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randahl, 10 days ago to random

You too can buy a Tesla, and support the main share holder Elon Musk, who abuses his social media platform to convince his 185 million followers, that the US justice system is corrupt, because his favorite criminal is brought to justice.

Or you could buy from a different car brand.

danielnazer, 17 days ago to random

Google search over the years:

1998-2016: Decent quality web search.

2016-2024: Mediocre web search dominated by SEO garbage and sponsored links.

2024-___: Whatever this is.

samhenrigold, 17 days ago to random

very cool thank you gemini

Dangerous_beans, 20 days ago to random

Windows Recall, enabling the AI assistant to “access virtually what you have seen or done on your PC in a way that feels like having photographic memory

puts on family violence policy hat :blob_cat_ohnoes: :oh_no_bubble:

puts on IT hat :blob_cat_ohnoes: :oh_no_bubble:

puts on medical ethics hat :blob_cat_ohnoes: :oh_no_bubble:

puts on data analyst hat :blob_cat_ohnoes: :oh_no_bubble:

puts on anarchist hat :blobredpandanarchist: :oh_no_bubble:

tbaldauf, 29 days ago to random

Journalist: "So what do you think long-distance air travel is going to look like in 2050?"

Climate Scientist laughs derisively: "By 2050, most long-distance holiday destinations will be uninhabitable, so I expect the majority of long-distance air traffic to be non-existent by 2050."

Phew. Hadn't heard it THAT bleakly during a live interview yet.

CaramelizedShallots, 30 days ago to random

#aurora

scy, 30 days ago (edited 30 days ago) to random German

oh wow #AuroraBorealis

aufgenommen vorhin (22:45 Uhr) zwischen Göttingen und Braunschweig (51.9 N, 10.1 E) mit nem Google Pixel 6a

Blick geht nach Westen, im Norden hab ich nichts gesehen

Kommt auf dem Foto auch deutlicher raus als in echt

(Edit: Bildbeschreibung ergänzt, Infos aus Replies hoch in den Ursprungspost gezogen)

paul_denton, 1 month ago to random French

Désillusion pour les proprios à Paris qui espéraient louer leurs apparts à prix d'or pour les JO: Chloé, et ses 40m2 à 300 euros la nuit ou Marie et Vincent, 3000 euros la nuit (le double de son tarif habituel) dans leur 100m2 près de la Tour Eiffel, n'ont pas trouvé preneur. On ne s'improvise pas marchand de sommeil... https://www.francetvinfo.fr/les-jeux-olympiques/paris-2024/paris-2024-la-grande-desillusion-des-particuliers-qui-esperaient-louer-leur-appartement-a-des-prix-vertigineux_6520667.html

#Politique #JO #JeuxOlympiques #Paris #Logement #Loyers

mia, 1 month ago to random

so, you've seen ™ and ™️ before. but like. why are there two. well, i have an explanation! the answer is: FE0F

first, unicode. unicode is a standard definition of a bunch of codepoints, where a codepoint is just a number with meaning. for example, unicode codepoint U+263A refers to ☺︎, or "White Smiling Face", and U+1F431 refers to 🐱, or "Cat Face"

so, lets start by looking at the codepoints for ™. decoding it, it becomes the codepoint U+2122, referred to as "Trade Mark Sign". this was added in unicode 1.1 in 1993, a decent time ago!

next, the codepoints for ™️. decoding it, we get two codepoints! U+2122 (™︎) and U+FE0F. wait. who is FE0F. why is he in my emoji

well, unicode isn't as simple as a series of codepoints that refer to single characters. take a look at é̗ for example. this is three codepoints, U+0065 (Latin Small Letter E), U+0301 (Combining Acute Accent), and U+0317 (Combining Acute Accent Below). the first codepoint is simple enough, it's just e. the next two, however, are combining codepoints. this means that they combine with the codepoint before them to modify it. U+0301 adds an acute accent above the previous codepoint, and U+0317 adds an acute accent below the previous codepoint. this example specifically isn't very useful (i don't know any language with a é̗ character beyond conlangs), but it becomes very useful for languages that use a lot of diacritics. imagine if we had to make a new set of characters for each set of possible diacritics! big waste of space, we shouldn't have done that!

so, what is U+FE0F? well, it's a special codepoint called "Variation Selector-16". variation selectors are a reserved block of 16 unicode codepoints. only some have been defined, but among those currently in use are U+FE0E (VS15) and U+FE0F (VS16). from wikipedia: "VS15 and VS16 are reserved to request that a character should be displayed as text or as an emoji respectively." so, what's happening with ™️ is that it's combining a U+2122 (™) and a U+FE0F (Variant Selector-16) to create an emoji version of ™. they're the same character, just that one has been instructed to become an emoji!

also, for the interested, here's the word "unicode" with a shit ton of combining characters: ù́̂̃̄̅̆̇̈̉n̖̗̘̙̐̑̒̓̔̕i̡̢̧̨̠̣̤̥̦̩c̴̵̶̷̸̰̱̲̳̹ò͇͈͉́͂̓̈́͆ͅd͓͔͕͖͙͐͑͒͗͘eͣͤͥͦͧͨͩ͢͠͡. what appears to be seven letters is actually 77 codepoints, taking up 147 bytes when encoded in utf-8. or 156 in utf-16. or 312 in utf-32. why does anyone use utf-16 if it's longer? historical reasons :3

TL;DR: ™️ is ™︎ but instructed to be an emoji

infobeautiful, 1 month ago to random

WARNING! This image may trigger PINSecurity.

From an analysis of 3.4m PIN code leaked from several data breaches https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/most-common-pin-codes/

A diagonal line of ‘heat’ from bottom left to top right reveals people choosing double digits (2323, 6868 etc). A strong horizontal line at the 19 point shows people using their birth year as a PIN code (1971, 1998 etc). And a large amount of heat in the bottom left shows how people commonly use their birthdate in a MM/DD or DD/MM format. The most common code in the set is 1234.
The Top 20 most common 4 digit PIN numbers, as revealed by an analysis of data breaches, constitute 27% of all PIN numbers. They are 1234, 1111, 0000, 1212, 7777, 1004, 2000, 4444, 2222, 6969, 9999, 3333, 5555, 6666, 1122, 1313,8888,4321,2001,1010

aphyr, 1 month ago to random

Fun time to buy a Tesla, a car which is entirely dependent for long distance travel on Tesla's charging network, which was maintained by a five hundred person team Musk just fired in its entirety https://www.fastcompany.com/91116692/tesla-lay-offs-supercharger-team-evs-network-automakers-gm-ford

mart1oeil, 1 month ago to random French

La RATP expérimente sa vidéosurveillance algorithmique pour les concerts de Taylor Swift

https://next.ink/brief_article/la-ratp-experimente-sa-videosurveillance-algorithmique-pour-les-concerts-de-taylor-swift/

via @David

michelv, 1 month ago to random French

Chaque jour de présentiel.

adam, 1 month ago to random

Lego is a mirror for society.

capetaun, 1 month ago to random

Me everytime I try to explain what is Mastodon

18+ MatsuBasho, 1 month ago to random French

En allant tout à l’heure à la bibliothèque chercher un guide sur Nantes, je vois un manuel de crochet « fais-toi un mec » qui propose des mecs à poil avec les détails qui vont avec. 😅 il y a même un modèle « bourgeois versaillais ». Je ne peux pas résister au plaisir de vous le partager. Pour amateurs/amatrices de crochet et de mecs !

Page de garde en rouge, on voit des mecs en crochet à poil. Il y a même des poils autour de leur sexe
Deux pages sur le « bourgeois versaillais » qui bien entendu porte le pull sur ses épaules et a un goût déplorable pour les sous-vêtements.
Suite du modèle « catho versaillais » on le voit à poil de dos et de face avec toutes les mensurations y compris les détails délicats.

RickiTarr, 1 month ago to random

Oh no!

luckytran, 1 month ago to random

This was avoidable.

kfury, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

Oh for heaven’s sake, people.

balmeyer, 2 months ago to random French

En Tchétchénie, les musiques avec des tempos non compris entre 80 et 116 BPM sont désormais interdites. https://musictech.com/news/industry/chechnya-russia-ban-music-outside-80-116-bpm/

icejam_, 2 months ago to random

A helpful framing of for "we replaced our X with AI" is "we stopped offering X". When your mobile operator replaced online support with AI, they just stopped doing online support.

jamesglave, 2 months ago to random

“When drivers fail to yield for pedestrians, it’s not because they can’t see them, it’s because they don’t care.” Kudos to @VisionZeroYVR for this brilliant intervention. https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/bricks-vancouver-crosswalk-pedestrian-safety #TheWarOnCars

paul_denton, 2 months ago to trans French

Aurore Bergé prête à interdire les interventions chirurgicales pour les personnes trans avant leur majorité en s'appuyant sur un rapport bidon d'une sénatrice LR. Toujours dans les mauvais coups... "Ces refus de prise en charge, on sait que ça crée des sentiments de détresse, des passages à l’acte voire des suicides", s'alarment les associations. https://lesjours.fr/obsessions/transidentites/ep11-rapport-senateurs-republicains

#Politique #Trans #LGBTQIA #LGBT #TransDayOfVisibility #DirectAN #AuroreBerge #Senat #Transphobie

niiqo, 2 months ago to random French

Google agrees to 'destroy' data it collected to settle Incognito mode lawsuit

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-destroys-incognito-mode-data-3430236/

> Google has agreed to destroy "billions of data points" it inappropriately collected from people using Incognito mode.

niiqo, 2 months ago to random French

Le premier jour de l'Ultra Miami 2024 évacué à cause des fortes pluies

https://www.guettapen.com/2024/03/23/le-premier-jour-de-lultra-miami-2024-evacue-a-cause-des-fortes-pluies/

> Les conditions devenaient totalement impraticables sur place quand les autorités ont décidé de dire stop, et de faire évacuer le festival, la sécurité des festivaliers n'étant plus assuré.