Dave
@Dave@lemmy.nz
- Comment on Do Australians in the northern hemisphere celebrate Christmas in July to have a Christmas that reminds them of home? 1 week ago:
In New Zealand it’s pretty common to have a midwinter Christmas, even if you have never lived in the Northern Hemisphere. Not that everyone or almost everyone would do it, but in my experience most people would have at least heard of the concept (and I know people who do it most years, and others that do it occasionally).
This is in addition to, not instead of the normal summer Christmas.
- Comment on Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed 2 weeks ago:
I spent ages buying games on steam with Bitcoin years ago. They dropped it when transaction fees got bigger than the game cost (I don’t think they ever supported crypto other than Bitcoin, and that was through a specific payment processor that took the Bitcoin and gave Valve real money).
- Comment on There are major holes in this theory 3 weeks ago:
From random searching around it seems technology helps a lot. There are definitely fewer icebergs at that location these days but despite many reddit commenters claiming none it seems there are a few icebergs that make it there: map of iceberg locations
Sinking location: geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Sinkin…
Apparently radar makes sure ships know about any icebergs well in advance, and there are also ice patrol planes and satellite tracking to make them pretty much a non-issue. Unless you’re the MV Explorer cruise ship that sunk in the Antarctic after hitting an iceberg in 2007. But that was outside of shipping lanes and monitoring areas as far as I can tell.
- Comment on There are major holes in this theory 3 weeks ago:
For sad reasons, yes. Probably a lot lower chance than it was 100 years ago.
- Comment on Might be time to find another job 4 weeks ago:
Huh. Here in NZ tea, (instant) coffee, milk (and usually Milo as well) are virtually always provided by an employer (only by social convention, as far as I can tell, not a legal requirement). I kinda assumed Britain would be the same since we must have got the custom from somewhere.
- Comment on Why are living beings not being cooked alive constantly at the tekpersatures we are? 5 weeks ago:
I cook cut off a part of myself and sous vide it at my body temp and it would cook and be edible.
Can you really? Your internal body temp? Around 37C or under 100F? I can’t find any sous vide recipes that low. I can’t find anything under 50C, which would kill you if it was your internal body temperature.
- Comment on The Purge 5 weeks ago:
It says spines, rather than spine. The esophagus is covered in spines (think like the spines on a porcupine, not a backbone).
- Comment on It is what it is 5 weeks ago:
Except the part where all incognito tabs/windows share the same session.
- Comment on Seriously, it was all the rage back when I joined my first instance. 5 weeks ago:
And you still won’t explain why!
- Comment on A true horror 1 month ago:
I deleted all mine but the funny thing is back then they were all posts on people’s walls. You used to go to their wall and write something then they would come to yours to reply like a really bad chat UI.
If you went back to 2009 my posts would all be “That’s so true lol” or “Thursday at 7?” And make no sense out of that original context.
- Comment on Kinda fucked up tbh 1 month ago:
Are there enough trampolines on earth that we could reasonably expect that at any time there is at least one person in the upper part of their jump on a trampoline?
- Comment on Kinda fucked up tbh 1 month ago:
I mean 30,000 feet is 9km. The Kármán line is 100km. The ISS is at an average altitude of 400km.
It’s a bit like saying people in planes don’t count as flying because then people on trampolines should count.
- Comment on SpaceX Loses Control of Starship, Adding to Spacecraft’s Mixed Record 2 months ago:
By “mixed” they mean it hasn’t been able to attain orbit without exploding
Has it been able to attain orbit while exploding?
- Comment on Low quality cropping will officially launch on Lemmy in 2025 2 months ago:
Presumably standing seats means standing up? Hopefully not squatting seats.
- Comment on Zach Braff Joins ‘Scrubs’ Reboot in Development at ABC 2 months ago:
Now that you mention it, it probably could have done without season 2.
- Comment on Zach Braff Joins ‘Scrubs’ Reboot in Development at ABC 2 months ago:
I don’t know about others, but I kinda liked Picard. It was clear it was just an excuse to get the old gang back together, but it was enjoyable to watch.
I’m not sure how enjoyable it would have been to someone unfamiliar with TNG, but I enjoyed it.
- Comment on Zach Braff Joins ‘Scrubs’ Reboot in Development at ABC 2 months ago:
I think I will reserve judgement until I see it. A getting-the-gang-back-together series or two could be a good time, or it could be another “Scrubs: Med School”.
- Comment on What was she thinking when she did this? 2 months ago:
Is this not awesome?
- Comment on The clueless people are out there among us 2 months ago:
Ah well, it’s been the law here for 20 years.
I’m also reading about how our NZ/Australia socket was based on an American 125v socket design, later upgraded to allow 240v.
- Comment on The clueless people are out there among us 2 months ago:
Does NA not have insulated pins? Where a half inch of so of the pin nearest the plug head is insulated so when plugging in the exposed part of the pin is inside the hole before the pin makes contact with live power?
- Comment on The Mobile Browsers That Stick Their Noses Into Your Business 2 months ago:
Both are open source. Brave takes Chromium and disables most tracking. TOR takes Firefox and disables all tracking.
The Chromium vs Gecko debate is not about data collection, but about control of web standards.
- Comment on Prices are out of control 2 months ago:
But if you can taste the coke, doesn’t that mean you don’t have enough alcohol in there?
- Comment on Open World Games: yay or nay? 2 months ago:
I played BG3, put over 100 hours, it took me 2 years. But I don’t mind, it was an easy game to pick up after a break and continue with, and the quests were rewarding in themselves, you didn’t need to complete the whole game to understand it.
There are definitely games I have started played, then couldn’t remember what I was doing after a break and wasn’t enthused enough to return to it. I can’t remember specific games but I know it happens.
- Comment on Open World Games: yay or nay? 2 months ago:
I play them because I enjoy them. You can normally pick out the main storyline and just follow that.
Personally I just play a long game over the course of a couple of years.
- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 2 months ago:
Just reading your comment gave me arthritis.
- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 2 months ago:
Haha no the prongs of the first one looks good. But the handle looks too thin for my big hands. That thick fork looks like a nightmare, though.
- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 2 months ago:
Personally I don’t like that handle either. Needs to be thicker.
- Comment on pope 2 months ago:
There’s a whole Wikipedia page about it. But here is the important bit:
In the past, caller ID spoofing required an advanced knowledge of telephony equipment that could be quite expensive. However, with open source software (such as Asterisk or FreeSWITCH, and almost any VoIP company), one can spoof calls with minimal costs and effort.
Some VoIP providers allow the user to configure their displayed number as part of the configuration page on the provider’s web interface. No additional software is required.
So it’s pretty trivial these days because the phone number coming from the phone network doesn’t help when the phone network lets you set whatever you like.
- Comment on pope 2 months ago:
Unfortunately the calling party can show whatever they want for the caller number, there’s no validation that it’s true.
- Comment on Living the dream 2 months ago:
I like the implication that the AI screening saw “vengeance” and decided they were worthy for short listing.
