andyli

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UK concerned by use of Chinese drones used to survey nuclear power plant, solar farms, water reservoirs in c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
[–] andyli@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

That’s in part because DJI is the world’s largest maker of commercial drones, leaving firms with limited choice when it comes to procuring low-cost unmanned aerial systems.

I have been looking forward to a non-Chinese alternative for some time as I am quite interested in getting a drone...

Hawaiian pizza (a pizza invented in Canada) in c/wikipedia@lemmy.world
[–] andyli@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Surprised there is no mention of critics from Italians.

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Love rats: Canadians get chance to feed rodents named after old flames to owls (www.theguardian.com)
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What if you tried to print Wikipedia? (xkcd's What If? YouTube) (www.youtube.com)
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Hatebeak - Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
 

American death metal band, with a parrot vocalist.

What’s in a name? in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
[–] andyli@lemmy.world 138 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Robert'); DROP TABLE Students;--

https://xkcd.com/327/

Green Roofs Can Save Cities Money in c/solarpunk@slrpnk.net
[–] andyli@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah. There was an incident in the university where I studied that the whole roof collapsed. https://hongkongfp.com/2016/06/10/city-university-may-sue-contractor-rooftop-collapse-investigation-report-released/

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Enable gif autoplay? (lemmy.world)
 

I couldn't find a setting to enable gif autoplay. Is it hidden somewhere?

I have enabled video autoplay but the gifs are still not playing.

I'm using eternity v0.1.2 from fdroid.

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What are these in the sea? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by andyli@lemmy.world to c/whatisthisthing@lemmy.world
7 comments fedilink
 

What are these dotted ball shaped things I circled in yellow in the image?

I thought they may be sea urchin skeletons. Though the things in the image may be too many and too large?

They are in a mural in Brighton, England. The subject is "Protecting Costa Rican Wildlife", so I guess they are of some native species there.

The little blue heron (Egretta caerulea) had an itch in c/birding@lemmy.world
[–] andyli@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

It just had a thought.

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Any good smart power strip not made in China? (lemmy.world)
 

I'm looking for a smart power strip, which allows me to remote control and schedule on/off.

Last year I bought Hey!'s smart power strip. Hey! is a UK brand, but turn out its products are just branded Chinese products. I used it anyway but it just bricked itself last month.

For quality, safety, and security reasons, I would prefer a non-made-in-China smart power strip.

Compatibility with Home Assistant is prefered, but not 100% required. I'm interested in switching to Home Assistant but I haven't yet.

Thanks for any suggestions!

cross-posted: https://lemmy.world/post/4556320

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Any good smart power strip not made in China? (lemmy.world)
 

I'm looking for a smart power strip, which allows me to remote control and schedule on/off.

Last year I bought Hey!'s smart power strip. Hey! is a UK brand, but turn out its products are just branded Chinese products. I used it anyway but it just bricked itself last month.

For quality, safety, and security reasons, I strongly prefer a non-made-in-China smart power strip.

Compatibility with Home Assistant is prefered, but not 100% required. I'm interested in switching to Home Assistant but I haven't yet.

Thanks for any suggestions!

How do you deal with shops that have more than one category? in c/openstreetmap@lemmy.ml
[–] andyli@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

a book store with a café

This is easy because the tags don't overlap.

shop=books
amenity=cafe

a café by day and a wine bar by night

I saw something like this before, and they are usually two businesses with different names. I used two separated POIs (points) placed in the same building area to denote them. In this way, I can also put different names, opening_hours etc to the two POIs.

What are the edits like this, and what do they mean? in c/openstreetmap@lemmy.ml
[–] andyli@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is a longstanding issue that wheelmap knew and promised to solve.

Some info from the OSM talk mailing list.

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sauce rule (otakukart.com)
 

In this information era, some of the few people who are resilient against fake news are the weebs. They're always asking for sauce. Be like weebs.

Waitrose hit by middle-class vegetable shortage in c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
[–] andyli@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Let them eat cake!

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Sleeping cat on her back (upload.wikimedia.org)
 

A featured picture by Umberto Salvagnin on Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.

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Costco: Brighton and Crawley among potential new UK stores (www.theargus.co.uk)
Wow, what a comp for doing free consulting work ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
[–] andyli@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

At least you're not rewarded with more ads.

TikTok users in UK to be left with ‘more toxic’ version of app, say campaigners in c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
[–] andyli@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Not using TikTok is still an option and that's what I chose.

Intentionally chose an open ecosystem for the smart relays in my house, now they crippled the app adding a $4 subscription in c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
[–] andyli@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That sounds so much like Twitter and Reddit... lol

What is this spider? in c/whatsthisbug@lemmy.ml
[–] andyli@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Didn't know big spiders is a thing here. I thought only Australia has these... But I guess this one is still tiny in Australia standard.

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What is this spider? (lemmy.world)
 

Found this at home in England. I moved to England from Hong Kong not long ago, so I'm not familiar with local spiders at all. Maybe it's very common?

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Barn owl webcam | Somerset Wildlife Trust (www.somersetwildlife.org)
 

Livestream of a barn owl family in the UK by Somerset Wildlife Trust.

For the past three years, our barn owl box in the Blackdown Hills has been inhabited by our barn owl couple - Finn and Trude - and the previous two years Finn and his other lady owl, Orla.

We are so delighted that Finn and Trude have hatched 4 fabulous owlets this year. They are on the brink of fledging so we're expecting a bit of a barn owl circus in the barn as they flap about finding their wings to venture out on their own.

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