CMahaff

joined 3 years ago
[–] CMahaff@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I was really hoping this would arrive along with an album announcement, but seems like it's just a single.

[–] CMahaff@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

I had to look it up - and yes, depending on how you measure, this is one of the smallest mammals on the planet.

[–] CMahaff@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Hmmm, I wonder how this would affect things in the future where this is widely used.

I.E. if you had both widespread solar usage and some kind of large blackout, would it be hard to get all your solar back online because it's all in the "waiting for the grid" state? And the grid can't come back at capacity because all the solar it's expecting is out?

I assume people smarter than me have this figured out, but just a random thought if anyone knows more.

[–] CMahaff@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think a lot of Americans would be surprised, like I was when I moved here, that EU stores will sell chicken products from China, but not the United States.

[–] CMahaff@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

Maybe there's a spare USB header inside on the board?

[–] CMahaff@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's absolutely playable on the steam deck - beat the game that way with no regrets.

That said, do yourself a favor and lookup the graphics settings to use. By default, it uses a preset "Steamdeck" option with absolutely atrocious graphics - and completely unnecessarily! It can actually run the game at much higher settings with almost no FPS impact.

(I know people say that kind of thing all the time, but I'm telling ya, in this case it really is a night and day difference).

Will it be as nice as a gaming PC? Obviously not, but I was honestly really impressed with what it could do. The game is well optimized.

If you struggle to find settings, let me know, I can try to dig em up later.

[–] CMahaff@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You've got to remember that for most people living outside of cities, or living in red cities, this might as well not exist. Hell I bet even within big cities you might not be exposed to it depending on the neighborhood. You'd only really know through the news, and they don't get their news from anywhere that would show them the truth.

If by chance word actually gets back to them that something really is happening, it's already been carefully run through the Republican spin machine, where this is all very legal and very necessary to "restore order" - where resisting is the real anti-American thing to do.

What would it take to collapse the fantasy-land Trumpers inhabit on the daily? I'm not sure. You're fighting 50 years of conservative propaganda for some of these folks - Trump is just the latest at the helm. They won't be swayed easily.

[–] CMahaff@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

I read through all the Reddit threads, and there's only speculation.

All the videos are gone now, but apparently he had been acting a little strange in his recent live streams. You can find comments about it on Reddit even if the video is gone. In short, he seemed off.

There was also some evidence presented that the bullshit accusations levied against him were, unfortunately, really getting to him.

Still hoping it was all just some tragic accident. We'll probably never know for sure. But it's a huge loss to the community - gone far too young.

It says so much that every single creator had such wonderful things to say about him. We should all strive to be such a positive force in the world.

[–] CMahaff@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

An older article about it: https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2025/09/15/troops-with-medical-shaving-waivers-to-face-separation-hegseth-says/

In March, the Marine Corps ordered Marines diagnosed with pseudofolliculitis barbae, which leads to unwanted bumps and painful ingrown hair from frequent shaving, to undergo medical reevaluation within 90 days to determine whether they still required a waiver.

That administrative message outlined a phased treatment plan for Marines affected by the condition, with the ultimate goal of “returning service members to grooming standards and ensuring maximum warfighting readiness.”

About 60% of Black men are affected by the condition, according to the American Osteopathic College of Dermatology.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/36298939

New research reveals that the DNA switches controlling human finger development originated from genes that regulated fish cloacas 380 million years ago[^1].

"Rather than building a new regulatory system for the digits, nature has repurposed an existing mechanism, initially active in the cloaca," explains developmental geneticist Denis Duboule from the University of Geneva[^1].

The research team discovered this by comparing fish and mouse genomes, focusing on Hoxd genes. When they tagged DNA switches with fluorescent markers, these lit up in mouse digits but in fish cloacas. Deleting these genetic elements using CRISPR-Cas9 disrupted finger development in mice and cloaca formation in fish[^1].

"The common feature between the cloaca and the digits is that they represent terminal parts," notes geneticist Aurélie Hintermann. "Sometimes they are the end of tubes in the digestive system, sometimes the end of feet and hands"[^1].

[^1]: ScienceAlert - Fish Buttholes May Be The Reason We Now Have Fingers, Study Finds

[–] CMahaff@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

It's funny because ""only"" 77 houses seems quaint for the billionaires of today.

I mean most of them are so rich they wouldn't even miss 1 billion of their fortune right?

Or in other words, they could easily buy 1,000 million-dollar homes without even making a dent.

 

Seth Stern, the director of advocacy at Freedom of the Press Foundation, said he believed Mr. Carr seemed to be setting up a legal pretext for interfering with public media.

“The end of Mr. Carr’s letter tellingly goes far beyond underwriting and talks about his thoughts on whether public media should be funded at all and notes that this underwriting issue might be relevant to a broader legislative debate,” Mr. Stern said. “That was troubling to read.”

 

You will want to change your Cargo.toml to point to the Lemmy Github repository + either a specific tag or branch for the version you want to target.

See the examples here: https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/specifying-dependencies.html#specifying-dependencies-from-git-repositories

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2216085

Search Lemmyverse is good for finding communities.

I posted this on the other site but I thought I'd copy over here too, lots of good communities around to subscribe to if you want a more casual/fun frontpage that isn't just tech news, elon musk, or politics.

note: all of these communities have posts. If they appear empty, it simply means nobody on the instance you use has visited them before (or you might have blocked them and forgot, I've done it before, lol)!


Conversation communities

These are places that are 'chatty', good if you want a lot of comments.

"ask" based
Casual chat / Misc

Hobbies, Creative, & Passions

Misc
Artwork
Cooking, food, drinks

Generally mostly nice pics of food:

Gardening / Plants
Keyboard enthusiasts
Knitting, Stitching, Crocheting, etc
Reading & Writing
Sport

Honestly there are so many sport communities around - if you search Lemmyverse for popular sports, you will almost certainly find more.


Nice/Interesting/Funny pictures

Animals

Literally just pictures of cute animals.

Comics
Flags
Maps
Memes

Meme communities in general can overload your feed, so keep that in mind.

Photography

Games

Board Games / Table top games

The ttrpg.network instance has a lot of communities based around table top gaming & RPGs.

note: the battlemaps communities seem to mostly cross-post between eachother at the moment.

Video Games

Knowledge (e.g history, science)


Space


TV (television), movies, film


Music

Lots of music communities on Lemmy. Search Lemmyverse for genres of interest for more, this definitely isn't exhaustive.

Note that music communities generally have low comment counts, from my experience.

There's also:

 

(Full disclosure: I made one of the tools)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/1292268

lemmy.world cross-post link: https://lemmy.world/post/1251192

With the vlemmy situation ongoing, i feel like it would be useful to put this here (i did not make either of these tools)

Lemmy Account Settings Instance Migrator (LASIM) copies all your subscribed communities and blocks and lets you upload them to another account, in just a few clicks

lemmy-migrate does the same thing but without a GUI and support for uploading your backup to multiple accounts at once

 

See the linked page for information about how it works, limitations, etc. and I'll of course answer any questions below!

As I have stated in the release section, this software is alpha so please don't be afraid to report bugs!

Releases are here: https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim/releases

Right now the program only supports Lemmy BE 0.18.1-rc9, but new releases will try to support new versions as they are released. The Lemmy API is changing a ton right now, but I'll try to keep up.

 
 

Over the next week or so I'm sure a lot of people are going to try spinning up Lemmy instances - I've certainly been looking at it.

Does anyone have any recommendations for a VPS provider / resource allocation?

From what I have read, it sounds like you're going to want a host that focuses on storage / bandwidth (at least if you are allowing image upload), but maybe those of you already operating an instance have a different opinion?

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