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Admin of lemmy.blahaj.zone

I can also be found on the microblog fediverse at @ada@blahaj.zone or on matrix at @ada:chat.blahaj.zone

  • TIL about the Gordie Howe International Bridge which connects the USA to Canada near Detroit and that it was completed a week ago

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  • How/where do you do the border crossing paperwork?

  • TIL about the Gordie Howe International Bridge which connects the USA to Canada near Detroit and that it was completed a week ago

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  • So now I'm curious as to how the US/Canada border works. It says that the bridge gives uninterrupted freeway traffic flow, but wouldn't the international border require interruption? How does border crossing work with a bridge like this?

  • How to prevent foot and knee pain after running?

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  • There's two main culprits for runners knee.

    If you have suddenly increased the distance you run, you may need to ease back, and do a gradual increase instead, which gives your muscles and soft tissue time to adapt to your increased load.

    Otherwise, it's often a gait issue. Ankles that roll inwards or outwards too much etc can cause torsion pain. In this case, it means better shoes, and ideally, shoes that address the issues with your gait. The thing about gait issues is that in the day to day, we don't even know the imbalances are there, but when you start running a lot, the increased strike rate and strike strength means issues can start to show up. In my case, I need shoes with support that stop my left ankle from rolling inwards.

  • Tesseract hides any post containing the phrase "censoring me"

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  • That's exactly where I'm at. I don't align with a lot of the choices Rimu makes for Piefed, but I am 100% for him designing a tool that works for him, even when the defaults he chooses don't align with my preferences. As long as I have the option to disable/change them as an admin, then I'd rather see a passionate dev creating tools that they want to use than a burned out dev creating something their heart isn't invested in.

    Unfortunately, tesseract isn't that...

  • What running app + wrist watch are you using?

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  • Garmin Forerunner 965, TrainAsOne and Garmin Connect

  • The social media ban sceptic: are we getting it wrong on kids, tech and mental health?

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  • Because I don't believe that kids (or people in generally) magically develop effective techniques for dealing with addiction and bullying when they reach a certain arbitrary age. They don't suddenly know how to deal with complex social situations when they turn 16. They don't know instantly gain knowledge of how to deal with the addictive nature of gamified social media platforms when they turn 16. So hiding them from that stuff, and then letting their first exposure to it be when they're trying to learn to be independent and less likely to look for answers outside of their own experience solves nothing.

    Social media can be addictive, screen time can be addictive, and navigating online scammers, bullies and fraudsters is something that takes experience to work recognise and work through.

    So I approached it by talking to my kid about recognising what this stuff looks like, about the importance of not revealing personal information, of asking questions if they have doubts. I also let them have as much screen time as they wanted, and told them that the issue isn't how much time they spend in front of the computer, the issue is whether the computer is the only thing they want to spend time with. If they always say no when someone asks if they want to do something else, if the devices start to get in the way of life, and they never want to leave their room, get resentful at having to do chores etc, then the balance is off. And that's what I cared about. Teaching the kid how to fit this stuff in to their life whilst they were young enough to still take my advice onboard.

    That's why

    Edit - Unrelated, but maybe not unrelated, I also told me kid I don't care if they swear around the house, with their friends or whatever. However, I also told them that lots of people do care if they swear, and they need to be aware of the impact that their choice of words has on the people around them. Swearing at a teacher at school for example, is going to get them in trouble, and "I can swear at home" isn't an excuse for that. I tried to teach my child that the issue isn't the words, but rather, the way your words impact the people around you and your relationships with them.

    Kids need to learn by doing and by trying. They don't learn by being told by their parents "this is how it is". And the more hard rules you put in front of them, the more things they have the need to rebel against and push back against when they try and find their independence. And every single kid that has ever lived explores and pushes at boundaries in some form or another. So don't turn the shitty harmful things in to forms of finding independence.

    You give kids independence by giving them agency in their own life, and the life experience to use that agency in an informed way.

  • The social media ban sceptic: are we getting it wrong on kids, tech and mental health?

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  • I didn't drink until I was in my 20s, and I've never driven a car, let alone crashed one.

    I also let my kid use social media in their pre teens.

  • The Backlash Is So Strong That People With “Pervert Glasses” Are Afraid to Use Them in Public

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  • Most models don't have any kind of display at all. The most recent model that isn't widely available anywhere yet has a tiny notification window.

    The vast majority of glasses out in the wild that people are using today do not have displays.

    That will change, but right now, if you see someone wearing these glasses, you can be close to certain it doesn't have a display.

  • The Backlash Is So Strong That People With “Pervert Glasses” Are Afraid to Use Them in Public

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  • They don't have a display.

  • The Backlash Is So Strong That People With “Pervert Glasses” Are Afraid to Use Them in Public

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  • The glasses don't have HUDs/screens. There are no real time visual clues.

  • The Death of the Status Update: Why 55% of Americans Stopped Posting on Social Media

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  • I use vernissage rather than pixelfed, but yeah, it's the only one I deliberately try and post to every day!

  • For those who had covid symtoms for some time, how did you get back in shape to run?

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  • I've reached the age where I'm starting to noticably slow down and things are getting harder, I've had pneumonia a couple of times, a bunch of surgeries, and possibly covid in the middle of it.

    If I'm honest, I've not got back to where I was, and I likely never will. And it's been really demotivating, meaning that I'll pause my runs, and lose momentum if I'm not careful.

    What worked for me was making sure it wasn't just me. I encourage my partner to come out for a walk when I run, so that we can push each other in to moving. I also set myself an event to train for, and once I've done it in a few weeks, I'll set myself another event, even if it's a year away, and use an app/plan to give me some structure to my training.

    I have particularly relied on TrainAsOne, as it adjusts with my fitness, but honestly, any sort of plan that gives you an actual plan, will help when it comes to sustaining your momentum.

    All of that being said, I'm typing this, after having put off my scheduled run because it's cold outside. But as soon as I've sent this, I'm going to and get dressed and run. And having put that out there in a world, now, I'll actually do it :)

  • What's new in the fediverse? Or less known.

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  • Vernissage. It's a federated photography sharing platform. In theory it's similar to pixelfed, but more like flickr, and less like instagram

  • Epic Games CEO says it’s ‘really irresponsible’ of Steam to make studios disclose AI use | VGC - 25th Jun 2026

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  • Interesting that he frames LLMs as both a tool that he needs to use to compete, whilst also framing their use as a scarlet letter that will tank sales if he uses them.

  • Fedi-service: "global hashtags booster"

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  • Same idea as relay.fedi.buzz

  • Fedi-service: "global hashtags booster"

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  • It's useful for smaller servers. Basically, the only remote content that a fediverse instance sees is content produced by a remote account that a local account is subscribed too. So the more users subscribing to remote content, the more content that everyone sees. But in small servers, without a huge amount of incoming content, it can be hard to get a broader view of the fediverse.

    This is a way for people on smaller fediverse instances to pull in broader content, because anything that tags.pub sees with the hashtag, gets pushed to your local server.

  • FYI, blahaj.zone is down for the next few hours

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  • Our piefed instance (which hosts our remaining communities) should be back up soon!

  • FYI, blahaj.zone is down for the next few hours

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  • Don't worry, we're back again :)

  • FYI, blahaj.zone is down for the next few hours

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  • For what it's worth, I absolutely want to see duplicate communities across multiple instances. Even if it's a backup community, folks shouldn't be left without a space if an instance goes offline, or if an admin goes rogue. I want to see more communities for vulnerable folk across more instances.

    I wish there were more queer first instances too, and hopefully, this incident pushes someone in to spinning one up!

  • Running @lemmy.world
    Ada @lemmy.blahaj.zone

    Round the Bays

  • Running @lemmy.world
    Ada @lemmy.blahaj.zone

    HRM straps and breast movement

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
    Ada @lemmy.blahaj.zone

    Navidrome/Subsonic client that supports smart playlists within smart playlists

  • Lemmy @lemmy.ml
    Ada @lemmy.blahaj.zone

    tfw you run a lemmy instance

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    Ada @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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