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BearOfaTime

@ BearOfaTime @lemm.ee

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  • Kids

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  • I just watched Babish (dude in YouTube) make a browned-butter roux. What a game changer for gravy.

  • Australia bans social media for under 16s

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  • Then parents need to stop using such things as babysitters.

    And parents also need to get up in arms about lazy "educators" using tech to make their job easier (instead of making learning more effective, which is the bullshit argument that's always used).

  • Australia bans social media for under 16s

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  • And "banning children", wait, I mean forcing every adult to verify who they say they are online accomplishes what?

    Oh, that's right, a massive tracking database for any bad actor to use.

    If your children get into shit, it's your fault for not raising them right. I got into some shit as a kid, and had friends that got into more/less shit.

    I watched those fuckups raise their kids, and they learned from their own childhood experience and chose to guide their children how to use the internet properly. To understand how it works, the risks, etc.

    You can't bubble wrap the world. The idiots (myself included) will always find a way around such safetyism, and in the process you'll be harming everyone else.

  • Increasing testosterone levels does not increase sex drive

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  • Well, no shit.

    This isn't news, it was known in the 80's.

  • Three Men Die After Google Maps Reportedly Told Them to Drive Over an Unfinished Bridge

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  • Why do people just blindly trust directions?

    Also, was the construction clearly marked? Seems like you'd have to ignore some clear signs that a bridge was under construction.

    Sounds more like local construction management dropped the ball and the road wasn't blocked off properly, so they're using Google as a scapegoat to hide their failure.

  • Where is the speculative analysis around "alien" tech in geopolitics?

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  • I'd look for a community focused on writing fantasy

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    if you do a physically demanding job and end up with sore and painful legs, does it help to run before / after your shift?

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  • Running is different than walking, kinesthetically. I've had lower body injuries where walking was painful, but running wasn't, docs weren't at all surprised, expected it actually.

    Also you're getting everything moving by running. Exercise like this (using the large muscles) also triggers a hormonal shift (I forget the details), and you're triggering some anti-inflammatory processes.

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  • Cell phones enable location when you make an emergency call. This can't be disabled.

    That said, not all 911 systems automatically capture this data, yet.

    Also, I wouldn't rely on this. If you have a concern for accurate location for rescue, you'd be doing a lot of other things first, because I assume you are engaged in serious back-country hiking.

    I do marginal back-country, on well-known trails. But I leave info about my plans at the trailhead, give similar info to friends, including when to start worrying. A radio that does GMRS and HAM are part of my pack, along with gear for overnight (including food and fire starting gear). GMRS can be useful if emergency personnel are within maybe a mile, or in the same valley, of if the region has GMRS repeaters on visible high ground.

    TL:DR - don't rely on cell tech for rescue comms.

  • Are Overemployed ‘Ghost Engineers’ Making Six Figures to Do Nothing?

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  • Yep.

    This question doesn't address what else these engineers do besides write code.

    Who knows how many meetings they're involved in to constrain the crazy from senior management?

  • Welcome to Big-D

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  • What's infuriating, the stock photo of people touching a whale, which I seriously doubt is happening in Dallas?

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  • Capacity like that is the only reason I could think of.

  • Social media firms raise 'serious concerns' over Australian U-16 ban

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  • Ah, yes, "it's for the children" that we want to create a system to track you.

  • Can someone explain the framework of the current British... idk is empire the correct term?

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  • Oh, that's a good one. Nice

  • Can someone explain the framework of the current British... idk is empire the correct term?

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  • "We are all Britons, and I am their king! "

    "How'd you get to be king, then, eh? I didn't vote for you!"

    "Dennis, Dennis, there's some lovely filth down here!"

    Sorry, so rarely hear the word "Britons" that it always makes me think of John Cleese in this scene from Monty Python's Holy Grail.

  • Can someone explain the framework of the current British... idk is empire the correct term?

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  • Google Message Alternative Options & Group Texts

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  • I assume you mean work uses SMS/MMS and does group messaging with it?

    First, a business shouldn't be using SMS/MMS. It's a best-effort "protocol" (it's not really a protocol, it's a method of injecting data into cell management frames), which means it'll try to send, and maybe it'll get there. There's no store-and-forward, no error checking/correction, etc. It was never intended to be used the way it's being used.

    Behaviour is dependent on the service, device, and app used (as you've experienced). As others have mentioned, using a client that has a setting for treating Groups as "Chat" or something similar, will address the problem you're seeing. But if anyone else uses an app that's not setup this way, the problem will exist with their replies.

    Pulse, Textra, Handcent, etc (pretty much every SMS app I've used) has this setting.

    Also, don't set your MMS limit to some arbitrary value - set it to what your cell provider has documented as their max, or less. Setting it higher may cause messages to appear to send (since it's best-effort with no error checking), but the back end may simply drop it from being too large.

    I've seen this on MVNO's and on Sprint, TMo, and one other (ATT maybe?). Verizon doesn't care about size, but some of it's MVNOs/resellers do (Xfinity/Visible, etc).

    If you can, try to promote a better messaging solution. I'd never entrust my business comms to SMS/MMS. There are business plans for Jabber/XMPP services, for example (probably best to outsource this, if they think SMS is OK to use), with iOS, Android, Windows, Linux and Web clients. Plus, Jabber/XMPP supports voice/video calls through the app, if that's something they could use. (I say business plans, because they surely don't want to manage this themselves, and by having their own server, they can manage users, rather than make people sign up on their own at other hosts).

    There are other messaging systems they could use. Jabber was the first that came to mind, and being an open protocol is unlikely to disappear or suddenly change in a negative way.

    Edit: A significant benefit to Jabber/XMPP is being logged into your account, simultaneously, on multiple devices. I have 2 phones, a desktop, a laptop, and an iPad, all logged in. I get notifications simultaneously on all of them (it's configurable), and I can reply from any device at any time - my replies show up instantly on all devices.

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  • Why 3.5" drive? (Just curious).

    I've found prices aren't necessarily any better at that size.

  • If a word can have as many meanings as we assign to it; can we assign every meaning to one word?

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  • Gary, Gary... Gary?

  • Bluesky breaching rules around disclosure of information, says EU

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  • Wait, a supposedly federate-able, but at the moment centrally-controlled social media app isn't following the rules?

    I'm shocked, shocked I say!

    (Yes, sarcasm).

    I think it's funny all the people leaving Twitter for Bluesky since Twitter's been clearly exposed for the shit hole it's always been. As if it's shittiness is new, and any other similar system won't be as bad.

    It's not systems, it's people.

    Systems can contribute to making things worse (or better), but they aren't the source.