Zachariah , 1 day ago

I interpret the standing on your arm and the reaching of the paw both to mean she wants you to stay right there for a while so she can have your attention and give you attention.

Zachariah , 1 day ago

fascinating, TIL

Zachariah , 1 day ago

My first thought was OmniOutliner. Not cheap, but it’s best in class for sure.

For cheaper/free alternatives, go to alternativeto.net and make sure to use the filters (OS, open source, etc.)

Zachariah , 3 days ago

Yes, but it’s a regular expression.

Zachariah , 3 days ago

You think that gives them anxiety, envy, nostalgia, ennui, or embarrassment?

Zachariah , 4 days ago

swimming

Zachariah , 4 days ago

Was this tanker pylon safe?

Zachariah , 5 days ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/73395658-6cd4-4370-8a5a-19da887a1be0.webp

Zachariah , 5 days ago

We are finite beings. Everyone, neurodivergent and neurotypical, uses tool and assistance to make life a bit easier. Life is hard enough as it is. If help available to you is helpful, use it.

Zachariah , 5 days ago (edited 5 days ago)

These may not have 100% of the criteria, but they’ll be close:

• grandson
• Utah Philips
• Michael Franti and Spearhead
• Bad Religion
• Rage Against the Machine

Zachariah , 5 days ago

I’m adding a bunch to my up-next listens from these comments, so thank you for making the post.

Zachariah , 5 days ago

Yeah, about:config is one of the best things about Firefox. It allows a standard user not to stumble into settings that would lead to frustration or needing help. But it also lets power users use Firefox the way they want to. I’m always annoyed when a setting is removed from there.

Zachariah , 5 days ago

I’ve used https://draw.io (apparently https://app.diagrams.net/ now) before for this exact purpose. I mapped out network, devices, and services.

Zachariah , 5 days ago

Just make sure to always be careful with recursion.

Zachariah , 5 days ago

OpenOffice documents are xml

Zachariah , 5 days ago

“That’ll do, Donkey. That’ll do.”
— elk, probably

Zachariah , 7 days ago

Torties are my favorite

Zachariah , 7 days ago

Yeah, calicos are a close second place. Your cats are gorgeous! I’m sure they already know though.

Zachariah , 8 days ago

Woohoo, now’s my chance to get a cocaine-filled avocado!

Who am I kidding? Nothings better than actual avocados.

Zachariah , 7 days ago

Then you can plant it and grow more cocaine.

Zachariah , 7 days ago

Way to spoil my dream :(

Zachariah , 9 days ago

Chat Control Must Be Stopped – Now!

With its legislative proposal known as “Chat Control,” the EU Commission is trying to establish an unprecedented mass-surveillance apparatus of Orwellian proportions in the European Union. If EU citizens don’t stand up for privacy now, it may be too late.

This Wednesday, June 19, 2024, the EU Council could be voting on the controversial Chat Control bill. Should it pass, the consequences would be devastating: Under the pretext of child protection, EU citizens would no longer be able to communicate in a safe and private manner on the Internet. The European market’s location advantage would suffer a massive hit due to a substantial decrease in data security. And EU professionals like lawyers, journalists, and physicians could no longer uphold their duty to confidentiality online. All while children wouldn’t be better protected in the least bit. On the contrary, Chat Control could have a negative impact on minors in particular.

It doesn’t matter how the EU Commission is trying to sell it – as “client-side scanning,” “upload moderation,” or “AI detection” –, Chat Control is still mass surveillance. And regardless of its technical implementation, mass surveillance is always an incredibly bad idea, for a whole plethora of reasons. Here are just three:

1. Mass Surveillance is a Totalitarian Tool Incompatible with Democracy

2. Mass Surveillance Is Ineffective

3. Mass Surveillance Undermines Data Security

Of course, sharing CSAM is an absolutely intolerable, horrific crime that must be punished. Before CSAM can be shared online, however, a child must have suffered abuse in real life, which is what effective child protection should be trying to prevent (and what Chat Control does not focus on). For this and many other reasons, child protection organizations such as Germany’s Federal Child Protection Association are against Chat Control, arguing that it’s “neither proportionate nor effective.”

Besides, there’s no way of really knowing whether Chat Control would actually be (or remain) limited to CSAM. Once the mass-surveillance apparatus is installed, it could easily be extended to detect content other than CSAM without anyone noticing it. From a service provider’s point of view, the detection mechanism, which is created and maintained by third parties, essentially behaves like a black box.

What can you do?

Since the matter may be decided this Wednesday, June 19, 2024, time is a critical factor. If you’re a EU citizen, please consider contacting your government’s representative today, asking them to vote against Chat Control.

It may also help to take to the digital streets, spread the word online, and raise awareness for the EU’s dubious plan to establish an unprecedented mass-surveillance apparatus that would essentially nullify the right to data privacy and set a highly dangerous precedent in doing so.

What would Chat Control mean for Threema users in the EU?

While Threema would be subject to Chat Control, the business solution Threema Work would be out of scope according to our current knowledge. However it’s still not entirely clear how Chat Control would have to be implemented by service providers, and it’s questionable whether such a blatant violation of the right to privacy would hold up in European courts.

What is crystal clear, however, is that there will never be a Threema version that’s spying on its users in any way, shape, or form. The reason Threema was created is to provide a highly secure, completely private, and anonymous means of communication. Once it’s no longer possible to offer such a service in the European Union, we will be forced to take consequences.

We will carefully consider all options (including legal actions, technical workarounds, etc.) first, and if we come to the conclusion that there’s no other way, we’ll call on fellow communication services to join us in leaving the EU.

Zachariah , 10 days ago

No, Steve’s owner is the idiot.

Zachariah , 10 days ago

If/When it gets easier to do Google-free Android, then I’d want to switch from iPhone. I’m a huge FOSS fan, but too much Android functionality depends directly on Google technology. I distrust Apple a bit less than Google.

Also, it would help if DSLRs or mirrorless cameras did Live Photos. It means so much to me to have a mini-video at the time every photo is taken.

Zachariah , 11 days ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/c72ccb79-714a-4662-866c-f633c340ffce.jpeg

Zachariah , 11 days ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/31a3fa1a-b971-48ae-82be-336a45818785.jpeg

Zachariah , 16 days ago

Threema is very similar to Signal but doesn’t require a phone number. It does cost $/£/€ 5 though (but it’s one-time, and makes it less likely you’re true product).

Not sure about all the features you mentioned.

Zachariah , 21 days ago

Do they have small stickers on them?

Zachariah , 23 days ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/696e8253-be74-4eba-a59d-54d25ef84030.jpeg

Zachariah , 23 days ago

I knew it!

Zachariah , 26 days ago

Usually, the smoke of a volcano – and in particular the sulphur dioxide contained inside the smoke cloud – ultimately leads to a cooling of Earth's surface for a short period.

This is because the sulphur dioxide transforms into sulphate aerosols, which send sunlight back into space before it reaches the surface. This shading effect means the surface cools down for a while, until the sulphate falls back down to the surface or gets rained out.

This is not what happened for Hunga Tonga.

Because it was an underwater volcano, Hunga Tonga produced little smoke, but a lot of water vapor: 100–150 million tonnes, or the equivalent of 60,000 Olympic swimming pools. The enormous heat of the eruption transformed huge amounts of sea water into steam, which then shot high into the atmosphere with the force of the eruption.

All that water ended up in the stratosphere: a layer of the atmosphere between about 15 and 40 kilometers above the surface, which produces neither clouds nor rain because it is too dry.

Water vapour in the stratosphere has two main effects. One, it helps in the chemical reactions which destroy the ozone layer, and two, it is a very potent greenhouse gas.

There is no precedent in our observations of volcanic eruptions to know what all that water would do to our climate, and for how long. This is because the only way to measure water vapour in the entire stratosphere is via satellites. These only exist since 1979, and there hasn't been an eruption similar to Hunga Tonga in that time.

Zachariah , 27 days ago

Over the last two years, scientists have used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (also called Webb or JWST) to explore what astronomers refer to as Cosmic Dawn –  the period in the first few hundred million years after the big bang where the first galaxies were born. These galaxies provide vital insight into the ways in which the gas, stars, and black holes were changing when the universe was very young. In October 2023 and January 2024, an international team of astronomers used Webb to observe galaxies as part of the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES) program. Using Webb’s NIRSpec (Near-Infrared Spectrograph), they obtained a spectrum of a record-breaking galaxy observed only two hundred and ninety million years after the big bang. This corresponds to a redshift of about 14, which is a measure of how much a galaxy’s light is stretched by the expansion of the universe

Zachariah , 27 days ago

Hopefully about:config will be available for AI stuff if it’s not just in the regular settings.

Zachariah , 29 days ago

GOP are abnormal

Zachariah , 29 days ago

I’m so glad someone made this photo. I’m always telling people I should do a photo like this, and now I don’t have to.

Zachariah , 30 days ago

The discovery of volcanic lava flow in two different regions of Venus is published in Nature Astronomy. It supports previous evidence that Venus is still geologically active, and also suggests that volcanic activity may be greater and more widespread than previously thought.

The difficulty in confirming volcanism on Venus is the planet’s dense atmosphere which obscures much of what is happening on the surface.

But scientists were able to get a picture of activity by comparing images from when the Magellan spacecraft conducted global radar mapping in 1990 and 1992, with new images from 2023.

Zachariah , 30 days ago

Booting from CD wasn’t a feature for at least a couple years after the drives because common. Usually you’d use a boot floppy that had drivers for the CD drive.

Zachariah , 1 month ago

Earth 2: Special Low Frequency Version

almost anything by Negativland

Kontakte by Karlheinz Stockhausen

almost anything by Einstürzende Neubauten

Zachariah , 1 month ago

correct

Zachariah , 1 month ago

not modified; selected

Zachariah , 1 month ago

Does this cat have a white (or gray) undercoat by any chance?

Zachariah , 1 month ago

I have cat with a similar face, and he looks black at first glance, but if you part his fur, his undercoat is quite light. It was hard to tell from your photos if they had the same kind of coat.

Here’s my cat:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/8c0532c5-a356-40eb-a87e-55e975ae5a4a.jpeg

Zachariah , 1 month ago

no u

Zachariah , 1 month ago

There are plenty of ways we shorten a specific phrase that renders it general but still understand it as the specific version.

The word “chemicals” is rarely misunderstood when used this way. Colloquially, many/most people mean “harmful chemicals” when they say it.

Is there room for misunderstanding? Yes. Is that a problem? Not any bigger than most problems with using spoken/written language to communicate.

You don’t come off as wise when you point this inaccuracy out, and It doesn’t invalidate the whole article.

Zachariah , 1 month ago

Opts out?

Look, if we’re going to have draconian copyright laws, then we should at least be able to count on works being used without permission for AI to be verboten like all the other uses.

Zachariah , 1 month ago

Almost as good as Divvy, but free