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- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
I’m amazed that so many people have thought about all this with a term for something I’ve wondered about, and yet I still think this is the wisest branch of the comments.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
I’ve been more careful in the shower lately, especially since ours is all stone tile. It’s got good traction, but I keep wondering what happens when people fall in showers–whether it’s usually a traction thing, or whether it’s significantly an orientation thing (due to temperature change, scalp massaging , head angle, etc. affecting blood pressure and equilibrium…).
Every time I saw a roadway accident in bad weather, I thought of it like something that wasn’t going to happen to me, until I had my own moment and realized my traction on fresh rainfall wasn’t what I thought it was.
Showers seem like the next “oh, that can happen to me” thing.
- Comment on I need an adult 6 days ago:
Jess and Rob on Words Unraveled talk about color word origins, and their discussion is illuminating about the cultural variance in perception of color. Now I am at peace with all the seemingly weird color names for things.
For a quicker tour, Vox talks about the order that languages fill in color words as cultures begin to refine their distinction.
- Comment on "Digital Signatures" just ask you to type your name into a box now. Am I right in thinking this almost-completely defeats the purpose of a signature? 2 weeks ago:
That didn’t quite explain everything. I want to add that there are “type your name to sign” forms that are just what you described, just bytes spelling out your name. In those cases, you’re right, those bytes don’t have your handwriting to prove anything, but they do accomplish something. If the form is secured behind a login and not a totally buggy heap of garbage, then the act of typing your name on that form demonstrates that whoever logged in deliberately expressed their approval. And whatever level of identity verification is needed for login is then playing the part of demonstrating who did that. That’s not perfect, but the level of evidence might match the level of risk enough to justify that mechanism to the company providing it, and it’s important to consider all factors: not just system cost, but end user tolerance.
E.g., there was (maybe still is?) a “ham” radio logging system that had end users generate their own PGP signing key pair to sign their log books, which are simply a list of who they talked to over the radio, always for non-commercial purposes (by law). Many questioned whether a secure web site with good 2FA might suffice and be much more convenient, manageable, and adequate risk level for most users.
“Digital signature” is a proper term that should mean what the parent comment explained–public key crypto “signing” (a hash of) a document’s content–but “sign here by typing your name” will inevitably get called a signature and, obviously, is also digital, just not a real “digital signature”.
- Comment on PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation) 3 weeks ago:
Yep. I also still remember the last PS blackout. That was 24 days.
- Comment on Chat, is this accurate? 5 weeks ago:
The good version of this says “see you on the other side”.
- Comment on *inhales* 🖕🙂↕️🖕 5 weeks ago:
Oh, got it. Yeah, I want to do that. But… uh… where do I upload it, I don’t see it?
- Comment on The Old Car Summertime Struggle 1 month ago:
Or when we’re being family-friendly, we just press or hang a “full moon”. We’re not savages, after all.
- Comment on Fuck yea bro! 1 month ago:
A shirt would be an analogy for boxers, which do nothing. But boxer briefs or briefs are already supportive like a sports bra. This new… thing… looks like it would be like wearing an underwire under a sports bra.
- Comment on Mighty fine 1 month ago:
Georgia Went Down on the Devil, what a classic.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Those recyclable metal ones are awesome.
- Comment on Aha! 2 months ago:
This place really is not that different from Reddit. “iN fAcT yOu ShOuLdN’t FlOsS…” wtf kind of backward assed fart steam is that shit?
- Comment on That's a no 2 months ago:
Zipper is solid in a situation where an entire lane merges into another. There are different situations where it doesn’t make sense. I’m a big believer in zippering where it works, but then there’s the 6-lane highway where one exit lane is backing up into the through lanes. Then someone blows past that line in the other through lanes and cuts into the very front of the line. I’m sure some of those people are saying “zipper!” as they do it, but if everyone conventionalized a zipper point at the end of an exit lane, we would impede the through lanes, too. The point of the zipper is to smooth traffic flow and use the full capacity of the roadway; applying it broadly to highway lanes mixed with through traffic is antithetical.
- Comment on Literally exactly how it works, too. 3 months ago:
The “for dummies” take-away I’ve heard is that the big mix-up is in confusion about the term “observer”. Normal people use it to mean a person’s attention, while physicists use the specific concept of an observer of a particle to mean another interacting particle.
- Comment on where? 4 months ago:
#8 next to Ash is… James Brown?
- Comment on Home renovations 5 months ago:
Ah, thanks, I couldn’t seem to find the right term. I was looking for “truss space” or something related. “Floor cavity” or I guess “joist cavity” looks like what I was looking for.
- Comment on Home renovations 5 months ago:
This is cute, but also in case anyone needs to learn something today:
- Comment on Is this real life? 8 months ago:
Mama I… just missed the boat…
- Comment on Only a few years left 8 months ago:
I’m sure you can still find a shop specializing in the traditional methods.
- Comment on I work long hour and make little money 8 months ago:
I love that Lemmy is building its own collection of epic moments.
- Comment on This would be terrible for my ad revenue 8 months ago:
There’s no swearing in the good place, obviously.
- Comment on card game shop 8 months ago:
Yep, and not flossing can result in some funky breath that really travels.
- Comment on card game shop 9 months ago:
Can we add brushing and flossing to this?
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 1 year ago:
You’re right. Not sure why you’d be down voted.
- Comment on What's the worst spelling you've seen? 1 year ago:
“Abesede” is getting too close to “obesity”, but I think “Absedee” works. But yeah, people need to stop trying to use letters and symbols to replace the phonemes of that letter’s name.
- Comment on Time to yeet your smartphone into the long grass 1 year ago:
There is just something really amazing about being able to communicate directly between two points on the planet by bouncing EM waves off layers of the atmosphere. Like, imagine two people hundreds of miles apart are shining flashlights (or torches, if you prefer) at the distant sky, just above the horizon, and seeing the sky glow from each other’s beams signaling each other. At the right frequencies and with the right conditions, certain atmospheric layer boundaries become reflective, like the boundary between air and water, so imagine that distant sky looks a little glossy up there, like water’s surface reflecting your beam.
But then run that light source through a machine that does that flickering signal fast enough to encode your voice in the pattern of flickering that’s glowing in the sky over someone else’s horizon.
That’s pretty closely analogous to what amateur (“ham”) radio operators are doing when they play with the HF range of the radio spectrum. The electronics are less sophisticated than cell phones, but our usual gadgets rely on many other devices to relay info across the Internet (which is also amazing, in a different way). Ham radio, on the other hand, is like a fancy version of talking through two cans on a string, sometimes up to thousands of miles apart, but using fast flash lights instead of string and cans.
- Comment on We are so cooked 1 year ago:
The inherent problem with that is how few there are.
- Comment on Anon experiences freedom 1 year ago:
Nowadays, there’s not much to learn. For user-friendly OSes, just install the VPN app, sign in like any other service, and, at a minimum, hit “go”. Most people will want to scroll through a list of locations of where they want to appear to be, choose a location, then hit “go”.
- Comment on Why do so many UK electrical sockets have an on/off switch next to them? 1 year ago:
I think you meant to write “anything”, but I have to laugh anf think this could be another internet moment like what started “Karen” or “Chad” or “Stan”.
- Comment on At 4AM this New Year's Eve, play the Ramones track "I Wanna Be Sedated." 1 year ago:
You’ve been waiting for this moment…
