milicent_bystandr

joined 2 years ago
sorted by: new top controversial old
YSK about kitchen knives in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 hour ago

I see the diagram: the first knife is for cutting bread. The second is for cutting fillets. The third is for cutting... chefs?

Batteries low? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I could do okay with the low capacity batteries, but I need my circuitry replacing.

Batteries low? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I've started to get some mileage from making boundaries. For context, I have chronic fatigue so I do almost no work at all, always feel I should be doing more whenever I can, and hyper-focus to occasionally do things in 'big' (actually still small) chunks.

It's helped me to make Saturdays strictly a rest day (I try to keep it strict!) and not do work even if I could do a bit. And I've started sometimes making evenings after 6 or 7pm no-work, even if my focus has just kicked in and I could do some stuff.

Making boundaries to preserve rest as a valuable thing, rather than always "you can rest if you absolutely have to but you really should be working," has been helpful for me. And I find sometimes it helps regulate the hyper-focus -> burnout cycle.

As a Graphic Designer, I found it appropriate. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

It took me a few tries to see that

Is red meat bad for health? Meta-study of 44 studies finds results depend on the sponsor. If the sponsor is impartial, studies find it's bad. Studies sponsored by the meat industry find the opposite in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Alt text: Life goal #29 is to get enough of them rejected that I can publish a comparative analysis of the rejection letters.

Speak American in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Besides, they probably put commas in the wrong places over there too.

Speak American in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Mine too. I had to stop believing in the OED as the foremost authority on correct English!

Speak American in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I just figured, if Old English came from America, then those great figures must be from whom we Receive Pronunciation.

Or are We not amused at the fantastical American origins of true English?

Speak American in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

Of course it's worth adding that the Oxford English Dictionary argues (argued?) that the z is proper in British English! I disagree ;-)

Speak American in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Received from the great founders of England: Abraham, Isaac and Jacob Lincoln, and Lord Martin Luther King Sr I.

Speak American in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

Oblivious, Remastered

I cheat on as many people as I want to in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Knowledge and feelings of others. Sometimes coming out with everything all at once is a bit overwhelming for others, as their everything would be for us; and sometimes saying everything in our natural way triggers hurt feelings in others (often due to subtle misunderstandings and expectations), as their way might to us.

I agree with the general principle of being open and honest, and then not having to hide yourself.

Also: my keyboard keeps correcting words to 'kissing' today. Is Google trying to tell me something?

1
Mattel: America's real cherished 51st state? (www.bbc.com)
3
The latest episode in Avatar: The Last Treebender (www.reuters.com)
 

After first joining the Earth nation, then in the second episode allying with the Water nation, in this third episode of Avatar, Sully (no relation to the Monsters Inc hero) is under attack from the Fire nation.

The Sully family "are really put through the ringer" in the new film, Cameron said ... "They face not only the human invaders, but new adversaries - the Ash people,"

230
UK government demanding access to encrypted iCloud (www.bbc.co.uk)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
49 comments fedilink
 

UK government is trying to get into iCloud end-to-end encryption. (Again?)

Makes me think about email servers too. Most of my private information is in emails, and not only I use a service where the host machines access the email, so do almost everyone I email to/from.

31
What do people here think of Nebula? (lemm.ee)
 

I've been playing around with self hosting for file sharing, backups, and a handful of other ideas I might one day get round to. I like the idea of a mesh VPN and being able to, for example, connect a travelling laptop to a 'host' laptop nearby, though my only public ip is a VPS in another country.

Of all the options I found, I liked the look of Nebula most. Fiddly in some places, but it's working nicely for me, and I appreciate some of the simplicity of design.

I'm wondering if people here have much experience of it, though? My biggest concern is over its future. With,

  1. The Defined Networking site focusing on making money off it, and
  2. The Android app doesn't allow full configuration (including the firewall, so I can't host a website from a phone) but - I heard - does if you use Defined Networking's paid service for configuration,

makes me worry they might be essentially trying to deprecate viable FOSS Nebula in favour of a paid or controlled service.

Any thoughts? Insight?

-3
Frozen Pseudoscience (lemm.ee)
 

I finally watched Frozen 2 on the plane a few days ago. Did somebody pay Disney to shill for homeopathy?

2
Ambridges Farm, or, There's More to Life Than Fishing (lemmy.ml)
 

Hi I've been gradually finishing my first and only-main farm, and wanted to share :-) It started as the central plaza and fish ponds (since I came to love fishing!) and grew from there. I was going to get all-seasons screenshots and post together, but that's going soo slowly; and, hey, content!

Hope you like it! I think there's a little bit of just about everything there, and if you look closely you can see me sitting on a bench enjoying the flower garden. It's been single player until right at the end I added the 'guest lodges' to share with family and friends. I love how well they fit in places I hadn't planned!

view more: next ›