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Dave, dave@lemmy.nz

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I have some ports wearing out (from kids tripping on the cable) plus the screen bezel has been broken for a long time. Will be nice to get some new bits! Plus get some of the port options that weren’t available when I got mine, like SD card reader or ethernet port.

I also wanted to upgrade the guts some time back but I’ll hold out for this announcement and see what the new stuff looks like (or get a discount on the old stuff).

Then I’ll have yet another machine to use as a server (the old mainboard) 😅


I guess it depends on the specifics of what you are worried about. I have a catchall set up for a domain I own, and so I can make up an email on the spot. I’ve never had trouble getting those accepted.

But for random internet stuff I tend to use either Firefix Relay or Simple Login. I use these most of the time and don’t normally have issues, but if I do then I use my own domain.

I think these relay email services (which are not temp/disposable emails btw) let you set up with your own domain too.


I’ve been running the same Framework laptop for years and years, after using YouShop to freight forward it. It is their original model, when there was only one option. At a certain point they started blocking people freight forwarding, and I haven’t been able to get replacement parts.

This morning I got an email telling me they are finally supporting NZ, so I can get those parts! And apparently they are announcing their next gen stuff in a couple of weeks.


Well I am a step closer to the answer. Here a similar photo taken on the Artemis II mission with the same identifying features: https://images.nasa.gov/details/art002e009212

In this fully illuminated view of the Moon, the near side (the hemisphere we see from Earth), is visible on the right. It is identifiable by the dark splotches that cover its surface. These are ancient lava flows from a time early in the Moon’s history when it was volcanically active. The large crater west of the lava flows is Orientale basin, a nearly 600-mile-wide crater that straddles the Moon’s near and far sides. Orientale’s left half is not visible from Earth, but in this image we have a full view of the crater. Everything to the left of the crater is the far side, the hemisphere we don’t get to see from Earth because the Moon rotates on its axis at the same rate that it orbits round us.

Long story short, like 3/4 of what is in this photo is the near side of the moon.

As a side note, the coloured image on the left of the OP appears to be this image that reddit detectives have decided was edited by OP. No one has found that coloured version on any NASA release.


I’m half confused. Light source - the sun, just take it when the moon is in it’s new moon phase (side facing earth is dark, side facing sun is light).

But the moon is tidally locked to earth, we always see the same side, so what is taking the photo?

Artemis II visited while the far side was dark, so I guess this is an old tweet otherwise why would NASA be releasing it now?

Happy to be told I’m dumb if I got something wrong…


Oh so when you said:

subscribed community | posts (today|week)

You weren’t asking for a way to see posts for a particular subscribed community, you wanted a list of communities with the number of new posts in each?

I’m not aware of a way to do that, no. But I wonder if the communities list page might help you find them? If you go to the communities page and sort by Scaled, like this:

https://discuss.online/communities?listingType=Local&sort=Scaled&page=1

Then small communities with recent activity should show at the top?


I’m not quite following.

If you go to the community and sort by new you’ll see new posts? That seems to be what you’re asking.

Also see the “scaled” option for your subscribed feed. This makes low activity communities show up higher in the list to try to stop them being drowned out by high-activity communities.


On thinking about this, it has basically the same trajectory as the ship, which is to use the moon’s gravity to come around and head back to earth. So the wastewater would do the same?


But they are on a return trajectory because of the moon’s gravity. So I guess the wastewater will come back towards earth?


I’m not sure they need much fuel anymore, their current trajectory gets them around the moon and back towards earth using just the moon’s gravity.


So they just dump the wastewater into space? What happens when the next mission hits that at 2000mph?


Cadbury was considered quality chocolate in NZ, regularly topped the most trusted brands in NZ lists. Then they tried to replace cocoa solids with palm oil (perhaps 20 years ago), and what feels like overnight they were outed and now are hardly ever mentioned. A local brand took over the quality chocolate spot, and eventually Carbury had to shut the NZ factory.

I like to think people learn about it when studying marketing / branding degrees.


I have been sent flowers when other people died, does that count?


I’m from a colony and pudding would normally be dessert unless further specified. I’m curious what specifically it was, was it anything listed in the top-ish section here?

Savoury puddings include Yorkshire pudding, black pudding, suet pudding and steak and kidney pudding. Sweet puddings include bread pudding, sticky toffee pudding, tapioca pudding, and rice pudding. Unless qualified, however, pudding usually means dessert and in the United Kingdom, pudding is used as a synonym for dessert.


I guess that depends on how much bigger the moon is than the Grand Canyon.


There is already plenty of empirical evidence to support the claims of the harms of social media, but in spite of this, change is glacial.

I think at one point you could make the same argument about medicines. The problem is that politicians are appointed with a popularity contest.

I don’t remember all the arguments of the article, but when you think about it, the harms of social media are medical. It’s possible that we could expand the scope of the current medicine approval boards to include algorithms, with their job not being to understand the algorithm but to understand the research on mental health.

I don’t have all the answers, but I do think it’s an idea worth exploring.


I was meeting with my team the other day, and the conversation turned to our mortgages. My boss: ah yes, the reason we are all here.


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I have some ports wearing out (from kids tripping on the cable) plus the screen bezel has been broken for a long time. Will be nice to get some new bits! Plus get some of the port options that weren’t available when I got mine, like SD card reader or ethernet port.

I also wanted to upgrade the guts some time back but I’ll hold out for this announcement and see what the new stuff looks like (or get a discount on the old stuff).

Then I’ll have yet another machine to use as a server (the old mainboard) 😅


I guess it depends on the specifics of what you are worried about. I have a catchall set up for a domain I own, and so I can make up an email on the spot. I’ve never had trouble getting those accepted.

But for random internet stuff I tend to use either Firefix Relay or Simple Login. I use these most of the time and don’t normally have issues, but if I do then I use my own domain.

I think these relay email services (which are not temp/disposable emails btw) let you set up with your own domain too.


I’ve been running the same Framework laptop for years and years, after using YouShop to freight forward it. It is their original model, when there was only one option. At a certain point they started blocking people freight forwarding, and I haven’t been able to get replacement parts.

This morning I got an email telling me they are finally supporting NZ, so I can get those parts! And apparently they are announcing their next gen stuff in a couple of weeks.


Well I am a step closer to the answer. Here a similar photo taken on the Artemis II mission with the same identifying features: https://images.nasa.gov/details/art002e009212

In this fully illuminated view of the Moon, the near side (the hemisphere we see from Earth), is visible on the right. It is identifiable by the dark splotches that cover its surface. These are ancient lava flows from a time early in the Moon’s history when it was volcanically active. The large crater west of the lava flows is Orientale basin, a nearly 600-mile-wide crater that straddles the Moon’s near and far sides. Orientale’s left half is not visible from Earth, but in this image we have a full view of the crater. Everything to the left of the crater is the far side, the hemisphere we don’t get to see from Earth because the Moon rotates on its axis at the same rate that it orbits round us.

Long story short, like 3/4 of what is in this photo is the near side of the moon.

As a side note, the coloured image on the left of the OP appears to be this image that reddit detectives have decided was edited by OP. No one has found that coloured version on any NASA release.


I’m half confused. Light source - the sun, just take it when the moon is in it’s new moon phase (side facing earth is dark, side facing sun is light).

But the moon is tidally locked to earth, we always see the same side, so what is taking the photo?

Artemis II visited while the far side was dark, so I guess this is an old tweet otherwise why would NASA be releasing it now?

Happy to be told I’m dumb if I got something wrong…


Oh so when you said:

subscribed community | posts (today|week)

You weren’t asking for a way to see posts for a particular subscribed community, you wanted a list of communities with the number of new posts in each?

I’m not aware of a way to do that, no. But I wonder if the communities list page might help you find them? If you go to the communities page and sort by Scaled, like this:

https://discuss.online/communities?listingType=Local&sort=Scaled&page=1

Then small communities with recent activity should show at the top?


I’m not quite following.

If you go to the community and sort by new you’ll see new posts? That seems to be what you’re asking.

Also see the “scaled” option for your subscribed feed. This makes low activity communities show up higher in the list to try to stop them being drowned out by high-activity communities.


On thinking about this, it has basically the same trajectory as the ship, which is to use the moon’s gravity to come around and head back to earth. So the wastewater would do the same?


But they are on a return trajectory because of the moon’s gravity. So I guess the wastewater will come back towards earth?


I’m not sure they need much fuel anymore, their current trajectory gets them around the moon and back towards earth using just the moon’s gravity.


So they just dump the wastewater into space? What happens when the next mission hits that at 2000mph?


Cadbury was considered quality chocolate in NZ, regularly topped the most trusted brands in NZ lists. Then they tried to replace cocoa solids with palm oil (perhaps 20 years ago), and what feels like overnight they were outed and now are hardly ever mentioned. A local brand took over the quality chocolate spot, and eventually Carbury had to shut the NZ factory.

I like to think people learn about it when studying marketing / branding degrees.


I have been sent flowers when other people died, does that count?


I’m from a colony and pudding would normally be dessert unless further specified. I’m curious what specifically it was, was it anything listed in the top-ish section here?

Savoury puddings include Yorkshire pudding, black pudding, suet pudding and steak and kidney pudding. Sweet puddings include bread pudding, sticky toffee pudding, tapioca pudding, and rice pudding. Unless qualified, however, pudding usually means dessert and in the United Kingdom, pudding is used as a synonym for dessert.


I guess that depends on how much bigger the moon is than the Grand Canyon.


There is already plenty of empirical evidence to support the claims of the harms of social media, but in spite of this, change is glacial.

I think at one point you could make the same argument about medicines. The problem is that politicians are appointed with a popularity contest.

I don’t remember all the arguments of the article, but when you think about it, the harms of social media are medical. It’s possible that we could expand the scope of the current medicine approval boards to include algorithms, with their job not being to understand the algorithm but to understand the research on mental health.

I don’t have all the answers, but I do think it’s an idea worth exploring.


I was meeting with my team the other day, and the conversation turned to our mortgages. My boss: ah yes, the reason we are all here.


Someone at work: OMG, I can’t believe I haven’t tried Copilot before, this is so great! Look, I asked it about how to do the thing in the framework and it came back and told me the pattern!

Me: Types the same prompt into Copilot, but replaces name of the framework with a very clearly made up word. Gets similar response telling me confidently how to do it in my made up framework.

Them: Ah, right. You did say bullshit generator, I get it now.


In my view social media is probably not the problem, but the algorithms they use that are designed to be addictive and manipulative.

I saw an article once arguing that the algorithms should be regulated in a similar way to medicine. Give some base ingredients they can use freely (e.g. sort by newest first), then require any others to run studies to prove they are not harmful.

There would be an expert board that approves or declines the new algorithm in the same way medicines are approved today (the important bit being that they are experts, not politicians making the decision).


I use a dedicated Raspberry Pi (5, previously had on a 4).

I host everything else on a different server, the HA one is dedicated. Pretty nice because then it can run HAOS and basically manages everything itself.

One factor in keeping it separate was I wanted it to be resilient. I don’t want stuff to stop working if I restart my server or if the server dies for some reason. My messing around on my server is isolated from my smart home.

I also have a separate Pi (4, previously on a Pi 1B) that runs Pi-hole, on it’s own Pi for the same reason - if it stops working or even pauses for a moment, the internet stops working.