i_am_not_a_robot
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Avatar is a lemming in bed because this account wasn’t intended to be used except for creating communities… and then my instance announced it was closing.
Fedia: @chris@fedia.io
Mastodon: @confusedbunny@oldbytes.space
- Comment on Northern Lights could be visible in England and Wales as severe solar storm to hit overnight 1 week ago:
I missed them, of course. They are set to return tonight but probably not as good.
BBC News - Northern Lights: Where to see them in the UK on Saturday night www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68995042
- Comment on Why is "Dear X" considered more formal than "To X" in e-mail/writing? 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think I’ve ever used Dear to start an email; always Hi for as long as I remember.
I don’t like To, it always seems like a command rather than a greeting. I write it on cards and stuff but it always leaves a niggling feeling of wrongness.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 3 comments
- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 5 weeks ago:
If it calls for 200g of aubergine, then you can weigh that at the shop… It’s more convenient at that end, and you can get the right amount.
- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 5 weeks ago:
Depends what it is. In this instance I was buying cups of fruit, how many cups are there to a punnet? I already have the weight on the packaging, so if I know the weight I need it’s much easier.
- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 5 weeks ago:
I’m amazed they are that uncommon. Here (UK) you can walk into a supermarket and pick them up for less than £20.
- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 5 weeks ago:
Some good answers here, thanks everyone, I’ve learnt some stuff today. 🙂
- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 5 weeks ago:
Not quite the same as Stones and Kilogrammes are both units of weight. Using cups is like weighing somebody using those luggage size baskets in the airport.
- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, that’s the story of thing which worries me. I suppose if it’s a recipe which doesn’t need precise measurements it doesn’t matter.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 331 comments
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org | 5 comments
- Comment on Vote for your favourite Lemmyvision songs! 5 weeks ago:
I turned it off after a few seconds because it was in French.
- Comment on Vote for your favourite Lemmyvision songs! 5 weeks ago:
I like how all the other instances have taken it incredibly seriously, and we’ve basically sent Scooch.
Royaume-Uni - Nil points
- Comment on Whats the best Universally usable CRT Monitor for computers all trough the 80s and 90s? 1 month ago:
The Microvitec M1438 is the one I remember always being recommended.
- Comment on BBC News - Kate apologises for Mother's Day photo 'confusion' 2 months ago:
I have, but it’s the news agencies which decided to remove this image. I assume the gutter press didn’t care.
- Comment on BBC News - Kate apologises for Mother's Day photo 'confusion' 2 months ago:
I don’t think it’s shock that photos are edited, I think it’s the press being cautious not to post “fake news” and being wary of anything that isn’t an original photograph.
In this case it seems pretty obvious that nothing substantial has been changed, but they probably take a hard line on it especially in the age of AI, and just reject anything which looks like it has been manipulated. There are whole departments dedicated to fact checking.
So, I think the news is that Kate is fine and well, and is experimenting with Photoshop maybe with the extra time away from the public eye.
- Submitted 2 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 6 comments
- Comment on Now that search engines suck, people will start to bookmark again. 2 months ago:
- Comment on Now that search engines suck, people will start to bookmark again. 2 months ago:
I never stopped bookmarking. Type a word and usually the browser will find that long lost page from the bookmarks.
- Comment on Two of world's first desktop computers found during house clearance 2 months ago:
I think that was quite common in that era - probably from typewriters which had a shift lock rather than a caps lock (as due to the mechanical nature it isn’t possible to shift just the alphabetic characters on a typewriter). Commodore used Shift Lock on their computers pre-Amiga (also it was a physical clicky button, which is the most satisfying thing ever).
- Submitted 2 months ago to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org | 16 comments
- Submitted 3 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 6 comments
- Comment on AI chatbots tend to choose violence and nuclear strikes in wargames 3 months ago:
They need to be trained on the film “Wargames”. Or forced to pay Noughts & Crosses against themselves.
- Comment on What Meta’s Fediverse Plans Mean for Threads Users 3 months ago:
I don’t know. Mastodon already supports audio posts, how does that federate? Why can’t Threads do the same thing?
- Comment on Google Search is losing its 'cached' web page feature 3 months ago:
I find this very useful to read paywalled articles that Google has managed to index!
OK, I see why they might want to get rid of it.
- Submitted 3 months ago to newcommunities@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Submitted 3 months ago to retrogaming@lemmy.world | 8 comments
- Comment on Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85 3 months ago:
This is a shame. One of my first proper programming projects was a timesync client for the Amiga, back in the 1990s. It used SNTP (the simpler version of NTP), as everybody else seemed to be using other protocols (I think there’s one called time which just returns the current time in text form). I was immensely proud of it, it’s called FACTS if you want to look it up.
Anyway, David Mills is a bit of a hero of mine because that protocol inspired me to create some software, and probably made me even more obsessed with accurate time.
- Comment on Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85 3 months ago:
Same in the UK, the speaking clock on (it had various numbers over the years but the most memorable was) 123.
- Comment on Notepad++ - A community for the notepad++ text editor! 3 months ago:
Yeah, it’s early days.