chickenfeed

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by chickenfeed 2y ago
We have local community groups on FB. One for our hamlet of about 50 houses. Some households refuse to join as they don't do Facebook. I only do Facebook because of the local group. I long ago gave up trying to fill those people in
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by chickenfeed 2y ago
I have no idea what apps are sharing with what. On Android network access is so ambiguous. There's such fuzzy wording. Like when you are asked for location permission to use bluetooth. Even perms like file system access. I don&#x2
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by chickenfeed 2y ago
It's actually a real drag. I live in a rural area and the mobile signal is up and down. Sometimes I don't get SMSs for hours to a day late.
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by chickenfeed 2y ago
Don't forget Anom. (A cautionary tale.) https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/146/
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by chickenfeed 2y ago
I read an article that said something along the lines of people aren't prepared to pay for apps, so instead we get app store silo advert supported crap-ware. And if it's not the apps its click bait making fractional gains by bein
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by chickenfeed 2y ago
I wouldn't say it's all trash, but I find TV like this. I loathe most of it finding it pretty vacuous. I am still drawn to it. We had a defining realisation last year when we found a Youtube channel where a guy cleans carpets. I
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by chickenfeed 2y ago
I was very late to the party getting a smartphone. Didn't stop me picking up my laptop repeatedly. Visiting the same old haunts. I have yet to install Facebook or Whatsapp or similar. I think it would be the death of me. I spend way
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by chickenfeed 2y ago
If we could cut people's tongues out the world would be a better place. I don't know, I think communication can provide a fertile ground for good exchanges as well as bad. It's just somewhat stifled in the current forms.
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by chickenfeed 2y ago
Self-hosting sounds good but the security concerns are just a bind. Plus you need stability. Like having a home. Our electric grid falls over at least once a week where we live. Yes I could use batteries, but no, I can't be bothere
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by chickenfeed 2y ago
Bluesky has potential with the AT protocol. I think I had a flagged post on Bluesky, early on that just referenced something elsewhere - it was pretty harmless. And I remember a few X users trying the platform saying something vaguely cont
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by chickenfeed 2y ago
I used to enjoy using browsers like W3M, if you can just throw assets at your favourite tool of choice, like an image viewer, a video player, it just feels better for me as I don't have to learn a different interface for every site I v
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by chickenfeed 2y ago
But perhaps, not so good, don't google that one.
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by chickenfeed 2y ago
Great app name: ontheloo
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by chickenfeed 3y ago
It was a joke, of course I don't get my partner to chew my foods for me. The blending is not so much the issue. It's the saliva being an important part of the digestive process that counts. Blended soups can upset my gut, proba
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by chickenfeed 3y ago
It's just play. Meaning that I'm too lazy to even chew my own food, so I get someone else to do it. Like on Ferenginar.
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by chickenfeed 3y ago
Yes.
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by chickenfeed 3y ago
I thought that fat had been un-demonised and overtaken by sugars and ultra-processed foods. Looking in my stock cupboard, the raw fats I do get are probably the best bang for the buck nutritionally.
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by chickenfeed 3y ago
Never mind being paid to have children. I'd just like to have the means to support a dog. It's bizarre to think that in a nation like the UK we'd struggle so much. We have put off having kids and now have probably missed th
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by chickenfeed 3y ago
It's always weird reading HN with over inflated egos, and those on good salaries. I've been in debt for over a decade. For some that money would be chicken feed, but for me it has ensured I'm in perpetual debt. I never have
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by chickenfeed 3y ago
I don't know, there's many people with dairy intolerance. A bit off puffed grain draped in sugar with a sprinkle of vitamins, in a headache inducing substance doesn't sound like the best start for any kid. But agree that it w
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by chickenfeed 3y ago
There's foods that trigger GERD for me, and I used to roll around the floor every night in agony, not knowing quite what was going on, as it was my norm. To fix late night issues, I just have to eat before 6pm. Chew properly. Soups ki
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by chickenfeed 3y ago
Out the box the squashed tabs vs the silly tab scroll thing on Firefox is horrible. But it reminds me I have too many tabs open anyway. I mainly use FF, but the UI really is behind the times. Notice MS marketing stuff like chatGPT in the
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by chickenfeed 3y ago
AIs are magic to me. The pattern recognition feature of human I've always thought pretty unique and hard to replicate. We use it when scanning the slop on websites to do some kind of data extraction. I was part of the semantic web c
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by chickenfeed 3y ago
There was that small window of niceness, where the html diminished in size. Now it's just all pseudo inline styles painted by class names with lashings of scripts. Always surprised when you peek under pretty much a bereft page of not
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by chickenfeed 3y ago
I don't want to totally neg on web dev. But it does suck donkey balls. I've been doing it for years. From writing raw html,to using scripting langs, frameworks and what not. And the amount of time it takes to do not a lot I fi
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by chickenfeed 3y ago
Just been in a holiday cottage out on the exposed dales in the English peaks. And by about day four we had fruit flies. Sometimes I think they emerge from the bananas.
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by chickenfeed 3y ago
Weird isn't it. I used to run Opera on a Pentium 200 with a pitiful amount of ram. Oh how times change.
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by chickenfeed 3y ago
I have mostly old hardware (the best computers I have is a smartphone and a macmini from 2012). I'm disappointed when I load newer Linux distros and they appear slower. Even though I now have SSDs. Browsers are really greedy. I hav
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by chickenfeed 3y ago
I think Musk is hoping that Twitter can be this. But he should have edged in slowly to make Twitter Auth a trustable product. It now feels like a mess and has less authenticity. The UK government were going to delegate their age ID system