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Lovable Sidekick

@ LovableSidekick @lemmy.world

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  • TIL there's a ferris wheel sauna in Finland

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  • A sauna with completely clear windows - amazing!

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  • When I was a kid in the 60s outerspace was filled with little boomerangs.

  • Scientists make game-changing breakthrough that could slash costs of solar panels: 'Has the potential to contribute to the energy transition'

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  • Solar is too woke and Marxist for the current US government.

  • What's your harmless/low-stakes conspiracy theory?

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  • 3 Million Installs, Only €100/Month: Bottles Needs Your Support!

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  • Thanks, I just use Linux.

  • I LIKE CORN!

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  • What's your harmless/low-stakes conspiracy theory?

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  • I srsly doubt that the Pillsbury box design is still under patent, because it's been used in hundreds or even thousands of products I've opened over a span of decades - for example, pretty much every breakfast cereal box works that way. Two main flaps, two little tabs under them at the ends. The store-brand box is something I've never even seen before. Could be that it's designed to be opened along one side, with the "front" of the box opening as a lid. Then the structure would actually make sense. I dunno, next time I make pie I'll have a closer look.

  • I self hosted a World of Warcraft server.

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  • Not gonna go back and search for "AI" but when I read the thread hours ago there were multiple back and forth comments criticizing/defending use of ChatGPT (which is what I meant by "AI" in this case), and this was not at all the point of OP's post.

  • What's your harmless/low-stakes conspiracy theory?

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  • Pillsbury pie crusts - the kind that come rolled up, 2 in a box, come in a very standard box with the typical two big flaps at the end, one glued over the other, with two little side flaps inside. Safeway store brand pie crusts seem identical but have a slightly more complicated box. One flap peels open easily but the other flap is sort of latched into the little side tabs with little slots, making it hard to peel open. You have to rip the corners apart. It's totally unnecessary. The simpler Pillsbury box works fine.

    Until just now my low-stakes conspiracy theory was that the store brand box was deliberately designed to create the disadvantage of being a slight pain in the ass to open. I figured Safeway pie crusts, like most store-brand products, are made by a major manufacturer - probably Pillsbury - and that Pillsbury probably made them under the condition that the package be harder to open, to create a tangible difference between the products.

    However, when I started typing this I casually googled and found that Safeway buys their OEM pie crusts from Albertsons. This blows my conspiracy theory but now I wonder even more why the box design is so stupid.

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  • Stories about "science gone awry" are almost always about non-scientists screwing up.

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    TIL Roselle, a guide dog, led her blind owner down 78 floors of the World Trade Center on 9/11, calmly navigating smoke and chaos to save his life.

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  • There's a good girl.

  • Chimps develop fashion trend by shoving grass in their ears — and in their butts

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  • If chimps ever take over the world and have a space program they'll send grass to Uranus.

  • I self hosted a World of Warcraft server.

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  • ChatGPT was mentioned and now the thread is all about AI being good/bad, as usual.

    Anyway, I'm glad you got your server going - hope you enjoy your flight!

  • 3 Million Installs, Only €100/Month: Bottles Needs Your Support!

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  • I never even heard of Bottles, but it seems to me that free/opensource software gets into trouble like this when it tries to go bigtime by hiring a fulltime paid staff. If everything remained a side project that grew at the pace of however much time people had available to devote to it, wouldn't it avoid overwhelming server costs and having to beg for money?

  • It is a mystery

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  • Scientists predict if humans disappear and cats remain, within 2 months all objects will be on the floor.

  • Are there any wrap around sunglasses that don't make me look like a conservative dad?

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  • I didn't even know sunglasses did that. Remember that when you're out in the real world you aren't on social media. Go ahead and wear whatever you want.

  • A long long time ago...

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  • Found Alex Fresco!

  • A long long time ago...

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  • Same here, I signed up immediately. Also had a google phone # for a while, but never used it and I don't think it even works anymore. I think they only created those to gather test data for voice recognition.

  • British Perl guru Matt Trout dead at 42

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  • Perl was once described as "the swiss army chainsaw of scripting languages." For a second I thought they meant Larry Wall. I associate Matt Trout more with his libraries and the Catalyst framework. Definitely a Perl guru tho. RIP, buddy.