southsamurai

@southsamurai@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aside from possible allergy concerns, what's stopping people from grinding all the food waste into a mixed paste?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Restaurant waste, which is what your post body starts with, can’t be recycled like that. It’s an unsafe practice due to the contamination gained at the table combined with time out of the temperature safe zone. Even if you killed an the pathogens there, the risk of the toxins left by those pathogens is problematic. That and it would ruin the food trying to kill them to a reasonable degree.

  Now, back in the kitchen, you could do what some restaurants do and donate the prepared but unserved food to local distribution centers (often focused on homeless charities or government outlets). But it wouldn’t make sense to turn it into some kind of “nutrition loaf”. Seriously, look up that term and be prepared to hate the prison system more than you do currently.

  And that is why even if the process could be perfectly safe, it would still suck. Nobody should have to eat the horrible crap that it would turn into. If would be cheaper, safer, and more humane to just make sure everyone has good food to eat in the first place.

  The only application for the kind of bricks you’d get from the process is feeding people that don’t have access to good, healthy food in the first place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft blocks registry trick that unlocked performance-boosting native NVMe driver on Windows 11 — workarounds still exist to enable support, however⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  !writingprompts@literature.cafe :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Phone do you guys use?⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  No bullshit, I’ve yet to run into jank. My bank is a credit union that isn’t a bunch of assholes, so their app works fine.

  I don’t need any authentication apps, so no worries there. Ifi ever do, there’s some known to work with graphene.

  I’m happier with graphene than I have been in years with android overall. Last time I was really happy with android, we were still in single digits. The ever increasing limitations Google was applying broke my joy of it s an enthusiast.

  But graphene at least returns me being able to use my device without the layers of Google bullshit unless I just want to.

  So no frustrations at all just easy to use handled computing.

  I’ve had this phone since early last year. I think? Might have been june? Damned if I can remember without digging up old messages lol.

  Whe I got it, my plan was to use the pixel for my second line in case I couldn’t make the transition. I switched sims out two days later and haven’t looked back since. If I could put graphene on my second phone, I would.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft blocks registry trick that unlocked performance-boosting native NVMe driver on Windows 11 — workarounds still exist to enable support, however⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I suspect that’s what I’ll end up doing. But for now, dual boot ftw?

  It’s one of those things where screwing around with an otherwise stable system just seems pointless unless I don’t have a choice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Phone do you guys use?⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Stock? Nah.

  I have something like a dozen tablets and phones stacked on my desk. I get new ones, but the old ones have enough life in them that I don’t just count them as ewaste and wash my hands of them. Only two of those have current lineage available, and I can’t be arsed to update what amounts to a picture frame that isn’t connected to Wi-Fi. The rest get used as security cameras for very short term use.

  Most of them still have the os they came with as, again, I can’t be arsed to fiddle with the ones that I could dig up a rom for, or they couldn’t be unlocked to do it in the first place. But none of them were ever stock Android. Since when I got them, I favored Samsung and LG tablets, the ui was highly altered from regular AOSP.

  Now, my main phone? My absolutely amazing friend gifted me a pixel with graphene ready to go as soon s it reached me. But I do still use some play store apps on it, when I can’t find something good enough that isn’t (nothing touches poweramp, and I haven’t had the budget to put towards a licence for it from the dev, yet. Higher priorities).

  Never touched a pi unless it was a pie being shoved down my throat.

  Ngl though, if I wasn’t lazy as fuck, I’d likely swap to lineage on my older oneplus that’s my backup phone. Just don’t feel like dealing with the time it would take. So it’s as stock as it was when I got it a few years ago. I doubt I’ll ever do it unless I get a newer graphene device and it gets retired to the desk for infrequent uses. That’s how I end up with a still working Galaxytab 2 lol. Barely still working tbh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft blocks registry trick that unlocked performance-boosting native NVMe driver on Windows 11 — workarounds still exist to enable support, however⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Mad rant props!

  For real though, flatpak exists partially for exactly your use case. Simple to use, won’t break shit, and pretty much available everywhere.

  You’re kinda lucky in a way. Linux in all its flavors have steadily improved over the years. Even when win10 came out and I jumped ship for all but a few niche uses, it was a higher learning curve, and came with much disappointment in what I couldn’t do that I had been able to on win 7 (which was my favorite version of Windows overall).

  Now, while I still have my win 7 drive for the two things I can’t get working on linux reliably, I can do everything else. I also have a win10 partition on my laptop for one single piece of software because it’s easier to just keep it for the rare usage than try to figure out how to get it working (is Amazon’s shitty kindle author program, and since I only crank out a book every three years or so [and only one that I’ve felt like selling there], it just isn’t worth fucking with for that tiny amount of extra space.

  Linux, right now, is the best it’s ever been. It’s also on par with windows. Enough so that I can’t see myself ever going back. At some point, win7 won’t work on new hardware, and I’ll have to jank a musicbee install on linux, and tackle the character sheet generator that I use formy absurdly over crunchy home brew TTRPG that I’ve yet to find a replacement for that isn’t a compromise.

  Anyway, I suspect that in a year or two, you’ll be in a similar space. You’ll have figured out the bullshit, abandoned windows habits, and actually be satisfied with your distro of choice.

  Truth? If I had spent as much time on linux back in the nineties, I would likely have has equal difficulty adapting to windows if things had been in reverse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is school cafeteria food in America trash?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Ignoring private schools, it really depends on locale. Most schools are run by a combination of local and state guidelines. So each state has its own minimum standards, which are then implemented on a district level.

  However, in some districts, the budget isn’t equal between all schools.

  So you can have varying quality within the same school system, and even more between different systems.

  The good thing about school meals is that they aren’t usually super expensive, don’t require packing only foods that won’t spoil or be gross by lunch time, and there’s usually some kind of budget for free reduced cost lunches (sometimes breakfast too) for those in need. It makes sense that most students will choke down even the bad options instead.

  Some schools do damn well though. The bulk is usually going to be supplied by one of the industrial food distributors, but most of that is similar to or the same as what you’d get in terms of ingredient quality as chain restaurants.

  So the staff of the cafeteria can make a huge difference in quality right there. Knowing how to turn fairly meh ingredients into something tasty is a great thing.

  When schools supplement with fresh produce, it can be damn good food. Local farmers out in rural areas often contribute. Some high schools have agriculture programs where they grow stuff that gets used in their own school, and may be distributed to others. Our closest high school supplements their own cafeteria, plus the elementary schools, and part of the jr high schools (some of those have their own gardens, so they tend to handle their own). My kid was very happy with the high school’s food, unlike the food at their jr high in another state that they hated.

  I ate at the high school a couple of times. Waaaaaay better than when I was a student there, and the agriculture program was starting up back then. Mind you, the lady that ran the cafeteria was doing a great job with what she had. The supplies were just crap back then. All canned shit for veggies if it wasn’t grown local, mandated recipes on a schedule set by the county, so you could only do so much to improve things. She ran a damn good kitchen though, so even when the food was bad, we knew the cooks were doing their best.

  And that’s pretty much the problem with school food. It just isn’t a nationwide priority.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is trying weed edibles worth it?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d hold off another few years. There’s just enough published info pointing towards risks being higher under the mid twenties. The brain never stops developing, but that first twenty years in particular is easier to disturb since the development is more significant.

  At 18, you’re still putting the polish on some key centers, so fucking with that for a little hedonism seems unwise until there’s more and better research available.

  Me? I think I’d hold off until at least 21-23. Honestly, I’d do the same with any mind altering stuff. It’s not long to wait, and going at it too early can have long term consequences. There’s plenty of time to experiment and enjoy all sorts of recreational pharmaceuticals.

  Iirc, I had my first (of three lol) drunk at 17, and while it did no harm as a one-off (not much will tbh), I also didn’t really sink into the experience the same as later experiments with mind altering. Mind you, I’ve never liked being drunk, and avoided any of the high addiction potential stuff, but the difference in my second drunk compared to my first was massive just by dint of being 21, just a few years of added perspective on what I wanted out of it, and how I approached it.

  Weed, that’s another one that my initial exposure in my late teens (18 or 19) was just not as good as years later (late twenties).

  But, I can say that trying it once is worth it. If you end up not liking it, no big deal. I’d just wait a little longer. Weed, be it smoked, edible, or otherwise, is a very powerful experience when used infrequently. Steady use weakens the benefits of it for fun imo, but a few times a year? It’s nice. It enhances joy and good feelings.

  Just be easy with edibles. They hit slow, but hard. You can always have more if you don’t get the degree of euphoria you want after a half hour, but you can’t take it away if you get too stoned, which is absolutely possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It turns out that Juggalo makeup blocks facial recognition technology⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, and Twiztid has a few decent tracks as well.

  Wouldn’t be able to name them without looking up though, not something I listen to a lot.

  One of the things about ICP is that I tend to appreciate parts of their lyrics, but the rest falls flat. I don’t dislike their music, it just doesn’t do it for me. It falls right under the threshold where I won’t change it if it’s playing and I can change it. I tend not to be able to listen long because I’d rather have something else, or even silence, rather than have them in the background for extended listening. But I can tolerate it for short and medium times.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It turns out that Juggalo makeup blocks facial recognition technology⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Homies and spin the bottle lol

  Homies is just a great track, period. If anyone else had done it, it would have been bigger than it was.

  Spin the bottle is less great overall, but I like it anyway

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It turns out that Juggalo makeup blocks facial recognition technology⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ya know, they do have two songs I like, maybe I’m a juggalo now

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, in all reality, only English.

  I have a small amount of Spanish vocabulary, but that’s not the same as speaking it.

  I am almost fluent in medicalese, so I can sometimes kinda fumble my way through limited ranges of Latin.

  I used to be able to do a little ASL, but never reached fluency, and I’ve lost damn near all of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not looking for how to meth. But is not a moonshiners still about as dangerous as a meth house exploding? What the difference?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Tbh, the thing about stills is only a big deal inside, unless you’re the one running the still and are close to it.

  Outside? An explosion really isn’t going to fuck anything up. You get a big bang, some burning fuel, and that’s about it unless there’s a drought on. Inside, you can have more fumes built up, and the fire is likely going to spread to the building. So it’s more dangerous.

  But meth production? Like previous comments said, that shit just keeps on giving well after whatever starts the process going wrong.

  There’s really a massive gap in both danger and duration of the two kinds of fires.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK What are you eating⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Bad body lol.

  Between arthritis, a deteriorating back, and the extra clean-up and work involved in maintaining bread making (be it sourdough or with commercial yeast), it was just too many spoons.

  I keep hoping my household will settle down enough that I have the inner and physical resources to get back to it though! There’s so much peace in the process.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK What are you eating⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn, I miss making bread. Just seeing the title makes me want to restart my sourdough culture

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it actually healthy for people to have a place to confess things anonymously?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, there’s actually been research into it.

  Since that shit is dry as hell, and there’s available articles about it, psychologytoday.com/…/why-it-feels-so-good-confes…

  This one gives a nice overview.

  So, I’d say it’s pretty realistic to say that “confession” has mental health benefits.

  That being said, true anonymity is going to be vital if you’re going to try to build something online. Not just for the people that might want to use it, but for you too. You really don’t want the legal issues if someone were to confess on your service and it became part of trial evidence. You may be thinking it’s not a big deal, that it’ll never happen, but it does happen already with social media.

  The less you’ll be able to provide, the less hassle you’ll have. So keep that in mind. Reddit, Facebook, VPNs, they all deal with legal requests regularly, but they have legal departments to handle those to keep a barrier between the people running things and the consequences of users’ actions/words.

  Me? No fucking way I’d even confess to jaywalking online, period. And I have never done that (that’s actually true, I’ve never been in a situation where it was useful. Small towns and infrequent visits to cities ftw?). I’d also advise anyone else to never do so.

  Also, if you’re a priest/minister and your religion has a confessional seal, you have pretty robust legal protection about not having to break it, in many places. Therapists also have a degree of confidentiality that they’re legally required to maintain. Your online service has neither. So you’ll also have responsibilities above and beyond what therapists or ministers have. Well, you may, since local laws vary, and I’ve never heard of a lot of legal precedent around mandatory reporting for online services. But even if you aren’t currently required to report a range of things, not doing so might open you up to lawsuits and/or eager prosecutors looking to set a precedent.

  I guess what it comes down to is: yeah, it could help people. But better you than me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Gotcha :)

  Yeah, I think it comes down to what I said. No good reason to try and compete when they could scrape all the data that they would have wanted without having to build their own.

  It isn’t like any of the big social media companies wanted competition anyway. They wanted to dominate their niche. Twitter for short messages publicly transmitted. Instagram for image based posting. Facebook for mixed media sharing, etc. You find a niche, dominate it, then leverage that dominance into cash flow, usually via ads.

  If you go into the niche someone else already dominates, it’s an uphill struggle. You’re better off just waiting and either buying out the other companies, or otherwise gaining access to what they have that’s valuable.

  Hell, that’s meta’s playbook for sure, that’s what they keep doing.

  Google did try to kinda horn in on the Facebook style social media, can’t remember what it was called, but it flopped and they killed it. You’d think their greed for data for ad targeting might have made it attractive to at least try, but the fact that they eventually just paid reddit for access after a bit of a stink shows they had previously been hoovering it for free. Why invest millions or even billions when it’s already available without the investment?

  I think that part of it was also that reddit didn’t start as a forum. It was digg mark2. A link aggregator. It kept expanding its scope and turned into a forum. It was a big deal when comments were added to reddit, a major shift in how it worked. A lot of people hated it.

  That’s my take anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the other comments assume you mean a big tech focused forum.

  But did you actually mean a big tech forum, as in something like a meta owned and operated version of reddit?

  If so, I suspect that it comes down to timing and relative benefit. By the time anyone realized reddit was going to be what it became, trying to edge into that kind of threaded ecosystem just wasn’t useful to them.

  Google, meta, whatever, all they had to do to get the benefits that reddit could have given them was to scrape reddit. Trying to create a competitor would have been pointless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Why are they saying it’s stupid?

  The idea is solid, if not exactly new territory in terms of the rich young superhero thing.

  So, if that’s what they’re griping about, screw 'em.

  If they’re saying that trying to create a comic at all is stupid, they’re stupid. Nothing wrong with a creative endeavour, though if you aren’t realistically planning ahead on how to make it happen, that would be pretty stupid. Anyone can do their own thing if they have the talent to actually crank out the art and writing (most people struggle with one or the other tbh). But getting it published is a very difficult proposition. Indie artists struggle like hell, even if they do their own site and distribution.

  So, if you haven’t planned that far ahead, they might be right that your plan is stupid.

  However, if you’ve actually gotten some pages done, and they’ve read it and think it’s stupid, it comes down to how much you value their opinion about comics. Being real, some people’s opinions are shit on a given subject, so if theirs are known to be bad, then fuck 'em. But if they tend to have reliable quality takes on comics (or the craft that goes into them), maybe they’re right, no way for us to know.

  But nah man, there’s nothing stupid about this kind of project in and of itself. Nor is the basic concept stupid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It is awesome that you left the previous comment in place. Mad props!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, I’m not a code monkey, between dyslexia and an aging brain. But if it’s anything like the tiny bit of coding I used to be able to do (back in the days of basic and pascal), you don’t really have to pore over every single line. Only time that’s needed is when something is broken. Otherwise, you’re scanning to keep oversight, which is no different than reviewing a human’s code that you didn’t write.

  Look at it like this; we automated assembly of machines a long time ago. It had flaws early on that required intense supervision. The only difference here on a practical level is about how the damn things learned in the first place. Automating code generation is way more similar to that than llms that generate text or images that aren’t logical by nature.

  If the code used to train the models was good, what it outputs will be no worse in scale than some high school kid in an ap class stepping into their first serious challenges. It will need review, but if the output is going to be open source to begin with, it’ll get that review even if the project maintainers slip up.

  And being real, lutris has been very smooth across the board while using the generated code so far. So if he gets lazy, it could go downhill; but that could happen if he gets lazy with his own code.

  Another concept that I am more familiar with, that does relate. Writing fiction can take months. Editing fiction usually takes days, and you can still miss stuff (my first book has typos and errors to this day because of the aforementioned dyslexia and me not having a copy editor).

  My first project back in the eighties in basic took me three days to crank out during the summer program I was in. The professor running the program took an hour to scan and correct that code.

  Maybe I’m too far behind the various languages, but I really can’t see it being a massively harder proposition to scan and edit the output of an llm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, this is actually one of the good things a technology like this can do.

  He’s dead right, in terms of slop, if it’s someone with training and experience using a tool, it doesn’t matter if that tool is vim or claude. It ain’t slop if it’s built right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[TheGamer] Valve Claims Steam Machine's Performance Will Be Six Times The Deck's⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Alas, I suspect that by the time it comes out, I won’t be able to afford it.

  Which is a shame, because I would fucking love one. It would be the perfect gaming platform for my household (I prefer the deck for my own play; being able to just chill in bed and play while my back recovers from life is too damn sweet) since we all prefer most games as they exist on PC, when they aren’t console exclusive.

  But damn, the price tag that was being floated a few months ago was at the upper end of the amount of debt I’m willing to take on for entertainment, no matter how long it would last. And I would have to go into debt because damn, fixed income bullshit isn’t great for mom essential purchases like that. I can’t just lay out several hundred at once for anything without sacrificing something else. Doing that for a gaming device would be impossible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For anyone coming along and starting to get riled up…

  Go for it! Lemme get some popcorn!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, nothing wrong with that. The problem isn’t users, it’s what the company expects from users.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any reason we were taught in school that blood is blue in the body until it reaches oxygen and then it turns red other than our veins look blue?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Afaik, nobody knows where/when the myth started because it started organically, rather than being something like bumblebees not being aerodynamically sound, where there was poorly explained information that got spread from that point.

  The most popular theory of the origin is that since veins look blue, and thus were drawn as such in anatomy illustrations, the idea got spread through wide ranging multi point origins. I’ve seen people argue for the veins looking blue as the genesis, with the idea being that someone asked why blue veins ran red when cut. But I’ve seen it argued that it wasn’t until the illustrations came along and faulty information was needed to explain that that it spread far enough to actually be taught by people that should have known better (like some folks, I ran into the idea in jr high, knew it was wrong because of family with medical training, and got in trouble for trying to say so).

  But I have looked a few times over the years to see if I could run down a definitive origin story, and never have. Mind you, me looking involved searching for articles about it, rather than trying to run down historical references direct because I don’t have that kind of access.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many times a year do you wash your jeans?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Jeans? Kinda depends on the use.

  Most days, I don’t do shit that dirties anything but underwear, which gets changed at least daily. So in most senses, any given pair of jeans can go weeks without accumulating anything but dead skin cells, some skin oil, and some of my pimp juice.

  That being said, I ain’t going to wear the same pair more than three days unless my back is so fucked up that changing them isn’t realistic.

  Given that I’ve accumulated jeans over the years in various sizes as my body changed post-disability, I have enough pairs that I could hypothetically change pants every day and not wear the same pair twice in a month. Mind you, I’m bigger than I was for some of them and can’t wear them. I’m also smaller than I was for some of them, and even a belt can’t make them comfortable to wear for long. So I have maybe a dozen pair that are in rotation, plus a couple that are for when I’m doing something really grungy (like OP’s mom).

  Assuming my brain isn’t fucked (and I’m only on lemmy to keep myself from going nuts until I can head to the hospital for a family member, so it’s fucked), that would work out to any given pair being washed ten-ish times a year? I think? It’s math, so I’m probably wrong.

  I do know that most months, I only have to do two loads of laundry that isn’t underwear. If I only wore jeans, the math would work out, but there are days I don’t wear jeans, so I dunno.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can to many hits to the head make a person the R word in animals? My bc loves to run around the house and hits his head constantly but shakes it off. He acts normal and everything exceept4 zoomies?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wellllll, kinda.

  There’s a no, in that retarded has the strictest meaning of being an inborn developmental barrier rather than an acquired one, but it has had so many usages over time that I don’t think that more limited usage matters.

  So, it’s a qualified yes.

  Animals other than humans can definitely suffer chronic tbi (traumatic brain injury) effects, with symptoms ranging from mild to severe enough it would cruel to not euthanize.

  Dogs in particular can develop problems that would match colloquial usage of retarded for sure. I’ve personally seen dogs that took bad hits from cars have worse effects, but having memory losses, apparent cognitive loss, and definitely coordination loss are pretty common with even milder head trauma in dogs and other animals.

  However, that’s not to say it always has to be from major trauma. You can have issues with repeated minor injury, in humans and animals.

  It’s unlikely the level of play you’ve described would be a problem though. Just running into things on zoomies isn’t likely to cause the kind of bouncing around of the brain it takes to cause neurological deficit. It could, though I suspect it would take longer than most dogs live

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Writing something, how would you describe his sleeping “expression”?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That was my exact thought :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am both frightened and aroused