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- Comment on xkcd #3119: Flettner Rotor 4 days ago:
(copying my comment from another post)
I had to look this one up, I didn’t realize how old the technology was
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flettner_rotor
A Flettner rotor is a smooth cylinder with disc end plates which is spun along its long axis and, as air passes at right angles across it, the Magnus effect causes an aerodynamic force to be generated in the direction perpendicular to both the long axis and the direction of airflow.[1] The rotor sail is named after the German aviation engineer and inventor Anton Flettner, who started developing the rotor sail in the 1920s.
The Buckau, the Flettner Rotor Ship, photographed in 1924
- Comment on A CEO explains the viral 'Gen Z stare'—and why it's going to backfire on them 1 week ago:
I looked up some photos of it and I can’t find any pattern. For any particular photo, I’ve seen people give each other a similar look across all age groups
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- Comment on What are the ramifications of letting an old domain that was used for email go back into the market? 1 week ago:
If the company is gone now then, I guess it would harm whoever bought the rights to the apps or the name? In which case they can contact that entity to sort it out
- Comment on i liek turdles 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know how these are made, but this one is very well done
- Comment on Bring them back!!! 2 weeks ago:
Crocodiles may have also adapted over time to deal with the changes in our atmosphere, while the dino DNA would not have gone through those changes. They could handwave that problem by saying they combined it with some other DNA or modified it themselves (better hemoglobin?)
- Comment on I wonder if the spice girls still get along or if that "friendship never ends" thing was just a lie. 2 weeks ago:
Ah, I’m taking out the link and changing my comment
- Comment on I wonder if the spice girls still get along or if that "friendship never ends" thing was just a lie. 2 weeks ago:
sportlines.co.uk/spice-girls-announce-new-album-f…
Spice Girls Announce New Album and Full Reunion Tour with All Five Members for 2025
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org | 4 comments
- Comment on Introducing reitti: a selfhosted alternative to Google Timeline 3 weeks ago:
Cool!
I love the UI for this one, it’s unique compared to the others
- Comment on A sovereign Microsoft 365 alternative: Nextcloud and IONOS join forces - Nextcloud 4 weeks ago:
I think they’re looking for local “AI” anyway. Since those work directly on your machine, there’s no concern around trust (nothing leaves your device) and the resource cost is whatever your hardware uses, or was already using.
There are some concerns still with local models, such as any biases in the training data that was used, but for image classification it wouldn’t be that bad.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 81 comments
- Flock Removes States From National Lookup Tool After ICE and Abortion Searches Revealedwww.404media.co ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 8 comments
- Comment on I've just created c/Ollama! 4 weeks ago:
There is also !localllama@sh.itjust.works ;)
crossposting between the communities can help grow both
- Comment on I've been working on a guide to Pocket alternatives 5 weeks ago:
Being able to compare between options would help me pick which one I want to use :)
Alternatively, a way to filter the full list would be helpful. That way I can select the items that I need and see everything that has what I need.
This for example:
- Comment on I've been working on a guide to Pocket alternatives 5 weeks ago:
It would be cool if there was a table to compare them with, since right now you’d have to open each of them to check.
Thank you for putting it together though!
- Comment on I've been working on a guide to Pocket alternatives 5 weeks ago:
You can add an image to the thumbnail field to get the best of both options :)
- Comment on Noob Q's: How do I find a place to print miniatures? What to expect? And more 1 month ago:
Check your local libraries, or search for maker spaces
For example
- Comment on Israel says to block Gaza-bound aid boat carrying Greta Thunberg 1 month ago:
These are two comments that you have made, and I think people are pointing out the contradiction:
Israel is not a single person. The Israelis being held hostage are certainly victims. Antisemitism in the west has reached a point where it’s no longer safe to raise awareness that Hamas is still holding Israelis hostage, see the Boulder, CO attack. You’re being told you should dehumanize all Israelis (along with anyone that even has empathy for Israelis) so you can believe a simple narrative where all Israelis are evil. Likely you’re also being told that anyone that has empathy for Israelis being held hostage are evil (aka the “Zionist Jews”). You’re probably just not to the point where you’re believing all Jews are evil, but you might be willing to look the other way about the actions of those that do.
Yeah Italy just rolled over in WWII while Germany fought to the bitter end. Do you think it was better that Germany continued fighting when it was obvious they’d lost because some authoritarian asshole convinced them they should own all of the land they wanted with no more Jews?
Look at the photos of German cities at the end of WWII and look at Gaza. This kind of senseless hatred doesn’t accomplish anything other than getting a lot of people killed.
Palestinians are dying because of the hatred of Hamas and it will accomplish exactly nothing.
Also, in your opinion, what should people do in order to end the suffering and violence? Not just for any particular side, but for everyone.
- Comment on Commodore shocks retro TechTuber with option to buy 'the whole company' 1 month ago:
Right at the end of the video, there is a twist that may raise the graying eyebrows of Commodore fans around the globe. Perifractic reveals that he received a message direct from Commodore Corporation B.V. that states “yes we can grant you an exclusive license, but your team seems to know Commodore better than we do, we might like to sell you the whole company.”
What 😄
Sadly, we are left with this cliffhanger. Viewers are told to stay tuned for Part 2 of this video, “live and Let Buy.” But we don’t have a date for the video publication. Stay tuned, indeed.
:(
- Comment on We have launched a PieFed instance! 1 month ago:
Since the PieFed API was only enabled recently, there aren’t that many apps out yet. !interstellar@kbin.earth is the one that people recommend right now. Voyager has plans to add it.
As more people use it, hopefully more apps will support it :)
- Comment on We have launched a PieFed instance! 1 month ago:
Someone else already gave a decent explanation :)
Can you try these two guide pages and see if they help? They have some diagrams
fedecan.ca/en/guide/get-started
fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/…/detailed-overview
So lemmy.ca and piefed.ca have different feeds altogether when I view them, are they two separate things then
They are two separate platforms, made by different teams. The feeds look different for a few reasons
- piefed.ca is brand new and so it is missing a lot of the content. As people start using it, the default logged out feed will start to look closer to other instances
- An instance only pulls the content that its users are subscribed to. When you make an account on an instance and you are the first person to subscribe to a community, hitting subscribe will tell your instance to start pulling in those posts. That is why every instance will be slightly different regardless.
I’m not really clear on how communicating freely between them works
Unlike Lemmy and Mastodon, which are somewhat different formats (posts in communities) vs. short text posts on a user’s profile), Lemmy and PieFed are more or less the same. So it should be a lot closer in experience. Whatever you can subscribe to, comment on, or vote on within lemmy.ca, you should be able to do the same on piefed.ca
Especially because we are running both instances, and so they will have similar block lists.
- Comment on We have launched a PieFed instance! 1 month ago:
It’s nice timing! Looking forward to seeing you and your instance in the world of pie :)
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- Comment on Material You/Material 3 Expressive Wallabag App 1 month ago:
selfh.st/apps/?directory=Companion&companion=Wall…
The selfh.st directory only has that one app. If you do find something, you could submit it there as well :)
- Submitted 1 month ago to imadethis@lemm.ee | 25 comments
- Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users’ web browsing identifiers - Ars Technicaarstechnica.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to technology@lemmy.world | 57 comments
- Comment on Self-Driving Tesla Fails School Bus Test, Hitting Child-Size Dummies… Meanwhile, Robo-Taxis Hit the Road in 2 Weeks. 1 month ago:
I believe Waymo has a better set of sensors (Lidar + Radar+ Cameras instead of just cameras), more processing power, and more research / time / resources spent on it compared to Tesla.
So I think this is less about not being ready for self driving taxis, and more about which cars are ready to provide that service
- Comment on Where hyperscale hardware goes to retire: Ars visits a very big ITAD site 2 months ago:
A big part of this site’s pitch to its clients, including the “hyperscale” customers with gigantic data centers nearby, is that each device is labeled, tracked, and inventoried for its drives—both obvious and hidden—and is either securely wiped or destroyed. The process, commonly called ITAD, is used by larger businesses, especially when they upgrade fleets of servers or workers’ devices. ITAD providers ensure all the old gear is wiped clean, then resold, repurposed, recycled, or destroyed.