Phoenix3875
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- Comment on It is very therapeutic to garden, though. 1 month ago:
It does say “yield and cost effectiveness” in the picture, so I’m not emphasizing on availability, but discussing just that.
- Comment on It is very therapeutic to garden, though. 1 month ago:
Why subsidized? A fair comparison would be subsidized home farming vs. subsidized industrial farming, or neither are subsidized.
The exact problem was discussed in Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott, where he reached a very different and nuanced conclusion. You can have a read if you are truly interested.
- Comment on Is anyone still playing Command and Conquer Generals (+ Zero Hour)? 1 month ago:
There’s a Generals Evolution mod for Red Alert 3, which super-glues Generals to RA3 and it’s pretty great.
- Comment on Mullvad VPN: Introducing Defense against AI-guided Traffic Analysis (DAITA) 1 month ago:
The Chinese Great Firewall (GFW) has already been using machine learning to detect “illegal” traffics. The arms race is moving towards the Cyberpunk world where AIs are battling against an AI firewall.
- Comment on Brexit’s Lasting Damage Is Looking Inescapable 3 months ago:
Time for London’t.
- Comment on xkcd #2906: Earth 3 months ago:
- Comment on YouTube stops recommending videos when signed out of Google 3 months ago:
What? That’s literally a feature I got with a plugin. YouTube feels so much better without the algorithmic reinforced “hype” videos with no content and it’s good for your mental health too.
- Comment on Paying people to work on open source is good actually 4 months ago:
IMHO the reality is more complicated than what’s described here.
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Open source is sustainable (in the sense that people will continue to do it), even without the maintainers getting paid, for better or worse. This is evidenced by the history and the majority of open source projects now.
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The bait-and-switch problem, which gets the maintainers paid, hurts the ecosystem in the long run, which relies heavily on the good faith.
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- Comment on This is true 4 months ago:
There’s indeed a cake called Napoleon, which is not invented by Napoleon. I know at least in Russia and China, this cake is known by the name of Napoleon cake.
Legend has it that the name originates from the Napoleonic war with Russia and since people have to throw the cake to the ground (table?) to break the sugar layer on top of it and thus the Russian people call it Napoleon so that they are breaking Napoleon.
I see no mention of this etymology elsewhere, so take this with a grain of salt.
- Comment on The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Simple Websites 4 months ago:
Static websites can be beautiful and easy to use without being complex.
PG’s blog and HN can definitely use some CSS tweaks. I can’t remember how many times I clicked the wrong thing in HN.
On the other hand, it’s easy to get reader mode/custom CSS/alt frontend working for such websites, so maybe it’s alright after all.
- Comment on It's time to break free from Corporate Agile 4 months ago:
The original “agile” is a reaction to the overly rigid planning and emphasizes worker self-management. It makes sense since the people who are closest to the work (the workers) know best how to plan and implement the work.
It immediately breaks down when a specialized management tier emerges and tries to push their own agenda, i.e. to sell themselves rather than do something meaningful.
At this point, whichever form is used doesn’t matter. The management, endowed with the power from above, will exploit the weakness of any agile-shmagile methodology to push their own agenda.
- Comment on Poignant post on the state of things 4 months ago:
Survival need for species can be vastly different to that of individuals, like mantis’ sexual cannibalism.
- Comment on UK state pension age will soon need to rise to 71, say experts 4 months ago:
Meh, it’s bold of them to assume the government still stands by 2044 at this rate.
- Comment on xkcd #2880: Sheet Bend 5 months ago:
But then you yourself have to be in Boat mode to browse it.
- Comment on Post Office under criminal investigation for potential fraud over Horizon scandal 5 months ago:
I first heard this as an example of how buggy software can ruin people’s lives, but I feel that there’s much more to it than purely technical issues.
How could the court decide that Horizon was correct and the accused were wrong? Basically, the company just says trust me bro and that’s all it takes. Really makes you think on what base the whole justice system is working.
- Comment on Lemmy glitterpost 5 months ago:
Or you can just, uh, add powders to the sample.
- Comment on Japanese disaster prevention X account can’t post anymore after hitting API limit - The issue has arisen after major Tsunami warnings have been issued in areas of Japan following a strong earthquake 5 months ago:
NERV is a private service, which rebroadcasts government emergency warnings with better representations.
- Comment on GitHub Desktop or Git CLI? 6 months ago:
Why are they even on the same bus?
- Comment on Japanese chip flavors 6 months ago:
It’s the collaboration edition with the cartoon character タイツくん (Mr. Tights), and there are many more goods like this on their website.
Specifically on this package. At the top there are タイツくん (Mr. Tights) and 大人のドリトス (Doritos for adults, which I should note doesn’t mean it’s adult-restricted, they just put that to many food and drink to mean those can be enjoyed by adults).
In the main image, we have 電気アンマ復活, revival by an electronic massager, which is a mischief game played by one person holding the other person’s legs, stepping on their genitals, and turning around the feet, mimicking an electronic massager, as is shown by the characters.
In the bottom left, it says ブラックペッパーとソルト味, black pepper and salt flavor. In the bracket, 竹炭入り, added bamboo charcoal, which is also quite common in Japanese snacks, because people think it’s healthy.
- Comment on Microsoft is reportedly auto-installing the HP Smart app on Windows 10 and 11 PCs 6 months ago:
You told it to disrespect you?
- Comment on Implemented as requested 7 months ago:
Request is not 3D tho.
- Comment on Caesars reportedly paid millions to stop hackers releasing its data | It's the second Las Vegas casino group to be attacked this week. 9 months ago:
User being phished doesn’t leak the company’s database though.
- Comment on “We’re not ‘gatekeepers,’” Apple and Microsoft tell European Union 9 months ago:
We are, in fact, the gate.
- Comment on Daily routine 10 months ago:
Gives a new meaning to Lemmy Shit Post.