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Each and every one of the creatures we descended from, stretching all the way back to the beginning of life on Earth, has survived by killing before being killed. We are the final product of a string of millions of killers.

  • What I felt after reading "All Systems Red" by Martha Wells

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  • Ive read the first few so far. The next book on my list looks to be a full length novel.

    I find your reference of "her humans" is interesting. I never thought of muderbot as a her. Perhaps I missed an important line somewhere in the story?

    I think your review is right on. You captured exactly what it's like. I look forward to reading the next book.

  • Where the hell does wind begin??

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  • To add to others, wind also is generated when a rain "microburst" occurs.This happens frequently in the southwest U.S.

    A microburst is when a very large amount of water is dropped out of the clouds. The gaining rain speed pushes the air below it out of the way. The air is pushed outward horizontal to the ground, which in essence is a massive wall of wind.

    Often in the Sonoron desert a microburst causes the wind to push a lot of dirt from the ground surface to be blown out with the wind. When this happens it's called a haboob. The wall of thick dust and particles can be up to a mile high and as wide as a city.

    Below is a link to an image of a haboob over Phoenix, Arizona.

    Haboob over Phoenix AZ USA

  • The Chinese calendar is 4721 years old. Did it have the same problem as the Julian calendar with an imprecise number of days per year?

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  • Very interesting. Thank you for taking the time to contribute your knowledge. I appreciate it.

  • Amazon restricts authors from self-publishing more than three books a day after AI concerns

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  • Not if they are regulated to put an "In Full or in Part AI Generated" label on it.

  • Why do you use firefox?

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  • Doesn't seem to be available for Android.

  • Why do you use firefox?

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  • Fennec Scan:

    2 trackers = 1157 Classes

     
            598 tested signatures on 21823 classes
    (12812985)
    
    ²?Sentry
    Mozilla Telemetry
     
    *Mozilla Telemetry
    342mozilla.telemetry.glean.
    31org.mozilla.fenix.components.metrics
    568org.mozilla.fenix.GleanMetrics
    
    *²?Sentry
    216io.sentry
    
    
    file:///data/app/~~k4F0B9l9UkHypp0nn27niw%3D%3D/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid-_WwVR-gNLaGHpnUII6BfVg%3D%3D/base.apk
     
    MD5sum: 392619da4257fda7f9fd888afedba8b5
    SHA1sum: 8781f7d8b48ee92af264af324362719bddcff56f
    SHA256sum: 06151ec252361697a743388911ea571a145a7e32996b8a9affb59d1e1c609075
    
    CN=FDroid,OU=FDroid,O=fdroid.org,L=ORG,ST=ORG,C=UK
     
    SHA256withRSA
     
    CERTIFICATE fingerprints: 
    md5: 344552de69704d24e09dba05230df2c8
    sha1: f5545ec2f9681d40ba4211a0967a3bbd4f4bf54b
    sha256: 06665358efd8ba05be236a47a12cb0958d7d75dd939d77c2b31f5398537ebdc5

  • YouTube suspends Russell Brand from making money off his channel — The suspension comes following the publication of rape and sexual assault allegations against the British star

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  • I think we're there. The future is today.

  • What do you think about Lemmy, so far?

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  • Bingo. This is exactly the issue for me. The militant and intolerant attitudes and name calling. It's deeply disappointing.

  • What do you think about Lemmy, so far?

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  • And this is exactly what s/he's talking about. The whole name calling thing if someone has a differing viewpoint. It's militant and intolerant. I'm just so sick of this kind of attitude here, I'm close to ditching Lemmy because of it.

  • Why do you use firefox?

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  • Privacy? Firefox [at least on Android] has Trackers.

    6 Trackers = 1747 Classes

     
            598 tested signatures on 23677 classes
    (13792756)
    
    Adjust
    °Google Play Install Referrer
    Google AdMob
    Google Firebase Analytics
    ²?Sentry
    Mozilla Telemetry
    
    *Adjust
    183com.adjust.sdk.
    
    *Google AdMob
    5com.google.android.gms.ads.
    
    *Google Firebase Analytics
    1com.google.firebase.analytics.
    
    *Mozilla Telemetry
    343mozilla.telemetry.glean.
    44org.mozilla.fenix.components.metrics
    616org.mozilla.fenix.GleanMetrics

    *°Google Play Install Referrer
    11com.android.installreferrer

    *²?Sentry
    544io.sentry
    
    
    file:///data/app/~~kGEETamkCtNrtff0YUQwJA%3D%3D/org.mozilla.firefox_beta-uIpZWar9aqI8JdCRKxBL4Q%3D%3D/base.apk
    
    MD5sum: 898c5776bd4ae16ccbf3a17b463d55d1
    SHA1sum: 045059895e3b387343c00ae2d80d85e1ef24b37d
    SHA256sum: e63240e437b73c64991c27a23d3ffe1fb3b7e8d3b49346b6dcd8a43cc782b75e
    
    CN=Release Engineering,OU=Release Engineering,O=Mozilla Corporation,L=Mountain View,ST=California,C=US
    
    SHA1withRSA
    
    CERTIFICATE fingerprints: 
    md5: b1e1bcee2733025ece9456e419a814a3
    sha1: 920f4876a6a57b4a6a2f4ccaf65f7d29ce26ff2c
    sha256: a78b62a5165b4494b2fead9e76a280d22d937fee6251aece599446b2ea319b04

  • Long hold the + in imessage to bring up photos quickly

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  • Too bad apple refises to provide a manual with these kinds of features in it. That'd be useful. No, it's not intuitive, clearly.

  • TIL In the Hot Coffee lawsuit against McDonalds,punitive damages were given due to McDonalds intentionally overheating coffee to save money on refills

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  • It's pretty scary how media can influence us so much, even when we think they aren't, and even when we think "only dumb people fall for it." No my friend, the majority fall for it. Not cause they're dumb, but because they've scienced the hell out of human nature and know precisely how to do it right under our noses. It started with marketing and advertising that works well, unfortunately. They've cracked the psyche code. Media adopted it. Big tech improved it. Gah... this is turning into a rant about capitalism; I didn't intend to go there. Eek.

  • title bar on linux mint cinammon windows - how to resize?

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  • Can you recommend one with a short window title bar? I've tried numerous ones that appear in the Main Menu -> Preferences -> Themes: Add/Remove Tab. None of them thus far has made any difference regarding the height of the title bar. Or are you suggestions to get these gtk themes from elsewhere?

  • title bar on linux mint cinammon windows - how to resize?

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  • How does one do that? Through the Themes icon in the menu bar, under Preferences, I was able to double click on the following themes. Adapta-Nokto, CBlack, and Windows 10 Light Theme.

    There is a checkmark to the left of them indicating they are installed. But I can't seem to activate them. I double click on them and nothing happens. Right mouse button and middle mouse button does nothing.

    When I go back to the Themes tab under Simplified Settings, they do not appear in the Style drop down list.

    How do I activate these themes I downloaded? I see they are in ~/.themes as expected.

     
            ~$ ll ~/.themes
    drwxrwxr-x  5 clu clu 4096 Sep 11 19:49 ./
    drwxr-x--- 26 clu clu 4096 Sep 11 19:55 ../
    drwxrwxr-x  9 clu clu 4096 Sep 11 19:48 Adapta-Nokto/
    drwxrwxr-x  7 clu clu 4096 Sep 11 19:48 CBlack/
    drwxrwxr-x  9 clu clu 4096 Sep 11 19:49 Windows-10/

    So I found an option under Themes Tab called Desktop. When I click it, the downloaded themes are available to select, along with a million other ones. I selected each of my themes but really didn't notice much difference. The Start Menu changed a little bit. Very underwhelmed. Is theming only available for the Start Menu? No title bars, windows, background, icons, mouse looks different at all.

    I must be doing this wrong. ??? The Mouse Pointer, Applications, and Icons buttons don't list the new theme as an option to select. ?? I guess I mistakenly thought a "theme" impacted most aspects of the GUI. ??

  • title bar on linux mint cinammon windows - how to resize?

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  • Still couldn't find anything in Cinnamon Spices. Oh well.

  • title bar on linux mint cinammon windows - how to resize?

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  • the font you had before you changed it may have already been hitting the minimum size of your gtk theme

    I don't understand what that means.

  • title bar on linux mint cinammon windows - how to resize?

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  • Font size did not affect change.

  • title bar on linux mint cinammon windows - how to resize?

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  • Okay thanks. May try it. Or may juts switch to i3 or xfce. I installed i3 the other day. Took a few hours of playing with it before I became comfortable with it.

  • Earth got an update. What small features have been improved, added or fixed?

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  • All vegetation is now edible and extremely healthy.

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    title bar on linux mint cinammon windows - how to resize?

  • Firefox @lemmy.world
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    Android Firefox 116.3.0

    about:config returns nothing, says Connection is not secure

  • Android @lemmy.world
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    Text editor with sort functionality

  • Connect for Lemmy App @lemmy.ca
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    Remove Save Settings button; just save them when user presses the back button.

  • Lemmy.world Support @lemmy.world
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    Locked

    Remove Save Settings button; just save them when user presses the back button

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    Any Nostr ppl here?

  • Books @lemmy.ml
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    Highly rated book you DNF

  • Books @lemmy.ml
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    I wish "they" would separate "fantasy" from "romance fantasy" genre.

  • Television @lemmy.world
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    1883 paramount+