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- Comment on The handhold opening of a kitchen cutting board allows you to turn it into a melee weapon. 3 days ago:
If that thought seems novel to you, your homework for this weekend is to watch a few Jackie Chan movies.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
"What's up?" It's the direction in space opposite to the local gravitational field, why are you asking me?
- Submitted 5 days ago to science_memes@mander.xyz | 11 comments
- Comment on Nobody has ever lit a cigarette because of happiness. Smoking is a anxiety-coping mechanism. 1 week ago:
There are some ex-smokers who claim that they never enjoyed it. Then there are some who go on to claim that nobody ever does. The former, I can believe.
- Comment on Our user profiles are little time capsules that your children and descendants can learn about who you are. 1 week ago:
Hi future kids! If you tracked down this account you probably either work for the NSA or you're a super-talented hacker. So I'm either very proud of you or very disappointed.
- Comment on Xbox requires age verification now 1 week ago:
Yoti, a trusted third-party identity verification provider
Sure they could do it without relying on a third party, but Microsoft knows its users are going to have an easier time trusting "Yoti" rather than trusting Microsoft.
- Comment on There is a key difference between walkable and car dependent living: 2 weeks ago:
Sounds pretty good tbh. Peaceful, secure, quiet, lots of trees, low taxes.
- Comment on There is a key difference between walkable and car dependent living: 2 weeks ago:
Of course the ideal is to find someplace where you need neither house nor car keys.
- Comment on I feel like all current political debate is basically trying to choose between the three endings in the original Deus Ex. 2 weeks ago:
Hey, I'm from the 20th century. It was a cataclysmic hundred years, not some kind of stable condition that could be restored. The prosperity of its last few decades was fuelled by burning the furniture made by the labour movement, and we're almost out of fuel.
- Comment on At somepoint in human history there was likely a day where not a single human died. 2 weeks ago:
At some point in human history there was only one human, the first one.
*for some definition of "human"
- Comment on Alternative app store AltStore raises $6M, connects with the fediverse | TechCrunch 2 weeks ago:
Interesting news, but I'll just stick with F-Droid.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 4 comments
- Comment on xkcd #3153: Hot Water Balloon 2 weeks ago:
It seems possible that there might be better ways to ride a hot waterbed.
- Comment on Pornhub should make its own VPN 2 weeks ago:
No, just one of your data security needs.
- Comment on Pornhub should make its own VPN 2 weeks ago:
Sure, who wouldn't entrust all their data security needs to a porn website? They should start an infosec consulting business while they're at it.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Just remove the "S" and it'd be nearer the mark.
- Comment on Discussion: Long-term need for automation tools for moderation 2 weeks ago:
Automatic removal for repeat URL posting
That seems like the best of these ideas. But it would be better for the originating instance to warn the poster that their url has already been seen and stop them posting it unless they really really want to.
- Comment on Here's what would happen if the UK abolished landlords overnight 3 weeks ago:
Let’s assume being a landlord is made illegal overnight. Tenants won’t be made to leave their homes, however, until the landlord has been able to sell up.
I mean obviously we're not going to abolish landlords overnight unless we abolish a whole lot of other things along with them in some kind of incredibly successful revolution, but thinking that we'd keep them around long enough to profit from the sale of their real estate assets is just a failure of imagination. Let's assume that all mortgage debt is cancelled and ownership of every dwelling is granted to whoever's been living in it.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
That would result in massive protests.
- Comment on Tories set a low bar after misspelling Britain on conference chocolate 3 weeks ago:
Good call there over at the Grauniad.
- Comment on Brits in disbelief as new refillable drinks ban implemented across UK 3 weeks ago:
Yes... that is the topic of discussion. I'm just saying it's manifestly unfair if they apply that tax to refills of your cup at Nando's, but don't charge extra for each lump of sugar in a cup of tea.
- Comment on Brits in disbelief as new refillable drinks ban implemented across UK 3 weeks ago:
In order to be consistent they'll need to start charging tax per lump of sugar as well.
- Comment on Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come 3 weeks ago:
Yeah I would prefer to move my data from the cloud to my personal computer. With fully automated cloud-based end-to-end encrypted backups, of course. Even web apps have good access to local storage now. If I want to share my personal data with someone, I can send it to them.
I'm sure there are a few applications where something more complicated is required. Neither lemmy comments nor biometric data from a "smartwatch" are among them.
- Comment on Keir Starmer says digital ID cards an ‘enormous opportunity’ for the UK 4 weeks ago:
"You will not be able to work in the United Kingdom if you do not have digital ID. It's as simple as that."
Ah, I get it. The idea is to give a massive boost to the underground economy, forcing everyone without a digital ID to work completely off the books.
- Comment on YSK: YouTube views went down since mid-August because they no longer count views of not logged in users 4 weeks ago:
I did some youtubing last week and saw three people claiming that three different theories were already proven.
- Comment on Keir Starmer expected to announce plans for digital ID cards 4 weeks ago:
Making Britain less attractive to illegal migrants, at the cost of also making it less attractive to everyone else.
- Comment on (Controversial) Political parties are like bundled sales. 4 weeks ago:
More like cable TV packages. Full of stuff you don't want, mostly made for and by fools, very expensive.
- Comment on (Controversial) Political parties are like bundled sales. 4 weeks ago:
More like cable TV packages.
- Comment on Mastodon has a new plan to make money: Hosting and support services for the open social web 5 weeks ago:
I remember when I wanted Mozilla to do that, since they had the organizational might, the money, and it fit perfectly with their mission when they created mozilla.social. On the one hand, it seems slightly less ideal to have the same organization that develops mastodon also providing hosting for it. On the other hand, they probably have a better chance of doing it well.
- Comment on Most oxygen is basically algae farts 5 weeks ago:
Did you know that there was no oxygen in earth's atmosphere until a couple billion years ago, when some mischievous bacteria started pumping it out all over the place? It was called the oxygen catastrophe, and all that poisonous oxygen gas in the air is thought to have led to the evolution of many new things such as nuclear envelopes and sex. I like to remember it once in a while.
