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New account since lemmyrs.org went down, other @Deebsters are available.

  • Something that occurred to me while watching Lord of the Rings.

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  • It's a lot quicker than reading it! It's nearly half a million words, over if you include The Hobbit/Silmarillion.

    Someone was claiming that the early chapters (I think it was the Old Forest stuff, after they left the Shire) were purposely written in a dense, slow style to make the reader really feel the weary progress. I don't think I believe that, but it's an interesting possibility.

  • I can be considered Trekkie or just a viewer?

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  • I'd assume that most people are familiar with the term Trekkie, but would have to use context to figure out Trekker ("you like long walks?")

    Whatever the intention, coining/identifying as a separate term suggests someone taking it quite seriously. I just consider them synonyms.

  • My self hosted badges of honor

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  • edit: FYI, this shop is OP's shop

    Found them! This lets me cheat and figure out the ones I couldn't name (or knew I'd got wrong like Digital Ocean that I thought probably wasn't Commodore 64).

  • My self hosted badges of honor

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  • These are really consistent, do you print them yourself?

  • Washington Post Raid Is a Frightening Reminder: Turn Off Your Phone’s Biometrics Now

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  • It's power + volume down for me, but a good top, thanks. Looks like it works even when the phone is (biometric) locked.

  • How Babylon 5 Wrote the Perfect Space Battle

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  • I rewatched all of Babylon 5 recently, and I was surprised how good season 4 and 5 were - in my head, after they'd rushed the shadow war to an early end (when they thought they were cancelled) the rest was padding, but not so.

    That's not to say there aren't some ridiculous stories and the

    telepath war

    should have been better but it's definitely worth a watch.

  • Ugh... I forgot to pack a towel

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  • Dev creates astrology-powered CPU scheduler for Linux, makes decisions based on planetary positions and zodiac signs — sched_ext framework informed by lunar phases, cosmic weather reports, and dynamic

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  • [he wrote] a sequel to 1984.

    I didn't know this bit of his story. Anyone read it? I'm assuming it's not very good/coherent but perhaps he was as gifted a writer as he was a coder.

  • Dev creates astrology-powered CPU scheduler for Linux, makes decisions based on planetary positions and zodiac signs — sched_ext framework informed by lunar phases, cosmic weather reports, and dynamic

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  • Element Effects

    Zodiac sign elements create elemental affinities and oppositions:

    Boosted Combinations (tasks thrive under compatible elements):

    • 🔥 Fire (Aries, Leo, Sagittarius) × CPU tasks: 1.5x boost
    • 🌬️ Air (Gemini, Libra, Aquarius) × Network tasks: 1.5x boost
    • 🌍 Earth (Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn) × System tasks: 1.4x boost
    • 💧 Water (Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces) × Memory tasks: 1.3x boost

    Hang on - Aquarius, the water-bearer, is an air element? I'm beginning to think this astrology stuff doesn't make much sense.

    I like that water is responsible for memory, like how homeopathic medicine works.

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    What’s really going on with the USA right now:

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  • You made an account on a UK instance just to post this? The first rule of this community is no politics. Anyway, you don't need to convince to average Brit of this stuff, so it's doubly in the wrong place.

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    What’s really going on with the USA right now:

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  • Russia was pissed about NATO

    OP uses the US version of pissed off, is this a Yank cosplaying as a Brit?

  • The Incredible Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button

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  • This is a crazy mess.

    The subject of "worse reimplementations of native features" reminds me of trying to find an event for the (2012?) Olympics. They didn't seem to have a search, but they did have an infinite scrolling schedule page so I held down End until the page had everything and used the native search. No results, even when I tried something that I knew was at the top of the page.

    I noticed the scrollbar was acting weird and looked into it. Turns out that they were removing the parts of the page outside of the viewport and loading them back in when you scrolled.

    I suspect it's because they were finding their bloated page was slow on some devices so put in this terrible hack, but it broke basic browser features.

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    What are some common nicknames for names in your country?

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  • That's really interesting, I guess I'd assumed it was a universal thing.

    I know some people who are known by various versions of their names in their different circles, e.g. Robert/Bob to their family, Rob to their school friends, Bobby to their uni mates and Robert at work.

  • Companies with TLDs named after them is the best example of how ridiculously big those companies are.

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  • That argument only works if you're expecting Google to move youtube.com to youtube.google, which I can't see happening. If a brand's a household name and can be found at brand.com, then it stands to reason that they'd leave it like that.

    For Google/Microsoft budgets, domain name registration is irrelevant as a cost. Besides, even if they did move the domains, they'd still keep the old ones alive for forwarding and to stop anyone else taking them. For example, Google still has googleplus.com, despite that that was never the official address (they used a subdomain: plus.google.com).

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    What are some common nicknames for names in your country?

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  • The UK had a history of rhyming nicknames for shortened versions, like William -> Will -> Bill, and most of those are still common in English speaking countries. Richard -> Dick, Robert -> Bob (also Hob, Dob and Nob but these didn't survive).

    These shortened versions can then get extended: Edward -> Ed -> Ted -> Teddy, Margaret -> Meg -> Peg -> Peggy, Anne -> Nan -> Nancy

    In the middle ages it was common to make a diminutive name by adding -kin, -in, or -cock, which gave us John -> Jankin/Jenkin -> Jakin -> Jack. Also, Robert -> Robin, Henry -> Hank

  • Best LoRa Meshtastic Devices Of 2025

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  • It's very much not mesh networked, self-hosted*, or subscription-free, but there is the tin can phone which seems a really good solution for kids. To anyone looking for a project, please make an open version of this!

    * the service couldn't cope with demand over Christmas, for instance.

  • Companies with TLDs named after them is the best example of how ridiculously big those companies are.

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  • Equally, you can only allow *.google.com as easily as *.google, so I still don’t think that makes much sense.

  • Companies with TLDs named after them is the best example of how ridiculously big those companies are.

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  • You can block *.google.com as easily as *.google, so I don't think that makes much sense.

  • Coal power generation falls in China and India for first time since 1970s

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  • The two most populous countries are moving in the right direction, which is good news. I really wish you guys wouldn't insist on bringing your country into every single conversation - we know what's happening, you don't need to constantly remind us.

  • Taskmaster @feddit.uk
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    Taskmaster series 18, episode 1 - The faceless facilitators

  • [Dormant] moved to !space@mander.xyz @lemmy.world
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    Scott Manley

    Does It Make Sense To Put Data Centers In Space? Can They Really Cost Less To Operate?

  • Space @mander.xyz
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    16m YT vid

    Data Centres... in Spaaace?

  • UK Nature and Environment @feddit.uk
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    The Truth Behind Commercial Haggis Farming

  • dailygames @lemmy.zip
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    Cryptic Crossword Daily puzzle

    www.minutecryptic.com
  • Crossword @lemmy.ca
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    Cryptic Crossword Daily puzzle

    www.minutecryptic.com
  • Cryptic Crosswords @lemmy.sdf.org
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    Cryptic Crossword Daily puzzle

    www.minutecryptic.com
  • Linguistics Humor @sh.itjust.works
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    Linguistic Perscriptivists

  • Solarpunk @slrpnk.net
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    18:34 Youtube vid

    SolarPunk Cities: Our Last Hope?

  • Linguistics @mander.xyz
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    xkcd #2942: Fluid Speech

  • xkcd @lemmy.world
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    xkcd #2942: Fluid Speech

  • Raccoons @lemmy.world
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    Raccoon cuisine

  • xkcd @lemmy.world
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    xkcd #2937: Room Code

  • Photography @lemmy.world
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    The Frigatebird and the Diamond Ring

  • Moving to piefed.lemmy.fan/c/weird_news - Weird News - Things that make you go 'hmmm' @real.lemmy.fan
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    Chechnya bans music that is too fast or too slow

    www.theguardian.com /world/2024/apr/09/chechnya-bans-dance-music-either-too-fast-slow
  • DataHoarders @lemmy.ml
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    The Internet Archive Just Backed Up an Entire Caribbean Island

    archive.is /BT9g9
  • Rust @programming.dev
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    This year's (belated) April Fool's XKCD is written in rapier.rs

    xkcd.com /2916/
  • AbandonedPorn @reddthat.com
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    Abandoned industrial building 2/8

  • Taskmaster @feddit.uk
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    Taskmaster Series 17 starts on the 28th (or 29th online)

  • Linguistics @mander.xyz
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    Isolated for six months, scientists in Antarctica began to develop their own accent

    www.bbc.com /future/article/20240223-scientists-in-antarctica-developed-their-own-accent-after-six-months-of-isolation