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  • TechLich@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzVenom vs Poison
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    2 months ago

    Yep, and even when talking about living things it’s not a clear distinction.

    In biology, poison is a substance that causes harm when an organism is exposed to it. Venom is a poison that enters the body through a sting or bite. In a bunch of medical fields though, poisons only apply to toxins that are ingested or absorbed through the skin and that definition sometimes carries across to zoology.

    Venomous creatures are poisonous by most definitions because venom is a poison. But if the distinction is useful in a medical or zoological context then they’re not.

    tldr: The pedantry of eg. correcting someone who says a snake is poisonous is totally pointless and mostly wrong.










  • It’s not that it’s on the 172.16.0.0/12 range. That’s totally normal and used for all kinds of stuff.

    It’s that it’s in 172.16.42.0/24 which is the default dhcp settings for a wifi pineapple. It’s the /24 mask given on the .42 that’s a little suspicious because that’s not a common range for anything else.

    Being assigned one of those specific 253 hosts with that subnet mask would definitely make me think twice.



  • It sounds like they controlled for that and did a bunch of different statistical models to break it down by different demographics and economics. That said, I’m finding it hard to find the original paper. It’s not linked to in the article or any of the AP versions I found. Nature has a link to Google scholar but that comes up with nothing and it’s not referenced in the researcher’s publications on the Oxford site yet. Maybe it went to the press already but the actual article isn’t out yet?

    It does sound very broad though and difficult/impossible to draw any causation. Still interesting through as it does kinda show that any negative causative link that might exist between well-being and internet use is not strong enough to outweigh other positive factors that are correlated with it (even non-causative ones).



  • TechLich@lemmy.worldtoCurated Tumblr@sh.itjust.works._.
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    7 months ago

    But what volume would it be? Is it a small amount of glitter or a lot? What’s the g/cm³ of glitter? What about tiny bits of uranium? I feel like all the little bits of air between the glitter particles would lower the density compared with just a solid block of uranium which would increase the volume but…

    I feel like someone should put some numbers in this thread.


  • TechLich@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneLobster(ule)
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    7 months ago

    I was going to come up with something fun and clever to keep it going but the next line of the real song starts with “cream-coloured ponies” so I think we should probably just leave it here after all.

    There are some of the internet’s things that we don’t need to enumerate.




  • Best is very subjective.

    .world is a good general purpose instance for just about anything. I think it has the biggest population at the moment, so communities there are likely to get at least some engagement.

    For “general discussion” it doesn’t really matter. The instances are federated so you’ll likely get general discussion in comments from lots of people from lots of instances anyway, wherever your community is based.

    Some people get almost nationalistic about their chosen instances or have grudges against people from certain other instances. There’s sometimes inter-instance politics with some servers defederating with others or threatening to for various reasons. It’s kinda fun to watch in a popcorn drama kind of way. For the most part, the instance doesn’t matter.


  • That’s pretty cool!

    Although that’s probably what op is actually asking for, I don’t think it’s a modem. It’s a router with an access point.

    It does have SFP for a fibre connection and pcie and USB for you to potentially add a modem or whatever else you want.

    I’m guessing OP is just looking for a wifi router? Otherwise we’d need to know what kind of modem they’re looking for, like Cellular? VDSL? HFC? Satellite? It depends on the internet connection. Different parts of the world need very different kit.