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New comment by miriam_catira in "Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Edge, Opera to follow"

miriam_catira — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 07:13:31 +0000

Same here, but when a site completely fails in Firefox I either A) use my phone because mobile Firefox occasionally works or B) use Ungoogled Chromium.

https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium

Really hoping the uBlock will continue to work on that project...

New comment by miriam_catira in "Is my blue your blue? (2024)"

miriam_catira — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 22:22:26 +0000

...I get different numbers depending on which eye I use, but both are fairly center. I didn't expect blue-green to be affected though! My left eye can't see certain shades of red as well as my right eye. Bright sunlight makes it more noticeable, but my own skin looks weirdly (sickly) yellowish with one eye and normal with the other.

Whenever it's come up at home, my spouse simply insists "I don't need to know the difference between aqua, turquoise, and seafoam. They're all blue." At this point I just nod and agree, it's not worth the fight anymore. ;)

New comment by miriam_catira in "Folk are getting dangerously attached to AI that always tells them they're right"

miriam_catira — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 17:25:44 +0000

This. Right now, I'm assuming you're all humans, and so are all my coworkers, and the other people driving cars around me and etc. How easy is it to dehumanize actual humans? If I don't try to remain polite in all written English conversations, including the LLMs, that's going to trickle over to the rest of my interactions too. Doesn't mean they deserve it, just that it's a habit I know I need to maintain.

New comment by miriam_catira in "Desk for people who work at home with a cat"

miriam_catira — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 21:16:17 +0000

Or, god forbid, stupid creature that I am, I buy _the wrong flavor food_. Then it's all "why are you trying to poison me, hooman? do you not love me anymore??"

New comment by miriam_catira in "Bumblebee queens breathe underwater to survive drowning"

miriam_catira — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 21:40:01 +0000

It really depends on where you live. I've found this site useful:

https://xerces.org/pollinator-conservation/pollinator-friend...

Make a few beds and allow them to be "wild" based on your region. All sorts of pollenating insects will show up, eventually.

New comment by miriam_catira in "“Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server"

miriam_catira — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 15:52:22 +0000

I wish. I got a Dell laptop for work and they've replaced the right Ctrl key with a Copilot key, and (because it's a locked-down work sysyem) the only thing I can remap that to is the Windows menu. And I keep hitting it out of muscle memory, interrupting everything. But at least now it doesn't launch Copilot.

Which I could add is "the only AI approved for use by IT" because they hate us.

New comment by miriam_catira in "Spotify won court order against Anna's Archive, taking down .org domain"

miriam_catira — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 23:32:45 +0000

I've heard good things about Tidal (https://tidal.com) but it's not open source afaik.

New comment by miriam_catira in "A woman on a mission to photograph every species of hummingbird"

miriam_catira — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 20:15:47 +0000

We had a feeder just outside our floor-to-ceiling windows. Whenever the feeder ran out the Anna's hummingbirds would hover a couple inches from the glass, staring in at us like little bird mafiosos, demanding their due...

New comment by miriam_catira in "Bots are getting good at mimicking engagement"

miriam_catira — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 14:46:56 +0000

Some of us knew it, but it's getting worse. And I've worked adjacent to or on marketing teams for the the last decade... and I can't explain why but my theory is they all trust the numbers implicitly, esp. the ad spend. Having to justify your department's continued existence via KPIs that need to exponentially increase year over year means bloated numbers are a good thing. They can just blame sales for never closing deals.

New comment by miriam_catira in "Only on Nantucket: The Curious Case of the "Stolen" Mercedes"

miriam_catira — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 15:54:06 +0000

My mom once opened the wrong '89 Dodge Caravan when grocery shopping in the early nineties, and it wasn't until she got in to drive that she realized it wasn't hers. She said the seat was too far back and then she actually stopped to look around. She said she had simply assumed it was hers since the key worked.

New comment by miriam_catira in "The death of partying in the USA"

miriam_catira — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 15:27:38 +0000

This. This is definitely part of the problem. I can't even offer to take my kid & his friends anywhere, other than walk to the park after they're deposited at my house, because every one of them needs a car seat.

New comment by miriam_catira in "Managing time when time doesn't exist"

miriam_catira — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 15:23:03 +0000

Thank you for making this podcast, not just this post, but all of it. I now know how I will be participating in the creation of reality for the foreseeable future (at least as it applies to my local experience of it).

New comment by miriam_catira in "I do not remember my life and it's fine"

miriam_catira — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 05:12:20 +0000

I had the same setup in school- alternating schedules- and had to keep my schedule printed out in my bag to reference between almost every class, every day. I still have dreams (nightmares?) to this day about not knowing which class I was supposed to be going to next and ending up in the wrong place without the work done.

I have to keep a list of everything in a doc of some sort or I can't remember anything I've "accomplished"... and I when I tell my coworkers that my memory resets every weekend and half of Monday is spent rediscovering what it is I'm supposed to be doing all week, they think I'm joking.

New comment by miriam_catira in "The Peppermills of Jens Quistgaard"

miriam_catira — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 23:36:32 +0000

No idea if it'll last 40-50 years, but I've used this probably about 10(?), and it's been great. You do need a small funnel to fill it though. It's not the standard size or functionality, but I've discovered I actually prefer this ratchet style. (It's fun!)

https://www.surlatable.com/product/sur-la-table-ratchet-mill...

New comment by miriam_catira in "Google Pixel 9 Pro"

miriam_catira — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 00:28:16 +0000

Sure, for some women, but let's not generalize. Personally, I hate carrying a purse, and the new phones don't even fit in the pocket inside my purse. Plus, I miss being able to reach the entire screen with one thumb, with the phone held in one hand. I do admit to typing two-handed, sometimes, but damn I wish I didn't NEED to! I can barely reach the left side of the screen reliably, much less the top left corner. :(

'Epigenome editor' silences gene that causes deadly brain disorders

miriam_catira — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 05:47:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02115-z

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40818088

Points: 3

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New comment by miriam_catira in "Physical fitness and risk of mental disorders in children and adolescents"

miriam_catira — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 19:03:13 +0000

No, I don't think they're projecting, I think you've been highly fortunate.

Track is not a good example, at least in my case. Our coaches spent ZERO time with those of us who weren't obviously going to be breaking any records, and whenever we lost a match, made us do so much extra work it was almost impossible to climb stairs the next day. I couldn't get any support from any of them, which I still consider highly unfair, since if I had support maybe I could have figured out a method to improve, but on my own... I just quit.

From my experience in multiple sports, most coaches just want to win. Finding one who cares more about the kids than the score is an absolute blessing, they're so rare.

New comment by miriam_catira in "Parrots love playing tablet games. That's helping researchers understand them"

miriam_catira — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 01:15:26 +0000

There was a corporate office park I encountered once that had a pond, and they had swans in it. The swans entertained themselves by chasing office workers to and from the carpark every morning.

... in my experience, if waterfowl come at you hissing, just look bigger and hiss back - as long as it's smaller than a swan.

New comment by miriam_catira in "Parrots love playing tablet games. That's helping researchers understand them"

miriam_catira — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 01:06:51 +0000

Oh this is by no means limited to ancient times, try giving any two young children the same amount of food, but cut into different sized pieces - smaller cuts result in more pieces than the larger cuts... Guaranteed meltdown. :)

New comment by miriam_catira in "Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan's online rant spurs threats to supes, police reports"

miriam_catira — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 17:09:05 +0000

Usually moderates can be either party, the ones willing to work together from both sides, so in the center. Progressives are generally considered to be the left-leaning democrats. I could be mistaken though, I've been trying to avoid politics recently....