NeatNit
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- Comment on Why does most of the world use WhatsApp as their messaging app rather than RCS/SMS? 11 hours ago:
(if you don’t count ICQ, MSN Messenger, Skype, etc…)
- Comment on For the 2nd year in a row, the LA Kings’ home ice will have an off-center referee crease. 1 day ago:
Thanks, I hate it.
- Comment on If dogs have such a great nose, why do they sniff other dogs asses? Wouldn't it smell like shit or not a good smell? 5 days ago:
It’s because dogs are gross and stupid. You can try to change my mind on this, and you will fail.
- Comment on People are sitting on the bike lane or parking on it. Saint Denis, France 5 days ago:
I can totally accept the over tourism argument. In that case I’m doing my part, and telling people NOT to go there! :)
- Comment on My spyware got enshittified, now comes with a subscription 5 days ago:
I’m surprised how many people vehemently refuse to switch and think I’m being insane. It’s a cultural thing I guess.
- Comment on What are some things that deserve their own word? 5 days ago:
To the uninitiated: the act of throwing someone or something out of a window.
- Comment on What are some things that deserve their own word? 5 days ago:
At the risk of teaching you something you might already know:
Instead of pulling both sides independently, you should brace your hands against each other. Grab the sides of the bag with your fingers, and have the palms push against each other. That way, as soon as the bag opens, the pressure between your palms is released and you “automatically” stop pulling the bag open.
- Comment on People are sitting on the bike lane or parking on it. Saint Denis, France 5 days ago:
Thanks. Honestly the people weren’t the problem, it was moreso the way the city was managed and regulated. Again, it is in the top 5 (potentially top 1) tourist destinations in the world, you’d think they city would make it a priority to make tourists feel welcome from the infrastructure up. Again, pubic toilets alone can be the first and last straw. Every tourists needs to go at some point, it should not be a pain point.
Maybe I had inflated expectations, I don’t know. I’m not much into traveling anyway, I was with family and enjoyed my time with them, but everywhere we went felt surprisingly less welcoming than I expected. Except Disneyland, but that’s neither here nor there :P
It has been long enough that I don’t trust my memory on this, but I think it was really common to have no English signage anywhere…? This is not the Parisian people’s fault, this is the fault of business owners bafflingly choosing to alienate tourists, and the city regulators not caring either. In any other city I’d accept it, local businesses might not want the tourist traffic for plenty of good reasons, but this is freaking Paris!
- Comment on My spyware got enshittified, now comes with a subscription 5 days ago:
I’m many countries including mine, it is such a fundamental form of communications that this amounts to becoming a hermit. I have two choices: either keep using WhatsApp, or:
- cut contact with almost my entire family (yes, I tried to get them to switch, no bueno)
- lose access to the best support communication option for most businesses
- miss updates and communications for groups (work, school, classes, etc.), including things like cancelled or rescheduled events
- make it harder for me to meet new people
- miss messages from delivery guys
- etc…
It gives me no pleasure to say this. Not using WhatsApp is not an option. I tried it for a time, even I was at my worst mental state. It didn’t work out.
I still don’t give WhatsApp phone permissions, which causes it to refuse to connect voice/video calls (even though it clearly doesn’t need this permission). Even this sometimes causes some annoyance, as people try to call me via WhatsApp and I can’t answer. I have to copy their number and call them normally. Small price to pay, I guess.
- Comment on People are sitting on the bike lane or parking on it. Saint Denis, France 5 days ago:
When I was in Paris some years ago, I was amazed how anti-foreigners it felt when it is easily top 5 international tourist destinations in the world. No public bathrooms anywhere, do the French never need to go?!
I went to the louvre and wanted to buy the 3DS museum guide software. I looked for it in the gift shop, it was available in one or two languages but not English. When I asked, the seller laughed at me like I’m an idiot, “oh we haven’t had English copies of it in months! what did you expect?”
What did you think I expected? I expected the most famous museum in the world to keep stocking something which is clearly selling out frequently!
The whole city felt like it didn’t want tourists there. It was such a strange feeling.
- Comment on found this helpful map of which countries are turkiye on turkiye's government website 1 week ago:
here you go 🗝️
- Comment on Why is USD susceptible to counterfeit in comparison to CHF? 1 week ago:
I’m guessing that, among other factors, a cashier is going to scrutinize a $100 much more than a $20. So if you forge $20 you have a better chance of getting away with it.
Another thing is the “legal tender” thing. In USA, unlike most other countries, the design of the bills hasn’t changed for a very long time, and shops are obligated to honor even very old bills. This means new security measures are ineffective, because forgers can just forge old bills without those security measures and it wouldn’t be suspicious.
- Comment on Park benches don't "open" until 10am 1 week ago:
I was not looking for any kind of fight and I actually did suspect you knew. I was just hopping on the opportunity to mock Master Lock, since I know they make some of the worst locks on the market.
Full disclosure: I have zero lock picking skills. I probably couldn’t pick this lock if I tried.
- Comment on Park benches don't "open" until 10am 1 week ago:
It’s a master lock, it won’t give you as much practice time as you hope.
- Comment on Is ASHDOL a good company for an external cd/dvd drive? 1 week ago:
Sounds like one of those fake brands that had to be created to be allowed to sell on Amazon. I can’t find any info about the brand, other than its products being sold in the usual online storefronts.
That doesn’t mean it’s bad, but it’ll be a gamble. It could be alright, and it could be chinesium.
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- Comment on How high would my blood alcohol have to be to impair/kill a mosquito? 1 week ago:
Relevant: what-if.xkcd.com/98/
- Comment on Bet you read that wrong 2 weeks ago:
I actually read waterlemons right, but I read the second line wrong.
- Comment on Syrian passports include a photo of Souq al-Hamidiyah, a famous historic marketplace in Damascus. Apparently, the image was taken from the internet without removing the photographer’s watermark, “Was… 2 weeks ago:
It’s the background of only one page of many in the passport. I’m sure someone has noticed this, but I can easily believe that anyone who’s noticed never bothered to make a big deal out of it, so it never became widely known. If it were me, I’d probably just show a friend, we’d share a laugh (or a mock) and that would be the end of it. Even if I wanted to make the whole world know, I don’t really have a way to make that happen short of posting on social media and hoping it gets picked up - which is, presumably, what the Reddit OP did.
- Comment on Syrian passports include a photo of Souq al-Hamidiyah, a famous historic marketplace in Damascus. Apparently, the image was taken from the internet without removing the photographer’s watermark, “Was… 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know either. This is reposted from reddit, and no one there even thought to ask. However someone did link to the photographer’s page on facebook and another user claims to have checked a real passport and confirm it, but this is the internet (and worse, reddit) so take it with a grain of salt. If this is true, it’s possible that the reddit OP is the first person to publicize this.
- Comment on What exactly is the security of direct messages on lemmy? Does anyone actually use matrix? 2 weeks ago:
If you’re paranoid, you can use PGP and send encrypted messages through Lemmy. But obviously that’s overkill.
My approach: assume that DMs are probably going to stay private, but acknowledge that there’s always a chance they leak out one way or another. If you want to send a link to a more secure service, perhaps that service allows you to generate a temporary link that you can deactivate after the recipient has used it. That would still be untraceable, as long as the eavesdropper isn’t opening that link immediately after you sent it.
- Comment on One of the lowercase m is actually an r + n, and the other isn't. 2 weeks ago:
The first one looks ever so sightly wider to me, but their shape is exactly the same otherwise and it would be impossible to notice if no one told me
- Comment on This camouflaged speed bump 2 weeks ago:
I literally couldn’t find it until I zoomed in a lot. That’s pretty bad.
Speed bumps where I’m from are usually wider and clearly marked, similar to this picture I found online:
- Comment on sometimes nature is a tattle tale 3 weeks ago:
I thought the same thing for about 3 seconds. Look at the photo. There is a natural dead giveaway that these two babies don’t have the same dad.
- Comment on Love Wins 3 weeks ago:
I was gonna mention something like a USB Type-C cable, but that’s not really electricians’ territory, is it?
- Comment on People who do not specify units of measurement in international contexts 3 weeks ago:
To add insult to injury, a US cup is 236.6 millilitres, while a UK (imperial) cup is 170.48 millilitres. Not even close. There’s a whole lot of other measurements called “cup” too: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cup_(unit)
- Comment on Celebratory Return to Online Meme 4 weeks ago:
Sure, it was alright, but I do love my family too ❤️
- Comment on Celebratory Return to Online Meme 4 weeks ago:
Last time I went out on a trip with the extended family (we’re roughly 20 people, give or take), it was in a rented big structure with a sleeping area, a dining area, and a kitchen, and a yard outside with a place to make a fire. We started a fire, but come dinner time they all wanted to leave the fire going and eat at the table.
I absolutely refused. No way in the world in leaving a fire unattended like that. I said we either stop the fire altogether (and restart it later), or I’ll stay watching it until someone comes to replace me.
In the end I took a plate of food and ate it by the fire alone, until someone indeed came to replace me and I went to finish the meal at the table. It turned out fine, but it really annoyed me how no one in my family saw sense. They kept trying to convince me to just come and eat dinner… as if the social togetherness somehow makes the risk of starting a forest fire unimportant?! There’s some smart people in my family, but some days I don’t understand how they can all be so blind to the obvious reality.
- Comment on Why are expressions like "women artists" or "women writers" used? 4 weeks ago:
But you do probably hear things like male nurse or male nanny. (For this comment I’m ignoring the difference between male/female and man/woman, others have already tackled that.) It’s pretty obvious what’s going on, isn’t it? For those professions, people normally imagine them in one gender by default unless other clues are given. You can argue all day about whether it’s right or wrong or justified or whatever, but in any case, it’s true. And if it’s important for the speaker that the listener knows from the start what to imagine, then they add the explicit gender.
Not related to the answer but your post reminds me of a dark joke: it’s not true that there’s a pay gap between men and women. It’s just that men tend to choose higher paying jobs like doctor, lawyer, pilot, while women choose lower paying jobs like female doctor, female lawyer, female pilot.
- Comment on YouTube’s AI slop detector incorrectly targets Kurzgesagt as other creators fear same fate 5 weeks ago:
Right, I guess that’s what turns me off from it, somehow you put it into words better than I ever could. But it’s still nowhere near “slop”, and I don’t like it being slandered. It’s entertaining (for those who enjoy it), it’s harmless, and the smoothness of the animations can even scratch a “competence porn” itch. I really think they’re going for an ASMR kind of thing, and it’s working. And I see absolutely nothing wrong with that.
I can also guess that that’s why they’re going for those kinds of subjects in most of their videos. Anything that is even a little bit controversial or political can turn people away, so it’s safer to stick with things that are a bit detached from the world. … Or something like that.
Not to mention that any topic that doesn’t call for cool animations is immediately out of the running. The coolest animations come from the exact kinds of topics you described. Something on the cusp of science and science fiction.
