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- Comment on Don't call it a Substack 1 day ago:
Same for ‘Medium dot com’. Another attempt at a walled garden for people’s thoughts.
- Comment on Question: What mineral/compound do modern arthropods use for their eyes (vs. Trilobites with their calcite lenses)? 5 days ago:
- Comment on Question: What mineral/compound do modern arthropods use for their eyes (vs. Trilobites with their calcite lenses)? 5 days ago:
Ah! So the same as the rest of their hard parts, I suppose. I suspected as much, but couldn’t seem to find any paper that explicitly stated this.
Thank you!
- Submitted 5 days ago to science@mander.xyz | 6 comments
- Comment on How else are ypu supposed to check for a beam on your accelerator? 1 week ago:
Don’t be Anatoli Bugorski!
… or the guy involved in the Hanoi Incident.
- Comment on Lack of D 4 weeks ago:
Aaah! Begone hellspawn!
O(R-P-C) E N
- Comment on Minecraft is getting a new biome and The Creaking, a creepy mob that only moves when you look away 1 month ago:
Which came first, Weeping Angels or SCP-173?
- Comment on Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse. 2 months ago:
When our last TV which was ‘smart’ died, we just bought a big lcd monitor at the pawn shop. We already were only using Kodi on an Android box, so a monitor with external speaker is fine. (Seemed spyware free last time I checked, but beware no-name android media boxes on=from eBay etc., use a tiny or old spare PC instead if you wish).
One must ‘sail the high seas’ tovget content, of course…
- Comment on Waymo’s robotaxi depot is still honking its San Francisco neighbors awake 2 months ago:
Hmm, nothing a little thermite on their hoods wouldn’t fix?
- Submitted 4 months ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 18 comments
- Comment on Multiple AI companies bypassing web standard to scrape publisher sites, licensing firm says 4 months ago:
Sounds like we’re all going to need to start putting the equivalent of Trap Streets in all our web content, source code, etc.
I heard someone has already had success placing nonsense in a white-on-white box of their site, later querying commercial AI to prove it was ingested w/o permission.
- Comment on Welcome to the Golden Age of User Hostility 7 months ago:
You can, but now it’s called “a big monitor and your own server with a personal media library”.
- Comment on How disheartening for Snowden to do the right thing and be stranded in Russia. 7 months ago:
You spread misinformation. Anyone who cares to do so can verify the info I give below.
Snowden stated from the start that he originally intended to go from Hong Kong to Ecuador, who had promised him asylum. He intentionally gave away all copies of his data, destroying his own, to the journalists who had met him in Hong Kong to evaluate his leaks (verify sources before believing those who claim ‘he leaked info to Russia’). He fully intended to be ‘clean’ if he were interdicted on his way out of Hong Kong.
The US illegally (violating international law! It is illegal for a nation to render their own citizen stateless while abroad) revoked his US passport as he flew to Russia, which he meant to be a temporary stop only to obtain passage on a flight to Ecuador as Ecuadorian officials were to be there in order to receive him.
The President of Ecuador’s own Presidential Plane, with the Ecuadorian President onboard was forcibly grounded over EU airspace, by fighter jets, at the USA’s behest, on suspicioun that Snowden might be aboard. Snowden was trapped in a Russian airport, against his will, with no valid passport, essentially rendered Stateless – again, a violation of international law perpetrated by the USA against one of its own citizens.
Imagine the USA’s response if Airforce One were forcibly grounded to a foreign airport, by foreign fighter-jets, at the behest of another country.
- Comment on Linux 6.9 To Allow Larger Frame-Buffer Console Font Size For Today's 4K Displays 7 months ago:
Nice. Is anyone working on bringing back console scrolling history? Last time I checked (admittedly long ago) there was something about it being insecure so the feature was dropped.
- Comment on I'm deaf 8 months ago:
Repressed memories flooding back. Our school gym didn’t always keep them inflated properly, so the strong, taller guys would really launch them and the flaccid rubber things would splat against our young bodies like lead jellyfish.
Holy hell dodgeball was a war crime.
The ‘medics’ were not supposed to be targets… hah, hah. ‘Oops, collateral damage!’ :/ :)
- Comment on AI Launches Nukes In ‘Worrying’ War Simulation: ‘I Just Want to Have Peace in the World’ 9 months ago:
Hah, no – oops, will fix :) Thanks
- Comment on AI Launches Nukes In ‘Worrying’ War Simulation: ‘I Just Want to Have Peace in the World’ 9 months ago:
Gee, no one could have predicted that AI might be dangerous if given access to nukes.
- Comment on 'Tis an Encore-level chart threat to make through, until the last note… 9 months ago:
Depends, what are the samples used? If it’s all sad trombones it might not be so great. Then again …
- Comment on Let futures be futures 9 months ago:
Heh, ‘garbage language’ or ‘garbage-collected language’? Until Go I considered the two to be the same :)
But yeah… the tooling is a strong point IMO.
(Package management went downhill once the whole GOPROXY thing was introduced. When ‘go get’ was the simplest way to fetch packages, things were great IMHO … but I’m not doing big enterprise-y stuff so maybe my view is too narrow as to the issues of ‘vendoring’, version management etc.
- Comment on Let futures be futures 9 months ago:
Concluding paragraphs are a thinly veiled bash at Golang and its creators. Whatever. I like Go. I like C. I like lots of other languages, for different reasons. Haven’t learned Rust yet, but am already tired of the ivory-tower attitude of its proponents.
- Comment on Capcom caught adding Enigma DRM to older titles, for no good reason 10 months ago:
Yarrrr, mateys. Back to the Seas it is then!
- Comment on Outrage in Iran after woman whipped for refusing to wear hijab 10 months ago:
No, you’re totally right – there’s no easy way out of this. But how does one work towards a peaceful solution, and overcome multi-generational, cultural, ‘religion’-based attitudes shaping foreign policies (I place ‘religion’ in quotes because I believe that religion is just used, by all sides, as justification for holding onto power) that insists on conflict? BTW I’m referring to both Iran and the ‘Western Powers’ here.
Simply trying to ‘kill the masters’ would only create a vacuum for whomever is waiting in the wings to take their place, and just perpetuate the cycle… sigh. I dunno.
- Comment on Outrage in Iran after woman whipped for refusing to wear hijab 10 months ago:
The paradox of tolerance – those who break the ‘social contract’ deserve no tolerance from the otherwise tolerant, otherwise they’ll just run roughshod over everyone. I hate violence as well and have no stomach for it, but it does seem there may be no other way to stop regimes like this.
- Comment on Except maybe ... 10 months ago:
No, it’s just saying “NOTHING” is written in stone – which it obviously is here, on the first line.
The fact that “IS WRITTEN IN STONE” is also written in stone isn’t mentioned, probably due to lack of space.
- Comment on The BBC just Rick Rolled us into the New Year. 10 months ago:
Thanks!
- Comment on The BBC just Rick Rolled us into the New Year. 10 months ago:
Link? Joke’s on them, I’m into that sh*t :)
- Comment on Your Car Is Tracking You. Abusive Partners May Be, Too. 10 months ago:
Fine with me, I don’t need those :)
- Comment on Your Car Is Tracking You. Abusive Partners May Be, Too. 10 months ago:
So surely there must be an easy way to cut/disconnect whatever antenna(s) are used for OnStar, LTE, Bluetooth etc. in modern cars? I know when I finally am forced to get a car with always-on systems I will be looking for ways to disable them.
- Comment on BREAKING NEWS 11 months ago:
MARGARET THATCHER NAKED ON A COLD DAY
MARGARET THATCHER NAKED ON A COLD DAY
- Comment on BREAKING NEWS 11 months ago:
Paul Manafort, Steve Bannon, Roger Stone, … just my speculations.