@startrekgifs Holodeck Rescues #10
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For a while, I was under the impression that all spiciness, or burning sensation in food flavoring, would come from capsaicin, the compound that causes it in chili peppers. Then I realized that Sichuan peppers are a quite different kind of heat. Wasabi (horseradish) is different yet again.
How many hot-flavored compounds are there? At least five!
Kalsec: "The Elements of Heat"
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i feel like lemmy has broken the promise of the fediverse
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/37748055
… where every platform communicates with every other platform. i’ve rarely ever seen a post from mastodon on here, and even if it’s technically possible, it doesn’t seem that it happens very often.
likewise, i’ve rarely if ever seen a post from lemmy on mastodon. these two platforms just don’t seem to interact much.
the fediverse is already very small. fragmenting it even further by having multiple services that basically don’t talk to each other is not good. we need to either (a) aggressively find a way to bridge certain lemmy communities to be more visible on mastodon, especially location-based communities, or (b) i think that i’ll have to decide to only use mastodon in the future, because that’s where all my irl-friends are (yes i have those too, i do not only exist in a terminally online state 😊 and because mastodon is bigger already and that’s why i think that it has a bigger chance of taking off.
so, what do i suggest should happen?
especially for location-based communities (australia, london, darmstadt, …) it should be more probable for people living in these locations to draw use out of the lemmy community. maybe it’s just a question of showing lemmy content from these communities on mastodon home pages, or auto-subscribing mastodon users to nearby lemmy communities. something like that.
Idk. I don’t really interact with Bookwyrm or Funkwhale or Peertube or Wanderer users on masto and they don’t interact with me, but you’d be hard pressed to convince me any of them is violating the promise of the fediverse.
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Completely public
@mattblaze @gerg The biggest problem with American democracy is our silly notion of ensuring every vote is counted.
@LabSpokane @gerg you can’t please everyone, I guess.
Here in the United States, a popular trend among owners of Jeep vehicles is to line their dashboard with little rubber ducks. It's not random though; the ducks have meaning. Each duck represents one full month their Jeep has been in the shop for repairs
@jalefkowit I thought it was one duck per piece of bodywork that fell off due to galvanic corrosion.
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I realize they aren’t private and don’t care.
I vote on such a small minority of things that those few things I do vote on, I have no problem with people knowing it was me.
@mastodonmigration you just made me think, the smart move would be to take the bet that Schumer will be leader. That way I'd win either way. If Schumer is not leader, then I win. But if he is, at least I can use the money to buy some booze and drown my sorrows😉
I contacted my senators over a year ago about removing Schumer as leader. I need to call again. but I'm not expecting a different result😞
@WorldTravelerAll7 The opposition is just beginning to swell. We did not fight so hard to turn the country back over to a billionaire corporate pawn.
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#International friends.. Cat question!!
Our cats are quite good with western doors, they can push and pull open as needed.
But! Our sliding bathroom door confuses them handily and they just smash into it over and over.
So my big question......
How do cats in sliding door places manage doors?
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@attoparsec "Squish the bottom bracket!" "DON' squish the bottom bracket!" "Squish the bottom bracket! [squish]" xD
Hmm, we had a small hydraulic press for some types of bearings (auto and farm shop.) rather rarely used, but super essential when it was.
Naturally we used it at least often for things it was never designed for.
@gerg thanks for the information. I’ll let everyone know.
@mattblaze @gerg The biggest problem with American democracy is our silly notion of ensuring every vote is counted.
They also have it on their website if you're a adblocker type.
Oh I'm not much of a TV watcher anymore.
Anyway, once you get past S6, I lose interest. lol. The best thing about The X-Files was always what they didn't show, right down to the lighting in individual scenes. Every mythology episode would answer one question and open up three more, leaving you scratching your head. Once the film came out, too much was revealed. They should have just wrapped it. I kept watching, but it was never the same.
@signalstation it sucks so much! but I can tell you from experience that it does not suck as much as even a mild case of shingles
that's what everyone's telling me
I've been napping and drinking water like crazy, and taking heaping medicinal doses of Plan 9 From Outer Space on the tv
it's a great film to check in on as you swim in and out of consciousness on the couch
I made a toy "literate programming" implementation made of markdown files with python code fences. IPython/Jupyter notebooks are the heavy-case, but this is 1000x simpler.
A very toy example: markdown (first), extracted python to run (second).
Enhancements:
I think it would be interesting to exec() the extracted code, but there's obviously some risk there. Another idea would be to copy the surrounding markdown into comments.
2 media files
You can hook into python's import machinery to do novelties like this
import markmodule
markmodule.import_md("hello_module.md")
import hello_module
print(hello_module.hello())
@WorldTravelerAll7 Good opportunity to make some money.
@mastodonmigration you just made me think, the smart move would be to take the bet that Schumer will be leader. That way I'd win either way. If Schumer is not leader, then I win. But if he is, at least I can use the money to buy some booze and drown my sorrows😉
I contacted my senators over a year ago about removing Schumer as leader. I need to call again. but I'm not expecting a different result😞
It's so disheartening to explain this over and over working in critical infrastructure cybersecurity full time. It's because everyone demands cheap, fast remote support and AI enabled real time telemetry and control. We’ve worked ourselves into this corner through demanding connectivity and I see next to nothing truly airgapped anymore. In fact, it’s impossible to convert some critical systems back at this point.
A lot of our power infrastructure is so complex with microgrids and renewables and real time billing and buy backs that it can’t be switched to manual anymore. A lot of industrial vendors won’t provide warranty support if their remote access is removed.
And this is all happening in super low maturity environments with limited if any cybersecurity resources or tools.
We’re trying, but the state of things is pretty dire, the barrier to basic disruptive attacks is lowering rapidly, and we can’t find enough people who understand the industrial environments and cybersecurity on thirty year old computers fast enough to hire close to enough people.
@hacks4pancakes
See Schneier's Click Here to Kill Everybody for a prophetic view of this from a few years ago.
