today's theme for me is alt frontends and fediverse software:

1. https://libredirect.github.io/ is a web extension for firefox and chrome that auto-redirects to alt frontends (as an aside, don't you find it interesting that there are redirects for tiktok and bilibili, but none for zuck's networks?)
2. use https://farside.link/ if you don't want to install anything (so instead of https://reddit.com/r/popular, you modify the url to https://farside.link/reddit.com/r/popular and farside redirects you to a random alt frontend instance)
3. last but not least, https://fedi.builders/ is a huge list of fediverse software for building a real alternative internet, because alt frontends are more of a stopgap measure, and sooner or later they will be taken down

car enthusiasts may appreciate this-

just rode in the Nissan Z. despite riding on coilovers and very fat 275 rubbers... the NVH of the Nissan Z is quieter and smoother than most continental cars that i have driven and been in.

I have lusted for a certain B58-powered Toyota for a while now after being strapped in the passenger seat to drift on the track. After experiencing the new Nissan Z, i think i'm sold. And that retro 300ZX-inspired rear with a spoiler, 240Z-inspired roofline, bonnet, bumper is sex man..... looks better IRL than in pictures trust me.

ayo...i just found out about Lemmy NSFW..... somehow it's more cursed than NSFW subreddits cause you know, the entire instance is NSFW. shame they didn't call it Lemmy Smash

uwu seems like lemmy is gaining more traction. Though mostly are DTs regulars. uwu. Just thought I'd pop in and say happy weekend 🥳

I think most daily thread regular migrated. Dt has waaay less traffic than before.

And why does lemmy keep asking me to relogin? I wonder if theres some boxes i havent check yet.

cystic acne sucks man... they're all around my chin area. fucking painful.

currently taking doxycycline, was told to be patient and i need at least 3 months to see effect. it's almost month 3 now but it only got worse. visiting parents in my hometown atm and left my acne cream (some antibiotics + topical retinol cocktail) in my apartment.

gonna try bezoyl peroxide later as stop gap solution.

@cendawanita I've been trying out foundkey and akkoma today, and I definitely see why you prefer the interface of the *keys over akkoma (do you know if akkoma inherited its ui from pleroma?)

however, I couldn't get posts from foundkey to federate over to lemmy. hopefully that's caused by a setting that can be changed, and it's not due to the *keys being incompatible with lemmy by default.

anyway, which of the *keys did you say you have experience with? (and how many of them are there? I've seen misskey, calckey, foundkey. anything else you know of?)

TFW it's TGIF but you work on Saturday.

feelsbadman

My parents always nudged me to exercise more while saying I can eat whatever I want. But do you guys think exercise or diet is more effective? Or it's a mix of both? Personally I think it's a mix of both, but sometimes I'd get fatter for no reason(even though I was still exercising) then I'd somehow get slimmer for no reason(I wasn't exercising during this period because I was exhausted from work). My diet was pretty much the same.

I really don't understand how my body works.

As much as I advocate for sensible, non-emotional investing via passive means, it's hard to ignore:

1. the bear case where after a yield curve inversion, the stock market usually only crashes after the yield curve uninverts. This has yet to happen, which adds to the suspense, as it's currently very inverted.

2. the bull case where CPI is noticeably heading back towards the Fed's target of 2% (latest report at 3% y/y). The Fed has already said the last Fed meeting decision was a "skip", implying that a hike is still on the cards for future meetings, however the market has been performing very positively over the past 2 months. Related to the bear case, the yield curve will uninvert once the Fed decides to cut rates instead of hiking. On the technical front, on a higher time frame, the monthly MACD had a bullish crossover for all broad-based equities indices. This could still be a FOMO rally, but so was the last 10 years (as the US market's return was primarily driven by higher PE ratios rather than dividend yields or book value, compared to rest of the world where PE ratios are still relatively tame). For all we know, the Fed might pull off this "soft landing" shenanigan.

Well, I lied. If I just ignored the noise, and emotionlessly and periodically added to my investment portfolio come rain or shine, I would've ended up much better. The odds are in my favour if I just stuck to the plan.

Of course, this only comes up when market is up. Even crypto is up after some extremely favourable news yesterday. When the market is down, "oh syukor tak all-in lagi".

From just adjusting my parking brake to changing the master pump. No wonder the car locks up so easily, only the front brakes were working, I thought the tires were just shit.

Now my car can actually brake and doesn't move a couple of centimeters when I pull the parking brake.

Thinking of going out to look for Japanese clothing this weekend for the bon odori event.

Any recommended place for those stuff? Preferably thrift stores. Ain't gonna use them often.

Gah... got boned by the recent IPTA concert debacle, cancelled for "reasons".