pedz
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- Comment on Question: Is there a Self Hosted Discord like app? 9 hours ago:
I still use IRC. There are now modern web clients like The Lounge or Convos that can display/share images in the channels, keep history and push notifications.Apparently Convos can do video chat but I never tried it. Unfortunately I’m not aware of screen sharing features for any of these.
So on a very simple setup, you need an IRC server, then install and connect one of those clients to your server, and use them through a web browser, either on a computer or on a phone.
- Comment on It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines 2 days ago:
It’s another reason to avoid those things but TBF, I don’t really care about remote intervention on “autonomous” cars because I think the whole idea is stupid. It’s for car dependent people that shudder at the idea of taking a bus, but don’t mind being at the mercy of a giant corporation for getting everywhere. If your city is big enough to have a fleet of “autonomous” cars, it’s big enough to have public transit. And if you don’t live in a city, those “autonomous” cars will not be available anyway.
I am car free and I never ever use a taxi unless it’s absolutely necessary. My city has transit, with buses and trains. Otherwise I have a bike and can walk. Using a taxi means continuing to be dependant on cars.
When those first started to come out and be introduced, I was kind of enthusiast and thought it would be great to have a service that could bring me in places where public transit wouldn’t. Like, it would be wonderful to have an autonomous car drop me in a provincial park, or in the countryside somewhere. But they are not made for this. They are made to replace public transit in cities, which is absolutely stupid.
So if I am to pay to be driven somewhere by a taxi, I would feel safer and prefer to have someone behind the wheel locally rather than someone remote controlling the car from the other end of the world. Even if my experience with taxi drivers is less than stellar, it can’t be worse than being stuck in a car because it doesn’t know how to process a trafic cone placed on its hood.
- Comment on Distraction 6 days ago:
Yes , that’s how Trump and his administration operates. Whether it’s on purpose or just the product of a chaotic idiot, that’s how it works. Every day is a shit show to make people forget the previous shit show. It’s how they can do anything without consequences.
- Comment on Android 11 is the "Windows 7" of Android 3 weeks ago:
You should tell Gemini about it!
Seriously I don’t know what version started what but Android is slowly getting more and more annoying for me to use. It’s like Windows where you have to spend multiple minutes, if not hours, in personalizing and removing bloatware. But then an update brings or restore more shit.
I know it’s not all Android’s fault, but it adds up.
For example, I know they are forced by the EU to lower the volume after a while, but sometimes I use weak bone conducting headphones and I NEED the volume to be at max.
Or another are the mandatory presidential/amber alerts, where the government decides to make your phone scream an end of the world alarm because a child is missing 200 km away. I’d like to have normal notifications for that but no, only end of the world alarms.
This one is on Android though and I’ll need to find how to disable that annoying “you haven’t used those apps in a while so permissions were removed” thigny. I don’t open some apps often, like my backup app, but it’s still used, unless Android decides to revoke permissions automatically. Like, I don’t use Wahoo in winter but when I want to use it back in summer, it cant find my sensors because permissions have been revoked.
I’ve been annoyed and tired of using Android for a few years now. And I obviously won’t go to Apple. Maybe next time I’ll get a dumb phone and just carry a small computer with me for the rest.
- Comment on "Refrigerate after opening and store in the refrigerator door." Why the door for this mayo? 5 weeks ago:
As a Canadian, I have never seen a bag of milk “sealed” with a rubber band. Plus, standard bags are way bigger than these. Those bags are not Canadian.
En tant que Canadien, je n’ai jamais vu de sacs de lait “scellés” avec des élastiques. De plus, les sacs réguliers sont beaucoup plus grand que ceux-ci. Ces sacs ne sont pas Canadiens.
- Comment on Wait, I know you... 1 month ago:
Gul Dukat did nothing wrong.
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 1 month ago:
Imgur has been pretty shit at hosting images for other sites for about a decade because it’s trying very hard to keep people captive on its site. They added ways to prevent hotlinking and if I paste an imgur link in a chat, starting with i., supposedly a direct link to the image, the preview will not work and the page the link sends to will always open their whole site around that image. They really really want people to stay on there, and interact, or watch ads. AFAIK they have made that change about a decade ago as they wanted to monetize.
- Comment on Why isn't it considered vegan to harvest animals who die naturally? 2 months ago:
In fact, the numbers are estimated to be around 2 billion animals a year globally.
As for people
- Comment on The mental health industry is probably profiting a lot from political turmoil. 3 months ago:
I make a difference between the workers and the industry.
Therapists where I live can work in the public system, or in the private system.
It’s free to see a therapist in the public system and they are paid by the government, but it’s nearly impossible to have a session because they are booked months and months in advance. So they are not making more from this.
Then there’s the ones working privately, usually also booked months in advance but for a few hundred dollars an hour. They are also not making more from this because they were already working full time.
However there is a “mental health industry”, like Betterhelp, that will gladly exploit and profit from the circumstances.
- Comment on The mental health industry is probably profiting a lot from political turmoil. 3 months ago:
“And because I consider mental health important, today I’m proud to present my sponsor, Betterhelp!”
Sweet capitalism.
- Comment on "United States" in French (États-Unis) would have made a very confusing acronym 3 months ago:
If you want to be serious, the word state and état are both coming from an older version of French when it was written estat. French replaced ES with É because it wasn’t pronouncing the S, while English dropped the E and kept pronouncing the S. It happened to multiple words, although some also come from Latin.
Étrange - Strange. Époux - Spouse. École - School. Épice - Spice. Éponge - Sponge.
It also happened with circumflex.
Hôpital - Hospital. Forêt - Forest. Pâte - Paste.
Here’s a whole video about exactly this.
- Comment on "United States" in French (États-Unis) would have made a very confusing acronym 3 months ago:
The Netherlands, but in English the language is called Dutch.
But I prefer when it happens to cities. Aix-la-Chapelle or Aachen. Liège or Luik or Lüttich. Ghent or Gand or Gent.
- Comment on It's interesting that we have multiple appliances in the kitchen who's sole job is to turn electricity into heat. 3 months ago:
Sure. It’s always “better” to burn stuff to generate more pollution in the air that you breathe, and also continue to depend on fossil fuel.
www.cbc.ca/…/gas-stoves-air-pollution-1.6394514
And “better” depends on your sources of energy and what your goals are. Like most people here, I grew up with an electric stove and we are just used to cook this way. It’s just an adaptation. I use gas stoves in camping and in my cabin, and I’m so used to an electric one, that I hate using gas.
Electricity here is cheap and clean so if you want to eat hot and warm food and minimize the impact on the environment, and your bank account, you should probably get used to cooking with electricity. There’s also different technologies. My mother prefers a glass-ceramic stove but induction stoves are also getting pretty popular. Or you can pay more, pollute more, continue to breathe the results of combustion and keep buying fossil fuel to cook “better”. I consider less pollution for millions of people, and less reliance on the oil & gas industry to be “better”.
- Comment on It's interesting that we have multiple appliances in the kitchen who's sole job is to turn electricity into heat. 3 months ago:
Where I live everything is electric for the vast majority of people. The norm here is to have electric stoves and electric water heaters. Even heating houses is mainly done through electricity.
I was so surprised to learn as a teen that this is not the norm everywhere, and that some people are actually still lighting fires in their houses to cook food.
- Comment on PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG 4 months ago:
In two parts.
- The before map would be of the only high speed train the US currently has, and it’s the Acela Express. So, something like this.
- If lots of people are consuming Tylenol in day to day life, and it causes autism, and some autistic people love trains, then the US should have a system like the map posted.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
Broken clock theory. He’s right, obviously. It’s also interesting that he doesn’t say anything about Trump doing the same thing.
- Comment on New Arizona law to restrict online porn access; Pornhub will block state 4 months ago:
- Comment on But also, the correct answer is Devil's Due 4 months ago:
Lost, confused, disturbed, unsettled, baffled and eve a bit turned on.
This could describe every decon scene in ENT.
- Comment on What is the current state of Matrix? 5 months ago:
I had the same experience as OP when I tried Matrix a few years ago. No hate on it but it was not easy and gave I up because I already had a simple IRC setup that’s working for me and my friends.
Some IRC clients are now web based and it’s been enough to keep a few of my friends there instead of Discord. We use The Lounge. It can keep a history, display images, videos, play mp3s, and show previews of most URLs. Like, we can simply copy/paste images into a channel and they are uploaded on the server and displayed in the chat. There’s also push notifications and it’s mobile friendly.
Convos also does something like this. Apparently it can also do voice and video chat but I’ve never got it to work.
I’ve recently been thinking about giving Matrix another try but I’m pretty sure my friends are going to stay on “modern” IRC anyway.
- Comment on LPT: Go get a shot, now. 5 months ago:
And yet you are saying this in a thread about the US restricting access to some vaccines. It was all nonsense a few months ago.
- Comment on LPT: Go get a shot, now. 5 months ago:
Why not? I’m not willing to provide links for everything I’ll list, so do what you want with it.
Democracy has failed in the US. They have a king with a dictatorship. They ignore their own laws. They kidnap law abiding citizens, on the streets, at work, in the schools, and send them into concentration camps. They kidnap people from other countries at the border. They invade their own cities with the military. They are sending a flotilla to Venezuela. They are renaming the Department of Defence to the Department of War. They have openly discussed invading Mexico. They have mentioned in the past that Canada should be part of the US. Maine’s Senator sent an open letter to Western Canada and invited them to join the US, like, a week ago.
All this shit is normalized in the US. They just do it little by little and so far people don’t react. They always say “Trump is joking” and “this will not happen” but it ends up happening every time.
- Comment on LPT: Go get a shot, now. 5 months ago:
At the rate that things are devolving, if you have the means, you may consider emigrating somewhere else. And maybe not Canada because we’ll probably be invaded by your country in the following years, or months.
- Comment on kansas can get fcked 5 months ago:
- Comment on Almost half of adults say they are ordering kids' meals. Here's what's behind the trend. 5 months ago:
Yes, but…
I sometimes order a kids meal because portions are too big for me and I don’t want to waste. I hate going to restaurants because plates are too big.
If it were not for capitalism trying squeeze every cent out of working people and charging the same for less, I would kind of appreciate the shrinkflation. Like, just shrinking portions without keeping the price of the regular one, that would have been nice.
And I’m sure it will sound mean but, people cutting back on the amount of McDonald’s they eat may end up being not so negative.
Again, it’s bad because people are doing it to cut back on expenses, but they are still going to eat out at McDonald’s, so it can’t be that bad for them.
It’s not like they are being shot at by the IDF while waiting for their happy meal. Maybe by the national guard soon, but not yet.
- Comment on 5 months ago:
The English speaking world should be isolated. Rupert Murdoch made it sick.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Why is it a bad thing?
- Comment on Prince Andrew must be seething that Donald Trump gets to chug along like nothing happened. 6 months ago:
Pretty sure he’s not sweating it.
- Comment on What are your favorite apps for public transit and bike navigation? 6 months ago:
Can I ask how you edit bike paths on Google maps? All I’ve ever been able to do is fill reports (the feedback system) that seems to be ignored. Everything I find about this says to use the feedback system. But I’ve done it a few times and it worked for something about a road, many years ago, but I tried it a few times again for bike paths and nothing was corrected.
- Comment on What are your favorite apps for public transit and bike navigation? 6 months ago:
You’re in luck I guess. Google maps here in Montreal is pretty bad with knowing protected bike lanes and safe routes. It will often send you in a car sewer when there is a perfectly safe route two streets over.
To me, Google maps has outdated data for cycling. It’s confused by contraflow lanes. It also often shows pedestrian paths as cycling paths. And it doesn’t have all the paths and even if you write to them to correct a path, they will not.
I still use Google maps because of how easy it is for turn by turn amd I didn’t find anything to replace it yet. But I have to inspect the route and make changes on the fly because Google doesn’t know about modal filters and contraflow lanes.
- Comment on What are your favorite apps for public transit and bike navigation? 6 months ago:
I use OSM a lot for planning routes, decide where to pass, and then I set Google Maps and fight with it. But I didn’t find anything satisfying yet for turn by turn. I’m on the the verge of making my itineraries in GPX form.
Googke Maps in my city and region sucks so much for bikes. But I look at its suggestions, ignore them when I know a safer route, and follow them if I didn’t plan a route and need to get from A to B.
