robryk @robryk@qoto.org

@ZachWeinersmith Depends on what is an "ingredient" (what is actually in milk? alternatively, what is actually done to milk between the cow and oatmeal bowl?)

@niconiconi hmm~ couldn't we magnetically suspend it by having a feedback loop?

@erin try requesting urls of various things with Accept: application/ld+json to see how things look like in practice. The correct RFC to start reading is the activitystreams one while breathing in mind that the client to server pretty of it is very rarely implemented (so one can rely on server to server ~only).

@erin it's not pulling from RSS, but rather from the activitystreams feed. (I only mentioned RSS, because that's the option that's easier to kludge together if your instance doesn't do that.)

@erin the idea here is that your instance will also function as a glorified ~RSS reader, so it polls the feeds that users are subscribing to.

@erin I don't see why small instances should behave in a way that's significantly different here, but might be missing something.

They are somewhat controversial, because they allow me to subscribe to accounts that either have blocked me, or whose instance blocked mine.

@erin usually fedi instances will publish an RSS feed of one's public posts, so using that with a feed reader is a workaround. There are some fedi instances that do a moral equivalent of that (they don't use an RSS feed, but monitor the activitystreams feed). In one patched Mastodon version the functionality is called "subscription".

@futurebird could you link to the source? I'm curious whether there's any correlation between jobs individual ants do at different times in their life.

@DaveMWilburn @futurebird

The reasoning of those volunteers was different: the expected time until adverse effects was longer than their expected remaining lifespan, so they were likely not to suffer any health issues.

@IPEdmonton @elana I can't seem to find the link

@greenpete @thomasfuchs you mean electrolytic or some other kind? (I don't know of any specific smell associated with burning/exploding any capacitors other than electrolytic.)

@bonifartius but how does that explain different directions of rotation? From what I understand you are saying that the torque from wind will vary between positive and negative over one rotation. I would expect that to cause oscillations.

@bonifartius how? I would understand if it rotated always in the same direction. I don't understand what changes to cause it to sometimes rotate in one and sometimes in other direction.

@timorl it is mounted on top only, so it seems unlikely that the axis is not vertical

#physics riddle

My parents have a garden ornament that contains a "vertical spiral thingy" that can freely[^] rotate. When wine blows, it sometimes rotates clockwise and sometimes counterclockwise. What gives? When it has rotated by 180 deg it should be in the same position as if the wind was blowing in the opposite direction (the cage around it nonwithstanding), so I'd expect it to always rotate in the same direction, or to oscillate.

Some videos: https://photos.app.goo.gl/CQWvBBggW4jXQPKZ9

[^] there might be some weird hysteresis there, because it's basically a wire that slips in a hole

@JoshuaACNewman @donmccurdy @techghoul

It trusts SGX: https://signal.org/blog/private-contact-discovery/

So, it is sending contact lists in such a way that they cannot be extracted without a collusion between Signal and Intel.

@futurebird seeing magnetic fields would also let you tell at roughly what latitude you are

@passenger @ondrej @mjg59

It doesn't even need to freeze: max density of water is at four degrees and it gets less dense as it cools further down.

@mjg59

If you mean it getting bigger when it freezes: ability to make snowballs, IIUC ability to skate and deep refuge for fishes when lakes freeze over.

@cadey
Or nand ("drink or drive")