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Beiz

@Beiz@mastodon.social

i mostly post about my passion projects. mainly fish related, sometimes bird stuff, and ocassionally about geeky things like game dev, roleplaying, tech, or similar.

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Beiz, to random
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A lot of fish died shortly after water change. Something's wrong with my well water. Not sure what I want to do now. But it really sucks the joy out of things.

Beiz,
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@johnefrancis That's not a bad idea. My water is way too soft under normal circumstances. I have about 1 hardness and 5.8 pH. Some kind of filter to fix the values would be a good solution for longterm; but I think it's more acidic than normal currently and my sticks don't go below 6. Will need to send a sample to the uni to figure out what's going on.

Beiz,
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@johnefrancis I used to improve the aquarium water with additives; but as the value is parts per million, it's impossible to get exact, and when i got some more sensitive fish, there was always a few deaths between water changes due to the ppm being off. So i stopped doing it that way.

I'm thinking a proper filter system will provide an overall more stable quality than manual preparation.

campuscodi, to random
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This is just of the many tweets that are flooding Twitter these days praising Telegram and discouraging users from using Signal with stupid NSA and FBI conspiracy theories.

Under no scenario you should have Telegram installed on your phone. It's basically the Hulk Hogan of E2EE apps

Beiz, (edited )
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@campuscodi Except, Telegram is literally the only modern chat application not built on electron (google chrome) all of which overload my CPU to death.

pixelfed, to fediverse
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Loops is a new platform for sharing short videos, and it's open source + federated using

We're really excited to share this sneak peek that showcases the new onboarding flow and discovery features (Connect Mastodon) and look forward to the upcoming beta release!

Are you ready for ?

Loops app demo

Beiz,
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@pixelfed hopefully this won't die half-way like Goldfish.

Beiz, to aquarium
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My Ancistrus sp. Calico finally grew to respectable size. I hope they will breed some day soon :)

I really don't get why they aren't more popular. I think they look fantastic (albeit the photo definitely doesn't do them justice. my iphone camera changes too many colors).

#ancistrus #aquarium

Beiz,
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@po3mah Ancistrus are finnicky. The general approach is to just give them enough caves and if it happens it happens 😅 Can't really plan for breeding them it seems (albeit my brown and albino pairs tend to breed every 2 weeks on average with about 100 fry per litter, but even those pick the weirdest nests whenever I make changes to their tank and to hell with the fancy and expensive caves lol).

ErikJonker, to Signal
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Can't be repeated enough, quit whatsapp where you can, use signal. It's great, very secure, opensource, not tied to , non-profit etc.
https://signal.org/download/

Beiz,
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@ErikJonker i'll switch the day they stop using electron. until then, i refuse.

Daojoan, to random
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Capitalism is when your tax dollars pay to bail out the bank that foreclosed on your mortgage

Beiz,
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@Daojoan Capitalism is when you pay tax to cover R&D to public owned solutions but the cash goes to foreign corporations like Microsoft instead.

mntmn, to random
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i think the EU should pass legislation that enforces standards based 2factor auth (like totp/hotp) for banks, health insurance etc. it is absolutely unacceptable that people are forced to buy android/ios smartphones to use critical services

Beiz,
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@mntmn better yet, EU should pass legislation that requires all ID authentication software to be owned by the public, open source, and entirely system agnostic.

it's insane that digital ID is privatized, mandatory, and yet only supported on android and ios - preventing european competition from entering the market.

hell, windows should be banned from use within governments. why the hell is a foreign corporation paid billions of public money annually when we could use taxes to develop our own?

Daojoan, to random
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It’s not an accident that “Side Hustle” culture emerged at the same time as corporations hit 70 year profit highs and wage growth hit a 40 year low.

This shit is connected, folks.

Beiz,
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@Daojoan i can't even find a low wage job in this economy so it's full time side hustle my hobbies or starve.

campuscodi, to random
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The Romanian Parliament, which was hit by ransomware a few weeks back, was still using XP and Win7.

A lawsuit has prevented the agency from replacing PCs for 5 years. :hurb:

https://economie.hotnews.ro/stiri-telecom-26916805-camera-deputatilor-utilizeaza-inca-uri-windows-sistem-operare-ramas-fara-suport-tehnic-10-ani-litigiu-tine-loc.htm

Beiz,
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@campuscodi when the people pay for open source through taxes, why are the government still paying ransom to a foreign corporation like Microsoft?

nixCraft, to random
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Yeah, that is what happens when you steal content from everyone without giving credit or paying for it. Now, everyone is banning your AI bot from accessing their data. Not to mention, the company overhyped its products and is currently dealing with multiple lawsuits for stealing data for training AI.

Beiz,
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@nixCraft it's a tought choice for me. on one hand, i hate the openAI company. on the other hand, i hate google. so the fact that openai is killing google search with hallucinations has me overjoyed but at the same time i hate that openai enables these people killing the blogging ecosystem.

EU_Commission, to random
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We wish you a #MerryChristmas in all EU languages! 🦌🎄🎅

Joyeux Noël!
Frohe Weihnachten!
¡Feliz Navidad!
Buon Natale!
Feliz Natal!
Весела Коледа!
Veselé Vánoce!
Glædelig jul!
Häid jõule!
Καλά Χριστούγεννα!
Nollaig shona!
Sretan Božić!
Priecīgus Ziemassvētkus!
Džiaugsmingų šv. Kalėdų!
Kellemes karácsonyi ünnepeket!
Il-Milied it-Tajjeb!
Vrolijk kerstfeest!
Wesołych Świąt Bożego Narodzenia!
Crăciun fericit!
Veselé Vianoce!
Vesel božič!
God Jul!
Hyvää joulua!
Schéi Chrëschtdeeg!

#EuropeanUnion

Beiz,
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@EU_Commission it would be fun to know how many of these celebratory greetings actually mean christmas and not a local celebration like yuletide that coincides with christmas for historical reasons!

Beiz,
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@geographile @EU_Commission is it though? i mean, i don't think most in scandinavia associates yuletide with christianity at least.

hbuchel, to random
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You know what makes me happy? Looking up something weird like "why does my carrot have a green ring inside" and finding a forum post from like 2010 with a bunch of gardening enthusiasts discussing it. Forums are great. Searchable, readable, text. Still works 13 years later. Wonderful.

Beiz,
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@hbuchel and then "we" decided to replace forums with discord, facebook groups, reddit, youtube and ai generated spam blogs. great.

actually i suppose reddit was relevant for a while but nearly all answers are about 3+ years or older now. basically, it died long before the blackout.

this is why i believe Mastodon Groups could save the internet. If we all collectively convince everyone to move here somehow. Assuming Groups ever actually gets released (2023 target is clearly not happening).

QasimRashid, to random
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As the Biden Admin prepares to potentially ban or restrict asylum, a reminder that asylum is legal immigration.

There's no "port of entry" requirement.
There's no "visa" requirement.
There's no "first country" requirement.
You enter the United States, and you apply for asylum.
Because asylum is legal immigration. Period.

Period.

I opposed Trump's asylum ban. And I will oppose a Biden asylum ban. Because my standard is justice, not political expediency. Asylum Is A Human Right. Period.

Beiz,
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@PadreWil @QasimRashid in most parts of the world you get shot when opposing crooked leaders.

gamingonlinux, to random
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People and SEO Spam like this are ruining the internet. Fuck this shite.

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Beiz,
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@gamingonlinux this guy is doing us a service. proving how broken SEO is, and how useless google as a service is!

sdw, to random
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taking a photo of the night sky on iPhone 5 years ago vs. taking a photo of the night sky on iPhone today

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Beiz,
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@sdw iPhone 8 still take better photos than any iPhone since X. Oh sure, it will take amazing party/night photos, but that's essentially the only thing it's really good at. The old camera software had a much broader use case. It pisses me off every day but I'm too lazy to keep grabbing the old phone just to take better photos 😅 (hopefully i'll be able to save enough to get a professional camera one of these years...).

frameworkcomputer, to random
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Progress doesn't have to be a machine that consumes worlds. Use stuff that lasts and fix it when it stops working.

Beiz,
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@frameworkcomputer sounds good. so framework sweden when?

Daojoan, to random
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The worst thing about online learning is that everything has become a video. Every code tutorial. Every design tutorial. Nobody actually writes out a guide anymore.

It's just "hey guys welcome to my tutorial" and watching 10 minutes of content that mostly isn't relevant...

Beiz,
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@Daojoan honestly, been moaning about this for almost a decade now. but i understand why, and unfortunately i don't see it changing as it's a lot easier making money with a video than it is with text due to the reach of the medium overall.

gone are the days you got paid a living wage by the word (especially thanks to googles algorithms being entirely unable to discern between genuine content and SEO).

i don't see any solution to this short of killing youtube's money mill incentive and SEO.

ct_bergstrom, to random

I wanted to consolidate a few thoughts on google, misinformation, large language models, enshittification, and the fate of the web as we know it.

It started when Carl Zimmer shared this remarkable example of Google being fooled by machine-generated bullshit online.

Beiz,
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@ct_bergstrom google already promote junk over quality through gameable algorithms, further discouraging actual effort, research, and time, invested into producing quality content there is just no incentive. 99% of search results currently for any of my interests or hobbies (ancdotal but...) have ChatGPT generated content as the first 10-30 results.

mcc, to random
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Me: Why the fuck is my RAM at 44% in use when no programs are running

Task Manager: So here's a list of electron apps that do nothing but display an icon in the task tray

Beiz,
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@mcc every developer ever, "it's fine, everyone have 3TB of ram at this point in time anyway, right?"

I hate electron. with rare exceptions, I try to avoid using anything running on electron. unfortunately the only modern chat client in existence today not running through electron is Telegram. it's so fast and smooth and amazing. but its Telegram, so I refuse to use it.

it's like how everything on linux is now being launched as snap or flatpak. same problem.

developers have lost their mind.

design_law, to random
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Eventually, if you post enough about your nerdy obsessions, people will start pinging you with news and developments in that area, and I (completely unironically) think that's beautiful

Beiz,
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@design_law disclaimer: your mileage may vary.

:(

ramonita, to random
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Intel GPU drivers now collect telemetry data on "which types of websites you visit, which Intel says are dumped into 30 categories and logged without URLs or information that identifies you, including how long and how often you visit certain types of sites". It also snitches details on your computer and "other devices in your environment", as well as "how you use your computer" (no clarification provided).

https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/intels-gpu-drivers-now-collect-telemetry-including-how-you-use-your-computer

Beiz,
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@kkarhan @SnugAsABugInARug @arzi @ramonita @EU_Commission @bsi @noybeu @torvalds european governments uses windows though. which also seems like it isn't strictly legal; seeing as the billions of RnD taxes should be poured into local open source projects and not thrown at a foreign proprietary entity.

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