MalReynolds
@MalReynolds@slrpnk.net
- Comment on Pdf partee 1 week ago:
Q: Why is a raven like a writing desk ? A: Sci-Hub.(Munin for memory;)
- Comment on I would maybe like a smart watch, can you help me decide? 1 week ago:
This sounds like thinking I had as carer for my mother with dementia/Alzheimer’s. If so, I found introducing new things to be not useful, it will be soon forgotten, (If not, good, and ignore this, but XY-Problem indeed). What I found actually useful was remote video monitoring on my phone (using a few RasPi’s, I’m sure there are better solutions, but I was poor, and it worked) allowing me to go out in necessity. The other thing I wish I’d done earlier is reach out to any and all available support earlier rather than later, it’s a marathon and every edge you can get will allow you to do better for all concerned, not least yourself.
That said, watches with automatic fall monitoring, with SMS alert to you would be useful. Ideally, something like Alexa (but preferably not as privacy invading, still, needs must as the devil drives) or whatever allowing her to just call out “help” and get a call to you on a speaker / microphone is probably achievable now, perhaps someone can chime in, or you can go searching. Best of luck!
- Comment on heresy sheresy i wanna be a dinosaur 1 week ago:
Sufficiently advanced biology is indistinguishable from heresy.
Gold!
- Comment on Ideation - What to Run? 3 weeks ago:
I heartily approve, without much help to offer. Points of thought…
-Calibre web server good, mirror Annas Archive best, practically somehow getting everyone’s downloaded books into a community Calibre would rock.
- You’re going to need a bigger NAS (Jaws pun, but seriously, this will be at least / more important than your server, redundancy is king)
- Probably something lighter / easier too maintain than Nextcloud for simple filesharing, Seafile perhaps?
- Honestly, this is the sort of initiative that could drive local Mesh adoption.
- What security are you using, most govs/corps don’t like private internets, how vulnerable are you to CSAM etc.
I’m aware of a fair amount of local sneaker net approaches (HDD swapping etc), which mostly avoids the security issues. I too would love to hear about successful use cases.
- Comment on AI Is Poisoning Reddit to Promote Products and Game Google With 'Parasite SEO' 3 weeks ago:
If manipulating reddit isn’t already a betting sport, it’s not far away. Guessing it is in Russia (or at least a drinking game), just like the rest of the big ‘social’ netwerks. Enjoy your next election. Wherever you are :)
- Comment on Boredom births creativity 3 weeks ago:
You need to get out more, the internet definitely gets weirder.
- Comment on Hey, let's breed them to make it hurt even more 3 weeks ago:
Could someone remember that capsaicin is more toxic to parasites ? Literally kills worms…
- Comment on NASA 4 weeks ago:
Valid, but I hate your texas analogy.
- Comment on Or we could do metric time 4 weeks ago:
Just make inconvenient days holidays, few will complain.
- Comment on Or we could do metric time 4 weeks ago:
We do, base 12 comes from 5 fingers and a fist. It was used by traders for the longest time.
- Comment on Or we could do metric time 4 weeks ago:
Just make them holidays, everyone works too much anyway, and it’s just getting worse for no reason.
- Comment on brave little bird 4 weeks ago:
Mostly less efficient vultures, but way more magnificent, so they’ve got that going for them.
- Comment on brave little bird 4 weeks ago:
Also, “Never Attribute to Malice That Which Is Adequately Explained by Stupidity/Incompetence”, one form of Hanlon’s razor.
So, Transitively, courage is not malicious?
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Boo!
- Comment on "No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and over again." 1 month ago:
Route it through a vpn with gluetun and it does…
- Comment on Jon Stewart On The False Promises of AI | The Daily Show 1 month ago:
Leave it to comedians to actually be on point. Technical 3/10, social 8/10.
- Comment on Natural Gas Is Scamming America | Climate Town 1 month ago:
Wait until you see the scam in Australia, we pay significantly more locally than we export it for, thanks Howard.
- Comment on Due to Falling Enrollments, We Will No Longer Offer Courses in Romulan at Starfleet Academy 1 month ago:
As someone who checks comments to see if it’s worth my time to read the source, thank you for your service. And also as someone who checks primary sources, curse me for caring, I shall look because I commented…
I didn’t.
- Comment on But Claude said tumor! 1 month ago:
I have read some headline
Really.
- Comment on But Claude said tumor! 1 month ago:
You, and we, are better off for it.
The issue is that it’s been forgot (Remember the 5th of November)
- Comment on *sad laughing noises* 1 month ago:
Documenting how things don’t work should be as valued as documenting how things do work.
This, all the way this!
Exactly where ‘publish or perish’ fails science and enriches publishers.
- Comment on Using Termux on Android for Self Hosting? Yes, really. – The Thin Computer 1 month ago:
seems your link has been Lemmy’d (is that a thing now?)
- Comment on Huh 1 month ago:
True, but it’s hard to separate, I guess.
- Comment on Huh 1 month ago:
This. They could obviously reset to original performance (what, they don’t have backups?), it’s just more cost-efficient to have crappier answers. Yay, turbo AI enshittification…
- Comment on Caption this. 1 month ago:
Auto-phrenologist.
- Comment on Can Reddit—the Internet’s Greatest Authenticity Machine—Survive Its Own IPO? 2 months ago:
Shake the 8 ball : Signs point to no…
- Comment on Poor guy, someone developed calculus simultaneously and took all the credit - now people don't know if he's alive 2 months ago:
Who is Liebniz?
- Comment on A touching quote from Nimoy's "I am Spock" book (1995) 6 months ago:
Yes, yes it was , damn she’s a good acrtress (not to disparage Nimoy, but that was Gold)
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Agree.