bagfatnick 6mo ago • 100%
The centrism is a side effect of First Past the Post surprisingly. Look at countries with proportional representation. Compare the far right seats in European countries to seats here held by the Brexit / Reform party. If I recall correctly, the 2015 election results are one of the worst, with the Brexit party getting close to 13% of the vote and only 1 seat.
FPtP tends to force parties to compromise before election to gather support. Successful PR governments require the compromising after the results to form a consensus.
The results from this paperare quite interesting at comparing voters to how MPs vote. Essentially the average CON voter is actually more socially conservative than how CON MPs vote. Similarly the average LAB voter is also more socially conservative than how LAB MPs vote. Essentially if you make the populace pick, they’ll prioritise social conservative policies first even if they wanted more financially left policies.
bagfatnick 6mo ago • 100%
Coming from Malaysia, I have quite the non-standard order of names with my surname being the in the center. It gets more complicated because most Malaysians don’t have a surname, so none of our official documents have a Surname / Firstname field, just a Name field.
Flight tickets always look bizarre because the order is off, and bits of the last part of my name is taken off. Surprisingly this has never been a problem with the airlines in Europe / NA / Asia. The only EU country to give me a grilling about the name was at the Italian border.
As I was holding a visa in the U.K. since 2010s, the home office’s compromise with me was to list my whole name as my last name. Thereby making documents in the U.K. match my passport name. Although since about 2 years ago, they’ve finally relented and recognised my last name as such.
Another odd side effect of this is that I have 2 credit scores, depending on the name order.
bagfatnick 6mo ago • 75%
This was always a known risk of having alternative app stores. Think of it from the dev’s point of view, he’s also one of the founders of AltStore. Of course an exclusive app is one of the best ways to get people onboard. Just wait for the Epic, Meta, Amazon… stores next. At least AltStore has an open-source ethos behind it.
bagfatnick 8mo ago • 100%
As an added bonus, the text that’s taped to the steering wheel tyre reads “Wednesday” in Chinese. Which seems to suggest a different wheel(s) for other days of the week.
bagfatnick 8mo ago • 100%
Interestingly the $/£5 YouTube app being referenced in the article was whipped up by Christian, the dev of Apollo for Reddit. A post on his website details how’s he managed to get a relatively custom UI and video player using what appears to be browser extensions and the YouTube public API.
bagfatnick 8mo ago • 100%
I’m not entirely sure what’s you’re trying to imply. But Bangkok is a city in Thailand.
bagfatnick 8mo ago • 100%
Very good explanation of why you should be skeptical online. I just wanted to chime in as someone who does eat dragon fruit regularly, that they are absolutely delicious when ripe. Although the red ones do stain quite bad.
bagfatnick 9mo ago • 90%
I feel like the developer should actually get some legal advice. In the U.K., “the crown” does not refer to the monarchy, but some legal entity that might as well be the state.
One source: https://harperjames.co.uk/article/bona-vacantia-buying-ip-from-the-crown/
bagfatnick 9mo ago • 100%
Thanks for the question, it actually made me look for the api. Looks like I misremembered it, and there aren’t actually any exposed APIs for developers regarding attention. Internally it’s used by iOS for checking when you’re looking at the screen for faceID and keeping the screen lit when you’re reading.
There are APIs for developers that expose the position of the users head, but apparently it excludes eye information. Looks like it’s also pretty resource intensive, and mainly for AR applications.
The faceID / touchID api essentially only returns “authenticated”, “authenticating”, and “unautheticated”. The prompts / UI are stock iOS and cannot be altered, save showing a reason.
bagfatnick 9mo ago • 85%
For what it’s worth, Apple has had an attention API ( for checking if the user is interacting / viewing ) since the debut of their facial tracking sensors on the iPhone X. Although, Apple makes its very clear it’s not to be used for ads and the such. If it helps I don’t know of any developers / Apple abusing that API.
bagfatnick 10mo ago • 100%
I’ve been using my Tado thermostat for the past 5 years without any issue. It integrates well with HomeKit and home assistant. Its radiator valves are great at separating the heat around my home.
For smoke / CO detectors, I just have dumb ones. But I’ve noticed my HomePod mini has urgent notifications when they sound. Don’t know how accurate these are as they require sound recognition.
bagfatnick 11mo ago • 100%
I can confirm the extensions work well together.
bagfatnick 11mo ago • 96%
You can also apply it when watching a YouTube video by appending “&wadsworth=1” to the url.
bagfatnick 11mo ago • 100%
It seems it may be because Orion on iOS has web extensions support. Which I think safari also does (partially) but uses a different framework for its on extensions. Check out Kagi’s page on Orion and web extensions.
bagfatnick 11mo ago • 100%
For iOS safari, I can’t recommend vinegar enough. It replaces the YouTube player with the default html 5 player. So you get all the built in iOS features and ad blocking. There’s also the sponsor block app which works in conjunction with vinegar.
bagfatnick 1y ago • 100%
Unfortunately IT blocked Access installs because some staff were using it for mission critical processes, and upon leaving IT were required to maintain them. They felt excel was less likely to lead to scenarios like this.
Little did they know excel projects are probably worse to maintain.
bagfatnick 1y ago • 100%
I feel you. Working in healthcare, ms office is the only thing consistently installed site wide I can take advantage of to run a db.
bagfatnick 1y ago • 100%
Take a look at vinegar / baking soda as an extension for safari. It replaces the non-standard video players on websites like YouTube with a plain HTML5 player. Much smoother and you get all the iOS / macOS features like scrubbing and PiP. Plus it blocks ads as well!
bagfatnick 1y ago • 90%
I found it interesting how my initial interpretation of the lack of blood was some sign of invulnerability / strength. I guess that fits with the religious theme of it.
bagfatnick 1y ago • 100%
Interestingly the you / thou distinction existed because of French / Latin influence (see the T-V distinction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T–V_distinction). Thou was generally for addressing intimate / inferiors. English just drifted to using the more formal “you” across time and dropped the thou.
Feels much snappier on my side. Any changes experienced by you guys?
Have a look see. You might find a copy of the book you were looking for.
cross-posted from: https://kulupu.duckdns.org/post/19790 > Featuring the famous English grey
Featuring the famous English grey
cross-posted from: https://kulupu.duckdns.org/post/16187 > Looks like theres a final surprise in the form of a song in Apollo now that it’s closed. > > Can anyone identify the artist?
Looks like theres a final surprise in the form of a song in Apollo now that it’s closed. Can anyone identify the artist? EDIT: someone managed to find [it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOFChFxsJ3I&pp=ygUeY2hyaXN0aWFuIHNlbGlnIGdvb2RieWUgYXBvbGxv). From Christian’s YouTube page: > A fun parody of Sarah McLachlan's I Will Remember You performed by the incredible Zoe Wynns
Surprisingly I’ve never actually properly played this game before. Looking forward to it tho from all the good reviews on previous platforms. Anyone else looking forward to this?
You can now access the instance via the Wefwef App at https://w.kulupu.duckdns.org. Let me know if there's any issues!
Mi kepeken ilo wepuwepu li pana e sitelen ni.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/785131 > The app has an amazing experience so far, because it feels like I'm just using Apollo, heaps of baked in features that no other app has so far. It's a web app so installation is pretty forward. Much love to the Devs! > > (Side note: please change the name to something better. I recommend the name Voyager to keep up with the theme) > > > Installation: > > https://wefwef.app/settings/install > > > Courtesy of KillaBeez@lemmy.world for telling us about it.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/407454 > There is huge excitement about ChatGPT and other large generative language models that produce fluent and human-like texts in English and other human languages. But these models have one big drawback, which is that their texts can be factually incorrect (hallucination) and also leave out key information (omission). > > In our chapter for The Oxford Handbook of Lying, we look at hallucinations, omissions, and other aspects of “lying” in computer-generated texts. We conclude that these problems are probably inevitable.
It just dawned on me that you guys might be having a completely different experience to me browsing via this instance due to the server being so far away. Is there quite a lag browsing? Have you compared to the Malaysian [monyet.cc](https://monyet.cc) instance?