Zachariah
@Zachariah@lemmy.world
looking for replacements
r/anarchydnd
r/apolloapp
r/Condution
r/robotech
r/OSUOnlineCS
r/vintageobscura
r/ZeroCovidCommunitv
- Comment on Swiss tax authority forced to buy Bahamas domain name after URL typo 18 hours ago:
.bs - Comment on Swiss tax authority forced to buy Bahamas domain name after URL typo 1 day ago:
awesome
- Comment on FCC demands CBS provide unedited transcript of Kamala Harris interview 1 day ago:
Yes, there is blame there, but there is also blame owed to the churches, Fox News, Twitter, Facebook, MAGA psychopaths, and the GOP leadership.
- Comment on Nurse dies as Uganda confirms new Ebola outbreak 2 days ago:
so far
- Comment on Why We Didn’t Take Screen Grabs in the 1980s 5 days ago:
To get a nice picture, I had to compensate for the problems posed by photographing actual screens of computers. One was glare from the daylight and from office lights; another was the curvature of the computer screen, which in those days were made from cathode ray tubes (CRT); a third problem was setting the correct exposure in the camera to end up with a richly-colored image.
… The glass was curved so that the electron beam traveled the same distance from its source to the screen, no matter its position on the screen.)
To compensate, I came into the office of CADalyst magazine at night, set up my camera on a tripod with a 100mm lens, reduced the f-stop by -2, and used the self-timer to take the photograph. It took, naturally, me a while to get all these parameters correct, as I was working with slide film, which needed to be sent away for processing. It could take a week or two to see if the results turned out – or not.
- Comment on Hard Lessons from Hardware Failure: Data Loss and Recovery in the La MaMa Archive 2 weeks ago:
In July 2022, the La MaMa Archive, the living archive of La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club (ETC), experienced that dreaded hardware failure. Our server crashed and new drives had to be purchased and installed. A previous issue in 2021 had been resolved without incident, so Archive staff assumed data protections were working as they should. We discovered, to our dismay, that the automated processes had not been re-established after an earlier failure. The line of code meant to automatically create nightly backups of La MaMa’s digital catalog was faulty. The IT contractors had not been verifying the backups and never noticed that the system stopped creating mirrored files. Delays, poor communication, and failed attempts to reload the digital collections site left us offline and in limbo for more than a month.
- Comment on Discovery Plus is raising its prices 3 weeks ago:
LOL, that’s even worse. But I’ll let it slide.
Using my imagination sounds fun though:
… Bainters bairnish Baisakhi Baisdens Baisleys baitfish baitings Bajocian bakelite bakemeat Bakerian bakeries Bakerloo bakeshop bakeware Bakewell baklavas baklawas bakshish Balabans Balachka baladine baladins balafons Balaguer balanced balancer balances balander Balarama balayage Balbonis balconet Baldaufs baldhead baldiest …
- Comment on Discovery Plus is raising its prices 3 weeks ago:
You can just write “bullshit” if that’s what you mean. The asterisks don’t protect anyone.
If you’d prefer to avoid vulgarity altogether, there are lots of alternatives to choose from.
hogwash
nonsense
rubbish
baloney
hokum
hooey
malarkey
poppycock
foolishness
idiocy
ludicrousness
ridiculousness
tomfoolery - Comment on USB-C gets a bit more universal as the EU’s mandate goes into effect 3 weeks ago:
we want the D
- Comment on The real reason OS/2 flopped shaped modern software 4 weeks ago:
The resurfacing of a 1995 Usenet post earlier this month prompted The Reg FOSS desk to re-examine a pivotal operating system flop … and its long-term consequences.
A 1995 Usenet post from Gordon Letwin, Microsoft’s lead architect on the OS/2 project, has been rediscovered. To modern eyes, it looks like an email, but it wasn’t. Usenet was the original social network and this was a public post. In case you don’t recognize Letwin’s name, he was one of the founding staff members of Microsoft – he’s in the famous 1978 Albuquerque photo. He literally wrote the book on OS/2, that book being Inside OS/2.
…
When OS/2 finally went 32-bit, as a platform it had already lost the battle. The lack of native apps was not the reason it lost; the lack of native apps was proof that Windows 3 had already won.
…
- Comment on Why do airplanes have big front "headlights"? 4 weeks ago:
The one where red is on the left.
- Comment on Why do airplanes have big front "headlights"? 4 weeks ago:
Easy to remember:
Red is on the opposite side from Right - Comment on what was the last game you played in 2024? 4 weeks ago:
Minecraft with my kid
creative mode Java through Prism on Steam Deck, connecting to vanilla self-hosted server
- Comment on So that's how they do it 4 weeks ago:
omg I hate how they don’t properly align the new section
- Comment on Astronomers discover an ultra-massive grand-design spiral galaxy 4 weeks ago:
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has detected a new grand-design spiral galaxy as part of the PANORAMIC survey. The newfound galaxy, named Zhúlóng, is extremely massive and appears to be the most distant spiral galaxy identified so far. The finding was detailed in a paper published December 17 on the pre-print server arXiv.
Grand-design spiral galaxies are characterized by their prominent, well-defined arms, which circle outwards from a clear core. It is assumed that the arms in such galaxies are actually overdense regions of the disk which trigger star formation as incoming material is compressed in that region.
- Comment on Are there any BlueTooth apps that can connect two (or even more) inactive phones to talk with each other as if they're Walkie Talkies? 4 weeks ago:
Sounds like a cool idea. I’ve never heard of any apps like that.
If you could get them all on wifi, you could use an app like Threema or Signal to do voice calls.
- Comment on Microsoft is really serious about giving more products Copilot name on Windows 11 5 weeks ago:
JesusCopilot - Comment on AI Company That Made Robots For Kids Goes Under, Robots Die - Aftermath 1 month ago:
AI company Embodied announced this week that they would be shutting down following financial difficulties and a sudden withdrawal of funding. Embodied’s main product was Moxie, an AI-powered social robot specifically made with autistic children in mind. The robot itself cost $799.00 and now, following the closure of Embodied, it will cease to function.
- Comment on So what are we going to do with all this social media age-gate stuff? 1 month ago:
Are forums like Lemmy social media? To me social media are sites where people friend/follow other people. Lemmy is more of a general purpose website with user-generated content.
- Comment on Microsoft: TPM 2.0 is a ‘non-negotiable’ requirement for Windows 11 1 month ago:
weird
- Comment on Why Long COVID is looking more and more like it's driven by 'long infection' 2 months ago:
Since relatively early in the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a recognition that in some people, SARS-CoV-2 — or at least remnants of the virus — could stay in various tissues and organs for extended periods. This theory is known as “viral persistence”.
While the long-term presence of residual viral fragments in some people’s bodies is now well established, what remains less certain is whether the live virus itself, not just old bits of virus, is lingering — and if so, whether this is what causes Long COVID.
This distinction is crucial because live viruses can be targeted by specific antiviral approaches in ways that “dead” viral fragments cannot.
- Comment on France publishes new provisions making solar mandatory on parking areas 2 months ago:
large tracts of land
- Comment on Blocking Bots with Nginx 2 months ago:
robots.txtis a bit like asking bots to not visit my site; with.htaccess, you’re not asking - Comment on Heart cockle shells transmit sunlight to photosymbiotic algae using bundled fiber optic cables and condensing lenses - Nature Communications 2 months ago:
this warms the cockles of my heart
- Comment on Afghan women turn to entrepreneurship under Taliban 2 months ago:
Your points are valid. And I suppose having more money improves autonomy as well.
- Comment on Afghan women turn to entrepreneurship under Taliban 2 months ago:
I don’t think it’s funny at all. It’s fucked that these people haven’t live in these conditions. They’re essentially living in a fascist ghetto. I’m happy they’re able to find something meaningful. I’m a bit disappointed its commerce. It could be art, music, philosophy, learning, etc. Making money is fine, and artistry and craft are better. But true freedom is so far away it’s sad.
- Comment on Afghan women turn to entrepreneurship under Taliban 2 months ago:
arbeit macht frei
- Comment on Half of Young Norwegians Say Online Piracy Is an Acceptable Way to Save Money 2 months ago:
Reminds me of the radio model that was denied by the RIAA when downloading mp3s first got big.
- Comment on Ukraine has seen success in building clean energy, which is harder for Russia to destroy 2 months ago:
This is one thing I rarely seen brought up in discussions of nuclear power. If every building had its own power source, then the grid no longer becomes a viable target. Funding for national security should go towards putting solar on every rooftop.
- Comment on Archinstall 3.0 Arch Linux Menu-Based Installer Is Here with a Revamped Interface - 9to5Linux 2 months ago:
The biggest new feature in Archinstall 3.0 is a revamped text-mode user interface (TUI) that now uses the Curses terminal control library, which allows for more complex layouts and a new but familiar look and feel of the menu-based interface.
As you can see from the screenshot above, the new Curses-based interface now opens each main setting of the installer in a side panel rather than a separate page from the user needs to navigate back to the main menu. This should make the installation a lot easier for Arch Linux newcomers.
