what is even the point of it?

No one’s been on this spacecraft design while it’s in space before, and it’s got some kinks that need to be worked out (like the issues with the toilet); it’s a shakedown flight to figure out what goes wrong when people are actually on board. That’s not really all that sexy compared to a moon landing, but testing your support systems in practice really needs to happen before you do more ambitious things with the craft.

I got my hands on a physical copy a few months ago and I’m part way through a first watch. From my notes I made it to about an hour and half into the 2nd disc (of a 5 disc release where the last disc was the movie) back in February before putting it down. Haven’t gotten back to it yet – though I will eventually.

I was somewhat familiar with some of the characters from memes already (e.g. Shinji, Rei, Asuka) but the penguin was a surprise.

Looks like roughly a dozen or two (from a quick check) as far as actual bookmarks go. I use most of them, though there’s a few I should probably prune at this point. I have a lot of tabs in tab groups instead though (500-ish?). That works better for me with frequent screen sharing for work calls (keeping URL bar suggestions restricted to bookmarks only), and matches my way of thinking about projects I’m working on better as well.

I also save pages with SingleFile that I want to preserve for future reference instead of bookmarking – no point hoping they’ll continue to be online and accessible when I can just keep my own copy locally… Looks like I’ve archived roughly 200 or so pages in the last year like that.

“Getting by” or “carrying on” assuming I don’t want to invite deeper discussion of my issues.

Last time I talked to them, they used Zoom.

My medical provider started doing that when I last had a video conference with them, and I declined to allow the use of AI. They took no issue with that – didn’t even bring it up. It’s very unlikely that your provider will care that you declined either. I recommend saving your energy for other problems and dealing with this later in the unlikely event that they do actually make an issue of it.

Seems to just be a meme like the void cat frenzy a while back – that is, people posting their pet photos with a title saying it isn’t AI – and more and more people just keep piling on. :p

This post might have started it?

If there’s any more to it than that, then I’m out of the loop too.

Yes. Have done so several times, and have had people come up and talk to me out of the blue as well. Sometimes it has gone well. I’ve had a few good conversations with random people on long distance transport (planes, trains, and such) when I struck up conversations with whoever ended up in the seat next to me, and a few times (more rarely) in grocery stores when I’m having trouble finding something (or vice versa). e.g. got asked about uses for unusual ingredients I was having trouble finding and traded some recipe tips.

Usually when other people come up to me they just want me to give them money, or join their religion though.

All of them? No. I can remember some details of a lot of them, and some of them very well, but there’s others – especially from when I was very young – that I no longer have a good full mental map of.

I definitely do not remember the layout of all my schools. I moved a lot and some of these are just disconnected fragments of areas to me now. I have no idea how my classroom and the cafeteria were connected in the school I was at in 3rd grade, for example, and I’m struggling to even remember how I got home from school then – even though I do remember taking the bus to school at that age, and I remember some of the places I had to wait to catch the bus home when I was even younger than that… It’s strange what sticks in memory and what doesn’t, sometimes.

I’ve been using the HTML only version of DuckDuckGo as my default since Google made JS mandatory to run searches. It works ok for most of the simple queries I make. (e.g. looking something up from the Python docs, MDN, etc.) I resort to Google still for the stuff it completely flubs.

Gone from probably 99% Google + 1% of other to maybe something like 95% DDG + 5% other (mostly Google).

I thought I was lucky to be in California…fuck me.

You should go read the actual requirements because it’s probably the sanest version of this that exists.

Your OS just has to have a way for you to say “I am this age” (bracketed into several groups) at account creation and software is supposed to respect that. Not a fucking face scan or ID or any of that other bullshit that some other idiotic “verification” attempts require.

We use VPNs at work a lot for protecting traffic as it passes over the public internet between distant sites. From a security perspective, it’s better not to give devices direct access to the internet if they don’t actually need it. That’s stuff we’re running ourselves though; not a commercial VPN service we’re paying for.

I liked the UI when I first encountered it, but it being invite-only killed what interest I had in it pretty quick during the 2023 reddit exodus. Seems to still be invite only in 2026.

I wonder how they’d take to being called “morbidly rich”? 🤔️

I talk to my Dad about once a week or so for maybe 20 or 30 mins. Usually just “How’s it going?” kind of small talk. Work. Health issues. Sometimes about food or hobbies. Commiserating about politics. Updates about relatives moving/getting jobs/etc. Things like that. Helps us both stay sane in this crazy world.

Once a month or so, I talk to my uncle. He’s more chatty, so those calls go on for longer. He likes to tell me bits of family lore, about his interests in detail, about food and his pet and what’s going on with his friends and neighbors – like trips he’s taken with them to go out shopping and such.

My other relatives don’t talk to me very often, so those are more of life catch-up talks every couple months/years or conversations about specific things that I have skills in that they’d like help learning.

Maybe try asking your mom what’s on her mind lately – other than you – and take it from there? Most people love to talk about themselves if given a chance. Ask questions about what she says and try to find a topic of mutual interest.

Looking back through your history, that’s a post by a user local to your instance. You can see it because you’re on the same instance.

If I understand how federation works correctly, posts don’t go directly to the instance a community is on when they are made. They are created locally on your own instance, and then federate out if/when they can. Since you’re both on the same instance, you can see the post and interact with it, but the post and your comments are (presumably) stuck in a queue trying to federate to the now defunct instance. Since lemm.ee is gone, it can’t federate out, so other people don’t see the post/comment on their instance.

I think that’s what’s going on.

BlueSky uses AT Protocol which is similar to how you break things down: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT_Protocol

Instances go down a lot – often permanently. e.g. kbin.social, lemm.ee, etc.

When an instance goes down, it takes out all the user accounts and communities on it, and it’s hit or miss if you can find copies of the posts on other instances.

Yeah; I think so. When I got this file originally, I think it was from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Neptune_Voyager2_color_calibrated.png

which says:

Neptune on 1989-08-17, taken by NASA’s Voyager 2 probe. This color image was composed of three frames, orange, green, and blue, taken by Voyager 2’s imaging system. This color image has been calibrated to best represent Neptune’s true color and appearance. Based on: (in English) Irwin, Patrick G J (2023-12-23). “Modelling the seasonal cycle of Uranus’s colour and magnitude, and comparison with Neptune”. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 527 (4): 11521–11538. DOI:10.1093/mnras/stad3761. ISSN 0035-8711

It looks like I re-compressed the version I posted with webp to reduce the file size for quicker viewing on lemmy – so the colors in that are a little off from the PNG on Wikipedia, but are still closer than the classic enhanced color image.

darkblue

It’s also light blue; pictures of it were just always published with exaggerated colors for a long time. It’s actually more like this if you do better color calibration, apparently: