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- Comment on Oh shit, I thought about my life for a second. 4 days ago:
What about endless scrolling, that always helps too
- Comment on Will buying an e-ink reader with Android 11 be an issue in a couple of years? 1 week ago:
I don’t doubt your experiences. However I worry about things like Pressreader that require a subscription or any sort of DRM or security.
I have the meebook 7 and mostly use Moon reader.
- Comment on 2,000 year old book about Roman emperors enters bestseller charts 1 week ago:
Sex scandals and foreign policy failures don’t only beleaguer the modern politician, it turns out: in the early second century, the scholar Suetonius chronicled the dramas of the first set of Roman emperors, and now, their indiscretions and eccentricities have been dug up in a new translation which is proving popular in bookshops.
The Lives of the Caesars, translated from Latin by The Rest Is History podcast co-host Tom Holland, made the Sunday Times hardback nonfiction chart this week. Publisher Penguin Classics said that the book is the first of their hardback nonfiction classics to appear on the list.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Using gboard with UK layout here’s me typing a bunch I can remember, it autocorrected all of them. Would be interesting to see the dictionary as a list.
Zeus Herodias Herodotus Aphrodite Pegasus Nike - Greek
Mars Romulus Remus Bacchus - Roman
Valhalla Thor Odin Ragnarok Woden - Norse …
Kali Vishnu Brahma
- Comment on We have all done it 3 weeks ago:
…wikipedia.org/…/Execution_of_Torrijos_and_his_Co…
It’s a great meme, story behind the painting less so.
- Comment on Thames Water seeks court approval for emergency cash 4 weeks ago:
Yes, and lots of bonuses for c-suite I’m sure.
I was pretending that water supply/treamtment is not a monopoly and that under the free market businesses will provide the best service to customers whilst ensuring the business is sustainable. independent.co.uk/…/thames-water-dividend-payouts…
- Comment on Thames Water seeks court approval for emergency cash 4 weeks ago:
Yep, how can the benefits of competition and reward play out if there’s no punishment for failure.
- Comment on AI Company Asks Job Applicants Not to Use AI in Job Applications 4 weeks ago:
I use ai to apply for job. The recruiter uses AI to sift the applications.
Who needs humans.
- Comment on I guess I'll just go into work and pretend like nothing happened 1 month ago:
It’s a doozy
- Comment on Well, Athens wasn't built in a day. 3 months ago:
Careful, you’ve gone so far down the maze you’ll need a trail of breadcrumbs to find your way back
- Comment on Sympathy for their PTSD 4 months ago:
I’m pretty sure they did.
Six months after he was first sent to fight, he was struggling with post-traumatic […] Before he was due to redeploy, he took his own life.
- Comment on Wolfenstein difficulty settings 4 months ago:
- Comment on Weather radar shows birds trapped inside the eye of Hurricane Helene. 5 months ago:
When skies clear after a storm, however, birds resume their migration en masse, Farnsworth said. “After the storm passes, we see these big explosions of birds at night,” he told me. Image
- Comment on The mark 5 months ago:
Yikes!
- Comment on Infinity 5 months ago:
There should be 52 suns in the picture
- Comment on After seeing Wi-Fi network named “STINKY,” Navy found hidden Starlink dish on US warship 5 months ago:
Why even broadcast the SSID? Basic mistake there!
- Comment on Hacker trap: Fake OnlyFans tool backstabs cybercriminals, steals passwords 5 months ago:
Just can’t trust anyone these days…
- Comment on I don't remember this scene from Indiana Jones 6 months ago:
I was trying to make a joke about the character model looking like it had fallen through the floor.
- Comment on I don't remember this scene from Indiana Jones 6 months ago:
I’m not sure he’s digging a hole when he seems to be stuck up to his chest!
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- Comment on If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"? 6 months ago:
The master in master branch is, I’d assume, from the idea of Master copy which refers to the original of something, eg a recording, drawing, etc. www.collinsdictionary.com/…/master-copy
I’m not hugely tied to the word and things change … So meh.
- Comment on Elon Musk's Twitter takeover has ended up as the worst buyout deal for banks since the financial crisis 6 months ago:
Boohoo 😢 /s
- Comment on Actors demand action over 'disgusting' video game sex scenes 6 months ago:
These precipts seem to be common in the movie industry and I can’t think of news stories that show this is a problem in terms of leaking a story.
So, why not have the same degree of safety and protocols in game development?
- Comment on Is my van submission too late? 6 months ago:
Ghana has (had) a bit of a history for creating their own movie posters bbc.com/…/20190313-incredible-ghanaian-film-poste…
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- Comment on I'm sorry, little one 7 months ago:
What are you recommending, I’d be interested in something that’s similar in price to 3090.
- Comment on Microsoft bans China-based employees from using Android devices for work, mandates switch to iPhones 7 months ago:
And android phones are also made by Microsoft’s competitor in many fields.
To me the bigger wtf, is why Apple has an App store there, but Android do not.
- Comment on With this heat, I find an idea of a safe and temp-regulated bath-bed tempting. 7 months ago:
Thanks, I looked for a proper share link as editing on mobile is a PITA.
- Comment on With this heat, I find an idea of a safe and temp-regulated bath-bed tempting. 7 months ago:
There are cheaper options with rather fewer features. www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006953014233.html?spm…
- Comment on EU Council has withdrawn the vote on Chat Control 8 months ago:
As much I like the EU, politicians are politicians …
