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WhyNotZoidberg, to random
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Seeing the fanboys fight over what screen update frequency to have on your phones ("90!" - "120!" - "144!") while I sit on 60, because I enjoy a concept known as "battery life".

ddlyh,
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@WhyNotZoidberg
Not sure more than 25 is noticeable unless it's out of sync with your eyes?

WhyNotZoidberg, to random
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When youtube offers to translate "shite" into English

ddlyh,
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@WhyNotZoidberg
From Old English? 😉

WhyNotZoidberg, (edited ) to microsoft
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Having an AI ("Windows Recall" is enabled by default) that tracks every move you do on your computer and of course has no filter (Microsoft's own FAQ clearly states it will remember every password you type) is idiotic. But Tech bros are frothing at the mouth for anything AI so here we are.

ddlyh,
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@WhyNotZoidberg
Looking at the settings, it seems you can exclude certain apps, but you still have to customise it.

TBH, wouldn't this be incredibly dangerous in domestic abuse situations? Even if everything is done locally, an abusive partner could spy on everything!

ddlyh,
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@WhyNotZoidberg
I thought that one was US antitrust legislation?
@alda

bleeptrack, (edited ) to random
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Now and then I discover an absolute gem of little software!

Thanks so much for all your CAD recommendations! I absolutely fell in love with ✨solvespace ✨

🔗 https://solvespace.com

ddlyh,
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@bleeptrack
Thanks, not come across that one before!

A section in the "build" section suggests that the GUI is optional, but if that were the case, how on earth would it be used? I can't find other information about this though...

ncommander, to random
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As a New York City native, currently living in New Jersey, I should really visit the Statue of Liberty at some point in my life ...

ddlyh,
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@ncommander
It's easy to miss the stuff on your doorstep...

StillIRise1963, to random
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Do you remember “freedom fries” from the GWB administration? This shit started back then.

ddlyh,
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@StillIRise1963
I miss when a US president being a complete idiot made us laugh instead of scared...

ddlyh,
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@StillIRise1963
True, but he was best known over here as a figure of ridicule; whereas Trump, while still ridiculed, is mostly hated and feared...

ddlyh,
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@StillIRise1963
No, he was a monster. But now we have monsters who make the monsters of his era scared at night...

natureworks, to random
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Don't Contribute Anything Relevant in Web Forums Like Reddit

> TL;DR: all of the content of closed, centralized services will be lost in the long run.

#OpenWeb #OpenData #OpenStandards #InternetArchie

via @publicvoit

https://karl-voit.at/2020/10/23/avoid-web-forums/

ddlyh,
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@natureworks
Does this include PHPbb forums of old? Because they at least can usually be crawled for the internet archive?
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WhyNotZoidberg, to random
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What the heck is it with spell check in Firefox?

Another one:

Provisioner is apparently not a word, but "provisioned" is. One would think the first one is much more common?

ddlyh,
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@WhyNotZoidberg
I've seen the latter more than the former, personally. Might be regional?

NunavutBirder, to worldwithoutus
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So, this was released today. My third stamp with Canada Post. Qarlinngua (The pants). And technically my second stamp with a family member in it, as the tiny figure in it is my son Travis. Now for one with Hilary in it.

I’ve very proud of all of these, beyond the cache. They are about my home, and family. And also my family has a long history with the Post Office, 101 years. My grandfather, father, and brother were all postmasters in Roblin.

ddlyh,
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@NunavutBirder
2^92 seems a very big number, given that 2^4 is over four thousand million; hope it costs less than that?

WhyNotZoidberg, to random
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Cricket is a form of Calvin ball for adults, right?

ddlyh,
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@WhyNotZoidberg
I would put it as the anti-Calvin-Ball, given that it has too many formal rules, not none?

StillIRise1963, to random
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"Home Office staff have privately warned that there is a risk of thousands of asylum seekers disappearing once removals begin, keen to avoid receiving notification that they are being sent to Kigali.”

WTF.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/22/rwanda-deportations-bill-passes-parliament-sunak

ddlyh,
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@StillIRise1963
Another few hundred metres down the slippery slope to "authoritarian dictatorship". Hard to know how close we are now, the boundary is a little fuzzy, but it's somewhere around here...

MLE_online, to random
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I hear there's a photoshop going around of a cybertruck with faux woodgrain paneling on the sides, so this seems like a good time to remind people of this photoshop I did a couple of years ago.

ddlyh,
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@MLE_online The Cybertruck and the DeLorean have a lot in common (well, the shape, the mechanical issues, the finish and the fact they both seem to have been designed by a 9-year old) but while the DeLorean was used counterculturally and was a passion-project that bankrupted its creator, the Cybertruck is propping up a billionaire ao it's nowhere near as cool...

WhyNotZoidberg, to random
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Feeling daring, changing the font on my phone to "slab".

ddlyh,
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@WhyNotZoidberg
Or go (presumably) the other way with "WIDE LATIN"?

WhyNotZoidberg, to random
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I still have not seen a single user case for AI that's worth using drinking water for. Not even porn.

...can we cool AI clusters with sewage? Seems fitting.

ddlyh,
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@WhyNotZoidberg
Or at least power them from the methane of decomposing sewage?

dgar, to random
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I like to put in at least a hour a day on the treadmill.

ddlyh,
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@RL_Dane
There was an idea that aired on the programme Genius around 15 years ago that was similar in some ways: have a duvet that wraps around a double-bed so that if one person hogs the thing and pulls it towards them, it just rolls around the bed and the other person gets the bit from below (if that makes sense). I thought that idea had legs, but AFAIK no-one has made one (at least not since it aired)...
@dgar

RL_Dane, to random
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I've been liking @Mojeek's results more than DDG's lately.

The only thing that keeps me on DDG is the !bangs

ddlyh,
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@RL_Dane
I wonder if there's something like SearX that let's you amalgamate results from the two?
@Mojeek

WhyNotZoidberg, to ai
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To simply demand AI clusters follow environmental guidelines seemsike a good thing, actually.

The first rule obviously that they can only use fresh water after everyone else have had what they need.

ddlyh,
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@WhyNotZoidberg
They won't be able to do much while still being responsible, so perhaps it'll work like an outright ban if enforced properly?

benjaoming, to random
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I have a Logitech Squeezebox Radio in the kitchen that I used to listen to BBC World Service with (since Swedish DAB refuses to carry BBC unless they pay money, so Swedish DAB will suck forever until it dies).

Logitech announced in late January to shutdown the online service that makes it possible to even run the radio and in March, it was silent.

The only way to use it now is to run your own local Lyrion Media Server (fmly: Logitech Media Server). 1/x

ddlyh,
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@benjaoming
Do the BBC internet radio feeds still work for you then? They claimed they switched them off, supposedly worldwide. I have to use the BBC sounds website rather than the m3u feeds now (they did stop working for me).

ddlyh,
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@benjaoming Seems a lot of those links don't work here. I found one for the world service that does - http://stream.live.vc.bbcmedia.co.uk/bbc_world_service - but not for the other BBC stations...

WhyNotZoidberg, to random
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Why is "Lesbian" named after Lesbos when Sappho lived most of her life in Sicily?

ddlyh,
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@WhyNotZoidberg
I got some junkmail through the post yesterday advertising a railway company called "Saphos" [sic], which implies the trains are only for lesbians?

WhyNotZoidberg, to random
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"Computers should just work!" says person who never, ever would say the same thing about a car, or a bike, or...

Imagine if people had the same attitude towards vehicles as they do towards computers.

ddlyh,
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@WhyNotZoidberg
Especially since that by "just work" they mean "magically always know what I mean to do without me needing to communicate it, even when I don't know what I mean to do"!

alda, to random
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I hate how Americans pronounce "herbs" as "uhrbs".

ddlyh,
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@alda
I don't like how they pronounce solder as "sudder" and jaguar as "jagwaah"...

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