Salamander @ Sal @mander.xyz

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I'd be happy to contribute to a fedi-organized charity!

'Christmas' can create a bit of a split as there is a wide range of opinions on it, so you could also consider framing it differently if you are not attached to the Christian tradition. For me, I'm OK, Christmas or otherwise 😁

If fundraising you may want to put some effort in providing options that preserve anonymity considering that Lemmy has a large demographic of privacy-conscious individuals.

Just now???!

El del presidente de los eeuu no lo vi... Cual es? Mi favorito es el de Willem Alexander: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbgPqccCQcs

The use-cases that I see advertised are not things that I do in my day-to-day. I usually place my phone on a drawer or leave it in my backpack - I definitely don't want it on my face.

So, to me, smart glasses feel like an uncomfortable gimmick at this point. Maybe there is something amazing about them that has not yet clicked with me, but for the time being I don't see me buying one of these for the foreseeable future.

I also did not know of him at all. I did know who Ben Shapiro is. This week has been an educational one: I have learned about Nick Fuentes and 'groypers', Candace Owens, and that the change my mind meme guy is called Steven Crowder (I first thought it was this guy when I saw the video of Kirk).

The US political commentator that I do watch some times is Hasan, but not too often. The US lore goes too deep and moves too quickly, hard to keep up.

Jajaja, al menos lo intentó 😅 Un 8 por el esfuerzo!

Ethical DDoS

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At their historical peak, the world had about 174,534 cats for every Gila monster.

Actually, it does. An offensive one. Please apologize to the elders.

Good question

Amen

Absolutely

I no longer know what to believe

It always surprises me when ppl don’t know about torrents. They were the only way to get things before streaming services privatized all this content, and still remain better, by using the latest encodings and quality formats for media.

I did know enough about torrents to do practically use them to download things since the Limewire/Ares times. But what I meant is that I never actually knew how they work at a technical level - I never opened a torrent file and looked inside, or knew what a magnet link was. So, then, the topic as a whole is still opaque to me. But I did some reading today and I'm getting into it.

So new content would be no different than the thousands of people seeding existing content.

I see it, but I also see why this concept might be intimidating to some. I (and probably many others) make use of torrents in rare occasion when I cannot find a movie, a series, or want an album. I associate torrenting with acquiring a large file for long term storage. Streaming feels different - videos exist in my computer only while I need them, and then they leave no trace. As I understand it, a torrent-based system would actually download all (or some) videos to disk to be able to seed them.

Still, I do think that a youtube-like torrent-based client would be successful - especially if implemented in a way that is simple for the user. An interface to find content, transparent and adjustable torrent settings with control over disk space allocation, and the torrents/magnet link management mostly hidden from the user.

Yeah, I'm still looking. This is the closest I found so far

Thanks. I don't know much about torrenting other, and I never looked into the concept of what Magnet links are.

It is actually very interesting! Such an elegant and simple solution.

And I think it is even simpler than what the instructions imply... I can write the following into the terminal:

    
transmission-cli "magnet:?xt=urn:btih:563cf8f2a0bdd5564ae9ef3d3302eecef639328b"

  

And that's enough to pull the first episode of alien earth that you shared. That unique hash is all it takes to search for seeders. Very cool.

It is still not obvious to me who would seed when implementing the torrent-based YouTube alternative. Would it make sense that users set some torrenting ratio, a file lifetime, and a size limit, and 'collect' videos as they watch them so that they can seed for other users?

All that’s needed is for people to learn how to seed their own videos, and post magnet links around.

I'm in! Looking into it. Now I need to go make something worth sharing.

It seems like as of right now meshtastic devices don’t have the ability to finely control LEDs/button actions to work for my use case. Which is a shame since I was hoping I could just buy a meshtastic device that has some programmable buttons inside a pre-built enclosure.

Maybe they do have that ability already. I am not sure. I have mostly used Meshtastic devices for communication and I have played a little bit with LoRa modules for more basic sensors and logging. Perhaps someone else knows more about the Meshtastic-specific features when it comes to telemetry and triggering devices.

Ha, maybe! I don't remember if I ever saw a 180 flip. This is the closest I could find from a quick search: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZpIglVnYuY

If you have a video with the 180 degree flip I would really like to see it. This context seems like a plausible place to see such a move in modern days. I would imagine that in some martial arts this effect would be well known.

Some of these 'games' do trigger real physiological mechanisms. A well-documented example is the Valsalva maneuver, where forcefully exhaling against a closed mouth and nose affects heart rate and blood pressure.

In some games, this maneuver (or similar) is combined with a second action that normally increases blood flow demand to the brain. The mismatch between reduced blood pressure and sudden demand can cause dizziness or brief loss of consciousness due to insufficient oxygen reaching the brain.

Actually, there is a similar effect sometimes seen during heavy deadlifts, suddenly releasing can sometimes make people pass out. There are many “deadlift passing out” videos online.

So, those 'games' can work. I have known of kids breaking their teeth after face-planting against the floor while playing those games. Not a very smart thing to do.