absentbird
@absentbird@lemmy.world
- Comment on Who was your first childhood videogame crush? 3 days ago:
That game is a hidden gem. So many dope story beats.
- Comment on ICE Will Use AI to Surveil Social Media 5 days ago:
El Salvador is literally running a death camp, they don’t plan to ever release the prisoners. They just keep them alive for free labor and to avoid the stigma of running a Holocaust; but Germany was the same at first, they only ramped up the death at the end of the war.
- Comment on Fictional 6 days ago:
Just use meters and round up to 300 million m/s for the speed of light.
- Comment on got this ad and uh 1 week ago:
The south was actually more accepting of Jews than the north at the time (as long as they had the right complexion). Thousands served in the confederate army, many holding high rank.
- Comment on I went to an anti-tech rally, where Gen Z dressed as gnomes and smashed iPhones. Here's what I learned. | Business Insider 2 weeks ago:
VLC definitely has evangelists, they have just become the dominant culture so you don’t really notice it. They don’t have an advertising budget, it got popular through word of mouth.
I think Linux enthusiasts appear more evangelical because of the deep entrenchment of Windows; you are the push back and debate, whereas with VLC you just see people recommending it and people being grateful for the recommendation.
- Comment on Sunlight special 2 weeks ago:
The lack of beans and black pudding is especially egregious. If England is giving up on free speech they could at least go after these faux english breakfast frauds.
- Comment on I will be taking no followup questions. Thank you for your time 2 weeks ago:
Copper and lodestone were some of the first materials refined from ores. You can also create a permanent magnet by getting a piece of iron struck by lightning.
Once you have copper and a magnet you can use the electricity to make additional magnets out of iron.
It’s also possible to make a magnet with a compass, a piece of iron, and a striking hammer:
position the metal facing north, strike the southern end repeatedly
- Comment on When you say you don't like linux on Lemmy 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I’m not sure I get it, but I like the picture.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
What tragic news. I wish her the best. I wish our country didn’t make people beg for healthcare.
- Comment on In order for superman to keep his cover as Clark Kent countless innocents he had the power to save have to die every day. 3 weeks ago:
Well metropolis isn’t exactly NYC, and he doesn’t stop every incident. Mostly he is shown focusing on the major disasters, mundane incidents in close proximity, and on protecting a short list of people he looks out for.
Also he moves insanely fast, like he can canonically travel faster than light. So being able to stop even a hundred car accidents could be accomplished in a series of short bursts throughout his day.
- Comment on Altered World Event 3 weeks ago:
I just watched it last year, really solid show, I wish I’d seen it years ago.
- Comment on Israeli authorities have beaten Greta Thunberg, made her kiss Zionist flag 3 weeks ago:
He’s old enough to be her dad. Of course she seems like a child from his perspective, if he has a child they’re likely about her age.
- Comment on New phonetic alphabet just dropped 4 weeks ago:
Improved based on feedback.
- Comment on New phonetic alphabet just dropped 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on New phonetic alphabet just dropped 4 weeks ago:
Who?
- Comment on New phonetic alphabet just dropped 4 weeks ago:
It’s for the internet. Nato’s alphabet is so English-focused, and it sounds so militaristic now. This is for the nerds and weirdos of the world.
- Comment on New phonetic alphabet just dropped 4 weeks ago:
That’s awesome!
- Comment on New phonetic alphabet just dropped 4 weeks ago:
Oh, thanks. My bad.
- Comment on New phonetic alphabet just dropped 4 weeks ago:
Igor Dorothy Kermit
- Comment on New phonetic alphabet just dropped 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, I really racked my brain on that one. There is a superhero named Xray, but it isn’t a satisfying option. Xavier is actually really good, I don’t know why I didn’t think of that, professor X, easy to remember.
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- Comment on FFS Plex, the server is on my local network 5 weeks ago:
That makes sense. I’ve only hosted Plex through a proxy or VPN anyway for networking and security reasons, but it’s pretty shitty to force it just out of greed.
I am also planning to move to JellyFin, but more out of open source fanaticism than financial reasons.
- Comment on FFS Plex, the server is on my local network 5 weeks ago:
That isn’t how it used to work.
Why would they care what subnet the request is coming from? That’s wack.
- Comment on FFS Plex, the server is on my local network 5 weeks ago:
Can you give me an example of remote direct access that would be blocked? You can use nginx to forward your public IP to your Plex and it’s fine, you can forward ports directly on your router and connect to your public IP, you can use a VPN to connect from a different network; what are they limiting? It’s the hurdle you have to overcome with Jellyfin.
- Comment on FFS Plex, the server is on my local network 5 weeks ago:
If you connect with the IP address it doesn’t charge you. You can use ZeroTier to connect from anywhere.
- Comment on FFS Plex, the server is on my local network 5 weeks ago:
Right, the $2 is to use the relay service, which costs Plex bandwidth. They can’t just do it free for everyone forever, bandwidth costs money.
- Comment on Google just broke *all* third-party web clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required. 5 weeks ago:
Nebula is just a better experience most cases too. It just shows you what you’re subscribed to in chronological order, which is how YouTube used to work when it was less annoying.
It also shares more revenue with creators and doesn’t force feed you ads. I really hope it continues to grow and never betrays its roots.
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 5 weeks ago:
H, just put the poutine directly into my arteries.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Gina got fired for something she did outside of her job. Jimmy got fired for doing the job he was hired to do, because a government official threatened his employer.
The first amendment is to protect against government censorship, it has no intention to protect you from public outcry. It should have protected Jimmy, but it’s irrelevant in the case of Gina.
