gedaliyah
@gedaliyah@lemmy.world
- Submitted 6 days ago to [deleted] | 431 comments
- Comment on When people recommend Brave browser. 1 week ago:
There is an inherent cost to internet freedom from using chromium browsers. It gives Google, which controls the back-end, leverage to redefine how the internet works. It’s not as though they haven’t already done it on multiple occasions.
People will say things like “some websites run better on Chrome” as though that’s a selling point and not a red flag.
I’m not saying no one should use it or develop on it, but you have to be okay with the real cost.
- Comment on RIP 1 week ago:
They have to be reflective lenses, dummy.
- Comment on Shuffel them cards 1 week ago:
I swear one of those has a “G” on it. Grandduke of Spimonds?
- Comment on Meirl 1 week ago:
Me only looking one way because my finances are a wreck
- Comment on Did We? 2 weeks ago:
But at what cost?
- Comment on Realistcly how much can be cleaned out of a house, as a child of a hourder? 4 weeks ago:
If possible, work with a therapist for this kind of support.
You can rent a roll off dumpster from your local waste management company, and remove a lot in a matter of days. But if you are living with a hoarder, then the mess will just accumulate to fill the space you clear out in a couple months.
This is not a logistical problem, but a behavioral one.
- Comment on Do smoke detectors have little speakers inside them? If yes, would it be possible to hack them to play a little jingle? 4 weeks ago:
Usually it’s not exactly a speaker, but it does involve a controlled moving diaphragm. In a piezoelectric buzzer, a current applied to the diaphragm causes it to oscillate, and the size and shape of the diaphragm determines the tone AFAIK.
It may be theoretically possible to engineer such a device into a rudimentary speaker. I mean, people have done it with Tesla coils and player pianos, so hey, anything is possible?
- Comment on Too young to understand what this is? 5 weeks ago:
Elvis is more than one Elvi
- Comment on People local apps not reading or ignoring the point of posts. 1 month ago:
You obviously understand the concept, given your very specific constraints. OP noted that the particular photo they took would need to be cropped or edited to protect their location.
This photo shows like 1% of a building, no cars, road, structures, or horizon.
Applying the rule “no outdoor photos of your location” covers all of these possibilities, making it a pretty good rule of thumb. Even if you are cautious, you could accidentally post some rare tree or background detail that gives up your location.
So we shouldn’t shame anyone for not posting photos they consider unsafe.
- Comment on People local apps not reading or ignoring the point of posts. 1 month ago:
It is basically trivial at this point to connect an outdoor picture to a physical location. This sounds like basic online safety to me.
- Comment on Is it better to follow your parents footsteps and help them with their thriving small bussiness, but you have to deal with toxicity, or trying going your own way and risk homelessness? 1 month ago:
Sounds like a good situation to connect with a therapist or coach. Talk to someone outside the family who can help you formulate a strategy.
It’s not all or nothing, and it’s not a forever problem. You can use the family business to launch into something more stable and healthy in a few years. Whether that’s education or career planning or just building a financial parachute, I promise you can start taking steps now that will leave you in a better place in the future.
You are a survivor.
- Comment on Is it better to follow your parents footsteps and help them with their thriving small bussiness, but you have to deal with toxicity, or trying going your own way and risk homelessness? 1 month ago:
How thriving? Is it just summer home thriving, or is it private jet thriving?
How toxic? Is it just criticizing your significant other toxic, or give away your dog to punish you toxic?
- Comment on Why do horses allow humans to ride on their backs? 1 month ago:
Why do humans allow cats to ride in their arms?
- Comment on Why would anyone do this? 1 month ago:
Sometimes I forget how brutal the early 2000s were.
- Comment on Chomp! 1 month ago:
- Comment on Hey Microsoft, How's it going? 1 month ago:
I had the same reaction! I had to log into the screwy web portal and test it to realize it was something else entirely.
- Submitted 1 month ago to [deleted] | 33 comments
- Comment on Have anyone here actually published a memoir or know of someone IRL (as in, you've met them face to face) that published a memoir? Do people actually read these? 2 months ago:
People don’t read them but I think that’s not usually the point. The people I know who have written them usually end up with boxes in their garage that they eventually give at to friends and family.
It’s still a nice accomplishment and a good personal growth thing.
- Comment on Many guess that it's some type of religious symbol 2 months ago:
I actually have no recollection of why some records had the big holes in the first place. Were there players with a chonky spindle in the middle?
- Comment on Huh? 2 months ago:
It’s called a jazz bar and they’re not that great.
- Comment on If you're a parent, how do you prevent your kid from watching AI slop? 2 months ago:
Unpopular opinion: I have a second phone logged into my kid’s YT account. I train the algorithm while he’s sleeping.
It takes a significant time, and YouTube doesn’t have good options for blocking content, but it helps keep out the worst of the brainrot.
- Comment on I've got a fever... 2 months ago:
But have you tried more cowbell?
- Submitted 2 months ago to [deleted] | 76 comments
- Comment on Is ice heavier than water? 2 months ago:
Water is weirdly one of the only materials that is lighter (less dense) in its solid form. That’s why ice cubes float.
When a mass expands, it ALWAYS becomes less dense.
Water does not “trap” air molecules as is freezes, although water may contain dissolved gasses.
- Comment on [REDACTED] 2 months ago:
One of the weirdest facts I know is that “pter” means wing and “helico” means spiral, so a wing that moves in a helix is a helico-pter. That’s the root, not heli-copter.
- Comment on [Serious] If a human is trained by AI slop and then they make something with their own hands, is it still art? 2 months ago:
I think it’s fair to say not all AI is AI slop.
- Comment on People like this 2 months ago:
This is a user, not a community. They are downvoting across communities, including stalking people across communities to downvote all of their posts and comments, following communities just to downvote every post and comment, etc.
They downvote over 99% of the posts they see. Why seek out content you don’t like? It’s mildly infuriating. To me at least.
- Comment on People like this 2 months ago:
How you have voted for others
- Comment on Check mate, atheists. 2 months ago:
I’ve shared several peer reviewed papers that show the opposite.
