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A car compass helps, but yeah, a GPS unit is a lot more convenient.

Looks tasty! I’m a sucker for buttered and toasted sourdough or rye.

This culture isn’t nearly as sharp as a San Francisco germ

Apologies if this is obvious to you, but IIRC from past reading, commercial sourdough achieves a higher acidity without needing to use the specific yeast via just adding acid directly. If you aren’t dead-set on authentic, “the yeast do everything” sourdough, you could probably tweak sourdough to taste that way.

kagis

Okay, this isn’t talking about what commercial producers do, but it is directly talking about increasing tang in homemade sourdough via the “directly-add-acid-to-the-dough” route:

https://www.pantrymama.com/how-to-make-sourdough-more-sour-a-guide-to-getting-more-tang-in-your-bread/

Use Citric Acid In Your Sourdough

If you really want a stronger flavor in your sourdough bread, adding a little citric acid to your dough will help.

You can add ⅛ to ¼ of a teaspoon of citric acid to your sourdough. Do not use more than this amount because it will make your sourdough inedible.

You add the citric acid to your dough along with the water, flour and salt.

Thank you kindly, good sir.

https://old.reddit.com/r/SWORDS/comments/13x3ep6/african_lion_vs_medieval_knight_with_a_longsword/

I thought about recommending that myself, and while I imagine that a dry-cleaner would be more authoritative, it sounds like the chemical they frequently use, “perc”, dissolves glue, which is used there to attach the objects.

What do you think: should all government software be open source?

No. I think that there are some things that should very much not be open source or even have binaries distributed, stuff like things like software used for some military purposes. You wouldn’t want to distribute it with abandon to the world any more than you would the weapons it drives or is used to create.

Yeah, there’s some value to sales information.

considers

Amazon does provide some information.

goes to Amazon, picks a random product

https://www.amazon.com/HANPOSH-Military-Stopwatch-Waterproof-Chronograph/dp/B0CGX3SBJF

3K+ bought in past month

That’s a bit limited, but camelcamelcamel already scrapes Amazon for price history, and so even if they aren’t already grabbing sales volume history, my guess is that Amazon exposing this is probably already functionally exposing a fair bit of information about sales history.

checks camelcamelcamel

https://camelcamelcamel.com/product/B0CGX3SBJF

Nothing about sales volume, so if they are scraping that as well, they aren’t currently exposing it to users. But I imagine that they could. It may be that competitors or various manufacturers in the industry already look at this to get some idea of what consumer demand is like.

And just the quantity of reviews will expose some data about sales volume. I mean, if an item has 15k reviews, then they’re going to have sold more than 1000 units.

if the bought thing works as expected most people don’t leave a review, while people with problems are much more likely to leave a bad review

That’s a good point, though maybe a better way for retailers to deal with that would be to use the percentage of sold items that are associated by a review as an input into a ranking. I mean, maybe “no reviews, lots of items sold” should be used to indicate that an item is favorable rather than neutral.

I’m pretty sure that that guide is one of those AI-generated spam sites. In this case, it appears to use a character where the LLM involved wasn’t too sure about whether the character is a house painter or an artistic painter. Which doesn’t mean that the information on it is necessarily wrong, just that I’d be cautious as to errors. If you want information from an LLM, probably better in terms of response quality to just, well, go ask an LLM yourself without the distortion from a spammer trying to have the LLM role-play some character.

Have you tried using a vacuum cleaner?

I believe that the fediverse.observer site can list any Fediverse instance type by number of users (though not active users).

checks

Oh, they do do active users.

https://peertube.fediverse.observer/list

Looks like the top one is phijkchu.com, at 8074 active users.

EDIT: There’s also fedidb.com:

https://fedidb.com/servers

Choose “PeerTube” as server type, and they’ll give you some data on instances too.

EDIT2: Note that another way to explore PeerTube, which may be to your taste, is that Google Video indexes PeerTube servers, though I don’t know of a way to restrict it to only PeerTube servers aside from using something like site:phijkchu.com to restrict the search on an instance-by-instance basis. But if you search and it’s on PeerTube, and Google has indexed it, it should come up there.

Kagi also indexes videos, and lets lets one restrict the search by source of videos, with “PeerTube” being one.

EDIT3: Adding “peertube” as a search term on Google Video isn’t ideal, but it did result in videos on PeerTube hosts at the top, so maybe that could be kind of an ad-hoc way of searching on Google Video.

EDIT4: libera.site doesn’t appear to provide sortability, but it does list a video count per instance, as well as a bunch of other graphed data. Never seen it before now, though.

https://libera.site/channel/peertube

Kids and their chats today have it easy, man.

https://home.nps.gov/people/hettie-ogle.htm

Hettie moved to Johnstown on 1869 to manage the Western Union telegraph office where she was employed on the day of the flood. Her residence was 110 Washington Street, next to the Cambria County Library. This also served as the Western Union office. Unlike many other telegraph operators associated with messaging on the day of the flood, Hettie was not employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad. She was a commercial operator. Three women were employed by Hettie; Grace Garman, Mary Jane Waktins and her daughter Minnie. They all died in the flood including Hettie.

A timeline of Hettie’s activity on May 31, 1889:
7:44 a.m. -She sent a river reading. The water level was 14 feet.
10:44 a.m. -The river level was 20 feet.
11:00 a.m. -She wired the following message to Pittsburgh. “Rain gauge carried away.”
12:30 p.m. -She wired “Water higher than ever known. Can’t give exact measurement” to Pittsburgh.
1:00 p.m. -Hettie moved to the second floor of her home due to the rising water.
3:00 p.m. -Hettie alerted Pittsburgh about the dam after receiving a warning from South Fork that the dam “may possibly go.” She wired “this is my last message.” The water was grounding her wires. A piece of sheet music titled “My Last Message” was published after the flood.

Hettie’s house on Washington Street was struck by the flood wave shortly after 4:00 p.m.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion

The death toll could have been worse had it not been for the self-sacrifice of an Intercolonial Railway dispatcher, Patrick Vincent (Vince) Coleman, operating at the railyard about 230 metres (750 ft) from Pier 6, where the explosion occurred. He and his co-worker, William Lovett, learned of the dangerous cargo aboard the burning Mont-Blanc from a sailor and began to flee. Coleman remembered that an incoming passenger train from Saint John, New Brunswick, was due to arrive at the railyard within minutes. He returned to his post alone and continued to send out urgent telegraph messages to stop the train. Several variations of the message have been reported, among them this from the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic: “Hold up the train. Ammunition ship afire in harbor making for Pier 6 and will explode. Guess this will be my last message. Good-bye boys.” Coleman’s message was responsible for bringing all incoming trains around Halifax to a halt. It was heard by other stations all along the Intercolonial Railway, helping railway officials to respond immediately.[71][72] Passenger Train No. 10, the overnight train from Saint John, is believed to have heeded the warning and stopped a safe distance from the blast at Rockingham, saving the lives of about 300 railway passengers. Coleman was killed at his post.[71]

If you count the telegraph as online communication, it’d go back to the mid-1800s.

I’m pretty sure that I still don’t know everything I need to know about online discourse.

This doesn’t meet your “human enemies” requirement, but if you’re looking for realistic firearm mechanics, you might want to look at Receiver 2. It does have procedurally-generated layouts, as per your roguelike point, and most of the game is firearm mastery.

Oh, another one. A stainless steel knife. Stainless steel apparently didn’t exist until the early 1800s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stainless_steel

“The knife that does not rust.”

It sounds like we didn’t have aluminum until the early 1800s, either (and it was very expensive for a while, until we got processing with electricity), so very lightweight metal objects would be pretty remarkable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium

I’m not sure exactly what you mean.

If you’re asking what household item doesn’t actually change, but would be considered extraordinary by someone in a medieval setting, and function and be useful in that environment, I’d say matches.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Match

It sounds like China had a primitive chemical match well before Europe, but that it wasn’t until the early 1800s that Europe had the match in common production, so I’d guess that a European fantasy setting likely wouldn’t have matches.

Assuming that you’re just using their website, I’d guess a problem on their end.

That being said, could be something you’ve done that’s tripped it.

You could try reloading the webpage, see if that magically makes the issue go away.

Could disable all browser extensions, and try that.

Could try a simpler character and see if it shows up with even that. Don’t upload an image or use variables in descriptions or whatever it supports.

I’m not familiar with that website, but I understand that there are various formats in which characters may be exported. If it has the ability to do so and you’re trying to import a pre-created character card, could be something wrong with that character card.

Could report it to them if they have a route to take reported issues.

EDIT: They appear to have a support community on the Threadiverse, which you can find at [email protected].