normal part of being human. It seems like railing against people who breath or something. If we're biologically programmed to be this way, then we need to stop trying to claim people are bad for their biology, and at best we're now going to say there's an acceptable and normal level of racism on the spectrum that everyone is on.
I don't think that's a great framing, and avoiding that framing in my mind means not claiming that everyone is racist.
jmp242 1 month ago • 100%
This doesn't really address my thought experiment though - if they don't act racist then now we're just arguing about how they should feel inside, where no one can see their private thoughts. I.e. are we doing a purity test here, or do we care about actual things the people do?
jmp242 1 month ago • 100%
I was assuming the people that are the potential P zombie here are the ones turned off from Trump because of open racism, and therefore NOT voting for him. I implied that these people are taking actions they (at least think) are not racist, like not voting for Trump.
jmp242 1 month ago • 100%
If you made an argument, I could perhaps put some thought into it. My argument is simply that Russia isn't paying our taxes, and is a different country, so there's no comparison I can think of.
People living in an area paying taxes for that school have every right to be on the school board - it's a direct application of "no taxation without representation" in which kind of implied in the US is the right to run for the office and be elected to the office. We fought a revolution over taxes and representation. So, not - I put some thought into this and think I just won the debate right there.
jmp242 1 month ago • 100%
Heh. I grew up rural, the school was the district. Thanks for the info.
jmp242 1 month ago • 100%
Dells IME just suck. YMMV. Compared to the T480 it's more portable and lighter.
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South Korean authorities find toxic substances in Shein and Temu products
jmp242 1 month ago • 100%
Where is the actual link for the article? Is it a video?
jmp242 1 month ago • 100%
The Carbox X1 Gen7 is probably a decent choice, but it will depend on the specs - get at least an i5, and max out the RAM to 16GB - you can't add it later, so make sure to buy one with the 16GB.
jmp242 1 month ago • 75%
To clarify here - do you think that people should be forced to leave school boards as soon as their kids graduate? Do they end up eligible again if their kids have grandkids? Is this limited to people with kids going to that specific school? Also, does paying school taxes not make you have some skin in the game?
And what about just input on the society you live in? It seems to me the solution in your example would be to have younger people run for / contest the school board.
jmp242 1 month ago • 85%
Do you also buy the Vance line that people who don't have kids should not vote because they don't have skin in the game? At what age are you too old (or need to have kids by) to be concerned about the future? And regardless of "the future" at least some policy's are about right now. Like the abortion bans or getting rid of Medicare or social security, or raising taxes or regulation of sources of heat or stoves etc... These matter to people till they die ffs.
jmp242 1 month ago • 100%
This is an interesting question - if you're lying to yourself about being racist, and won't condone racist policies and you know, act in a way to not look racist... Like a philosophical P zombie, are you for all external functional (maybe limited to politically) purposes not racist?
jmp242 1 month ago • 100%
I guess not letting the perfect be the enemy of the good would be a fundamental different value. I used to think just pay for what you want because being a customer should lead to better results. The last 10 or so years has disabused me of the notion - so many companies are plenty willing to lie to us or treat us horribly and charge for the "privilege".
My main point is you seem to be saying "Advertising driven journalism is worse than pay for access journalism." I'm saying "citation needed" - given how cable news and online sites are such echo chambers now (and widely accepted and studied to be so). Even more concerning is the drift of podcasts, substacks, and youtube channels that rely on donations or subscriptions to ever more extreme areas in "audience capture" where advertising has been less a direct driver than broadcast news. This leaves me wondering if the traditional broadcast media like ABC/NBC/CBS isn't less prone to conspiracy theories, outright lies, and also more likely to be willing to show me something I don't want to hear because I'm not directly paying them.
Also sites like https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/center/ and https://adfontesmedia.com/interactive-media-bias-chart/ tend to rank traditional "boring" sources as most factual and least biased, especially local broadcast affiliates local newscasts. I.e. pretty traditional advertising driven news a la the 1980s.
Maybe you dispute factuality rankings and bias rankings. Maybe you think conspiracy theories or shows like "The Daily Show" or Tuckers twitter show are better than choosing not to cover some topics that you feel they should have covered.
I just think today it's far harder to bury a story - if you want to hear about it, someone is commenting. But it's far easier to flood the zone with bullshit, and the incentives with pay for access media seem to encourage being like Joe Rogan and not Barbara Walters for instance.
And maybe your entire point is there's no good solution and news was worse in broadcast times vs today. I might agree with the first except for that means giving up on getting any news at all and I disagree on the second. It's also why I think having both currently known workable models as alternatives may help - the paid news sources will not be able to as easily be pressured by advertisers or the government funding to not cover topics and the advertiser sources will be more incentivised to report mainstream and boring news than the pay sites.
jmp242 1 month ago • 83%
The UK doesn't have the same freedom of speech as the US, no 1st ammendment. So it very well could be illegal there, Idk.
jmp242 1 month ago • 83%
The sales people are cons, but the idea has merit but not to make money. You're probably not going to rent it out for a profit.
Where it has merit is if you do the research and understand specifically that the concept can work for you, and take the timeshare off someone else in the secondary market it can save you a lot of money, but only in specific situations.
There are good and bad systems and locations. You want to optimize on those.
You also have to be someone who will go on week long trips multiple times a year and have a life that let's you either lock the dates in firm 9 months to 13 months out (depending on system) or can go in 30 days or less to what opens up last minute.
And you have to want to go to resort locations like Myrtle Beach, Orlando, Las Vegas, Smoky Mountains, Hawaii, Breckenridge, Branson, Williamsburg or California.
Oh, and you'll want to be ok with 3 star locations without daily maid service.
The upside is you can often stay in 2 bedroom suites with full kitchen and laundry with pools and hot tubs and arcades and mini golf in various amazing locations for about 1,800 dollars a week or less. Sometimes much less. If you're comparing 2 hotel rooms at today's prices that can be very cheap for 7 days. The average say Hampton Inn is close to 200 a night per room, so at the higher end of 1,800 you're still 1k less for the week.
And I've hit sales in the less demanding seasons for as little as $550 for the week. But of course if you're looking at Hawaii in season you might be at the higher end of 4k for a week cash, and technically the sky is the limit. This is where knowledge and planning comes in because you can pay for a week in say Florida for 1,600 every year, but trade that week with one that in Hawaii that goes for 4,000 much of the time. You just have to beat everyone else to the trade which is what the planning is for.
I am not a salesman just a so far happy "owner" going on a lot of trips this way by "sams clubbing" my vacations and paying ahead for some.
If you do want to learn realistic costs and nuts and bolts - tugbbs.com can teach you a lot for free.
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You might get a discount or free coffee but you’re also being played by the multi-billion dollar gamification industry.
jmp242 1 month ago • 100%
First I don't see an issue with a "store brand" if it does what you need.
Secondly - who is the name brand for say a power strip or a USB hub or USB C charger or cables? Or do you buy monster audio cables? SD card reader? Microfiber cloth? What about regular bath towels?
Somewhat more controversial - what about things that are inherently disposable like latex gloves or laundry detergent?
I went from all free and clear from Sam's club which took up space and got me like 120 packets for 20 dollars to these detergent sheets which are much smaller and got 300 for 7 dollars. You use the same number of sheets as you would packets. The clothes come out the same.
But yes, try searching for something like an electric lighter for candles on both sites and tell me the "quality non knock off" on Amazon. 90 percent are on temu also for less.
jmp242 1 month ago • 100%
And the direct pay model has plenty of audience capture or the well known yellow journalism issues. IDK it seems to me like ABC of the 1980s was more trustworthy than cable news or social media of the 21st century. Lies of omission are better than straight up lies imo - no documentation is better than wrong documentation.
Technology
Report: Consumer Hardware Still Often Impossible To Repair Despite New State ‘Right To Repair’ Laws
jmp242 1 month ago • 100%
I mean, most people don't think ease of changing a light bulb (that they never have to do) is a deal breaker for a car. I haven't had to change a headlight since they went to LEDs. My last car that was 7 years of owning it.
I think we should insist on making things repairable, but should focus on the things that come up frequently.
Because everything is a tradeoff, things like how often it is likely to need repair, how much the car costs, functionality of the car day to day, looks, gas mileage, heck a lot of stuff will come before a once a decade thing that you're either going to pay a shop to do or trade before it's an issue.
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Lemmy's how do you feel about Kamala Harris now that she picked Tim Walz? Will you vote for her or the orange?
jmp242 1 month ago • 100%
I mean people also say you'll grow up from being a liberal so lol. I presume it has a lot to do with why you have a particular political position and if you've actually thought it out at all.
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Lemmy's how do you feel about Kamala Harris now that she picked Tim Walz? Will you vote for her or the orange?
jmp242 1 month ago • 100%
I find it fascinating that you have no preference between the candidates. Do you really think it won't matter which wins?
I hoped so in 2016,but then we saw what happened after that.
Technology
JPEG is Dying - And that's a bad thing | 2kliksphilip
jmp242 1 month ago • 28%
The other thing is, disk space and internet speeds just keep getting cheaper so... Why change just for disk space?
Technology
You might get a discount or free coffee but you’re also being played by the multi-billion dollar gamification industry.
jmp242 1 month ago • 87%
When the alternative was to pay more for the exact same things on Amazon, it's logical to pay less. Every app tracks you so idk...
jmp242 1 month ago • 25%
You should worry about audience capture / gifting from the patreon model for journalists. And the government control from public funded.
Idk the answer, but ads did give us more less biased news in broadcast news for a few decades.
jmp242 1 month ago • 100%
I think we all have some things that we either don't talk about to maintain relationships. Of course usually thats respected by both sides.
Do they care that you call them out? Do you dislike doing it? If neither happens it can be useful for people to realize they're not necessarily holding a position that "everyone does". It's useful to be taken out of your bubble I think, and to see "regular people" can have different positions, and maybe try and understand why they do. It might change someone's mind.
If course if they or you get worked up by the discussion and no one is getting anything out of it, no one is even 'agree to disagree' and it's just causing everyone stress... Then you need to clearly lay out that you don't like those sorts of comments.
If they ignore you, then you need to decide how much you want the relationship. You could say "I'm serious about these comments. If you don't want to stop then you need to decide how much you want to see or interact with me. Because I am willing to just avoid these discussions, but I will not keep hearing these comments, and will stop coming."
Technology
FCC proposes ending cellphone carrier locks after 60 days
jmp242 3 months ago • 100%
If you buy your phone unlocked, you can get Red Pocket which is extremely cheap for service compared to most post paid plans. You can get ~5gb data and unlimited everything else for 20 a month on AT&T. And then if you go to Europe you can just buy a cheap Sim while there and pop it in.
If you're not picky about the phone, I have gotten sub 300 USD phones for the last 2, first lasted 4 years and I'm about 6 months into the second. Honestly there's not much I feel like I'm missing, except spending way more money.
jmp242 3 months ago • 100%
Idk the Republicans seem to really want fascism.
jmp242 3 months ago • 90%
I don't think that argument makes a lot of sense. If sexual deviance was seen as a primary definition for strength then gay people would be seen as a strong group to be emulated. It seems far more likely that it's simple in groups vs out groups and the traditional rules for thee but not for me playing out. And certain kinds of sexual deviance is an easy way to define an out group.
Along perhaps with projection based on priests continually being proven to be the exact sort of homosexual groomer pedophiles they claim to be most afraid of. Something like "if our 'influencers' are this bad, the other sides influencers must be worse".
Technology
Manifest v3 update: Vivaldi is future-proofed with its built-in functionality
jmp242 3 months ago • 100%
I don't know how important this is to users of Vivaldi, and I don't know how good Vivaldi can make their blocker by middle of next year, but this may force me to Firefox. Or maybe someone makes a local proxy like in the old days to do ad blocking Idk.
Technology
McDonald’s will stop testing AI to take drive-thru orders, for now
jmp242 3 months ago • 100%
The apps are super slow though. Like I don't need a 5 second animation of bouncing fries every time I do anything. Dunkin is another offender.
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Selfhosted alternatives to Goodreads?
jmp242 3 months ago • 100%
Probably just so you don't accidentally waste time unknowingly rereading a book.
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YouTube testing server-side ad injection to counter ad blockers
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Some company heads hoped return-to-office mandates would make people quit, survey says
jmp242 3 months ago • 100%
My sister did that but only netted 30k more not 3x. Still well worth it imo. Of course it's kinda amazing that more companies aren't taking this "cheat code" to get cream of the crop "minor league" non major center talent for the discount of amazing wages out in the hinterlands that are 40k or more less than big city prices.
jmp242 4 months ago • 100%
Ehh. That's like accident billboards. I maintain that most people don't know they can block ads, and a large part of the masses who have heard of it think it's complicated or too hard for them.
With ad blocking I have a small tension that if I know a sort of thing exists, I presumably will find it when I search for it. So I don't want another vacuum ad.
If I don't know something exists then I have to stumble on it somehow.
The bigger problem would be if they didn't block their own ads. I honestly didn't even know they did ads so my blocking, of which they're a part, apparently is working.
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How many of you use Usenet VS torrents
jmp242 4 months ago • 100%
Usenet is hurt a lot by takedown notices unfortunately. So lots of older popular stuff doesn't work. That said, things like Anime or something that isn't given a takedown seem to be on there about forever. The server speed is a benefit for sure.
Technology
Should I use Microsoft Copilot?
jmp242 4 months ago • 100%
I think I've mostly moved to Kagi, because someone needs to be incentiviced to actually focus on search, not ads. That said it's also good bang for buck in annual ultimate because you get access to multiple AI models.
That said, I so far continue to be mostly underwhelmed by AI except for basic starting points on scripts or for games like D&D.
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Should I use Microsoft Copilot?
jmp242 4 months ago • 100%
I think I've mostly moved to Kagi, because someone needs to be incentiviced to actually focus on search, not ads. That said it's also good bang for buck in annual ultimate because you get access to multiple AI models.
That said, I so far continue to be mostly underwhelmed by AI except for basic starting points on scripts or for games like D&D.
jmp242 4 months ago • 100%
Just wait for an Islamic group to sue then. Or wait for Scientology to decide they don't want to be a second tier religion and start suing.
Or an atheist group maybe. Idk there's enough competition in religious zealots to make picking a favorite hard to do unless they just throw out the 1st ammendment prohibitions.
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French Tiktok ban makes VPN usage soar in New Caledonia
jmp242 4 months ago • 96%
It's fascinating how normies will figure out a VPN to use shitty social media but not figure out more open systems or alternative sites.
jmp242 4 months ago • 100%
Idk, I think Frieren isn't about the action, and all the stuff about elves and maturing, and what is really important etc is a breath of fresh air to me. And has just been interesting and different to me.
So I was recently in a Clark's outlet and at least the men's shoes seemed obviously a victim of shrinkflation, ie they felt a lot cheaper and lesser quality. Which makes sense as they're still doing 2 for 99 or I guess men's just went up to 109. But they were 50 dollars each at the outlets back in 05, so they simply have to be lesser quality now. And it's really obvious. So what's a men's shoe that has the quality of older Clark's at maybe 100 a pair now? Anything or do I have to step up to like the Redwing Irish Setter at more like 200? I mostly want kind of half and half leather boots/shoes. Comfortable. I guess if they also have women's options that would be interesting too for my mom and sister who had liked Clark's back in the day.
So I have a couple month old OnePlus N30 phone, and one thing that drives me crazy with it is when I plug it in at night to charge, eventually it fully charges. You would think this is good, but then it decides to vibrate every 30 seconds or minute or so to tell me it's fully charged. Over and over again till it wakes me up and I unplug it. So far it's still mostly charged by the next morning but this is ridiculous - aren't you supposed to charge the phone overnight? I tried just turning off the notification but the phone is using the system UI to notify and won't let me turn it off. Does anyone know how to stop this?
Ideally, there'd be a simple RPM installer compatible with Alma 9 that I can point to a samba share that holds all the photos, kind of like what I do with Jellyfin. Also nice if it uses an otherwise unused port or I can easily set what port it uses. My googling is finding a bunch of docker stuff, which always seems needlessly complicated to me vs an RPM... I'm also using a low powered x86 tiny computer to front JellyFin and would like to host this on the same computer vs needing another server. Any ideas?
I just saw that for Spring they're doing a new Spice and Wolf, but it looks like they're not continuing the story but re-making what already had a pretty good IMO anime with 2 seasons. IIRC That anime was also pretty close to the source material, so I can't really see what us watchers will get from a remake other than I guess maybe more modern animation? Which is also kind of a waste cause there's a lot more light novels to adapt IMO.
IDK if this is going to get any responses, but if you have any experience with using propane with a portable generator maybe you can explain what's going on. So I got a big generator, I previously only used gas, but as this was new and dual fuel, it seemed like propane might be a big win. Propane as far as I know doesn't get old like ethanol gas does, won't gum up small engine carbs like gas does. However, it had some downsides - the tanks are not able to just have an extra gas can to refill while the generator is running if needed, and for some reason I can't tell the manual gives 0 estimated runtime with propane, but lots for the gas fuel. Ok, well some searching found a Y connector with a kind of switch/indicator that is supposed to auto failover to the second connected tank if the first one empties so you can then change out the tank while the generator is running. Now my problem. Power goes out last night, it's 20F and I fire up the new generator for the first time. First hour, no issue, however it then starts almost stalling out and then restarting over and over again. I go look at it seems like the "switch" indicated it tried to change tanks but... maybe didn't? It went straight up and down, not pointed to the other side (though IDK if I actually understand the switch, there were like 0 instructions with it from Amazon). OK, I'll just figure out which tank is empty (wondering how it went empty in like an hour on a 20lb tank) and move the switch to the other one and then change out the tank with my spare. Did all this, no change. Cannot get the generator to run right, and cause constant brownouts to my house and the generator makes a sound like it's backfiring every so often. I give up on backup power for the night. Today, I go look at it again, and it starts up and runs fine today at 43F. However I haven't put a load on it, but it wasn't running right without a load last night, so I don't think it was overloading the generator (and I know it wouldn't given earlier uses when it was warmer). OK, well lets at least use the valves on the top of the 20lb tanks to test the switch over thing. I tried turning off one of the tanks (right), the one the switch / arrow is pointing towards. Nada, generator keeps running, switch doesn't do anything. I turn off left and generator stalls out. Weird. I then reset, restart, and try turning off the left tank - no change keeps running. I then re-open left and close right, no change, generator keeps running. Just to not lose my mind, I also close left and as expected generator stalls out. Ok, so - do I have a worthless amazon transfer thingy, is the propane just not working at 20F or below? This seems really weird as I have a 500 gallon tank for my entire life for heat and stove and it got down to like -15F a few times with no issue.(I asked my provider, they say they can't hook up the portable generator, or even provide me a propane hose / valve/ anything I could hook it up to.) The 20lb tanks are brand new... So some googling seems to say maybe the tanks need to be warmer? I could get some tank heaters I guess and plug them into the generator also assuming it can run long enough for the heater to do anything and bootstrap stuff when it's cold. However, I'm also concerned about not having any estimate how long it should run from what should be 40lbs of propane. I don't know if the first tank leaked over the months since I set it up (the other 2 didn't), but 1 hour seems really fast to run out, and I would expect at least 8 hours when the gas tank is supposed to be good for 18. So - do I just give up on propane for this generator? It seems silly to keep propane for the warm months and then switch to gas for the winter...
cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/4070141 > So I've been using Kagi for a while now as a paid search engine. I always thought it's $25 a month plan was a little steep for search, but a) I got work to pay for it, and b) startpage nee google was getting less and less useful, and bing and whatever used it has... well been worse for me always. > > Anyway, I just got told that they've now adjusted their pricing / added features to Ultimate, and I think (at least now) that's actually added a lot of value *if* you're into the more advanced LLVM / AI models / chat. I have also been paying $20 a month through work for ChatGPT Plus. I might drop that because Kagi now lets you chat with / use GPT4 as well as Claude2 and a Google LLVM model with the one $25 a month, in addition to all the search and AI Search (with sourcing) together. > > I don't know how well paid search is going to ever do - it might be a short term tool. But for now, not having ads in the search, a straightforward pay for service model that seems to work just as well with their stated privacy goals, and getting multiple AI LLVM is pretty cool "one stop shopping" if you will. I also like giving a shot to alternate models that might be more privacy focused.
So I've been using Kagi for a while now as a paid search engine. I always thought it's $25 a month plan was a little steep for search, but a) I got work to pay for it, and b) startpage nee google was getting less and less useful, and bing and whatever used it has... well been worse for me always. Anyway, I just got told that they've now adjusted their pricing / added features to Ultimate, and I think (at least now) that's actually added a lot of value *if* you're into the more advanced LLVM / AI models / chat. I have also been paying $20 a month through work for ChatGPT Plus. I might drop that because Kagi now lets you chat with / use GPT4 as well as Claude2 and a Google LLVM model with the one $25 a month, in addition to all the search and AI Search (with sourcing) together. I don't know how well paid search is going to ever do - it might be a short term tool. But for now, not having ads in the search, a straightforward pay for service model that seems to work just as well with their stated privacy goals, and getting multiple AI LLVM is pretty cool "one stop shopping" if you will. I also like giving a shot to less ad based models for Internet services that I can't see how they don't become privacy invasions.
So, I have a VM DC that I had to restore from a month ago. I had other DCs that were physical and up. My understanding that if sub 60 days "off" it is fine to basically "power back on" the snapshot. However, now the "restored" DC has disabled replication in both directions. Should I manually enable inbound replication first and then after a while enable outbound replication? Or a better fix method?
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This really doesn't make me love cloud identity management. It's exactly the scenario (kind of nightmare one) where you attack the cloud infrastructure and get access to many different customers and apps... potentially in a way completely undetectable by you. At least with local identity providers they have to compromise you, and you might have logs.
Kind of finally. SuSE https://www.suse.com/news/SUSE-Preserves-Choice-in-Enterprise-Linux/ So... I think this is kind of the worst case scenario re SuSE - an actual fork. But Oracle kind of hints at that, and Amazon already dropped a RHEL compatible AWS Linux for sort of a Fedora Server? Obviously none of this is great, but would anyone really want Oracle leading a RHEL "close as possible" rebuild? I don't know anyone is going to downstream them. SuSE is even weirder, as I understand it, SLE/OpenSuSE is a fork from decades ago, or at least also uses RPM? I can't imagine they get any value from trying to make a RHEL fork really... Why not push SLE? All very confusing, that's for sure.
#anime #japan #school I don't know if the hashtags will ping this in mastadon or not. I have been marveling at the portrayed high school system in big cities in Japan in the various hundreds of anime set there, and I just wondered how fake it is. Or how much is just a different experience. So, I grew up rural in the US. We all rode a school bus, and there were 2 runs, and earlier one for High school and a later one for elementary school, so the high school students could stay after for maybe 40 minutes and catch a later bus. Once you got to 16 you might get your parents to buy you a car, or you might work enough to buy one and then might be able to drive to school. But this was only maybe 25 percent of the students. When in school you did have a homeroom for 5 minutes in the morning, but then went to different rooms for each class period. There were a couple of clubs and sports teams (treated differently) but nothing like the club recruitment shown in anime. (that was way more like college). Almost no one brought their lunch, and as far as I remember everyone always ate in the cafeteria. I think if you tried to eat in a classroom you'd likely get in trouble. If you were going to not take the bus and go out with friends or whatever after school, you needed someone to drive, and you needed to let your parents know. All the after school things are a lot more like college to me. Then the school festivals? Those have to be basically made up for anime right? So exaggerated as to be fake I mean. We might have had an open house where late after school parents met teachers and there might me like a couple pictures on the wall from an art class or something. No several days school shuts down to have the random public come to a festival with students making food(selling?) putting on plays, concerts etc... All our plays and concerts were separated and a specific event that were not advertised outside of parents and relatives. In writing this, I realized I don't know how much is from being set in a huge city (would a NYC school be more like anime?) or from Japan being different or exaggerating for the sake of story in the Anime. So - if you know in Japan : In high school is it actually common for students to come really early or stay till sunset for rabdom reasons ranging from clubs to it's raining to boredom to just wandering around? Do students usually have one classroom they're assigned to for the year? Do the teachers rotate or does one teacher teach all subjects (like elementary in my schooling)? And are the students just allowed to set their schedule outside of school and just show up home to crash at night?
Maybe I'm an old person, but I feel like one of the weakest ideas for a show or movie is a remake. It's like, you can't find anything new to do? The reasons to do remakes I can see (outside of just money chasing): - It's been like 60 years and no one remembers. This is the weakest. - You do a interesting twist or change(The various Sherlock Holmes in modern day, redoing in a different language, doing a live action version). - The previous adaptation was completely off the rails and considered bad. - There were shots that you just couldn't do in the past due to less technology. For the recent Trigun, and now Spice and Wolf and Rurouni Kenshin - were the previous anime's way off the source material? I don't think Spice and Wolf was, I haven't read the source for Trigun or Kenshin. If not, I'm struggling to see why anyone who was interested in these would wait to see the "new" version versus just watching the existing one RIGHT NOW. For those of us who watched the existing version, why would we want to waste time on re-watching the same story when there's other shows that are new, either to everyone or at least to us? I guess in my limited time to watch a firehose of entertainment (heck, just in Anime, forget about shows like The Witcher, various Star Trek, books etc), tell me what I'm missing by just skipping these and remembering the stuff I watched 15-20 years ago? Heck, I even tried to watch the live action movies of Kenshin, and while the first was interesting enough, I was also kind of just like, oh yea - this scene now. And never watched the rest because I know the story. OTOH, I recall these being enjoyable enough that I watched Trigun and Kenshin several times, bought the translated light novels for Spice and Wolf (though I did peter out around book 11).
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I looked at this, and the idea seems very interesting being tied into a per application "firewall" which I think actually works more like per application routing, or even better per domain. This would actually be a big convenience to send some traffic that doesn't like you being in one location to another vs a VPN. However, I can't actually see how it would be better than a VPN necessarily. - First - it seems like it could not really work for SSL without MITM it at the browser level? Or it at least has to be DNS based (and still the HTTPS based DNS would thwart this) and therefore not really per domain right? - Second, what are they charging for here? It sounds like it's access to TOR, though they claim it's only TOR Like, I fail to see why anyone would provide them an exit node or transit node for free when they're charging end users for access. - Presumably the reason people use VPNs rather than TOR is a mix of issues, but the main one I remember is performance. TOR is slow. I don't see how this would be faster. The privacy one is that you've got the exit node issue which is the same as the VPN exit node (i.e. there are side channels to get identity, and you're still having someone else seeing all exit info - in this case a random person rather than a company, we can decide which is more trustworthy, but I don't think it's an obvious win).
How do people here feel about mosh to the wide internet? We provide SSH, and use both normal secure passwords and duo for all logins. We've had a few more inquiries about using mosh recently, and looking at it, the big concerns I'd have are potentially the firewall rules (is it outgoing or incoming high port?) and the long lasting authentication across IPs and network connections. On unmanaged collaborator or partner devices this seems like a kind of hole if the device is compromised or stolen, where the session can live for "a long time". However, I tend to believe them that their AES session keys make it pretty unlikely to be hijacked just over the net. Is there any consensus?
Just wondering if it's a problem with Sopuli, me / my VPN, or trying to load communities on other instances?
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I'm part of the suspected demographic, but I also find much of this article lacking in advancing the thesis. >It is true that many of us fear the unknown, but it is also true that we can be cavalier about routine risks. This may be true, but why is it that white men would be more likely to have routine interactions with the risks of technology than any other group? At a population level, it seems likely that at least white women would be equally likely to have routine interactions with nuclear power or genetically modified foods, two of the examples in the article. >Scientists also make a mistake when they assume that public concerns are wholly or even mostly about safety. This may be true, but "risks" are usually understood as indicating some danger, otherwise I would strongly suggest using a different word. Perhaps negative preferences? IDK I didn't write the article. >Pope Francis, for example, rejects genetic modification of organisms in part because he views it as an inappropriate interference in God's domain; this is a theological position that cannot be refuted by scientific data. Ok, but then the "risk" is simply that one religion believes it offends their god. There's thousands of religions and atheists. At least some of them would reject this as any sort of "risk" because they simply don't believe it in - if we're talking on a global scale. >Some people object to GM crops such as Roundup Ready corn and soy because they facilitate the increased use of pesticides. But surely this isn't just because we don't like pesticides right? Presumably it's because there is some "risk" involved in health or environment or something. If this wasn't the case, at least in the US I'd be hard pressed to see how we would justify regulating what private companies and individuals decide to do with their own property if there *aren't* externalties. And *if there are* externatilites - this "argument" doesn't express what they are or why white men downplay those risks, or actually even show that they do. This is more "I disagree with some experts I read once". "Some people"... well, *what* people - and where are the hordes of white men claiming the opposite? >Others have a problem with the social impacts that switching to GM organisms can have on traditional farming communities Sounds vaguely like a protectionist argument to support more people starving if you want to be glib like this article is. >or with the political implications of leaving a large share of the food supply in the hands of a few corporations. This surely isn't an issue with the technology at all though - this is just a political argument, and plenty of white men don't like the corporatism in various places. >Some concerns about geoengineering—not just among laypeople but among scientists as well—have more to do with regulation and oversight than with safety. Again, politics and explicitly not about safety, so is this about "risk" of the technology, or far more about the huge risks in our problematic political and governmental systems? The argument seems to be white men (who they use interchangeably with scientists and experts - a pretty difficult to defend position IMHO) when asked about technology risks tend to look at the direct first order risks of the technology. This could very simply just be "how you ask the question" - ask about second order risks or the like and you might get a lot more about that - they do call scientists here agreeing with them. >Who will decide whether this is a good way to deal with climate change? Presumably the people doing it. Maybe governments, but I'm not so sure anymore. We've spent a very long time chasing "consensus" and doing about nothing. While a lot of that is people who weren't arguing in good faith - continuing to do nothing because we can't have a global vote doesn't seem prudent either. But no discussion of halting anything being a risk in itself. They never seem to weigh the obvious alternatives in this article. >If we undertake the project of setting the global temperature by controlling how much sunlight reaches Earth's surface, who will be included in that “we,” and by what process will the “right” global temperature be chosen? I think this is likely a pipe dream that we even could do this, but I would bet if you asked scientists and experts, or even white men as a whole, you might get the "pre modern" temperature that we're comparing all this climate change data against?
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This is a response. I guess it's something you *can* do. But it doesn't seem like it's going to help much - it will have so many false positives cause kids, but not really be accessible in an emergency.
So, we do have a lemmy community for photography, but it has like a 3 pictures a day limit. So if I wanted to share pictures from recent photo trips, is that something I oght to make a itap like lemmy, or should I just post to Mastodon or sign up for Pixelfed. What's the lemmy / fediverse cultural desire here?
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Pretty happy with this given my seating location and 24-70 f2.8.
One of a series of a rollercoaster in Busch Gardens VA.
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So, I don't understand how getting federal funds through anything, but especially medicare would make you immune to lawsuits? What a crazy legal opinion to start with - glad to see that made it to the right decision on the court. However, the later reference to "the spending power" - are they implying Thomas is going to try and declare medicare unconstitutional? I used to think that sort of thing would get people to vote against republicans, but at this point I think many voters would vote for getting kicked out of their own houses and shot if it was team red. IDK.
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Ok, I can get sort of disagreeing the wildfires are from climate change - that's a couple of logical steps you have to make. But "It's not causing anyone to cough" is plainly ludicrous. It was making me cough when I went outside. "It doesn't smell bad"? Maybe they have COVID and lost their sense of smell altogether? It certainly smelled bad to me. And if you thought it smelled great - wow. I just don't ever want to be around you if you like those sorts of smells. I can't see it actually working with anyone who's ever been in wildfire smoke before - like you don't need science or education or anything to notice if it makes you cough, or tell something doesn't smell great.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1184398 > For those of you who do not already know, YouTube has issued a cease and desist to the dev team of Invidious, a privacy-focused and ad-blocking front end for YouTube. > > Ironically, the YouTube's complaint cites the devs' lack of a privacy policy for the Invidious service. > > Luis Rossmann's video gives a good breakdown of the situation. He also mentions that cloning the repo would be a good idea before it gets nuked by github.
A pic from my recent trip to Williamsburg and surrounding areas like Yorktown.
Techlore gives an interesting short video on why he doesn't recommend SimpleX right now. I think it's an interesting idea, but solves a different problem than the obvious competition in Signal. Signal is not without fault of course, but it does what it says on the tin, gets you secure messaging with your contacts. It doesn't hide that you're talking to your contacts and relies too much on the OS security it's running on IMO. (doesn't lock itself anymore or use a password to launch) I haven't tried SimpleX yet, but my reading of it is 2 problems. - like Techlore, it's too new. Let's get some experience and audits under our belt. - it's worse than the fediverse for non techie people. It reads like manual key exchange, which while secure, is basically unusable for most people. - the problem it solves isn't one most people have. Hiding your social network... The people you know and communicate with is only slightly desirable for the average person and near impossible to do in today's world. And if you're not taking on govt level threat models, it's irrelevant. For most people interested in privacy, something like Signal keeps their contents of conversation private, and also keeps the people they are communicating with private from advertising and ISPs. - if you do want SimpleX hiding of who you talk to also, there are tools that have been around for quite a while that you could use, with the assumption you and your friends have the tech skills. The needed skills are maybe slightly more than SimpleX... Debatable. Anyway I will keep watching SimpleX too, but I doubt it'll be something I can get the people I communicate with to switch too. It's been a lot of work to get them to use Signal, and that used to be a drop in replacement for SMS(still annoyed by that going away).
cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/623295 > Well, this is an interesting example of a pay for social network that apparently has existed since 1985. 2,700 members is not that big a site in the modern internet. So if you don't want to become a unicorn company or have wide appeal / access, it seems like it does work as a business model? > > I'm vaguely intrigued but I don't really want to put down $15 sight unseen for a month to see if the forums are even interesting. Then again, I can't imagine they get bots at that price either. Probably very limited ads if any. > > I am always excited by alternate operating plans for social media online - this one is kind of the opposite of Lemmy, but also the opposite of the major players. I guess orthogonal in reality. > > BTW / OT: How do you crosspost on Lemmy?
Well, this is an interesting example of a pay for social network that apparently has existed since 1985. 2,700 members is not that big a site in the modern internet. So if you don't want to become a unicorn company or have wide appeal / access, it seems like it does work as a business model? I'm vaguely intrigued but I don't really want to put down $15 sight unseen for a month to see if the forums are even interesting. Then again, I can't imagine they get bots at that price either. Probably very limited ads if any. I am always excited by alternate operating plans for social media online - this one is kind of the opposite of Lemmy, but also the opposite of the major players. I guess orthogonal in reality. BTW / OT: How do you crosspost on Lemmy?
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Well, this war continues to go interestingly.
I was just getting interested in Neeva as a paid search engine with some cool AI tools where you're not an advertising target because you pay. This explains the sudden refund from Neeva - they apparently got bought out and are no longer being a search engine. I don't really know what to make of it all. I suppose it makes my decision between it and Kagi easier - I don't really have a choice. Kagi is a lot more expensive, but I get work to pay for it. Though that does make it harder to potentially recommend to other people I know. Not that I ever thought paid search would massively take off, but unlike many tasks, search can be centralized enough on a per user basis that something other than ads is worth exploring.