KurtVonnegut

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Do you think your partner looks better with makeup? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

To me she looks the best when she just woke up. All messy and wild. How nature intended her to be.

Do you think your partner looks better with makeup? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Setting of a the positive feedback loop of love:

  1. You're happy because she's happy
  2. She's happy because you're happy
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Name showing in log in? (mander.xyz)
 

Small question: I am on Debian and use Gnome. I'm the only user on this laptop.

Is it possible to hide my username from the log in screen? So that only the password field shows?

The point is, my login name is my first name, and I don't like it ...

  1. ... when people in public transport can see my first name when I log in
  2. ...that if I lose my laptop, the people who find it can easily know my first name

I realize I could also simply pick a username that is not my first name, but it would save me a lot of reconfiguration if I could simply hide the name from the login screen.

Fossilesque appreciation post in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Well the feeling is mutual :)

Fossilesque appreciation post in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Great material

Are lunar calendars more common in civilizations at lower latitudes? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

But the moon cycles do not match the seasonal (solar) cycles no?

If you plant every six full moons, you end up planting in the winter at some point?

But then again, this only applies to higher latitudes.

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Are lunar calendars more common in civilizations at lower latitudes? (mander.xyz)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
4 comments fedilink
 

Given that annual fluctuations in solar irradiation become less pronounced the closer you get to the equator, it might get less relevant to track time by referring to our position to the sun?

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Fossilesque appreciation post (mander.xyz)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
19 comments fedilink
 

This is not a science meme.

I just want to take a moment to thank @[email protected] for providing us with so much quality content.

Really improves my day!

Would CSAR also apply to decentralized encrypted messaging services/protocols like Matrix? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

But how would it work?

This little plant, identified as Equisetum arvense by a colleague, appears to have grown right through one of the metal posts of the bridge of Amsterdam University College (#AUC #UvA #VU). in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Talking about perseverance!

Would CSAR also apply to decentralized encrypted messaging services/protocols like Matrix? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Fairphone with /e/OS

Not judging anyone by the way, but how do you justify or fix the following quirk in your version of capitalism/communism? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Australia has some of the largest rainforests: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gondwana_Rainforests

Not judging anyone by the way, but how do you justify or fix the following quirk in your version of capitalism/communism? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Capitalism is not just echange of goods and services for monetary reward. Its also the separation of labour from the means of production, the ensuing necessity of labour to sell their labour for a wage, and their ability to spend that wage freely at an open market.

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Would CSAR also apply to decentralized encrypted messaging services/protocols like Matrix? (mander.xyz)
submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
10 comments fedilink
 

If so how could they enforce that?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_to_Prevent_and_Combat_Child_Sexual_Abuse

Calls for J.D. Vance to resign after he admits that he 'created' pet-eating story about immigrants in c/[email protected]
Calls for J.D. Vance to resign after he admits that he 'created' pet-eating story about immigrants in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Colombia

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How come there are currently large low pressure zones at North Pole and South Pole? (mander.xyz)
 

Looking at https://zoom.earth/maps/pressure/

Given the much lower temperatures at the poles, I would expect the pressure to be (much) higher.

I'm reading here and there that air pressure at the antarctic is low because of its high altitude, but these maps show (I presume?) MSLP?

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Is Bluesky (going to be) as community-run as Mastodon? (mander.xyz)
 

Reading this article, and especially the end ...

CEO Jay Graber told The Verge that the plan is to hand over control of the AT protocol to a web standards body like the Internet Engineering Task Force.

... it almost sounds as if Bluesky is (going to be) as community-run as Mastodon.

But I'm suspicious. What is the catch?

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Does anyone know what plant this is? (mander.xyz)
 

A close up of the flower:

Thanks!

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