Catoblepas

@Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone

This is a remote user, information on this page may be incomplete. View at Source ↗

⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨we must protect them from exotics⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
The worst part of that is that it’s super easy to deal with mosquitos with a dunk that doesn’t hurt anything but mosquito larvae.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨well?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

Am I meant to stare up at the sky from 8:15 to 8:30 every other night with my mouth agap while I try to wrap my mind around the spacetime bubble we all exist on the surface of?

At scale that sounds better for society than going to church. We need a little more memento mori (memento minima?) in modern life.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hot take: 3D printing toys kinda sucks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Synthetic fibers are a fucking nightmare too, just actively sanding it and creating all those microplastics right there, without even washing it away, possibly BREATHING it!! gives me the heebie jeebies after learning about how much plastic is in our brains.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hot take: 3D printing toys kinda sucks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I don’t even want to think about all the microplastics created when people sand their builds they’re going to throw in the trash or ignore after a week. Small comfort that most people are too lazy to even do that. People are more careful around wood dust than microplastics, it’s nuts. And like, wood dust isn’t harmless either! Don’t breathe any of it, but definitely don’t breathe the plastics!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blunthead Slug⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
God dammit, not Frank! He was just a week away from retiring at the banana factory!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Muppet⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Cuddle sized!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Unfortunate Truth⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I don’t know how to explain it, but all fake linocut/woodblock print images are kind of samey in a way that sticks out when you see it, compared to linocut/woodblock prints by artists.

It’s almost always this same background color/texture in generated images too, whereas with real prints you might have paper that looks very different even if it’s that exact color. And plenty of artists go wild with the paper and ink colors.

It’s not just one thing, it’s a lot of little things that give it a bad vibe.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I totally missed the point when PeerTube got so good⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
No, it sounds like a mindless statistics machine because that’s what it is. Even stupid people have reasons for saying and doing things.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨holee shiet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Big if true. Maybe as much as 330,000 the mass of the earth.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I LIKE CORN!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
⚠️ CORN FOG!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Free range, pasture raised… would probably be a lot better if he didn’t use electronics ;p
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Doing neither while hinting that other people should do the work sure is revealing of the problem, though.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Then people haven’t cut back. The production has to go somewhere, they aren’t making money shoveling it off a cliff.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
You can’t get meat from a cow twice, you can get milk lots of times.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Not eating red meat is so fucking easy now. If I can be an old man who went to school uphill in the snow both ways for a second, I dropped meat 20ish years ago in the deep south, and holy fuck talk about an impossible diet. Even the vegetables had meat in them, and that is not a joke.

This is obviously going to depend on your area and how much of a food desert you’re in, but I’ve never seen so much access to so many kinds of meat replacements in average grocery stores and not just bougie upscale places. Tofu, tempeh, fake meat everything! Which isn’t even a big part of my diet, but I love having the option when I want something new.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nextdoor Nightmare⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It’s still around and it’s so much worse now. Just NIMBY central. I peek in from time to time to try to scope out estate sales, but I always have to leave pretty soon because the shit people say there is wild.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ted Cruz's plan to punish states that regulate AI shot down in 99-1 vote⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I don’t think so? Dude looks like he’d be a WASP if he wasn’t Catholic. Unless he was doing some internet sock puppet shenanigans or something.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ted Cruz's plan to punish states that regulate AI shot down in 99-1 vote⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Yup, even Cruz voted against it. Reality is truly stranger than fiction.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ted Cruz's plan to punish states that regulate AI shot down in 99-1 vote⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I thought the 1 vote had to be ~~the Zodiac killer~~ Ted Cruz, but no:

The one vote backing moratorium on state AI laws came from Thom Tillis, not Cruz.

Did he just not get the memo, or is he that paid off?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zero-day: Bluetooth gap turns millions of headphones into listening stations⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It sounds like they have some kind of wake function that it’s always listening for? I don’t think that’s a common feature in headphones just because of the battery drain, but they’re always chucking useless features on electronics so I’m sure some are floating around out there. I doubt it’s something you wouldn’t know about unless they were secondhand, though.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zero-day: Bluetooth gap turns millions of headphones into listening stations⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

Even if these attacks seem frightening on paper, the ERNW researchers are reassuring: many conditions must be met to carry out an eavesdropping attack. First and foremost, the attacker(s) must be within range of the Bluetooth short-range radio; an attack via the Internet is not possible. They must also carry out several technical steps without attracting attention. And they must have a reason to eavesdrop on the Bluetooth connection, which, according to the discoverers, is only conceivable for a few target people. For example, celebrities, journalists or diplomats, but also political dissidents and employees in security-critical companies are possible targets.

I guess they didn’t point this out because it’s kind of obvious, but it sounds like they also have to actually be on to be exploited. So it’s not going to turn on and start listening to you at least. Definitely concerning, but I’m still gonna be listening to my audio books and podcasts with my wireless headphones.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨But I am mighty!!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
If you hate the feel of sunscreen like I do, check out UPF clothing 👍
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨But Ma Couch!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Oh man, that’s awful, where is it? So I can avoid it 👀
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is utter bull⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
A manga with 18 naked cowboys? You’ve got my attention, go on
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Restricted data once again leaked on War Thunder forums⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

The user received a temporary ban.

Every time I reread this sentence I crack up again. What gets you a permanent ban??
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hot enough for ya?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
That’s what I’ve got in my cooking notes dump for the internal ‘cooked’ temperature for cookies, but that might be a texture rather than a safety thing.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hot enough for ya?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
In that case I think the real issue would be how long it’s safe to store at room temperature, since edible cookie doughs do still require refrigeration as far as I know. If you popped an edible cookie dough in for 30 minutes you’d probably be fine, the more hours you tack on the sketchier it gets.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hot enough for ya?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Reminder that cookie dough kept above 40 F/4.4 C but below 190 F/88 C is in the bacterial danger zone that allows bad bacteria to multiply and give you food poisoning.

There’s also some amount of risk from raw dough, but I’m not gonna pretend I don’t ignore that when it comes to cookie dough.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A story in one photo⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
The white area at the very bottom of the photo is the windowsill I think, it’s taken from inside looking out at the bird strike.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A story in one photo⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Jesus, it must have been a severe hit if the bird shit itself. This being on the side of a building and not a window is really curious, though! Usually you only see this on reflective surfaces that the bird thinks is open sky. I wonder if a predator was chasing it, for it to collide so strongly with the wall.