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Deebster

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Nowadays my main account, but other @Deebsters are available.

  • Writing a package manager

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  • But none for SQLite extensions, which is what the article is about.

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  • The image is a reference to this analysis done in World War II, which might seem to suggest that the planes need more armour on the wings and tail, but actually shows that these areas aren't important and that the engines and cockpit need armour if the plane is to survive to make it back to base (where the stats are correlated).

    The surviving planes showed a bias in the data that leads to an incorrect conclusion, just like the surviving woody gymnosperms makes it seem like there weren't non-woody gymnosperms.

  • xkcd #3113: Fix This Sign

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  • Where I'm from it's spelt centring, but I think Randall's referring to "doanate".

  • Heathrow to pipe 'sounds of an airport' around airport

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  • When tech hardware becomes paperweights

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  • Businesses like having an app on your phone because they can update it to fix bugs, add features, track your activity and send you notifications/ads when they have something new to sell.

  • People who made a single terrible financial decision that still haunts you to this day - how did it happen?

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  • I remember sites where you could play games and bitcoin was basically used as a score/prize - if I'd spent half my lunch hours playing I'd be set for life nowadays.

  • Laser-wielding device is like an anti-aircraft system for mosquitoes

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  • A previous version of this claimed that it could distinguish between male and female mosquitos (the ones that bite). It used the different wingbeat frequencies, if memory serves.

    It feels that a point-defence system is less harmful than gassing the whole area, which is what e.g. hotels do now.

  • Laser-wielding device is like an anti-aircraft system for mosquitoes

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  • This was mentioned in the article, although not the fact that it was faked.

    I can believe that the tech has improved enough to not need faking this time around.

  • PNG has been updated for the first time in 22 years — new spec supports HDR and animation

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  • To ELI5 this, this happens when whoever made the webpage put a text layer above the image - probably on purpose to make it harder for people to download the image.

  • PNG has been updated for the first time in 22 years — new spec supports HDR and animation

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  • Some of this is paving the cowpath - the animated PNG stuff is 20 years old and e.g. Firefox has had support since March 2007.

  • PNG has been updated for the first time in 22 years — new spec supports HDR and animation

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  • Cloudflare blocking AI crawlers

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  • I built something that changed my friend group's social fabric

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  • I can save you a click by saying it's a Discord bot that notifies when people join the voice chat, but it's a nice read and not too long.

  • xkcd #3107: Weather Balloons

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  • It seems reasonable given that space the atmosphere is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is.

  • Save your disk, write files directly into RAM with /dev/shm

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  • I thought that /dev/shm was strictly for shm_open() but it seems that all that does is open a file in /dev/shm anyway.

  • xkcd #3106: Farads

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  • Ah, Randall is alive! I kept thinking my bot had broken as it's so rare for him to miss an upload.

  • It's True: The Jaws Shark Is Public Domain

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  • Has any other design project ever gone from “we can’t use that because it looks like a vagina with teeth” to “that looks like a penis with teeth but let’s go with it?”

    Also, that timing's terrible luck on the part of the artist.

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    JD Vance gets suspended from Bluesky 'just 12 minutes after first post': reports

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  • OP's link is just an incomplete summary of the real article

    That source post has this Bluesky quote:

    Vice President Vance’s account was briefly flagged by our automated systems that try to detect impersonation attempts which have targeted public figures like him in the past. The account was quickly restored and verified

    Also, that it would have been heavily flagged by users was probably part of it.

  • NHS nurse ordered to remove ‘antisemitic’ watermelon video call background launches legal action

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  • Watermelons became symbols of Palestine amid censorship of the Palestinian flag because of its similar colours.

    Ah, ok - before reading I thought someone had got their stereotypes mixed up.