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

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    Disney Seeking Dismissal of Raglan Road Death Lawsuit Because Victim Was Disney+ Subscriber

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  • "Disney understandably may want to benefit from the privacy and confidentiality that arbitration brings, rather than having a wrongful death suit heard in public with the associated publicity," says Jamie Cartwright, partner at law firm Charles Russell Speechlys.

    -- from the BBC article

    If that's what they want, they clearly never heard of the Streisand Effect. This is disgraceful behaviour from Disney, and I hope they come to severely regret it.

  • BBFC defends decision to lower A Nightmare on Elm Street’s age rating after 40 years

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  • Huh, how sensible and well considered.

  • TV tonight: Freddie Flintoff is back on screen after his horrific car crash

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  • This series was shot before and after Flintoff was involved in a car accident on the set of Top Gear, which left him with serious injuries.

    I wonder if viewers will be able to tell the difference between the before and after footage.

  • The Best way to switch to Linux is to NOT

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  • Yup, I think a lot of people just use their web browser for everything, and they can definitely just switch. Outside of work, how many non-techies have set up their email to use a native program? Very few, in my experience.

    I think documents are sometimes the exception, since there's a sizable (perhaps older) group that like to use Word for everything.

  • Indian airline tests feature that lets women book seats away from men

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  • Oh I see - yes, if the seats around the women are automatically reserved then that exploit doesn't work.

  • Indian airline tests feature that lets women book seats away from men

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  • I was thinking first would be the fake booking to find where the women were sitting, then switch browsers/clear cookies/whatever and book with the real details.

  • Indian airline tests feature that lets women book seats away from men

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  • The airline's booking process is fairly standard except for the seat map which highlights seats occupied by women with the color pink. This information is not visible to male passengers, according to the airline, CNBC reported.

    What's to stop a man from claiming to be female to see the map of where women are sitting, and then booking an adjacent seat themselves?

  • It's probably time to stop recommending Clean Code @ Things Of Interest

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  • I felt the same when reading that book, and I never finished it because following the rules he suggested produced horrible code.

    If memory serves, he also suggested that the ideal if statement only had one line inside, and you should move multiple lines into a function to achieve this.

    I once had to work on a codebase that seemed like it had followed his style, and it was an awful experience. There were hundreds of tiny functions (most only used once) and even with an IDE it was a chore to follow the logic. Best case the compiler removed most of this "clean" code and the runtime wasn't spending most of its time managing the stack like a developer had to do.

  • Mr. Plinkett's Super Happy Fun Star Trek: The Next Generation Mistakes Video

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  • I can see that on midwest.social, but on programming.dev it's in English. I assume those previews are being fetched by each server, and yours is picking them up in German for some reason - not sure why, surely your US instance isn't hosted in Germany‽

  • ICANN approves use of .internal domain for your network

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  • Oh, that's LAN - I thought you'd put ian and I was trying to get the joke. Stupid sans-serif fonts.

  • You might get a discount or free coffee but you’re also being played by the multi-billion dollar gamification industry.

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  • It's naïve to think that marketers have any interest in doing things ethically, unless there's a legal or business reason to do so.

  • Smashing idea: how East Germany invented ‘unbreakable’ drinking glasses

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  • That's where I'd heard of them, that channel is a goldmine.

  • The Effect of CRTs on Pixel Art | datagubbe.se

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  • Fascinating stuff, and great to see Deluxe Paint II and Silkworm again - I spent lots of time with both of them back in the day.

  • Tree-sitter: parser generator tool and incremental parsing library.

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  • I know of it because Helix uses it, and it works really well.

  • Podman 5.2 release and it brings friends along too

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  • Podman v5.2.0 has just been released. This release is the first one with full support for libkrun, allowing GPUs to be mounted into our VMs on MacOS to accelerate AI workloads, which I know has been much anticipated. Otherwise, this has been a rather uneventful release cycle.

    Boring is good, I'm happy I don't need to do anything.

  • A cool guide software alternative

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  • I've used both and I miss features from each when using the other. Photoshop needs numeric entry for when positioning things.

  • Corpse shortage due to rise in Scottish medical students

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  • I like that that article has as one of its first sections "How do you donate your body to science?".

  • Announcing Rust 1.80.0

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  • I am, thanks!

  • Announcing Rust 1.80.0

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  • Thank you and goodbye to lazy-static, I'll think of you every time I use a regex.