Deebster

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

Bad wording on my part, I wasn't disagreeing. My file server has a /files directory because it saves me a few key strokes and because I can.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

Is Gobo case-insensitive by default? Typing those seems annoying.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (2 children)

That's an old image, though - Windows has a C:\Users\youruser setup like /home/youruser for a while now.

I find the %APPDATA% thing way less convenient than ~/.config and I'm quite happy when programs have the "bug" that they still use ~/.config on Windows.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

blood alcohol content of 0.16% — above the legal limit to drive

I had to look it up, but that's twice the limit.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago

what fucked up tumblr subculture has my shitpost reached

I've never been on tumblr and just assumed the whole site was like that.

[–] [email protected] 162 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (19 children)

The source story is worth a read.

Marrero’s background is in Navy intelligence, and she earned a master’s degree in business administration with a concentration in information security and digital management

Incredible.

she soon changed the “STINKY” Wi-Fi network name to another moniker that looked like a wireless printer — even though no such general-use wireless printers were present on the ship

Why not just switch off broadcasting the SSID?

[The CO and XO] then conducted another sweep inside the ship. Although the network that appeared to be a wireless printer appeared on their personal devices during their search, neither made additional inquiries regarding that network

No-one's coming out of this looking good.

Marrero’s secret Starlink dish was removed the same day, and Marrero told another unidentified crew member the next day that it was authorized for in-port use — prompting sailors to re-install the illegal Starlink.

It just keeps going!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I guess it is, otherwise perhaps you could call it a collage... a found object collage?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I like that idea of using the different fonts for e.g. Copilot suggestions - reminds me of reading Asterix comics as a kid when they'd use gothic black for the Goth's speech, etc.

edit: e.g.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

There's kroki as well, which includes Mermaid, Excalidraw, GraphViz, PlantUML, etc.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago

The results are so close it seems like they'd be within the error bars.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

For me it's the Intellivision with its controllers that were attached with phone cords and those plastic inserts that would customise the controller for each game.

I think we only had one game, Triple Action (although only the tanks and biplanes were worth playing).

My parents' house still has more vintage tech than most computer museums.

 
 

Piped mirror: https://piped.video/watch?v=UVlBmdvIC6s

This channel is about architecture, and this video (from Nov 2023*) is about Solar Punk and covers some of the history and real-life attempts.

I was amused that shortly after talking about Solar Punk's rejection of consumerism she did the sponsor section, but that's Youtube for you.

* it's been posted elsewhere on Lemmy but not here that I can see

 

xkcd #2942: Fluid Speech

https://xkcd.com/2942

explainxkcd.com for #2942

Alt text:

Thank you to linguist Gretchen McCulloch for teaching me about phonetic assimilation, and for teaching me that if you stand around in public reading texts from a linguist and murmuring example phrases to yourself, people will eventually ask if you're okay.

 
 

https://xkcd.com/2937

Alt text:

Sorry to make you memorize this random string of digits. If it helps, it can also double as a mnemonic for remembering your young relatives' birthdays, if they happened to have been born on February 5th, 2018.

 

This is "The Frigatebird and the Diamond Ring" by Liron Gertsman, shot on a Canon EOS R5.

Source: https://liron-gertsman-photography.myshopify.com/products/the-frigatebird-and-the-diamond-ring

Article: How a Photographer Captured His Spectacular Dream Eclipse Photo (lots more pictures here)

 
  • Chechnya officials have banned music deemed too fast or slow, restricting compositions to a tempo of 80-116 BPM.
  • Minister of Culture Musa Dadayev announced the decision at a meeting, as reported by TASS.
  • The ban affects all musical, vocal, and choreographic compositions in the Russian Republic of Chechnya.

Chechnya is a republic of Russia since losing the Second Chechen War but this means that the Russian national anthem, at just 76 BPM, is also banned.

 

This year's (belated, as is tradition) April Fool's XKCD is written in the Rapier.rs physics engine.

It's like The Incredible Machine, but each person can contribute a cell towards the larger machine.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/17292833

Abandoned industrial building 2/8

 

I posted a comment with the message "Don’t let doomscrolling lead you into despair and apathy over climate" and got a fair few downvotes, so I thought this was worth sharing.

YouTube version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9p5VKd8VkE

 

https://xkcd.com/2896

Alt text:

Also, we would really appreciate it if you could prominently refer to it as an 'eHit'.

 

Director Joseph Kosinski says:

"The original version of the script we actually followed Maverick in his freefall back to Earth, which would have I guess debunked that theory," Kosinski told Happy Sad Confused's Josh Horowitz. "It was a pretty spectacular sequence imagining what it's like to reenter from space in your spacesuit."

"I love it. Film is meant to be interpreted. I love that there's multiple ways to read it. It's, you know, hopefully it's a piece of art meant to be interpreted, and I love people reading those things into it. It's like The Big Lebowski Theory that Johnny's not really there so, no, I welcome that," he said."

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