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whaleross

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Hello. I've been silenced, removed and blocked enough on lemmy dot ml for being a filthy leftist but not a falling in line defending totalitarian states full blown authoritarian communist. Sooo I'm blocking everything from lemmy dot ml so I don't have to be bothered with any more of that nonsense. If you are on lemmy dot ml and commenting on me I will not see it. Ta ta.

  • The New York Times is suing Perplexity for copyright infringement

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  • That's weird considering perplexity is the one that markets itself as a search engine and has been providing source links for everything since day one.

    As opposed to the competition that has used everything they can scrape to train their models behind proprietary closed doors.

  • What is the purpose of your life?

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  • If that is your interpretation then maybe that is your purpose.

  • What is the purpose of your life?

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  • What is the purpose of a snail or a polar bear or a single blade of grass with their life?

    That is my purpose.

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  • From the 80s-90s, my guess would be some proprietary format of conferencing or intercom that has not existed for thirty years or more.

  • What’s Hiding Inside Haribo’s Power Bank and Headphones?

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  • I think it is fair to assume that if you get electronics branded by a candy manufacturer, you will not get any sort of quality electronics.

    Obviously they shouldn't be a fire hazard but still.

  • So that's why...

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  • Repo Man comes to mind.

  • How did bittorrent fail to become essential technology?

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  • For nerdy nerds like us a torrent client isn't anything complicated. Regulating up and downstream bandwidth to personal preference isn't complicated. Managing torrents to seed and not isn't complicated. For your Average Joe though...

  • Anybody else's daydreams have continuity and lore?

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  • Not daydreams but I have scenarios that I explore in different narratives I make up to ease myself into sleep. Currently it's a sci-fi one. They are not intended to be stories for anybody else and I have no ambition to write anything down.

  • Non-US Lemmings, how is Christmas celebrated where you are?

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  • And the traditional beverage of choice is the carbonated soft drink Julmust, despite a certain international soda company upping their efforts every year to be associated with Christmas. (Their Christmas ads are not very popular in Sweden because hey it's once a year something is outselling your product, you greedy ghoul. Let us have our own traditions.)

  • Non-US Lemmings, how is Christmas celebrated where you are?

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  • Sweden. Some people are having decorations up already but normal is from advent. Christmas is celebrated the eve of the 24th with dinner and Santa visiting in person. Dinner is commonly a Christmas ham and other regional or family traditional dishes. 25th is a slow day when kids are playing with their new toys and the adults are relaxing after the build up until Christmas eve. The evening of the 25th is quite common for young adults that are visiting their family home in a town where they no longer live to go out to the local bars and get shitfaced with people they used to know, possibly air their teenage grudges or crushes and get in a fight or laid depending on the scenario and outcome.

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  • Same here with ml and I got banned from subs and by mods because I am just a filthy leftist and not a full on totalitarian cultist. Signed up on some different other ones. Learned some time ago that it is possible to filter everything and everyone from ml and my Fediverse experience has improved bigly.

  • Americium: How a small element could power the next century of space exploration

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  • My understanding of space engineering is that getting rid of heat is a bigger problem. Makes me wonder how much of efficiency of Stirling engines are lost due to extra weight and complexity for heat exchangers and radiators.

  • Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be.

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  • If this post is intended as discussion material; No, not as long that I have my stationary computer that fills my gaming needs.

  • Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame

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  • I think that's the same game I queued up for like 90 mins at a computer fair to have a few minutes of very confused playtime and that was it.

  • Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame

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  • I remember trying the first VR headset game 1990 that ran on a Commodore Amiga in like 7 fps and was terrible in every way.

  • Camera Capabilities Unlocked From A Mouse

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  • Back in the day scanners were not the table model that is obsolete today but were drum scanners or hand scanners of which the latter was a hammerhead mouse with a horizontal optical sensor and regular computer mice used balls for tracking.

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  • Xennial here. I'm glad to stay out of this manufactured generational conflict drama.

    I've been called boomer and merrily laugh in the face of the kids that think they are just as clever that I thought I was in their age.

  • People who stick the apple logo on their car: Why?

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  • Back in the nineties I was told off that Windows users are fanatical to their OS by a girl with one single sticker on her bicycle and it was the Apple logo.

    We worked in the same music studio with exclusively Apple computers and my money job was administration of an office with mixed Windows and Linux and BSD environment.

    I never had problems with either OS but I did have problems with Apple hardware being 2-3x the price for performance back in the days when performance mattered.

    I dunno if she mistook some single mouse button banter as something personal or what. Needless to say she didn't take it well when I laughed it off and told her I don't decorate anything with neither penguins or the Windows logo.

  • Affinity’s new design platform combines everything into one app | The Verge

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  • Why?