master5o1

@master5o1@lemmy.nz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla is eliminating its advocacy division, which fought for a free and open web⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The way you word it suggests that donations to Mozilla are expressly forbidden from being spent on Firefox. Which I doubt is true.

  But yes, many would prefer to donate specifically for Firefox development than into a general pool for Mozilla to allocate as they choose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there opposing institutions to things like the Heritage Foundation? Are there liberal policy think-tanks?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My brain skipped as I read Brennan and tabletop in the same sentence and jumped to Dropout/Dimension 20.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does it seem the majority of protests in the US are to oppose something while so many protests in other countries are looking to influence improving something?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even the phrase “improving the situation in Gaza” can be ambiguous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. is cracking down on Shein and Temu by closing a loophole that makes their cheap goods exempt from tariffs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Marginal at best when everything is made elsewhere and requires fossil fuels for transport.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any negatives side effects to using PGP all the time with email?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Get an S/MIME certificate and send from an S/MIME compatible email client.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Made a Smashable TV in Unreal that Simulates Every Pixel⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re kinda addressable in that the electron beam scans across a line, and every through each line, with a pulse activating the (iirc phosphor) at the pixel for the desired colour.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Video Generator Runway Trained on Thousands of YouTube Videos Without Permission⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the alternative: copyright should be looser. It usually only benefits corporations and lawyers.

  Though it would be naive to consider AI companies and ally in a goal to reduce copyright terms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the rule for which 'national identity adjective' suffix to use?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When does a colloquial term become a non-colloquial? Usage by government/official contexts?

  In August 2022, Minister of Immigration Michael Wood referred to 85,000 holders of recently approved New Zealand 2021 resident visas as “new Kiwis”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the rule for which 'national identity adjective' suffix to use?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  New Zealand -> Kiwi.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the rule for which 'national identity adjective' suffix to use?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Human languages: the words are made up and the rules don’t matter.

  Especially true for English.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The problem with GIMP⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If it wasn’t for StarOffice/OpenOffice/LibreOffice Impress, is have thought a rename to Impress would be a good name.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I read this a few weeks ago about it.

  www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Puzzling Testimony of Craig Wright, Self-Styled Inventor of Bitcoin⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Always been a fan of it being Hal Finney, regardless of any evidence. It’s poetic symmetry with losing both around the same time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Any hyper focused group, especially one that has an excluded “other”, will form a totem idea of that other and unreasonably become extremely against that totem. So hate spirals out of control. This occurs on either ends of the political spectrum. It can happen with sports teams vs their rivals.

  CGP Grey made a video a number of years ago explaining such things better. youtu.be/rE3j_RHkqJc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's that music called that was used in 90s documentaries about the birth of the earth?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If this is music from Cosmos, then look up Vangelis.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would it take to change an Internal Combustion Engine Car to an EV?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Bear in mind he’s doing it with a very specific performance characteristic in mind, and not as a standard EV conversion.

  But in general, same stuff involved.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I have one, a Merida eSPRESSO 410 from 2017.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The World's Most Dangerous Blood Type⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Rh-null. So rare they can almost never receive a transfusion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we not eat pig or cow?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Hogget for in between.

  A sheep in its first year is a lamb and its meat is also lamb. The meat from sheep in their second year is hogget. Older sheep meat is mutton.

  Oh…, maybe not.

  Generally, “hogget” and “sheep meat” are not used by consumers outside Norway, New Zealand, South Africa, Scotland, and Australia.