Brewchin

Brewchin , 1 day ago to Technology in Child Advocates Back Surgeon General's Call for Tobacco-Like Warnings on Social Media

I once wished for this, especially back in the days when there were next to no laws regarding it, but there's zero chance as the money and attention has moved to it. There's political capital in demonising online discourse.

Brewchin , 1 day ago to Technology in Child Advocates Back Surgeon General's Call for Tobacco-Like Warnings on Social Media

s/country/world/: FTFY

"Think of the children" is somehow the gotcha for so many of the hard-of-thinking amongst us.

Brewchin OP , 1 day ago to Ask Lemmy in Lemmy cookie expiring and forgetting, well, everything?

Thanks, and for that Issue link. As you say, I expect it's just nuking the cookie and everything related to it just disappears.

At least it's on someone's radar. :)

Brewchin , 1 day ago to Ask Lemmy in People who still wear masks (and aren't immunocompromised)...

If I'm sick in public and don't know the cause (i.e. could be COVID), I'll wear a surgical mask. If I'm in an environment where COVID/similar may be likely from others, I'll wear an N95 mask.

I have boxes of each, left over from the coronalypse, so it makes sense to me.

Brewchin , 1 day ago to Ask Lemmy in What specific variety of some fruit do you prefer? (A particular apple, a certain mango, etc.)

Bananas. 30 minutes later it's "hello fibre and potassium, time to visit the loo!" But seriously, there are so many great fruits.

Some from me: Blackberries are my hands-down favourite (and available everywhere in the wild in the UK autumn), raspberries, apples (so many varieties), navel oranges, mandarins, dragon fruit, watermelon, pears, rockmelon/cantaloupe, soft peaches (rare; most need a hammer and chisel), plums, damsons (in jam), and grapes.

Brewchin , 4 days ago to memes in Pride wins!

An important question, usually conspicuous by their absence with confirmation bias-related posts. But in this case, the source is provided. You can check for yourself and let us know, if you have a Xitter account to see the replies.

Unless Elmo's added yet another layer of enshittification. It's hard to keep up.

Brewchin , 1 month ago to Ask Lemmy in What's the most fucked up movie you ever watched?

Saw that in the cinema and went into real (medical) physical shock at the kerb-stomping scene. I'd never thought of or seen that before. Holy crap, it shook me for hours after as I warmed up again, etc.

Brewchin , 2 months ago to A Boring Dystopia in 93 Year Old Woman Arrested for Resisting Eviction

Our fault for not being born into rich families, I guess? :\

Brewchin , 2 months ago to Ask UK in Have you replaced any British words with their American versions?

It's supposed to be pronounced as "cash" or "kaysh". Americans often pronounce it as cachet (ie. "ka-SHAY"), which is a different word with a different meaning. Needless homophone that introduces confusion.

I'm guessing that's been picked up by Australia in recent years, but not when I still lived there.

Brewchin , 2 months ago to Lefty Memes in ACAB.

Where I grew up, there were signs on highways and such saying "Police Aerial Surveillance", "Police Speed Traps" or whatever. I never found one that didn't have "Pigs In Space" scrawled on it.

If you don't get the reference: The Muppet Show.

Decades later, and halfway around the world, I'll look up at a police helicopter and think, "Oh look: piiiiigs in spaaaaace."

Brewchin , 3 months ago to Technology in Amazon fined in Poland for dark pattern design tricks | TechCrunch

Exactly. This kind of thing is just a tax they have to pay, unless they can convince a court otherwise. Unlike normal tax.

Brewchin , 3 months ago to Technology in Elon Musk wants to merge humans with AI. How many brains will be damaged along the way?

None. And any that were damaged by it were pedo guys and it never happened.

Brewchin , 3 months ago to Fediverse in How to follow newspapers on mastodon without being spammed?

I think this really is the best solution to news sites.

I self-host FreshRSS, make good use of its filters, and I can chew through headlines and articles in no time using the web view on a PC or mobile web.

Brewchin , 3 months ago to Technology in Meta just showed off Threads’ fediverse integration for the very first time

Doesn't Lemmy let users block instances? So no issue here.

The problem seems to be with Mastodon (and possibly others like Pixelfed, Bookwyrm, etc), which I think is controlled at instance level. Fortunately, the admin of the Mastodon instance I'm on has defederated Threads.

Brewchin , 3 months ago to Technology in It's Not Safe to Click Links on X

I always refer to it as Xitter or Xchan. I'm yet to encounter someone who doesn't know which fallen brand I'm referring to.