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Zarobi

@ Zarobi @aussie.zone

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  • Meta's Program That Spies on Every Employee's Computer Just Blew Up in Its Face in Spectacular Fashion

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  • It's just corporate doublespeak messing with your head. The normal person translation is:

    oh fuck something might have happened. But we don't want shareholders to panic. Uhh, so everyone, please pretend everything is fine.

  • GTA 6 Price Finally Confirmed, Features a 'Single-Player Experience' at Launch

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  • It's extraordinarily cheaper to produce, and it kills the second hand game market. Both of which have been thorns in the side of AAA gaming companies for decades. Nobody else had the balls to force online only games (partially due to EU laws). A few tried (I forget the specifics), but they got smacked down and reconsidered. Everyone's watching to see if this works, and if it does, brick and mortar game stores will go the way of the DVD rental.

  • Do you ask polyamorous people they're polyamorous?

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  • Yes monogamous people would probably be offended. Think of it this way; to monogamous people, polyamory is functionally cheating, so you're indirectly accusing them of being a cheater with your question. It's not my fault, this is just the reality.

    The solution is so extremely simple you'll laugh. Instead of asking if they're poly, ask people if they're monogamous. Other monogamous people will be like, yeah of course aren't you? Poly people will say no without being offended.

  • Is McDonalds in America expensive and crap?

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  • My ex went to McDonald's when we went traveling overseas (yes really), so I can say I've (unfortunately) had McDonald's in Australia, Paris, Hong Kong, and Japan.

    Australia was the worst. Paris and Hong Kong were ok, but the menu was weird. Japan was actually good. Though... maybe it was skill issue, but the menu was completely impossible. So I ended up just begging the cashier for a ham-bo-ga, please God just any hamboga I'm so hungry.

  • I really don't get the anti AC fraction

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  • Heat pumps mentioned, Technology Connections fan spotted

  • Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?

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  • I actually didn't play the 2016 one lol. My timeline was like:

    • Original DOOM (1993)
    • DOOM 3 (2004)
    • Doom Eternal (2020)

    It feels much more like the original Doom in an arcadey level based kill everything way, while Doom 3 felt like a horror game to me. I really liked it, though having to make a Bethesda account to play it and waiting to log in every time pissed me off. The game itself was great. High adrenaline. Jumping around the map killing everything brutally. Too hard for my old man reflexes though, so I played on easy mode.

  • Software engineers are facing an 'identity crisis bordering on depression,' Menlo Ventures partner says

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  • My favourite part is when your style or the auto formatter changes over time and you have to decide between:

    • running the auto formatter on 200,000 12 year old code files
    • doing them one by one
    • formatting them when you have to change that file
    • or ignoring all the warnings forever (it's this one, this is what you do)

    Plus it doesn't fix the problem of auto formatters writing ugly code. You can't easily tell the auto formatter that early returns can be bracketless for brevity, but nothing else can be. Unless you add a comment like \\ ignore-rule-2753674 which makes me want to throw up

  • What do your daily meals look like each day?

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  • Oh that's interesting. Maybe I'll try a dietician instead, I just assumed doctors know all about diabetes stuff...

    What happened with Keto was, I felt like I was eating too much fat per day. I felt greasy and horrible and disgusting and heavy, and my LDL cholesterol went even worse (6.3–7.8).

    I tried fixing it by eating mostly protein and low fat instead, but considering I can't eat much volume per day, that just ended up with me eating almost nothing and things went real bad from there. I couldn't get out of bed for days at a time levels of fatigue. So I slowly added back in wholemeal carbs and some fat, and at least now I know what types of carbs cause spikes.

    The reason I can't eat much is I have erosion in my esophagus, stomach, and intestines from GERD acid reflux (confirmed via endoscopy). I've been on strong acid suppressants for a while but it seems like the "damage is done" so to speak from decades of acid splashing all over the place, and it's not healing. At least I don't wake up with a melting throat anymore so I'll take that.

    I'm on statins recently to try and reduce my LDL. The first type I tried gave me severe full body cramps so hopefully this type is better. And this is only a small part of my medical problems. Before we get into POTS, CFS, hEDS, MCAS, chronic migraines, arthritis, hormone problems, heart problems, neuropathy... I always forget most of my issues as well I can't keep track of them all. I take more than 10 pills per day to manage all that.

    I just accepted I'm going to die sometime soon based on this trajectory.

    I've been trying to increase my walking per day because I heard walking is a great way to reduce diabetes and heart attack risk. I'm up to 15 minutes walk per day and some sneaky resistance training, which knocks me out for the rest of the day, but it makes me feel like I'm doing something at least.

    Basically my body is failing in a million different ways at once at this point. If I only had one problem it would be easy to fix, but everything interacts and compounds the issue. Thanks for listening and trying to help by the way, you're a kind person.

  • inflatable emoji rule?

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  • When you have to write a dumbass report to your manager to approve the meme you liked 🫪

  • What do your daily meals look like each day?

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  • Yep ensure was the one. I wasn't sure if it was available internationally so I didn't put name brand in there.

    hyper tension, fatty liver, visceral obesity, excess adiposity, snoring

    Yeah I have all those problems lol. I actually did use a CGM and the most concerning thing noted was I was going into high 2's and low 3's blood sugar. Normal range is 4–7 so I was hypoglycemic for a big part of every day.

    It turns out I was massively undereating for a long time and slowly starving to death, somehow without losing weight as well. When I brought it up in the past doctors were like, well you're not massively losing weight so you're fine. But I was measuring my calories and only getting 800–1400 on a good day, when my maintenance was meant to be 2400.

    My doctor told me to stop starving to death as a top priority, but due to various other medical issues I physically can't eat enough food per day. It got really confusing so now I'm using Ensure even though it's not ideal for prediabetes (I can see it on the graph). All the doctors I've seen have mostly just been confused and not really sure how to help me. My disability makes it impossible to exercise enough per day.

    My body seems mostly ok with my current diet of whole meal stuff, but any sugar or refined carbs really fucked me up and made me very unwell. So I'm definitely avoiding all sugar like the plague. I did keto for a while but it wasn't sustainable for me long term. So wholemeal is my compromise.

    Overall a shitty situation, not much can be done to help me it seems.

  • Social Media are drugs and their CEOs are billionaire drug dealers

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  • It feels like social media to me. It has upvotes, replies, notifications, comments, a feed... If it's not a social media then neither is Reddit, and at that point the word stops being meaningful. Look right now we're even arguing about semantics just like any good social media

  • The Unbearable Cheapness of Open Weight Models

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  • Open Weight vs Low Cost. Are these models cheap because they are open weight and having hundreds or people stress test running them on different hardware helped to lower the cost? Or is it that they are being provided as loss leaders to drive the prices down?

    I wouldn't be surprised if the A.I. in China is heavily subsided so that people use them. Not saying that's necessarily a bad thing, but I'm not sure it's sustainable long term, or a fair way to compare A.I. models. We need to compare the true computational and financial cost of each token internally, not whatever is being charged for it externally, otherwise you're just saying "stuff made in China is generally cheaper" which we've known for decades. This might be a complicated question to answer though.

  • What helps you sleep better?

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  • This might sound completely random, but completely cutting sugar from my life. For my entire life my sleep has been bad. Couldn't sleep at night properly at all. Then one day I tried Keto and within 1 week my sleep became normal and healthy. I didn't keep doing keto for long because it wasn't sustainable for me personally, but I kept the 0 sugar rule and it's been great. Sleeping like a baby adult.

  • Social Media are drugs and their CEOs are billionaire drug dealers

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  • Does that make Lemmy an underground black market? 🤔

  • What do your daily meals look like each day?

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  • Reading the comments mine might be the weirdest...

    • bowl of all bran and special k with cow milk
    • "adult formula" blended with almond milk. It's like feeding tube stuff as a dry powder. I struggle to eat enough calories per day without it so my doctor prescribed it, it's "nutritionally complete"
    • electrolytes potion. Magnesium and vitamin C effervescent with a pinch of salt in coconut water
    • small cup of Turkish coffee
    • two squares of dark chocolate
    • sliced strawberries and banana with cream
    • low GI crunchy bread (Bürgen) with hummus

    One of:

    • vegetable and meat stew
    • wholemeal spaghetti with nooch and olive oil and feta cheese
    • chicken thigh with wild rice and cucumber salad
    • salmon with wild rice and cucumber salad
    • whatever leftovers are gifted to me (as long as it doesn't have sugar or loads of simple carbs)

    I have prediabetes along with a dozen other health conditions lol

  • Polymarket paid influencers to fake winning bets, built dummy websites to pull it off

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  • No I mean I think there was a miscommunication or something, I genuinely agree with everything you said except that 1 part lol. I'm not very good at explaining things, sorry

  • Software engineers are facing an 'identity crisis bordering on depression,' Menlo Ventures partner says

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  • Believe it or not my first paragraph was working on medical software lol. It was good though, I liked the feeling of helping doctors help people, making the world a better place.

  • Software engineers are facing an 'identity crisis bordering on depression,' Menlo Ventures partner says

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  • Unemployed / disability lol. But if I could still move around I'd probably get into something outdoorsy. Park ranger or the like. Keeping a candle lit though, in case one day I miraculously recover or medical science advances or something.

    Edit: actually it's the reason I did software engineering in the first place. But actually this industry is now hostile to people with disability. Can I work from home because leaving the house is hard? No, everyone must be in office chained to your desk 9/9/6. Can I be neurodivergent? No, everyone must have constant in person meetings and work in open plan offices.

  • Polymarket paid influencers to fake winning bets, built dummy websites to pull it off

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  • Sorry I don't really know anything about North American indigenous, I live in Australia and our mobs are very different. I think actually we're in full agreement, apart from the detail of whether it's "intelligent design" or not :)