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Yaky

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  • What's a NON-HORROR NON-DOCUMENTARY movie that disturbed you or made you very uncomfortable?

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  • Black Mirror's Striking Vipers episode. Initially made me uncomfortable, but then prompts questions about virtual/online interactions and where to draw the line. Building (virtual) things in an online game together with a (adult) friend is OK. (Virtually) harming or killing your (adult) friend in online game is OK. Is having (virtual) sex with your (adult) friend in online game OK?

  • Has there ever been an industry that's been "enshittified" and then un-"enshittified"?

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  • AFAIK internet access was very siloed in the 90s - AOL, CompuServe, Prodigy and the like, which weren't quite ISPs, since they allowed access only to their own services and networks. Then, in 2000s, these companies evolved and ISPs started providing access to the WWW, whick you could call "deshittifying" internet access.

  • Lasers, or, The effects of overhyped technology

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  • In 1920-30s, there was an obsession with radiation and radium, radium springs, "radium infused" drinks and beauty products, and so on.

    A number of water sources (such as bottlers or artesian hot-spring spa hotels) rebranded themselves as "radium water" or radium springs to capitalize on the craze

    "We are radium-first company"

  • What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ?

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  • EVE Online (applies to MMOs in general I think). I played it a long time ago with a few friends, but that is it. If I could describe it, it's opposite of interesting. You can sort of play it solo, but it gets boring and/or grindy fast. Unless you buy in-game money for real money. Dying means losing a ship and all implants, all of which cost money (time).

    For "full experience", apparently you gotta join a corp, and participate in space turf wars. Then it could turn into a second job. And I have a job already. And TBH I am not a very social person.

  • What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ?

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  • Loved Outer Wilds, but I completely understand why someone would not. There is almost zero direction, and that is not for everyone. Plus the time limit gets in the way sometimes.

  • Is there an "Avoid Amazon" community for people who want to support smaller online retailers?

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  • Fuck amazon (and fuck ebay amazon dropshippers too). But you're that impatient you need to waste time and energy shipping something back and forth? (and likely having that product end up in an amazon discard bin anyway)

    Their price already accounts for returns. You are just fucking over the delivery drivers who have quotas to meet.

  • Question for The Boys fans: how can Vought International possibly, in-universe, “save” superhero reputations?

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  • The same way oil companies fix public trust after an oil spill. Or Amazon after countless reports of worker abuse. Or Google after privacy violations. Or wealthy people after being on a certain island. Or fine, Jared the Subway guy.

    Vought is so large and embedded in every sector it does not matter to them.

  • Android 17's 'Continue On' will let you move tasks between devices, like Apple's Handoff

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  • Apple's AirDrop (direct WiFi connection) is pretty noob-friendly though.

    Android had "Android Beam" via NFC forever ago, too.

  • Android 17's 'Continue On' will let you move tasks between devices, like Apple's Handoff

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  • Will it work entirely locally? No, account required. Will it work well outside of two happy paths in the demo? Probably no.

  • Why is AI dialogue so fucking bad?

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  • LLMs build plausible-sounding texts. They don't have to be correct or even good.

    Think of it this way: If you take all of the dialogue in digital and print media (include forum flame wars, cheap romance novels, and fanfics) then try to get an average out of that - what do you get?

  • Solar-charged LED flasher

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  • The "theoretically eternal" is because it does not use any batteries or wearable parts, and currents are low. The components might fail eventually, but others said their circuits have been working for 15+ years.

  • How do I invest in green tech initiatives and companies?

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  • Same, most ESG-based ETFs that I have seen just sound like some sort of numbers fudging instead of reasonable effort.

    The more specilized green-adjacent and less "generic" ETFs I found are:

    • ETHO for very diversified companies (only one holding is over 1%)
    • TAN for solar
    • FAN for wind
    • EVX for trash and recycling (kind of a moot point of making money on pollution though)
    • FIW for water tech (supply, filtering, plumbing)
  • Electronics @discuss.tchncs.de
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    Solar-charged LED flasher

  • How bad is the software engineering job today?

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  • Large corporate, some AI tools are available, some are optionally tacked onto PR reviews (Copilot on GitHub). No quotas or enforcement yet. Most vocal proponents of AI happen to be the most obnoxious developers or designers.

  • What's an interesting etymology for a common term?

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  • Proto-slavic used the root "dn" (дн) for water, which explains river names such as Dnipro (Дніпро,Днепр), Danube (Дунай/Donau), Don (Дон), Dnjester (Днестр, Дністро).

  • What's an interesting etymology for a common term?

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  • "Вертолёт" (vertolyot) is a direct copy with "vert" meaning "spin" and "lyot" meaning "to fly".

  • What's an interesting etymology for a common term?

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  • I heard that in Czechia and Slovakia, the word for jeans is/was "Rifle" (pronounced "reef-le"), since Rifle was the first brand of jeans imported there in the 80s.

  • What's an interesting etymology for a common term?

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  • I've heard that it's shortened "son of a gun deck", conceived on a gun deck, which would be enclosed and quiet(er)

  • What's an interesting etymology for a common term?

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  • Another one on illegitimate children: "Son of a gun" is a shortened "son of a gun deck", i.e. conceived by a sailor on a gun deck.

  • A data center drained 30M gallons of water unnoticed — until residents complained about low water pressure

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  • Using tap water for cooling is such an idiotic engineering decision it feels like it was suggested by an LLM chatbot.

    Power plants use water too, but they draw it from the nearby river or lake, recycle it through cooling towers, and/or dump it back out into the river or lake. Or course that has its own effects, but at least it's not depriving a nearby town of drinking water by existing.

  • Self-hosting @slrpnk.net
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    Self-hosting a Matrix server for 5 years

    yaky.dev /2025-11-30-self-hosting-matrix/
  • Self-hosting @slrpnk.net
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    Is (Matrix) Element Server Suite overkill for a dozen users?

  • Android @lemdro.id
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    Disable power to USB hub

  • Books @lemmy.world
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    Dual opposing opinions on books?

  • Android @lemmy.world
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    Resurrect your old Android phone - aggregated list of 1100+ devices and what OS you can install on them

    yaky.dev /devices/