The Internet Archive serves, in some capacity, as a YouTube substitute: anybody can upload film there. My own biggest problem is that there is no way to lower the resolution below how it was originally uploaded, which can be awkward if someone has chosen HD, which wastes my bandwidth. Others might ...

If you are European, the Nokia 105 runs its own operating system, and would have been quite at home twenty years ago. It cannot install applications at all and has no camera. Despite being the cheapest mobile on offer today as far as I know, it is as durable as its name suggests; I have literally ...

I know how selective breeding works, and nothing in my original post rules out negative selection as part of the process of ‘maintain[ing] an environment where [desired traits] can thrive’: plants with undesired traits qualify as weeds. The point is that traditional breeding cannot introduce ...

I am planning on giving breaks between the more intense privacy and technology conversations with side quests like this! I think I need those breaks just as much as everyone else, so it's nice to have an agreement there.

When a filmmaker is interested in two distinct subjects and plans to ...

I have never used SNS at all, but I check artists I like on Nitter from time to time. Bluesky’s site is poorly designed: like many 2020s site, it refuses to display anything at all unless JavaScript is enabled. There is no Nitter equivalent for Bluesky, meaning that I cannot access Bluesky tweets at ...

This is true in general. Green plants are incapable of fixing nitrogen themselves, but depend on lightning or bacteria hosted in the root to fix it or them. Among others, the bacilli which cause tetanus and botulism ( Clostridium spp) are at home in the soil, fixing nitrogen for themselves. Some ...

‘Turns out, plants really like sunshine. Who knew?’
If I ever were to take up gardening, I would need to grow mushrooms. Sunlight irritates my skin (I use a parasol when I go out) and I darken my rooms with thick curtains, so I need plants which do not mind that. ;)
The gymnosperms and cryptogams ...

I am categorically against I have variously heard described as a compost heap of linear algebra, a very lucky paper shredder or, most recently, a ‘recycled mashup of Reddit threads and Hallmark leftovers’. The privacy implications are obvious; how they plagiarise in mass and launder social biases is ...

In my opinion, Minetest v4 suffices already. It resembles Minecraft Classic, which I am old enough to remember. There is no need for mobs (I always played in Peaceful mode) or whatever has accreted onto Minecraft in the years since 2010. This is a sandbox. The player has blocks and can play as he ...

Cameron’s hoard of clip art is a delight. Both as a child and now, I love these. I can, without exaggeration, spend hours combing through these short loops, enthralled. :mrgreen:
Praising ‘under construction’ signs made me smile; I remember when these were considered bad etiquette.

Hearing Discord ...