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grue,

Pretty sure CNN is (willfully) misinterpreting the law. The EU is definitely not prohibiting them from just turning off the tracking without providing a choice.

grue,

Yeah, but nobody cares about your technical “gotcha.”

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Again: nobody cares because practically speaking, the only people using snaps are getting them from Ubuntu, and Ubuntu pushing snaps as the default is the only reason they aren’t using flatpaks intead.

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If I can’t expect to own it, then you’d better not expect me to buy it.

How does Usenet content not immediately get DMCA'd into oblivion?

For instance, say I search for “The Dark Knight” on my Usenet indexer. It returns to me a list of uploads and where to get them via my Usenet provider. I can then download them, stitch them together, and verify that it is, indeed, The Dark Knight. All of this costs only a few dollars a month for me....

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Because violating the DMCA is copyright infringement, and § 501 (b) of the Copyright Act gives copyright holders a private right of action to file a civil lawsuit to enforce it. Copyright holders tend to be motivated in a way that the State very often isn’t.

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Skill issue. Can’t click a Windows entry if you don’t have one!

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Of the ~100 billion humans who have ever lived, ~8 billion of them are still alive. Therefore, your chance of dying is only 92%, not 100%.

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Because this

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/Processes_without_D-Bus.svg

potentially has a much larger average degree distribution than this

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/Processes_with_D-Bus.svg

Good luck web devs (lemmy.world)

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BRB, sticking microcontrollers to the back of my monitors so I can use their accelerometers to report the orientations in real time…

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Might as well ask Lemmy how to pass the Kobayashi Maru test, while you’re at it.

grue,

You joke, but meteorite impacts causing large igneous provinces on the opposite side of the planet might actually be a thing.

(Uluru and Meteor Crater are provably not an example of this, though, for several reasons: they aren’t antipodes of each other, Uluru is five orders of magnitude older, and the phenomenon I mentioned would’ve been caused by way, way bigger impacts.)

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Apparently, folks don’t realize that even The Weather Channel has already dabbled in trash reality TV.

Some famous enough to have their own Wiki pages:

Big list (pay attention to the ones marked “long form”): en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_programs_broadcast_by_…

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Every picture of Bernie Sanders looks like he’s fucking exasperated, and I can’t blame him!

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Street trees aren’t car-supremacist enough.

Let me explain what I mean by that: when a driver fucks up and his car careens off the street and hits a tree, the tree stops the car very abruptly. That’s great for, say, an innocent pedestrian who was saved by hiding behind the tree, but can apply rather serious consequences to the negligent driver. Car-brained traffic engineers see it as their mission to protect drivers from any and all consequences, so they insist on ripping out all the trees to create a gigantic “clear zone” so that the car is free to careen wherever it wants without hitting anything solid. Squishy things within the clear zone, such as pedestrians, don’t enter into consideration.

In other words, one important “advantage” of these “liquid trees” over real trees is that they can be mounted on breakaway stands, so that they yield (and therefore provide no protection to any hapless bastard who might’ve been sitting on the bench at the time) when a car hits them.

Source: I’m a former traffic engineer. But don’t take it from me; watch this confession from a much more experienced and credible engineer explaining it in even more stark terms.

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To be fair, “do hummingbirds have feet” seems eminently wikipediable. I’d like to think that if I ever felt the need to drunk-dial an expert, it’d be for something less trivial.

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I think it’s still important to explain the key difference between an “app store” and a package repository: the latter isn’t a “store” because everything is free.

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There are two basic ways of doing “random” songs:

  1. Pick a new song randomly each time a song ends. This is the naive way to do it and can result in playing the same song twice.
  2. Randomly shuffle the list of songs once and then go through the shuffled list in order, guaranteeing that no single song gets played a second time before all songs have been played.

The strategies are different, but I’d argue that they’re equally “random.”

I’ve got a cheap Chinese aftermarket head unit in my car that uses strategy #1, and it’s mildly infuriating.

grue,

“I wonder if he and Keiko are still together.”

Translation: “I wonder if I should get with them each separately or if a threesome is on the table.”

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As a frugal person, I rarely shop at the dollar store because the shit there is so low-quality it’s a poor value even at that price.

grue,

Moderating a subreddit is a choice, not a personal characteristic. Attempting to dilute the meaning of the word by pretending that criticism of moderators is “bigotry” is itself abusive reactionary rhetoric.

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