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- Comment on Tattoo Ink Moves Through the Body, Killing Immune Cells and Weakening Vaccine Response 1 week ago:
Humans have been tattooing each other for over 5000 years. I would argue that it’s not really a case of “they need to be proven to be safe”. That ship has sailed. If they are unsafe, we should know, but I think the burden of proof has definitely shifted on tattoos given their extensive history without obvious negative repercussion
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 1 week ago:
You can also use ^ to search your history instead, and do away with the tabs!
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 1 week ago:
It is possible to develop ADHD like symptoms from a TBI of some kind. It’s not ADHD from a technical definition standpoint, but from lived experience of symptoms, it can line up with ADHD
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 1 week ago:
It’s also most likely not an explanation. I’m ADHD too, and I hate having browser tabs open. I keep them as few as possible, closing them as soon as I don’t know what they are or why they’re open.
- Comment on Finding a private self hosted Google Photos alternative that doesn’t profit from my photos 1 week ago:
Immich’s AI search is so much better than PhotoPrism
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 1 week ago:
I mean, you can scan the page titles in your history just as easily as you can scan the titles of 400 tabs. So it’s kind of same same if you can’t remember any pertinent details
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 1 week ago:
I have 2 or 3 open at once at most. If I can’t remember what it’s for, it gets closed. And if I need to find it again, searching my history is easier than searching my open tabs
I just can’t handle tab frenzy
- Comment on E-bike rules in Australia will soon change with possible ban on sale of bikes faster than 25km/h 1 week ago:
They’re not expectations. They’re how I would like to see things work, because of how I use a bike. There’s literally no reason for this to be anything other than a conversation.
There’s nothing to “misaim”
- Comment on Assuming humanity last another few hundred years; How many human languages do you think are gonna be left in 100 years? In 200 years? 1 week ago:
So, it’s not only me that does that…
- Comment on E-bike rules in Australia will soon change with possible ban on sale of bikes faster than 25km/h 1 week ago:
Yeah, my current bike has a power scale setting. Adjusting the pedal assist directly adjusts the max power output. And at the 250W level, I work up a sweat whenever I push it.
Which, again, is fine, if the bike is just for exercise or commuting. But it stops it from being a viable car replacement.
- Comment on Is there a word for when someone is not capable of, or doesn't try to understand verbal communication in a language, they are fluent in similar to functionally illiterate but for speech? 1 week ago:
That’s ADHD/Autism
- Comment on Is there a word for when someone is not capable of, or doesn't try to understand verbal communication in a language, they are fluent in similar to functionally illiterate but for speech? 1 week ago:
It’s not really a thing is it?
I mean, language learners often have a disparity in their ability to read vs their ability to understand spoken language, but that’s mostly because of things like accents, speed of speech etc, all of which improve with practice/exposure…
- Comment on E-bike rules in Australia will soon change with possible ban on sale of bikes faster than 25km/h 1 week ago:
Those bikes just rig the speed limiter
Yeah, it’s a huge problem in Australia. Mostly they have an unlock code in the electronic controller that lets you simply over-ride the speed limit. Some stores sell it already over-ridden, or just tell you how to do it.
But the other side of things is that Australia is a heavily car focused country, and whether they’re speed limited or not, whether they’re driven dangerously or not, they’re still far less lethal than cars, far less polluting than cars and far less wasteful than cars.
Making ebikes unappealing to people will just ensure none of that changes.
And the European standards are probably relevant in Europe, but they’re too conservative to increase ebike uptake here in Australia (or at least in Queensland, where I live). My state alone is 40 times the size of the Netherlands. And the city I live in has a comparable population to Amsterdam, but it’s spread over an area 6 times the physical size, with hills and a subtropical environment. We actually have pretty good cycling infrastructure as far as Australian cities go, but it’s nothing like what you have. So lots of our trips either need to be on the road, or on the footpath, and a 250W bike with a load going up a hill just isn’t safe on the road…
- Comment on E-bike rules in Australia will soon change with possible ban on sale of bikes faster than 25km/h 1 week ago:
you don’t need to be condescending to get your point across. We’re having a discussion and disagreeing, . The first sentence would have got your point across just fine.
In any case, I know it’s not a car. But at the moment, my ebike means I don’t need a car. I want a bike that lets me get through life without having to own a car. A 250W would mean that I’d have to call taxis and ubers more often to carry shopping, it would mean that I couldn’t just carry the mulch home on my bike.
I mean, I could do those things, but at 250W, I’m putting in a lot of the power myself. And I’ve already got my exercise covered. I don’t need to be changing clothes and taking a shower every time I ride up a hill on my bike.
- Comment on E-bike rules in Australia will soon change with possible ban on sale of bikes faster than 25km/h 1 week ago:
See, that sounds absolutely perfect. Like you, I’d prefer 30 to 25, but whatever, that’s not a hill I need to die on. 25 does the job just fine too.
And I love the fact that the wattage reduces as your speed amps up, because that means you get the most power when you need it, when carrying loads, hitting hills etc.
I’d be quite ok with Australia adopting NSWs standards, because at that point, my ebike is still a viable alternative to car.
But at 250W it’s not.
- Comment on E-bike rules in Australia will soon change with possible ban on sale of bikes faster than 25km/h 1 week ago:
You can drop the sarcasm. My roadbike has 15,000km on it. My ebike doesn’t even have a throttle. The only way to move it is to peddle.
But I live in a sub tropical region. It doesn’t snow here, and temperatures have been hitting 35C this week, before we have even hit summer!
When I used to commute to work on my roadbike, it was a workout. I’d get there covered in sweat, and feeling good.
But I don’t use my ebike for workouts. I use it for daily life because I don’t own a car. And if every time I need to carry a load, it turns in to a workout and requires a change of clothes, then it’s no longer suitable for day to day life, and instead, becomes a workout tool. But I’ve already got one of those, and it’s not why I bought an ebike.
- Comment on E-bike rules in Australia will soon change with possible ban on sale of bikes faster than 25km/h 1 week ago:
I run. I cycle. My road bike has 15,000km on it. But I can’t do the things I need to do on a 250W ebike easily enough for it to replace a car in my daily life.
I could do all of the things you’re talking about if my goal was to give myself a workout, but when the goal is to use it instead of a car, 250W doesn’t cut it, because I’d be dripping in sweat and worn out half the time.
- Comment on E-bike rules in Australia will soon change with possible ban on sale of bikes faster than 25km/h 1 week ago:
I’m old enough to be past my physical prime, and I don’t own a car. I use my ebike for everything. 250W is fine when your goal is exercise, or commuting, or the odd load here and there, but it just doesn’t cut it for every day use.
Before I owned my ebike, I had a regular road bike that I did 15,000km on. But the only time it got used is when I was commuting or “going for a ride”. It was completely useless as a tool in my daily life. My ebike though sees regular use for things that most people would use a car for, and things that a road bike just couldn’t do.
- Comment on E-bike rules in Australia will soon change with possible ban on sale of bikes faster than 25km/h 1 week ago:
250 watts just isn’t enough. It can help you carry a load or it can help you up a hill, but not both. I wouldn’t even bother with an ebike at that wattage. 500 (like in NSW) is a much more sensible maximum.
It’s especially true given that wattage isn’t the real issue. Top speed is the issue and that can be capped independent of wattage.
- Comment on The Tech Company Bringing Surveillance Dystopia to Your Town 3 weeks ago:
Using an AI to monitor an AI is a level of absurdity Philip K. Dick never quite got to.
Dr Suess did though!
The thing that we need is a bee-watcher-watcher!”. Well, the bee-watcher-watcher watched the bee-watcher. He didn’t watch well so another Hawtch-Hawtcher had to come in as a watch-watcher-watcher!
- Comment on Reitti v2.0.0: Introducing Memories – Transforming Your Location Data into Personal Stories 5 weeks ago:
It was the shared instance setting! I disable it (we only have one instance), and the duplicate went away!
And once more, thank you for putting your work in to Reitti. We’ve been using it pretty much since you made it public, and have all of our history imported, and it’s great to be able to self host this data and get it out of googles hands!
- Comment on Reitti v2.0.0: Introducing Memories – Transforming Your Location Data into Personal Stories 5 weeks ago:
There’s also another issue we’ve found (unrelated to memories). We have two people using it, and we were sharing location data with each other from when you first enabled the feature, and haven’t touched it since then.
Today, when I updated to v2, I noticed that even though I could see my partners name and icon listed in my map, I wasn’t getting her data. She went to her settings and clicked me to share data, and from then on, I was getting her data, but there are now two copies of her icon at the top of the map
- Comment on Reitti v2.0.0: Introducing Memories – Transforming Your Location Data into Personal Stories 5 weeks ago:
When I try and create a memory, it tells me that I need to enter a start date (which I have done). It creates the memory anyway, but it doesn’t show it until I manually refresh the page. For what it’s worth, I don’t use US date formatting (I’m in Australia)
- Comment on First Shape Found That Can’t Pass Through Itself | Quanta Magazine 1 month ago:
The property is (was) specific to convex polyhedrons.
- Comment on Banana 1 month ago:
I’m with you! The texture is a horror.
- Comment on Fear their power 1 month ago:
The opening line of that wikipedia article says they’re “equivalent to sexes in multicellular lifeforms”
- Comment on Beware when following communities/magazines on Mastodon 1 month ago:
Friendica handles that situation well, because it treats the top most post/comment that it’s aware of as the parent, and then any replies as children, and then it only ever displays the parent. You can then sort your timeline to either show the parents in the order they were posted, or by the order of most recent activity.
Either way, 100 replies to a parent post means it still only appears once in your timeline.
The way Friendica does timelines is something I wish more micro blogging activitypub platforms would implement.
- Comment on Great games you would recommend from before 1990? 1 month ago:
I played them all back then! My favourite was Curse of the Azure Bonds, because it tied in with the book that I had absolutely loved
- Comment on Great games you would recommend from before 1990? 1 month ago:
I don’t know how many of these hold up in their own right these days, but these are the formative games I played before 1990.
- Reach for the Stars - The first 4X game. It created and introduced me to a genre that I still love today!
- Dragonstrike - A dragon riding flight simulator set in the D&D setting of Krynn. It was release in 1990 though, so it’s only here if we fudge a little
- Pools of Radiance - The first D&D CRPG. I know for sure this one doesn’t hold up, but it was amazing back in the day!
- Tunnels & Trolls Crusaders of Khazan - Another CRPG, this one also from 1990. It sticks out in my memory mostly because I found a “gatling bow” which would empty your quiver by firing all of your arrows at a target when you took a shot. I also found a never ending quiver. It was game breaking. I’d hit things with 30 arrows per shot and just annihilate everything.
- Kings Quest IV Perils of Rosella. A real time adventure/puzzle/RPG game. First game I played with a dedicated female protagonist!
- Sid Meier’s Railroad Tycoon - Another “Made in 1990” game. It was the first (and IMO, still the best) game in the Railway Tycoon series and I believe it was also the first game in the “Tycoon” genre
- Sim City - The first in the Sim City series, and the first of the “Sim” titled games. I loved it back in the day, even even got to play it at school. It doesn’t hold up very well against later games in the series though.
- Comment on Delusions of a Protocol 2 months ago:
IMHO, the US has bigger fish to fry than transphobia
Yes. That’s why the politicians keep talking about trans people. They are explicitly stirring up transphopbia as a simultaneous distraction and unification tool
he liberals call everything phobe.
Literally the only reason you’re even talking about this yourself is because of the neonazis. You’re literally doing their work, whilst somehow thinking you’re immune to it…