grysbok

@grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Latest version of Anubis has a JavaScript-free verification system. It isn’t as accurate, so I allow js-free visits only if the site isn’t being hammered. Which, tbf, prior to Anubis no one was getting in, JS or no JS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yay! I won’t edit my comment (so your comment will make sense) but I checked and they also list they/them on their github profile

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll say the developer is also very responsive. They’re (ambiguous ‘they’, not sure of pronouns) active in a libraries-fighting-bots slack channel I’m on. Libraries have been hit hard by the bots: we have hoards of tasty archives and we don’t have money to throw resources at the problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real Talk⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  why not add notes as marginalia?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i just think they're neat⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My dad grew gourdes. One of the happiest pictures I have of him late in life is him standing on the porch, surrounded by gourdes hanging to dry. I have three of his goudes. I also have one of his loufas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a fan of sharing as much as the next person but I’m not sharing my toothbrush.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Byeeeeeee⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  When it eventually lands, they’re in for a hike.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t remember where I read it, but there’s a concept of private property vs personal property. Personal property is your stuff you use, like your bracelet or your bowl. Private property is your apartment building.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nobody uses the white emojis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair! Yellow as anonymizer makes sense. I tend to use emojis in forms of communication where people already know me, like on discord and professional channels.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nobody uses the white emojis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I use them because I want to push back against the assumption that white is the default. If not-white people pick a skin tone and white people stay yellow, then yellow gets read as white, not color-neutral.

  And yes, it felt so awkward to choose the white emoji at first.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are there no universities/colleges that start in the afternoons?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Artists, scientists and engineers have a magic trick.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?