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(Earlier also had @sga@lemmy.world for a year before I switched to @sga@lemmings.world, now trying piefed)

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Uplifting News lemmy.world

Fediverse memes feddit.uk

2w ago

Independent News - an idea for aggregating independent journalism
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sga @piefed.social 2w ago
I would be interested to do india related stuff. I sparingly post to /c/india (piefed.social) community, but largely just read passively.

2w ago

Favorite Snack or Treat

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sga @piefed.social 2w ago

cashews for me. I can eat them for my whole life

2w ago

Open-Source P2P Apps

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sga @piefed.social 2w ago

there is gnu jami - messenger and video/audio calls

2w ago

that is likely from things added for smell and moisturising. if you have ipa or some other alcohol, that just vaporises, leaving absolutely nothing, alongside also taking a bit of your moisture and skin oils.

in mine i add some iodine (anti-bacterial,etc), 6-aldehyde (very common medical disinfectant) some ipa and restt is water. it leaves very little behind, is a bit harsh on skin (i could make it milder, but just prefer strong), and is cheap when made in bulk.

2w ago

Ingrained Daily Habits

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sga @piefed.social 2w ago

i did not get this one. maybe you are refering about something i do not know. if it is about stickiness f sanitisers, that comes from glycerine and stuff, which mine does not ( i make my own by acquiring raw materials in larger quantities)

2w ago

Ingrained Daily Habits

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sga @piefed.social 2w ago

I keep sanitising myself, basically whenever i can. Not in a medical profession. I got this habbit before covid.

3w ago

Made a meme regarding the feddit.org situation

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sga @piefed.social 3w ago

thanks, doing that

3w ago

Cheerful Tuesday... what's made you laugh or smile recently?

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sga @piefed.social 3w ago

thak you, it was less diy, more necessity making me work hard.

3w ago

New Rule

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sga @piefed.social 3w ago

(we can still make fun of the og nodebb folks)

3w ago

What are some typically for profit companies that could work as a non-profit?

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sga @piefed.social 3w ago

In my general socialist dream, all boring things should be non profit - education, healthcare, food (agriculture side, not th end product), water, electricity, land, communincations, transport (railway, busses), etc.. Basically things where 2 people doing someething will likely not breed creativity, but only trying to beat the other will require doing things like advertising, and to maintain profits, you would have to cost cut. these things also happen to be necessities that everyone has, and so must be provided by govt, and covered by taxes.

as for examples, atleast in us (and a lot of world), most governments do not operate telecoms (the cellular service), even though it is a boring thing. in india (where i live), there is bsnl and mtnl, and pprovides a basic service, which not only keeps the for profit companies at their toes (technically they are not non-profit, at least not registered one, but they basically do not aim to make profits). another example is agriculture - it is often subsidised, and but it is still for profit. over here, we have large cooperatives (they are also not non profits, and they actually do make profits - thy just invest back into the cooperative) for dairy and agri industry, which not only helps farmers havee stable incomes, but they can often fall back on their saved profits. railways are often partly (or completely) govt owned (might not be the case in land of free, but i know of amtrak) so that is already a well known example - try to use all profits to maintain rail cars and tracks.

beyond these, things can be for profit (art or media for example), where 2 separate things can exist, do not (necessarily) eat each others business and often done for leisurely needs (not necessities)

3w ago

What are some good communitys here for newcomers?

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sga @piefed.social 3w ago

As with all places on interent where you can post stuff, there are memes - start with them. find your favorite meme community, and since on pieffed, you can explore user made feeds (meta communities if you will) where you can select interests and get relevant community content getting delivered.

3w ago

Cheerful Tuesday... what's made you laugh or smile recently?

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sga @piefed.social 3w ago

Our vacuum pump for a machine got better. we had a leak and could not maintain pressure for long, but that got fixed by changing a pipe, and for the rest, changing/cleaning o rings and just doing that same thing 4-5 times produced different results. now reaches much closer to expected value. (leaving out details for privacy reason, but it is a scientific equipment that it connects too)

3w ago

This is a joke about HolyC

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sga @piefed.social 3w ago

what does i0 even mean, like what is the sign even for

3w ago

xkcd #3205: Carbon Dating

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sga @piefed.social 3w ago

they are technically correct, the best kind of correct

3w ago

Best apps for private messaging

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sga @piefed.social 3w ago

reason for them not appearing is that xmpp is a largely relaxed platform, that is, all implementations are not equally strict. some may implement certain extensions, others may implement other. encryption (omemo) is a common one that most implement, but then client (the user apps like gajim) may or may not implement them correctly, or they may have a fallback (first communication between 2 clients maybe is not encrypted), and other different problems with encryption being flaky (firstly, it is not perfect forward secrecy, it is a bit prone to failure (messages unable to decrypt), etc.), hence it is not recommended much.

3w ago

Permanently Deleted

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sga @piefed.social 3w ago

like find a video where you commented from peertube, and the same link was posted on piefed, and there your comment shows up in grouped view (from all crossposts)

3w ago

Permanently Deleted

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sga @piefed.social 3w ago

can you try to find your peertube profile in a piefed post? if so, there you can check user profile, cause effectively all peertube videos are posts in piefed (threadiverse land).

i tried doing that, and found my profile at https://piefed.social/u/sga@peertube.wtf, so maybe just do a simple url check. you will only get videos you commented on and not likes

3w ago

Wait - when did Ubuntu Touch get VoLTE support???

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sga @piefed.social 3w ago

That would be great if it works on redmi stuff. Basically my last blocker (outside of some banking stuff, which i do not even have installed right now)

3w ago

Frog gut bacterium eliminates cancer tumors in mice with a single dose

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sga @piefed.social 3w ago

as someone who is doing some kind of science - titles are a lot more fancier and designd for absurdity. Often, the decision to perform something is a lot more logical than dciding random animals to test from. for example, some of the people from their group may already have been studying that specific frog line for some reason (maybe for it's gut only), for example, they may have observed that these frogs live a long life or something, then they decided to find why is that, and may hav ecome to conclusion that it is this gut bacterium. or maybe they may hav eknown of this bacterium, and found out where they could source more of this.

but sometimes, it is totally random luck, lik you accidentally messed up experiement, and spilled some unrelated gut juice from a frog from a separate experiment, and it just so have happened to worked, so you now studied it closely.

I have absolutely no idea what may have happened in this one, and i am not a biologist, so do not know what is the usual way, but it is usually among these.

4w ago

I have a habit of browsing the phone a bit before doing anything... like... going to doctors appointment? Hold on lemme read a random wikipedia real quick / google a question I have right now

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sga @piefed.social 4w ago

roughly in the same boat as you, but all i would say is - if it is something meaningful (like educational, pop sci, or if entertainment, then healthy kind (and not so 1 $ vs 1000 $ thing comparison)), then it is fine. If you are still able to reason, still able to maintain focus on important stuff, then it is fine.