Allero
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- Comment on China powers up the world's largest open-sea offshore solar farm 1 day ago:
True!
- Comment on China powers up the world's largest open-sea offshore solar farm 1 day ago:
Makes sense. But does it really negate the elevated construction costs? I must assume such a station is significantly more expensive to build
- Comment on STEAL HIS LOOK 2 days ago:
As a microbiologist, I get to work with such freezers from time to time - they, too, get used for long-term storage. Technically, at around +4°C most organisms (but not all) put their activity to a halt, which is why your fridge is set at that, and at around -18°C just about everything stops any processes (thereby, freezer temperature), but the thing is, freezing at -18°C leads to the formation of relatively large ice crystals, which causes many cells to rip and die, which is perfectly fine if you want to preserve food, but not optimal if you want to store cells themselves. If you freeze at -80°C and lower, smaller ice particles end up not damaging the organisms so much, and they can later be restored. However, such fridges are expensive and draw, like, A LOT of power, and storing much stuff under such conditions gets costly.
Nowhere near as costly as the offerings are, though.
- Comment on China powers up the world's largest open-sea offshore solar farm 2 days ago:
Why building solar farm offshore?
I understand why wind farms are built that way, but solar?
- Comment on Is it really possible to tax the rich? 2 days ago:
In theory - sure. In practice - all countries in the world have to agree to raise taxes, even though individually they are better off betraying this agreement and lowering them, thereby attracting the rich and ending up with more, not less, money.
And if all countries agree to tax the rich the way they should, we might as well go and build socialism everywhere, because not having everyone onboard is a main issue there too.
- Comment on People born after 2000 have never seen the cosmic microwave background on their TV set. 2 days ago:
As someone born in 2000, I’ve personally seen it and I think most people around me did. Maybe someone didn’t, though.
- Comment on lab supplies 3 days ago:
Nothing beats parafilm scarf
- Comment on pump up the jamz 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Stop whining. Do it yourself. 2 weeks ago:
Modding a niche Lemmy community is a breeze, honestly
Not much is happening, but not many troublemakers, either. Modding is pretty much zero effort.
- Comment on The great outdoors 2 weeks ago:
In case you’re wondering, yes.
- Comment on Relationship goals 3 weeks ago:
Oral is above everything
But anal play is really good too for those into it.
- Comment on Relationship goals 3 weeks ago:
Second that.
It feels very good, both physically and emotionally (after you get used to the idea you can be on the “receiving” end). And many, many girls love it! They love to experience sex in a very new way, love to feel what you normally get to feel, and you’ll likely love it too!
- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 3 weeks ago:
Russia, or Putin?
- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 3 weeks ago:
Fair on your part, I might’ve gone too far with my argument.
I was talking more about collaborative nature and what happens to it when the major open-surce project decides to gatekeep based on something highly arbitrary.
Linux is long past a simple hobby project, and it should be managed responsibly and with respect to the people that make this all happen.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 3 weeks ago:
Germany’s like: “uh-oh”
- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 3 weeks ago:
“Protective restrictions” is a code for discrimination. Or would you argue that not allowing, idk, women to vote is a good measure for protecting them against being coerced to vote one way or another?
(this is a random example, just a small mark so I wouldn’t be eaten alive)
- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 3 weeks ago:
No, I just say that writing down any disagreement to the evil intentions of someone in power is extremely counterproductive.
There is plenty of people who are in sincere disagreement over this decision, and Linus just tries to silence them. This ain’t alright.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 3 weeks ago:
Exactly! Being Russian doesn’t mean having any political affiliation.
Moreover, even Russia the state is adopting Linux and is greatly disinterested in messing it up. If anything, this could really be the attack on Linux-reliant Russian infrastructure, but even then it most likely will be a reason for a fork, no more, no less.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 3 weeks ago:
True, but it seems like they were mostly united by just having Russian e-mail domains. Some also worked on support for Baikal CPUs, but they are essentially a failed product now.
Also, the personal response of Linus is a clear F*** you to Russians in particular, so he kinda cleared this out, at least on the level of “I don’t give a damn about Russians whatsoever, they’re evil”
- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, arguing that everyone disagreeing is a paid Russian troll is a cherry on top.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 3 weeks ago:
The central project of open-source community closes doors to people based on nationality, and everyone is cheering…
Why? You seriously miss the implications of breaking the very basic principles of open source? You are ready to forgive literally anything if it is claimed to target Russia or Russians in any way?
For those of you who say about backdoors:
- US is known to create the most complicated spy networks with myriads of backdoors. Where are the bans of the US maintainers?
- Israel is a literal powerhouse of state-sanctioned spying software - Pegasus, as well as many less renowned programs, was created here. Any bans, anyone?
- China is known for invasive software. Maybe ban them all too?
The only reasonable way to avoid backdoors is to meticulously check the submitted code. Threat actors can be anywhere - and Russia is not some unique threat location, nor was it banned with that justification - just “compliance requirements”.
This is not just politics. This is a giant threat to the community, and the way Linus framed it in his message is even more terrifying. This was never meant to happen.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 3 weeks ago:
And the US
- Comment on Launching c/Latvija, the community for Latvia on the Fediverse! Calling all Latvians and those interested in Latvia and the Baltic countries to join and support us. 3 weeks ago:
You mean, against Russians, a huge share of its own population?
For what it’s worth, Latvian policymakers are so russophobic even the EU makes sure to calm them down once in a while.
- Comment on It's a matter of perspective 3 weeks ago:
You discovered “political nuance”
- Comment on 2024 Self-Host User Survey Results 3 weeks ago:
It’s alright! We don’t all have to host our own instance. Existing ones can easily accommodate hundreds of users.
- Comment on Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source 3 weeks ago:
The docs are not only often difficult for an inexperienced user, they commonly omit points of failure.
Various prerequisites, problematic settings, etc. etc. should always be considered.
- Comment on Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done' 3 weeks ago:
Yes, of you spend over $1k on the game you gain access to beta-testing etc.
And the most scary part? Plenty of people do spend this much money - I know many Carrack owners, for example, and this ship costed, when I remember it, $1200. Yes, $1200 for an in-game ship, and there’s plenty of buyers.
Heck, I know a person in Ukraine - not a high-income country by any standards, GDP per capita sitting at ~$5000 - who spent about $6000 on the game by hiding huge portion of his income from his family for years.
- Comment on Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done' 4 weeks ago:
Long story short, they severely fail to deliver on their promises and also mismanaged their development incentives so that they are not financially interested to ever release, or even make the game fully playable.
- Comment on Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done' 4 weeks ago:
That was my concern long ago when I entered the game.
The problem is, CIG have financially incentivised themselves, knowingly or not, to never finish the game.
Being alpha game means you can wipe everything again and again. And they do! One thing they do not touch, however, are ships purchased with real world money. And players do buy those ships in order to not start the game from scratch over and over again, and pay a lot for it, in hundreds and often thousands of dollars!
Upon release, on the other hand, no wipes are planned, and this means one thing: revenue will absolutely plummet as players just buy ships for in-game currency instead of actual cash. Releasing the game now is a suicide move, as CIG won’t be able to blatantly extort players for their money anymore.
- Comment on Tough Shit 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, normally IBS folks do not have issue with every single group of FODMAPs, it’s just a general recommendation to lower them all, then see what can be added without issues.
Good to know xylitol helps! And quite interesting, too.
As per gluten, it’s probably not gluten, yeah, but fructans (oligosaccharides, you’re right on that), mainly inulin - they can trigger IBS as well.
Sourdough breads should probably feel somewhat better then, as fructans are partially degraded through a long fermentation.