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i_stole_ur_taco

@ i_stole_ur_taco @lemmy.ca

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  • What's one of your favorite music videos of all time?

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  • Apparitions by Matthew Good Band will always be my favourite.

    The band features as background for an after hours story in a skyscraper. Matt Good is the night janitor doing his rounds. A rich old white guy (I assume CEO or something) is at his desk, stressed. A prostitute arrives and gets access to the building, the security guard smirking.

    Fast forward to her starting to undress and the CEO guy pulls a gun from his desk and shoots himself in the head. The prostitute runs away in a panic.

    The video ends with a fade out showing the prostitute on the elevator security footage freaking the fuck out. The security guard and janitor are left gaping, unsure what to do.

  • Investing for good: possible? What do folks do?

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  • I’ve been on Kiva for years. It’s legit, but you only stand to lose money. There’s no cashing out (at all, afaik).

    You lose money 2 ways: donating to Kiva operations when you fund a loan (it’s optional though), and defaulted loans. If that guy in Madagascar doesn’t repay the loan for his seeds and fertilizer, it’s just gone.

    If the loan is repaid (and you get periodic emails every time they make a payment with some banal statement about how grateful the borrower is), Kiva adds it back to your account and you can relend it.

    I’ve been completely hands off for the last 5 years. It just automatically re-loans when I have funds in my account and I get an email. If enough people default, I’ll have to decide if I put in more money or call it quits.

  • Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Microsoft Edge, Opera to follow

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  • Here? We’re a rounding error not worth considering.

    The majority of users do not use any web browser. They “click on the internet”.

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  • I think the sticky word here is “allowed”. Or maybe “here”.

    Lemmy isn’t “a website” nor does it have a manager.

  • Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot

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  • "The tool itself worked properly and functioned as intended; however due to a bug in a separate code path, the system did not properly verify that the email address provided by the individual requesting a password reset matched the email address associated with that user’s Instagram account," said Meta in its breach notice.

    Then the tool didn’t work properly nor did it function as intended.

    The rest of that blubbering stream of excuses sounds like a toddler arguing why they deserve ice cream.

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    I built a self-hosted affiliate tracking platform — here's why I think self-hosting affiliate software actually matters

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  • 5 em dashes.

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    Why are so many people still fine with using "The C Word" despite it being officially a derogatory slur towards women?

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  • There is a governing body, but it’s unfortunately named the Council for Umbrage in Nominal Terminology ☹️

  • Eric Schmidt believes the era of writing code manually is coming to an end

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  • Yeah, now we’ll only be fixing code manually.

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  • It is not.

  • Kid Rock humiliated as he's snubbed from Donald Trump's MAGA festival line-up

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  • Kid Rock's fans are up in arms after

    I’m sorry his what now?

  • Roku OS’s home screen now features a large, permanent ad

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  • I was using NextDNS instead of pihole because I wanted my ad blocking to still work when I’m out and about.

    Couldn’t stay on the free tier because I make so many DNS requests. Which seemed weird - it’s just the two of us using the network?

    Lo and behold, the fucking forgotten Roku attached to a TV was doing a fresh DNS lookup every 30 seconds to try to call home and send telemetry data. It accounted for like 60% of my DNS traffic!

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  • Realistically, most people entering as tourists need to be concerned with CBP asking for unlocked access to your phone, which will disappear into a back room for a few minutes while they presumably steal all your credentials. The broader scare stories about detention, interrogation, and deportation are really very rare.

    I have some (stupid) non-white-passing family that have been travelling to the US (including Florida) regularly and they have had zero issues.

    I would absolutely not go. Full stop. But when you look at the real numbers, tourist entry into the US isn’t down all that much and most people who desire to go don’t have any issues with immigration.

  • Trump to get 'routine annual' medical exam 7 months after last visit to Walter Reed

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  • All he can do is lay there and watch tv. The kind nurse turns on MS.NOW so he can watch it all day. Every day.

  • Dog shoots woman with shotgun at Nebraska convenience store

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  • She was shot by a well-regulated militia, not a dog.

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    An LLM prompt for finding silently-broken backups in your homelab (full prompt + example output)

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  • I count 9 em dashes in this slop post.

  • What's your favorite movie?

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  • This is my absolute favourite movie of all time but I gave up recommending it to people.

    The Coen brothers are too weird and nobody gets it but me, apparently 😭

  • Should I be concerned about the stove clicking when a box fan is switched on?

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  • My parents have a gas stove and when their microwave started failing, the stove igniter would click like crazy.

    It’s just an electrical thing - you’re not in any danger. The gas valves are still manual valves you have to turn. The worst thing that can happen here is the igniter will spark. Keep your finger out of there.

    You should get it looked into but don’t not cook or anything.

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  • This is awesome!

    I love that they position themselves as identifying music to catch “pirates”. Seems only fitting that it can also be used to help pirate music.

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  • This sounds so fun. And overwhelming. Truly the hallmarks of a major personal project!

    There might be a way to use technology to help with some of the song ID.

    MusicBrainz Picard is a free service with apps and an API you can call to identify a sonic fingerprint of a song. It might be able to help you, but I don’t know if the audio artifacts you’re cleaning up would interfere with the matching.

    There’s also apps like SoundHound and Pandora that were all the rage. They are half decent at identifying songs even with a lot of background noise, so they might have some extra processing that does a better job.

    But that all assumes you’ve already separated all the recordings into individual tracks…

    Too bad DI.FM didn’t publish their track lists. That would have made life easier!