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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would you do if you got message that says "do not look outside"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  If they don’t explain why, then that’s suspicious. I’d think that someone hacked the emergency alert system for some kind of ARG or joke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does neuro divergent only mean Autistic and ADHD?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It doesn’t…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come Lemmy/Piefed users seem to have a consensus of like "green mario" is the solution to this and that, but simultaneously oppose death penalty?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That wasn’t my point (though you’re wrong about that too). My point is that you’re suggesting there’s a contradiction between being opposed to killing one party but not to killing another party. There is no contradiction. If you take sides then it is consistent to support violence against your opponents but not violence towards your own class.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come Lemmy/Piefed users seem to have a consensus of like "green mario" is the solution to this and that, but simultaneously oppose death penalty?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “How come people who condemn the Nazi death chambers support fighting the Nazis?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I remove a file from a git commit?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  desire to keep out of commercial cloud providers

  I’m afraid that GitHub is run by Microsoft and I would consider it pretty thoroughly corporate these days.

  Fair enough if you want to get more familiar with git (although using it as a cloud service is basically just gonna be add all and then commit, surely? you’re not practising any other git operations if only using as cloud storage?), but people normally do this with programming projects, which you should have no shortage of as a CS major.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I remove a file from a git commit?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there a reason why you don’t use conventional cloud storage? The only reason I can think for someone to use a git forge for generic cloud storage is the version history, which you’ve said you don’t need. Something like your OP problem wouldn’t happen for a conventional cloud provider.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is "On your left" the best thing to say when passing someone on a trail?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, if they don’t, you’ll just have to wait until you both get somewhere where you can pass? The other option is running them over, which, whilst them blocking you is a dick move, running someone over is more unethical.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is "On your left" the best thing to say when passing someone on a trail?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re cycling and passing a pedestrian? I ding the bell with enough time to let them step to one side, and then I go through the gap they create. The gap can be on whatever side they want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it "Their name is Trevor," or "Their names are Trevor" if you know 2 Trevors?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “Their names are both Trevor” would sound the most unambiguous to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come fat chance and slim chance both mean the same thing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think “fat” is sarcastic. At least that’s how it reads to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I despise laundry. How can I make my life contain less of it?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Clothes don’t have to go in the closet. If they’re your clothes and they don’t get in anyone’s way, your family doesn’t have a right to complain about you storing them on a pile on your bedroom floor, if putting clothes away is making you so miserable.

  Alternatively, maybe strike up a deal with another household member for them to do your laundry in exchange for you doing some other household chore for them (e.g. you’ll take out the bins when it’s their turn to do the bins, you’ll cook all their meals, etc).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech hobbyists, How are you avoiding the crazy prices for computers and newer tech?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Make a stew with RAM sticks, got it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech hobbyists, How are you avoiding the crazy prices for computers and newer tech?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mainly only buy old (like, over a decade old) laptops off eBay so I’m not affected. I’m not replacing any parts of my main PC till they break. I think the current culture of upgrading just to stay up to date rather than because something doesn’t work anymore is incredibly wasteful, especially given the emissions and human rights abuses in the manufacture of PC parts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the deal with using phonetic symbols here on Lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some people have typing quirks I guess. Harmless form of self-expression.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is gender affirming care for cis people a thing?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, yeah. I’m a cis woman who takes oestrogen because they removed my ovaries; I do so for gendered reasons, there’s a reason why I don’t take testosterone instead which would be an equally valid way of replacing my missing hormones from a physiological perspective. I also shave my face for gendered reasons, because people are a lot more judgemental about women having facial hair than men. Cis men who are born with penises but lose them get phalloplasty. And so on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Dollars are worth a disproportionate amount compared to currencies in the global south. “Little to no money” in the US is a decent amount of money in other parts of the world. If you’re trying to leave the US rather than enter it, you’re at the relative advantage to most immigrants.

  As for more specific advice, it really depends on where you want to move to. If you are a US citizen, your passport will take you almost anywhere in the world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨when doing laundry... while switching it over from washer to dryer...you find a sock on the floor that didn't get washed. If you put it in the dryer with the wet laundry will it come out clean?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No.

  Just put it back into your dirty laundry basket and wash it the next time you do a load. It’s just a sock.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was there ever a well-documented, widely accepted to be *false*, accusation of genocide?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  White genocide?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are you doing for digital estate planning?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There are contingency plans for all my digital responsibilities (ie things other people rely upon that need someone to maintain them). For everything else, ie digital assets that only I use, I don’t care what happens to them when I die, on account of being dead and unable to care about anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do a lot of frozen salmon thawing instructions say to remove the salmon from the individual wrappers before thawing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Botulism toxins denature at 85°C, however the spores survive to temps above 100°C, according to Wikipedia (which lists farther numbers if you want to reference them).

  Note: this is not food safety advice. If you think food has botulism I would recommend throwing it out instead of cooking it and hoping you got it hot enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So Austistici/Inventati just got designated as a "global terrorist organisation" by the Trump administration, what do I do now?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess it depends on the types of activists you know. I’d give you an invite myself but I think invites are tied to the inviter so I can’t really do so without linking my riseup and my lemmy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So Austistici/Inventati just got designated as a "global terrorist organisation" by the Trump administration, what do I do now?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re politically active you can get an invite from one of your comrades. If that’s not something you can do, you probably don’t need it.

  +1 for riseup though, they’re sound and have used their email service for years. disroot is a good alternative that is open to public registration.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What exactly is the security of direct messages on lemmy? Does anyone actually use matrix?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I use Matrix for a lot of my chatting to friends. It works fine. Bit janky, but I don’t mind.

  The disclaimer you’re seeing just means that DMs are not e2ee, so the server admins of the sending/receiving servers can read the message. You could use DMs to exchange details for chatting on an e2ee platform if this is a concern.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How hopeless is getting a job with a CS degree?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Most people with a degree don’t do a job directlly related to their degree, and most people I know who work in an IT or CS related field aren’t university-educated. Go to uni because you want to learn and are interested in your field, not with the express goal of a career. If you wouldn’t go to uni if you knew you’d end up doing something else as a career, then that degree probably isn’t the choice for you, because it sounds like you’re not interested in the education itself, just the job resulting from it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it just the norm now-a-days for grocery stores to have lots of stuff on the shelves that's past the best-by date?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  old stuff needs to be pulled to the front, and new stuff needs to be put behind it

  As an aside, my “not unethical but does feel a bit like you’re cheating other people” life tip is to rummage around at the back of the shelf/in the bottom crate of a stack of crates for the freshest food. Don’t feel too bad about it especially in a high-turnover shop. They were going to sell the most recent-dated stock anyway, just to somebody who’s not you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would an LLM AI model trained wholly on consenting open source projects with a license requiring all derivative works be open source licensed still be problematic?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the “copyright” shit is the biggest non-issue with LLMs. Abolish intellectual property. If you put a piece of software out there, you shouldn’t be able to stop anyone else from using it for the public good.

  The issues I take with what’s being called “AI” right now is the volume of slop people have to drudge through. It particularly makes it hard to look for new software as there’s so many vibe-coded projects getting published then abandoned. It’s the aggressive and obnoxious marketing campaign that insists I pay for your shitty SaaS LLM, that I don’t get to keep or run on my own machine, that I’m supposed to use for all sorts of tasks where I don’t want a non-deterministic probabilistic machine (people use LLMs to do number-crunching?? you’re using a machine designed to do math, interfacing with the one part of it that can’t do math!). And it’s the ridiculous computing power people are using to do activities that do not require anywhere near that amount of power if they just do things the normal way. I could not care less about “copyright”. Nobody should be able to own a codebase anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy or Piefed?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Piefed devs are gigalibs who hard-code in their politics, blocking left-wing instances in the server software itself rather than letting instance admins configure that sort of stuff. Even if you agree with their politics, consider if you want to be using software that actively forbids users from interacting with conflicting politics even if the user wants to. If you agree with the principles of free software, then that doesn’t seem to respect user freedom to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy or Piefed?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It doesn’t mean Marxist-Leninist. It’s a coincidence. The Lemmy devs said they started using the domain because .ml domains were free.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Name of a Japanese vegetable dish?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not an answer to what your dish is as others have already answered that, but it would help to know what food you do like as a picky eater, to suggest vegetable dishes that you would like. Going along with the Japanese theme, you could try vegetable tempura as a tasty way to get veggies. East Asia has a lot of yummy ways to eat vegetables. Stir fried, included in noodle dishes, kimchi, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you people read books?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you actually want to read them, firstly? I can read “hard” books just fine when they’re on a topic I’m genuinely interested in and I actually want to read the book. But if I force myself to read a “hard” book on something I don’t care about, it’ll be painful.

  I always highlight and annotate non-fiction with any thoughts/comments/etc, and if it’s a work I expect to find particularly valuable, I also take separate notes. Usually these are digital notes in the note-taking app of my choice (currently Notesnook), but for some books I get a physical notebook. It also helps motivate me if I get some nice highlighters and pens and take pretty notes.