grysbok

@grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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’⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What can US citizens do to fight/prevent their country enabling genocide?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  True! Let’s encourage them to work towards goals that seem attainable and worthwhile.

  Sometimes, just small changes can make a big difference to the individual. I used to take the elevator to my 5th-floor office. Now I take the stairs. The only conscious change to my routine was converting from carrying a bag/purse to carrying a backpack–I carry the same amount of stuff more comfortably, and so the stairs don’t seem daunting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What can US citizens do to fight/prevent their country enabling genocide?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And “fit” doesn’t have to mean “able to run a marathon”. That might not be achievable for you. Even minor improvements can be big, though. For example, I have lower back pain. It sucks and I do not recommend it.

  I’ve started physical therapy. It’s two 30-minute sessions a week, plus 10 minutes of homework stretches every day. My pain is much less than when I started.

  I feel much more able to do things like long trips to the grocery store. Before, I’d sometimes have to beg off and lie down in the car and let my partner finish the trip.

  Anyways, fitness. It’s good. YMMV, PT might not work for you, I am not a doctor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you read and understand this passage?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but it was a slog. My summary:

  the weather was dreadful, some high muckety muck is back from Michaelmas break. The scene is in London. All the people and critters in the street are covered in mud. The ground is slippery with mud (and probably horse crap, but we’re too polite to mention it). OMG the weather sucks, very wet and dreary. Everyone’s in a bad mood. Did I mention it’s wet and icky and muddy and the weather is bad?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A VPN Company Canceled All Lifetime Subscriptions, Claiming It Didn’t Know About Them⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d say it depends on how much the license costs vs how the service costs.

  The analogy that comes to mind is old cemeteries (YMMV, this is from a New England perspective). People buy a grave and expect to occupy it forever. This is a problem for cemeteries because a cemetery will eventually run out of graves to sell. The sales of graves goes towards the upkeep of the cemetery. Once there’s no more space, there’s no more sales, and there’s no more income for upkeep.

  Some cemeteries get around this by reusing graves. You rent a grave for, say, 20 years and after 20 years of occupancy your next of kin is asked if they’d like to renew your subscription.

  Other places charge a much higher upfront fee and invest it, using the interest to pay for ongoing maintenance.

  Other places just abandon the cemetery and let it grow over with weeds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do children address a non-binary parent?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. I had to carefully word my dad’s obituary to not gender me–I wasn’t out yet, but it would have added more pain to the event if I’d been misgendered in it. Luckily, I have a sibling, so I able to rework the first draft from “survived by his son ___ and daughter ___” to be “survived by his children __ and __”.

  Anyways, if I had a kid I think I’d just go by my name, or any nickname they came up with. I called my binary parents by their names so it doesn’t feel weird to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK if you have a library card or are a student, there's a free streaming service called Kanopy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think lots of libraries do that. It’s awesome! (Source: my last 3 libraries in New England did that.)

  Be sure to return the pass on time, though. You might screw up someone else’s trip to the museum if you return it late :( (that’s also why they tend to have higher late fees)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WTF why my filament exploded?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t fool me, that’s clearly a pile of Twizzlers around an empty filament spool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Seriously. We don’t even know how old the poster is, just that their dad is 48.

  I was 20 when my dad was 48. I was in college and was only ‘home’ over the summers and winter break (when the dorms closed). My brother was 15. I don’t think it’d be reasonable to tell either of us to move out just because the adults in our lives were a tad indiscrete.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed. I wouldn’t interrupt their fun, but I’d mention it to my dad some time when the girlfriend wasn’t around. I’d send an email or text if I felt too embarrassed/shy to say anything face-to-face. “Hey, Dad. Just FYI the walls are really thin in this apartment and I can hear what you two get up to.”

  I’d also look into earplugs. Earplugs + bone conductive headphones could be a good work around. I’m a fan of Shokz, but other brands exist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is this called?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My partner almost always has a shawl tied around his waist, like a sash or belt. For him it’s a comfort object that can convert to shield him from the sun or cold. For me it’s a warm thing I can borrow that smells like him.

  Anyways, he’s genderqueer sometimes, if that helps. And no one’s ever given him guff about it that I know of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t blame you for wanting to move. My partner and I are straight-passing, cis-passing, white folk in a blue state. We’re thinking of leaving the country. (Well, I am. My partner’s kind of like yours–not convinced we’re in danger.)

  You’re much more visibly “other” than we are. One thought I’ve seen floated around is that options are good. If you can claim an international citizenship/passport (through, I dunno, Irish parents or something) it’s worth doing.