adespoton
@adespoton@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Why dont more people live in smaller communities , appart from economic opportunity (WFH is making it possible if not prefferable too) 11 hours ago:
West… there’s a lot more sprawl here AND rush hour traffic that lasts half the day, even on weekends.
- Comment on Why dont more people live in smaller communities , appart from economic opportunity (WFH is making it possible if not prefferable too) 21 hours ago:
I live in a city of over 100,000 people and my grocery store is 25 minutes away. About an hour if I walk.
I grew up in a small town and had two grocery stores within 8 minutes. Everything was a lot more expensive and there was less selection.
Moved because of the lack of services (no hospital, volunteer FD and ambulance, no high school, no college nearby, no taxi service, no bus service, everything shut down at 6 PM).
- Comment on Everyone knows all the apps on your phone - by peabee 1 day ago:
*if you have an older Android phone.
- Comment on Implementing a spellchecker on 64 kB of RAM back in the 1970s led to a compression algorithm that's technically unbeaten and part of it is still in use today 1 day ago:
Doesn’t even name the algorithm, and somehow spells LZMA wrong, despite just having written it out longhand.
Well, it’s PC Gamer.
- Comment on Israel's Netanyahu slams Qatargate probe as 'political witch hunt' 1 day ago:
I’d like to see if Bibi floats.
- Comment on Are color palettes subject to copyright protection? 1 day ago:
- Comment on Is there a non leftist version of this website? 1 day ago:
To add to this, whatever “website” the OP is on has no ideology. Different instances of Lemmy do moderate in different manners, so depending on the “website”/instance he visits, the content available and moderation may skew towards a specific ideology. For example, I don’t go to the news community on lemmy.ml anymore, because I got tired of the pro-Russia stance there.
So if the OP ran their own instance where race hate and misogyny were acceptable, that would fit their definition. But good luck getting anyone to federate with them.
The problem is that their definition of “left” lines up pretty well with people who are willing to cooperate with others that are different from themselves — which is the basis for any non-autocratic community.
- Comment on Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft. 3 days ago:
And I migrated to Organic Maps :)
- Comment on Does not having a (mainstream) social media account make you look suspicious to the authorities? Is it a good idea to have an innocent looking social media account just to look "normal"? 3 days ago:
My “social media account” is my LinkedIn account, which shows my record of employment and links to coworkers.
It’s all information a government could find elsewhere, and seems to generally meet the requirements.
- Comment on Putin threatens US over Greenland ambition: ‘We will not allow encroachments’ 5 days ago:
That one needs a 🦫 as well now.
- Comment on Trump says US will 'go as far as we have to' to get control of Greenland 5 days ago:
I think Trump wants the US to have their own Ukraine and has decided on the scattershot approach, targeting Denmark, Canada, Mexico and Panama.
- Comment on Why is Lemmy only popular in the western World? 1 week ago:
… just the most SouthEastern part of it :D
- Comment on Why is it sometimes difficult to start doing what one enjoys? 1 week ago:
Often, guilt. Sometimes, distraction or the inability to prioritize.
And sometimes, not being honest with yourself that you find something else more enjoyable.
- Comment on I've tried nearly every browser out there and these are my top 6 (none are Chrome) 1 week ago:
Of that list, Zen is the only one really worth considering. And then you have the “but the best one that supports widevine” issue.
- Comment on What do you do if you encounter a skunk? 1 week ago:
The only worrying experience I’ve ever had with skunks was when I was walking along a path and saw these two little faces pop out from some brush at the side of the trail— baby skunks. I backed away slowly, and took a different route. Last thing I wanted was their mother getting defensive because they were too forward with a human.
- Comment on AI users can match two-person team performance, study suggests. 1 week ago:
You’ve never had that experience?
- Comment on AI users can match two-person team performance, study suggests. 1 week ago:
As someone who has been paired with such a person before, that means AI gets half way there.
If I’m paired with an AI will it also get me to all its work as well as mine and then play politics to get itself promoted over me?
- Comment on GM blocks dealership from installing Apple CarPlay retrofit kits in EVs 1 week ago:
Media playback is easy: find the line in jack hidden away somewhere. Plug phone into it. Ignore infotainment console.
- Comment on What are some slow acting poisons? 1 week ago:
If you want long-term, look to the liver. Alcohol will destroy it over time, but so will viral hepatitis. Have you considered slow acting diseases like hepatitis or HIV? Or something intensely carcinogenic?
- Comment on Attorney General Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert for 23andMe Customers 1 week ago:
Yeah; my point is: if 23andme is liquidating, other genetic labs likely aren’t too far behind, and I’d like some warning there too… especially since I have to convince other people to delete their data.
- Comment on Which is the cheapest way to manage my body after death ... 1 week ago:
Came here to say this; cremation is the cheapest that leaves your family with an object; leaving your body to science can be zero-cost (costs paid by the institution of choice).
- Comment on How Do You Solve a Problem Like Google Search? Courts Must Enable Competition While Protecting Privacy. 1 week ago:
Every engine out there other than Google already uses Bing. Bing actually has a usable privacy model; it’s one of the products IMO Microsoft actually got right.
I do long for the days of Lycos, AltaVista, Hotbot, etc. though; the ad system was simpler then.
Actually, what I really miss is the days of Archie, Veronica and Jughead, before flashing ads and marquees were even possible.
- Comment on Attorney General Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert for 23andMe Customers 1 week ago:
Who does ancestry.com get to run their sequencing? Because I have a number of relatives who did that. I don’t think it’s 23andme.
- Comment on AI fakers exposed in tech dev recruitment: postmortem 1 week ago:
Unfortunately, that “ask cultural questions” advice is out of date.
Copilot can provide the appropriate answer in less than a second. So unless you ask them to answer the cultural questions while holding their hand over their eyes, they can just have a microphone on listening to the interviewer’s questions and providing appropriate responses to the imposter’s screen.
- Comment on The FCC is investigating Huawei, Hikvision, ZTE, China Telecom, and other Chinese companies over concerns they are ignoring restrictions on US operations. 1 week ago:
Ah, just like DOGE?
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 1 week ago:
That gave me a very odd image of vend-a-leopard-eating-your-face.
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 1 week ago:
Especially when they think your views are the problem.
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 1 week ago:
I have one word:
Eggs.
- Comment on Why aren't there mass protests in the USA? 1 week ago:
Ahh… THAT is the difference.
In the US, most of the media is complicit in what’s being protested. And online social media coverage is being contained to small bubbles.
- Comment on How to protect against someone forcefully unlocking my phone and password manager with biometrics? 1 week ago:
That’s what I did when I had a fingerprint reader— I used a non-tip part of one of my fingers. So if “forced” I’d just work my way through my fingertips and it would lock out.