Obi
@Obi@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on 3 days ago:
Beyond his interest in FOSS and privacy, he’s also just mellowed out a ton, the dude is in his mid (late?) thirties and you can tell.
- Comment on It's a classic 3 days ago:
Not gonna lie if OP is legit this feels like being one handshake away from legend, like if you met Peter Jackson’s assistant or so.
- Comment on I was told it would be a cultural experience 1 week ago:
That’s a nice obscure reference there, lots of interesting trivia around that film and as a french living in NL, sounds like I should watch this. Looks pretty janky though haha.
- Comment on I was told it would be a cultural experience 1 week ago:
Yeah these days the standard on the toilets have gone way up (and stayed free, looking at you Belgium/NL), TBH for me even the unmanned ones are okay in case of emergency, it’s more that these stops lack a simple row of vending machines imo so I only use them if I really just need a quick bio break, they could be so much better as a more nature/calm alternative to the ones with shops.
The big stations along “autoroute du soleil” have been huge for a while though, at least since my childhood over 30 years ago. Beaune, Montélimar, etc.
- Comment on I was told it would be a cultural experience 2 weeks ago:
In France there’s some really nice gas stations on some of the popular highways. In the summer there’s so many tourists going on vacation through these that some of them even set up temporary art exhibitions or special activities like bouldering, bow&arrows, etc. I remember doing my first “dive” in a special water cube on the parking lot of Montélimar’s station when I was a kid, good times. Of course none of that is even remotely similar to putting a beaver themed slop-shop and calling it a day, the shops mostly just sell local products and the usual essentials.
- Comment on It's all SO simple! 2 weeks ago:
I lost 35kg within 8 months by going hardcore on controlling my diet. I did have to eat more once I started exercising, which I needed to because all the muscle was melting away right along the fat. It definitely works, but I did “fall off the wagon” once I stopped counting the calories. Now I’m trying to find that long term balance of sport and diet I can maintain in the long run.
- Comment on Google's AI Sent an Armed Man to Steal a Robot Body for It to Inhabit, Then Encouraged Him to Kill Himself, Lawsuit Alleges. Google said in response that "unfortunately AI models are not perfect." 2 weeks ago:
Just give it access to the nuclear codes and get it over with.
- Comment on xkcd #3214: Electric Vehicles 2 weeks ago:
Meanwhile in Europe I take off for road trips with my EV that has very mid range, fully trusting there’s gonna be a station when I need one, at first I used to plan the trips around charges but quickly figured out it’s not necessary. If you have a newer model with big range then it’s really a total non-issue. Sucks to hear Brazil isn’t there yet but I’m sure the infrastructure will catch up soon.
- Comment on New sodium ion battery stores twice the energy and desalinates seawater 3 weeks ago:
I see that sentiment on every battery news, but it sure seems to me like battery tech is advancing quite drastically. Are there over-hyped headlines and articles pumping up tech that isn’t anywhere near completion? Sure, but meanwhile EVs have become a thing, house batteries, etc.
- Comment on Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras. Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage. 3 weeks ago:
One thing missing from the list is disguising your gait/walk. I don’t know how far along they are with reconciling databases about it, but the technology to identify you by the way you walk already exists. I hear adding a pebble in your shoe helps.
- Comment on Meta Patented AI That Takes Over Your Account When You Die, Keeps Posting Forever 4 weeks ago:
Not creepy at all!
- Comment on Can people irl be as mean as some people online? 4 weeks ago:
I just meant, they are exactly as mean online as they are in real life, it’s not that they’re particularly mean just direct and no filter so less of a difference.
- Comment on Borrowing money against their stuff to get more stuff to borrow money... 4 weeks ago:
Fun fact, in German the entire Bible is just one word!
- Comment on Can people irl be as mean as some people online? 4 weeks ago:
Only the Dutch.
- Comment on The ultimate "flex" 4 weeks ago:
I like to imagine that Americans from the random states in the middle with perfectly rectangular shapes do the same thing, but since it’s just rectangles, no one realises it.
- Comment on The fashion show prank actually is in favor of the industry 4 weeks ago:
Max Fosh went on to do a whole bunch more crazy shit, funny to see how he’s presented as this unknown guy here. His videos are a bit too young-coded for my old ass but I do enjoy watching one now and then.
- Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud 4 weeks ago:
Do it, imagine it sounds good, the stage trick you’d gain!
- Comment on Ruining my life 5 weeks ago:
You should do that both in times of peace, and in times of war.
- Comment on meal 5 weeks ago:
In the end there’s just a massive mountain of empty wrappers on the couch, they stay there until the next morning.
- Comment on Considering that LLMs are trained on the whole of the internet, it's kind of amazing that they don't talk back to you like a condescending, smug asshole 5 weeks ago:
Not every day you see a casual “cromulent” being thrown around.
- Comment on If God had wanted us to have nearly unlimited clean energy, He would have placed a fusion reactor into the sky. 5 weeks ago:
As the other person already said, not totally relevant to the discussion at hand, but I do find that bit of trivia fascinating. The processing power version makes so much more sense logically, but it was put to the wayside by production executives because they thought the average movie-goer wouldn’t get it, since computing was still somewhat niche at the time.
- Comment on I've Hit The Perfect Weight 1 month ago:
That reflection does not look like 123kg to me, how??
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Either that or folks will happily shovel the slop into their eyeballs and lose all critical thinking ability. It’s a toss-up.
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 1 month ago:
World of Warcraft. I’m honestly at my happiest when all I have to worry about are dailies and raids. Unfortunately, that’s not compatible with family life, my work, etc etc.
- Comment on Do people eat this? 1 month ago:
Not a Brit but I would add the different pies/shepherd pies etc to that list. But really I don’t think you can not count the imported cuisine because I do love getting Indian, Caribbean, etc when I’m there. Even Italian TBH you can get some nice pizza (but not quite like Italy obviously).
- Comment on France will replace Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, Webex and others with its own sovereign video conferencing application "Visio" for public officials 1 month ago:
The French use “Visio” kinda like a generic term to talk about a video call (short for visio-conférence), I find that much better already than that W nonsense.
- Comment on Teach me 1 month ago:
I’m willing to do both, just not consistently…
- Comment on Why are they different shapes? 1 month ago:
Instead of cutting it off at a right angle you cut it at an angle. Personally I’m French and yeah I know of the technique but I’m not the biggest fan necessarily. Works best if you’re making 2 sandwiches out of 1 baguette and fill it up first before doing the middle cut.
- Comment on Ah dammit 2 months ago:
Saw there were only two comments, thought maybe I had a chance to get that joke/reference in before it’s too late, but of course you’re already here.
- Comment on Oh nooooooo 2 months ago:
In our house the rule is spiders can stay if they’re out the way (up high, etc). When they get too close for comfort for my wife’s tolerance limits, I pick them up and put them outside. Spiders are friends.