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@ fearout @kbin.social

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  • What's a book you really enjoyed, that you feel like no one else on lemmy has read?

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  • I have never met anyone who has read Alastair Reynolds’ Revelation Space series. It’s one of my favourite sci-fi’s and I can’t even get someone I know to read it, everyone thinks it’s boring :)

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    Bloke Builds ChatGPT-Powered Smart Glasses That Tell You What To Say On Dates

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  • Apple rejects new name 'X' for Twitter iOS app because... rules

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  • This is amazing :)

  • Shakespeare Serif - an experimental font based on the First Folio

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  • Tor’s shadowy reputation will only end if we all use it | Engadget

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  • Both are broken as far as I know. First one hasn’t updated for years, and recent reviews for the second one claim it crashes on startup.

  • Tor’s shadowy reputation will only end if we all use it | Engadget

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  • Are there any good iOS Tor browsers? All that I’ve seen are either shit or require some insane subscription.

  • Most of the 100 million people who signed up for Threads stopped using it

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  • It’s what should have been expected though. Lots of people check it out during the hype, and later only those who actually found it useful/interesting/fun remain.

    Most of the hype-launched services should have similar numbers.

  • China likely supplying Russia's war in Ukraine, alleges US

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  • Likely? I feel like I’ve read several news stories confirming arms shipments from China here and there. Weren’t there?

  • ChatGPT broke the Turing test — the race is on for new ways to assess AI

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  • I don’t understand how Chinese room is a valuable argument. To me, while the person inside the room doesn’t understand Chinese, the system room-person-instructions does. You don’t argue that you don’t understand your language because none of your individual neurons understand it.

    I don’t claim that chatGPT “understands” the language, I just don’t think that this argument applies in general.

  • Universal Chat Application, Beeper, Will Be Available To Everyone (For Free) In A Matter Of Weeks.

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  • Idk, that’s more of a “not yet finished” thing rather than “failed” imo

  • u/kometes is permanently banned from r/funny

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  • I guess that depends on your definition of a flamethrower. To me, a flamethrower is primarily a weapon. And what you are describing is a roofing torch. Googling it now, I can’t seem to find anyone calling them “roofing flamethrowers”. Flame gun — sometimes — but never actually a flamethrower.

    So the legality is probably an issue with not being specific enough with the tool/weapon differentiation. I don’t think actual flamethrowers should be legal.

  • u/kometes is permanently banned from r/funny

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  • We were doing stupid shit with regular propane torches as kids. Doesn’t mean those were flamethrowers tho.

  • u/kometes is permanently banned from r/funny

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  • That’s a stupid reason for banning people, but weren’t those just propane torches? You can buy one at any hardware store and tape it to a nerf gun to make a similar toy. While they do “throw flames”, I wouldn’t really call those flamethrowers, which usually utilize liquid fuel and are actually weapons.

  • Kbin's "Log in" bug is discouraging me from participating

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  • Same. I’ve only ever seen this error after some time of inactivity, and reloading the page always helps.

  • Ancient Roman ship carrying hundreds of jars discovered off Italian coast – video

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  • Oh right, didn’t consider some may remain sealed, that’s cool.

    Out of weird drinks, I’m betting on kykeon, an LSD-like psychedelic drink made from ergot-infected barley :)

  • Ancient Roman ship carrying hundreds of jars discovered off Italian coast – video

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  • Considering that it sank like 2000 years ago, would there be any detectable molecular traces left to figure out amphoras’ contents? Or would everything be destroyed by now?

  • I just spent 20 minutes writing out a response to a thread in the reddit app, just about to hit submit and it crashes

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  • I’ve had this happen on kbin quite a few times as well, but even if it redirects to a new page with an error message, it always saves the text in the input field. Haven’t lost a single letter once.

    Does it work differently for you? At what point does it lose some of your content?

  • New Imaging Technology Provides a Quick Look Inside a Human Being, Radiation Free

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  • I had a CT scan after an accident, and no one told me what contrast is going to feel like, the nurse simply injected me without any explanation.

    And omfg, that might’ve been one of the scariest 30 seconds of my life. It felt like I was injected with straight up lava. My whole body was burning from the inside, and I felt like I would just spontaneously combust any second. It very quickly subsided though and there was no negative reaction overall, just higher sensitivity than average. But holy shit, I would want to know about stuff like this beforehand.

  • Reddit is testing verification labels for brands

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  • Dad Jokes @lemmy.world
    fearout @kbin.social

    Read this from start to finish (or listen to it, there’s an audio version). DO NOT skim it or skip to the end, you’ll spoil it and it won’t work. Trust me, it’s worth it. It’s a thing of beauty.

    natethesnake.com
  • France @lemmy.world
    fearout @kbin.social

    Bonne fête (et bonne nuit de fête) à tous !

  • New Communities @lemmy.world
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    Jewelry Design — community dedicated to modern jewelry design: share your work, interesting pieces you come across, or discuss recent trends. Both jewellers and lurkers are welcome

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Twitter seems to ban all Threads links to reaffirm its position as a “free speech absolutist” platform

    www.theverge.com /2023/7/11/23790834/twitter-search-for-threads-urls-broken-zero-results
  • /kbin meta @kbin.social
    fearout @kbin.social

    Kbinicons Part 3 is here: 19 EU flags in two different styles each + a psd file to generate small instance logos for separate kbin instances

  • New Communities @lemmy.world
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    Urban Details — a community celebrating everything that cities do right, from tiny Easter eggs or interesting street art pieces to city-encompassing infrastructure projects or unusual public spaces

  • New Communities @lemmy.world
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    Industrial Design — a community to discuss interesting ID projects or techniques, share your work, ask for advice, or see what other designers came up with

  • /kbin meta @kbin.social
    fearout @kbin.social

    Assuming boost stays as some sort of a super-upvote/share combo alongside regular up/downvote buttons, here's a UI idea on how to merge it into one unified voting system. App animation + web block moc

  • Fediverse @kbin.social
    fearout @kbin.social

    Full, expanded list of all the data points and their purposes that Meta's Threads collect and link to user accounts. It's even more insane than you might've thought.

  • /kbin meta @kbin.social
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    I’m back with several more community icons: check out Artemis (future kbin app), Urban Details, 3D Modeling and some other stuff

  • /kbin meta @kbin.social
    fearout @kbin.social

    I designed and rendered a couple of icons for the magazines I started, and I’d like to share some behind the scenes images with y'all. I’m also open to doing a few more of these in future.