Some middle-aged guy on the Internet; Seen a lot of it and occasionally regurgitate it, trying to be amusing and informative.
Lurked Digg until v4.
Commented on Reddit (same name... at the moment) until it went full Musk.
Now I'm here.
Other Adjectives: Neurodivergent; Nerd; Broken; British; Ally; Leftish
Kbin /m/fediverse is over 90% spam
Looking at the front page of this forum and many others, leads me to conclude that kbin has a ridiculous spam problem....
suddenly I cannot fully access The Economist behind tor without a subscription anymore
I used to read The Economist without a subscription behind tor to avoid captchas, ads and also to avoid their IP profiling (they limit the free articles a non subscription IP can read) but 2 days ago articles stopped showing also behind tor and the TBB....
Is it bad practice to run umount -a instead of specifying the directory to unmount?
#Is it bad practice to run umount -a instead of specifying the directory to unmount? I’ve always run umount -a to unmount my drive but i notice it unmounts a lot of other things. Is this bad?
2011 [FieldExplores] (lemmy.world)
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The Verge shows how Google search is useless (www.theverge.com)
The Verge published this spam article about the “best printers of 2024” to demonstrate how terrible Google’s search results are. It now appears as the top non-sponsored post if you search “best printer” on Google....
Dillo 3.1.0 finally released after 9 years! (dillo-browser.github.io)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/15269587...
Autonomous excavator constructs dry stone wall (electrek.co)
I really do want to know though (lemmy.world)
Why is there no one on this site?
This site is dead. And if this site is supposed to be an alternative to reddit, how come it has "Reputation Points" which seems to be the same shit as Karma, which is one of the worst aspects (of many) of the hell that is ReTARDITT??
How come every time I post a new thread on kbin it crashes to some 50x error thing...
...and I get this message:...
Marjorie Taylor Greene is an Injun'
I find it funny that Marjorie Taylor Greene has an identity as a sort of "white-centric", quite far right US conservative when it's pretty obvious that she has a significant amount of Native American ancestry, which can be seen just by looking at her face (ignore the blonde dyed hair, makeup, etc.).
Today I went to the museum (feddit.uk)
School leaders warn of ‘full-blown’ special needs crisis in England (www.theguardian.com)
10 years without an increase in funding for SEND pupils is outrageous. Austerity is very much alive and well.
Linux Mint looks to fork more GNOME Apps because of libAdwaita (blog.linuxmint.com)
Debian Thong (lemmy.zip)
This is real
why does noone inprove bash such that you can write a normal foor loop with whitespace in file names?
I know that there are ten different alternatives. Why don’t we simply improve the basic stuff?
Where to "practice Linux" terminal commands
I’ve been using Linux for about 7 months now and have become a lot more comfortable using the terminal but I feel like there is more that I can learn....
Elon Musk publicly dumped California for Texas—now Golden State customers are getting revenge, dumping Tesla in droves (finance.yahoo.com)
Catholic 'media ministry' defrocks AWOL AI priest after it told faithful you can baptise babies in Gatorade and that, sure, it can totally perform your wedding (www.pcgamer.com)