mobyduck648
@mobyduck648@lemmy.world
Sailor, software engineer, musician, terminally online.
I miss the pre-adtech internet.
- Comment on Why Should I... 20 hours ago:
Haha guilty as charged, him and Historical Italian Cooking both introduced me to it.
One thing that’s somewhat more annoying to get hold of is Colatura di Alici, the garum-like anchovy sauce. You more of less must order it from Italy and ship internationally. Absolutely top-tier stuff though, I use it in modern dishes too. I can see why it was so popular.
- Comment on Why Should I... 21 hours ago:
I just wish long pepper was more widely known, I can get it easily from Indian shops in the UK but it’s not so widely known or available. It’s among my favourite spices, think black pepper but way more aromatic and ‘flowery’. It was known to the Romans but fell out of favour many centuries ago in Europe.
- Comment on Fox News sharing billionaire propaganda 2 days ago:
Too big to fail == too big to live in a sane world.
- Comment on don't do it. 1 week ago:
Golden age pirates were generally fairly rational economic actors, they wanted to terrorise you into a quick surrender and potentially recruit from the defeated merchant crew. Once you’d surrendered they usually had little need for theatrics like walking the plank, while there absolutely were brutes who’d dish out violence for the fun of it this wasn’t the favoured outcome generally because it’s expensive to the pirates. It’s why the pirate flag is so important, just possessing one is enough to hang you so it’s a reliable way of saying ‘we’re outside the ordinary rules of engagement, do you really want this fight?’
Of course, if you fight they might quite instrumentally make an example of you to enhance their reputation, and increase the chance of future surrenders. If every pirate captain did that to every ship though, he wouldn’t be in business long.
- Comment on Just posting the dinner I made 1 week ago:
While the chances are much lower in the modern era, there’s still a non-zero chance of Mr Blobby appearing anywhere in the UK at any time.
- Comment on Simply Bananas 2 weeks ago:
Which is why all the palm trees in that movie look dead as hell.
Should have waited a few decades, after this summer I’m sure Britain can support palm trees!
- Comment on Simply Bananas 2 weeks ago:
Not really, how many times have straightforward cock-ups happened with the interactions with your government in your life? Large organisations fuck up constantly in mundane ways, history skews far more in favour of cock-ups than conspiracies.
- Comment on ‘Cheap travel is not a defence’: the parents facing court for school absences in England 3 weeks ago:
Yeah I was always a bit miffed as a pupil I couldn’t just start summer early after end of year exams, those few weeks were always a waste of everyone’s time.
- Comment on All aboard the Pythagorean Express 3 weeks ago:
In the world of sloppageddon, I actually don’t mind being bamboozled by a photoshop now and then.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 4 weeks ago:
My unpopular opinion is that 100k is the inevitable enshittification threshold.
Mind you the Fediverse might help because there’s no reason not to have hundreds of instances with tens of thousands of users.
- Comment on Friends. 4 weeks ago:
Maybe it’s just nostalgia talking but I feel the Inbetweeners and Fresh Meat still hold up. The former one especially, if anyone wants to know what it was like growing up as a British teen in the '00s it’s basically 100% accurate.
- Comment on Ciao 5 weeks ago:
‽ is a sublime punctuation mark.
- Comment on Are you too young to remember these? 5 weeks ago:
A pain in the arse to drive from modern video sources is what it is! Bought a CRT recently with a thought to using it as a cool secondary monitor but HDMI to composite adaptors are all crap!
What I ended up doing was using HDMI to VGA, then VGA to composite. This let me set a proper 4:3 resolution and the picture improved a lot. What I should have done is not bother with composite at all and gone VGA to RGB to SCART as this would improve the colour a lot, but couldn’t find the adaptors for that. Not sure how widespread SCART was, might have only been a European thing but when I was a kid most TVs could either take a composite RCA input or SCART, and SCART could carry composite or RGB.
Definitely given me the bug for old TVs though, I’m going to have to write an ActivityPub to Teletext software adaptor so I can have Lemmy on a ‘90s TV or something. HackTV looks like a lot of fun as well.
- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 5 weeks ago:
Reddit is a cesspool but unfortunately so is the wider media ecosystem for the most part.
- Comment on That Damn Smile 5 weeks ago:
Yeah age of sail lookouts had incredible eyesight, they had to since every minute you lost determining friend or foe was a minute you’d delay beating to quarters and running out your guns.