Monkey With A Shell

Then a new theory emerges, the lost filling pie earth, in which the creator was actually in the midst of forming the planet, got distracted and threw the shell in the oven without the contents.

This has the added benefit of explaining global warming and it conveniently fits over the shell of a giant turtle.

I looked about for it and the PG update basically involves creating a new folder to initialize and then exporting/importing the old DB, but haven’t successfully done so yet here.

Plugging a modem into the POTS made them smart I say.

It can also be an awesome idea, depending on your perspective. Having an instance without all the cruft is a pristine peaceful thing at times. For a while I ran one of those subscriber bots on Lemmy and pretty quickly found it to be so full of shitposting spam as to be unusable. Just don’t start an instance and expect it to be a raging party and you won’t find it disappointing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZeroNet

Something similar to this might help disburse the load required for peertube. What sites you read you host in return, very much like with bit torrent with a presentation layer tacked on top.

Might make for an interesting experiment to take picture of someone in a mirror and through the mirror (pinhole or two-way mirror) and then ask people which of the two is real and which is the doctored one. Neither are edited of course but one would look wrong for anyone who met the person in the photos.

I suspect it’s because we see accurate representations of ourselves in every mirror. With voice though what we hear normally is distorted by the resonence of our jawbone, so hearing the version everyone else does when it’s played back from a recording is alien and weird.

True, but privacy hardly seems like a controversial community to get that kind of attention.

Generally unions are per place or per trade at least. An employer of any decent size would likely just shrug it off if 10% of their staff went on strike and replace them under the guise of layoffs and cutbacks. The other big factor with remote work being that it’s super easy to just grab some people from places like India or the Philippines where they have sizable outsourcing industries set up and far less employee protections.

Given some of the results of prior AI systems unleashed on the public once the more ‘eccentric’ parts of society got ahold of them that’s no surprise. Not only do they have to worry about the AI picking up bad behaviors but are probably looking out for ‘well this bot told me that it’s a relatively simple surgery so…’ style liabilities.

That latter one can be accomplished by plenty of different WiFi thermostats. That’s become such an integral part of things that I hardly think of it as any kind of home automation anymore. Damned if I want to get up at night to go adjust the thermostat when it’s too hot or cold.

My aunt had one off these way back, don’t try and climb any big hills but could go around for a while on a pint of gas.

https://cars.usnews.com/cars-trucks/advice/geo-metro

How does one convert MPG to KWh? Electricity generation takes numerous forms with notably different efficiencies converting input to output…

I haven’t really noted a shift, but there’s always a few folks in a given place, real or virtual, that are absolutely unwilling to take a nuanced view. My way or the highway and all that. Hard to have a historical view though when a major part of the users have all come on board in the last 7-8 months, me included.

I always liked the comparison of free beer vs free speech. Free/libre is just a bit less clunky than saying no-charge and available.

Putting free/liber into an abbreviation, now we can not only shorten it but make it multi language at once

You’re making an assertion that people can identify specific personal details over text, but somehow we still need to use a /S to identify sarcasm because text doesn’t convey tone or body language. That requires some pretty heavy backup.

I had one of the first CD writers with buffer underrun protection (TDK 32x / 12x / 10x if I recall) and suddenly felt invincible because it was pretty near guaranteed that the burn would work.

I like CD-R, not for regular use but it occured to me that it’s one of the only consumer accessable media formats that are actually write once. It’s kind of neat to make a custom disk that is forever unchanged, pop it on years later and go through what was your sound X years back without having to worry about whatever service having pulled licences or modified lists.

Deleting the Internet would be a bit drastic, but I might go for delete the concept of social media