CannisterFlux

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by CannisterFlux 5y ago
The latest trick for plastic items is for companies to say they are reusable. So instead of a box of plastic straws, it is now a box with "reusable plastic straws" written on it. Same exact product, but now marketed to get around
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by CannisterFlux 6y ago
The risk of a vaccine is very low. But emotionally it is hard to accept. It is my actual choice to have the vaccine and go from 0 chance of vaccine-related blood clots to some non-zero value. Whereas catching covid feels more like I'm
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by CannisterFlux 6y ago
It doesn't have to be rational. I get anxious doing the most trivial things that people do thousands of times every day: talking on the phone, going the supermarket, even sending emails. It is awful and seems to get worse (and less rea
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by CannisterFlux 6y ago
Spelling = correct pronunciation in Spanish is like 99.9% correct. The exceptions are almost always imported words. Even the tildes help you out to know how to pronounce a word you haven't seen before completely correctly, with the rig
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by CannisterFlux 6y ago
I've lived in Spain for many years and speak pretty good Spanish. But there is one thing I still find relatively tricky in Spanish: the correct gender for nouns. The worst is when you're referring to something elsewhere in a sente
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by CannisterFlux 6y ago
Yeah, 2021 was planned to be the last time that clocks would be put forwards in March in Europe. Countries would then stay on Summer Time in October if that was their preference, not putting the clocks back. If a country had planned to stay
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by CannisterFlux 6y ago
The whales would dive, but whales have to breathe air so come back up again. My knowledge of this is based on Moby Dick, so take it with the pinch of salt necessary. It describes the experienced sailors being able to estimate how long the w
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by CannisterFlux 6y ago
This part: "The Company may terminate your Account and your access to the Service (or, at the Company's sole option, applicable portions of the Service) at any time and for any reason." https://discord.com/ter
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by CannisterFlux 6y ago
The advert contents is still delivered from 3rd party servers, so on Android you can side-load Blokada, which provides host-based ad-blocking. It runs as a local VPN routing all traffic through it, and blocks the ad hosts. You'll proba
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by CannisterFlux 6y ago
Not for me, they're all in the right order, but I've only used it since a year or 2 after Google Reader shut down (was using Tiny RSS for a while). Maybe it's a particular feed that's messed up?
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by CannisterFlux 6y ago
I always think CMake is so simple, there's nothing to it. It is maybe awkward to write compared to python or whatever, and kinda ugly, but it is very easy to learn, you can do anything with it (eventually), multiplatform, and has sever
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by CannisterFlux 6y ago
I find it amazing that anyone reaches the level of technical skill required to play a musical instrument while maintaining any kind of artistic drive. I play guitar for fun, and for me to learn anything that sounds any good takes hours of r
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by CannisterFlux 6y ago
I use http://davmail.sourceforge.net/ running locally and connect Thunderbird to it for Exchange email and calendar. I used to use the TB add-ons for this directly but they broke a couple of years ago with the XUL addons re
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by CannisterFlux 6y ago
Have I misunderstood something, or is this app's main goal to view Japanese comics infringing copyright in some way? That's probably the reason it was pulled. Sure it has other uses, plausible deniability, but what did the guy exp
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by CannisterFlux 7y ago
Strange that this is not mentioned at all in the Spanish press. Maybe the original story has been mistranslated or blown out of proportion.
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by CannisterFlux 7y ago
Well you jest maybe, but the vast majority of new characters are not emojis. The Creative Commons symbol, for example. And 200 glyphs from the vintage Apple II, Amstrad CPC and Commodore Amiga computers. There are "only" 55 new em
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by CannisterFlux 7y ago
Wasn't it was worse than that? I think they used to ask for your email and password explicitly for the contacts. Twitter used to do the same as well as some others. Here is a blog post from 2008 about Yelp doing it, but I can't fi
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by CannisterFlux 7y ago
I'm not too bothered about ublock - I already run blokada so the worst adverts are already blocked at the network level - but being in Europe I can't manage without the I don't care about cookies add-on. Whenever I've
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by CannisterFlux 7y ago
I turned off web fonts in Firefox settings to be able to read the site easier. The recommendations seem pretty good though, so it is worth a bit of "suffering".
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by CannisterFlux 7y ago
Yeah, they are not nearly as good. I've had pieces snap just from having them in a box, rooting through to find other pieces, they must have snagged. And dropping regular pieces on a tiled floor from table height, had the side break! M
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by CannisterFlux 7y ago
Not only the model quality, but the Lego bricks themselves are pretty disappointing too. If you drop a normal brick on a hard floor the brick is likely to shatter. More models have special parts with narrow waist sections that easily snap.
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by CannisterFlux 7y ago
I think it is the use of the word "fraternal". It means "of or like a brother or brothers", implying male gender. "be relaxed and relax them too, with a fraternal and understanding tone" The word "friendly
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by CannisterFlux 7y ago
Yes, it is not available on Google Play. The issue in distribution was totally down to Google's cut :-)
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by CannisterFlux 7y ago
I'm surprised Google didn't pull the ability to download an APK and install it from Android Q. They modified the permissions slightly so now you have to click "allow" again every time an app wants to install an APK it ha
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by CannisterFlux 7y ago
The branching example is very tempting when you have a product that is used on site by multiple customers. Customer A asks for some change that impacts customer B. Without good tests the easiest thing to do is fork the world for A and B, so
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by CannisterFlux 7y ago
The collapse of Easter Island was mostly likely due to Europeans introducing disease to the island in their first visits, kidnapping the islanders for slavery aboard ships, then nearby Chile doing the same sort of thing, followed by more di
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by CannisterFlux 7y ago
Steve Gibson is ... well, he used Windows XP until fairly recently. He's not some one you should take advice from. I used noscript until Firefox changed to the new web API and noscript stopped working briefly. I switched to ublock orig
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by CannisterFlux 7y ago
> The house smells pretty good with all the wood I hope you like it because that smell will take a long time to fade and will be your new cologne :) My parents used to live in a wooden house. Even 10+ years after they built it whenever I
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by CannisterFlux 7y ago
Perhaps labeling these non-animal products as something other than meat might be a good thing. Long term, I think we animal-eaters are on the wrong side of history. Providing humans survive the climate crisis and collapse of civilization, m
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by CannisterFlux 7y ago
Nah. The ground control segment software runs a version of the ESA's SCOS 2000 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCOS_2000 and is on Linux (and maybe Solaris).

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