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  • USUAL in your country but NOT anywhere else.

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  • The Italian food thing is pretty common in many cultures, I’ve seen it in a few countries myself and it’s big deal here in Lebanon. My own parents used to be livid about me bringing friends over and not offering anything to eat when I was younger. It’s a part of my culture I’m a bit resistant to doing, I don’t know, it’s pretty intuitive if it’s time to eat or not, and if someone’s dropping by between meals I am totally fine not setting the whole ass table. Maybe a beer or coffee (the good stuff, it’s a nice thing to share) nowadays.

    The Dutch food thing has zero resemblance to my culture but it is in line with something I’ve read before about western (at least the description I read was western) food habits. Going completely off the top of my head here. As far as I remember, historically you had one heavy meal and everything else was a smaller meal. I think I was looking up “dinner” vs “supper”. The impression was that the word “dinner” was originally for the big meal of the day, and that “supper” was for a light meal at the very end of the day. “Breakfast” is more of literally breaking a fast than it is a whole meal and lunch referred to a small mid-workday meal.

    So I think the idea of temperature might be connected to the size or heaviness of the meal in your Dutch thing.

    Or maybe my nerves are completely cooked after work and this is more word salad than word coherent comment.

  • FCC Chair Carr says 'we're not done yet' after Jimmy Kimmel suspension by ABC

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  • I always had the impression that there was an underlying censorship issue over in the US (what with everyone there hearing nothing good about Palestinians for the past half century) but to have it be so open and discussed in such a euphemistic and yet banal way, wow. I wonder how these quotes we are seeing on our screens will be remembered.

    “Permission structure” on its own is incredible.

  • Taliban leader bans Wi-Fi in an Afghan province to 'prevent immorality'

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  • I love my city (Beirut) it is full of trams (Kia Picanto 2013 base model w/ automatic transmission)

  • Today I learned about meshtastic, a long range off-grid open-source communication platform

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  • I’ve gone down parts of this rabbit hole (reading, not implementation). Wish I could guarantee that I could set anything up (including just setting up Meshtastic nodes in fun places) without getting arrested for setting up what can only look like an espionage infrastructure network to the government.

  • TIL: Wikipedia has this absolute bonkers (as in "cool") 2000s skin called "Cologne Blue".

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  • Difficult explanations of complex subjects that may not be aligned with the statistical word pattern distribution of the corpus of a dead web.

    It’s not impossible that this exact paragraph could be generated. But it was more likely crafted by someone who both understands the subject matter on a comfortable level at the very least, and who understands what parts of it are intuitive enough to create a scaffolding of knowledge that are distinctive to this topic.

    I don’t think I could have come up with anything that doesn’t use the word iota a half dozen times and then falling backwards on myself trying to get across the idea of how energy could not exist in measures that are not multiples of a minimum iota of energy (and explaining that it’s just how it is, no I don’t know how that was measured, etcetera etcetera)

  • TIL: Wikipedia has this absolute bonkers (as in "cool") 2000s skin called "Cologne Blue".

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  • This is what LLMs are taking from us, and I say this without a shred of irony

  • TIL: Wikipedia has this absolute bonkers (as in "cool") 2000s skin called "Cologne Blue".

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  • I do miss having languages listed on the side by default. I felt like it gave some depth to how important or culturally isolated a subject can be. For example, a short article available in 30 major languages, a long article available in 30 major languages, and a long article only available in like 3 languages would all feel just a little different.

    English is not my native language and a lot of subjects I like (or fixations I may have, knowing Wikipedians) just exist in the realm of English. So these long long pages that don’t exist in many languages have a particular vibe to them.

  • 2025 Financial Goals

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  • Did someone just print out the list from the photo that’s been doing the rounds for a month now and post it to TikTok as a copy-and-paste joke?

    I think reposting jokes is the lifeblood of the internet but being a meme cover artist seems kind of… hm. Sharing a joke reveals a good (or bad!) sense of humor. Copying it beat for beat reveals something a bit different, but I can’t place it.

    The original had an Arabic keyboard in the background. Gotta look out for one of our own.

  • Peak homelabbing

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  • I think that’s a Y510p. This was the machine that made me think Lenovo knew what they were doing and were the true successors to IBM, for laptops at least.

    This machine was released right before the gaming laptop age really kicked off, so its paltry GT750(M! Sometimes two of them) was about as good as it got outside of a sketchy DTR from a company you’ve never heard of. Only a few years later did the standard go way up for gaming laptop performance, with everyone and their dog getting an Nvidia 1050/1060/1070 machine.

    But I really liked the Y500/Y510. Serious design that made it look like a thick business laptop with polished black surfaces and cool red key edges vs gaudy RGB sludge with LOOK AT ME I AM EPICLY GAMERING all over it. I kind of wish they kept this design style.

    Oh well. Tongfang has my back now.

  • CGNAT version 2

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  • I knew of Tunnet, but this looks cool. I wonder if it’s at all helpful for getting to grips with some networking intuition, I always feel behind when it comes to anything networking related.

  • Florida Congressman Randy Fine says he doesn't care if Palestinian kids starve. He called for more starvation before adding it's all a hoax anyway.

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  • Jesus, the guy famous for not feeding hungry people in Palestine.

  • UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill

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  • I saw this news and I guess it’s good that privacy is being discussed somewhat soberly over there in the wake of this investment decision.

    Personally I have recently been exiting out of the UK, a much more invasive country, so Switzerland for now does seem like an improvement for me. Norway is further out geographically and has less Mullvad servers, would seem like the less favorable option for me unless the proposed laws actually pass.

    Frankly I’m scrambling after the UK’s ID thing.

  • UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill

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  • Huh. I’m also “moving” soon. Any reason for Norway over Switzerland?

  • This Tiny Radio Lets Me Send Texts Without Wi-Fi or Cell Service

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  • Everything I learn about this project is so cool. I can’t go through the docs right now, but I’m assuming it can prioritize things like emergency communication over sensor data.

    There’s no public nodes in a 200+ km radius around me on that site someone linked, so something tells me I’ll have to do a lot of guerilla solar panel installation if I want to anonymously set up something.

    I’ve thought about it on and off over the past two years, more of a private network for family and friends than anything, for emergencies and so on. The real, big problem is that I could be accused of espionage and thrown into jail forever if I do this. So I don’t think I’ll see anyone putting any nodes up for the foreseeable future. At least not public nodes.

  • EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google

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  • Some other commenter mentioned that this is brought up in issues tracker in the repo. Sorry, I didn’t actually check for it.

    I’m not in the EU, I didn’t dig into it. FWIW I am also moving my own connections to exit from Switzerland sooner or later.

  • EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google

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  • I do feel like that’s a precarious state to leave this in, especially if they’re developing the backend for it.

    Is there even enough momentum for a SKG-style wave of coverage? It would need to be justified properly by citing things like the Tea app data leak, to make a strong case (to political pencil pushers) for the danger of tying personal information to profiles or even to platforms. Otherwise the only thing they’ll see is “gamers want to make porn accessible to children”.

    I don’t know. This whole situation boils my blood because I really care about online anonymity, and this is kind of nightmare scenario shit for me. I’m not even in the UK or EU.

  • EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google

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  • Apparently this is illegal to implement as of right now, but it’s not helping the feeling of technological doomerism I get whenever I think about this whole identity verification situation.

  • Spending the day testing my USB-C cables

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  • I got a cheap aliexpress board with LEDs that does this, at least the main protocols.

    It’s definitely one of these things that make me wonder if I’m being too consumeristic. It’s nice to have a cable tester but I don’t really need one. Maybe if I had a shop that sold cables. But then again I can test my stuff “objectively”, possibly minimizing throwing out working cables. Idk

  • how many people came to this platform due to leaving / being banned from Reddit?

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  • …No? I’m pretty sure that was the first massive wave of relatively diverse active users. Lemmy was pretty fringe before that happened. I think there are tens of thousands of us.

  • Are there any legitimate "brain training" apps/games/etc.?

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  • In the same vein, I’ve been doing crosswords on my phone on the shitter instead of browsing. First few times felt like I was remembering words that I haven’t been using often, but after a while I stopped feeling like it was helping me with anything.

    I’m going to tentatively say that racking your brain for specific words (or otherwise learning new ones) might be marginally better for you than the average pure time wasting game.