Papanca
@Papanca@lemmy.world
- Comment on This researcher wants to replace your brain, little by little. The US government just hired a researcher who thinks we can beat aging with fresh cloned bodies and brain updates. 5 weeks ago:
Yes, because who wouldn’t want to live for centuries amidst floods, fire, raging mad politicians and greedy billionaires…
- Comment on How do you ask for a haircut? 2 months ago:
That’s what i do, but they never really listen, even though i usually ask to just cut off x cm or something.
- Comment on Why are vegan and gluten free items more expensive? 2 months ago:
At one time vegan shoes were cheap. And suddenly, everywhere the non-leather shoes disappeared and vegan shoes popped up and were advertised at ridiculous prices. They just changed the wording and adjusted the prices. It’s just a marketing tactic and one they use often for whatever stuff you can buy. It’s not so much that people are willing to pay. It’s just that vegan friendly, decently quality at decent prices are very hard to find now. At least here in the european country where i live.
- Comment on Could an animal be taught how to throw accurately? 2 months ago:
I vaguely recall dolphins and seals being trained to throw a ball through a hoop. Don’t know about the distance though
- Comment on Anything wrong with using my real name in email aliases with organizations I have to communicate using my real identity anyway? 3 months ago:
I use aliases, because so many databases get security breaches. To a certain extent, i may need to trust the people who i share my name with, but i don’t trust their security measures.
- Comment on One thing I hope to see in the Fediverse is people engaging with old content 9 months ago:
I’ve had it happen that i joined a community and commented in some interesting thread and only then noticed that it was 3 or even 6 months old
- Comment on Welcome to Neurodivergence! The place to unite Neurodivergent folks. 9 months ago:
I think this one:
!neurodivergence@lemmy.giftedmc.com
- Comment on A tiny radioactive battery could keep your future phone running for 50 years 9 months ago:
Exactly; if Usually, it takes years, if not decades, before laws and regulations are actually in place
- Comment on A tiny radioactive battery could keep your future phone running for 50 years 9 months ago:
And now for 50 years worth of security updates for a phone like that. Not to mention what people might do with throwing a phone in the trash or something
- Comment on 13 Best Open Source ChatGPT Alternatives 9 months ago:
That’s unfortunate! I never had it crash and i use it a lot
- Comment on 13 Best Open Source ChatGPT Alternatives 9 months ago:
I use chat.petals.dev I think that is also open source
- Comment on Six months after the initial reddit surge (graphs) 9 months ago:
Yes, i made four, because when i joined Lemmy, everyone seemed to urge new users to spread across the fediverse. So, i did. But over time, i did away with two accounts and am contemplating ditching another one.
- Comment on Giving blood exception 11 months ago:
And to clarify; i live in Europe
- Comment on Giving blood exception 11 months ago:
I am not allowed to give blood, because i once got a blood transfusion in the eighties and i have a tiny, tiny risk of infecting people with mad cow disease. I only found out when i decided to give blood some years back and found out i am not allowed to.
- Comment on What do you most appreciate in a community/magazine sidebar, and/or instance about page? 11 months ago:
I prefer an elaborate description, if appropriate presuming people don’t know much about the topic yet. Bonus points for adding wikis (i don’t think it’s possible in Lemmy for now?) and links. And a friendly tone. Those concise oneliners, to me, feel like; if you don’t understand what this community is for, you are not welcome here anyway.
- Comment on YSK about the New York Times' onion service 1 year ago:
Even on Tor, if you use the clear web site provided in the link, yes, you will see the box asking for a subscription. You can click the x to get rid of it.
Ah, ok. I just noticed the popup. Of course i did click the link that was indicated in the post itself, not the title.
- Comment on YSK about the New York Times' onion service 1 year ago:
Which is what i used of course, and i still got the subscription wall
- Comment on YSK about the New York Times' onion service 1 year ago:
Subscription wall
- Comment on Google abandons “Web Environment Integrity” 1 year ago:
They will tweak the most unimportant detail and say; we listened to you, now take it!
- Comment on Lemmy active users down, comments steady and posts up 1 year ago:
I noticed that many people commented that there should be more engagement, ‘just like reddit’. So, i’m wondering if some of these people left and will return later to see if it’s more ‘reddit like’. So, those might be people who don’t necessarily want to post and comment themselves, but are waiting until they can get served with an endless stream of posts to scroll through.
Just thinking out loud here.
- Comment on Should I worry about "legitimate interest" tracking cookies? 1 year ago:
I asked about it too, read the answers here:
- Comment on Business owner 'hires' ChatGPT for customer service, then fires the humans 1 year ago:
Thanks for sharing. If you see that list of type of jobs at the end, it’s easy to see which jobs could get replaced within a reasonably short amount of time. Greed will always find a way to profit from whatever development arises. If they have 1 mountain of gold, they want 2 mountains of gold.
- Comment on YouTube isn't happy you're using ad blockers — and it's doing something about it 1 year ago:
I heard about their plans maybe a month ago and i deleted all my stuff there and left youtube forever. I also already had deleted my gmail before that. I now use freetube on my pc and libretube on my phone.
It’s tiring to have to take measures to make sure you can use the internet as it used to be, though. I feel like i have a digital armor with ghostery, encrypted email, foss software, etc, etc…
- Comment on Why are you here at this very moment in your life? 1 year ago:
Because of every choice i made and the effect thereof
- Comment on Ecosia adds Microsoft Clarity and optional Google search results and advertising 1 year ago:
Yup, i’ve sent this link before:
restoreprivacy.com/startpage-system1-privacy-one-…
For me that was reason enough to not use them anymore, but for a long time, i almost exclusively used it.
- Comment on Is there something like F-droid, but for windows software? 1 year ago:
That was what i feared, yes
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- Comment on Light sources for winter 1 year ago:
Just as a heads up to everyone, so not OP obviously; Never buy lamps that are marketed as grow lights; that is just a scam to sell you way overpriced lighting. You also generally don’t need to buy these purple lights, because white lamps include these colors already, so unless you go for very specific effects, just buy a full spectrum light. I usually just do a search for suitable light temperature etc for my plants, probably around 4000 K or so, and then buy a led light. Don’t buy lamps that can become hot, so as not to burn the plants.
- Comment on How to tell a girl "I love You" without telling her "I love you"..... 1 year ago:
Or regular pants with (deep) pockets. I know women who shop in the men’s department, solely because of the pockets
- Comment on A new smartphone again? Rethink unhealthy culture of frequent upgrades 1 year ago:
Though i agree with you, i never feel like ‘i’m only one person’. For instance, if someone turns off the lights and recycles their trash, they often say; how does it help, i’m only one person after all. But there are so many people thinking the exact same thing and together we can help change the world.
So, yes, companies should be changed and i think this is also about politics and economics, which are usually conservative and greedy. But i never feel like the things i do are in vain; i’m standing with perhaps millions of invisible people who care about the environment and try to do their best and who all might be thinking; i’m only one person. Many people do want to change and try their best, but it’s time that all these conglomerates are being forced to change for real, instead of getting subsidized, and just greenwash their products.