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A Discothyrea sexarticula Borgmeier worker on the top of the head of a Dinoponera Roger worker
I can’t be the only one who like the picture, but have absolutely no idea what the headline means.
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A Discothyrea sexarticula Borgmeier worker on the top of the head of a Dinoponera Roger worker
I can’t be the only one who like the picture, but have absolutely no idea what the headline means.
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Lemmings of Lemmy, what is the scariest situation in the outdoors that you have experienced?
I was visiting some family in Transylvania, Romania and in the afternoon we decided to go for a small hike, in the mountainous woods. It was my wife and I, her local cousin and a dog. We head off into the woods on a path leading up a mountain.
At some point we passed a smallish stream and when we later returned to go back it had flooded and we couldn’t cross so had to take a detour. No phones/gps but the cousin claimed both he and the dog knew the way, so we followed them. Not long after we were in the middle of the forest in pitch black darkness as the sun went down fast, no longer following a path, but climbing up steep slopes on our hands and knees. At one point my wife put her hand down and touched something she claims was a mouse, she nearly started crying at that point. I was more worried about bears, but hoped the dog could scare them away if we met one.
Took us a few hours, but eventually we found a road and was able to follow it back. Though with Romanian traffic, I’m not sure if being lost in the woods wasn’t safer than walking a busy road at night with no lights.
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I Compiled the Linux Kernel myself for the first time
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I compiled my first Linux kernel back in the mid 90s, mostly on 386 and Dec Alpha hardware, interesting enough both were not that much slower than what you mentioned, I think the alpha (a measly 21066) took about 40 minutes. If you had asked me back then, I’d probably have imagined a minute or two, 30 years later. Guess it says something about how much larger the Linux kernel has become.
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Would you rather be a cowboy, a pirate or a samurai?
Cowboy.
I want to sit at a campfire, eat my bowl of chili, then curl up in my blanket under the stars and in the morning boil myself a nice pot of coffee.
You can keep the cow stuff though.
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YouTube starts mass takedowns of videos promoting ‘harmful or ineffective’ cancer cures
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While that would be great, in reality because of YouTube’s recommendations, the ones most likely to watch this crap are the ones already drinking the kool-aid and thus upvoting.
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Lemmy.ca defederated from Lemmygrad and Hexbear
These instances were the first that made me search for a block instance option in Memmy. Still I’m not entirely happy seeing all this defederation happening.
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Train fares are up to 30 times more expensive than planes in Europe
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I’m looking at going from Barcelona to Paris, both plane and train has direct connections and on the dates I am considering, it’s about 50 eur for the plane and 130 eur for the train each way. Both the airport and trains station are close to me and the trains also has a security check and the queue that comes with that, so I’m still not sure what I’m going to pick.
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It would be nice to have curtains that absorb street noise.
IKEA actually has some but I sort of doubt how much they actually block:
https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/gunnlaug-sound-absorbing-curtain-white-60500170/
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That’s more or less how I got my first job back in the 90s. A buddy and I started hanging out at the local computer store. We discovered Linux because we wanted to run an Amiga emulator and a little later when the store wanted to start as an ISP, this was the time of local/long distance calls, so local ISPs were a thing, we got hired and build it all from scratch. Radius server, smtpd etc. everything based on the standard *nix tools, except the customer db/app which we wrote ourselves. We both dropped out of computer science for this and now almost 30 years later neither of us finished school, but both still work in tech. These were the wild days of the young Internet and I doubt it’s something that would really work these days.
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Nice wallpaper
Those corridors bring me back to Wolfenstein 3D.
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Looking for tire repair kit recommendations
I’d say it depends on the type of bike and tire.
Tubed or tubeless? For tubed, I’d recommend 1-2 spare tubes put in a saddle bag or one of those fake bottle kits that mounts in a bottle carrier, a small co2 pump, a few cartridges and a tire lever if yours are not easy to remove and install by hand. If you have a flat, replace the tube, then patch old tubes at home. For tubeless I recommend the dynaplug tool, optionally a small bottle of extra sealant and a valve tool. Small hand pump as co2 can interfere with tubeless sealant. I ride tubeless and just chuck these items in a jersey pocket.
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What's your favorite game you never hear anybody talk about?
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I played Dark Cloud and it’s sequel like crazy. I loved the fishing element. It was one of the first games I got with my PS2 and I had no idea what it would be about. This is probably first time I have seen anyone else mention it.
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Reddit users lost?
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Same here. 13 years and 3 months on Reddit, but deleted my account in the 1st of July, and switched to Lemmy. It has it’s challenges related to the federation, mostly I foresee confusion about users with same name, having to run multiple accounts and maintain multiple subscription lists for some purposes and ofc the current performance/resource issues, but so far it’s working out. I miss a few nice subreddits but hopefully they will arrive.
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annoying is my intention
I did the same before also deleting the comments and posts and some of the subreddits perm banned my user. I deleted the user a few days later anyway so no loss.
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Really happy to see this community here!
It’s one of the communities I really missed from Reddit, so I hope we can get some discussion and progress updates going here.
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That’s great, but there is still a shit ton of it in there. Check this channel where an amazing team rescues seals entangled in all our waste for a look into what we’re doing to the oceans: https://youtube.com/@OceanConservationNamibia
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Oil draining over the hot exhaust? Sounds good guys, let's sign it off and start production!
A lot of bad can be said about Harleys but I love that my 48 just has a little rubber hose with a plug in it to drain the oil.
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Buying a new cycling computer
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That’s definitely Garmin for you. I’ve had forerunners and edge computers since fr205. Good hardware but shitty software. Still, I’ve tried others like wahoo and always ended up with Garmin again. Currently on an edge 1040 and a fr965, 15 years later and I still get lost in the menus.
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Danskere på motorvejen
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Vi har det hvor jeg bor og det fungerer fantastisk, der er jævnligt skiltet med det og bilisterne overholder det i en sådan grad at det næsten er for meget. Det kan godt tage lidt tid at finde et sted med den nødvendige plads når det går opad.
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Debian Celebrates 30 years!
I remember installing a version 0.9x from a set of infomagic cdroms in the mid 90s. Ended up going back to running Slackware for a long time to come though. Hard to understand I’ve been playing with and earning a living with Linux for just about 30 years now. Debian has played a big part in that.