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- Comment on 🦈🦈🦈 2 days ago:
here is the full res version of the image, via the author’s 2019 twitter thread… where there was also this important update two years later:
this other post “A Marine Biologist Ranks Shark Emojis” covers some of the same and also some other ones
- Comment on There are people young enough to not even remember Pokémon Red/Blue who are old enough to be parents now 3 days ago:
- Comment on kansas can get fcked 1 week ago:
- Comment on Google CIO Calls Trump Admin’s Climate Denialism “Fantastic” | Ruth Porat called for data centers to be powered by coal, gas, and nuclear 1 week ago:
paywall bypass: archive.is/mdi9x
- Comment on Should we remove XSLT from the web platform? 1 week ago:
(tldr: libxslt is a significant source of vulnerabilities and it should absolutely be removed from browsers ASAP.)
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- Comment on [Video] Cops not sure whether to arrest man with "Plasticine Action" shirt for supporting terrorism 1 week ago:
in US english posh is a synonym for british
/s (½)
- Comment on Me too. 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Terrible liquid coils 2 weeks ago:
also the maelstrom in question actually does exist: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moskstraumen
- Comment on Terrible liquid coils 2 weeks ago:
looking closer I see the earliest archive.org snapshot of this URL (from Feb 27, 2020, the day it was published) also says 1857 so it seems like the transposition to 1847 must have happened somewhere else - and yet the attribution to SciAm (external to the screenshot) was somehow preserved. @nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world can you shed any light on this mystery? where did you obtain this image (and know to attribute it to SciAm)?
- Comment on Terrible liquid coils 2 weeks ago:
apparently in 1857 “I have been informed by a European acquaintance” was sufficient sourcing for something to be published in Scientific American :)
somewhat relatedly, it’s 2025 now so you can actually link to a thing instead of just posting a screenshot of it: scientificamerican.com/…/that-giant-sucking-sound…
i wonder why this screenshot (and OP’s text which includes the fact that this comes from scientific american, which is not included in the screenshot) both say 1847 while the text on the SciAm website says it’s actually from 1857 🤔
- Comment on Do gangs that collect protection money actually do any protecting? 2 weeks ago:
2nd arrest made in alleged shootings at GTA movie theatres
article doesn’t say which of these theaters it was 🤔
- Comment on Could I just create my own drive format? 2 weeks ago:
NTFS, fat32, exfat, could I theoretically create my own filesystem?
Yes. There are many different file systems and with a bit of work you can absolutely create your own. Making one that is reliable and performs well, and/or is something you can actually use for the disk that you boot from, is a lot of work and generally involves low-level kernel programming - not exactly a beginner’s programming project.
However, you can also more easily play with implementing filesystems in a high-level language using FUSE.
If so would my computer even be able to work with most files or connect to other devices?
Your computer can use many different filesystems at the same time. You can also store a filesystem in a file on another filesystem, rather than dedicating a partition of a physical disk to it. So, yes, you can use a filesystem of your own design at the same time you are using other storage devices formatted with more common filesystems.
- Comment on Le Penguini 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Think about it 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on I suspect you can understand everything about a person simply by watching how they play Duck Hunt on the NES. 3 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Humanity will likely survive climate change, but the vast majority of humans won't. 4 weeks 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 1 month ago:
- Comment on poor jeremy 1 month 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 2 months 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! 3 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.
🪦
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' 4 months ago:
- Comment on The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme 5 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
