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  • I’d look at reviews, maybe see if Americas test kitchen has done a guide

    Anything decent should hold up long term, I think you’ve just found some crappy ice cube trays

    https://a.co/d/7dG2vHu

    This one seems like the style you’re talking about and has better reviews than just about anything else I see on amazon. How much you trust those reviews is up in the air, but it does look like a fairly foolproof, classic style of icemaker as long as it’s not flimsy, and the reviews don’t seem to suggest that’s an issue 🤷‍♂️


  • Proprietary software has its own version of that problem where companies are informed of a vulnerability by researchers and then just don’t bother to fix it until the researchers are forced to publish it 😅

    I’d guess the number of competent eyes on large foss projects used by companies is probably higher than more consumer focused stuff like Nextcloud (does Nextcloud position itself as a corporate tool? Maybe it does and I’m just not aware of it…) but I’m not the most knowledgable on this subject so I could certainly be mistaken

    Edit: I’m dumb and still mostly asleep, just saw its literally a nextcloud article lol



  • From what I’ve heard (and it agrees with my anecdotal experience):

    One of the things that takes the most strain when you skip sleep is your heart. Sleep is one of the times when your heart muscles get to rest a bit more, so it can struggle to pump blood when you don’t rest

    Along those lines, drinking plenty of water and staying hydrated can help make your blood consistency a little thinner and easier to pump.

    I’d also consider trying to eat foods that aren’t too high in fat, and don’t have too high of a glycemic index. Lots of fat all at once can make you feel heavy and tired, exacerbating tiredness, and foods high in glycemic index that contain more simple sugars and less fiber will spike your blood sugar, resulting in a crash that I would also expect to exacerbate tiredness.

    The last thing I’d add is to keep in mind that people are extremely bad at assessing how much their sleep deprivation is affecting them. Studies have shown that people are genuinely dogshit at it, and will consistently think they’re performing about average while producing horrible results in cognitive tests. Remember that even if you feel like you’re doing fine in terms of ability to think, objectively you aren’t and are operating at a significantly diminished capacity, and you just can’t tell.


    Tldr, stay hydrated, eat foods without a ton of fat and that are lower glycemic index, and remember that your brain is really dumb when you don’t sleep, even though it often won’t feel like it


  • Yeah, I think accessibility is one of the few potentially actually valuable use cases for generative AI.

    If you can generate alt text completely locally in a private open source way that’d be pretty cool. It’d be nice if it funtioned as a extension that only does anything when you intentionally call it, at least by default. Maybe mapped to a keyboard shortcut, but I don’t know enough about what visually impaired users need to have a meaningful perspective on how the user experience should be implemented.

    But I’ve yet to see any companies talk about how that’s what they’re gonna use AI for. To me, AI has hypothetical usefulness specifically for tasks that are really important but that in practice no one actually puts resources into, or has any resource to put into.

    I also kinda wonder if local-only AI moderation tools could also make it a lot easier for fediverse mods to cover a lot of ground, or could abstract really disturbing content to reduce the mental load of moderating out the worst content folks post on the internet.

    But no one is interested in AI tech so they can build useful things, theyre interested in it because they can steal peoples intellectual labor and build products without having to pay the people who would produce that intellectual labor.