hooray! thank you tim!

thank you lemmy for making this possible 🦀

Salient point. Dont get me wrong, I use FF reader mode all day long and I sing its praises to all who will listen. But I am using this to access content over Tor when cloudflare would otherwise prevent me from doing so.

I would not recommend for anyone to feed all their browsing to a third party in a way that can easily be tied back to them, but I am using this tool to overcome a specific obstacle when I encounter it and not otherwise.

Maybe I should have described this scenario more completely at the start of my post 🤷

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

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).

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 )

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

I downloaded Audacity on a friends Windows PC yesterday, and it allowed me to export MP3 without asking for any other steps!

From Audacity's website:

FAQ:Installing the LAME MP3 Encoder

The software patent on LAME encoding library has expired, so now the LAME library for MP3 export is built-in with Audacity for Windows and Mac. Linux users will still need to download and install the free and recommended LAME third-party encoder to export MP3 files from Audacity.

Linux users should use the following instructions to download and install the free and recommended LAME third-party encoder to export MP3 files with Audacity.

Windows: LAME is now built-in with Audacity for Windows.

Mac: LAME is now built-in with Audacity for Mac.

Linux/Unix: See the LAME installation section on Installing and updating Audacity on Linux.

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

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

thanks, this is great!

others mentioned... https://www.beeper.com/ https://www.picuki.com/

I have not tried these myself though.

great post, thank you

thanks for posting this, great read

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

It looks like someone else brought it up in issue #1177 which is for adding sorting to column headers is being worked on (#1538). It appears there was a bug #3374 in the backend which needed to be fixed (#3376) which delayed progress on that.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1298

same sfm

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

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.

Oh yeah, complete with no explicit emotion. The reddit alien was smiling.

The advantage Kitty-chan holds is her lack of a mouth. The reason for this is summed up best by Yuko Yamaguchi, the current character designer (meaning "boss") of Hello Kitty:

"[She doesn't have a mouth] so that people who look at her can project their own feelings onto her face, because she has an expressionless face. Kitty looks happy when people are happy. She looks sad when they are sad. For this psychological reason, we thought she shouldn't be tied to any emotion – and that's why she doesn't have a mouth."

The power of Hello Kitty's interpretation now extends a layer deeper, beyond our idea of what she represents into our idea of what she is feeling. This gives her life in our minds, in a way that "mouthed" cartoons can't. What Mickey Mouse is feeling at any given moment, not counting his situation or environment, can be clearly seen through his mouth. Hello Kitty, lacking this feature, could be feeling anything at any time! And thus whatever we may be feeling can and probably does get transferred onto her face.

https://www.tofugu.com/japan/hello-kitty-face/

Another longtime JD user here, I'd love to hear what your reasons are for each of these!

Cheers! I'd like to pass on this info though, for anyone who enjoys both like myself:

Caffeine drinking potentiates cannabinoid transmission: interaction with stress effects - Neuropharmacology 2009

Our data suggest that the cannabinoid system is implicated in the psychoactive properties of caffeine and in the ability of caffeine to reduce the pathological consequences of stress. Chronic caffeine assumption sensitized GABAergic synapses to the presynaptic effect of cannabinoid CB1 receptor stimulation by exo- and endocannabinoids. The synaptic effects of caffeine were slowly reversible after its removal from the drinking solution. Furthermore, although exposure to caffeine for only 24h did not produce measurable changes of the sensitivity of cannabinoid CB1 receptors, it was able to contrast the down-regulation of CB1 receptor-mediated responses after social defeat stress.

I copied the rest from bloommedicinals.com, just the relevant bits. Also added the links to the studies and the pages with additional descriptions.

TL;DR:

• Low levels of caffeine can help to maximize the effects of THC, but too much caffeine can lessen the impact of your cannabis
• Caffeine and THC can both increase dopamine levels, but too much at once can trigger anxiety, agitation, and paranoia

What Happens When You Smoke Weed and Drink Coffee?

Since coffee and cannabis may offer so many health benefits on their own, you might think it’s safe to assume that enjoying a little bit of weed with your coffee would be okay. The reality is … it might be safe for most, but not for all. Here’s why.

THC and coffee can boost the amount of dopamine in our systems. Although dopamine can promote feelings of happiness and euphoria, too much of it at once can trigger anxiety, agitation, and paranoia. In addition, both caffeine and THC can both increase your blood pressure and heart rate.

This is why many doctors advise that those with heart conditions and those at risk of heart arrhythmia or stroke, should not mix caffeine and THC. So, if you’re new to mixing coffee and cannabis, it’s important to consult your doctor to make sure it makes sense for you. If it does, begin with lower amounts of coffee and cannabis than you would normally consume on their own. Then if needed, you can increase your dosage slowly.

Back in 2014, a study was conducted to measure the effects of mixing caffeine and cannabis on squirrel monkeys. The results of this study were published in the Journal of Neuroscience. (also described here)

The monkeys were given the ability to self administer cannabis whenever they wanted. All they had to do was to pull on a lever. When the monkeys were given low doses of a substance similar to caffeine, they seemed less likely to reach for the THC. But, when they received high doses of caffeine, they seemed to reach for that lever more often.

Then in 2018, a study led by Marilyn Cornelis at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine seemed to back up these findings. This time, the study examined the effects of mixing cannabis and coffee on humans. It found that the more caffeine people consumed, the less cannabis their body was able to metabolize. (also described here)

So, although small amounts of caffeine can help your THC go a long way – too much caffeine can lessen its effects.

Thanks! Excited to check these out

I have been using this method ever since I found out about it!

Thanks! I'm cutting back a bit lately

Moving in, making my connection / Something's up, you can feel it in the air / Private eyes, never know who's watching / Playing cool, you haven't got a prayer

Have you heard the news making all the headlines / Zooming via satellite? / Have you heard the news coming through the grapevine / Fletch is working overtime

Bit by bit, one way or another / Bit by bit, running undercover / Tonight can't lose, making all the headlines

Bit by bit, gettin' to the bottom / Bit by bit, nothing's gonna stop us tonight

Diggin' in, gonna break by mornin' / Comin' out, you can read it in the Times

Have you heard the news making all the headlines / Zooming via satellite? / Have you heard the news coming through the grapevine / Fletch is working overtime

Hi JB, I went down this rabbit hole last week, here is a post I made summarizing what I found, with links to the dev's GH discussions of the different ideas for implementing the linking of communities, both within an instance or across instances, public or private, mod or user created. These features would likely be implemented separately.

There is also a link to a firefox extension that you may find useful while the dev work is ongoing.

See https://lemmy.ml/post/1615183

I actually hadn't fully read #3071 before now, but now I'm really in favor of it. I would describe it as cross-instance friendship, and I think its an elegant mix of centralized and distributed.

We should want to centralize the conversation by reducing the duplicate submissions so that we tend to comment on the same story in the same post, but I see it as a big negative if we encourage the conversation to always take place on the same one instance and discouraging the same community from popping up on multiple instances.

As db0, visne, and randomletters pointed out on GH issue #1113, it would be great if (as with your suggestion) the event of any individual instance vanishing would only lose us a part of the conversation (or none, with backups?), and anyone browsing would hardly notice the difference.

I agree also that with your idea the problem of duplicate posts would tend to take care of itself when users adapt to the cross-instance view.

As randomletters suggests here, having one community spread across multiple instances may be undesirable if it

• Takes agency away from the user and gives it to the user’s server’s moderators which the user may not agree with.
• The resulting groupings are different depending on which server the user is from with no intuitive way to know why.

I think this is just a different way for mods to exercise the agency they already have over a board. I think mods are free to not make these links, and things will remain as they are on their boards, which is just fine. I think mods should choose whether to default their community to local or cross-instance. I also like that your proposal is totally compatible with the idea of user-created private or public multilemmys (#818), and if user multilemmys could still be created by subscribing to communities at the local scope that would preserve or restore the agency that randomletters is concerned about above? Seems right that user-created multilemmys come separately and later. (I think the unidirectional subscriptions such as described by jamon's notes on #1113, are better suited for #818 and multilemmys, rather than #3071.)

Regarding intuitively conveying why/what groupings are different per instance, maybe we could make graphs or visual representations of the federated content? Maps of the links to visualize the differences between links? Pie charts?

Lastly, some notes I made regarding the post submission page, mostly unrelated to our discussion but I'm not on github.

• Lemmy does not check a submitted post's url for matches, only the title.
• The rules of the community you intend to post to could be shown when you are preparing your post, maybe also the rules of the other linked communities in case you want to select based on that?
• If I am currently subbed to similar boards across many instances, its hard to tell which community is on which instance because the list of communities to select from lists their informal name, and they are all so similarly named.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_riddle_of_induction#Grue_and_bleen

Thanks for explaining, I like that approach too

awesome, thank you!

i mentioned your post, in my post about the discussion of Multilemmys / Multicommunities :

https://lemmy.ml/post/1615183

P.S. in the meantime, a user has created a FireFox addon that might be useful, I have not checked it out myself.

"Missing the MultiReddit experience? I built a Firefox Add On for that" - @Leraje https://lemmy.ml/post/1611805

Hello! FYI variations of the concept of multilemmys or cross-instance community links is being explored a few different ways, I've made a post about this idea which points to the ongoing discussion on github, I invite you to take a look if you're curious

Multilemmys - https://lemmy.ml/post/1615183

edit to add: here's an older post on this subject with responses from the devs that shed light on why it does not currently work this way - https://lemmy.ml/post/57975

Hello! FYI variations of the concept of multilemmys or cross-instance community links is being explored a few different ways, I've made a post about this idea which points to the ongoing discussion on github, I invite you to take a look if you're curious

Multilemmys - https://lemmy.ml/post/1615183

Bahubali! incredible :)

Ultrasound (2021) - I suggest not reading the plot so you can go in without expectations, but if you want a bit to go on, its a sci-fi mystery that feels like it could have come from A24. Features Pete from Mad Men as the protagonist.

nope, its thursday maybe

I think part 2 begins after the list of patents, with the header "Fountain Carbonation Equipment".

Oh I am not the author, this was written in 2002 (the page notes the actual author) and has been remixed by others a few times but this version has so much information in it, as @mb_ says, it is really comprehensive.

Thanks for reading, glad you enjoyed it!

Not at all: Not if you avoid purchasing anything involving tipped-services! People who pay their workers so little that they need to be tipped tend not to get my business.