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brettermeier··on Breakfast cereal is in long-term decline
Are you also against pineapple on pizza? I can't understand any Italian who doesn't like it because it's not "traditional".
brettermeier··on Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Win11 to get people to ditch Chrome
I don't know what you tried to install, but in my experience installing stuff on Windows is way more easy and error-free than on Linux systems.
brettermeier··on Alexandria: A minimalistic cross-platform eBook reader
You must build it yourself with Tauri (https://tauri.app) or use pre-built releases, which you can download here: https://github.com/btpf/Alexandria/releases
brettermeier··on Souvenir Spoons Museum
It seems to be a good day for oldschool websites on HN, see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37304789
brettermeier··on To tackle highest housing costs, hawaii's gov declares YIMBY martial law
Yeah, as they say in the text:

>> "At the end of the [proclamation], if there's anything close to the 50,000 new units on the market the governor predicted and the sky's not black with pollution, the waters look like they do today, that's going to provide some empirical proof that it was these [regulations] getting in the way."

I'm also curious to see what the environment will look like after most of the regulations are eliminated.

brettermeier··on Thinking about God increases acceptance of AI in decision-making
Yeah, when people lack understanding they come up with stupidity to have a simple explanation. Sad.
brettermeier··on Ocean Heat Record Broken
And it's not on Anna's Archive, unfortunately. It seems to be too new.

And btw., you should never (NEVER!) give money to Springer. They are truly evil.

brettermeier··on The worst API ever made (2014)
SAP surely too...
brettermeier··on After Raising $235K, Abode Remains Committed to Taking on Adobe
You could have read the whole article, then you wouldn't have missed this paragraph:

"The other, perhaps more urgent issue is the threat of Adobe’s legal department. The marketing and branding of the software looked a little too on the nose for the multi-billion dollar company to ignore. Semple says he’s ready should Adobe decide to flex its legal muscle.

“I have lawyers, and I’ve taken advice. We have solid plans in place. I would also point out that nobody has seen the final branding and no software that infringes on any of Adobe’s trademarks has been produced,” he says.

Examples of the software icons Abode displayed on its Kickstarter. “I have successfully challenged IP owned by Tiffany and Co, Pantone, Mattel, and others over the years. I feel we have a good and thorough understanding of where the legal line is and an ability to get as close to that as possible without overstepping it.”"

brettermeier··on Trying to find some life on the Usenet (2020)
In my opinion it would help if useful instructions how to use such services won't look like an API documentation for developers.

Your idea of having people in your family/friends that help everyone else with joining such communities is nice, but it also depends on some factors: - Do you know such people in your family? - Do you have a family/friends? - Do you want to waste their time with your needs, and how many people must be served by one person?

It may work for some to many people to ask for help with something like this, but not for the masses I think.

brettermeier··on Trying to find some life on the Usenet (2020)
I just tried it. I created an account on a Lemmy instance. Now I also want to join other instances. But how to do it? I won't create an account for every instance, but I'm stuck now.

So... don't know if that will ever replace Reddit. You really have to be a bit tech-savvy, and most users of the internet aren't.

Edit: And the instructions how to do it are buried away somewhere around two-thirds of the way through the text on this page (https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/01-getting-started.html), with way to much text on it for normal users to read it all or to not stop caring.

brettermeier··on Ubisoft account -including games- can be permanently deleted for inactivity
Ubisoft seems to really want Empress to crack more games :P Meanwhile I even understand why some people send her quite a lot of money via crypto to crack a game instead of spending the money directly on the game.
brettermeier··on Tell HN: The “Y” logo in the top-left corner has been upgraded to SVG
I would make the fold-a-post-button a bit bigger and with more space to the left. The rest seems clickable to me.
brettermeier··on Dropbox telemetry can't be disabled
Taking care of data and servers is the big problem, even for people who are more into computers. There are many holes to fall into.
brettermeier··on Space Elevator
I wonder about the skydiver at almost 3000 m altitude. Isn't 4000 m a typical jump height?

Edit: Okay, depends on where you live and learn.

brettermeier··on Laying Out a Print Book with CSS
I thought the publisher gets a PDF.
brettermeier··on Instagram Is Disabling Its NFT Features
If you don't want to look at it, why buy it in the first place? I mean, anybody needs to look at it, or all this stuff makes no sense...
brettermeier··on React is holding me hostage
The new Reddit is so slow... after some bingescrolling I often give up due to the annoying loading times and close the site. I always imagine that many people react like this on super slow websites, but on the other hand it's Reddit and many people don't know which site to visit instead :P
brettermeier··on Ultra-processed foods may contribute to cognitive decline
The article says that more research is needed in that regard:

> For example, you could eat a burger and fries from a fast food chain, which would be high in fat, sugar and salt as well as being ultra-processed. You could make that same meal at home, which could also be high in fat, sugar and salt but would not be ultra-processed. More research is needed to determine whether one is worse than the other.

brettermeier··on Israel's Dangerous Shadow War with Iran
It was Lieberman, one source: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2013/02/israeli-and-pale...

And there are debates about the state of Israels democracy: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/democracy-means-ju...

brettermeier··on Israel's Dangerous Shadow War with Iran
Sure, if this continues, both sides should be concerned. I just wanted to point out that I don't believe that one side is the lone aggressor and the other side is completely innocent.
brettermeier··on Israel's Dangerous Shadow War with Iran
I mean, Israels leadership have literally said once to drown all palestinians in the sea would be a good idea. There are always two sides minimum...
brettermeier··on Israel's Dangerous Shadow War with Iran
I guess you never were in Iran and spoke to some people from that country? Throwing bombs at people won't help much, and regarding the complex history of both countries I can't say who's right there with having prejudices, but I think you have really big unhealthy ones...
brettermeier··on Teams are becoming smaller
VP, SVP, IC?
brettermeier··on For police PR flacks, quack lives matter
There may be some good cops, but I think they get crowded out by all the scum around them or by their strange loyalty behavior where no cop would say anything bad against another cop - at worst they die because of it, or they need another job, or they get transferred to another police station in the middle of nowhere.
brettermeier··on The CSS at w3.org is gone
I personally hate it and want the CSS back.
brettermeier··on Robot is doing the work of an army of Renaissance sculptors, according to owner
I really like the aesthetics of old buildings from the 1900s in Europe, and it's a bit of a shame that modern architects don't stick to the beautiful old look anymore. If you could recreate that look with robots, it could really lead to a renaissance of oldschool facades, if those Bauhaus/Brutalism people don't get in the way of that, of course.
brettermeier··on Microplastics are finding their way into fruit and vegetables as they grow
There are no countries with good waste management systems. Waste counts as recycled, if it was exported. What happens after that, nobody knows and nobody cares. Even in Europe, just a tiny amount of plastic gets recycled, most is shipped away, so that others should care about.

Edit: Source: "The recycling lie" https://www.daserste.de/information/reportage-dokumentation/... (german)

brettermeier··on Why hundreds of thousands of kids in the US dread their 21st birthdays
That's 50/50 true ;P And will maybe much more in the (near?) future.
brettermeier··on When coyotes attacked, a dog killed 8 of them, saving a flock of sheep
Get a donkey, they also smash hyenas for fun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t5eOK05mZQ
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