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New instance (this one is shutdown): @fievel@lemmy.zip

12mo ago

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lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month
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fievel @lemm.ee 12mo ago
Many thanks for that curated list

12mo ago

lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month

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fievel @lemm.ee 12mo ago

First thank you for the work (always keeping server up to date, fixing issues quickly, blocking spam,...).

Now time to think about migrating, any advices for another great instance?

12mo ago

Is lemm.ee actually shutting down?

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fievel @lemm.ee 12mo ago

It seems so 😭

12mo ago

Urine, an actual Belgian beer (double IPA)

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fievel @lemm.ee 12mo ago

Yes, basically double means that the alcohol level is greater than an "ordinary" beer which would be qualified of "simple" (but that term never appears). Double is around 7%, triple around 8/9% and there are also quadruple.

One other meaning is about the number of fermentation steps, but historically that's not the true meaning and more of a recent marketing argument, because all "special beer" as we say in Belgium have 2 fermentations. The main one transforming sugar to alcohol and a secondary during the "keeping" period, usually in bottles and helping to develop the specific taste of the beer. Some recipe includes adding some yeast to refine the taste, so some brand speak about triple fermentation.

Sorry if the English terms are not the best, I tried to explain from what I know but I don't know beer specific wording in English so I translated literally from French for the words I didn't knew.

1y ago

What book(s) are you currently reading or listening? May 6

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fievel @lemm.ee 1y ago

This one is multiple times quoted in the book, maybe one of my next...

1y ago

What book(s) are you currently reading or listening? May 6

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fievel @lemm.ee 1y ago

Just finished Let Me In, by Claire McGowan. I found it very nicely written, a good page turner for my vacation week.

Now started something completely different, a non-fiction science popularization book: How to Make an Apple Pie from Scratch, by Harry Cliff. Popularization on particle physics. As of now, I find it very nice with large historical background and clear explanations.

1y ago

Latest update to LibreWolf 138.0.1-1 may have broken things. Here is a workaround.

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fievel @lemm.ee 1y ago

You can also give a try to Waterfox. The main advantage, in my opinion, is that the privacy settings are not enforced like in librewolf but let to the user appreciation but telemetry from mozilla is removed as well.

1y ago

Anybody remember the brief era when kids would steal school computer mouse balls?

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fievel @lemm.ee 1y ago

Yep was one of these kids... From the very same period, removing 10base2 BNC terminators was also a fun thing to do. Both had the effect to infuriate the computer science teacher...

Thanks for the collection of all this...

(later it was the deadly loop on network hubs and tcpkill... all this is impossible now)

1y ago

Are any calls without caller ID legit?

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fievel @lemm.ee 1y ago

Personnally, I started never answering to any unknown number (masked caller id or even just numbers not in my contacts). When it's legit, caller leave a message on voicemail. Scammer, direct marketing,... never leave messages. Ok I still get the call and have to ignore or reject it (but it's better than answering and having a commercial starting his speech).

1y ago

Have Americans always been this stupid?

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fievel @lemm.ee 1y ago

Somehow related, I have also questions as an European (Belgian) who then observe what is happening right now in the USA with curiosity (and fear to be honest). Please don't take any offense in this question, the purpose is, for me, to understand, not criticize Americans at all. I work with plenty of them who don't look stupid at all (but I'll never dare to speak politics with colleagues, a bit of a "touchy" topic with people you don't know well).

In my country, we have got a new government almost at the same time Trump was inaugurated. They plan to do some changes to the way some aspects of our society is, changes that are a bit difficult for some categories of the population but really nothing like in the USA. Anyway, since January, there have been strikes, protests, people going in the streets,...

Why are we not seeing such things in the USA? I would have thought that there will be millions of people in the streets protesting against the F-gesture done to democracy, LGBT rights, women rights, nonsense with economy (tarriff, that at the end the "middle class workers" will have to pay) and foreign politics but, as far as we are aware here in Europe, I seen no such protests. The only action I seen is some boycott of Tesla.

Is it a cultural difference with Europe (and other parts of the world) to not go in the streets?
Are those occurring but the medias do not inform us on it?
Are people scared to protest?
Or, people just don't care or are even, in majority, happy with what happens now?

1y ago

You should know there's a font designed to make reading easier, especially for people with low vision. It's called Atkinson Hyperlegible Next. It's free for personal and commercial use.

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fievel @lemm.ee 1y ago

So, legacy one (without next) is already available on a lot of kobo e-reader. But you should be able to install any TTF font on kobo: https://help.kobo.com/hc/en-us/articles/13009477876631-Load-fonts-onto-your-Kobo-eReader

1y ago

You should know there's a font designed to make reading easier, especially for people with low vision. It's called Atkinson Hyperlegible Next. It's free for personal and commercial use.

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fievel @lemm.ee 1y ago

The original Atkinson Hyperlegible (without Next) is available by default on some Kobo e-readers. I use it for a few months now and I find that indeed it helps reading at night (or without my glasses because it's nice to remove them from time to time).

1y ago

Why don't carts have a little handheld scanner, then you pay at a scale?

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fievel @lemm.ee 1y ago

Same in Belgium, no scale involved, just a handled scanner you bring in the shop. At checkout you give (or put back depending on the supermarket) the scanner, then an algorithm tell you if you're elected to a partial control (in which case a cashier scan some of the articles, again there are some rules depending on the brand of supermarket - some ask rescan 5 random products, some 10, some explicitly list most valuable items, some require the cashier to count items,...). I say an algorithm because experience show it's not just random (for example in the supermarket brand I most often go, if you cancel an item on the scanner, you're 100% sure to have a control).

1y ago

What book(s) are you currently reading or listening? March 11

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fievel @lemm.ee 1y ago

Finished Too Late, by Colleen Hoover. Well I have mixed feelings about it. On one hand it's a good page turner with some suspens and so on. But I was a bit uneasy about the over occurrence of sexual relations described with a too high level of detail. At times, I wondered if I was reading a psychological triller or the scenario of a porn movie... I think this was done in order to describe the horror of the main bad character but it was just too much and unnecessary in my opinion.

Well I don't know yet what to read next, I'll look up maybe here if something please me.

Edit: I think I'll go for The Antidote, by Karen Russell. Seems to have some good reviews.

1y ago

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fievel @lemm.ee 1y ago

Waow I didn't knew this project. Maybe a good alternative to my current solution (rsync through termux over SSH on my fileserver).

1y ago

Is Qwant still good privacy wise?

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fievel @lemm.ee 1y ago

This is fair, as long as you still allow to add own search engine it's good enough (I re-added qwant but I'm testing out alternatives a bit (searxng (public instance first), startpage and re-give a go to ddg to see if it improved a bit for local results)