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I’m interested in science and technology. Free and open source software are important to me.
Joined Sep 2018
@thatprivacyguy @bzed Maybe a new dishwasher should come with a small angle grinder so that you can dull those external blades before installing it.
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Gotta love being a geek - you can write a script to automate a bunch of mundane processes and save yourself hundreds of hours of work...
@Cal If you happen to be using an iPhone or iPad, and you still wish to log in, you can use some of the browsers like Avast or Opera. They both have their issues, so this solution is far from being ideal. Safari can also block ads as long as you install one of the ad-blocker extensions. Brave is a strange case, because on iOS it seems to block the ad-blocker-blocker just fine, whereas on iPadOS it can’t do it properly.
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If you want to let people know about your account on here, it's important to include your full account address (also known as a "Fediverse address").
If you paste a full Fediverse account address into the search box on any server, it will always make the account profile appear, even if previous searches drew a blank.
You can exchange account addresses with others just like you might exchange email addresses or phone numbers.
Find out more here:
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It's time for the biggest episode of the year: three hours of State of the Apps! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrSj4mKbRk0
@coffeegeek Subscriptions are an even bigger thing. If I enjoy watching about 95% of the videos of a particular channel, a subscription is well justified. If the percentage is lower, I’m absolutely not going to click that button, because that would make my home screen a complete mess.
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Today I filed a formal complaint against #YouTube with the Irish Data Protection Commissioner for their illegal deployment of #adblock detection technologies.
Under Article 5(3) of 2002/58/EC YouTube are legally obligated to obtain consent before storing or accessing information already stored on an end user's terminal equipment unless it is strictly necessary for the provisions of the requested service.
In 2016 the EU Commission confirmed in writing that adblock detection requires consent.
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CoffeeGeek is Leaving Twitter.
CoffeeGeek is ceasing its participation on the Twitter / X platform, moving our main social media interaction to Mastodon. Full details as to why, below.
https://www.coffeegeek.com/news/coffeegeek-is-leaving-twitter-x/
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Yesterday's toots about serial/parallel hybrid cars vs. trains are really pushing me to make a video about hybrid car tech.
Here's the thing lots of people don't seem to know: the most efficient hybrid powertrains *also* do the trick or keeping the engine at optimum RPM/efficiency *but the engine can still contribute directly to the spinning of the wheels*
It's the technique that makes diesel-electric efficient but even more so because it largely skips conversion losses.
@ademalsasa The brand alone doesn't really say much, since in the past I've had good and bad Lenovo, HP and Dell laptops. No matter the brand, you're going to run into issues if the laptop has Nvidia hardware in it. If the GPU was made by Intel or AMD, the compatibility should be really good. Also, Intel Wifi chips should work really well with Linux.
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@aphyr Today I was once again annoyed by the fact that excel is not a database. It works inconsistently, so you can’t really trust that the code that worked last week will continue to work tomorrow. Are you saying that doing this stuff in SQL isn’t going to make my life better…
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Kerrotaanpa uusillekin suomalaisille käyttäjille, että ylläpidän omaa Redditin kaltaista #Lemmy-instanssia https://sopuli.xyz/. Yhteisöjä voi seurata samaan tapaan kuin käyttäjiä (hae esim. @!suomi@!sopuli.xyz, poista huutomerkit), joten myös Mastodon-käyttäjät voivat osallistua keskusteluun ilman erikseen tunnuksen rekisteröintiä.
Lemmy-projektista kiinnostuneille lisätietoa löytyy täältä: https://join-lemmy.org/
#Fediverse
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In just one month, 1426 people donated € 50,450 (and change) The average gift was € 35.
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It's not map data, but we know how data-minded you all, so have a look at these two graphs and tell us what you see:
@zornslemmon @standupmaths
Currently, we have observed things going wrong only once, which means that the probability would be 1/15*10^6. As we have only one observation like that, there is a lot of uncertainty and variability in that estimate. We would need a sample size several orders of magnitude larger before we can say much more about that probability. Currently, we are lead to believe that it’s incredibly unlikely, but there’s a possibility that we just got super lucky 15 million times in a row. What if the true probability is closer to 1/100 or something.
Turns out, resetting the settings to default did the trick. Didn’t investigate it any further, so I can’t tell exactly what caused it.
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@runarcn Ah, it worked again after I went to the uBlock preferences, purged the cache, and updated all rules.
Is anyone else having problems watching #YouTube videos on #Firefox while having #ublockOrigin enabled? I’ve been wondering when YT forces me to switch to another platform, but I didn’t expect it to happen today.
I’m interested in science and technology. Free and open source software are important to me.
Joined Sep 2018
