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Snow_Falls··on Bluesky has launched RSS feeds
Never used twitter, but I was a reddit addict. My life is much better now that I've stopped. It really is the only winning move.
Snow_Falls··on Many AI safety orgs have tried to criminalize currently-existing open-source AI
It is surely better to have regulation now than scramble to catch up if ago is possible.
Snow_Falls··on Victorian Glass Fire Grenades (2020)
Always seemed strange to me how we've decided alcohol is different somehow.
Snow_Falls··on The Flappie AI cat door stops your pet from gifting you dead mice
Vacation generally means an extended time, so you did.
Snow_Falls··on The Flappie AI cat door stops your pet from gifting you dead mice
Cats specifically are invasive species that decimate bird populations.
Snow_Falls··on The Flappie AI cat door stops your pet from gifting you dead mice
Cats don't have hopes and dreams to be crushed, we can hardly compare cats to people.
Snow_Falls··on The Flappie AI cat door stops your pet from gifting you dead mice
You shouldn't be leaving an animal without supervision for extended periods like that! If nothing else, what if they fill up the litterbox?
Snow_Falls··on Scientists scramble to keep dog aging project alive
Too soon. Its always too soon.
Snow_Falls··on QMK and Keyboards
I'll throw another anecdote to the pile. I use a split, angled keyboard with a nonstandard keyboard layout for over a year now and I can use normal keyboards just fine.
Snow_Falls··on QMK and Keyboards
See the crud around john deer tractors. Not being able to modify your word processor is one thing, being unable to repair thousands of dollars of agriculture equipment is much worse.
Snow_Falls··on Fracking eyeballs at the turn of the 20th century
Maybe colour lenses that have different colours and "stretch" out random lengths in different directions. Colour to confound determining what the pupil is and random stretches to make it harder to determine where to eye is looking.
Snow_Falls··on A math professor who objects to diversity statements
The first statement is not true, there were many capitalist countries that simply murdered anyone left of centre. Hell, its illegal to be a communist in Germany!
Snow_Falls··on Nuclear battery produces power for 50 years without needing to charge
They say they're going to put out a 1 watt version, that will open things up a little more. I've seen home servers (consumer hardware) that never consume more than ~20 watts. Not sure the price of these hypothetical future batteries but that could be very useful. If nothing else, it can offset electricity costs a little.
Snow_Falls··on The young people sifting through the internet's worst horrors
But no one can agree on what's good, let alone what's evil.
Snow_Falls··on The young people sifting through the internet's worst horrors
Do we get used to animal gore though? Do you know why there are legal time limits on how long you can work at an abbatoir? Its because anyone who works there for more than ~3 years tends to become a serial killer. We're used to seeing meat because its out of the context of a slaughtered animal., in the same way that a mortician is used to seeing corpses in caskets, but would freak out if there was one in their shed. If people had to kill their own cows, I imagine vegetarianism would take off.
Snow_Falls··on The young people sifting through the internet's worst horrors
See: "we didn't know we had slaves making our clothes, it was those dastardly factories that we contracted with!"
Snow_Falls··on Show HN: Citadel – a Calibre-compatible eBook management app
What part couldn't you figure out? Where you editing ebooks or just managing a library? Not a contributor here, just curious.

Edit: I've read a few more comments and some a free with you, while others think it works fine. I'm wondering if there's something about the UI that clicks with some but not others.

Snow_Falls··on Show HN: Citadel – a Calibre-compatible eBook management app
What do you find difficult about the calibre interface? It seems quite intuitive to me. To be fair, I only add metadata (tags, scores, descriptions, covers, series info etc) and polish ebooks. I just add books to my ereader after that.
Snow_Falls··on ICO fines HelloFresh £140k for spam texts and emails
That's a fantastic way of describing it. I will be using that from now on.
Snow_Falls··on ICO fines HelloFresh £140k for spam texts and emails
Not buying in bulk is always going to have more packaging. I bet the excessive amount is to prevent customer complaints about ruined ingredients.
Snow_Falls··on Scientist on Japan's atomic bomb program tells his story (1995) [video]
Its always strange to me that as soon as fascism is mentioned, someone absolutely has to bring up communism. It's like clockwork.
Snow_Falls··on Statement regarding the ongoing Sourcehut outage
Good for the internet but then there would be less attacks on real websites, who is cloudflare going to charge people for protection? Could be a good nonprofit idea though, get some hosting companies together and donate band with to a central target to get people to stop targeting their actual customers.
Snow_Falls··on Statement regarding the ongoing Sourcehut outage
Not to mention the free publicity for their competitor if they're caught. "We're so good, Microsoft was scared of us"
Snow_Falls··on Unity's Open-Source Double Standard: The Ban of VLC
The issue is with locked down appstores, your inability to exercise your freedoms given by the license is caused by the store not the software.
Snow_Falls··on The biggest losers: Metabolic damage or constrained energy?
I stand corrected!
Snow_Falls··on A TV Show Forced Britain's Devastating Post Office Scandal into the Light
We don't have a constitution, you mean a change of legal precedent. I agree that's its and awful precedent to set. But it's already been done with Parliament declaring Rwanda safe, changing convictions doesn't seem so beyond the pale. I'm honestly not sure what else to do about it though. The sheer scale of incompetence and cover up in the post office and the software company will likely take years to sort through. Can the victims really wait that long? What is the alternative? Having everyone convicted file an appeal? After everything they've already gone through? Frankly, just wiping the slate clean and getting rid of all the convictions seem like the good move to me.
Snow_Falls··on A TV Show Forced Britain's Devastating Post Office Scandal into the Light
The software this scandal centres around was known for recording incorrect numbers. Numbers that were then relied upon to accuse postal employees of theft. blitzsr is saying that you should be prepares to speak up when your software is fucking up. Essentially a more consise way of saying what zhyl did.
Snow_Falls··on The biggest losers: Metabolic damage or constrained energy?
Chips are vegan you know. As is most sauce.
Snow_Falls··on The biggest losers: Metabolic damage or constrained energy?
The correlation between vegans and health is muddied by the fact that vegans put far more thought into their diet than the average person. Its entirely possible not eating meat is orthoganal to health and its just that they actually care about what they eat.

No evidence of this, but I also suspect that vegans care more about their health in other weights too (e.g. exercising, not smoking, etc). If they can keep up with a vegan diet, they likely also have the discipline to keep up with exercise regimes and keeping good habits.

Snow_Falls··on Unity Software plans to reduce its workforce by 25%, eliminating ~1,800 jobs
Isn't that pretty much every product though? "They just don't understand what _real_ [insert career here] needs!"
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