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@ egrets @lemmy.world

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  • TIL There was a guy called Richard of Wallingford who built a mechanical clock in the 14th century

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  • A monk well ahead of his timePlanned a clock that could measure the skyBut Cromwell, the shit,Tore the whole thing to bitsI can't think of a finishing rhyme

  • The final boss

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  • In the skies above the mountain, darkness overcame paleThen Mannimarco, Big Worm, felt his dismal powers fail

  • GOP Congressman Says the Info in the Leaked Signal Chat Clearly ‘Should Be Considered Classified’ — Amid Trump Admin Denials That it Was

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  • It's not an insecure app per se, but it is an uncontrolled app, in the context of an organisation's communication. Some of the GOP have tried to imply that it's the product that's at fault, but it's user error all the way.

  • xkcd #3069: Terror Bird

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  • Funnily enough, Brontornis does now most frequently get placed in Anserimorphae alongside waterfowl, whereas it was previously most often thought to be a terror bird (though I should say there's still plenty of debate). It's thought to be heavier than any terror bird at possibly as much as 400kg - where the average horse apparently weighs 500kg.

    Being extinct, I assume no one ever told it how to get to Sesame Street.

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  • I've used the "writing tools" extensively for minor changes, like changes to capitalization on a large block of text. It makes the phone a little less of a consumption-only device.

    I've also found the image editing tools handy from time to time, and the automatic calls to ChatGPT on the more complex natural-language questions can sometimes be handy, even if you need to wait a while for the response.

    The notification summaries are sometimes very handy and sometimes absurdly incorrect and misleading.

    I'm really looking forward to Siri being less frustratingly stupid, but we've got a while to wait for that, and we probably shouldn't set our expectations too high. I do respect that they've not shipped it rather than shipping something broken, though.

  • Blackout poetry

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  • A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore a computer must never make a management decision.

  • Apple Touch Bar Display Drivers Slated For Introduction In Linux 6.15

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  • Very nice that it's being supported, but I think the general consensus among MacBook owners was that it was mainly a sales gimmick and not actually that useful? With opinion divided, of course. I can imagine it would be handy for specific apps.

  • Donald Trump has 'obligations' to those who brought him to power—Putin ally

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  • Wouldn't prominent Russians only say stuff like this publicly if they wanted to sow discord? Trump's words and actions - especially with respect to Ukraine - make it clear that he and Putin are friendly, but statements like this seem like they undermine Trump at a time where it's beneficial to Russia for him to be supported and further empowered. It confuses me.

  • 'Read this e-mail immediately': CDC tells about 180 fired employees to come back to work

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  • Other than the ~21% of the population under voting age and the ~48% of the voting electorate who voted for Harris / Walz. Everyone suffers under these changes except for the wealthy.

  • After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad

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  • Specifically: tabs, dark mode, and retention of unsaved documents. They're apps for very different purposes, but Notepad has had some nice little updates over recent years.

  • New Doge/Musk Email Goes Seriously Sideways

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  • Born in Missouri and lives in New York! I think the article was just hammered out very quickly without much proofreading.

  • New Doge/Musk Email Goes Seriously Sideways

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  • We’ve been in this world of upside where a lone wolf is on a wilding spree through the federal government, clear not operating at anyone’s direction but his own. And yet the President is at least okaying it all after the fact. And thus our system can’t really makes sense of what’s happening. Yes, it’s almost all illegal even or in a sense especially if the President is authorizing it. And...

    I feel like I'm having a stroke.

  • What word history origins / facts do you know?

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  • Almost. They both share the same Proto-Indo-European root, which is reconstructed as wi-ro.

    Germanic, Italic, Celtic, and even Indo-Iranian languages all have commonality in PIE.

  • What word history origins / facts do you know?

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  • This is a fun one. It comes through Persian and Arabic from the Sanskrit "naranga-s" - which describes the tree. But despite the Dutch adoption of the color, the place name "Orange" in titles like William of Orange is from the Latin name "Arausio", which probably has Celtic origin.

  • What word history origins / facts do you know?

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  • Harper agrees with your etymology but has a more mundane (and in my view, more likely) explanation of why "three ways" came to mean "something simple or ordinary":

    literally "of or belonging to the crossroads," [...] The sense connection is "public," hence "common, commonplace."

    https://www.etymonline.com/word/trivial

  • What word history origins / facts do you know?

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  • Happy to see etymology discussion. I used to run r/etymology, suspended it during the API debacle as part of the blackout, and got replaced by Reddit and banned by the new mod.

    The "were" in "werewolf" also gives us "world" (originally referring to humanity, as in "the epoch of mankind") and also came through Latin, giving us, among other things, "virtue" (as in, the measure of a man, I think), and "virile".

  • This Is the Way to Stop Elon Musk

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  • You misread my comment.

  • This Is the Way to Stop Elon Musk

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  • I agree with all of this. But "not allies" and "in bed with fascists" are markedly different accusations. I still don't see it as helpful to paint Democratic representatives as being welcoming of fascism – once you step into the rhetorical window of "they didn't do enough to halt fascism, so they're basically fascists too", you lose the ability to call out actual fascism.

  • This Is the Way to Stop Elon Musk

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  • The Democrats are a moderate right-wing party

    Indeed, I said that already.

    done more to keep actual left-wingers out of power

    "The two-party system is driven by self-interest and inherently protects capitalism" is substantially more nuanced and accurate than "Democrats want fascism". The latter is still unhelpful and, in the main, untrue.