LouisGarbuor

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[–] LouisGarbuor@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Guilded is owned by Roblox, not Micro$oft.

In my eyes that makes it even worse

[–] LouisGarbuor@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

Same for me lol

[–] LouisGarbuor@sh.itjust.works 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Some things I felt I should mention:

Firstly and most comically: Some sauropods swallowed rocks to aid in digestion, which are called gastroliths. While I only know of diplodocoids (think long and low sauropods) having used gastroliths, Brachiosaurus and other macronarians (tall sauropods, as seen in the picture) might have used them, although I'm not certain on that, as there is some differences in diet between diplodocoids and macronarians. If so, their vomit might have been even more dangerous, although the gastroliths are stored in their own organ iirc. (Just looked it up, there is gastroliths found that probably came from Cedarosaurus, which is a macronarian that was pretty closely related to Brachiosaurus, link: https://fr.copernicus.org/articles/18/1/2015/fr-18-1-2015.pdf)

Secondly and most nitpicky: The picture shows fairly large dromaeosaurs, which don't have a record of existing in the Late Jurassic when Brachiosaurus existed. Now, the fossil record is very incomplete, with one estimate putting the known number of Tyrannosaurus rex specimens at about one billionth of the amount that lived over the 3 million years that species was present. But there are no dromaeosaurs that I know of from the Late Jurassic, let alone the Morrison Formation where Brachiosaurus is found, which is one of the best fossil sites for dinosaurs. It isn't impossible, the split between bird and dromaeosaurs was before the Late Jurassic, but it is highly unlikely, especially in the Morrison, as there were a bunch of predators that would have competed with a large dromaeosaur. Again, this last one is very nitpick-y. Still a funny image though

[–] LouisGarbuor@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

Just looked into it. If that closed source bit only has GUI stuff and has no tracking bits, which is what they claim, then it is probably alright. They mentioned something about community deobfuscation for theming based modding being alright with them (Which is really excellent! Props to the Vivaldi team for outright saying it's chill to technically break their TOS for customization), so if the GUI code has been fully deobfuscated and no tracking things found in it I would probably trust it more than Brave.

Honestly, I don't have a huge problem personally with closed source if I know it doesn't have tracking stuff, but unfortunately companies have lots of incentive to lie and mislead about that.

If Chrome didn't have a monopoly, and if I knew they didn't have tracking stuff, I would very strongly consider switching from Firefox, because in my limited experience trying Vivaldi a while back, it is really great, and I love how customizable it is.

[–] LouisGarbuor@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

I'm not an ichtyologist, but iirc most fish can breath without moving. Some sharks must move to breath, but plenty of them don't have to, i.e. the wobbegongs

[–] LouisGarbuor@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

Opabinia my beloved <3

[–] LouisGarbuor@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Vivaldi is closed source though, so I personally distrust it more than I distrust Brave.

If Vivaldi was FOSS then that might change things, but it isn't.

ETA: I felt I should mention I am a bit of a hypocrite here as my preferred Lemmy client (Boost) isn't FOSS, but I am too used to Boost when I still used Reddit, so any other client just doesn't feel right.

[–] LouisGarbuor@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 months ago

Another app is LibreTube, although it uses piped, which I kinda dislike as it means (depending on the instance you connect to) videos load slower and the subscriptions don't all get refreshed.

I know there is a toggle for disabling piped, but the subscription issue doesn't seem to get affected.

[–] LouisGarbuor@sh.itjust.works 10 points 11 months ago

Wait, lemmy allows editing of titles?

[–] LouisGarbuor@sh.itjust.works 9 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Not all fish can breath underwater interestingly enough, meaning if they can't reach air they will drown. The first example that comes to mind are lungfish, but there are others, such as arapima. I think bettas also are obligate air breathers, but I might be misremembering.

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