klu9

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Decibel meter app?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks. Step 1 seems to make sense to me, but…(excuse me if this seems a silly question) this means I need a sound loudness measuring tool in order to use my phone as a sound loudness measuring tool? At least to do the calibration?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Decibel meter app?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks. I’ve installed it and looking at it now.

  The experiment I need would be… Acoustic Amplitude, right?

  And the steps would be? (sorry, I’m not very scientific)

  “Calibrate” tab > “Calibrate”: do this when there is no/little noise?
  “Calibrate” tab > “Offset”: no idea what to do here.
  “Amplitude” tab > when there is noise I want to measure, press the play button?
  “Amplitude” tab > after a bit, press the pause button?
  Then, other? 3-dot menu > “Export data” or “Share screenshot”?
  

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Decibel meter app?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks. I’ve installed it and looking at it now.

  The experiment I need would be… Acoustic Amplitude, right?

  And the steps would be? (sorry, I’m not very scientific)

  1. “Calibrate” tab > “Calibrate”: do this when there is no/little noise?
  2. “Calibrate” tab > “Offset”: no idea what to do here.
  3. “Amplitude” tab > press the play button?
  4. “Amplitude” tab > press the pause button?
  5. Then, other? 3-dot menu > “Export data” or “Share screenshot”?
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Decibel meter app?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the info.

  So, imperfect but perhaps one might help at least for comparing noise levels, e.g. the noise they’re making now compared to last night.

• Decibel meter app?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mum locked up in prison after what she did with two Kinder eggs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  When your junk smells so strong that dogs bark at it and the fuzz stop you…

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  clip from TV show Psych - Gus’s pickup line

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Speak American⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  On Oxford Street in London, a tourist asked me for directions to Edgware.

  At first puzzled by his interest in visiting far-off social housing and knife crime, I quickly realized by his accent what he actually meant and directed him to nearby Edgware Road.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Me when the americans invade⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not your usual cheery self at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An EXTREMELY Simple Guide to Mastodon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for explaining that, now I can eventually see the OP.

  I want more like the second picture by default (although I wish the tap would take me direct to the OP instead of to the reply and then I have to scroll up).

  I don’t want to see a main feed full of replies I don’t understand because there’s no context and have to decide whether it’s worth tapping and scrolling up dozens (hundreds?) of times a day to find out what it’s about.

  I want by default to see the OP with replies underneath (perhaps the replies collapsed or collapsible). Then I can decide based on the OP, not guess by the reply, if I want to read through that thread or scroll past to the next.

  Maybe it’s cuz I’m new and all the content is new. Once I’m in, perhaps I’ll want to see unaccompanied replies. But for now, I want to see OPs first, then replies once I’ve read the OP.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An EXTREMELY Simple Guide to Mastodon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Good idea. I wanted to search their Github Issues to see if they already have a request for this but then I realized I don’t know the correct technical terms to describe this. “Show OP with replies below directly in timeline”? Or “feed”? Or “home page”? Whatever is the porper Mastodon term for what it shows me when I load the main page.

  • github.com/cheeaun/phanpy/issues
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An EXTREMELY Simple Guide to Mastodon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately, it looks like Fedilab is a mobile app only.

  Also, I’ve installed it on Android and the default does not show the OP above with replies grouped below.

  Looking at its settings, maybe one might affect completely missing OPs, “Remote Conversations”. I’ve enabled it and will see how it goes.

  I can’t find any setting to make it show replies grouped below the OP.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An EXTREMELY Simple Guide to Mastodon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Phanpy

  First impression: “That’s more like it!”

  But then: “Wait… it’s still not showing me the OP followed by replies.” It shows me a reply, with some faded text above. I click on the faded text above, and still don’t get the OP, eventually click on a group of microavatars with mouseover text “Go to top” and an up arrow, and at last see what the hell it is people are talking about, with replies below. I try going through settings, find no way to get it simply show me the OP in the first place.

  I guess I’ll have to keep trying out front-ends until I find one that works in a way that is not obviously maddening the way I need it to.

  I’ll try Ask Lemmy. lemmy.ca/post/44479417

  (And wondering again if I should try Mbin or Piefed, and what the difference is.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An EXTREMELY Simple Guide to Mastodon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, I’m confused. And has it caught on?

  Disclosure: I’ve tried it out on my computer, not the app. Is the app more user-friendly?

  E.g. I only just realized now why I’ve been so confused by Mastodon; the web page shows you replies before showing you what’s being replied to, without the UI making it obvious that’s what it’s doing and what’s connected together. Does the app fix that, and is there a way to get a fix in a web browser?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Labour is set to formally declare it believes trans women are men, says leaked NEC paper.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What next, Labour? Reintroduce Section 28?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy needs AI.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We need to find a way to fund the cost of implementing this. Perhaps a series of NFTs?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US to start European troop withdrawal discussions later this year, US NATO ambassador says⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Another item crossed off Putin’s wishlist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We gonna fight⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can I federate my ghost blog?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think their blog is about ghosts, I think their blog is created with Ghost, not WordPress

  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_(blogging_platform)
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop Internet Searching and Start Asking on Fediverse?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  New game:

  “AI or Putin? You decide!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rightwing populists will keep winning until we grasp this truth about human nature⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And getting rid of regressive VAT for progressive income tax would probably be a vote winner, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Harassed by Assassin’s Creed gamers, a professor fought back with kindness⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve gotta see that movie, sounds great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Harassed by Assassin’s Creed gamers, a professor fought back with kindness⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think there’s an acted movie, maybe documentaries, TV shows etc. And he has a podcast.

  • www.imdb.com/name/nm6522386/ (Click “Self”)
  • www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct1nbl
  • open.spotify.com/show/2JlGAHkwKjJYjN3iR8IL0U
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Harassed by Assassin’s Creed gamers, a professor fought back with kindness⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminds me of Daryl Davis.

  In 1983, he was playing country western music in a “white” bar in Frederick, Maryland, when a patron came up to him and said it was the first time he had “heard a black man play as well as Jerry Lee Lewis”. Davis explained to the man that “Jerry Lee learned to play from black blues and boogie-woogie piano players and he’s a friend of mine”. The white patron was skeptical and over a drink admitted he was a member of the KKK. The two became friends and eventually the man gave Davis contact information on KKK leaders.

  A few years later, Davis decided that he wanted to interview Klan members and write a book on the subject, to answer a “question in my head from the age of 10: ‘Why do you hate me when you know nothing about me?’ That question had never been answered from my youth”.

  Davis eventually went on to befriend over twenty members of the KKK, and claims to have been directly responsible for between forty and sixty, and indirectly over two hundred people leaving the Klan.

  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daryl_Davis
  • npr.org/…/how-one-man-convinced-200-ku-klux-klan-…
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China turns on ‘minors mode’ to keep kids safe online⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But don’t worry, folks in the free world, this won’t apply to you! Douyin (Tiktok in China) may restrict what kids see, but Tiktok abroad will still serve up to your tween daughter videos that tell her if she isn’t pretty enough, she might as well kill herself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨does patrick stewart’s head look like a football with a face?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The evidence says no.

  Patrick Stewart:

  Imageewart:

  A football with a face:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A List of Social Media Platforms that Still Permit Free-Speech⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the details.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A List of Social Media Platforms that Still Permit Free-Speech⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the info. I’ve heard of it but never tried it.

  Does it at least have easy ways for users to filter what they don’t want? E.g. block lists that users can subscribe to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A List of Social Media Platforms that Still Permit Free-Speech⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ay, there’s the rub.

  Even the article’s author chooses to exclude some types of content, like porn.