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A geologist and archaeologist by training, a nerd by inclination - books, films, fossils, comics, rocks, games, folklore, and, generally, the rum and uncanny… Let’s have it!
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- Yrtree.me - it’s still early days for me in the Fediverse, so bear with me
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My folks were great and I miss them a lot.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Chinese people and China enjoyers, what movies/series/cartoons from China would you absolutely recommend?
4·8 months agoI’m a big fan of the Hong Kong New Wave in cinema. It’s also a handy entrance to wider Chinese films - if you like a director or actor or type of film, there are a lot more to find if you start digging.
Go and see your GP. It wasn’t a heart attack but it was a wake up call and I don’t think jumping to seeing a cardiologist will be that helpful, although a GP can refer you on if they think you need it.
I was in the foothills of heart health problems - high BP, cholesterol creeping up, etc. and the health staff were starting to express concern (suggesting I might need to go on statins). So I turned it around in two years and at my last health check my weight and bloods were all “perfect” according to the nurse. So it is doable.
However, from what you say, mental health issues may be holding you back and making important and sweeping changes to your lifestyle require effort and focus. So the GP may want to get this addressed while starting to monitor your health through regular checks. I found the checks motivating in themselves as the data can really prod you into action because you no longer can say you are probably unhealthy - it is there in stark numbers. I also suspect I was slightly gamifying it as I made beating the numbers a focus and figuring out what I needed to do to adjust each on (as lowering triglyceride levels requires different action to lowering LDL, bad cholesterol). I even made a spreadsheet.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•are you permanently banned off reddit? or do you just like lemmy more?
3·8 months agoLeft during the APIcalypse, largely only go back to help guide people to the fire exits.
I hope people keep maintaining international trade relations, or else polititians may exploit it to push nationalism.
Oh indeed, we’re part of the larger !buyeuropean@feddit.uk movement, unfortunately, post-Brexit it will cost us more.
And we support FOSS from anywhere.
*The exception is buying goods from your close proximity, which might be environmentally beneficial
Yeah, you do want to reduce the air miles and your carbon footprint.
Got to support those penguins.
I can do but I thought that was for giving established communities a bit of love.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Pinterest changes user terms so it can train AI on user data and photos, regardless of when they were postedEnglish
8·9 months agoThat seems like a plus to them.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Pinterest changes user terms so it can train AI on user data and photos, regardless of when they were postedEnglish
8·9 months agoI’ve just asked. There is a FOSS but not federated version.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Pinterest changes user terms so it can train AI on user data and photos, regardless of when they were postedEnglish
12·9 months agoBut it is largely human-curated and indexed. That’s great for training AI, like Reddit.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Pinterest changes user terms so it can train AI on user data and photos, regardless of when they were postedEnglish
3·9 months agoWe just added it as the old frontend was getting hammered by bots - it helped a lot.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Pinterest changes user terms so it can train AI on user data and photos, regardless of when they were postedEnglish
6·9 months agoThere are lists of bots that instance Admins can block for a range of reasons.
Anything online can be scraped but big firms might run into regulatory trouble if they are caught randomly scraping sites without consent. At the moment, the big social media apps have a tonne of content to train on in tightly controlled conditions, so they don’t really need to go into the wild, yet. However, we need to be vigilant, block them and make a fuss if we catch them at it.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Pinterest changes user terms so it can train AI on user data and photos, regardless of when they were postedEnglish
31·9 months agoThat’s the bit that made me laugh: “nothing to see here, we’ve been doing this for a while. What, you didn’t know? Not our fault you are unobservant.”
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Technology@lemmy.world•If it is worth keeping, save it in MarkdownEnglish
11·9 months agoAs far as I can tell this is a desktop plugin. On mobile it only brings across the plain text.
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Technology@lemmy.world•If it is worth keeping, save it in MarkdownEnglish
1·9 months agoI needed it to save as markdown from my phone.
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Technology@lemmy.world•If it is worth keeping, save it in MarkdownEnglish
31·9 months agoI use Obsidian with Zettel Notes on my phone to access and edit the MD files in Obsidian, as it is much faster for dashing off a quick note. ZN also has tools that allow you to save a web page or selection as MD which is very handy indeed.
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New Communities@lemmy.world•Lefty Stacks - Good writers talking about protest or resistance on SubstackEnglish
1·10 months agoThis has just been posted:
https://lemmy.ca/post/39513727
I don’t think it is just the outright Nazis but all the fellow travellers and adjacent terrible people.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Tumblr to join the fediverse after WordPress migration completes | TechCrunchEnglish
2·10 months agoThanks, didn’t realise some were unlimited. I’ve only just moved to peertube.wtf and I’ll stay there for now. Any sign of pixelfed.wtf?
I’ll see how Tumblr federation goes as I do fancy trying to find ways to take advantage of their storage capacity. However, well see…
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Technology@lemmy.world•Tumblr to join the fediverse after WordPress migration completes | TechCrunchEnglish
11·10 months agoNow that is Interesting.
I had some thoughts about getting public domain short films into the Fediverse but you’d rapidly exhaust the allowance on most instances. However, this might just be the ticket. Time to brush off my Tumblr password…
Maybe PeerTube can already do that, haven’t played with it enough to know.
You’d think Peertube would be able to.












It depends on the severity.