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kbal

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

  • TIL Statistically, there are 2 popes per square kilometer in the Vatican city

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  • Wow, that's even higher papal density than Luxembourg!

  • Microsoft Warns That Windows 11 AI Might Install Malware On Your PC - Kotaku

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  • Apple hardware is typically more difficult to install linux on, and is therefore less useful. I mean you can do it in many cases from what I hear, but I think it's still not easy on average.

  • Looks like now Mbin, at least on mobile, mixes threads and microblog posts

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  • Most of the "microblog" posts I'm seeing are pretty short. I seem to remember the images being way too big, though. I made a custom ublock rule or something to make both the lemmy ones and them equally small thumbnails just big enough to decide if I want to load a full-sized one. It's kept working for a year or something, I had forgotten it was there, but I guess it helps even more now.

    Edit: Ah, found it. It's a firefox/librewolf userContent.css thing. Maybe something similar could be an mbin user configurable option some day. 

     
            @-moz-document domain("fedia.io") {
        .figure-thumb { max-height:90px !important; max-width:160px !important; overflow: hidden; }
        .view-compact .entry figure { height:90px !important; width: 160px !important} 
    }

  • Looks like now Mbin, at least on mobile, mixes threads and microblog posts

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  • I like it. Always wondered why it wasn't like that from the start.

  • Looks like now Mbin, at least on mobile, mixes threads and microblog posts

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  • Valve hopes the Steam Machine will make devs pay more attention to Linux anti-cheat support

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  • What on earth would ipv6 have to do with it?

  • Valve hopes the Steam Machine will make devs pay more attention to Linux anti-cheat support

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  • People say "kernel level" anticheat as if that would be necessary for some reason, but I don't really see it catching on in the linux world. Steam doesn't even have root normally. Even if it did, not everyone runs exactly the same linux kernel and the only practical way to distribute a module that's going to work for most people is through dkms, which means you build it from source, which means proprietary super-obfuscated shit is not going have its intended effect (assuming it ever does.)

    There's nothing stopping them from doing all the same bullshit in userspace instead.

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    Are you aware that the current day, conservative, and liberal, are not liberals or conservatives, but something completely different?

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  • "Conservative" seems to have changed its meaning at least twice in my lifetime, but I guess the essential "the people currently in power should continue to rule the world as they please" idea remains constant even when their rhetoric superficially seems to contradict it.

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    What’s your favorite hair length for yourself?

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  • No. 2, which the Internet tells me is 6.4 mm. It then grows longer, but a fresh haircut is the only time I think about it and it feels great.

  • what everyday technology do you think future generations will find completely baffling?

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  • Nespresso pods.

  • Why call it full-disk encryption when the EFI partition has to be unencrypted?

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  • The partition table isn't encrypted either. What a scam.

  • How do you count on your fingers? How high can you count?

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  • "It doesn't teach the basic number facts, only to count faster," says someone as quoted prominently on wikipedia.

    I suppose it can be fast, but the main use I've got out of it over the years is to count automatically using only my fingers while my brain is busy doing other things.

  • Why do I have to click read more?

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  • In some web browsers, a mouse click gives the site permission to do things like open pop-up windows and play videos.

    But it's still probably more often about collecting data to add to your profile, recording which topics interested you sufficiently to get you to click the button.

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  • If whichever nation gives it a try next bucks the trend and learns from the mistakes of the past instead of doggedly repeating them, it could go well for them.

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    Do you follow YouTubers that are part of the "Bread tube" ring? Why/why not?

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  • I check in on hbomberguy's channel once in a while hoping that some day we might learn whether he's retired, or whether he's just taking his time making a 14-hour video about the history of the smiley face.

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    Is it possible to find a friend or partner on Lemmy?

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  • No. This place is for serious discussion of facts and ideas only. Everybody stop having fun and being friendly.

  • Elon Musk says Optimus will 'eliminate poverty' in speech after his $1 trillion pay package was approved

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  • And then Optimus will come around to your house, and it will give everyone free ice cream. Whatever flavor you like! Then Optimus will save all the sick animals and make them better, and fix the ozone layer, and stop crime. Optimus is going to cure cancer, and eliminate traffic jams, and make me the most popular man in the world. A true communist utopia.

  • Ideas for computer challenges for a 7yo

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  • The thing they used to show kids to try and get us interested in computer programming back when I was in school about a hundred years ago was called Logo. Apparently there's now an online version called LYNX which might be worth a look.

  • What have you looked up on Wikipedia recently?

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  • According to my browser history:

    • Music of Cowboy Bebop
    • Folk high school
    • The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall
    • Build Canada Homes
    • Hominidae
    • A Coney Island of the Mind
    • American Chestnut
    • Les Nessman