We have a reliable means that doesn’t require producing large animals that will, at scale, put more needless pressure on our collapsing ecosystems. Get insulin out of corporate pharmaceuticals and into a basic right to cost-free access model where we, society, fund the production.
Why are store bought whole pickled beets so much smaller than the beets you’d buy or harvest fresh? Are they picking them when small? Whittling big ones down to one-bite size?...
Article seems pretty flawed. Relevance is a vague metric, and the author relies pretty heavily on data related to government site visitation, which seems subject to bias toward certain types of users....
Need? No. But sometimes when I’m standing in a pool of people and despair and I can’t picture things getting better, I kind of just want a BFF little buddy like WALL-E or BD-1 who just gets me without judgement, and doesn’t require me to be its caregiver.
Damn this is scary. How are we so dependent on the distribution (control) of software, especially healthcare related, through two corporations: Alphabet and Apple. I am not so naive as to believe the open internet or freeware is free of nefarious actors, but the testing and checks and balances would play out far safer than this for-profit stranglehold.
I have no idea how people who aren’t tech-interested, but dependent on these systems, stay sane. What a miserable way to live life.
From the Beehaw sidebar: “We do want you coming here and sharing links to news articles, websites you find, starting discussions, connecting with others, and in general doing what you see on other social media websites.”
What if the focus of Beehaw and/or Lemmy in general is not as a link aggregation platform but instead a community of topic discussion? People are rewarded for posting links to articles with upvotes which only gives incentive to continue posting the same not-read content that they think the respective subs will like (upvote).
Instead, we should be rewarding people who are actively engaging with the community. Not broadcast posting the way it goes on mastodon or IG, etc., but actual back and forth interaction with the community.
Maybe take away the ability to upvote a link post and reserve that for the actual discussion parts that take place?
Best printer 2024, best printer for home use, office use, printing labels, printer for school, homework printer you are a printer we are all printers (www.theverge.com)
Verge editor laments the perverse incentives of SEO rankings.
Transgenic cows boost human insulin production by 10X (newatlas.com)
Pickled Beets Question (beehaw.org)
Why are store bought whole pickled beets so much smaller than the beets you’d buy or harvest fresh? Are they picking them when small? Whittling big ones down to one-bite size?...
Honda built a powered chair to zoom around theme parks while wearing an AR headset. (www.engadget.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/16368424...
Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85 (arstechnica.com)
The fall of Firefox: Mozilla's once-popular web browser slides into irrelevance (www.zdnet.com)
Article seems pretty flawed. Relevance is a vague metric, and the author relies pretty heavily on data related to government site visitation, which seems subject to bias toward certain types of users....
Humanoid robots are here, but they're a little awkward. Do we really need them? (apnews.com)
Software that supports your body should always respect your freedom (www.fsf.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/7492853...
Are people reading articles before posting them? (imgflip.com)