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- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
You know, I think there might be dumb questions after all
- Comment on Fuck you in particular 4 days ago:
a justifiable explanation for why the licensing exists in the first place.
“because people doing it wrong would make it look bad” is a terrible reason. I’m fairly certain I can buy an OLED TV and mess with the settings and make the picture look horrendous - time to create a restrictive license on who gets to buy TVs?
- Comment on YSK about 15 bean soup. 4 days ago:
Oh cool, I guess they forgot to inform the entire physiology department of the university I got my biology degree in, and the periodics where they publish their research.
- Comment on YSK about 15 bean soup. 5 days ago:
Especially because thing you might not think of as protein sources can add the missing other amino acids. Things like wheat, rice, etc. also have protein that can complement others.
So I say “consider how some people actually do have a single source of protein per day, they’re not combining it with other food sources, but they should be aware of this” and your reply is “oh but you see they’re combining it with other food sources so that’s not important” flawless logic.
Many researchers argue the exact opposite
Sure. And there are several who disagree, or more precisely, might agree that in a vacuum your point stands, but given the atrocious bioavaliability of most plant-based protein, you actually do need to combine protein to effectively fix the issue because your body will absolutely not fully digest the 2g of protein in your 100g plate of white rice.
www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/16/17/2870
researchgate.net/…/358889835_Metabolic_Availabili…
- Comment on YSK about 15 bean soup. 5 days ago:
You don’t need all amino acids on the same meal, that’s true.
If you’re a vegan, managing protein intake is important. Making sure you get complete proteins is overlooked.
Your comment is a dangerous simplification and excludes the fact that indeed many people rely on specific, cheap, vegetable sources of protein as their only protein.
As for rice, while it will indeed complete most bean types, the amount of protein per 100g is very low.
- Comment on YSK about 15 bean soup. 5 days ago:
People are joking around, but mixing different beans is important.
Beans are a good source of protein, but they’re incomplete - no single bean will provide all essential aminoacids.
So mix them up and you end up with complete protein.
- Comment on Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency 5 days ago:
Users paying for the Unlimited or even the lifetime subscriptions, that were sold under the promise of all access to their services, now need an extra subscription to use their new LLM chat box, Lumo. Which is just a very bad wrapper around Mistral, messing up simple tasks like properly rendering Markdown for mathematical formulas.
Linux users, despite being a very important part of their user base, have zero official tools for Proton Drive syncing. No problem, because Proton Drive supports Rclone, right? Well, support was removed for no good reason and with no official explanation, leaving Linux users limited to the very problematic and slow web UI.
Proton Mail users frequently have their accounts locked for no reason whatsoever, other than vague statements about the ToS.
More examples needed?
- Comment on Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency 5 days ago:
Fair enough, I can’t prove that it would be different so my argument isn’t a hard argument at all.
But personally, I do strongly suspect Proton’s reaction would be very different, or at least very variable. If you look at their subreddit, half of the time people report they do an amazing job and help them… and half of the time they do incredibly user hostile things. A coin toss, basically.
- Comment on Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency 5 days ago:
Everything related to privacy and security requires as a fundamental premise that you select your threat model. Who are you? What data do you want to protect? From whom, and how bad would it be to fail?
Most people skip this step, and then keep acting either surprised or over/under reacting to any given news. There are people out there that can’t use email - regardless of who hosts what. There are people out there that would be fine with Gmail.
- Comment on Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency 5 days ago:
They were temporarily suspended, and reinstated after investigation.
Would this sequence of events have happenned if it was an average joe nobody cared about, rather than a public outcry?
- Comment on Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency 5 days ago:
There are ways you can both make your emails adhere to certain standards that make them look better and “warm” your account so Gmail and Outlook decide to trust it.
I won’t directly mention how in this thread because SEO agencies LOVE abusing this to self host massive link building spam networks to save a buck on buying Gsuite accounts, but it’s indeed possible.
- Comment on Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency 5 days ago:
I was happy with Proton. Until I was not. Tuta might be fine today… what happens in two years?
For email, honestly, it’s a major fucking pain in the ass, but simply buy your own domain and learn how to host it in an agnostic way you can migrate if needed.
- Comment on Microsoft is testing full-screen Microsoft 365 ads in Windows 11 for expired subscriptions 5 days ago:
Advertising has no place period.
One of the single greatest tragedies of modern life is that we accepted ads invading our personal and public spaces. Going outside for a walk and having to see a large outdoor, literally an advert on the sky, should be a crime against humanity.
- Comment on Microsoft is testing full-screen Microsoft 365 ads in Windows 11 for expired subscriptions 5 days ago:
Of course they are. Coincidentally, newer devices being bought in 2025 are increasingly shipping with fully locked UEFI that prevents you from installing anything but Windows.
- Comment on Nintendo’s Switch Mario Galaxy collection will retail for $70 6 days ago:
I got a Wii for $20 and it runs Mario Galaxy from the SD card for free
- Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11 6 days ago:
They’re not limiting it because they’re worried about performance or drivers.
They’re limiting it because they want to force people into SecureBoot, TPM, and CPUs with several remote control management firmware, because this way they’re one stop closer to a fully closed down chain from boot to OS which allows for aggressive DRM and no escape from their ecosystem. Just like at how iOS works and the path Android has been going for the last five years.
The fact the PC ecosystem is open is a left over from the origins in the era before capitalism realized that trapping people into their digital landscapes was profitable, and they have been trying everything to make this go away. Microsoft’s wet dream is your PC becoming the same as your smart TV: a data harvesting, ad filled generic piece of hardware that can only display what they want you to see.
- Comment on Kinesi Protein 1 week ago:
Then a little friendly chaperone protein would come and beat the living shit out of it until it folded itself again and stopped medidating, back to work :)
- Comment on Spotifies come and Spotifies go, but that folder of badly-sorted MP3s will still be there in the 2050s. 3 weeks ago:
Yep, they’re regular FLAC files with tagged metadata.
You can use them as normal. Copy to another device, to an iPod, use them on a video editor, send to a friend.
This has been going on for ages, Tidal never patched it, so I think they quietly are okay with it because not many users do it anyway and at least you’re paying for the service.
- Comment on Spotifies come and Spotifies go, but that folder of badly-sorted MP3s will still be there in the 2050s. 3 weeks ago:
You want a new generation tidal downloader.
On GitHub.
So a Tidal downloader new generation.
One could call such a thing tidal-dl-ng if they’re trying to save some letters, I guess.
- Comment on Spotifies come and Spotifies go, but that folder of badly-sorted MP3s will still be there in the 2050s. 3 weeks ago:
I think any links would violate Lemmy.world’s policies.
But a quick search for “Tidal downloaded” will give you several options.
Basically when Tidal streams to specific devices they basically upload an encrypted FLAC to an AWS host and the device downloads the file and uses your account as the key.
So people create apps that do all that, but instead of simply streaming the FLAC, they download and save it.
The great part is you get album art, live lyrics, high resolution audio, an organized and properly tagged library with zero work. The output FLACs are regular files - no DRM or weirdness, I use them on a MP3 player.
- Comment on Spotifies come and Spotifies go, but that folder of badly-sorted MP3s will still be there in the 2050s. 3 weeks ago:
I have a happy middle ground:
I pay for Tidal’s student subscription. I leverage the fact Tidal streams FLAC files that can be decrypted by your account to build my local collection.
So I never actually stream or use their app, but technically am paying for the downloads.
I tried buying FLACs from companies that actually wanted to sell FLACs but they have ridiculously bad catalogues.
- Comment on Is this month's Humble worth it if I'm not into Persona? 3 weeks ago:
In my opinion, nope, not worth it
- Comment on Our Channel Could Be Deleted - Gamers Nexus 3 weeks ago:
they just don’t sugarcoat
To the contrary, they massively inflate whatever they can find that will gather clicks.
- Comment on Our Channel Could Be Deleted - Gamers Nexus 3 weeks ago:
That would defeat the entire purpose of sensationalist headlines and blowing up a Google search as a “deep investigation” which is this channel’s main source of attention.
They want the clicks on YouTube. Moving to PeerTube would be great if they just wanted the information to be out there, but that’s not their primary concern.
- Comment on The internet kind of sucks right now 3 weeks ago:
So what? You can still sell it to AI companies without assigning an user to each message. They don’t care about who wrote it when stealing the content.
- Comment on Is it realistic to hope that lemmy grows to the size of the bigger social media platforms? 3 weeks ago:
Do we want it to grow to the size of traditional social media?
I want people here, not US politicians, the Pringles social media account and three bots.
- Comment on YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE 4 weeks ago:
Imagine an alligator. Quite good at catching prey with their current anatomy.
An alligator that shoots laser beams for tracking and bullets would be even better. There’s however no path from their current anatomy to this state, regardless of the randomness and timescale for mutations. In fact, in order to achieve this higher state several non advantageous intermediates would be necessary and therefore never selected for.
So no, evolution can’t achieve global maxima, it can however optimize the shit out of what it’s given to work with.
- Comment on Shit like this is why we need open source printers! 4 weeks ago:
Apple also considered printers for a while and decided this mess is untouchable
- Comment on Taylor Swift’s new album comes in cassette. Who is buying those? 4 weeks ago:
Naturally. But the comment is not comparing tape to other media, we are talking about tape players.
- Comment on Taylor Swift’s new album comes in cassette. Who is buying those? 4 weeks ago:
VHS isn’t coming back because you simply can’t buy a CRT and VCR. These are no longer being made, the existing ones are degrading and overpriced.
Otherwise they’d absolutely be back, a lot of videos on YouTube and TikTok are specifically longing for VHS.