A_norny_mousse
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- Comment on Connectivity in princess cruise 1 day ago:
- Comment on Entrapment 1 day ago:
Seems like you at least understood what OP is on about.
- Comment on what can you assume about his personality from the voice files? 1 day ago:
Nicholas Smith
That’s him. - Comment on Volunteering enshittification 5 days ago:
we’re not talking about some commercial photographer taking photos in public.
Yeah exactly, why did you even bring it up.
We’re talking about an NGO who wants to snap photos anytime while people are doing their work.
So you think that’s normal (whether one gets paid for the work or not doesn’t come into it). Gotcha.
- Comment on Volunteering enshittification 5 days ago:
(Professional) photographers do exactly that in many countries that have decent law around people’s privacy.
Usually they ask before they start shooting. So the result is not staged. And they respect people’s answers, because they could get in trouble otherwise. It’s also usually about faces, so they can still shoot the objectors from other angles.
So - since all this is happening in reality, it is not unrealistic.
- Comment on Volunteering enshittification 5 days ago:
Thanks for calling this out. I agree with every bit - and more. I see similar things happening in various areas, from FOSS development to childcare.
Often with the additional insult of the ORG - well, not really profiting but at least paying others a decent wage. Not me though, I get the good feeling of Doing Something for the Greater Good.
Thankfully I have not experienced this anti-privacy stuff, but several times I noticed that the internal structure of the ORG is built around the free labor they get. Everything else they’re stingy with to the point that it’s not a nice place to be, except us volunteers. We are ubiquitous.
- Comment on Is Mexican food uniquely good with alcohol or have I just been conditioned? 6 days ago:
I have had similar thoughts, not specifically about Mexican food though.
I think many culutures have developed cuisines that are carefully balanced, incl. traditional alcoholic beverages.
- Comment on Is Mexican food uniquely good with alcohol or have I just been conditioned? 6 days ago:
There’s a Vietnamese restaurant (…) that serves Belgian beer with the food.
Another person just commented that low hop beer (certainly applies to Belgian beers) goes well with most foods, and I took that to include spicy food. Maybe I should try this - because I’m usually a big fan of hops in beer and rarely drink it directly with food.
- Comment on Is Mexican food uniquely good with alcohol or have I just been conditioned? 6 days ago:
Low hop. In my book that’s most American beers, most certainly that one Mexican brand that’s exported a lot. With corn and rice iirc. SOL?
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 1 week ago:
and pop density?
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 1 week ago:
Population: Chengdu over 20 million vs. under 3 million in Toronto.
The maps above also seem to be differently scaled.
Also, the fact that it has technologically developed fast in the past decades, as compared to Canada that has developed steadily in the past century, is not really the gotcha OP seems to imply it is.
That said, it’s perfectly possible that public transport in Toronto leaves much to be desired - without comparing it to Chengdu.
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 1 week ago:
This. 20 million vs. under 3 million in Toronto.
Also, the fact that it has technologically developed fast in the past decades, as compared to Canada that has developed steadily in the past century, is not really the plus OP seems to imply it is.
That said, it’s perfectly possible that public transport in Toronto leaves much to be desired - without comparing it to China.
- Comment on Why doesn't Trump destroy or modify the Epstein files? 1 week ago:
Because even in the already deeply flawed US “democracy” his power isn’t absolute - just yet.
- Comment on Why doesn't Trump destroy or modify the Epstein files? 1 week ago:
Tony Schwartz said this pretty much verbatim in 2015 already (iirc) at Oxford university. And a lot more things about Trump that seem positively prophetic in retrospect.
Mary Trump as well.
- Comment on Why are so many Afghans suddenly being deported back to Afghanistan? Why is it from so many different countries? 1 week ago:
… suddenly … Why is it from so many different countries?
Can you specify? I just saw this post (German). Where else? Afghans specifically?
IIRC somebody (Trump or Biden maybe) declared Afghanistan a safe state after the US military left, or to justify its departure.
That and a rise in far-right populist fear- and hatemonmgering anti-immigration policy in many countries. Like Germany.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Thanks for reporting. I think it’s important to realise that the fediverse and FOSS software in general can attract commercial interest just like everything else. All sorts of bad players really.
- Comment on captchas like these that don't tell you which part of the text you're supposed to input 1 week ago:
OK, that last sentence made me laugh!
- Comment on captchas like these that don't tell you which part of the text you're supposed to input 1 week ago:
Looks pretty obvious to me.
I’m more infuriated by the “abnormal activity from your IP”. It seems pretty much everything is abnormal to these CDNs, including using Firefox on Linux. On the stack/exchange/ask networks I get that shit every fucking time. And no, I’m not using a VPN/Tor.
- Comment on If you have cut off mainstream music streaming, how do you discover new music or artists and songs like what you're listening frequently? 4 weeks ago:
Nice. M3U saved
- Comment on If you have cut off mainstream music streaming, how do you discover new music or artists and songs like what you're listening frequently? 4 weeks ago:
No need to wait for Linux to listen to internet radio with individual song metadata: Soma.fm. Bagel Radio for guitary stuff. 9128.live for amazing Ambient mixes.
There’s also amazing NTS.live, Lyl Radio, Dublab etc… but they don’t always show per-track metadata.
- Comment on If you have cut off mainstream music streaming, how do you discover new music or artists and songs like what you're listening frequently? 4 weeks ago:
Another vote for internet radio. Adding Bagel Radio for guitary stuff. Oh and 9128.live for amazing Ambient mixes.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I’m typing this on a laptop. But I’m old.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Unfortunately what the other commenter replied is happening instead.
I will take this opportunity to drop one of my favorite tropes: even 10 years ago, every smartphone had millions of times more computing power than the complete computing power used during the moon landing in '69.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Enough has been said about the dating apps, so I feel it’s OK to remark on something else:
separated from my wife of 31 years - just earlier this month. Honestly, I’m already feeling bored and lonely
Can you provide some more context here? On the face of it it makes you sound like being dependent on a woman to keep you company. Sorry if I misinterprete that. But shouldn’t you be rather busy with other things now - idk, moving, settling in, changing your life alround, finding new friends, recovering from the separation…
FWIW, my (now) 52yo brother and his wife found each other through a dating site/app almost 10 years ago. They seem to be doing well.
- Comment on Microsoft is is bed with Google now, in a worse, more OS-integrated way than Mozilla was. This timeline sucks. 5 weeks ago:
Yeah. Or they’ll go through with it, and then realize later that they “need” to buy new ones.
Maybe I can still convince them to switch to Linux. We’re not dependent on any MS or Windows only products.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Northern Europe. Shots fired in my neighborhood. Cops rolled up a dozen strong, with bulletproof shields, and searched for the shooter for hours.
OTOH: bike stolen. Police said, unless you have the frame number there’s nothing we can do. And even if you had, very little. They did take my report though.
I bought a much bigger/harder lock immediately, and it hasn’t happened since.
Never been burgled.
- Comment on Microsoft is is bed with Google now, in a worse, more OS-integrated way than Mozilla was. This timeline sucks. 5 weeks ago:
Did he have a beard?
- Comment on Microsoft is is bed with Google now, in a worse, more OS-integrated way than Mozilla was. This timeline sucks. 5 weeks ago:
You mean, chromium-based browser vs. chromium-based browser?
I know, it’s about data mining (don’t call it telemetry), but still. Funny. I bet they didn’t even remove all Google links from the source code.
- Comment on Microsoft is is bed with Google now, in a worse, more OS-integrated way than Mozilla was. This timeline sucks. 5 weeks ago:
I’m currently horrified how my (IT illiterate) employer said we need to update all our 20+ laptops to Win11 now. Consumer laptops that barely run Win10.
To be clear, I’m not the IT guy here, though I do sometimes help out.
- Comment on Microsoft is is bed with Google now, in a worse, more OS-integrated way than Mozilla was. This timeline sucks. 5 weeks ago:
Mint yes, Vivaldi no.
