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New comment by filterfish in "Repair Cafe – Fix Your Broken Items"

filterfish — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 07:38:10 +0000

My ex-partner and I used to have "drink it and fix it" on Sunday evenings where she would bring stuff out for me to fix and we'd slowly get pissed! Some things remained fixed, some things, erm, needed re-fixing!

New comment by filterfish in "AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)"

filterfish — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 07:35:13 +0000

I'm with you an that one. RIP em-dash.

New comment by filterfish in "DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731"

filterfish — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 14:34:23 +0000

Is any class action lawsuit "easy"?

New comment by filterfish in "European sunscreens are safer than American (2024)"

filterfish — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:37:15 +0000

Life expectancy and quality of life are very different things.

New comment by filterfish in "Pink noise reduces REM sleep and may harm sleep quality"

filterfish — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 05:36:59 +0000

> Misophonia, interesting, I hadn’t heard (snort!) of that before. There are certain sounds I will inappropriately respond to, I’ll I read up on misophonia, thanks.

The misophonia isn't a bad place to start: https://www.reddit.com/r/misophonia/

I've watched a few episodes of DOAC so I'll watch that. I know my chronotype but that's about all so it'll be interesting so what they say!

New comment by filterfish in "Pink noise reduces REM sleep and may harm sleep quality"

filterfish — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 05:13:24 +0000

My ex-partner has tinnitus and saw a psychologist who specialised in tinnitus. The psychologist suggested she buy a machine that generates a sound slightly quieter than her tinnitus which retrains the brain not to hear the tinnitus. So she bought a machine that generated about 15 different sounds and settled on a pink-ish sound and played while she slept. It took a couple of years but it effectively "cured" her tinnitus. It drove me mad for a while but after a while I didn't notice it.

The machine had different sounds because the sound of tinnitus is different for different people: hers sounded like cicadas, a sound I quite like but she hates!

I have misophonia and used to live in a house where a coffee van would start a generator at 0530 so I used a fan to help drown out the sound. I could still hear the generator but I could sleep through. It fundamentally changed the quality of my life.

New comment by filterfish in "Waiting for dawn in search: Search index, Google rulings and impact on Kagi"

filterfish — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 08:09:46 +0000

Likewise and if people say, "why don't you google that?" I usually reply (obviously to everyone's annoyance:-) "I don't use Google". The general response is a blank, uncomprehending look.

New comment by filterfish in "Show HN: Witr – Explain why a process is running on your Linux system"

filterfish — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 04:29:18 +0000

Looking up the binary in the package management system would also provide another source of useful information. Of course this would dramatically increase the complexity but would, I think, be useful.

If you could look it up using APT/dpkg first, that would be lovely :-)

New comment by filterfish in "The Deviancy Signal: Having "Nothing to Hide" Is a Threat to Us All"

filterfish — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 11:06:26 +0000

Contempt is very different to hate.

New comment by filterfish in "Thomas Piketty: 'The reality is the US is losing control of the world'"

filterfish — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 13:10:38 +0000

Thank you. This is what I was looking for.

New comment by filterfish in "Powder and stone, or, why medieval rulers loved castles"

filterfish — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 04:49:33 +0000

> I am (alas) an entirely carbon-based user of the em dash.

What a lovely sentence.

New comment by filterfish in "Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?"

filterfish — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 09:41:43 +0000

Agreed,Bandcamp is good, very good.

New comment by filterfish in "The surprising geography of American left-handedness (2015)"

filterfish — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 10:12:36 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh_Handedness_Inventory

Some online tests:

* Long form: https://www.brainmapping.org/shared/Edinburgh.php

* Short form: https://www.psytoolkit.org/survey-library/handedness-ehi.htm...

New comment by filterfish in "The chemical secrets that help keep honey fresh for so long"

filterfish — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 08:33:48 +0000

The wound was about 6mm deep on my heel and took months to heal properly. And yes I did check those homophones :-)

And thanks for the other homophone correction!

New comment by filterfish in "The chemical secrets that help keep honey fresh for so long"

filterfish — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 08:23:07 +0000

Millions of years!

New comment by filterfish in "The chemical secrets that help keep honey fresh for so long"

filterfish — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 03:47:48 +0000

https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD...

New comment by filterfish in "The chemical secrets that help keep honey fresh for so long"

filterfish — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 03:33:50 +0000

I had a planter wart surgically removed which they packed with Manuka honey and because it's a deep open wound it needs to heal from the inside. I changed the dressing and repacked it every few days for weeks and the wound was absolutely pristine ever time.

I live in the tropics where people die because due to infection which makes it even more interesting that they use honey.

New comment by filterfish in "Harper – an open-source alternative to Grammarly"

filterfish — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 02:32:08 +0000

"they" say "I haven't got a car".

Contractions are common in Australian English to, though becoming less so due to the influence of US English.

New comment by filterfish in "The scientific “unit” we call the decibel"

filterfish — Fri, 23 May 2025 13:38:43 +0000

Whether something is near field or far field is frequency dependent

New comment by filterfish in "Replacing Kubernetes with systemd (2024)"

filterfish — Tue, 06 May 2025 22:38:14 +0000

We used to pay AU$30 for the entire house which included everything except cooking but it did include a 10 year 1RU rack Mount server. Electricity isn't particularly cheap here.