Arghblarg
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- Comment on Broccoli Blooms 1 week ago:
Related, but kale blooms look similar and I like the florets a lot in pasta (esp. mac & cheese).
- Comment on Anon learns a new spell 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on I just dont seem to ever learn 2 weeks ago:
Use a straw if available…
- Comment on It really works! 5 weeks ago:
Ironically, ionized particles tend to stick together (trying to become neutrally-charged) whereas unionized particles tend not to interact as strongly; so a group of chemists ‘binding’ together to form a union would actually be ‘ionized’ not ‘unionized’ … metaphorically :p
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Look up the “buy, borrow, die” strategy (spoiler: it’s only possible for those who are already rich, go figure).
- Comment on AI is eating up Pennsylvania's power, governor threatens to pull state from the grid — new plants aren't being built fast enough to keep up with demand 5 weeks ago:
Just using “LLM” is also a bit over-specific, however, as it’d exclude text-to-image models, and others.
Fair point. I haven’t heard of an equivalent to LLM for, as per your example, text-to-image models. Hmm.
- Comment on AI is eating up Pennsylvania's power, governor threatens to pull state from the grid — new plants aren't being built fast enough to keep up with demand 5 weeks ago:
Oooh, Iike that one.
- Comment on AI is eating up Pennsylvania's power, governor threatens to pull state from the grid — new plants aren't being built fast enough to keep up with demand 5 weeks ago:
Please everyone, consider calling “AI” something more accurate – they’re not intelligent, though definitely ‘artificial’ as in man-made. I personally like the terms “stochastic parrot” or even just “LLM”.
- Comment on My spoon is too big. 1 month ago:
It’s Tuesday, did you bring your raincoat?
- Comment on 1 month ago:
if jobs had living wages
But but billionaires would be slightly less obscenely rich then, oh no!
- Comment on US Politicians praying inside the House of Representatives 1 month ago:
They shouldn’t cluster so closely together, it’s a risk. Not that I’m suggesting anything.
- Comment on Thanks to the "you need to buy a new PC for running W11" bullshit, scammers are selling ewaste at full price to inexperienced people 1 month ago:
Thank you.
If you’ve ensured your home network’s firewall is sane first, there’s no big issue.
If you dual-boot to Windows occasionally to run that one stupid program that can’t run under Linux, and you aren’t downloading stuff willy-nilly from the wild internet, and you haven’t previously installed all sorts of dodgy call-home programs, you can still be safe running while you’re in Windows. Hell, I have a Windows 7 box that runs just fine from my home network to the internet, thankyouverymuch. I even download stuff from there gasp, but I check the files first! Imagine that.
Most people aren’t knowledgeable enough to maintain proper security however so I guess I should just stop commenting on posts like this, as I always get flak from people stating it’s impossible to run an OS more than 2 weeks old on the Internet without being instantly hacked :p.
- Comment on Thanks to the "you need to buy a new PC for running W11" bullshit, scammers are selling ewaste at full price to inexperienced people 1 month ago:
Just block W11 updates entirely.
www.sordum.org/9470/windows-update-blocker-v1-8/
It’s mostly bullshit that one absolutely needs the latest Windows updates; if you use uBlock Origin in your browser and don’t download/run random .EXE/.MSI shit from the internet you’ll be fine. Keep Windows Defender up to date once a month just in case as well.
But really the best option is to switch to Linux.
- Comment on Methane-Tracking Satellite Is Lost, in a Blow to Climate Efforts 1 month ago:
Wonderful timing, as the US regime guts all other sorts of climate, weather and science organisations. :/
- Comment on Elon Musk Cuts Funding for Internet Archive 3 months ago:
The IA needs to relocate out of the US, now. The EU and Canada should be convinced to fund them.
I’ve donated to them and am willing to do so again, but I’d like it to be after they show they have a concrete exit plan.
- Comment on Chocobo 3 months ago:
None More Black, Hotblack Desiato’s preferred fowl.
- Comment on My Easter decorations include a self portrait (oc) 4 months ago:
You’re such a cute chocolate bunny!
Now who’s that glum one on the left?
- Comment on back off, maaaan! 4 months ago:
Damn, beat me to it. First thing I saw as well.
- Comment on High-risk 4 months ago:
So he’s wearing a … Hazmath Suit?
- Comment on World travelers 4 months ago:
I don’t know, I wasn’t expecting some kind of Spanish Inquisition.
- Comment on put that in your pipe and smoke it 5 months ago:
Ah! Thanks for the correction. I should’ve done a side-search to check before posting.
- Comment on put that in your pipe and smoke it 5 months ago:
It is a plant, just of a sort that has turned to parasitism I suppose for its nutrients. I believe they are part of a larger family of plants named saprophytes.
- Comment on fireflies 5 months ago:
Same for ladybird beetles (ladybugs)! They love undisturbed autumn leaves and are natural pest control, so you should give them any opportunity possible to over-winter their eggs in your yard :)
- Comment on Live: Zelenskyy regrets fiery White House talks as Trump demands immediate ceasefire 5 months ago:
This article seems to imply that it was Zelenskyy, NOT Trump and Vance, who really were the unreasonable ones here. The sheer arrogance in saying ‘You should thank us more!’ … Zelenskyy was right, the US has an entire ocean between them and this conflict, so they are being extremely cavalier about the threat Russia presents.
- Comment on Over 230,000 Canadians Want Elon Musk’s Citizenship Revoked 5 months ago:
A good start, let’s get it over 1 million and make Polliviere take a position on record if he supports retaining a guy who calls Canada “not a real country” yet holds citizenship here… what a farce.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 5 months ago:
“He who saves his country has committed no crime.” -Donald Trump (reading a post-it note handed to him by Felon Musk, quoting Napoleon, or something)
- Comment on Working below minimum wage to save the planet 5 months ago:
Absolutely – I hate how we’ve been raised to think of time in monetary terms; I have to remind myself on days off that “No, I do not need to do anything it’s my day off! I can sleep in… no need to be productive …”
- Comment on Working below minimum wage to save the planet 5 months ago:
Imagine the reduction in e-waste if everyone in high school took a short course in how to use a soldering iron, solder-sucker/braid and heat-gun to replace common bits in consumer electronics. So many things could be saved that get thrown out only due to a bad microswitch or cracked solder joint to a USB or headphone connector …
- Comment on Working below minimum wage to save the planet 5 months ago:
True. It isn’t always about a cost/labour analysis. Sometimes I want to repair something to learn how to do it. Sometimes I want to repair something because even though ‘my time is valuable’, I hate the idea of throwing out something I know will rot in the landfill for a thousand years. Sometimes I’m just attached to the thing and afraid I won’t find a replacement that is as good (which is often the case).
I hate our throwaway culture, it’s good to know how to fix things even if it isn’t technically ‘cost effective’ to do so.
- Comment on We're in the endgame now 6 months ago:
Oh, they know exactly what they’re doing. They are attempting (and apparently succeeding) to bulldoze their way through an administrative coup.