SreudianFlip

@SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tiger Predators⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Eating a tiger liver would probably kill you with Vitamin A poisoning, particularly painful.

  Easy to just avoid eating entirely, even if the rest of it is safe enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Apple doesn’t want people using the mouse with the cable attached because it would cost them a fortune due to failed charging ports within the warranty period. It’s a wireless mouse. Using it plugged in will fuck it up.

  I fix computers and an apple mouse with a bad charge port is just a throwaway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple’s first Mac mini redesign in 14 years looks like a big aluminum Apple TV⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mac Mini M1 when it was released was a good deal compared to same form factor machines at similar prices. Same for the M1 MacBook Air, despite the base RAM.

  That advantage lasted a while, too, considering battery life and build quality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can corroborate that it gets crazy even in courses expecting high literacy. I had the painful experience of teaching a 3rd year course in communication studies that was part of the media production stream. It required writing preproduction documentation and a script. There were a lot of questionable attempts but there’s always a range of interest and skill, right? One student, and let me remind you this is third year at a university, I called into office hours. I’m a fan of poetry, so I just had to be sure that she wasn’t cleverly lampooning Gertrude Stein in some ironic way. Sadly, no, she just had no fucking clue how to write ANYTHING coherent. Amazing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beware Hollywood’s digital demolition: it’s as if your favourite films and TV shows never existed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the suggestion is that if they leave the content available, they can still write it off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨28 Years Later: Danny Boyle’s New Zombie Flick Was Shot on an iPhone 15⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if it’s because 28 Days Later was shot on a handful of Canon XL-1’s, who h was a breakthrough as they were one of the first prosumer cameras that could pull off a film like that.

  Kind of a nod and a wink at the heritage of the story to shoot on consumer hardware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cuttlefish⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cool, and if anyone wanted to dive into the cuttlefish rabbit hole, er, den, 10/10 would recommend any reading or documentary about them. Astonishing visual communication and camouflage, curiosity, problem solving, and more weird biology.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cuttlefish⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  NOT FISH despite the name. Cephalopods are molluscs like snails! They are pretty smart and can have somewhat elaborate mating routines, and most species are somewhat careful about sperm sac delivery AFAIK. Lonely prisoners are not good behaviour models.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peloton announces $95 “used equipment activation fee”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So, you mean the proper response to the failure of a shitty business model is to introduce a worse business model?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A unique aquaponics system to produce more fish and vegetables with less energy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Our local high school cafeteria program has been running a sophisticated version of this without the biogas element for years. Fish in very large tanks feed the leafy greens hydroponics growing in ranks of pipes on the walls, it’s very productive. Greens get used in the popular cafeteria (open to the public) and also the salad food truck they run in the summer months. Fish used are tilapia. Power is solar.

  The students studying food services get a lesson in energy systems and food sourcing as well as running a business. Superb food, too. All mostly due to one chef-teacher with vision.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crossbow murders: Police find suspect after BBC’s John Hunt’s family killed — as it happened⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Ex-girlfriend” … I think you can put a hypothesis together.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk laid off the Tesla Supercharger team; now he’s rehiring them⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I charge $90(CDN), pay myself around $40. Solo contractor with occasional support staff.

  Need to up my rate, it’s a bit low for what I do, even though I’m no genius or expert specialist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peter Thiel was trapped inside a student debating hall by pro-Palestine protesters accusing him of genocide⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What does it say when you blatantly name your company after the surveillance tool of SAURON, and hardly anyone mentions it?

  Believe them when they tell you who they are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This week’s rental for me:

  • hammer chisel, 24h, about $70 canadian.
  • E20 excavator, 8h runtime but over the weekend, around $500 with delivery and fuel

  Not going to buy those things or pay someone to operate them. It’s a good deal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Giant springs are fucking scary. Energy is dangerous when you store a lot in one place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The hidden environmental cost of mining sand⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The best overview of the global sand crisis that I have seen is the book “The World in a Grain” by V. Beiser, very readable and a wide perspective.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit user content being sold to AI company in $60M/year deal⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Before I deleted my account I removed all posts and changed all my comments to a complaint about the enshittification under way. Two accounts, 13 and 11 years old, it was a lot of work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fox show hosts said Taylor Swift "should be conservative" given her background, because to them it's an identity.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can clarify. I am pretty sure it was mentioned to position her outlook in a similar spot on the overton window as the conventional mainstream liberal representatives, so that it is clear that she’s aligned with other socially liberal and fiscally colonial oligarchs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shout-out to the mods, keeping this instance clean⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Guess what they call the folks over at fuckitnothing.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imagine everything humans could accomplish if we were not a commerce based civilization.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And yet here you are, in the fediverse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is It Worth The Time? XKCD 1205 updated for open source and shared tools.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Copy, cut, paste, undo. Use those keyboard shortcuts and if you work with documents for a notable part of the day you will save a half day a year or so.