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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • Ah interesting. I know eggs can be (though the industrial washing they get changes that by removing an important protective layer), but figured the few times I got milk that went bad before the best before date it was because it wasn’t properly stored before I got it.

    Might depend on the pasteurization method maybe? Like the “bring it close to boiling” doesn’t kill everything in it but the chemicals might? (Speculation)

    Edit: apparently it has to do with the temperature it is pasteurized. There’s one version, most common in north America, that pasteurizes at slightly under a boil, which doesn’t kill everything in it and requires refrigeration before opening.

    And then there’s UHT milk, which is pasteurized at 138°C, and this apparently kills everything such that the milk doesn’t need to be kept in the fridge until it is open, and is more common in Europe and parts of Asia.



  • They are grocery stores, not some break room fridge. This attack is both economic (for the spoiled food that needs to be thrown out and the price increase that will come with that reduced supply) and on health (because not all spoiled food will necessarily be recognized as such in an effort to avoid the first consequence, plus if the fridges containing milk go warm for a few hours, they can test some milk and it’ll probably still be fine, but that best before date is now likely useless at best or misleading at worst). Also, even if most food is fine, if some food isn’t, it will mess with some people’s heads pretty badly.

    If the intention behind the hack was disruption and damage, IMO this is one of the more effective angles they could attack.


  • Yeah, I bet that’s why they made the decision to require logins because the community that wanted to continue using reddit in ways they didn’t want them to could adapt to any other changes they made like within hours or minutes. They blocked the app API but their own website still needed a way to access posts and comments and that way could be hijacked by anything else that just pretended to be a normal user or a collection of normal users browsing normally.

    Requiring a login won’t stop them. They will need to watermark comments per account in order to map sites that still get around it back to accounts to ban, though even that can be defeated by just using several accounts and comparing the comments to find out what the watermarks are and just strip them out entirely. Then just make sure the accounts that work together don’t do it in a consistent and detectable way and I don’t know how they would be able to respond to that.



  • And they were naive to try IMO. It was obvious that reddit had decided that they were willing to lose users over the API thing. They knew that there was a subset of users that couldn’t stand their new design and would never use their app because the other apps were really just a way to avoid the ongoing enshitification on the site. The mods that thought they could fight it were assuming that they were dealing with the same reddit that had been trying to balance users and profits and would be appalled to see droves of users leaving.

    The API change was them deciding to bite the bullet and just deal with that exodus of users. They expected to make shitloads of money from AI training but the API made it trivial to just ignore them and train on their data anyways.






  • I’ve been impressed with how it handles multimonitors at different resolutions. It scales it dynamically so that (for side by side) the top of the one screen lines up with the top of the other and same with the bottom, plus windows look like they are the same size (relative to screen size) smoothly even as they overlap both monitors.

    The only thing I don’t like is that the cursor can get “stuck” at the edge of one monitor, though I think that behaviour might be gone now after a recent update because I haven’t had to fight it as much lately.

    As someone who assumed that it wasn’t done like that because the scaling would look bad because pixels would need to be scaled to subpixels, I’m pretty impressed that that doesn’t seem to be the case (either that or they figured out how to handle that scaling so that it didn’t look like shit, though this might be the very thing that the custom renderer is failing to do properly in your case).


  • I suspect some (not enshitified) devices even designed around it because I remember it killing devices back in the day but the more recent times I’ve had it happen, like with a wireless guitar controller, the device was fine, just a bit crusty in the battery area. Though if you’ve ever opened up a guitar controller, they are mostly empty space, so it might just be the nature of their use case vs something like a gameboy, where everything is packed in as much as the thermal situation allowed.






  • The collision that created the moon might have been with an ice planetoid that also left a lot of the water we have here.

    And on the topic, I just watched an episode of The Universe, which was just added to netflix but was from 2011. Big thing I noticed was the CG in the show was pretty shitty. But they also made no mention about the moon creating collision despite that episode being the top 10 catastrophies in the solar system (which was also kinda a lame topic for a series about “the universe”, it would be like a series about cool things in the solar system that just focused on cool things on earth). So don’t even have to go back to the 70s for the moon creating collision to not be on the public’s radar at least.