grysbok

@grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are there no universities/colleges that start in the afternoons?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I work in an academic library and we’re always worrying about evening and weekend coverage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wonder how many people throughout history have confused Floaters with ghosts, UFOs, or other paranormal phenomena⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I swapped my desktop computer to night mode so my floater is less annoying.

  My optician said I’d stop noticing it in 6 weeks. That was 6 months ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Substack app sent a push notification promoting a Nazi newsletter to several users.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You’d think that, but I’ve had the command “get a tan for God’s sake you’re transparent” used as an insult against me. You can be too white for white supremacists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Itch.io are seeking out new payment processors who are more comfortable with adult material⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Amex and Discover: “We exist, too!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“You can't be expected to have a successful AI program when every single article, book or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for” Donald Trump said⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My library, you have to check out books on reserve from the circulation desk. They’re for in-library use only, 3 or 6 hours at a time, and if you take it into a study room and scan the whole thing with your phone we saw nothing.

  We don’t like the constant churn of textbooks, either. They eat into our budget. We really appreciate when a professor lends us their personal copies of a textbook for us to keep on reserve. We also try and steer instructions to Open Educational Resources (OER), which are available for free.

  Wealth disparity sucks and shouldn’t result in different access to education.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨kingdom come⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Captain Crunch-style cereal box with “technically all berries”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Artists, scientists and engineers have a magic trick.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, it’s just not as deep as they’re making it out to be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Artists, scientists and engineers have a magic trick.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Graciously, I think they’re coming from a place of ADHD and assuming that engineers, artists, and scientists either don’t have ADHD or have the superpower “hyperfocus”.

  Sadly, hyperfocus is a fickle muse who has chosen not to grace me today. [sobs in ADHD techie]

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UwU brat mathematician behavior⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  [Lapsed] mechanical engineering gang checking in. I was also surprised. Though, tbh, I think it came down to personal preference of the professor more than field-wide consensus.

• ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had beef last weekend in the form of my partner’s leftover canned Italian wedding soup. I think the prior time was a few months earlier when a takeout order was screwed up and my fish sandwich turned into a cheeseburger.

  I try and avoid beef because of the environment and because of cute cow videos. But, if it would go to waste otherwise, I’ll go ahead and eat it.

• ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ten years ago I got caught by surprise bacon in frigging Pennsylvania. I’d done the “make a vegetarian meal out of sides” thing while visiting my parents.

  The restaurant named all the cheeses in 5-cheese macaroni and cheese but didn’t mention that bacon was also mixed in. My mom parent-pressured me to not send it back and I ate it, suffering the gastrointestinal consequences later.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a public servants thing–the public wants to know what they’re paying for, so public servant salary records are public.

  Various websites compile this information from the various state and federal sources. It’s wicked easy to find information on, say, every public servant with the title “librarian” in Fake County, Kentucky.

  Knowing their full name, you can look up their home ownership records in the county real estate or tax databases and ta-da, you know where they live. You also know if they work part-time at a different public library, so that’s convenient for stalking purposes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a librarian. I also work with members of the public, some of whom do not share my understanding of reality. My information is still public because I’m a government employee.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the e-reader you would buy if you were in the market?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I do like my older Amazon Paperwhite, but I’m bookmarking this thread for when/if it no longer functions.

  I’ve got it in airplane mode and don’t intend to reintroduce it to the Internet. I can load books from USB just fine and have no need for the Amazon ebook ecosystem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If a sandwich is defined as any food item between two pieces of bread, then a layer cake is a type of sandwich.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Cake is a quick bread, which might not count as bread for the purposes of sandwiches.

  Further study is required. OP, how was your lunch cake?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people hate drinking water?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sometimes discoloration of water is just it being full of air. My HOA’s backup water well is like that. It’s been tested and is fine to drink, but it’s incredibly cloudy until it’s sat for a few minutes.

  Also, if you’re on well water get it tested. Even if it was fine when you moved in, things change. Maybe the new farm down the road’s fertilizer is leaking in to the ground water. You won’t know unless someone tests.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people hate drinking water?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The water at my office smells like chlorine. It’s dreadful. I wouldn’t even use it to make coffee, I fill up a nalgene at home and bring that in. My home water is well water and tastes a tad high iron, just the way I like it. (HOA regularly tests the water and it’s always within legal limits, yay.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a niche fediverse software you like?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m also on Sharkey. It’s just more fun that Mastodon. Also feels a touch more queer, in a wonderful way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Massive internet outage reported: Google services, Cloudflare, Character.AI among dozens of services impacted⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Same. Feeling pretty good about using Anubis instead of Cloudflare for our dinky systems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sometimes social connections are hard to figure out, especially if you don’t have experience making connections or positive examples to follow.

  I suggested visiting the local library and seeing if there’s any meetups. Do you have other suggestions?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know your insurance, location, or financial situation, so the following might be totally irrelevant.

  If you have a primary care doctor/physician, they should be able to get you antidepressants. You don’t need a specialist. You might even be able to have a telehealth visit, instead of going in-person.

  I hope things smooth out for you. BTW, my therapist says carbs are good for short-term stress. Ice cream and chocolates help.

  Also, maybe look into if your local library has any meetups? Mine does a regular knitting/crochet circle (if you just show up, you’ll probably find friendly folks happy to teach you to make a dish cloth), book club, grown-up crafts a couple times a month. Might be good to get out of the house and meet some friendly faces.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit sues Anthropic, alleging its bots accessed Reddit more than 100,000 times since last July⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if I can get Facebook to give me some of that sweet, sweet cash for the inconvenience of telling them to bugger off…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit sues Anthropic, alleging its bots accessed Reddit more than 100,000 times since last July⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s hardly anything. Facebook has a bot accessing my server’s robots.txt multiple times a second. (My robots.txt used to say “Facebook bot go away” but now I just respond 404 to any requests from the Facebook bot. Pretend I said that all technical and stuff, it’s 2 am and I ought to go to sleep.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slrpnk.net outage⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol. Yeah, sdf.org feels pretty hands-off. They have longevity going for them–I’ve had an sdf account of some sort since 2009 at the latest. The system has been around since the 80s. The name comes from the anime “Super Dimension Fortress”, which I’ve never seen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slrpnk.net outage⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is making me want to create an alt on slrpnk.net , since you’re so chill and communicative about issues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is lemm.we actually shutting down?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Flashback to when the creator of lemmy.world/c/the_pack was looking for mods. I volunteered with

  I’m also a shitty mod and will disappear for weeks at a time. I only have experience modding a small subreddit and have no familiarity with Lemmy’s mod tools. Feel free to hit me up.

  I passed the vibe check and now I’m exactly as crap a mod as I said I’d be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does one use an electric toothbrush?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Some/most electric toothbrushes have built-in timers to help you give each quarter of your mouth equal time, so you don’t rush. Some will vibrate in a different/angrier way if you brush too hard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Border Patrol detained a nursing mother and separated her from her infant daughter to the point that she needed medical attention as a result of not being able to nurse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  B.F. Skinner had a paper called “‘Superstition’ in the Pigeon”. This page gives a summary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will exist ‘because you still need childcare’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Give Hey Japan a look. I’m a noob, but it seems friendly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve taught literal toddlers that my dog needs his alone time when he’s in his crate.

  A 10 year old should be able to understand that sometimes people just don’t want to play/talk. Maybe wear headphones or some other very visible indicator that you’re not social right then?