Ephera

@ Ephera @lemmy.ml

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5d ago

End of Life Symbol - Irish hospital
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Ephera @lemmy.ml 5d ago
I was gonna say, it looks like the logo of the Linux distribution Trisquel. I guess, that's not surprising after all. 😅

5d ago

Firefox browser has started shipping Brave's adblock-rust engine

Hmm, they've had their tracking protection built-in for quite a while, which happens to block lots of ads, because most ads contain trackers. I haven't tested with uBlock Origin in a while, though. Do webpages now display non-tracking ads for Firefox?

Otherwise, this seems like a mere technological change with little user impact, which they rightfully didn't make much of a buzz about...

5d ago

Firefox browser has started shipping Brave's adblock-rust engine

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 5d ago

5d ago

Firefox browser has started shipping Brave's adblock-rust engine

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 5d ago

Well, unlike Brave, Firefox needs to not break legitimate webpages. If a webdev wants to support Firefox and it just doesn't display a (non-ad) element they've added, then they might not bother supporting Firefox after all.

5d ago

Well

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 5d ago

Nice. I was thinking generic white kid pop album, which really doesn't need much added:

😅

6d ago

Well

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 6d ago

This looks like an album cover... 🙃

6d ago

Looking at you, No Man's Sky

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 6d ago

Oh man, in general, people be raving about aliens, but never give two looks to the ants in their garden. Or you know, the entirety of Australia. Or the deep sea. We have so much life that's alien buzzing around us. Hell, we even have the Scottish – humanoids that speak an entirely cryptic language. It's so much more compelling story-telling, too, if they don't arrive here in a spaceship, but rather have been living among us all this time.

6d ago

New gf

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 6d ago

Oh man, of course that's a thing now. Can't copyright that shit, but you can watermark your territory and hope that no one bothers to distribute the non-copyrightable non-watermarked version that you're selling.

6d ago

How do I learn Music Production?

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 6d ago

I'm also very much a beginner, but on Linux, you seem to have the choice between two open-source DAWs: LMMS and Ardour.

Ardour has more features, by quite a bit. Which basically tells you the rest of the story: Ardour is more capable to become the tool that you use long-term, i.e. even for more complex projects. But it's also much more likely to overwhelm you right away.

Personally, for example, I have a knack for weird, changing time signatures, i.e. I might go from 5/4 time to 7/4 time to 3/2 time etc..LMMS couldn't really do that, when I dicked around with it about 2 years ago. You could change time signatures in the middle of the song, but it was only dynamic, so your notes didn't get displayed in the different time signature until you triggered playback.As a result, I felt kind of forced to learn Ardour ...and then fucked off in a different direction anyways. DAWs generally just felt like they introduce a lot of complexity and aren't really made for the kind of music I want to make. 🫠

Your mileage will obviously vary.

6d ago

New gf

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 6d ago

It has a watermark, so presumably a stock photo...

6d ago

FEAR

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 6d ago

Last year, I got sneakers with a canvas cover to combat my stinky feet. And they're heckin' excellent for that. But yeah, now rain is scary. If too much comes from above, you get soggy feet. And if too much came from above, you've got dirt puddles that can somehow dye the white rubber rim. 🫠

6d ago

Rotating locomotion in living systems

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 6d ago

Also, here's a decent video on wheels not actually being all the rave throughout human history either: https://tube.kockatoo.org/w/82758fd3-6e61-42a9-80c7-462639cfc608

TL;DW: Waterways were preferred, if available. And the use of wheels requires stable ground, but also required draft animals until really not too long ago, so lots of folks just skipped the wheeled cart and strapped their goods directly to the draft animal.

6d ago

Rotating locomotion in living systems

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 6d ago

🙃

6d ago

Indian food is saving so many lives

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 6d ago

My doctor explained it like so: B12 is produced by bacteria that hang out in dirt. Us humans have largely stopped chewing on dirt directly, so for a while, it was advantageous to have that middleman of animals eating plants+dirt and then eating those animals or what comes out of them.

But now it's becoming rarer for farm animals to chew on dirt, too, because they might never see a meadow and instead just get fed soy or corn or such, to bulk them up as quickly as possible.

And so, yeah, she actually recommends B12 supplements to everyone. B12 is just consistently low in blood tests and well, she's also obviously not going to recommend chewing dirt when supplements are cheap and easy to get.

7d ago

Ich🥗iel

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 7d ago

Ist dann vermutlich so in der Art: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texturiertes_Soja

7d ago

français rule

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 7d ago

Not to worry, you just have to click here:

1w ago

rust blasphemy (added context)

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 1w ago

Hmm, for whatever reason, I'm on 2.31.4, so that might be the difference.

That version was tagged two weeks ago, because they apparently still release patch versions for rather old minor versions of nix. So, apparently I am getting updates, but I'm on some older release channel or something. No idea why.

I have to head to work now, so will have to debug in the evening or the weekend. Thanks for the clue, though.

1w ago

AGAB rule

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 1w ago

Thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for. Deeper down from there, I also found the information that:

Countries/languages were allowed to continue putting the € in front or behind, like where they put their currency sign before the euro was introduced.
Yes, for English, it was decided on before, because of the £ and $.
The English EU style guide says explicitly:
The euro sign is followed by the amount without space: "a sum of €30"The same rule applies in Dutch, Irish and Maltese. In all other official EU languages the order is reversed; the amount is followed by a hard space and the euro sign: "une somme de 30 €"

Sources:

1w ago

AGAB rule

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 1w ago

I've never even heard that it's supposed to go in front. Interestingly, the English Wikipedia article for the Euro does put it in front, the Italian, French and German articles does not.

Maybe it was decided to put the € in front for English, because £ and $ are in front, but to put it behind like every other measuring unit for other languages?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro

1w ago

fast forward

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 1w ago

Yeah, good point. So, I wrote that comment with an experience I had in Luanti in mind (which is basically a community-developed platform for Minecraft-like games).

In the worlds there, I'd find a cave and it would expand down several hundred blocks. The good ores also only start to appear down there, so because you'd need to dig down a lot more blocks, and because the caves allow you to descend so quickly, it is definitely not worth digging straight down.

But then those sprawling caves are also worth coming back to, because you will definitely not mine all of it in one go.Even if you do deplete those caves, it's still worth using them as a starting point for digging further down, where you're also likely going to run into more caves.

All of that just means that it becomes worth your time to build out your mine.

Ladders are worth bringing right away, because the caves are so vertical, but when the way up or down takes several minutes, it's also a good idea to build intermediate bases and minecart rails.

In my most built-out world, I think, I had like 500 blocks of minecart line to get to my second intermediate base. And the deepest point I reached was -3400, if I remember correctly. Found a massive cavern down there. Even just placing torches down to light it up needed several visits. Was considering building a city into there, but it was actually too large for that. I would've never been able to fill that cavern. 🥲