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  1. Comment on Views on over-posting? in ~tildes

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    Not gonna lie, if not for this post, I wouldn't have even realized that those posts are all from the same person and would've thought "wow, there are a lot of space news lately". I usually don't...

    Not gonna lie, if not for this post, I wouldn't have even realized that those posts are all from the same person and would've thought "wow, there are a lot of space news lately". I usually don't look at who posted or wrote something, and either way there are only like 5 usernames at most I recognize here (and half of them are admins)

    12 votes
  2. Comment on How to customise status icons in Android 16? in ~tech

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    If you're ok with the status bar not being transparent, there are apps like super status bar (maybe there are better options as well, this is just the one I've seen) that replace the status bar...

    If you're ok with the status bar not being transparent, there are apps like super status bar (maybe there are better options as well, this is just the one I've seen) that replace the status bar with a custom one that you can customize.

    3 votes
  3. Comment on Is there a lookup tool for credit card leaks? in ~tech

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    Some countries have national standardized payment services that let you pay online through your bank's mobile app without entering your card details. Russia's СБП, Dutch iDEAL and...

    Some countries have national standardized payment services that let you pay online through your bank's mobile app without entering your card details. Russia's СБП, Dutch iDEAL and Belgian/Luxembourgish Payconiq are the ones I know (iDEAL and Payconiq will also be phased out in favor of Wero, which has already launched in Germany and is supposed to be Europe-wide). Having lived in Russia and the Netherlands, those systems are super convenient and the security benefit of not having to share your details is nice as well.

    2 votes
  4. Comment on Epstein-Barr virus appears to be trigger of lupus disease in ~health

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    It's published in a legitimate journal, so it is peer reviewed. "Peer reviewed" doesn't mean the findings of the study are confirmed, it just means a few volunteer experts from the field read the...

    Should I take this to mean the study is not yet peer reviewed?

    It's published in a legitimate journal, so it is peer reviewed. "Peer reviewed" doesn't mean the findings of the study are confirmed, it just means a few volunteer experts from the field read the article, didn't find any obvious mistakes or inconsistencies within it, and think it deserves to be in the journal.

    10 votes
  5. Comment on Epstein-Barr virus appears to be trigger of lupus disease in ~health

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    For anyone reading this in over a week when @tauon's link is expired, I've uploaded the article to LibGen, ZLib and Nexus/STC. Should also get mirrored by Anna's Archive in about a day or so. You...

    For anyone reading this in over a week when @tauon's link is expired, I've uploaded the article to LibGen, ZLib and Nexus/STC. Should also get mirrored by Anna's Archive in about a day or so. You should be able to download the paper from there.

    12 votes
  6. Comment on Shrinking number of free news outlets in ~talk

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    Fwiw, it only requests permissions to access specific sites, so unless you have some sensitive information in your account on some news website, it couldn't hack you even if it wanted to. It's...

    Fwiw, it only requests permissions to access specific sites, so unless you have some sensitive information in your account on some news website, it couldn't hack you even if it wanted to. It's also nice to see how often new sites are added - once in a while it will pop up requesting access permissions for like 10 new websites.

    5 votes
  7. Comment on The death of punctuation in ~humanities.languages

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    I have a personal Telegram channel and I write basically like that intentionally as a stylistic choice. It makes it much less serious and gives a certain tone to the messages. It does take some...

    I have a personal Telegram channel and I write basically like that intentionally as a stylistic choice. It makes it much less serious and gives a certain tone to the messages. It does take some effort, sometimes I have to rewrite a post multiple times to make sure it's easily readable without any punctuation.

  8. Comment on Duck Duck Go search AI curiously cited Tildes in ~tech

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    It doesn't seem like it blocks ChatGPT's search functionality though. It blocks GPTBot, which is their crawler for collecting training data, but web search inside of ChatGPT uses a separate bot...

    It doesn't seem like it blocks ChatGPT's search functionality though. It blocks GPTBot, which is their crawler for collecting training data, but web search inside of ChatGPT uses a separate bot named OAI-SearchBot, which is not blocked here.

    https://platform.openai.com/docs/bots

    4 votes
  9. Comment on Duck Duck Go search AI curiously cited Tildes in ~tech

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    Wow, really? I don't think I've ever seen Tildes in search results on Kagi. Can you give some example of query for which it shows up? Funny enough, I actually learned about Tildes from the Kagi...

    Wow, really? I don't think I've ever seen Tildes in search results on Kagi. Can you give some example of query for which it shows up?

    Funny enough, I actually learned about Tildes from the Kagi Feedback forum, from seeing this post:

    https://kagifeedback.org/d/1879-when-summarising-tildesnet-it-should-take-into-account-the-comments-as-well

    5 votes
  10. Comment on Zen browser / chrome alternatives in ~tech

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    One benefit of Zen people haven't mentioned here is that they're much more efficient in their development than Mozilla, due to being a smaller team and project. If you report a bug or feature...

    One benefit of Zen people haven't mentioned here is that they're much more efficient in their development than Mozilla, due to being a smaller team and project. If you report a bug or feature request to them, it doesn't take too long to respond or fix it, while Mozilla can leave your report unread for years. In fact, I think there have been multiple cases of Zen patching bugs that were in upstream Firefox for over 10 years.

    3 votes
  11. Comment on How long do homemade olives stay safe? in ~food

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    Yeah, that's true. Brine would extend the life, but also not keeping them in the fridge would shorten it. It's probably very hard to figure out the safe shelf life here.

    Yeah, that's true. Brine would extend the life, but also not keeping them in the fridge would shorten it. It's probably very hard to figure out the safe shelf life here.

    1 vote
  12. Comment on How long do homemade olives stay safe? in ~food

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    Don't have any experience with making olives, but https://stilltasty.com is a pretty good resource and it gives the best before date for an open can of commercially canned olives as 18-24 months...

    Don't have any experience with making olives, but https://stilltasty.com is a pretty good resource and it gives the best before date for an open can of commercially canned olives as 18-24 months and for deli counter olives in oil as 1-2 months.

    Also see FoodKeeper by USDA - it only suggests storing olive bar olives for 2 weeks.

    They also all assume storage in the fridge, and you say your jar was just standing in the cupboard, so it's probably less than that.

    However, those are estimates for the best quality, and the StillTasty page also says this:

    The storage time shown for opened olives is for best quality only - after that, the olives' texture, color or flavor may change, but in most cases, they will still be safe to consume if they have been kept continuously refrigerated, the jar or can is undamaged, and there are no signs of spoilage (see below).

    How can you tell if opened olives are bad or spoiled? The best way is to smell and look at the olives: if the olives develop an off odor, flavor or appearance, or if mold appears, they should be discarded.

    Discard all olives from cans or bottles that are leaking, rusting, bulging or severely dented.

    So I'm guessing it's very much a "at your own risk" situation. They're way past the suggested best before date, especially since you didn't store them in the fridge - and you did find mold in one of the cans, which means the time and conditions were clearly enough for it to develop. But you also say you didn't find anything strange in the other cans, so they may be safe to eat for now. I wouldn't - but I'm also much more paranoid about food safety than most people out there.

    Edit: turns out StillTasty has an email address for food safety questions, so maybe you can ask them as well! Seems like they actually answer them

    8 votes
  13. Comment on I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla in ~tech

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    Translation could also be an LLM problem. It's not the fastest or lightest solution, but it does produce much better results. See Kagi Translate vs Google Translate for example.

    Translation could also be an LLM problem. It's not the fastest or lightest solution, but it does produce much better results. See Kagi Translate vs Google Translate for example.

    3 votes
  14. Comment on Who can name the bigger number? in ~science

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    It's better for handwriting large numbers, for typing 9's are still better.

    It's better for handwriting large numbers, for typing 9's are still better.

  15. Comment on Is vaping less harmful than smoking, and does it help people quit? in ~health

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    To be fair, this statement by itself doesn't say much about nicotine. There are a lot of substances present in things we consume every day that could kill a whole building of people in that amount.

    To be fair, this statement by itself doesn't say much about nicotine. There are a lot of substances present in things we consume every day that could kill a whole building of people in that amount.

    11 votes
  16. Comment on The fetch()ening (plans for HTMX 4) in ~comp

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    IMO, the "separation of concerns" between HTML/CSS/JS through IDs and classes was only useful back when it was created, when splitting the application into components wasn't as popular. Now, when...

    IMO, the "separation of concerns" between HTML/CSS/JS through IDs and classes was only useful back when it was created, when splitting the application into components wasn't as popular. Now, when the vast majority of web applications, even static ones, are written with components, it makes much more sense to bundle layout, styling and logic together. This is why people like to use things like Tailwind.

    8 votes
  17. Comment on You don't need Anubis in ~comp

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    You can even probably automate this by serving a page with a button that would send an HTML form request to the server which would then set the cookie using just HTTP header. Haven't tried that...

    Yes! The idea of providing instructions to set the verification cookie to noscript users

    You can even probably automate this by serving a page with a button that would send an HTML form request to the server which would then set the cookie using just HTTP header. Haven't tried that but in theory should be pretty easy to implement.

    As for search engine scrapers- I imagine you could just pick scrapers who are well behaved / publish the IP ranges that they scrape from

    Yeah, although this would unfortunately mean excluding smaller web crawlers from accessing your site. Search scrapers are generally more well-behaved than LLM scrapers and use a consistent User-Agent. Anubis itself actually has a bunch of User-Agent blocking presets of different levels of strictness - maybe you can just use those?

    4 votes
  18. Comment on You don't need Anubis in ~comp

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    Well, since the verification here is only done server side, the JS only needs to be run once to set the cookie. You can even adjust the redirect page to show instructions to NoJS users on how to...

    Well, since the verification here is only done server side, the JS only needs to be run once to set the cookie. You can even adjust the redirect page to show instructions to NoJS users on how to manually set the cookie in the dev tools, that way they won't have to enable JavaScript at all.

    The example in the post is not meant to be a full-featured production solution, for example, you probably also need to add an exception for search engine scrapers if you want your site to be indexed correctly.

    5 votes
  19. Comment on You don't need Anubis in ~comp

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    I initially tried a simpler solution just setting a cookie with a Set-Cookie header, and that didn't stop the bots. It is possible that they're only blocking cookies set through JS - I didn't...

    I'm wondering if they're running the JS but perhaps deliberately blocking cookies

    I initially tried a simpler solution just setting a cookie with a Set-Cookie header, and that didn't stop the bots. It is possible that they're only blocking cookies set through JS - I didn't verify that (I don't know why they would do that though). Those bots are unfortunately a black box and it's hard to test what does and doesn't stop them because the only way is to change the config and then wait for a while to check if any requests come through.

    6 votes