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Cake day: June 2nd, 2023

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  • Sync was a fantastic Reddit client (I started using it back in 2016), then during the API debacle the dev turned it into a Lemmy app and frankly it was the best on the market by a wide margin. But then he just vanished, and various things have gradually stopped working as it’s not keeping up with the latest Lemmy updates. When upvotes stopped working a few months ago, I bit the bullet and have now moved to Summit, which has the closest user experience to Sync of all the Lemmy apps I’ve found (although it doesn’t have anywhere close to the same level of polish as Sync did).





  • Thanks so much for the reply! I seem to have forgotten about the decimal point, I meant to write 0.1ml (the syringes I use have markings in 10ths of a milliliter, so I just fill it up to the “1” mark and forget what unit I’m working with…). I’m injecting Ev @ 40mg/mL using ½inch, 26 gauge subq insulin needles, and yes I’m doing DIY monotherapy. I’ve tried releasing the pinch both before and after depressing the plunger, to no avail.

    I haven’t tried injecting at a 90° angle, I’ll give that a try for my next injection tomorrow and see how it goes! (assuming I can find enough fat on my body to do that… I am very underweight)

    The Blåhaj DIY community is new to me, I will definitely try asking there if my experiment tomorrow fails. Thanks again!


  • I know this is old, but I remembered this comment today and figured I’d ask since you seem to have some idea what you’re doing. How exactly do you prevent medication from leaking out after injection? I’m injecting (or trying to inject) 1ml estradiol valerate, and I’ve tried leaving the needle in for up to 30s, holding the skin pinched the entire time the needle is inserted, injecting faster or slower, but seemingly every combination I try results in multiple large drops leaking back out within a few seconds of removing the needle. Like, enough that it looks like nearly half of the fluid is coming back out. Is this something you’ve ever experienced?



  • Selective Estrogen Reuptake Modulators can control which parts of the body are affected by estrogen, they’re sometimes used for non-binary feminizing HRT regimens to prevent breast growth while getting the other effects. AFAIK there isn’t really much in the way of real medical research on them with regards to transgender HRT specifically (the medications typically used are intended for breast cancer treatment) so they’re mostly limited to a few enbys doing DIY who don’t mind living on the edge.




  • Enby (from NB, from non-binary) is kind of an umbrella term to refer to anyone who doesn’t strictly identify with one of the binary genders (male/female). Agender would certainly fall in that category, as would other identities such as genderfluid, pangender, and many more. There are also plenty of people who don’t want and/or care to have a more specific label, and just refer to themselves as non-binary, full stop.

    To the best of my understanding, genderqueer is also an umbrella term which means pretty much the same thing as non-binary, but has a somewhat more “radical” nonconformist connotation. There is significant overlap between the two terms and whether someone identifies with one term or the other or both is pretty subjective. Is agender genderqueer? If you identify with both terms, then it is :)







  • True, but there are also some legitimate applications for 100s of gigabytes of RAM. I’ve been working on a thing for processing historical OpenStreetMap data and it is quite a few orders of magnitude faster to fill the database by loading the 300GiB or so of point data into memory, sorting it in memory, and then partitioning and compressing it into pre-sorted table files which RocksDB can ingest directly without additional processing. I had to get 24x16GiB of RAM in order to do that, though.


  • Again, that would be TIFF. TIFF images can be encoded either with each line compressed separately or with rectangular tiles compressed separately, and separately compressed blocks can be read and decompressed in parallel. I have some >100GiB TIFFs containing elevation maps for entire countries, and my very old laptop can happily zoom and pan around in them with virtually no delay.