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irdc

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  • When did you finally feel old?

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  • Seconded, fully. In addition, doing new things really helps: all the time I've been spending challenging myself and learning new skills has basically been keeping me mentally young and flexible.

  • Tally Ho - discussion about Sampson Boat co. - a YT channel about restoring a wooden boat from 1910

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  • One idea to prevent tags being spammed would be to have them be moderated as well. Thoughts?

  • When did you finally feel old?

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  • I'm 42 and same here.

  • modelm - a place to talk about the good ol IBM Model M keyboards

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  • Are fans of the other three-letter-company-made buckling spring keyboard (the model F) also welcome?

  • Yes, a Pigeon is Faster for Data Transfer than Gigabit Fiber Internet

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  • So hows Foundation season 2 for real?

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  • True. But she’s not as dark-skinned as the actor playing Loron (the mentalic on Ignis who initially telepathically presented himself as Hugo). That scene where we first see him didn’t feel right to me.

  • So hows Foundation season 2 for real?

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  • I think it’s pretty good. It had a lot more action than the first season, and a lot more intrige too.

    I’d second disregarding any comment hammering on the difference between the books and the series, for the simple reason that having any female character, or any character that persists beyond half a season, already contradicts the books. Who would watch something like that?

    I’m not too disturbed by the religious thing: that part is actually in the books. Plus a religious revival around a societal downfall is a well-known trope in science fiction (see eg. A Canticle for Leibowitz).

    Also, and it pains me to have to say this, but it’s kinda racist at points: surprisingly often, violent roles are alotted to darker-skinned actors (like when Bel and Glawen landed on Siwenna, or when the Beggar’s Lament landed on Ignis), yet I don’t see any darker-skinned actors playing good guys (why did Ducem Barr have to be white?).

  • S3-compatible object storage providers

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  • Thank you!

  • I just developed and published a script to clear your pict-rs object storage from potential CSAM.

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  • As I'm saying, I don't think you need to: manually subscribing to each trusted instance via ActivityPub should suffice. The pass/fail determination can be done when querying for known images.

  • I just developed and published a script to clear your pict-rs object storage from potential CSAM.

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  • How about a federated system for sharing “known safe” image attestations? That way, the trust list is something managed locally by each participating instance.

    Edit: thinking about it some more, a federated image classification system would allow some instances to be more strict than others.

  • Just got a notice from my antivirus when I reloaded the lemmy.world Local Communities page, that I was protected by being blocked by something called derp.foo botnet.

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  • Lemmy.world (and some others) were hacked

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  • [DISCUSSION] Foundation S02E07 - A Necessary Death (Spoilers)

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  • About ending imperial cloning: I don’t think brother Day, or even any Cleonic exponent, can do so.

    As Demerzel says, she is loyal to Empire. Right now, that means being loyal to Cleon XVII. Thus she follows his wishes of arranging a marriage and letting him procreate. However, as the memory of Cleon I mentioned to XVI and XVIII back in S02E05, the temperament of XVII had already been accounted for. Therefore I think that when XVII hits 60, the age at which he becomes brother Dusk, Demerzel’s loyalty will automatically shift to XVIII; she is likely programmed to do so.

    So all this trying to end genetic cloning is going to result in is demonstrating to Empire that even he cannot end it. And that is exactly what Hari Seldon wanted when he called upon Empire to (try to) end imperial cloning.

    This fits in nicely with the overarching theme of psychohistory (and indeed with the theme of Bel Riose in the books): there’s no such thing as a Great Man, no-one is special and outcomes are for the most part fixed and can be known through some fancy math.

  • On this day in 1991, Linus Torvalds announced he was working on what would become Linux

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  • 28 years ago, Windows 95 entered general availability (August 24th 1995)

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  • Nowadays macOS maximises like Windows does. Whether that’s “doing it right” is something else entirely.

  • 28 years ago, Windows 95 entered general availability (August 24th 1995)

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  • Mac OS (…) was okay, but reliant on the global menu and weird drop-downs.

    See Fitt’s law for why the Mac’s menu bar is the way it is.

  • We Are Rewind takes tape into the 21st century

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  • Review. Spoiler: it’s horrible.

  • We are all made of carbon

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