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- Comment on Bread mold 3 days ago:
I think one theory is that it was central Asian horse-riding societies who started carrying milk on horseback, in saddlebags made out of animal bladders. The motion of the riding and the rennet left in the bladders churned the milk and turned it into cheese.
I remember also reading on a science magazine’s site this possibility that the first cheese made by humans was more of yeast-based preparation, without animal milk, but i can’t find the article mentioning that anymore.
- Comment on Samsung reveals first tri-fold phone 5 days ago:
More unfixable crap for a world drowning in crap. Hooray!
- Comment on I dunno 1 week ago:
Wtf, no, if you distribute you get the same result:
2 + 5(8 - 5) =
2 + (5 × 8) + (5 × -5) =
2 + (40) + (-25) =
2 + 40 - 25 = 2 + 15 = 17
- Comment on I dunno 1 week ago:
What du you mean, not writing it properly?
- Comment on FACTS 1 week ago:
The panic felt by some sad men at the idea of failing some shittily defined masculinity test and the ways enterprising grifters cultivate and exploit that for influence and gain. Yay.
- Comment on MPV: The Ultimate Self-Hosted Media Solution You're Probably Sleeping On 4 weeks ago:
Celluloid is a nice take on an mpv GUI too.
- Comment on MPV: The Ultimate Self-Hosted Media Solution You're Probably Sleeping On 4 weeks ago:
The obliviousness to the layers of knowledge and understanding to comfortably issue `
la movie.mk`is impressive honestly. - Comment on MPV: The Ultimate Self-Hosted Media Solution You're Probably Sleeping On 4 weeks ago:
Thanks for this.
It really misses the point of why you’d want Jellyfin in the first place. Share a link to a film and give people the optionoption to watch it? Read something about a film before deciding toto watch it? Start watching something on Kodi then finish it later on your laptop?
How would mpv answer any of these…?
- Comment on Controversial startup's plan to 'sell sunlight' using giant mirrors in space would be 'catastrophic' and 'horrifying,' astronomers warn 4 weeks ago:
Ah ha, exactly
- Comment on Controversial startup's plan to 'sell sunlight' using giant mirrors in space would be 'catastrophic' and 'horrifying,' astronomers warn 4 weeks ago:
The future we hoped for: Dyson sphere, free unlimited energy
The future silicon valley shitlords are hoping for: let us sell you sunlight (or maybe lack thereof, wink wink)
- Comment on Controversial startup's plan to 'sell sunlight' using giant mirrors in space would be 'catastrophic' and 'horrifying,' astronomers warn 4 weeks ago:
Also, what’s international law like, in space? What consequences would be if you just shot down one of their satellites? (I say this with zero knowledge of how practical this even is)
- Comment on If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7 5 weeks ago:
Here’s a similar perspective: as a vegetarian, seeing advertisement selling meat is good: it means the animal exploitation industry is struggling and needs to promote their “product” which need nearly no advertising for years if not decades.
It’s very similar here: the advertising (in the form of putting it where you can’t miss it, in the tools you use everyday) is trying to convince you to use something many people are apparently just not that interested in.
- Comment on Pow-- 5 weeks ago:
There are no biological races in humanity. Nothing that can be compared to dogs for instance. On top of that “white” as a biological marker to define a group makes as much sense as “tall” or “small hands”, ie: none.
We humans are pretty varied lot, people have wanted to create categories for ages and have done so, but those are social categories.
- Comment on Pow-- 5 weeks ago:
That looks like a great reinterpretation of the character. Thanks for pointing this out!
- Comment on Pow-- 5 weeks ago:
Absolutely this. This is crucial to resisting fascism in its various forms: dehumanising is an extremely dangerous slope and used to prepare people to accept unacceptable things.
TERFs are people. Nazis are people. Murderers and rapists are people. Fans of Asmongold are people.
It may be hard to accept, and tempting to dehumanise, but please don’t.
- Comment on ‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS 5 weeks ago:
I’m sorry, what, a balanced and informed answer? Surely you must be joking!
- Comment on This man is suffering 1 month ago:
Porn is filmed in a controlled environment
Controlled by whom? For whose benefit?
This bit, on which a lot of the argument hinges, seems rather rose-tinted. An alarming number of women report being coerced into doing more than they agreed to, once on set.
- Comment on tried makin nookie 1 month ago:
Came here to say just thatthat.
- Comment on Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble 1 month ago:
Lobste.rs is probably even more on the “engineers talking to engineers” side of things. I’ve not visited in a while and am not sure what people there think of (the current crop of gen)AI.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
“_and we are thereforerenaming the project Joséer González_”
- Comment on Unified Theory of American Reality 2 months ago:
I don’t think I’ve ever read a description or definition of fascism where the population being immature is a thing.
What do you mean?
- Comment on I balance my checkbook every day. I manage my bank acount . Why does the goverment have so much problems with this? I get large payouts and such but it always seem they are in the neg?? 2 months ago:
Personal, business and government spending are all entirely different things.
Using one to think about the other makes very little sense.
- Comment on flohmarkt a federated alternative to ebay and facebook marketplace 2 months ago:
Terrified Pro Max.
Terrified Robespierre St Just.
- Comment on There is no good reason why there is still homelessness and poverty 2 months ago:
Probably throw in a bit of “just world” delusion in the mix, to make things worse.
- Comment on There is no good reason why there is still homelessness and poverty 2 months ago:
If not the cruelty they are often convinced (or have convinced themselves) that poverty is deserved, like their opulence is.
Just today there was a post on how most Americans believe poverty is the result of individual choices.
- Comment on Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack 2 months ago:
Happy to help!
- Comment on Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack 2 months ago:
The problem is those companies (premiumize, debrid, whatever) are entities that make profits from filesharing and give nothing back to artists. That’s not morally defensible.
Filesharing itself is perfectly morally defensible, and in fact sharing culture is good for society (including artists).
So while they might be convenient, they also shouldn’t exist in the first place. Parasitic companies shouldn’t be rewarded for their patristic behaviour.
- Comment on Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack 2 months ago:
This is spot on (pun intended).
- Comment on Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack 2 months ago:
No, you don’t need that. You want it because it’s convenient and we live in a consumerist society where everything “needs” to be “frictionless”. Intentionally clicking on an artist’s bandcamp page to listen to a recommendation is fine. It’s a lot easier than mail order or taking the bus to the record store to buy a copy.
I get what you’re saying, but we need to question the parameters of the challenges more often.
- Comment on Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack 2 months ago:
What do you mean by “they control the app fully”? Something like github.com/abba23/spotify-adblock will let you run the app without ads, which kinda contradicts the idea they control the app fully.