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- Comment on Nearly 20% of cancer drugs defective in 4 African nations 16 hours ago:
This is pretty much absolutely true by the way:
- Comment on Germany deems DeepSeek as illegal content after it is unable to address data security concerns, and asks Apple and Google to block it from their app stores 3 days ago:
Congratulations, this is how you get exploited by corporations.
- Comment on I started cultivating moss (Small guide with pictures) 1 week ago:
I love this. I use sphagnum moss to keep other plants, mushrooms and terrariums humid, but I have never met anyone who cultivates it at home.
Great stuff, reall interesting! And thanks for the instructions, I’ll be sure to save that somewhere.
- Comment on It's more economical 2 weeks ago:
I’d pay extra for that
- Comment on Scientists discover that feeding AI models 10% 4chan trash actually makes them better behaved 3 weeks ago:
Who says you can’t check their outputs? It’s much faster to e. g. read a generated text than to write everything yourself. Same applies to translations, they’ve been excellent for quite a while now.
Business communication can be handled effortlessly by AI. Of course you read the result before you send it out, but that takes an order of a magnitude less time than formulating and typing all those meaningless sentences.
And honestly, that’s a perfect use case for AI. I wouldn’t compose a love letter to my family using AI, but a pamphlet, feature description, sales pitch, any bullshit presentation deck? You bet AI excels at those.
Same applies to content summaries that help augment search indices. Finding a large number of content candidates (e. g. videos) and have AI summarize the contents of said videos to narrow down the search is helpful and works today.
I’m not looking for AGI. I’m looking for tools to make my life easier, but in an ethical manner that doesn’t advance the destruction of the planet at an exponential rate, just for some tech bro to jerk it and buy another yacht.
- Comment on Scientists discover that feeding AI models 10% 4chan trash actually makes them better behaved 3 weeks ago:
Those numbers are baseless exaggerations. There are plenty of tasks which they solve perfectly, today. It’s just that a bunch of dicks operate them, and the cost of operating them are way too high.
- Comment on The Outer Worlds 2 - Official Story Trailer | Xbox Games Showcase 2025 3 weeks ago:
Ah shit. I swear to god, this just happened to me. I came to. the comments, confused why a trailer for Outer Wilds 2 would be age-restricted.
Ugh.
But then again, you cleared up my confusion, so I guess. there’s that.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
In the same vein, I’d like to remind people that feminism is also for men.
As a start, I think bell hooks’ The Will to Change can be a good intro.
- Comment on Forbidden Tech 5 weeks ago:
… and you could easily fix the whole situation by having the shed run a male extension cord out that could be plugged into the generator.
It would also be infinitely more whimsical, since it’d make the shed look like a little appliance with its own chord. Or paint everything and call it a tail, the possibilities are endless.
“Well, let me just plug in the shed real quick”
- Comment on No need to hurt me, GOG :( 5 weeks ago:
I want my pain to be inflicted on others.
- Comment on No need to hurt me, GOG :( 5 weeks ago:
I want to chime in with two recommendations that stray a bit from the beaten path:
- Comment on Grieve with me 5 weeks ago:
They’re absolutely right, that is the cause 85% of the time. Make sure to get a non-conductive pick made out of plastic or wood (e. g. literally a toothpick) and remove the dust by circling around the little protrusion, then clean the rounded corners with a little hooking motion.
- Comment on Tekken 8 lead has been trying to contact Waffle House for a collaboration for the past year - to no avail 1 month ago:
When asked what location fans wanted as a fighting stage, one very popular answer was Waffle House. Context: if you crash at WH after a long night out, you’re guaranteed to witness some drunken fighting.
Man, I’d love a Waffle House stage.
- Comment on Diese Gemeinde ist nun Eigentum der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1 month ago:
“Bro gotta go” should work
- Comment on The Inside of Sensirion's SCD4x 1 month ago:
Yes, same here. As I said, it was quite interesting and I did it for the same reason, to combine interests.
- Comment on The Inside of Sensirion's SCD4x 1 month ago:
Sure. It’s just that I determined the same effect could be achieved by a preprogrammed cycle of ventilation and misting - no closed loop needed, as the conditions in the cultivation chamber do not vary enough to warrant the setup.
- Comment on The Inside of Sensirion's SCD4x 1 month ago:
Funny enough, I also used Sensirion sensors for mushroom cultivation, even had a mobile dashboard using MQTT dash.
After a couple of years, I went back to basic “gardening” to focus on the essentials, but it was interesting for a while. Unless going commercial, I do not consider the sensors to have added significant value beyond providing an interesting side project.
- Comment on America is fucked 2 months ago:
Dann halt ich erst mal an, ja
- Comment on Instead of paying for a therapist every week I'd be willing to pay like $100 a month for someone to harass me into going to social events. 3 months ago:
They would still have to go to the club though, and generate the interest / intent by themselves.
I think the service provided should be more like a PA: they call you Friday at 5pm, ask what you’re doing, suggest a couple of activities, and once there, actually make an effort to introduce you to people, suggest common activities, take care of the first hour of awkward conversation so people can get to know each other etc.
$5 says this already exists in Japan.
- Comment on The Pebble Has Been Brought Back 3 months ago:
It absolutely does, on Android at least. On iOS, given Apple’s restrictions, the whole situation is a bit more complicated:
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Check if your solder contains flux. Often, you will want to apply additional flux manually anyway.
But, most importantly: it looks like you’re trying to touch the hot iron with your solder (or vice versa). Don’t do that. Use the iron to heat up the wire and then touch the solder to the wire and let it wick up once sufficiently hot. However, you will want to have a bit of melted solder on the tip of your iron to enhance heat conductivity.
As others have said, pre-tin your wires before connecting them to anything.
And yeah, so far, it’s a hot mess. But you’ll get there in no time. Watch a video for proper technique.
- Comment on How to use Collabora? All I get is "OK". 4 months ago:
The parent comment is correct. CODE is the server, you need the “Collabora Online app” for document editing. I’m not aware if there are alternatives to the ownCloud / Nextcloud apps.
- Comment on the lifestyle 7 months ago:
Plots are typical composed, and when writing a paper (I insert them mostly into TeX publications) I do find the quality of the resulting plot is just so much more refined.
Seaborn is indeed closer and was definitely inspired by ggplot2 in some areas, but IMHO, it’s still not 100% there visually. I’m very much a Python user and would love it to be, but when I’m, let’s say, publishing a book, I’d always go back to ggplot2 - when preparing a paper for a lab class, seaborn is probably fine.
- Comment on the lifestyle 7 months ago:
You’ll get used to it and it will only take a couple of minutes. And I honestly believe nothing comes close to ggplot2 in terms of quality, and I don’t use R for anything else.
- Comment on Westloki – 3D printed bicycle belt drive conversion (solid continuous loop belt on an unbroken bike frame) 7 months ago:
Yeah, no lubricants and the look / style factor - that was my conclusion as well.
As for maintenance, while a belt might last 3 times as long, that’s not really a factor, given the price difference between belts and chains.
- Comment on Westloki – 3D printed bicycle belt drive conversion (solid continuous loop belt on an unbroken bike frame) 7 months ago:
Exactly, which is why I was trying to think of any actual reasons I might want a belt, except style.
- Comment on Westloki – 3D printed bicycle belt drive conversion (solid continuous loop belt on an unbroken bike frame) 7 months ago:
Are there any other readons I’d want this apart from the lack of oil and the decreased noise levels, the coolness factor and the tinkering itself?
Every single one is a valid reason in itself, but maybe I’m missing something.
- Comment on Location tracking of phones is out of control. Here’s how to fight back. 8 months ago:
It’s not like Bluetooth started demanding location permissions, the conceptual model of the permission was revised: having access Bluetooth means an app could determine your location via a form of lateration.
In earlier versions of smartphone operating systems, this was not transparent to users lacking the technical background, so Bluetooth also requiring location access is actually an honest attempt at making users aware of that. I’m not an iOS developer, so I can’t comment on iPhones, but on Android versions prior to 11, having access to Bluetooth meant an app would be able to determine your location.
Today, you can require the permission
ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION, which expresses that your app might use Bluetooth to obtain location information on Android. Also, if you’re just scanning for nearby devices to connect your app to, but don’t want users to be confused why your smart fridge app needs to know your precise location, you can declare a permission flag (neverForLocation) and Android will strip beacon information from the scan results, better asserting your intentions. - Comment on Honey 8 months ago:
honey bees are bad for pollinators
Hm? What do you mean?
From this paper:
A. mellifera appears to be the most important, single species of pollinator across the natural systems studied, owing to its wide distribution, generalist foraging behaviour and competence as a pollinator.
- Comment on How to fix this glass that is no longer in place? 8 months ago:
Oh hey, I just saw you had already posted pretty much the same recommendation I had in mind. I’d personally 3d print an attachment, but your solution is readily available for everyone and cheap. Kudos!