overview for brrt

Fish Suffer Up to 22 Minutes of Intense Pain When Taken Out of Water in c/[email protected]

[–] brrt 1 points 1 hour ago

Feeling like a fish out of water is sounds much darker now.

Proof that fashion is cyclical, even in nature. in c/[email protected]

[–] brrt 2 points 1 hour ago

Especially with rising ocean acidification, new hats just floating around naturally without the orcas having to put in any work.

Mozilla Turns Firefox Away from Open Source, Towards Spyware: Firefox Labs Now Requires Data Collection in c/[email protected]

[–] brrt 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Sadly cannot recommend it to any non tech savvy people on Mac because LibreWolf team refuses to have the app signed. This won’t help adoption rates.

Right now I can only, reluctantly, recommend Brave and maybe in the future Zen when it becomes more stable/settled.

Dutch court confirms Apple abused dominant position in dating apps in c/[email protected]

Radio transmissions in c/[email protected]

[–] brrt 4 points 4 days ago

Almost “Username checks out” :)

Radio transmissions in c/[email protected]

[–] brrt 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

The main reason I mentioned him is the Children of Time series, it revolves around non-humanoid “aliens” a lot. Fantastic series, but I love almost any of his SciFi stories.

Radio transmissions in c/[email protected]

[–] brrt 9 points 4 days ago (6 children)

Adrian Tchaikovsky would like a word.

Musk launches poll on X: Is it time to create a new political party in America that actually represents the 80% in the middle? in c/[email protected]

How flesh-eating screwworms in cattle could raise US beef prices in c/[email protected]

[–] brrt 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Just watched the Kurzgesagt video that dropped today. It seems it was on point.

Anon tries to save money in c/greentext

[–] brrt 12 points 3 weeks ago

Because it is. Just recently some VPN provider I already forgot the name of cancelled all lifetime subscriptions. There were multiple posts on Lemmy about it.

Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks in c/[email protected]

[–] brrt 2 points 1 month ago (12 children)

A shitty narrator can get me to hate a book I like.

And that is where I see potential for AI. There are quite a few books which I’d love to listen to but they are all narrated by a guy whose narration I can’t stand. AI would open the possibility to choose a voice and I might actually get to enjoy those books. It’s Amazon though so the ethical implications and quality concerns are something I’m worried about.

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Are there specific words that trigger memories/pop culture references for you? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 8 months ago by brrt to c/[email protected]

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If yes, which word(s) and how does it manifest?

(I’ll leave mine as a comment)

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(F)OSS 2D floor planner (self.opensource)

submitted 9 months ago by brrt to c/[email protected]

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I’m just looking for a simple 2D floor planner that is easy to use and has the ability to show measurements.

The two most recommended open source tools I’ve seen have shortcomings.

Sweet Home 3D:

Very 3D centric, which over complicates things.
Project was recently acquired/handed off to a company and the iOS version is published by “AI Photo Editor Lab SRL”

draw.io / diagrams.net:

Very finicky to set up and create floor plans
To display measurements one has to add measurement objects to every wall/object

Does anyone have other recommendations?

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A resource to get notified when certain open source projects change in a negative way? (self.opensource)

submitted 11 months ago by brrt to c/[email protected]

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I’m looking for a way to keep an eye on open source software I’m using, especially if there are detrimental changes. Like for example when there’s an acquisition (Raivo Authenticator) or the project has not been updated in a long time (potentially posing a security risk).

But I don’t want to have to read about every project, just the ones I’m using.

Anyone got any ideas?

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Dedicated Authenticators from Password Manager vendors (self.opensource)

submitted 1 year ago by brrt to c/[email protected]

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Does anyone know why there are no dedicated Authenticator apps made by for example Proton or Bitwarden?

I’m aware that they have TOTP baked into their password managers but you still need to have at least one separate solution to log into your vault.

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Split Screen iPad app for Lemmy (self.asklemmy)

submitted 1 year ago by brrt to c/[email protected]

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Is there a Lemmy app for iPad that has split screen like Narwhal for Reddit had? Post list on the left, content/comments on the right side.