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16 days agoYou might want to check if there’s someplace nearby that sells biltong. There’s a local butcher shop in my area that makes and sells it and it’s like the jerky you describe from when you were a kid.
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Folding Ideas - In Search of a Flat Earth https://youtu.be/JTfhYyTuT44
It was the first Folding Ideas video I watched. The pivot from the technical portion to the social commentary portion is masterful.
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It really dug into the corrosive nature of online conspiracy theory in an impactful and approachable way. I’m not sure if the video itself is more or less relevant than it was at the time of its release, since QAnon integrated with the mainstream MAGA movement not too much later and is maybe now starting to fracture back out again under pressure from the Trump administration’s failure to meaningfully address the Epstein files.
Still worth a watch either way.
I’d recommend watching it on a large screen to get the full impact from the Lake Minnewanka experiment. It is very striking.
3·29 days agoThe only way to play Factorio wrong is to play in a way where you’re not having fun and the community kinda embodies that spirit. That said, I have seen a lot of things that made me go “hmm…” in the FactoriOhNo subreddit over the years.
I watch Groundhog Day at least twice a year.
9·3 months agoFor me, I only back up data I can’t replace, which is a small subset of the capacity of my NAS. Personal data like photos, password manager databases, personal documents, etc. get locally encrypted, then synced to a cloud storage provider. I have my encryption keys stored in a location that’s automatically synced to various personal devices and one off-site location maintained by a trusted party. I have the backups and encryption key sync configured to keep n old versions of the files (where the value of n depends on how critical the file is).
Incremental synchronization really keeps the bandwidth and storage costs down and the amount of data I am backing up makes file level backup a very reasonable option.
If I wanted to back up everything, I would set up a second system off-site and run backups over a secure tunnel.
3·3 months agoIt’s on my list! Just haven’t gotten around to it yet.
To be honest, I recognized the screenshot and know the summary of the movie but I haven’t actually seen it.
The 1983 movie WarGames. This is the computer’s conclusion after simulating every possible outcome of Global Thermonuclear War.
Giant hogweed is pretty gnarly. If your skin comes in contact with its sap, exposure to sunlight will give you severe burns and scarring. The photosensitivity can last for days even after the sap itself has been washed away.
2·4 months agoThe 12th Amendment explicitly forbids this:
no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States
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It ends with a chop and the protagonist cashes out and walks away. Not exciting from a poker perspective but the protagonist develops as a person between the last bet and the reveal.
My wife decided the climax of her book would be a poker game and I was like “If you do this, DO NOT use the royal flush takes all trope. It is a tired cliché.”
She did something a little different and I’m very pleased with how she subverted that trope.
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Some friends moved to Canada from abroad and their first Christmas here, we did every Christmas tradition we could think of with them, even ones we didn’t normally partake in ourselves. Introducing them to Christmas really brought back the joy of it for me.
4·6 months agoI would like this to be on by default. I have lost track of the number of times I have accidentally swiped back too many times.
Using warm water is unsafe. Cold water only.
I uninstalled Duolingo the day they started offering to restore your streak for money.
I live about 100km from my hometown. It’s where I was born and I lived there on and off for about half my life but I no longer think of it as home.
I found out some friends of mine who moved here from abroad had never had Dubble Bubble, so I bought some and we all had a piece when they came over for Christmas.