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YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers
  • Once upon a time Google used few and non-intrusive ads. The ads were soo well-placed and relevant, that they almost seemed like a service to the user, rather than being forced upon you. Some of us even added exceptions for Google ads in our ad blockers, so we would not miss out.

    I miss those days.

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    TIL in the Carboniferous Period, no fungus existed to decompose trees. They just grew on top of each other up and up.
  • At some point this will happen with plastics too. Soo much plastic is ending up in nature, with soo much energy ready for the taking. When one fungus or bacteria mutates just right to munch on that feast of plastic, that vast energy source will ensure that organism multiplies rapidly.

    And that is when plastic stops beeing useful for many of the tasks we humans use it for. If your plastic container decomposes as rapidly as a cardboard box, it will quickly become much less usefull.

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    Stort dansk studie: Luftforurening kan ses på karaktererne i folkeskolen
  • Det er en anden måde at sige at sammenhængen er så tydelig, at de er overbevist om at det er luftforurening der skader hjernen.

    Men uden faktisk at bevise biologisk hvordan specifikke stoffer skader specifikke hjernceller helt konkret, så kan statistikken aldrig bruges som et endelig bevis.

    Det er meget normalt med korrelations studier, de kan aldrig bevise en egentlig kausalitet. Men hvis korrelationen er overordentlig tydelig, og der virker logisk at sammenhængen skulle være der, så er det sandsynliggjort tilstrækkeligt til at man bør handle på det.

    Ergo, det er noget vi bør handle efter, fordi indicierne er så overbevisende.

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    to those of you who get bored at work if there's lots of downtime, why?
  • I want to feel like what I do matters, otherwise I become frustrated and feel bad. My basic drive for curiosity is very strong, and I need to learn new things and do something that has some sort of meaning.

    Being paid to do nothing is soo frustrating, I feel like I am wasting what little time I have here on earth.

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    Parents Should Pay Higher Taxes
  • Individuals choosing not to have kids should pay an extra tax that should go to the ones having children.

    Choosing not to have children is a perfecly acceptable individual choice, but the consequence is that you become a net negative for the economy.

    Taking on the burden of child-raising is an essential task that is net positive for the economy, which has been way underappreciated for too long.

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    Kommer du nogensinde helt ned i gear? 'Det er blevet svært for moderne mennesker at holde pauser'
  • Jeg tror aldrig rigtig jeg kommer ned i gear. Min hjerne kører konstant på fuld drøn, der er ikke rigtig nogle gear.

    Nogle dage, måske engang om måneden, kan jeg vågne og føle mig sådan rigtig afslappet. Der kan jeg opleve ikke at tænke på noget måske nogle sekunder af gangen i løbet af dagen.

    Men det hører virkelig til sjældenhederne.

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  • Upload af billede giver FormatException

    Hejsa. Hver gang jeg prøver at uploade et billede til et opslag i min Connect for Lemmy klient får jeg følgende fejl:

    > FormatException: Unexpected character (at character 1) > > ^

    Jeg tænke det er fordi min connect klient får en html respons på upload requesten, hvor den forventede noget andet.

    Er der andre der oplever det samme? Virker det i andre lemmy klienter?

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    I had written a rather lengthy response to a post, and put quite a bit of effort in my argument. When I submitted the reply I got a "language not allowed" error, and everything I wrote was lost.

    I think an error when posting something should not result in the screen changing back and losing everything written. The error should be displayed and the user allowed to fix the problem or somehow allowed to save the post locally, e.g. by copying and pasting it somewhere else.

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    In factorio, how do I make a safe railway crossing? Such that the trains will stop if a player is crossing the tracks.

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    I anledning af at vi nok skal forvente somre med mere og mere tørke har jeg indkøbt en palletank som regnvandsopsamler.

    Så smider jeg sådan en pumpe her i tønden: https://www.frishop.dk/pi/Gardena-4700-2-Inox-Auto-regnvandst%C3%B8ndepumpe_8409046_21809.aspx

    Den skulle gerne kunne starte automatisk når jeg begynder at bruge haveslangen.

    På sigt planlægger jeg 4x palletanke forbundet så jeg kan opsamle vand gennem foråret og forhåbentlig vande have gennem en hel måneds tørke, uden at forbrug en dråbe af vores gode drikkevand.

    Og på endnu længere sigt spinklersystem og regnsensor, så alt bliver vandet automatisk når det ikke har regnet. Med opsamlet regnvand naturligvis. ☺️

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    I have been playing Factorio for some time now. I really want to get started playing one of the overhauls. But which one? I find it hard to get a good overview of the different options.

    Which overhaul mods do you all play?

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    Hi. I am trying to figure out how to get high-speed storage in my R640 server. I just want to use consumer-grade NVME disks, so I can write data at ≥ 1GByte/sec per disk. Do you have any suggestions on what hardware to choose?

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