Treczoks
@Treczoks@lemmy.world
- Comment on 13 hours ago:
As a kid, I found a box of dried prunes. They were so soft and tasty, I ate the complete box.
Definitely not on my list of repeats.
- Comment on Brazil's supreme court rules that platforms like Facebook and X can be held liable for user posts, requiring them to remove content even without a court order 13 hours ago:
If Fakebook or ex-Twatter suddely have to remove all hate-, shit-, and Nazi posts, they would probably be rather … empty?
- Comment on No criminal charges over British woman shot in US 16 hours ago:
Well, don’t visit the US. This is just one of the many reasons to avoid that place.
- Comment on Vancouver man says institutions unable to recognize new Indigenous street name 16 hours ago:
But also: databases shouldn’t forbid uncommon unicode letters if it isn’t called for.
I stumble across this issue quite often. When you fill out a form for US customs, you are both required to provide exact data and you are only allowed a-z, 0-9, and some punctuation. That you cannot fulfil both because they are mutually exclusive does not cross their blessed little minds.
- Comment on Sign me up 16 hours ago:
Absolutely no Intelligence
- Comment on To what extent has Smartphones replaced Computers? Has Smartphones replaced Computers for you or people you know? Will Phones and Computers eventually merge into one device? 1 day ago:
No way. The mobile is just a phone and messaging device. Without a usable screen and with no real keyboard it is completly useless for anything but that.
- Comment on Hard times call for hard decisions. 1 day ago:
Every sign has a history…
- Comment on Sign me up 1 day ago:
LLMs or Republicans. There is not much difference in IQ.
- Comment on Sign me up 1 day ago:
If the Republicans would not project their own sexual fantasies everywhere…
- Comment on Fun Lunch Fridays 1 day ago:
Polyvinyl acetate
That would be a bit tough and chewy, don’t you agree?
- Comment on Fun Lunch Fridays 1 day ago:
Let me think… Heinz Beans are roughly half beans and half tomato sauce. You only need to thicken the tomato sauce, so you’ll need half the amount of gelatin that you would need to stabilize water or juice. They come in leaves here, six to stabilize 500ml liquid. A tin of beans is 415g, so it is about 210ml sauce, thus it would require 2-3 leaves of gelatin, or 7-10g of gelatin powder. I’d go to 3 leaves or 10g, just to get a nice stable product, as one has also consider to counteract the (hidden) acidity of the sauce, too.
- Comment on Fun Lunch Fridays 1 day ago:
If it is home-made and solves the users problem, fine with that.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
I consider the “Three Body Problem” as unrealistic. Such a system would be far too unstable for any kind of life to develop. Most likely, a planet in such a system ends up inside one of the suns, or thrown to outer space. And even if this system has a core of two suns orbiting each other, and the planet orbiting far outside in a halfway stable orbit, it would probably suffer from a kind of tidal effect by the suns, making it geologically … interesting.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
More suns (or other large gravity wells close and big enough to make a difference) will make the planets’ orbit rather unstable, probably moving it in and out of the Goldilocks zone on a regular base. Chances are that it ends up either inside one of the suns or in outer space before something serious can develop on it.
Having a bunch of moons, well it depends on the mass and orbits. if they are similar in mass, they will eventually synchronise their orbits, creating six tides a day. Or they don’t synchronise and collide, which would be rather inconvenient.
All in all, not a good idea to live on such a planet. We are seriously lucky to have only one sun, one (amazingly large) moon, and that Jupiter is that far away.
There is software with which you can simulate such constellations. Give it a try.
- Comment on Fun Lunch Fridays 1 day ago:
Interesting take on baked beans. It will definitely make “beans on toast” less messy. Self-made or is that a real product?
- Comment on But I am mighty!! 1 day ago:
My excuse is that the weather was predicted as “cloudy” when we left in the morning. When we were on the trip, though, the sun was burning down to extinct humanity instead.
- Comment on In a First, America Dropped 30,000-Pound Bunker-Busters—But Iran’s Concrete May Be Unbreakable, Scientists Say 2 days ago:
Fiberglass, carbon fibers, or small steel wires. They don’t need to be long, the snippets are only a few centimeters in the video I have seen.
- Comment on The "We Tried" Award 2 days ago:
We in Europe have a history spanning thousands of years, so we can be generous with it. We all have learned our lessons, and the point that keeping a grouch is pointless is one of them. The US has, in comparison, basically no history, so they kling to what they have.
I remember a couple of American tourists getting off a tourist ship in Cologne. Them, having no clue where they were, they asked “What is this building?”, and we told them that this is the Cologne Cathedral, and it is 750 years old (yes, this was a few years ago). Their reply: “No building can be that old!”…
- Comment on French is such a beautiful language 2 days ago:
“spans” like in the conceitet “grandeur” of the French language. There are a handful of small places that are still colonies spread around the globe just because they had not had the drive to kick the French out. It is more “sprinkels” than “spans”…
- Comment on Trump's Corrupt Plan to Steal Rural America's Broadband Future 2 days ago:
In fairness, rural America probably didn’t entirely understand the implications of said vote.
That’s not the point. They voted for this, so they are responsible for this.
- Comment on Hytale, once touted as the Minecraft killer, is ceasing development 3 days ago:
“Minecraft Killer”. For that, it should have been released first, shouldn’t it?
And even if it was a super mega game, it might just find a niche on its own.
- Comment on Just one more 3 days ago:
Not necessarily. This can be fixed.
- Comment on xkcd #3106: Farads 3 days ago:
As long as the voltage is high enough, it does not need a whole Farad to wreck havoc. One of the first pranks they played on me in the lab was the “hey, catch” thing with a large, charged capacitor. Yes, I caught it. And I regretted it soon afterwards.
- Comment on xkcd #3106: Farads 3 days ago:
That stucks ;-)
- Comment on xkcd #3106: Farads 3 days ago:
Only criticism is the use of non-metric weight units when everything else is SI-based.
- Comment on Microsoft makes Windows 10 security updates FREE for an extra year — but there's a catch, and you might not like it 3 days ago:
so long as they sync their PC settings data with the cloud
AKA feed Microsoft AI with user-provided data?
- Comment on French is such a beautiful language 3 days ago:
And it is better left inside France, where it can do the least damage.
- Comment on Microsoft Came to Bargain: Use OneDrive for Device Backup, Opt into Loyalty Program and Use Their Products Till You Earn 1000 Points or Pay $30 and They Might Give You Security Updates till Oct 2026. 3 days ago:
Getting a discount to hand over your data into their cloud so they can train their AIs on it? And hold you hostage in case you dare to switch the OS?
- Comment on [JS Required] Boeing’s Inadequate ‘Training, Guidance and Oversight’ Led to Mid-Exit Door Plug Blowout on Passenger Jet 3 days ago:
And all that inadequate training, guidance and oversight was due to priorising profits over safety.
- Comment on Yes, this is what people did back then 3 days ago:
At least, we had a leased line of 38400 bits per second for the whole department. ;-)