So I spent 15 hours in bed only to struggle to get maybe 8 hours sleep? Jeez. I just couldn’t get my brain to calm down. I wasn’t raging or anything, but just constantly distracted and unable to chill.
My mental health feels ok… so I wonder if the COVID’s messing with my brain?
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Yeah, I feel that. Assuming none of your usual coping mechanisms worked either?
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Yeah I tried that for a few hours but ended up feeling worse cause I think I THOUGHT I should be asleep. Might just chuck on some spa music tonight and not even try to go to sleep but just plan on listening to music in the dark.
Yeah I had nightmares, anxiety it was terrible from COVID.
Glad it’s not just me. Did you find anything to help? Or just had to face it?
Just faced it. I put on soothing podcasts/audiobooks and just dozed. Kept reminding myself it was just the inflammation and it would get better.
Yeah good call. I think I was trying to fight it all night which obviously got me nowhere.
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Great. Meta (Instagram and Facebook) are using user’s data and photos to train their AI and Australians can’t opt out https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-10/instagram-facebook-train-meta-ai-tools-no-opt-out-australia/103958308
Yeah that tracks. A reminder: if a product is free and you cant figure out how they make money then YOU are how the product makes money.
Just for the benefit of anyone who doesn’t know: aussie.zone is “free” because we (the users) pay for it. We don’t need to serve you ads.
We won’t sell what you say or upload, either - but keep in mind that everything you say here is federated and essentially public. Someone will probably come along at some point and scrape all our data. We won’t know it has happened and the open nature of the fediverse makes it impossible to prevent. So keep all that in mind.
How much is hosting? I’d be happy to chip in and pay for a month or a percentage of the year or whatever. Sometimes I wonder about hosting charges when I upload images.
Our present costs are about $85/mo. We’re pretty much funded at this point with existing donations through to the end of the year.
Lodion does periodical updates in the Meta Community on how hosting and finances are going.
Indeed, and I did hear that many years ago. I interpreted that to mean that ads would be served. And potentially they would also spy on you to serve targeted ads. Furry nuff.
However they’re taking data and personal photos from as far back as 2007 and nobody knew about AI back then. Changing the terms (often retroactively) and not allowing opt out is not cool and you won’t convince me that anybody signed up for this. The overreach is insane.
Is it though? To be blunt: these fuckers are evil. If anyone was still harbouring under the illusion otherwise needs to wake up. It’s a bit like people complaining about Optus: how many times have they gotta screw their customers before the customers go “oh, I’m getting the raw end here!”
I know all of this. I’ve been knowing this. Unfortunately these practices are reaching into every platform, just ramping up and being forced into every conceivable thing possible (not just social media) and it’s becoming inescapable. Refusal to engage is becoming less of an option.
I remember participating in citizen science programs helping to train AI to recognise cancer cells, and being excited at seeing how it was being used to generate simple legal forms for people who couldn’t afford a lawyer. Now it’s just being used to strip mine for profit, undermine workers rights/cut jobs and churn out deepfake revenge porn before regulations come in.
just another reason I am glad I have neither
I used to use FB to keep in touch with friends but don’t use it now because it’s turned to garbage. Getting really sick of mainstream social media
I’m feeling about 90% better now. Still have an occasional cough, but a Strepsil fixes it. I think I’m gonna go ahead with my idea for dinner and a movie tonight. The only movie that seemed appealing was the bad boys movie. I think it’s a sequel, but I’ve never seen whatever the original version is. Oh well. I’m sure I’ll figure out what’s happening. And indian for dinner. The only time I’ve had indian food from a restaurant I got food poisoning, but I do like a good curry (even if my spice tolerance is basically a Dorito) and this place is a little less dodgy, so I’m sure I’ll be right
Edit: oh, on further thoughts, I won’t get back until after the buses in my area finish up for the night. Rip. Guess it’ll have to be a taxi home. Oh well
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Not yet! Night out is tonight
Don’t know how it’s Saturday already… Anyways, has anybody noticed that the air quality has gone to shit the past day or so? I swear there’s smoke or something, can’t open the windows as the air hurts my throat. Seems to be happening quite a bit the past few months every couple of days. Planned burns?
Air quality is 90 at the moment. That’s not really bad for most people, but can be triggering for people with allergies or similar. For context, it was about 160 or so in melb during the 2019/20 bushfires, it’s currently 230 in new Dehli, but it’s 8 in Newcastle and 33 in Sydney
For me it really depends on what the particulate matter is comprised of. I’m very sensitive to some things as I can have issues breathing when PM2.5 is around 5 μg/m³ depending on what’s causing it
My asthma has been hell lately so you definitely aren’t alone
People are talking like it’s so cold I’m thinking like I should dress as I did when I lived in Detroit where the weather would be -10C for days and days on end. Warm hat under hood, feather knee long puffer, scarf, double layer gloves, knee high socks and snow boots. Jumper, pants and thermals.
For some reason, I feel that -10°C in Europe was a noticeably more pleasant than anything <10°C anywhere in Australia.
That was based on using very similar set of clothes, and measurement taken outdoors.
On another note, during the daily 6am drives in the recent 2 weeks, I would feel like I’m burning up while my wife is still shivering in the passenger seat while I got the heater on.
I was wondering if there was a function for threads to be bumped back up to the top when posted in? Just so it’s easy to see active threads, there isn’t a lot of duplicates, and similar stuff is more easily consolidated into one thread. (ie. Cheap eats)
No worries if not - I don’t know how much work implementing that would be or if there’s even the option on Lemmy.
I’m not sure if it is. Activity will bump threads when the person looking is sorting by active, but I don’t think there’s a way to bump them otherwise.
That’s good, maybe not as easy to encourage other people to add to the threads but it’s good for when you want to find active threads yourself
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Did your wish come true?
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Booo cat 👎☹️
Best of luck in your efforts against wakefulness!
Of the 8 hours I’ve been trying to sleep, I reckon I’ve slept for 2 maybe 3 hours. I’m going slowly insane.
I’ve had three or four of those nights in the last fortnight. Very not fun 😔 I don’t really have any advice, just sympathy. It’s brutal
Disease or baby?
Nah kid is fine, but don’t think it’s the Covid either.
I haven’t been sleeping well the last 2-3 nights, Was really wired yesterday at work.
Going to get some food and coffee and see if that makes me feel better this morning.
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I’ll get the genius idea porridge please
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in a blue, not white, bowl 😀
HEAVY FOG careful erryone :)
Could barely see 200m ahead during this morning’s 6am.
Trip was otherwise uneventful. At least 2 people on their phones whilst in motion, and one without headlights.
The sky is so beautiful, sunrise and most the stars are still showing.
It’s gonna be a stunning day out there. Can’t wait for that sun
It came! And then it went. But now it’s back!
The ads for the Silent Hill 2 Remake are getting out of hand!
Call me a conspiracy theorist but
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-covid-propaganda/
They totally did this to us too, right? The anti vaxxers were waving those american flags/trump flags for a reason? Urgh.
Crazy how the US can just admit to things like this and nothing ever happens.
I think there was already some anti government psychosis the pentagon could have easily exacerbated. The anti Vax movement here was also supported by most of the Murdoch newspapers and TV channels as well.
I heard a good take about this on Chapo that most people are not used to government intervention being a good thing in their lives. Neoliberal governments have spent so long stepping back and trying not to be involved in things that they were ill equipped to step in when they had to and people weren’t used to having the government in their lives in that way
Yep, they definitely did it here. Seems like there’s no bounds for U.S. propaganda. It’s seemingly as far reaching as microplastics are—we’ve all been exposed to it. I’ve had some “friends” get sucked into it a while ago, very scary stuff.
Knock off oodie update. Washed it. Gave it two spins and popped it on the rack in front of the heater yesterday. No need to spin dry - it’s basically dry this morning. The cuffs are a bit damp but I’m just gonna roll them.
This has been your PSA from snuggled land …
