if the ethnic cleansing ramps up
I guess I don't want to see what qualifies as "ramped up" if the current state of affairs is anything to go by. (Loud whisper: Because it's already up.)
Some middle-aged guy on the Internet. Seen a lot of it, occasionally regurgitating it, trying to be amusing and informative.
Lurked Digg until v4. Commented on Reddit (same username) until it went full Musk.
Was on kbin.social (dying/dead) and kbin.run (mysteriously vanished). Now here on fedia.io.
Really hoping he hasn't brought the jinx with him.
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if the ethnic cleansing ramps up
I guess I don't want to see what qualifies as "ramped up" if the current state of affairs is anything to go by. (Loud whisper: Because it's already up.)
If you accept Pluto, you have to accept at least half a dozen trans-Neptunian objects as well as the asteroid Ceres, in which case planet nine already exists and would be Neptune. Well, most of the time anyway. Sometimes Pluto passes inside Neptune's orbit.
Or maybe you'd like to consider Triton, Neptune's retrograde moon as a planet as well, on account of how it was probably a dwarf planet in its own right until Neptune plucked it out of its orbit. Once a planet, always a planet, right? Neptune even tried to do the same to Pluto which is why it has such a weird orbit.
Be team dwarf planet. Lots of new friends outside the regular eight, and Pluto's a founder member.
Lemmy and the Fediverse as a whole is a microcosm that doesn't make much of a difference one way or the other. We can stab at the tankies all we like, but it wasn't their influence in the Fediverse that caused the result, even if they did manage to hoodwink a few into voting for fake tan man.
The whole ring -3 / MINIX business a while back put a serious amount of FUD into the market and Intel has been on the wane ever since.
This is not necessarily unfounded FUD either. MINIX is literally there, lurking inside all modern Intel processors, waiting to be hacked by the enterprising ne'er-do-well. (NB: This is not to say that there aren't ways to do similar things to AMD chips, only that MINIX is not present in them, and it's theoretically a lot more difficult.)
Then bear in mind that MINIX was invented by Andrew Tanenbaum, someone Linus Torvalds has had disagreements with in the past (heck, Linux might not exist if not for MINIX and Linus' dislike of the way Tanenbaum went about it), and so there's an implicit bias against MINIX in the data-centre world, where Linux is far more present than it is on the desktop.
Thus, if you're a hypothetical IT manager and you're going to buy a processor for your data-centre server, you're ever so slightly more likely to go for AMD.
Pretty sure my own education had a Tanenbaum book in amongst it, from which I learned a number of things. In another world, one where my brain isn't its own worst enemy, I could well be one of those IT managers. There the FUD would have been the main factor in my decision. Probably. Because I'm not sure I'd be completely happy if it was a Linux buried in the chipset either. Especially one largely outside my control.
I've been around just long enough to suspect that this will be part of a cycle going back and forth between tactile controls and touchscreens.
That is, give it a decade and touchscreens will be the in-thing again. And another decade and someone will have the "fantastic new idea" of bringing tactile controls back.
And there'll be a combo breaker of some sort where a new technology comes along (probably no screens, or controls, only voice control) which a small few will absolutely love - due to sunk cost fallacy mostly - and no-one else will buy (compare: 3D TVs), and the cycle will begin again.
Bonus points for: 1) Manufacturers managing to have cycles out of step with others because the market forces aren't quite enough (people not having the money to buy new cars) to bring them all into line. 2) External factors like, say, the world ending, breaking the cycle.
Clee-ent? Unsure if AI, a non-native English speaker leaking their native pronunciation, or, as allegedly happens later, someone having a minor mental malfunction.
Fears grow? Really? That's what it's been about for decades at this point.
I have just watched the Legal Eagle video about the various law-related things that happened around the 2020 election.
It served as a reminder that the plan had apparently been to claim to have won before all the votes were counted - something about doing so in the interim between two sets of votes being counted (I want to say mail-in versus in-person, but I might have misunderstood) and then act as if Trump had actually won at that point, thus giving legitimacy to any later cry of foul that was almost sure to be needed.
Which is precisely what Trump did.
... my point being that it would be foolish to assume it wasn't in the play book for this time around as well.
Christianity of all denominations is losing followers at a church-worrying rate. Yes, you'll always get those who are zealous or make it part of their identity and will never quit, and of course, the quiet - if you'll pardon the pun - masses who are ever faithful, but the churches don't fill up quite how they used to.
By getting the kids hooked on an ideology through a relatable, maybe even exciting, child-like character, they're hoping to (eventually) get people back into churches and get business booming again.
Looks like Guerilla Mail still exists. Been around for years at this point. No idea if there's any controversy about them, but there are reviews out there giving them high marks.
You know how the Romans wrote U? V.
Like J is a variant of I, U is a variant of V. Julius Caesar would have written his name IVLIVS
In some languages, especially English, the shapes were used interchangeably until well after the invention of the printing press. There are old, modern English dictionaries in existence where you'll find words with "i" and "j" sorted in the "wrong" order or intermixed, and likewise for "u" and "v" for precisely this reason.
The letter w was born during that mixed up time, and so it got the double-u name, despite the fact that the shape doesn't seem to match any more.
(For more fun, look up the letter wynn, "Ƿ" which if it had survived into Middle English, might be what we'd be using instead.)
This has already been tried in at least one court.
There was that story a while back about the guy who was told by an airline's AI help-desk bot that he would get a ticket refund if turned out he was unable to fly, only for the airline to say they had no such policy when he came to claim.
He had screenshots and said he wouldn't have bought the tickets in the first place if he had been told the correct policy. The AI basically hallucinated a policy, and the airline was ultimately found liable. Guy got his refund.
And the airline took down the bot.
If the block feature goes away, I guarantee it will come back for - at the very least - the highest tier of paid accounts almost immediately afterwards.
I can't imagine any of the large corps that still use Xitter for customer communication will be happy not being able to block serial trolls. Or people with legitimate grievances who won't go away.
North Korea did this already. I expect that Russia's effort will be as good if not better. Bonus comedy points if they use NK's effort as a starting point.
But I wouldn't try to use it if my Internet location was outside Russia. Or maybe even if it wasn't.
Also: something something falling out something something Windows.
The reason people aren't bothering is that we've gone all USA healthcare with regard to the vaccines. If you want one, find a pharmacy that will provide one and be prepared to cough up at least £40. And be sure to shop around and/or be prepared to travel because some places charge £100.
A whole lot of people don't have even the low end of that kind of money, even if "the right thing to do" would be to make sacrifices - like, say, go cold or hungry for a couple of weeks, how hard could that be? - in order to make sure they get it. And then do the same again every six months from now until something else kills them.
And even if someone has £100 to spare, that's a lot of money that could be spent on something other than feeling like crap for three days.
There are exemptions (i.e. free vaccines) for those over 64, the infirm, and health workers, but the rest of us can suck it, apparently.
"But I did nothing wrong" -- the boy who dared challenge Putin's ideology.
Look, kid, if you speak out against things Poots says are OK, you're going to prison, simple as.
Gotta be a mindless yes-man automaton, or suffer the consequences. Get any idea of independent thought out of your head and consider yourself lucky you weren't standing near any windows.
Google's money is a bit scummy these days, and definitely not something that should be relied upon long term, but I hope Google are making some kind of monetary donation.
Looks like the original was "light mode". The image is a colour-reversed image of the free PDF version which is on the creator's site at the bottom of the page.
Direct PDF link: https://wizardzines.com/git-cheat-sheet.pdf
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How about, I don't know, not yanking the cord (or setting things up so the cord is yanked automatically) and pursuing the payment later?
But then that could mean that someone might - even temporarily - get something for nothing, and they can't be seen to promote anything even remotely similar to that.
Perhaps this tiny company are so close to the knife edge that they can't afford to allow it to happen. Must have constant revenue stream or else close up sho... wait, Micro-who?
There used to be a joke in Russia called "China's final warning" because of the hundreds of times China used to threaten a "final warning" to whoever it perceived (correctly or otherwise) as encroaching on its politics or territories, and then promptly did absolutely nothing.
The joke is in danger of defecting and getting a new name.
Peeked at Bluesky the other day and was thinking "wow a lot of these posts are in Portuguese". It took an embarrassingly long time for me to connect the dots.
Anyway, my point is, damage has been done to Xitter's user base in Brazil. How much damage remains to be seen.
It's not just about primes, it's about proving the technologies and techniques needed to verify such a number is prime, which might then be extrapolated to things unrelated to proving things prime.
For example, GIMPS (the organisation behind this find) was a great example of distributed computing long before people had multiprocessor supercomputers in their homes.
But let's not forget the hobby factor. You don't get to decide what other people do for fun. If they want to lend a portion of their computer's runtime to a distributed computing project, that's up to them.
Some people climb tall mountains, and that's not of much use to anyone either.
I just imagined a horrible alternative universe where it's illegal for brand names to become corrupted regardless of whatever else happens to data. Eventually humanity would start communicating only in brand names to ensure messages get through. *shudder*
How to make it through school in China: Write the name Xi Jinping as the answer to every question. You cannot be marked down for doing this as Xi Jinping is never wrong.
Both absurdity and repetition can be funny and the sketch has both in uncomfortable number.
I find it a bit grating, but I think that's the point. And the sketch writers were clearly aware there was something (deliberately?) off about the whole thing which is why they make overt with DSP's catchphrase.
The secret to Mastodon is to follow hashtags, not people. (It took a while for that feature to mature, which made that difficult earlier on.)
You can follow people too, but with the population there being lower, it generally makes more sense to follow a topic and hide accounts you don't want to see.
Caveat: I don't spend a lot of time on microblogging platforms, Mastodon or otherwise. The above knowledge might be stale, but used present tense to not give the impression the platform is dead.
The stereotypical pirate "accent" derives from the west country (south west England) accent of one man who played Long John Silver in an adaptation of Treasure Island.
Though regional accents are dying out, you could probably still find a handful of people in the south west who will answer in the affirmative with "(y)arr".
... which is the second fact, I guess. "Arr" means "yes".
That's only part of the plan. The full plan is remove every last Palestinian from Gaza and then shove a canal through it. The other end will be at Elat, thus providing a western-controlled alternative to Egypt's Suez.
There would be far more humanitarian ways of going about this, but murder is quicker and silences dissent.
You'll notice that Jordan hasn't been touched during any of this. Got to keep them onside because their port city of Aqaba is uncomfortably close.
There was that one bash.org quote where a script kiddie was given 127.0.0.1 as part of an "oh yeah I dare you" taunt after he said he could hack anyone, and he fell for it hook line and sinker. He was posting things like "Hahaha your K drive is being deleted! Now your H drive! [connection reset by peer]" and right after that the challenger was like "I don't even have a K drive."
(RIP bash.org though. I would have tried to link it otherwise)
Trying to figure out what they're trying to say with "British educated". It's the Mail, so is this dog-whistling that we're supposed to be proud of what she did, or is it more that we "shouldn't be letting these foreigners in" to get an education here?
Or is it hedging bets both ways, because that wouldn't surprise me either.
FWIW, a certain Osama bin Laden was British-educated too. He went to Oxford.
Having read some of the comments from the interviewer perspective in this thread, I am glad they got you and not one of the yahoos other interviewers got.
C'mon now, a bigger target might fight back. Best not open that can of worms. Might end up looking foolish.
I tried that and found myself pondering the cylinder whose height is its diameter. Half way, you might say, between orb and cube, but is neither. The orb would fit inside it and it would fit inside a cube of similar height three different ways.
That free idea reduces (potential) ad watch time which reduces money, so there's no chance they'll implement it.
If they thought they could get away with serving an ad every 15 seconds, they'd do it.
I think they thought they could be the "true Tesla" to rival the "Edison" thief or mangler of ideas that the company named Tesla is or, at least appears to be*.
Ironically, that seems to have been the only truly good idea they've had.
* For legal reasons this is a hypothetical opinion I believe, in some form, might have belonged to the founder(s) of Nikola Motor, and says nothing of my own disappointment opinion.
Why do you think you wanted to run ELIZA on a Timex/Sinclair 2068?
Nah, they'll just make life more difficult for any employees who take bathroom breaks, if not find some "clearly unrelated" excuse to outright fire them.
Assuming 1) you want things to be colder, 2) your budget can accommodate a bit of extra electricity usage and 3) the following actually exists on your appliance, many freezers have a dial somewhere that can be used to set the temperature.
Sometimes it's coupled to the setting for an attached refrigerator section. Sometimes, yes, it's an unchangeable setting whether there are other settings elsewhere or not. Might still be worth double-checking.
Tell that to the unwashed masses.