the famous "This incident will be reported" error was briefly removed last year before being replaced with a less ominous version.

I'm disappointed in arstechnica for only supporting their provocative headline (Judge in US v. Google trial didn’t know if Firefox is a browser or search engine) with this vagueness in the article:

While Cavanaugh delivered his opening statement, Mehta even appeared briefly confused by some of the references to today's tech, unable to keep straight if Mozilla was a browser or a search engine. He also appeared unclear about how SEM works and struggled to understand the options for Microsoft to promote Bing ads outside of Google's SEM tools.

What did he actually say?!

PSA: nobody should keep more money on paypal than they can afford to lose

xkcd#2501:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_placeholder_names_by_language

https://web.archive.org/web/20240303071843/https://github.com/yuzu-emu/yuzu/commits/master/

-> latest commit hash as of march 3rd was 15e6e48bef0216480661444a8d8b348c1cca47bb

-> https://duckduckgo.com/?q=15e6e48bef0216480661444a8d8b348c1cca47bb (many copies of the repo exist)

The basis of this joke is the Simplified-vs-Traditional character sets for Chinese languages, but, there actually is a thing called Basic English which is sometimes called Simple English and which is used on the Simple English Wikipedia.

the option of a subscription is fine IMO

i see the one for 64 made it past 400 upvotes, so i predict this will eventually make it to 512 but i am skeptical that the next one will be able to reach 1024 without vote stuffing (and please don't do that)

the upcoming release of Lemmy, v0.19 (which as of two weeks ago is planned for release "within the next weeks") includes among its many improvements this PR: Adding a scaled sort, to boost smaller communities. Hopefully that helps!

oh great, yet another platform that will use free software to restrict what people can do with their computing devices 🤮

how is this supposed to be a good thing? 🙄

You can also apply it when watching a YouTube video by appending “&wadsworth=1” to the url.

I just confirmed that this no longer works :(

I remember when it did. Here is the 2011 reddit post from the youtube employee who implemented it

::: spoiler It's possible that it had some vulnerability which was automatically exploited by one of her majesty's secret services (perhaps with help from their US counterparts) to make it a component of their covert infrastructure.

Sounds outlandish, but this was happening in 2010:

:::

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/evaluating-the-impact-of-tunnelvision

python -c 'print((61966753*385408813*916167677<<2).to_bytes(11).decode())'

::: spoiler how?

$ python
>>> b"Hello World".hex()
'48656c6c6f20576f726c64'
>>> 0x48656c6c6f20576f726c64
87521618088882533792115812
$ factor 87521618088882533792115812
87521618088882533792115812: 2 2 61966753 385408813 916167677

:::

Why is it a subway sandwich?

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/dudes-be-like-subway-sucks

i am against paying for DRM streaming services, and i boycott apple products, but i must say this is an impressive hacking effort and a well-executed meme about it. 🥂

I came across this blog - What is systemd and Why Should I Care?

A 2014 blog post by someone with the bio "Software Engineer at Microsoft, currently working on Outlook for iOS" should not be a significant influence on the choices you are making about your usage of GNU/Linux in 2023 :)

Avast! Abandon yonder stream ship, lest those scallywags hornswaggle ye again.

🏴‍☠️

TL;DR: Keep browsing to your local instance at work for now.

YSK even the local tab on any instance will load many transcluded images from other instances.

if you're worried about your employer monitoring for suspicious hostnames, you're rolling the dice every time you do any personal web browsing (outside of sites that don't transclude 3rd party images, like wikipedia, and, ironically, facebook...).

instance name checks out

"First-term state Rep. Roger Wilder, R-Denham Springs, who sponsored the child labor measure and owns Smoothie King franchises across the Deep South, said he filed the bill in part because children want to work without having to take lunch breaks."

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-children-yearn-for-the-mines

If your objection is honored, it will be applied going forward

Fuck both of these companies, but, how can it make sense to sue Citrix for this? The article says they released an advisory and patch for the problem six days prior to when Xfinity says the breach happened, so, it sounds like Xfinity neglected to install their software updates.

i just confirmed this is a real tweet

this is currently the #3 post in the "top all time" view on lemmy.ml

I am glad I live in a place where many grocery stores don't have this problem, because they don't have parking lots, because most of their customers don't even have a car much less would drive it to get groceries if they did. (Yes, I do realize how fortunate I am.)

Great Salt Lake

lol, i guess that must be why.

fwiw, regardless of its name or how great it is, it is not one of the Great Lakes 😂

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_cheese

See also:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butter_mountain
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_lake
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_Maple_Syrup_Producers#Strategic_reserve

/r/shittyaskreddit wasn't supposed to be an instruction manual 🙄

It’s a mild pain and definitely not what we were promised

I think this is precisely what the ActivityPub model of federation promised, actually 😅

some of them are built so that the front doesn't fall off at all.

Apparently someone on .world removed it with the reason "Content is not related to community", but, for some reason the deletion event didn't federate so it is still here on .ml.