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Lemmy post just got taken down by bots...
Nope. You need bots to coordinate pixels, people have better things to do than login there.
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Lemmy post just got taken down by bots...
Nope. You need bots to coordinate pixels, people have better things to do than login there.
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Firefox is the only way.
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Ditto. As much as people pretend Firefox is niche, it is the only browser with lineage back to the start of the web.
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Owl of the Year Halftime Show - Favorite Fictional Owl
Vote here for Hooty from the Owl House (he also barges in when he wasn’t included)
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X, formerly Twitter, faces 2,200 arbitration cases and filing fees over $3 million
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You’re technically right, which is the best kind of right. It’s a destructive CEO story who just happens to run a tech company (into the ground)
This is like the Spanish guy kissing the winning footballer woman on the lips against her will. It’s going to be reported under sports, but really it’s a sexism story that just happens to be in sports.
But at least it is being reported and commented on, no?
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Mozilla opposes Web Integrity API proposal
I think mozilla succinctly explained the flaw in the proposal. Introducing technology to make the lives of the majority better is great, but if the necessary side-effect is to permanently exclude a minority of people from the internet, then that isn’t cool.
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xkcd #2821: Path Minimization
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Basically, yes. The path that maximises time goes around the world, so starts by going up off the top of the screen, and re-enters at the bottom.
Technically I think it could be a little longer by spiralling around the world several times, still reaching the target point despite going “in a straight line”. If we ignore the “straight line” restriction, which some of the other paths already do, then the sky’s the limit. Technically actually, the sky isn’t the limit, and the path could criss-cross over the whole planet first, and the air, and the whole galaxy, before reaching the destination as the last feasible space to arrive at. Personally I think that’s too complex for xkcd, if they are going for complex I’m sure they would have come up with something about paths through n-space and black-hole theory that is beyond my pay grade.
Xkcd good ;)
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Changing Its Name Tanked X’s Downloads in App Store and Play Store
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I’m sure the full phrase it references is “going down in a blaze of glory”, and is just Elon’s edgy nod that he is catastrophically destroying the platform, but just enough deniability In case it all works out and is a success.
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We should start saying "Thanks /u/spez" from now on as reddits bad practices made us move to lemmy
Read “who moved my cheese” - be grateful for the cheese you now have. But giving thanks to who took away the old cheese forcing you to move on? Nope, mice that move on don’t do that.
Zen story: two monks walking a path come across a woman stuck trying to cross a stream, one of the monks carry her over and they continue their journey. Shortly the other monk asks “I am troubled brother, we are prohibited from touching a woman, why did you do that?”, the other monk replies “I put her down by the river, for me that is in the past, but for you, you are still carrying her”.
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Actor Kevin Spacey tells court he touched complainant in 'romantic and intimate ways'
Isn’t that basically an admission of guilt? If he did a thing, you can’t say you didn’t if you are arguing you were very nice about doing it. Skirting the “but they enjoyed it” defence is unpleasant
So then it becomes a question on whether he had consent to do the thing? which is a weak argument - I’m sure every abuser will try this one during the trial.
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And also - do you want the next bus or the last bus?
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Liz Truss says lettuce joke was ‘puerile’ and media did not understand her ideas
It was puerile nonsense, right up to the point it was true and the lettuce outlasted her, then it was prophetic and defining.
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Can you ELI5 why we get deja vu?
Not this again
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Reddit is taking control of large subreddits that are still protesting its API changes
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Peek posting, nothing more to sea hear
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Actor Kevin Spacey tells court he touched complainant in 'romantic and intimate ways'
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Meh, at least the voting system works again ;)
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Mewie
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Lemmy, how would you feel about a law that bans radio stations from playing commercials with honking/beeping/siren noises in them?
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Reddit was 90% reposts of other posts from Reddit and elsewhere. People content farm for karma. But if you haven’t seen the content before, it’s good stuff, let’s be having it.
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Casual UKs Casual Chat
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Absolutely, I was skeptical of using wefwef, I’d prefer a dedicated app. But the look and feel are spot on.
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Reddit is ending Reddit Gold and users are furious
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I thought every gold was bought, with points, which were bought with money. So if you see a gilded post, someone paid for that - maybe not the person who awarded it directly if they were gifted points, or received points as part of an award (which cost more points to cover that).
So basically all those awards were a good indicator of how much was being spent on Reddit and in which forums that financial engagement was being valued.
So if some ‘popular’ forums suddenly stop being gilded, then it is a good indicator that the forum has now been abandoned by the most commercially valuable participants. Which looks bad when selling the site.
So Reddit took its ball back, so noone can tell where the money is but them.
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Fringe is a gem that changed the way I think about Sci-Fi TV
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Shows that explore the implausible run the risk of getting lost and becoming incoherent. Fringe definitely got into that problem, but managed to pull it together into an emotionally satisfying conclusion - while not all elements really made sense, it felt right.
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Recommendations for lightweight WSYWIG page editor?
I’m a big fan of publii - nice to use, simple, no server-side stuff, so free web hosting should cover all you need.