adespoton
@adespoton@lemmy.ca
- Comment on How do I properly and safely clean smartphone? 23 hours ago:
Use soap and water. If that’s not enough, 99% Isopropyl Alcohol does a great job for cleaning and disinfecting without damaging the device.
Avoid using anything that scours or anything that will react chemically with the glass, metal or plastic on your device (no mineral oils, solvents etc.)
- Comment on Has Canada's government done anything concrete to reduce dependence on the US since Trump took office? Maybe even since the first term? 4 days ago:
I suspect that was purely a pressure tactic against the US; the F-35 orders are still being financed and production hasn’t halted.
Which seems crazy to me, because the F-35 design can be fully remotely controlled by the US military, which also collects all telemetry.
- Comment on Has Canada's government done anything concrete to reduce dependence on the US since Trump took office? Maybe even since the first term? 4 days ago:
I was thinking the same thing; we don’t have an executive, we have a cabinet. Sure, Carney has set up a small group of ministers as a kind of mini executive and himself thinks in executive terms, but even with all that, the Prime Minister can’t act without majority cabinet support.
- Comment on How do I feel comfortable/safe going outside by myself after being so used to have parent(s) be with me outside most of my life? 4 days ago:
Other ideas: play Pokemon Go or try geocaching as a hobby. The main thing that gets you over that weirdness barrier is feeling like there’s a reason for you being where you are — like you belong there. The only way to get that is through exposure, but the easiest way to get THAT is to already have a reason to be there.
Geocaching will only work if there’s others doing it in your area, but it will also give you a sense of community and connection, which will help when going other places. Plus, both things are global, so you can take them with you anywhere.
- Comment on How do I feel comfortable/safe going outside by myself after being so used to have parent(s) be with me outside most of my life? 4 days ago:
This is a good idea; having a purpose really helps.
You could also try running short distances in running gear. The “uniform” helps as it becomes your mobile safe place, and the effort and endorphins the running generates keep away the feelings of depression.
And because you can’t get as far away from home as you can on a bike, you can easily get back home (and you’re already running).
- Comment on Where are the marketing volunteers? 4 days ago:
All the non-profits I know have a marketing person or department. Some outsource.
Donating to this would be very beneficial for all involved.
- Comment on How ATSC 3.0 aims to win over cord-cutters in 2026 6 days ago:
Seems to me like Pirate Television should be really easy these days….
- Comment on How to get greasy spots out of wooden cutting board properly? 1 week ago:
Believe what you want… if you aren’t bleaching your plastic cutting boards, you’re breeding bacteria. Wood has anti microbial properties that leeps this under control. See the link upstream for one of the best studies on the topic.
- Comment on How to get greasy spots out of wooden cutting board properly? 1 week ago:
I tossed mine and got a new one.
Plastic needs to be bleached for 30 minutes to remove contamination. A dishwasher won’t be enough.
- Comment on How to get greasy spots out of wooden cutting board properly? 2 weeks ago:
Dishwashers aren’t some magical tool. They just wash so you don’t have to.
Well, that and… I put wood boards through the dishwasher all the time. Not end grain blocks, but regular low profile boards.
- Comment on What is the semi back handed hate against Kurds? How come they don't have a country yet being that the PKK is pretty powerful? 2 weeks ago:
Kurds are Turkish people. If you don’t want them to be, let them separate.
- Comment on if all communication electronics died on New Year's day, how long would it take for other time zones to notice 2 weeks ago:
GPS would fail as soon as the first tz ticked over. Internet routing would fail instantly too.
- Comment on Foreign tech workers spurn US as if it were a rabid dog 2 weeks ago:
Conversely, the company I’m working for has been around for 45 years, isn’t unionized, promotes from inside, and provides reasonable wages and great benefits.
They know that if they mess that up, we’ll all leave and go work somewhere else.
Of course, the company isn’t American, which likely makes a difference.
- Comment on What are therapists allow to share about their clients? 2 weeks ago:
I’d upvote you multiple times if I could.
And in some cases, they are actually required to share information with the government/police.
- Comment on What are therapists allow to share about their clients? 2 weeks ago:
I have experience from the “proper handling of PII” side of things, and can tell you that while everyone covered by HIPAA has likely taken the mandatory PII training, most, if asked, wouldn’t be able to identify what is and isn’t protected from a list of examples.
So no matter what the rules say, medical and therapy data leak like a sieve, and modern expert systems, if provided with the information, could probably identify the patients 90% of the time.
What medical practitioners and therapists are really protected by is insurance.
- Comment on Why is sharpedo blocked in image searches on DuckDuckGo and Bing, but not Google? 2 weeks ago:
That’s because they’re known words to exclude from the filter. Nobody’s flagged up sharpedo to their CSAM filter team yet.
- Comment on Why is sharpedo blocked in image searches on DuckDuckGo and Bing, but not Google? 2 weeks ago:
Maybe “sharPedo” (erroneously) triggers some CSAM rule for Bing? Shorthand for sharing pedophilia?
- Comment on AI-generated content in Wikipedia - a tale of caution 2 weeks ago:
Is there a slide deck or transcript of this? I don’t watch videos this way.
- Comment on What should I do with 2 old machines (Mac Mini and HP Pavilion g7)? 2 weeks ago:
It’s essentially built-in, although the server package helps with administrative tools if you want network-based accounts as well, or quotas etc.
- Comment on What should I do with 2 old machines (Mac Mini and HP Pavilion g7)? 2 weeks ago:
Well, my C2D Mini that I’ve been using as a backup server for the last decade just died. I’d be happy to receive a replacement :D
- Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 2 weeks ago:
It pre-dated Reagan. I’d say it started in the early 1960s, right about the time Boomers started becoming adults.
- Comment on How does internet advertising work? Where is all the money coming from? More... 2 weeks ago:
I generally post variations on this when similar questions come up:
duckduckgo.com/?q=2025+marketing+technology+lands…
The companies on the edges are all about marketing adtech firms to companies with money to convince them to spend it on digital marketing.
- Comment on at what point in life it's too late to go back to school? 4 weeks ago:
Good/bad doesn’t have to do with age. Are you going to Harvard or a local college with subsidized night school classes? Are you wanting to learn a specific skill, get a degree, upskill for a career path, retrain for new work?
I had a grandfather who ended up deployed in the army when he was planning to go off to college. When he got back, he took the jobs he could and continually took night school classes.
My father got his masters degree when he was 46, which resulted in 20 years of increased pay at work.
Me? I’m constantly learning, using free online courses. I don’t care about the degrees or certifications; anyone who knows me knows what I’m capable of.
I knew a woman who got her PhD in Law at the age of 97.
My workplace pays for appropriate certifications for its employees.
There’s all sorts of ways to go to school.
- Comment on Is it a bad idea to learn Russian because of everything? 4 weeks ago:
Learn Ukrainian first maybe, and then learn Russian? It may be easier to learn if you already know Ukrainian, too.
Of course, if you already know Ukrainian, why not learn Russian too?
- Comment on Why make 250GB m.2 disks instead of 1TB 4 weeks ago:
I got a miniPC 5 years ago that had a 128GB SSD in it that I used like that. When I went to get a second one last year, the same price point came with 1TB. I got it and swapped out the storage and stuck it in an external case.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
They’re not text predictors; they’re text transformers. So, more for translating a text from French to English, or providing you a summary of what a large input text is trying to say.
They can do prediction, but not well, and not without a lot of extra computation, as they’re really trying to summarize everything you’ve said, including the bit you haven’t written yet.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
For it’s time, possibly… but I’ve played through it. There are others from slightly later that have so many possible endings and characters that I never felt like I fully completed them.
- Comment on Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)? 5 weeks ago:
Plus or minus?
- Comment on Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)? 5 weeks ago:
Why not?
Because what happens when your referent changes? Which direction is Mars from Earth? We obviously need a single navigational system that works anywhere in the universe.
- Comment on Whats a good and proper alternative google message thats clean but better with privacy? - for texting 5 weeks ago:
Why? If they were already using Signal, they weren’t about to stop using it when it dropped SMS. If they weren’t using it… any encryption was window dressing anyway.