Deebster

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[–] Deebster 2 points 1 hour ago

This has been in my daily set for a while now, definitely worth your time. It also has a larger weekly version, along with archives of both types going back years.

[–] Deebster 3 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

I'm on Android (using Firefox), so I was thinking it might be different on a system without apps, but it seems you're on mobile too. How strange.

[–] Deebster 5 points 10 hours ago (5 children)

Yes, but it just asks me where to share the URL. If I send it to the clipboard, it's just

https://www.britannica.com/quiz/tightrope

Perhaps it's different on a desktop?

[–] Deebster 2 points 10 hours ago (7 children)

1820, but I don't see where you can export the breakdown.

[–] Deebster 1 points 18 hours ago

Bad wording on my part, I wasn't disagreeing. My file server has a /files directory because it saves me a few key strokes and because I can.

[–] Deebster 1 points 1 day ago

Is Gobo case-insensitive by default? Typing those seems annoying.

[–] Deebster 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (2 children)

That's an old image, though - Windows has a C:\Users\youruser setup like /home/youruser for a while now.

I find the %APPDATA% thing way less convenient than ~/.config and I'm quite happy when programs have the "bug" that they still use ~/.config on Windows.

[–] Deebster 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hang on, this is (or was at the time) the major of St Ives? That's weird.

[–] Deebster 1 points 1 day ago

blood alcohol content of 0.16% — above the legal limit to drive

I had to look it up, but that's twice the limit.

[–] Deebster 36 points 2 days ago

what fucked up tumblr subculture has my shitpost reached

I've never been on tumblr and just assumed the whole site was like that.

[–] Deebster 163 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (19 children)

The source story is worth a read.

Marrero’s background is in Navy intelligence, and she earned a master’s degree in business administration with a concentration in information security and digital management

Incredible.

she soon changed the “STINKY” Wi-Fi network name to another moniker that looked like a wireless printer — even though no such general-use wireless printers were present on the ship

Why not just switch off broadcasting the SSID?

[The CO and XO] then conducted another sweep inside the ship. Although the network that appeared to be a wireless printer appeared on their personal devices during their search, neither made additional inquiries regarding that network

No-one's coming out of this looking good.

Marrero’s secret Starlink dish was removed the same day, and Marrero told another unidentified crew member the next day that it was authorized for in-port use — prompting sailors to re-install the illegal Starlink.

It just keeps going!

[–] Deebster 2 points 2 days ago

I wonder if he'll do a more traditional score for this. Many of his recent projects have been more like soundscapes. The Dune soundtracks are incredible, and very cleverly constructed, but I don't know if they'd suit a BBC Lord of the Flies.

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Cryptic Crossword Daily puzzle (www.minutecryptic.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/18316051

Minute Cryptic is a daily single-question cryptic crossword, with a hint system and an explanation (Youtube video - it appears the channel came before the website).

Definitely worth checking out if you have any interest in cryptic crosswords, which are funnier and more interesting (imho) than standard crosswords.

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Cryptic Crossword Daily puzzle (www.minutecryptic.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/18316051

Minute Cryptic is a daily single-question cryptic crossword, with a hint system and an explanation (Youtube video - it appears the channel came before the website).

Definitely worth checking out if you have any interest in cryptic crosswords, which are funnier and more interesting (imho) than standard crosswords.

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Cryptic Crossword Daily puzzle (www.minutecryptic.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/18316051

Minute Cryptic is a daily single-question cryptic crossword, with a hint system and an explanation (Youtube video - it appears the channel came before the website).

Definitely worth checking out if you have any interest in cryptic crosswords, which are funnier and more interesting (imho) than standard crosswords.

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Cryptic Crossword Daily puzzle (www.minutecryptic.com)
 

Minute Cryptic is a daily single-question cryptic crossword, with a hint system and an explanation (Youtube video - it appears the channel came before the website).

Definitely worth checking out if you have any interest in cryptic crosswords, which are funnier and more interesting (imho) than standard crosswords.

 
 

Piped mirror: https://piped.video/watch?v=UVlBmdvIC6s

This channel is about architecture, and this video (from Nov 2023*) is about Solar Punk and covers some of the history and real-life attempts.

I was amused that shortly after talking about Solar Punk's rejection of consumerism she did the sponsor section, but that's Youtube for you.

* it's been posted elsewhere on Lemmy but not here that I can see

 

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/15125500

xkcd #2942: Fluid Speech

https://xkcd.com/2942

explainxkcd.com for #2942

Alt text:

Thank you to linguist Gretchen McCulloch for teaching me about phonetic assimilation, and for teaching me that if you stand around in public reading texts from a linguist and murmuring example phrases to yourself, people will eventually ask if you're okay.

 

xkcd #2942: Fluid Speech

https://xkcd.com/2942

explainxkcd.com for #2942

Alt text:

Thank you to linguist Gretchen McCulloch for teaching me about phonetic assimilation, and for teaching me that if you stand around in public reading texts from a linguist and murmuring example phrases to yourself, people will eventually ask if you're okay.

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xkcd #2937: Room Code (imgs.xkcd.com)
 

https://xkcd.com/2937

Alt text:

Sorry to make you memorize this random string of digits. If it helps, it can also double as a mnemonic for remembering your young relatives' birthdays, if they happened to have been born on February 5th, 2018.

 

While curious about the Centauri accent, I found this 2001 interview with Peter Jurasik (Londo Mollari) and Wortham Krimmer (Cartagia).

http://www.earth62.net/transcripts/jurasik22feb01.htm

The quick story about the accent, if I can tell you how I patchworked it together, is I was doing a play downtown, a Tennessee Williams play, and I worked really hard on a Memphis accent. I felt like I had really nailed it. But one L.A. critic nailed me and said, "That’s a terrible Memphis accent. That doesn’t sound like a Southern accent." I was really hurt. About that time was when "The Gathering," the pilot, showed up. I called Joe and said, "What do you want me to sound like?" He said, "Let him sound like whatever you want," so I purposely took a couple of different things. There’s a character who plays the parole officer in A Clockwork Orange, the guy who’s always saying, "And night-time is the best time, um, yes?" I took my Czechoslovakian grandmother. I had spent three consecutive summers in Ireland. I didn’t always take sounds; I took rhythms. Londo had a kind of musical thing.

The whole thing's worth a read, they seemed to be having fun.

 

This is "The Frigatebird and the Diamond Ring" by Liron Gertsman, shot on a Canon EOS R5.

Source: https://liron-gertsman-photography.myshopify.com/products/the-frigatebird-and-the-diamond-ring

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