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UndercoverUlrikHD

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UndercoverUlrikHD ,

After ublock origin and dark reader, it's definitely one of the best extensions out there, cool to see it getting further support.

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What can you get to within a 15-minute walk of your house?

A recent YouGov survey asked Americans what they think they should be able to get to within a 15-minute walk of their house.

Of these choices, I can currently walk to all of them from my apartment, aside from a university (no biggie, I'm not currently studying, although there is a Tafe within walking distance), a hospital, and a sports arena.

How many can you get to with a 15 minute walk from your house?

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UndercoverUlrikHD ,

Other than the primary school (~20 minutes) and the physical bank, which we barely have any left off in Norway, they're all within 15 minutes.

- Trondheim

UndercoverUlrikHD ,

As someone who has lived within 5 minutes to a football stadium my whole life across multiple cities, I'd argue it's a positive to not have it that close. Too much noise.

UndercoverUlrikHD ,

Looking forward to the day I can just copy paste the Silmarillion into a program and have it spit out a 20 hour long movie.

UndercoverUlrikHD ,

"Substitute user do", most commonly used on Linux to run your command as superuser (think admin mode on Windows)

UndercoverUlrikHD ,

Get a paid email service, it costs next to nothing and you retain your privacy. Free services hosted by commercial entities are free for a reason.

UndercoverUlrikHD ,

Eh, I might ask the LLM about something, but I always open it sources to verify it summaries. You still can't trust them fully.

UndercoverUlrikHD ,

I still want to know the source of what I'm being told. There are plenty of brains out there smarter than mine, I'll still ask for sources.

UndercoverUlrikHD ,

Admins are actively looking into solutions, nobody wants that stuff stored on their server, and there's a bunch of legal stuff you must do when it happens.

One of the problems is the cost of compute power for running programs detecting CSAM in pictures before uploading, making it not viable for many instances. Lemmy.world is moving towards only allowing images hosted via whitelisted sites I think.

UndercoverUlrikHD ,

Be diligent with reporting, and consider switching instance if your admins aren't really active.

UndercoverUlrikHD ,

Any reports you make are visible to the admins of your instance.

E.g. if you make a report, the community mods may choose to ignore it while your admins choose to remove it for everyone using their instance.

Everything you see on Lemmy is through the eyes of your instance, people of other instances may see different stuff. E.g. some instances censor certain slurs, but that doesn't affect users outside that instance. (de)federations also dictates what comments you will see on a post.

UndercoverUlrikHD ,

It goes to the community mods too yeah. But when it comes to spam/scams that is being posted, admins (at least on programming.dev) will remove it immediately and not wait for community moderators. Spammers will usually spam multiple communities at once and only admins have the capability of banning users entirely from the site/their instance.

A few days ago a person created multiple accounts and spammed scat content across multiple communities. Moderators can't effectively stop those kind of things.

UndercoverUlrikHD ,

One of their (many) stereorypes in Europe is that they stink. It has also become a meme on the Internet to hate on French in Europe centric circles, mostly pushed by the English I think.

UndercoverUlrikHD ,

No, it's just really niche knowledge that most people have no use learning

UndercoverUlrikHD ,

VLC is much more versatile, but when it comes to speed/efficiency, MPV run laps around VLC.

Paris votes to crack down on SUVs | Non-Parisians will be charged almost $20 per hour to park large gas or hybrid vehicles within the city center in a bid to address pedestrian safety and air pollu... (www.theverge.com)

Paris votes to crack down on SUVs | Non-Parisians will be charged almost $20 per hour to park large gas or hybrid vehicles within the city center in a bid to address pedestrian safety and air pollu...::Parisians have voted to increase parking charges for out-of-town SUV drivers as part of the city’s efforts to address road...

UndercoverUlrikHD ,

Glad to see an european country taking steps to counteract the trend of larger cars.

UndercoverUlrikHD ,

That's generally how the economy works, unless you're in a recession...

UndercoverUlrikHD ,

Anything related to psychology and sociology is pseudoscience.

UndercoverUlrikHD ,

The only reason I "have space to say so" is because it's not a science. Allowing whatever you mean by "direct psychological experimentation" wouldn't change that.

I'm not saying it's a field of study that isn't useful, but it's not science.

UndercoverUlrikHD , (edited )

You're absolutely right that I'm not an expert on neither psychology nor sociology. But I'm not basing my opinions on popular culture either. My opinions were mostly formed from years ago when I had to do a month research and write my exam in Examen Philosophicum during my study for a Master of Science, where I wrote about the history of scientific theory.

It was mostly when I read about Karl Popper and his criterion of falsifiability that I stumbled upon the "science" of psychology. Other than that, my impression of psychology mostly comes from living with a psychology student for three years and hearing about her studies.

A science without hard facts isn't much of a science from my point of view. You can't reproduce or simulate the minds of people thousands of times. There's so many variables factoring in when you're researching, or diagnosing. How do you separate the researcher's emotions and personal interpretation from the "objective" facts of a person's psyche.

@ZzyzxRoad
Implying I'm a troll isn't really a great form of argument. Feel free to type your whole comment again and I'll read it with an open mind.

@ProgrammingSocks
I'm not trying to be anti science, I still think it's a worthwhile field of study, I just don't think it's fits the criteria of science. Feel free to show me wrong.

UndercoverUlrikHD ,

Now, that's a terribly loaded headline if I've ever seen one. Wonder which side the editor supports.

UndercoverUlrikHD ,

I think the idea is to make it easier to detect trolling/spam from certain accounts. But honestly, there's no reason upvotes and downvotes can't just be public.

UndercoverUlrikHD ,

You'll also need to ban pet cats from walking outside without a leash. Our cats were neutered, didn't stop them from killing any mice or birds they could get their paws on.

UndercoverUlrikHD ,

I was talking about the cats that are kept as pets, not stray cats. I guess it varies from country to country, but most cats walking around outside in Norway are pets (~90%). Reducing the stray cat population to zero wouldn't fix the issue of cats killing all the small wildlife unless pet cats are also kept inside.

I wasn't saying anything against neutering cats.

UndercoverUlrikHD ,

I gotta ask as I've seen these kind of memes too often, is not cooking an American thing? I've never met someone in Norway who doesn't know how to cook normal meals from raw ingredients.

UndercoverUlrikHD ,

The life expectancy of men in USA is ~76 years, meaning once you reach 38, by average, half of your life is gone. Retiring when you reach 67? Enjoy your last nine years on earth without working.

UndercoverUlrikHD ,

What if you scare our common ancestor to run across the ground to safety and end up getting eaten by a predator that sees it running?

UndercoverUlrikHD ,

We haven't blocked Threads yet, but I haven't seen any content from it either. When exactly are Threads supposed to federate?

UndercoverUlrikHD ,

Getting the vibe that OP is being serious while using a template supposed to be ironic.

Seems odd to be angry about game graphics progressing. Imagine how it was during the 90s.

There's still room for improvement, but Linux gaming has come a long way in a short time. (lemmy.world)

I remember when Proton launched it was like magic playing games like Doom and Nier Automata straight from the Linux Steam client with excellent performance. I do not miss the days of having the Windows version of Steam installed separately.

UndercoverUlrikHD ,

Linux Mint is often touted as the most similar looking GUI to windows, so if you want Linux, but looking like windows that might be your best bet. You will find many guides for how to install Linux. If you want to just try it out first (and not just overwrite windows), you'll need to free up some disk space and create an empty partition to install Linux on.

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