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Cake day: June 17th, 2023
  • ISometimesAdmin@the.coolest.zonetoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•It seems like all packaged foods do this now
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    7 months ago

    The FDA regulation on Net Weight is found in 21 CFR 101.105. In this regulation FDA makes allowance for reasonable variations caused by loss or gain of moisture during the course of good distribution practice or by unavoidable deviations in good manufacturing practice. FDA states that variations from the stated quantity of contents should not be unreasonably large.

    While FDA does not provide a specific allowable tolerance for Net Weight, this matter could come under FTC jurisdiction. FTC has proposed regulations that would unify USDA and FDA Net Contents labeling and incorporate information found in the National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) Handbook 133.

    NIST Handbook 133 specifies that the average net quantity of contents in a lot must at least equal the net quantity declared on the label. Plus or minus deviation is permitted when caused by unavoidable variation in weighing and measuring that occur in good manufacturing practice. The maximum allowable variance for a package with a net weight declaration of 5 oz is 5/16 oz. Packages under-filled by more than this amount are considered non-compliant.

    http://www.foodconsulting.com/q&a.htm

  • ISometimesAdmin@the.coolest.zonetoTechnology@beehaw.org•truth of opensource and foss
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    9 months ago

    Hey, I maintain a highly popular (if niche) FOSS library. Where the fuck is my big tech paycheck where they bribe me into integrating with their product?

    /s Silly take IMO, relies on cherry-picking popular FOSS projects where you can see “the influence” of big tech, AND then No True Scotsman your way into saying that they’re not allowed to participate in the development/influence of FOSS because… checks notes they’re the ones funding the project/putting money in front of otherwise unpaid volunteers?

    If you end up coming up with a better scheme for things that has the actual practical effect of compensating devs appropriately (yes, that means at current market rates or better) for their work, then please let us know so we can switch to doing that immediately. I will literally do anything you suggest if it would achieve that end.

  • ISometimesAdmin@the.coolest.zonetoAndroid@lemmy.world•Google just made it a lot easier for people to begin automating their smart home
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    1 year ago

    To add onto this:

    Home Assistant isn’t “yet another” service. It’s not trying to do vendor lock in: you can think of Home Assistant kinda like a “glue” framework.

    It’s meant to let you systemically attach devices/software across any number of mediums, and pre-existing services, and let them play nice.

    So if you’ve already gone and set up your Google Home, or Alexa, or Apple Homekit, you don’t have to abandon them to use Home Assistant.

    Sometimes you can’t even get away from it: the thermostat that came with our rental basically only has a useful Samsung Smartthings integration, but we can still use it with Home Assistant.

  • ISometimesAdmin@the.coolest.zonetoAndroid@lemdro.id•People sticking with audio jack phones, why is USB-C earphones not a solution?
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    1 year ago

    I fucking hate the whiny answer of “but my/most existing headphones had an aux so I don’t like USB-C.”

    The biggest factor for me is that it simply makes it impossible to charge your phone and use wired headphones at the same time without a special splitter adaptor… Which itself is impossible to roll up with your headphones.

    It’s designed to be such an inconvenience to the point that you’re actually just incentivized to buy wireless headphones. And since it was Apple, that of course meant their very expensive Airpods.

    That said, I happily use wireless Bose headphones now anyway, but I did have to ditch my audio technicas for that reason.