piccolo
@piccolo@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on When life gives ya lemons. 2 weeks ago:
Enter capcasin. Mammals find it intolerable (except for one subset of a goofy bipedal species), but birds love that shit.
I know someone with a dog that loves jalapenos. So its not just us.
- Comment on ‘Why didn’t you tell me?’: the Australian push to have all adopted people told their full history and identity 3 weeks ago:
Medical history would be pretty important.
- Comment on Supersized stick insect discovered in high-altitude trees in Australia 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on [Blog] The Future is NOT Self-Hosted 3 weeks ago:
My biggest issues other than privacy concerns is the fact corpations can turn your devices into paperweights over night by just turning off their servers.
- Comment on Wood heater pollution is a silent killer. Here's where the smoke is worst 3 weeks ago:
If your burning wood in 2025, youre most likely living in a rural area. Space isnt an issue.
- Comment on Wood heater pollution is a silent killer. Here's where the smoke is worst 3 weeks ago:
Ive used wood heat most of my life. Its more of the wood quality thay effects that. Dry, cured maple or ash burns clean even at lower temperatures. Most of the impurities come from volatile compounds such as burning green wood, or wood with oily resins like pine. But sure, its less efficient, but its not that big of a difference.
- Comment on Wood heater pollution is a silent killer. Here's where the smoke is worst 3 weeks ago:
If you buy the wood… perhaps. But if you know some people in the arborist business, you can have all the wood you could ever need for free. However, it is a lot of hard work to saw and split the wood yourself.
- Comment on Wood heater pollution is a silent killer. Here's where the smoke is worst 3 weeks ago:
Unless you are awake to refill it every hour or so… slow burning means consistent heat throughout the night.
- Comment on Valve is redesigning the Steam Store Menu and Search, wants user feedback 4 weeks ago:
The amount they collect is far more than the operating costs. But theres a hidden benefit… market visibility. Thats the true value that makes it worth valve’s high fees.
- Comment on Dead OS Walking: 30 Days on Windows XP in 2025 — fireborn 1 month ago:
I used Win ME throughout the entire XP lifespan. The BSODs only made me resilient that whatever bullshit microsoft could come up with.
- Comment on Trump says Israel and Iran 'don't know what the fuck they're doing' 1 month ago:
Then maybe… stay out of it, cant all resources to them, and let them go at it.
- Comment on B-2 bombers head across the pacific as Trump considers strike on Iran 2 months ago:
Impossible. I was told trump is anti war and was going to bring peace to the world.
- Comment on Announcing: Piefed.zip - our new Piefed instance! 2 months ago:
Wait until you learn how much many Linux systems relies on python.
As for “enabling contributions from programmers of all skill levels and keeping server costs down”
Thats no issue so as long expert maintainers are code reviewing any pull request and not letting garbage commits in.
- Comment on Thames Water fined £122.7m in biggest ever penalty 2 months ago:
The same investors that actively allow citizens to be poisoned for profit? Sounds like a their problem.
- Comment on On trees... 2 months ago:
Yeah? So are palms trees
- Comment on On trees... 2 months ago:
What about starfishes? Checkmate.
- Comment on Texas Senate passes bill requiring solar plants to provide power at night 3 months ago:
Ah yes… texas. Home of the “free market”.
- Comment on US warplane falls off aircraft carrier into Red Sea 3 months ago:
67 million dollars for a tractor? Must’ve been a Lamborghini.
- Comment on ‘Stay away’ from Chinese satellite services, US advises allies in leaked memo 3 months ago:
Russia?
- Comment on Greenland visit cancelled after locals refuse to welcome Usha Vance 4 months ago:
They have enough reasons to make maga hate Greenland… they already hate anything ‘Green’
- Comment on Germans no longer see US as trustworthy partner 5 months ago:
yet
- Comment on Meow 5 months ago:
Do you think people go “oh darn… a stray managed to get by my defenses, i guess they live with me now”?..
- Comment on Meow 5 months ago:
My point?
What benefit could i have from “caring for another being”? Me, personally? The other being, yes, maybe. But me? I could never care ADEQUATELY for any animal.
Hypothetically, if someone that was very close to you was in a terrible accident at has become paralyzed and no longer capable of taking care of themselves. What benefit do you have in taking care of them. Will you just abandon them? I would hope you are not cold hearted as such. Obviously there is such benefit as companionship with another living creature. Im not judging you for not wanting a pet, i dont have one myself. But you are coming off very cold.
- Comment on Meow 5 months ago:
Your family and friends must adore you.
- Comment on Indie devs have begun adding a no generative AI stamp to their store pages 5 months ago:
The prompt is the human interaction instructing the machine to produce art in the vision of the prompter.
- Comment on Indie devs have begun adding a no generative AI stamp to their store pages 5 months ago:
And whos to say generative art doesnt receive a lot of thought and intent in producing something worthwhile?
Sure, you could let the machine spit out whatever garbage purely from random inputs, and that is not art as there is zero guidance or intent. But anyone that used generative ai knows you have to guide it to get anything worthwhile out of it. And even then, very likely require manual touchups to correct mistakes.
- Comment on Indie devs have begun adding a no generative AI stamp to their store pages 5 months ago:
So, if a machine makes the ‘art’, its not art? So photographs are not art. The hubble telescope,or any space probe for that matter, doesnt produce art.
Art is something that provoke emotions and expression in its observers and not produced naturally. Machines are built by people and require non-random inputs to produce something thefore anything those machines produce is art.
- Comment on Trump Paralyzes the U.S. Wind Power Industry | The president, who despises wind turbines, has paused federal permits and leasing for such projects, putting company plans in limbo 5 months ago:
Isnt…that what democracy is? Unless you want to argue the system is rigged to promote only two parties. But thats not a problem if representative democracy. Thats just the frameworkers attempt to stiffle the majority.
- Comment on Indie devs have begun adding a no generative AI stamp to their store pages 5 months ago:
Humans are confident statistical black boxes. Art doesnt have to be made by a human to be aspiring.
- Comment on Trump Paralyzes the U.S. Wind Power Industry | The president, who despises wind turbines, has paused federal permits and leasing for such projects, putting company plans in limbo 5 months ago:
You really going to make that argument when people still voted for the dump despite having all the information telling them its a terrible idea?