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- Comment on I suspect you can understand everything about a person simply by watching how they play Duck Hunt on the NES. 1 week ago:
It only gets you halfway. To truly understand someone you need to also see them play DuckDodge (“Duck Hunt, but you are the duck”).
- Comment on A fair punishment for the obscene hoarding of wealth 1 week ago:
- Comment on Humanity will likely survive climate change, but the vast majority of humans won't. 1 week ago:
Plus, we will hold on to some percentage of technical knowledge that will help us adapt faster.
FYI, collapseos.org is planning for this eventuality.
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- Comment on Microwave Intensifies 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on poor jeremy 4 weeks ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_(snail)
these two snails mated with each other instead, producing 170 right-coiled snails. One of the left-coiled snails later mated with Jeremy, producing 56 offspring, all of which also had right-coiling shells.
they also omitted this crucial detail:
Jeremy was named after the left-wing British Labour politician Jeremy Corbyn, on account of it being a “lefty” snail, but also due to Corbyn’s reported love of gardening.
- Comment on IYKYK 1 month ago:
- Comment on YSK about the GI Rights Hotline 2 months ago:
this is a tweet from 2020: xcancel.com/CianMW/status/1267890378276876288
but, the organization which operates that hotline is still active: girightshotline.org
- Comment on Happy anniversary of the day absolutely nothing happened at nowhere square! 2 months ago:
it’s not a particularly long post; if you’re really confident in the veracity of the narrative you’re familiar with then you shouldn’t need to be afraid to read something that contradicts it.
(and btw, neither of the two posts i linked claims nothing happened there.)
- Comment on Happy anniversary of the day absolutely nothing happened at nowhere square! 2 months ago:
- Comment on faen 2 months ago:
Due to the Norwegian language conflict there have been various competing forms of written Norwegian over time, two of which have been officially recognized as equally valid by the Norwegian parliament since 1885. Both apparently changed their spelling of “slut” to “sludd” in the 21st century, Bokmål in 2005 and Nynorsk in 2012, presumably in an effort to encourage English speakers to make jokes about Swedes and Danes instead of them.
- Comment on BlackRock is Suing UnitedHealth for Giving “Too Much Care” to Patients After the CEO was Murdered 2 months ago:
Which part of it is fake?
Here is an excerpt of the CNBC article about it:
On Dec. 3 — a day before Thompson was fatally shot — the company issued guidance that included net earnings of $28.15 to $28.65 per share and adjusted net earnings of $29.50 to $30.00 per share, the suit notes. And on January 16, the company announced that it was sticking with its old forecast.
The investors described this as “materially false and misleading,” pointing to the immense public scrutiny the company and the broader health insurance industry experienced in the wake of Thompson’s killing.
The group, which is seeking unspecified damages, argued that the public backlash prevented the company from pursuing “the aggressive, anti-consumer tactics that it would need to achieve” its earnings goals.
“As such, the Company was deliberately reckless in doubling down on its previously issued guidance,” the suit reads.
The company eventually revised its 2025 outlook on April 17, citing a needed shift in corporate strategy — a move that caused its stock to drop more than 22% that day.
The Medium post’s headline is not entirely false but its framing is sensationalist clickbait and misleads the reader: “BlackRock is Suing UnitedHealth for Giving “Too Much Care” to Patients After the CEO was Murdered” gives the incorrect impression that this lawsuit is demanding UnitedHealth go back to providing less care, but in fact the lawsuit appears to condemn their “anti-consumer tactics” while demanding damages from their “materially false and misleading” statement in January.
- Comment on The 17th Year Anniversary of the Fediverse network is upon us! 2 months ago:
The network never went down.
You say that but, everything I ever posted on identica (and also on Evan’s later OStatus site
Status.Net, which i was a paying customer of) went 404 just a few years later. 😢When StatusNet shut down I was offered a MySQL dump, which is better than nothing for personal archival but not actually useful for setting up a new instance due to the OStatus having DNS-based identity and lacking any concept for migrating to a new domain.
identi.ca/evan/note/6EZ4Jzp5RQaUsx5QzJtL4A notes that Evan’s own first post is “still visible on Identi.ca today, although the URL format changed a few years ago, and the redirect plugin stopped working a few years after that.” … but for whatever reason he decided that most accounts (those inactive over a year, iiuc, which I was because I had moved to using StatusNet instead of identica) weren’t worthy of migrating to his new pump.io architecture at all.
Here is some reporting about it from 2013: lwn.net/Articles/544347/
As an added bonus, to the extent that I can find some of my posts on archive.org, links in them were all automatically replaced (it was the style at the time) with redirects via Evan’s URL shortening service
ur1.cawhich is also now long-dead.imo the deletion of most of the content in the proto-fediverse (PubSubHubbubiverse? 😂) this was an enormous loss; I and many other people had years of great discussions on these sites which I wish we could revisit today.
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The fact that ActivityPub now is still a thing where people must (be a sysadmin or) pick someone else’s domain to marry their online identity to is even more sad. ActivityPub desperately needs to become content addressable and decouple identity from other responsibilities. This experiment (which i learned of via this post) from six years ago seemed like a huge step in the right direction, but I don’t know if anyone is really working on solving these problems currently. 😢
- Comment on Report: X's DM feature is getting rebranded as 'XChat' 3 months ago:
- Comment on The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme 4 months ago:
imo the pejorative connotation of that word is (like many expressions of homophobia) ultimately rooted in misogyny
“always has been” meme with “wait, it’s all about maintaining the patriarchy?”
- Microsoft has pulled back on over a gigawatt of planned data center capacity, suggesting that they do not think there is a growth future in generative AIwww.wheresyoured.at ↗Submitted 5 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 66 comments
- Comment on BRASSICAS 5 months ago:
i am reporting this post for promulgating misinformation. this meme has some truth in it, in that these six vegetables are all brassica oleracea. but, the factoid in the center of the meme is false: brassica oleracea can be many things but (despite brassicaceae being “the mustard and cabbage family”) brassica oleracea is NOT actually ever called “wild mustard plant”.
- "Building a Safer Matrix" - an update from The Matrix.org Foundation about "Trust & Safety", content moderation, and their evolving anti-abuse effortsmatrix.org ↗Submitted 5 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 5 comments
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- Comment on USB-C cable CT scan reveals sinister active electronics — O.MG cable contains a hidden antenna and another die embedded in the microcontroller 8 months ago:
same here; other articles there load fine but this one gives me HTTP 500 with content-length 0.
(the empty body tag in your screenshot is generated by firefox while rendering the zero-length response from the server, btw.)
- Comment on Huge win for Internet freedom: Google must sell its Chrome browser 8 months ago:
there are lots of good articles about this news from other sources.
unfortunately the link in this post is an advertorial for snakeoil: tuta is a non-interoperable encrypted email service with an incoherent threat model.
- Comment on Just a little guy 8 months ago:
- Comment on Sexual Kinks 8 months ago:
- Comment on 🍃 🐑 8 months ago:
they aren’t the only animal that does it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleptoplasty#Animals
- Comment on Mayonnaise is not a dressing 10 months ago:
In some places it is:
- Comment on I love children's sense of humour 10 months ago:
would this text land differently if “public school” were replaced with “school”? 🤔
- Comment on This man is a parody of himself 10 months ago:
see it’s conciser?
- Comment on This researcher wants to replace your brain, little by little. The US government just hired a researcher who thinks we can beat aging with fresh cloned bodies and brain updates. 10 months ago:
Like… okay… I know this is me in the new brain, I’ll shut down the other one.
the other one: i’m pretty sure you’ve got it backwards, pal
- Comment on Phonebooks 10 months ago:
- Comment on AI bots now beat 100% of those traffic-image CAPTCHAs 10 months ago:
I was referring to the “This is actually a good sign for self driving” part of their comment.
The captcha circumvention arms race has been going on for over two decades, and every new type of captcha has and will continue to be broken as soon as it’s widely deployed enough that someone is motivated to spend the time to.
So, the notion that an academic paper about breaking the current generation of traffic sign captchas (something which the solving industry has been doing for years with a pretty high success rate already) is “good news” for autonomous vehicles is… well, hopefully a joke.
