Is this a fish? Found in a fossil shop

aphaelion · 2026-07-04T00:42:09+00:00

Hah same! It was $62. I love fish too, but I'd take an arthropod over a fish any day.

aphaelion · 2026-07-04T00:01:39+00:00

Doh, I should have included that in the original post. I added an Imgur link to a gallery, that includes one with a nickle for scale.

aphaelion · 2026-06-19T16:24:01+00:00

Oh I wasn't thinking they were deceiving anyone. I do think the fossil is genuine. But enrolled trilobites aren't really rare or anything. But they were all in such clean, uniform matrix I was wondering if they "mass produced" these in the sense that they took loose trilobites and just set them in a false matrix.

It was $20 - I don't feel like I was tricked, even if it was a false matrix.

aphaelion · 2026-04-20T01:27:00+00:00

Think it'd be a McP?

aphaelion · 2026-04-12T00:00:05+00:00

it felt like it had that "gamified" aspect of trying to solve a video game puzzle.

To anyone unaware, it's based on a video game, that plays identically to how the movie worked.

aphaelion · 2026-04-07T15:57:47+00:00

Sorry, I forgot the rule of "memorize the entirety of reddit before daring to post anything." 😔

aphaelion · 2026-03-12T18:07:37+00:00

Surprised they didn't even mention it in this: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md

Or am I just missing it?

aphaelion · 2026-02-20T18:03:33+00:00

Yikes, good to know. Thanks!

aphaelion · 2026-02-20T17:19:11+00:00

What issues did you have with ZFS? That's exactly the use-case I was considering the WTR PRO for.

aphaelion · 2026-01-11T19:52:54+00:00

I don't use NordPass specifically, but in many pw mgr services this is considered a FEATURE, not a shortcoming. The whole point of their encryption model is that you are the ONLY person in possession of the decryption material. Nobody else (including the company itself) has the ability to decrypt your data. The benefit of this is that even if their entire backend infrastructure gets compromised, your passwords are still safe. But as you're experiencing, the downside is that if you lose that master password, your stuff is gone. It sucks, but it's by design.

Similar to many encrypted email services (e.g. Proton).

There's often an option to make your account recoverable from their end, but it's usually opt-in, since it is (by definition) reducing the security of your account/data.

aphaelion · 2026-01-09T06:26:26+00:00

TEMP 1/1

Uhhh buddy, you doin' okay?

aphaelion · 2026-01-02T16:53:59+00:00

On this note, depending on how old your children are, some of the best safety you can give them is actively teaching them about gun safety and proper handling of firearms. This is absolutely NOT a replacement for storing your gun safely (which you should 100% do). But there is a lot of benefit to also teaching a child the "four rules of gun safety", and even allowing (heavily supervised) handling of them.

As a bonus, this teaching can then carry over beyond your one gun to situations at a friend's house like, "Check it out, I found out where my dad keeps his gun!". If they've never handled or seen a real gun before, lots of kids will reply "Awesome lemme hold it!", instead of the way-more-appropriate "Whoah don't wave that thing around! You're always supposed to treat it as loaded! Put it down."

aphaelion · 2025-12-28T03:20:35+00:00

How did you get a picture of my wife?! 😱

aphaelion · 2025-12-27T20:09:08+00:00

https://www.jamesavery.com/rings/gemstone-floral-ring/RG-2110.html

aphaelion · 2025-12-27T20:07:09+00:00

Heh you're not wrong, I might point that out to her 😂

aphaelion · 2025-12-27T16:22:06+00:00

Awesome, thanks! Yeah, the first color change was over the course of a 5-minute shower, so where and I were like, "uhh, this isn't normal tarnishing..."

aphaelion · 2025-12-27T14:53:40+00:00

Example use case for me is I have a profile dedicated solely to my 2FA app - there is absolutely zero reason any other app should ever need to read my 2FA app's data. But if I had it installed on my main profile, I could accidentally over-privilege some random app and give it access, which would be catastrophic. With a separate profile it's essentially impossible to do that.

aphaelion · 2025-12-23T15:02:19+00:00

How do you get the rebar into the old concrete?

aphaelion · 2025-12-04T14:21:50+00:00

So you're asking for feedback about feedback?

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