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eseilt

@eseilt@mastodon.scot

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anthropy, (edited ) to random
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When are you part of "the rich"?

Feel free to comment if you think the line isn't on here and it should e.g be lower or higher.

If you have (in assets or cash):

eseilt,
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@anthropy it does not include those of the working class whose properties are in fact owned by their banks. So that definition totally works for me. It's a level of financial independence that most people can only dream of.

And yes, if you have 100k in assets, you should be able to get credit to buy a car no matter how much cash you have.

Tami, to random German
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Warum wird um Sex eigentlich immer so ein Gewese gemacht? Eigentlich ist es doch auch nur irgendwie Sport. Okay, nackt, aber Sport. Stellt euch mal vor, ihr dรผrftet nur noch mit einem Menschen eine bestimmte Sportart machen. Oder halt alleine. Irgendwie doch voll doof

eseilt,
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@marquito @Tami Fitbit denkt immer, ich wรผrde Yoga oder sowas machen. Da ich sonst kein Yoga mache, ist das schon eine gute Lรถsung

christianp, to random
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Do I know anyone who has visited this funky tetrahedron near Essen?
https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraeder_(Bottrop)

eseilt,
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@christianp never visited but seen it many times. In clear weather, you can see it from pretty much any of the coal mine piles in the Ruhr area. I've seen it from as far away as Neukirchen-Vluyn (closer to the Netherlands than to the Tetraeder) and Dรผsseldorf.

Hard to describe the feelings this photo evokes. It's home, but it also stands for ugly industry and the coal mining that is destroying the planet. ๐Ÿ˜ ๐Ÿ˜ข

eseilt,
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@christianp haha, totally right!

It's worth a visit, anyway. Nowhere else in the world have they made so much art in and out of the remains of coal and related industries.

garrett, to design
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It's bad to use words like "advanced" in UI design, but I'm trying to communicate this to someone else, with more than, "Because I know it's bad due to user research and user testing I've done and stuff I've read back in the day."

For example: There was a blog post somewhere about Nautilus having an "advanced mode"* back in the Eazel days and how that's bad.

(IIRC; it had 3 states: beginner, intermediate, advanced and some things were hidden.)

Anyone have links to resources? Thanks!

eseilt,
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@garrett Google is especially bad now - because unlike the others, it used to be much better. Now it tries to guess what I'm searching for and refuses to use the words I tell it I want to search for. Infuriating.

eseilt, to random
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Shocking how Brussels, the closest thing we get to a EU capital, has such obvious problems with poverty and infrastructure. There are more rough sleepers here (in the vicinity of Midi/Zuid station) than dropped kerbs.

pixelfed, to random
@pixelfed@mastodon.social avatar

โšก Synced Settings

You may notice that the latest release will sync your saved settings when logging in.

We have pioneered a standard to sync settings between official and third party apps!

We've been working closely with @PixelDroid on this, and look forward to furthering our commitment to open APIs and developers with more innovative collaborations and features in the near future ๐Ÿš€

eseilt,
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@pixelfed @PixelDroid amazing stuff, much appreciated!

timrichards, to random
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Always found it curious that in the UK people stand on the right on escalators. Surely in a left-side-driving country it's more intuitive to stand on the left, pass on the right? (As we do here, and apparently also in Japan.)

The escalator riddle: would we all move faster and more safely if we stopped walking on them? https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/oct/04/escalator-riddle-would-we-move-faster-more-safely-if-we-stopped-walking

eseilt,
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@timrichards UK pedestrians also walk on the right of the pavement, even though it makes intuitive sense to everyone else to walk facing road traffic. They just love being confusing.

eseilt, to edinburgh
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It's the Colony of Artists in today and tomorrow. Come, talk to lots of artists, see their stuff exhibited in their homes or gardens. Bring friends, bring raincoats. It will be fun!

https://www.colonyofartists.co.uk/

tante, (edited ) to random
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Today in "LLMs can't do even simple reasoning":

Prompt: Sally (a girl) has 3 brothers. Each brother has 2 sisters. How many sisters does Sally have?

See a whole bunch of LLMs fail: https://benchmarks.llmonitor.com/sally

eseilt,
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@tante if we wanted to be, uh, fair: Brother and sister do not necessarily mean the same things for every such relationship. All answers from 0 through 3 and "we don't know" (and even "no upper bound is given") are somewhat correct. ๐Ÿ˜

isagalaev, (edited ) to random
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What is your main browser (engine)?

Re-running a poll I saw on Mastodon a while ago, before various migrations. Just collecting numbers, not seeking advice or anything. Please boost for reach.

eseilt,
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@isagalaev FF, although Chrome at work for now.

Going to switch to FF at work when the number of open tabs goes down a bit. Privacy is not so much an issue there.

aeva, to random
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ars technica: we don't know how they did it but google chrome now extracts a pint of blood every time you log on

chrome user, dizzy from blood loss: I swear to god I am like this close to switching to firefox

another chrome user, on the verge of fainting from severe blood loss: no need to resort to that, just switch to [insert today's trendy chrome fork here] and be smart like meeee

eseilt,
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@aeva I see my dad roughly twice a year. Every time I uninstall Chrome and make FF the default browser. Every time I come back, Chrome is back on there and set as the default.

He doesn't know how it happens and he's not doing it on purpose and he doesn't want it (but doesn't realise it until I point it out). It's just a thing that is forced upon the tech-illiterate.

matthiasott, to CSS
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โœ๏ธ New post: WOFF Has Left the Building


https://matthiasott.com/notes/woff-has-left-the-building

eseilt,
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@matthiasott it's unbelievable how slow this stuff moves. Web fonts were standardized so long ago and there are still a handful of people on devices that don't quite support them ๐Ÿ˜ฎ

Every time a new API or format is released, I'm like "yay in 10-15 years that will be really useful".

eseilt, to random
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This cat I am looking after normally lives in a household with children. And it shows: she is regularly startled by my quiet presence. I get up from my desk and she notices me and immediately engages flight mode multiple times per day ๐Ÿ˜‚

eseilt, to random
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France: We should standardise on an international emergency number so there can be no confusion!
Everyone: Good idea. Let's use a simple, short, easy-to-...
France: 3117!

eseilt,
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@lapingvino thanks! I suspected it would make more sense with context. Like British Transport Police!

esther, to random

Damn, only now after I left tech for good did I realise how exploitative my first tech job in Berlin really was.

I knew it was bad at the time, because it felt awful and ruined my health. But as it turns out I was also massively underpaid.

It was such a big step up from the one I had before that I didn't see it and then after I moved on I didn't really look back on it for many years.

eseilt,
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@esther Same! I was so happy that I finally got to do what I liked that I didn't care that it stressed me out while paying barely enough to live within commuting distance. It took years and a very patient partner to finally get me to see that it was not sustainable and extremely unfair.

reginasbread, to random
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just watched a video about the lack of bicycles in hollywood productions. e.g. there are post apocalypse shows where there's no fuel or they can't use engines for other reasons, and the characters are shown walking or riding a horse. they never try bikes even though it's the most popular mode of transportation on the planet. Daryl from TWD on a bicycle? uncool. if a protagonist is doing it, it's a comedy. riding a bicycle is seen as a ridiculous thing to do unless you're a child. I am stunned.

eseilt,
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@reginasbread Bike has always been my zombie apocalypse plan. Fast enough to easily outrun the undead, needs no fuel other than what I need anyway, easy to repair or replace

eseilt,
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@nuncio @reginasbread you can have a serious high-speed chase if the pursuers are also on bikes. People do it every year in France, it's huge!

Getting away from police if they don't have bikes is a more interesting concept - depending on where you are, you're either getting caught or losing your tail pretty easily, but either way it takes only seconds ๐Ÿค”

tanepiper, (edited ) to random
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Lazyweb: Which option would you go for?

eseilt,
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@tanepiper If your normal setup involves a big screen, go for the smaller laptop and enjoy the added portability. If your work involves containers or anything else that uses gigs of storage, go for the larger disc.

esther, (edited ) to random

How many unread emails do you have?

eseilt,
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@esther Gave up years ago. Occasionally look at newish ones, sometimes there is something of value. Most is spam.

People who need to reach me have more effective ways.

esther, to random

The irony! On the way to a bike protest yesterday I witnessed a car driver hitting a person cycling by suddenly turning right with no warning or indication.

Luckily no injuries, but the driver didnโ€™t care at all when confronted. That asshole wouldnโ€™t even have stopped if I hadnโ€™t cut him off.

eseilt,
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@esther @markusl triggered! I lightly touched a car roof with my hand once to make the driver aware other people exist - but it turned out that awoke a deep, primal anger that led to minutes of angry shouting followed by an actual attempt to run me over.

I learned that day to just take a picture of the plates and report to the police. Not worth dying for.

esther, to random

In the ridiculous timeline that we live in, youโ€™ll have to jailbreak your bicycle because a startup fell over https://mastodon.notsobig.co/@phill/110701490478043590

Capitalism delivering the best possible solutions once more!

eseilt,
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@esther they should not be seen as bicycles. If you need a bicycle, you don't want one. They are designed to exploit incentives like Jobrad, where the user doesn't pay the full price, that's why they are so flashy and expensive. But made and designed as cheap as possible, so they are completely impractical.

emilygorcenski, to random

It turns out, actual engineering is a lot harder than software engineering, and this is something you should keep in mind as people start to claim ChatGPT can do a better job.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/22/23770260/titanic-tour-titan-submersible-catastrophic-implosion-oceangate

eseilt,
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@emilygorcenski SW development in the medical field taught me a lot about this topic. All opposite to the way we normally make software. You keep going through this loop:

  • can this injure someone?
  • come up with a fail-safe mechanism
  • implement it so even the dumbest developer could not accidentally cause it

I.e. we spent most of our engineering time on the process itself, until we could trust ourselves to build something safe with it.

(It was all distinctly un-fun but I don't regret it!)

esther, (edited ) to random

Iโ€™m thinking about writing a series of articles about what I call โ€œlow level photographyโ€: tech physical principles on which all the creative options for photographers (and videographers) are built. Things like โ€œwhy and how does a low f-number actually make the background blurry? And why does it do that with these characteristic polygon shapes?โ€ Or โ€œwhy do faces look weird when shot from a short distance?โ€

When I learned these things many years ago they were often explained in weird ways that skipped over a lot and used unintuitive metaphors as if photographers couldnโ€™t handle some physics. I believe these things can be properly explained without requiring much pre-existing knowledge, and I believe they can be very helpful to make more effective choices towards a creative goal.

Would there be interest in such a series?

eseilt,
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@esther I read it once as "think about the part of the bigger sensor that has the same dimensions as the smaller sensor - it captures the exact same image!"

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