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kbal

@ kbal @fedia.io

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I'd appreciate it if everyone could just stop burning fossil fuels, please. Thank you for your cooperation.

  • On the unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal compliance reasons in some U.S. states

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  • Somebody should go ahead and make an "is-user-old" command that just reads from /etc/age.txt and returns YES, NO, or IDK.

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  • searx NG.

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    What would you do if our civilization regressed to the Neolithic age due to resource depletion due to global collapse?

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  • What would I do? Probably flee the settlements and take my chances as a swamp shaman.

  • TIL there's a setting in Lemmy that hides down votes.

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  • Well I disagree with you both, but I'm upvoting you anyway.

  • TIL there's a setting in Lemmy that hides down votes.

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  • I'd probably do it if I were a lemmy user, so long as you can hide upvotes as well.

  • What is your opinion on websites blocking visitors from specific countries (geoblocking) for personal or political reasons?

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  • Web sites cannot know the geographic location of all their visitors, and it's silly of them to pretend otherwise.

  • Is there currently an influx of bots in the Fediverse, or is it just that the usual patriotism is kicking in?

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  • Some of the bots, on the other hand, are very easily distinguishable from humans. The one who's profile I checked out was posting well-polished exactly bot-like political memes for the past few months at a rate that would be a full-time job for an unassisted human.

  • Is there currently an influx of bots in the Fediverse, or is it just that the usual patriotism is kicking in?

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  • I saw a couple that were obviously bots, when I looked at a news-relevant hashtag on mastodon today. I only noticed two, but that's two more than usual.

  • How bad would something have to be if 99% of the outcomes are good and 1% of the outcomes were disastrous before society banned that thing?

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  • It depends on the society you're talking about, how newsworthy the bad outcomes are considered, and whether or not everyone has unconsciously made a decision to ignore the risks of the thing because we're all used to it like we are with cars and fossil fuels.

  • TIL there's a trend called hobby dogging where people take an imaginary dog through an obstacle course.

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  • I remember when "dogging" was the hobby everyone was talking about. When was that, 2015 maybe? Good times.

  • What AI do you pay for, if any?

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  • Not much. But I did pay actual money for Sid Meier's CivilizationⓇ VI, which includes AI that controls the computer players. That's the one that comes to mind just because its performance was so amazingly weak.

  • TIL that Ayatollah Khamenei built a secret organization called BAYT. This organization is more powerful than the government and employs 40,000 people. The goal was to make sure killing him is useless

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  • Which is the more powerful meat, fish or chicken?

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  • The fish, having the greater ratio of acceleration to mass as compared to the chicken, must therefore also be the more powerful.

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  • The linux kernel. All the software I need, I'll just key in the syscalls I want to make in binary.

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    Meditation And Mindfulness Have a Dark Side We Rarely Talk About

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  • The western world has also had evidence about these adverse effects for a long time.

    The Buddhist world has had evidence for a much longer time about all the crazy shit that can happen along the way as you begin to discover mindfulness. You might want to talk to some people at the temple about it before you spend too many hours sitting zazen style.

  • Connected cars can be hacked, research finds

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  • A car is pretty much the last thing you'd want to have a network connection. I'd sooner hook up my refrigerator and let it send analytics data to Frigidaire.

  • Looking for YouTube channel recommendations that do video essays on religions, spiritually and mythology etc .... in an empathic and appreciative way.

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  • KDE Responds to FUD Over Alleged systemd Mandate

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  • Apparently there have been attempts to make a free OS based on Apple's kernel, but wikipedia mostly talks about them in the past tense. Too bad, it would've been good to have such an option.

  • What do you think life will be like in the future?

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  • My bold prediction for the near future: I will soon have my second cup of tea for the day.