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Strayce@lemmy.sdf.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•Chinese researchers can access medical information from half a million UK GP records through UK Biobank, despite western intelligence agencies’ security fearsEnglish4·11 days agoTotal nothingburger. BioBank is a research dataset used for cohort studies. There’s about 500k volunteers who contributed some genetic material, demographic and lifestyle information, anthropometrics and physiological measurements. It’s mostly used to discern possible genetic and lifestyle factors for chronic disease. It’s not like they’re getting access to the whole NHS database and stealing DNA to build supersoldiers.
Strayce@lemmy.sdf.orgto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What is your worst experience with appliances?English24·28 days agoPartner bought me a pet feeder with built in webcam. Worked great for three years until the servers went down. First and last time I trusted any internet connected appliance .
Strayce@lemmy.sdf.orgto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Is there any virtual pet device/app where you are the pet?English19·29 days agoYeah, there’s a few. Habitica comes to mind, but the generic term for this is “gamification”.
Strayce@lemmy.sdf.orgto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What should one follow (via RSS/here/elsewhere) to tune into strictly non-commercial stuff?English4·1 month agoI mean there is peertube for video content. I know my instance runs aNONradio which is pretty eclectic music and talk radio, but there are probably other similar streams. There’s quite a few services for CC licensed music. Personally I listen to a lot of actual play RPG podcasts, which are probably right on the border of hobbyist / side hustle stuff. More indie and low budget than say, critical role or the like, but still partially monetised, even if only to cover costs.
Strayce@lemmy.sdf.orgto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What should one follow (via RSS/here/elsewhere) to tune into strictly non-commercial stuff?English4·1 month agoDepends what you mean by “non-commercial” and “stuff”. Does community-supported via Patreon count? Are you after music, video, fiction writing, non-fiction, comics…
Strayce@lemmy.sdf.orgto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Had a dream about drinking alcohol again and feeling like shit. Why is this happening to me? I hate drinking alcohol. I don't know why my dreams keep punishing me.English221·1 month agoBrains do weird shit when you’re not around. Try not to dwell on it.
Strayce@lemmy.sdf.orgto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What word looks weirder and weirder the more you look at it?English5·1 month agoThis is true, but anecdotally it happens quicker with some words than others.
Strayce@lemmy.sdf.orgto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What word looks weirder and weirder the more you look at it?English1·1 month agoSnail
Strayce@lemmy.sdf.orgto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•how is it to work everyday but Wednesdays and Thursdays?English11·1 month agoHospitality worker here. Working weekends means less time to socialise with friends who are on a M-F schedule and less opportunity to attend events in general because they’re usually scheduled on weekends. You’ll have to put more effort into staying in touch with people and finding things to do on your days off.
Strayce@lemmy.sdf.orgto Fediverse@lemmy.world•[Ghost Blog] The social web beta is hereEnglish2·1 month agoThere’s a repo for it maintained by ghost, but you have to do the install and setup yourself. Can’t vouch for reliability, never used it.
Strayce@lemmy.sdf.orgto Fediverse@lemmy.world•[Ghost Blog] The social web beta is hereEnglish1·1 month agoPretty sure if you self host your own ghost install it’s already available.
Strayce@lemmy.sdf.orgto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Did Leonard Cohen ever cover the song Woke Up This Morning (Got Myself A Gun)?English1·1 month agodeleted by creator
Strayce@lemmy.sdf.orgto Gaming@beehaw.org•Death Stranding 2: On the Beach - Pre-Order TrailerEnglish6·2 months agoWonder how long we’ll have to wait for the PC port.
Strayce@lemmy.sdf.orgto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's your funniest professional deformation?English12·2 months agoBehind!
If you’ve worked in hospitality, you know.
Strayce@lemmy.sdf.orgto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What, if any, cybernetic augmentation would you want for regular life?English91·2 months agoSubdermal armour. Like a flexible, slash-resistant, heatproof mesh under the skin. I work in a kitchen so it’d be nice to be able to ignore those pesky little nicks and burns.
Strayce@lemmy.sdf.orgto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's a craving or longing you have that would sound oddly specific to anyone else?English4·2 months agoI definitely relate to that. I spent a good chunk of my formative years just hanging out at the mall after school with my friends, sitting on the outdoor balcony with ridiculous coffees, openly smoking although we were underage, and just shooting the shit. Maybe we’d have hit up the music store beforehand and we’d chat about what we’d bought, read the liner notes and talk about the artwork. I miss music stores too, but I think a lot of people my age do. The mall used to be somewhere you could just hang out. I don’t know what’s changed, maybe it’s me. In my area they seem to be as busy as ever, but they all seem so sterile and hyper-optimised now, even though the floorplans are still the same as they were decades ago.
Me, I miss the proliferation of arcade video game cabinets. I miss arcades too, but I don’t think that’s out of the ordinary for old nerds. Going to them for a lock-in session was always a fun event, even by myself. Also having one at nearly every mall and being able to just go there and drop a few bucks and kill half an hour while you wait for a bus. What I really miss though, are the machines they’d just have randomly in places; corner stores, video rental places, restaurants, bowling alleys. We’d spend entire days riding around, scouting out new places for good games, which place had the cheapest Street Fighter 2, discovering weird obscure import titles no one had ever heard of. Of course now if I have a few minutes to kill I can game on my phone, but it’s such a non-event. Arcade cabinets were special, they had -presence-. When you found a good one you kept that location burned into your brain, told only your closest friends, and when they removed or changed it, it was such a tragedy.
Strayce@lemmy.sdf.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•Microsoft quietly released a free offline version of Office, but you're not going to like itEnglish28·2 months agonon-cloud based approach…
You’re using cloud based storage
Pick one.
Strayce@lemmy.sdf.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•Microsoft quietly released a free offline version of Office, but you're not going to like itEnglish31·2 months agoWhat is OneDrive if not cloud-based?
Well it was nice for a while there.