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

  • AAAAAAA.... This is so hard!!!

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  • It should have, but I was thinking about the contents instead: loopback is ::1 so it's not that, so maybe it's just something with 4 of a-f (technically correct)

  • AAAAAAA.... This is so hard!!!

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  • How long until someone makes a playable version of this? (printer toner is too expensive)

    Edit: actually, I can probably do this one in my head

  • North American ducks try to breed in Yorkshire

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  • Surely there's a difference between, say, black swans being introduced to Britain and rabbits being introduced to Australia? Black swans aren't disrupting the British ecosystem (that I know) whereas rabbits down under are a serious pest.

  • North American ducks try to breed in Yorkshire

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  • The push seems to be to get native species back to their previous numbers - wouldn't an American duck be considered an invasive species? Or are they only called invasive when they're upsetting the balance?

  • What email client are you guys using?

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  • Thunderbird on desktop, although I don't love it.

    FairEmail on Android.

  • Cash machine appears on side of bridge

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  • Uri Geller is a name I haven't thought about in a long time... A perfect end to a weird news story.

  • The various ways George Lucas (allegedly) riffed on Valérian & Laureline:

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  • If I remember correctly, in Light & Magic they talk about how they came up with the design of the M.Falcon (and George Lucas wasn't much involved). In fact, let me check... Ah ha:

    Johnston was also tasked with redesigning the Falcon when the original design was deemed too similar to another ship on television. Under pressure and mentally blocked, Johnston was sitting in the kitchen when he spotted plates on the counter. He imagined sandwiching two together like hamburger buns to create a saucer-like ship. The Millennium Falcon started to take shape.

    The carbonite thing feels like more of a straightforward copy, though.

  • Bevy 0.14 Released

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  • Booting Linux off of Google Drive

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  • If there is anything I know about technology, it's that moving everything to The Cloud is the current trend.

    Currently it's shoehorning AI into everything, surely?

    But good stuff, always nice to see pointless bad ideas proved possible!

  • TheLinuxExperiment: Menus, windows, launchers & system trays SUCK. What can we replace them with?

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  • I'm talking about people downvoting from all - if you're seeing content from some niche or geographic community because you're viewing all then downvoting something you're not interested in is a dick move.

  • TheLinuxExperiment: Menus, windows, launchers & system trays SUCK. What can we replace them with?

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  • I haven't watched, but assuming it's good I'm guessing it's idiots viewing the all feed and downvoting anything they're not personally interested in.

    It doesn't help that the official Lemmy docs say downvote things you don't like, which is only good guidance when you have an algorithm you're training.

  • Wikipedia graph for generational spans over time

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  • I know right, kids tomorrow...

  • Wikipedia graph for generational spans over time

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  • xennials

    Ah, I was trying to remember what the term for that micro-gen was (I didn't think it was xennial but it probably makes sense than the one I forgot).

  • Brandon Sanderson's theory on why the film industry is floundering (YouTube Short)

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  • I guess it's the King's English now. I'm always careful to avoid spelling things the US way, because as a programmer there's some things (yup, like color) that I type more often in the US version than international English and muscle memory's a sticky bugger.

  • Brandon Sanderson's theory on why the film industry is floundering (YouTube Short)

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  • curtesy of zagorath

    fyi, you mean courtesy - curtesy is an old legal term.

  • SolarPunk Cities: Our Last Hope? [18:34 Youtube vid]

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  • I've only just found the channel, and am currently watching the one on Biomimicry. Glad to hear the quality's consistent.

  • what's your take on SQL style guides? Especially this one

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  • It makes sense, and would lead to cleaner diffs. Breaking my muscle memory for uppercase keywords would be tricky, though.

  • At least 1,300 hajj pilgrims died during extreme heat, Saudi Arabia says

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  • I can't see the numbers in future getting any better, unless big changes are made. Many pilgrims are quite old, since some need many years to save up enough for the journey, and of course the temperature's only going to be going up (even after La Niña).

    It's part of the rituals to get the timing exactly right, so it's not like it can be moved to cooler months, like has been proposed for the Summer Olympics. It is moving earlier by a week and a half each year (because of the Islamic calendar) but when you're talking 51.8C that's not really moving the needle.

    I'd heard talk of health-monitoring bracelets, which seems sensible.

  • Instagram Apologizes for Bug That Briefly Allowed Users’ Posts to be Viewed by Their Followers

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  • “Their analysts determined that frustrating the user results in more time spent on the app—and more time viewing ads—than if users are satisfied. Remember in ‘The Matrix’ when The Architect tells Neo that the first virtual world the robots created was a utopia, but the people rejected it? It works sort of like that.”

    Brilliant.