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rekabis

@ rekabis @lemmy.ca

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  • AI may be coming to Windows 11’s Clock app as Microsoft turns it into a focus tool

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  • Thankfully that’s one of the first things I uninstall with every Windows computer I set up.

    Downside is that this update might force a reinstall. Shit.

  • Scotty very curious

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  • The more lyrically accurate version is,

    How much beam could Jim Beam beam if Jim Beam could beam Jim Beam?

  • What are some software red flags?

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  • OpenOffice wanders into the chat

  • What are some software red flags?

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  • Some, like ImageGlass, provide workarounds. Like, they provide a separate install but it also comes bundled with the Opera browser (which itself has become two shakes away from raw spyware as of late), so you do have to be careful to deselect that option.

  • What are some software red flags?

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  • The 2017 full version of SketchUp is similarly free, FYI. You just have to dig for it on the website.

  • What are some software red flags?

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  • I can’t believe that marketing people are this fucking stupid.

    Like, full-on knuckle-dragging morons.

    They intentionally drive away more paying customers than they could ever “channelize” with this method.

    Because most people realize that prices are only ever hidden for malicious, anti-consumer purposes.

  • Users Furious as Reddit Intentionally Breaks Its Mobile Website, Demanding Users Download Its App Instead

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  • Agreed. I was all confused AF until I realized that people don’t automatically use it, or using the auto-redirect apps that help prevent New Reddit from ever showing its face.

  • Self Hosting your mail server, is it plausible?

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  • gmail is the only provider still sending me directly to spam

    Do you have a gMail account? Start a convo with yourself by sending from the gMail account first. Also add your other eMail to the gMail address book.

    It’s been about two decades since I had to do this for myself, but it worked well at the time.

  • Removed

    Your Car Can Refuse to Start Now? (I do not consent to unwarranted searches and seizures)

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  • I refuse to purchase any vehicle built after 2006 (and any from before 2007 with OnStar) for three main reasons:

    1. DRM. If a feature is built into a car, I expect to have 100% unrestricted access to it for $0 additional cost, permanently. Subscriptions to unlock “features” I already paid for when I bought the vehicle is absolutely bullshit.
    2. Repairability. I fully expect to make almost all repairs outside of the engine block and transmission with only a basic set of tools. I DO NOT want to buy a $1M piece of software that needs a $6k/mo subscription just to authorize new brake pads with the mothership.
    3. Privacy. Any vehicle with OnStar made before 2007 and pretty much every vehicle made after 2006 comes with data harvesting of whatever happens in and around and with the vehicle, frequently to gratuitous extremes. 2025 vehicles even record sexytimes inside the vehicle. I would sooner cripple my vehicle than allow a single data point to be sold without my permission.

    And the sh*t being exposed in this video is likely a stellar candidate for a fourth reason, owning to how severely it exceeds the third one.

  • Temu is the height of fashion for the lemming on a budget

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  • “Capitalism innovates”

  • Urban birds fear women more than men, and scientists don't know why

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  • Clearly this study is only half-baked.

    This would be a most excellent opportunity for trans people to step in and contribute to real science.

    Start with fully-transitioned people to see if it is post-transition looks or something that gets baked into the pie during early childhood development that is resistant to transitioning. Then start moving from each side to the other using trans in various stages of transitioning.

    If variations in transitioning are correctly accounted for, we might discover a lot more things than just the fear response of birds… we might also discover how some humans unknowingly sense differences, what differences they unconsciously cotton on to, and so what needs to be addressed by people transitioning in order to help them avoid being targeted by bigotry. Because every little edge can help them.

    I love science.

  • My eyes!

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  • “Do not place a tiny crab fork in your extraction site to remove food debris”

    I JUST PUT THE BRAIN BLEACH BACK INTO LONG-TERM STORAGE, FFS.

  • My eyes!

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  • remember that when you're working on your own eye, you don't have depth perception.

    Every year or five I’ll get a “sclera blister” that feels like a honking grain of sand in my eye. Sure, I’ve thought about taking a pair of tweezers to tear the dome of that blister off, but I have always been squicked like crazy because I can’t properly judge distances that close to the cornea. Corner of my eye or on the rim of the eye lid itself is difficult enough, but anywhere directly on the sclera that’s close to the cornea is definitely no-go land for me.

  • My eyes!

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  • my ear started hurting. I was utterly convinced it was just a stubborn clump of earwax.

    I am lucky enough to be one of those people who simply never builds up any serious amounts of ear wax. It’s oily and not crumbly, so a gentle swish of a Q-tip after a shower and it all comes out. my doc checks my ears twice a year and has never had cause to complain.

    But IIRC ear wax is soft enough to never be particularly painful unless you pack it down with something like a Q-tip. Like, so long as you know you have one of those ear wax types for whom Q-tips in any usage capacity is a bad idea (it’s usually the crumbly ear wax), the most it will do is accumulate until your hearing is affected.

    Now granted, it’ll plug up the ear canal until you have trouble hearing things. But all you need then is some professional irrigation by a doctor a few times a year, and as long as you aren’t in a third-world country like America, that should be 100% free.

  • My eyes!

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  • Atoms cannot be easily created or destroyed.

    However molecules can and often are easily assembled.

    Water is one of those molecules which are easy to create, and easy to break back apart into its constituent atoms. So yes, there is likely plenty of water that has never been boiled because it was created so recently (cosmologically speaking).

  • My eyes!

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  • Maybe I’ve been too far up the other long tail of the intelligence bell curve for far too long, but doesn’t “boiled” - the past participle of “to boil” indicate that this should be water in a post-boiled state? As in, water that is no longer even warm, much less hot?

    I am struggling to understand how anyone can think that pouring boiling or even still-hot water into their eyes is anything within even ICBM range of “a good idea”.

  • Conspiracy theories are swirling about the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting

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  • Wasn’t it telegraphed hours in advance in some interview?

  • Most Cybersecurity Professionals Feel Undervalued and Underpaid

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  • Too many managers fail to understand that IT needs to be a revenue centre and not a cost centre.

    They treat it like a cost centre, and they are going to carve it to the bone until something comes along and eviscerates the company for lunch - or worse, for lols. And then they are going to look stupid and wonder why IT failed to protect the company. Well, no duh - it was starved for resources and ability:

  • What’s the youngest and oldest you’d date?

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  • No-one.

    Absolutely no-one.

    If I get widowed tomorrow, imma gonna stay single for the rest of my days.

    Not only am I edging into that age where I am becoming increasingly cranky and unwilling to change for someone else (I have changed enough for my wife of 30 years), but I have also been keeping a light finger on what’s happening out there between the sexes, and holy shite that’s become one hell of a mess that I want absolutely nothing to do with.

    I mean, the door isn’t going to be barred and locked. But it is going to be firmly closed and with a cinder block in the way. If someone wants through, they are going to have to demonstrate real effort in their pursuit of me.

    But then again, I would be shocked AF if any woman thought pursuit of any kind wasn’t beneath them. So I guess my peace and quiet would be quite safe. Thank the lord.

  • Canada @lemmy.ca
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    U.S. ambassador gives prime minister the cover he needs to cut Canada’s F-35 order

    ca.news.yahoo.com /u-ambassador-gives-prime-minister-090011096.html
  • Belgian Malinois @lemmy.ca
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    Ball is life!

  • kelowna @lemmy.ca
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    The view from today’s office.

  • Flippanarchy @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Is anyone collating and curating a list of the fascists behind the current American coup?

  • Collapse @lemm.ee
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    “The green transition is a myth”: Adam Hanieh on the ongoing centrality of oil to capitalism.

    canadiandimension.com /articles/view/the-green-transition-is-a-myth-adam-hanieh-on-the-ongoing-centrality-of-oil-to-capitalism
  • Canada @lemmy.ca
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    “F*cking absurd”: $82 turkey at Loblaw-owned store has shoppers stunned

    dailyhive.com /vancouver/loblaw-turkey-price
  • Avelon App @lemm.ee
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    Very annoying hesitation on scroll

  • techsupport @lemmy.world
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    What type of vintage cable am I looking at?

  • Avelon App @lemm.ee
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    Feature request: permit app Safari actions on images, don’t block them outright.

  • Canada @lemmy.ca
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    Galen West’s strategy: “Lookie dem low prices… 2L soda for 68¢… woweee!!1!” REALITY: Zero stock, ZERO SHIPMENTS for ENTIRE SALE.

  • Food For Thought @lemmy.ca
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    The Rot Economy

    wheresyoured.at /p/the-rot-economy