Skip Navigation

InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)N

nikt

@ nikt @lemmy.ca

Posts
8
Comments
67
Joined
3 yr. ago

  • What are some cool people you follow on other Mastodon and other Fediverse Platforms?

    Jump

  • I gave up trying to make Mastodon work. Two minutes of scrolling and I always end up closing it with an overwhelming feeling of cringe.

    Mind you I could never get in to Twitter either. Maybe it’s just the format? It reinforces ego/personal brand over the value of the actual content.

  • The world came tantalizingly close to a deal to phase out fossil fuels

    Jump

  • … by publicly announcing that “we must eventually stop pouring gasoline on it!”

  • IBM's NorthPole chip runs AI-based image recognition 22 times faster than current chips

    Jump

  • Visualizing the World’s Most Widely Spoken Languages in 2023

    Jump

  • This community is off to a way better start compared to what was going on on r/dataisbeautiful by the time i left.

    These graphics are great! Keep them coming.

  • Deleted

    U.S. Adult Obesity Rate (2012 vs 2022)

    Jump

  • Hawaii got fatter. I guess fewer people are going to the beach?

  • Matt Gaetz files motion to oust Kevin McCarthy as House speaker

    Jump

  • Don’t worry he’ll be the governor of Florida within 2 years, so he’ll be out of the senate real soon!

  • Poland says it will no longer supply Ukraine with weapons

    Jump

  • I’m not one to defend Poland in its current state, or whitewash it’s checkered history especially with regard to how it treated Ukraine, but…

    Poland didn’t even exist for 125+ of those 500 years, as it was completely erased off the map by the Hapsburgs, Russians, and Prussians. Its neighbours have always treated Poland as a playground for proxy wars and political intrigue, and both Russians and Germans think of the Polish as yokels or shit disturbers, worthy only of subjugation or exploitation.

    In other words, it’s not hard to see why Poland quickly turned into an anxiety-ridden bully. Like an abused kid grown up into a shitty adult.

  • Bisphenol A, a hormone-disrupting chemical used in food packaging, is present in almost all Europeans’ bodies, posing a severe health risk, study says

    Jump

  • It’s not all-or-nothing… reducing exposure is probably better than chugging 7Up cans all day long.

  • Housing price rises are bad for home-owners

    Jump

  • It’s possible to use rising home values to your advantage without selling, by borrowing against that value to start a business, purchase a second property, etc.

    Leverage is obviously risky, but you shouldn’t leave this out in your analysis.

    There are other advantages too, like the fact that home ownership can act as a good counter against inflation, since hard assets like houses tend to be inflation-proof. Or the value of a home in estate planning, since (here in Canada anyway) when you die you don’t have to pay capital gains on a home you pass to your heirs.

  • Pixelfed is adding Groups, similar to communities, which will federate with Lemmy, Kbin, and Mastodon

    Jump

  • God forbid our endless feed of cat pictures and black and white telephone poles gets polluted!

  • Stop installing urban honeybee hives

    Jump

  • There's a steep decline in pay compared to the value workers add to the economy, closely tracking the fall in union membership.

    Jump

  • The majority of those unionized employees in China belong to government-controlled unions. The Chinese government has the last word on all this, and the employees’ “rights” are ultimately subject to the CCPs whims. Basically both the company and the union are ultimately controlled by the same entity.

    It’s absurd, as it defeats the whole point of a union.

    This is what eventually seems to happen under every attempt at communism that we’ve seen so far.

  • There's a steep decline in pay compared to the value workers add to the economy, closely tracking the fall in union membership.

    Jump

  • Keep in mind most of that machinery nowadays is made by workers elsewhere in the world, primarily in China, where the union membership rate is something like 45%.

  • Intel 'Downfall': Severe flaw in billions of CPUs leaks passwords and much more

    Jump

  • Gelsinger, McKeon, and Lavender do have a nice ring to them.

  • Verizon Fails Again, Shutters Attempted Zoom Alternative BlueJeans After Paying $400 Million For It

    Jump

  • A while back, I (with a few others) built and sold an innovative tech company to a large “enterprise”. What you’re describing is exactly why they bought us and how things played out post acquisition. I’ve since left, but the thing we built is now in shambles, buried and suffocated by bureaucracy and institutional ineptitude. The parent company has learned nothing, continues to keep buying smaller tech companies, and can’t seem to figure out why things always turn to shit.

  • Which proprietary software do you prefer over their open-source alternatives, and why?

    Jump

  • DataGrip is the one JetBrains IDE I can’t work without and continue to pay for. I’d love to find a pure OSS alternative, but there’s nothing else like it.

  • Santiago, the capital of Chile, and the Andes Mountains

    Jump

  • The thing about forests around cities is they tend to get cut down and paved over. That’s much harder to do with mountains.

  • A decade after a disastrous launch, is Apple Maps finally good?

    Jump

  • The other day I used Apple Maps in my car for the first time in a few years. I gotta say something about it felt nice.

    Maybe it’s the aesthetic? The names of towns and geographic features are in big letters and flow across the map nicely — the name of the peninsula I was driving across was stretched along the length of the peninsula itself — and it felt a bit like I was traversing an old timey map, maybe like in an old Indiana Jones movie.

    If I need to find some obscure business, I’ll still use Google Maps, and if I’m on a well known commute I’ll still use Waze, but for just general ambient map display, I think Apple Maps might be it now.

  • I just wanted to take a minute to appreciate interchangable batteries

    Jump

  • Alkaline batteries lose voltage as they drain, so 1.5V is at full charge but it drops down to about 1.2V very quickly and then stays at 1.0V - 1.2V for most of the alkaline battery’s operating life.

    NiMH batteries tend to consistently stay at their nominal voltage (1.2V) through their entire charge.

    So in other words, if you have devices that really expect exactly 1.5V per battery, they would only work with alkalines at the very top of their charge. Nowadays most non-garbage circuits should be designed to work just fine with anything above 1V per battery.