syzizeky

joined 2 years ago
[–] syzizeky@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

hooray! thank you tim!

 

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/10/mastodon-for-android-update/

The most recent update of Mastodon for Android introduces a highly anticipated feature–lists. With the new update, you now have the ability to create custom lists and categorize your follows based on specific topics or interests, while removing them from your home feed.

This not only helps in decluttering your home feed but also allows you to engage with certain topics on your own terms, when you are ready. Additionally, we reworked the home tab to provide easy navigation between your home feed, lists, and followed hashtags, so you can get the most out of your experience on Mastodon.

We’ve got more updates in the pipeline as we aim to make Mastodon the most beautiful and delightful social media app on Android. Our iOS and web teams are also working steadily on new features and improvements, so stay tuned!

Here's a Verge article mentioning this: Mastodon’s latest update makes it easier to follow the news

[–] syzizeky@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My use case is to access text and link content on a web page anonymously over Tor without getting blocked by Cloudflare.

[–] syzizeky@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My use case is to access text and link content on a web page anonymously over Tor without getting blocked by Cloudflare (such as when browsing warez sites).

[–] syzizeky@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I found it!😁 At https://muckrack.com/podcast/sporkful/episodes/

Looks like the other missing episodes are there too?

Direct mp3 links:

How To Export Coffee In A War (Pt 1)

How To Export Coffee In A War (Pt 2)

FWIW, the transcript is still available on the page xl_ent linked.

(cc @xl_ent@feddit.de )

 

Do y'all know about textise? I don't see mention of it come up in a quick search. https://www.textise.net/

It can be used with the duckduckgo bang !textise

It also works over Tor, where I can use it as a proxy to avoid Cloudflare checkpoints.

I don't think that it is open source but not completely sure.

Copy from the site intro:

Textise is a new way of looking at the Web. It’s an internet tool that removes everything from a web page except for its text. In practice, this means that images, forms, scripts, adverts, they all go, leaving plain text. Find out more here... (https://textise.wordpress.com/about-textise/)

How to use this page

  1. Type or paste the URL of a web page into the box below and click "Textise". A text only version of the web page will be displayed.
  2. Type a search term into the box, select a search engine from the drop-down list, and click "Search". You will be taken to a text only version of the search results.
 

Do y'all know about textise? I don't see mention of it come up in a quick search. https://www.textise.net/

It can be used with the duckduckgo bang !textise

It also works over Tor, where I can use it as a proxy to avoid Cloudflare checkpoints.

I don't think that it is open source but not completely sure.

Copy from the site intro:

Textise is a new way of looking at the Web. It’s an internet tool that removes everything from a web page except for its text. In practice, this means that images, forms, scripts, adverts, they all go, leaving plain text. Find out more here... (https://textise.wordpress.com/about-textise/)

How to use this page

  1. Type or paste the URL of a web page into the box below and click "Textise". A text only version of the web page will be displayed.
  2. Type a search term into the box, select a search engine from the drop-down list, and click "Search". You will be taken to a text only version of the search results.
[–] syzizeky@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Ah, I see this detail was also recently noted in the comm 😎 👍

 

https://www.gog.com/giveaway/claim

It will give a json response. Visiting a second time should return "Already claimed" if it worked.

This helped me to get around an issue I had with the link not loading on the main gog.com page when there was a free giveaway. (Credit)

(If you still have trouble, make sure you are logged in before clicking)

[–] syzizeky@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I tried it before finding imgsed but each instance had issues loading images past the first page of a user's profile. But I will check back occasionally

[–] syzizeky@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

lists of other alternative front-end services or projects that i (also) have not vetted:

"A web extension that redirects YouTube, Twitter, Instagram... requests to alternative privacy friendly frontends and backends." https://libredirect.github.io/ - the list they use. https://github.com/libredirect/libredirect - extension (source)

list of some instances https://farside.link/ - (source)

a list of projects, with some other stuff on it too https://www.funkyspacemonkey.com/foss-front-ends-and-alternatives-for-twitter-instagram-reddit-youtube-and-more

 

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/939198

Searching for replacement for Bibliogram, I found an website called imgsed.com .

It was sufficient to my needs.

One problem was that it seemed to fetch only a few comments of a post.

Here's the website's own About page:

imgsed.com is an online instagram backup tool that helps users save instagram photos through the instagram public API.

imgsed.com can't verify user information, so you need to pay attention to the copyright when downloading photos.

If you do not wish to be downloaded, please submit your information remove account

ETA:

Apparently it has crazy much ads, so use of adblocker is very much advised!

[–] syzizeky@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Maybe google downranks db0 instance like it does other pirate sites?

[–] syzizeky@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago
[–] syzizeky@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

also check out https://www.allsides.com/, which has a somewhat similar concept

[–] syzizeky@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Note that this is focused on espresso preparation. The paper and diagrams pair great with James' Espresso prep series.

James actually did a video on this paper specifically as well.

TL;DR: using a lower dose (15g) and a coarser grind produces a more complete extraction as well as a more consistent cup, allowing you to use up to 25% less material while producing a similar result to mainstream prep methods.

SUMMARY

Espresso is a beverage brewed using hot, high-pressure water forced through a bed of roasted coffee. Despite being one of the most widely consumed coffee formats, it is also the most susceptible to variation. We report a novel model, complimented by experiment, that is able to isolate the contributions of several brewing variables, thereby disentangling some of the sources of variation in espresso extraction. Under the key assumption of homogeneous flow through the coffee bed, a monotonic decrease in extraction yield with increasingly coarse grind settings is predicted. However, experimental measurements show a peak in the extraction yield versus grind setting relationship, with lower extraction yields at both very coarse and fine settings. This result strongly suggests that inhomogeneous flow is operative at fine grind settings, resulting in poor reproducibility and wasted raw material. With instruction from our model, we outline a procedure to eliminate these shortcomings.

EXCERPT - Systematic Reduction of Coffee Mass by Downdosing and Grinding Coarse

As we demonstrated in Figure 3, our model informs us that a reduction in dry coffee mass results in an increased EY max (shown schematically in blue in Figure 6). Thus, a barista is able to achieve highly reproducible espresso with the same EY as the 20 g espresso by reducing the coffee mass to 15 g and counter-intuitively grinding much coarser (as shown in red, Figure 6B). This modification may result in very fast shots (<15 s), a reduction in espresso concentration, and a different flavor profile.

The Specialty Coffee Association espresso parameters mandate that the extraction should take 20–30 s; we speculate that this might be partially responsible for the pre- vailing empirical truth that most coffee is brewed using grind settings that cause partially clogged/inhomogeneous flow. Remembering that the initial tasty point may lie in the clogged flow regime, some of the bed is extracted much more than the refractive index measurement suggests. By lowering the dry coffee mass and grinding to maximize EY, the operator may notice that they are able to push their extractions much higher than before, while achieving highly reproducible espresso.

 

Samples from the original .umx (repacked Impulse Tracker module) files shipped with the GOG GOTY release were extracted using OpenMPT then rearranged, mixed and mastered in Studio One. No major arrangement or sample changes have been made in order to keep it close to the original, only more listenable in 2022.

Uploaded to archive.org in August 2022

 

I Am A Free / I Am Not Man / A Number!

 

Not my art, its seen hanging on James Hoffman's wall. Y'all know his excellent coffee YT channel, right? (The image is available in his online store)

 

Good morning, lemmonheads!

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Multilemmys (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by syzizeky@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
 

Hey everyone! After my first week of settling in here, I think what would give my lemmy experience the biggest boost of any single added feature would be Multilemmys (or Multicommunities), so we can see the combined feeds of multiple communities in a single streamlined feed. I guess the purpose of this post is to spread awareness of this as a concept and point to the ongoing discussion on Github:

Support for grouping communities / multi-communities #818

Cross-instance 'multireddits', that are also automatic and topic-based #1113

Community Grouping #3071

I have seen users post that this was how they initially thought the fediverse would work when it was explained to them. I thought this would be the case as well when I joined. Although I am new to this world, I feel this is one of the most intuitive abilities associated with the concept of the fediverse and that it MUST eventually be possible, the sooner the better.

This is similar to "multireddits", and the equivalent way to use them would be to combine feeds from different communities that are on the same instance, so for example I have one multilemmy to combine the feeds from /c/politics, /c/news, /c/worldnews, /c/worldpolitics (all on lemmy.ml).

Then additionally with Lemmy we have equivalent communities hosted across various instances, and it would be a new and different kind of ability to be able to combine these into a single multilemmy, so for example I have a multilemmy combining lemmy.ml/c/politics, lemmy.world/c/politics, beehaw.org/c/politics, etc.

I found this idea mentioned a few times around lemmy, where @deadcyclo@lemmy.world and @communist@beehaw.org pointed out the above open github tickets for these ideas.

Those github discussions were a fascinating read for me! Its clear that the boffins have already put a fair amount of thought into these possibilities, and identified questions that will need to be answered such as

  • how to deal with communities that have the same/different name but are or are not actually the same subject
  • duplicate posts and/or cross posts
  • whether to cause automatic/default links or not
  • how to implement this in a way that is of most benefit to the health of the lemmy ecosystem
  • there seem to be two separate use-cases also: one being communities intentionally linking to share content and the other being a user creating their own custom combinations, either for personal or public use.
  • how to handle subscriptions

Discussion continues even this week! After reading through all the ideas, I don't have any specific preference but I am excited to see what they eventually decide to implement as I'm sure it will be rewarding. Personally I think getting some cross-instance version of this should become a priority as soon as they feel they've adequately responded to the reddit migration, which I imagine would be a month or two down the road.

I gotta end by saying how happy I am to be here after leaving Reddit, this really feels like the start of something incredible. Cheers!

 

This guy's project is tremendous:

"Carbonating tap water to make seltzer is easy, fast, and absurdly inexpensive with my improvised apparatus. All that is required is to place CO2 gas in agitated contact with chilled water for a few seconds. In this essay, I'll show you how it is done with easy-to-find parts and common PET soda bottles. I'll also explain the kinetic chemistry of why it works so well. And in the second half of this essay, I'll explain how I progressed from this improvised apparatus to installing a complete soda fountain in my home."

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