Thanks! It seems this is the same study. It seems the specifics are that insects are not directly attracted to the light, rather they expect a diffuse light source overhead (such as from the moon and stars) and use this to orient themselves. Their primative light detection can’t tell the difference between this light and artificial light.

I would say this is more an explanation of how insects confuse artificial lights for moonlight, I wouldn’t say it disproves the idea that insects confused artificial light for moonlight.

100% of the time? No. But similar to this, holding them so they were lying face down on my arm instead of on their back worked a lot. I presume gas or some other reason that changing positions helped.

My youngest keeps saying they can’t believe it. Rice for tea, I can’t believe it. Found their water bottle on the table, I can’t believe it. It’s cold outside, I can’t believe it.

I find this bit a bit confusing.

Contrary to myth, nocturnal insects do not fly around artificial lights because they confuse them with the moon or stars. Recent research, filming moths with high-speed cameras, found they use moonlight and starlight to differentiate between “up” and “down” as they fly.

Their erratic flight around your outside light is actually due to them trying to orientate themselves to a nonexistent horizon.

I don’t quite get the difference between insects confusing lights with the moon and stars vs using them to orient up and down, which presumably is due to them being like the moon or stars so they can tell which way is up.

It would be nice if they actually described how this research identified what makes them confused, or explained it a bit more.

Also, do inside lights affect insects when curtains are shut (which largely block the light), or is it mostly outside lights and street lights?

It was actually to do with docker rather than postgres itself. Docker limits shared memory to 64MB, and postgres died when it couldn’t allocate more. I saw this in the test server as well, but I didn’t want to assume so I waited to see it in production before applying the fix.

The error was something about failed to allocate disk space, the solution was to add shm_size: 1GB to the docker compose section for lemmy’s postgres.

This says there are fat naked mole rats, but it says their role is to connect to other naked mole rats communities by digging when the ground is soft from rain. That’s quite different from the claim that their role is to block the tunnels to stop them flooding.

A very good point!

Not OP, I couldn’t find a paper. Just this site that makes the same claim almost word for word, and cites a youtube video of a lecture at Stanford. I didn’t watch the video, but this seems best described as a “plausible” explanation rather than a proven fact.

Here’s a photo I took recently:

I think we should make themes optional so if you have a pic you want to post that doesn’t fit, you still can, what does everyone else think?

I think this is a good idea. Got something cool to share? Just share it. Prefer the challenge of a theme? We got you covered.

Interesting, and good to know! I just assumed the cognitive decline of my grandmother’s cognition was partly because her diet was 50% butter or thereabouts, but maybe there was more to it 🙂

Ok, maybe I’d go for a lemonade one if it was offered 😆

It makes me think of waves breaking on the shore. Perhaps the old route out of Wellington with the road next to the sea and the waves that sometimes broke over the wall onto the road. The green is like an ominous stormy sky from a story book, and the darker bit between the lighter top and the waves at the bottom is like the swell of the sea. There’s probably a monster in the water.

To be honest, the whole thing doesn’t sound that appetising to me! I’m just not a big spider fan in general, so swapping the tonic probably wouldn’t help.

Haha I copied that from the Lemmy.ca one, I thought it would be interesting to see any differences!

If anyone else wants to do it and hasn’t had a chance, I’ll leave it open until tonight or whenever I next get back to doing the data analysis.

Not sure why SMBC keeps getting posted with the credit cut off: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/garfield

I like how you hated it so much, you tried it multiple times 😆

I can’t stomach anything with tonic water. It must be an acquired taste because it’s so bad.

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It’s good to hear you are aware of it and in contact with Nothing4You.

It unfortunately doesn’t have an obvious solution, and seems there’s no consensus yet. See the github issue. So I wouldn’t hold my breath on getting an update to fix it any time soon. Also LW are always careful about updates, often taking months to upgrade. They should be especially careful when it’s an upgrade to change how federation works.

The work to install the batcher isn’t that bad. The software is all there, you just add a container to your Lemmy stack and then run an ansible playbook to set up the remote VPS automatically. It was the first time I’d used ansible properly and it wasn’t too hard.

Nothing4You can hold your hand through it, it’s worth doing!

That’s honestly pretty amazing that you’ve been here a year and haven’t seen a troll! Though you’re on an instance with a very active and determined admin, there is definitely a difference in how much you see between instances because of how removals work.