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fred-kowalski @ fred-kowalski @kbin.sh
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TIL 70,000 years ago a volcanic eruption killed many humans, leaving only 1,000 human alive in the whole word. This created a population bottleneck which vastly reduced diversity in human genetics.

  • X-Men: Emo fictional characters driven by the need for episodic sales with scientifically impossible abilities. Sure!

    Sorry. Traumatized by my childhood best friend’s Marvel obsession.

    • Splitting the Web

  • You made a good observation to which I put observations. Probably should have been put somewhere else.

    • Thank you, Lemmy users: I have a working Linux laptop for the first time in 8 years!

  • Your project would be a reach for me. Linux as as daily driver is pretty easy if you don’t dial boot and don’t use Apple hardware. I have Ubuntu on an Intel NUC and everything works just fine. Sound, camera, printer, graphics. Haha. You’re going to scare the lazy.

    • Microsoft comes under blistering criticism for “grossly irresponsible” security

  • Vendor lock-in. Accessibility to many tools for “non-technical” users. Groupthink. Bundles and anti-interoperability (see vendor lock-in). Fright of open source. Non-technical executives who trust the wrong people. That’s just off the top of my head.

    • Splitting the Web

  • Yes, web developers don't use straight HTML because for anything that is not trivial, it's not sufficient The web today is a place to DO things, not READ things. Even if you are displaying "static" data, Javascript frameworks and libraries can help you write code once and then offload browser compatibility and desktop/mobile presentation formats.

    If you add all the interactive elements, it gets even more complex. HTML is powerful and provides transparency, but it's not just the MBA crowd moving away from it.

    Also, as desktop applications are quickly being deprecated for browser-based apps, there is more movement to frameworks, and libraries.

    • People are getting fed up with all the useless tech in their cars

  • You are not a customer. The second you try to fix or diagnose or fix anything, you are a thieving competitor. So sayeth MBA school.

    • Signal may soon be getting usernames

  • Ironically, I started using signal because SMS wasn’t working for a contact that I had in another country. It was that or WhatsApp.

    • People from the "hotter" regions, how do you deal with the heat?

  • This is how I got through my youth when I had to work in the sun (wet bandana) Anything that gets you wet with some air flow. It’s like sweating without to electrolyte hit. Works better in low humidity, of course.

    I’m lucky now because I have AC and can just stay indoors through the hot part of the day. I still make the house a dark cave after trapping the coolest air I can from overnight.

    • Is it normal for a person to "feel" less as they get older?

  • For me, it’s about context and scope. The wide open wonder of my youth has been replaced by little epiphanies of experience. A bite of really good food, or music, or a great joke can bring me a startling amount of joy. A lot of my awe has also been replaced by satisfaction and appreciation. Getting old sucks undeniably, but there are compensations.