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Deebster

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Mostly a backup account for now, other @Deebsters are available.

  • xkcd #3121: Kite Incident

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  • I think OP means it's above on a map, i.e. north, like how the Mediterranean is above Africa.

    Edit: to head off any pedants: there are jet streams in the south too, but the point was that the length would be less than Earth's circumference (plus xkcd comics seem to be set in north America).

  • xkcd #3121: Kite Incident

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  • Have you ever had fruitful discussions cut short because OP deleted the post? If so, is this a fundamental problem or just an annoyance?

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  • Recently, someone asked about advice on a PC build, collected a lot of useful feedback then deleted their post once they had what they needed. Now all that work other users put in is inaccessible, and all that valuable knowledge can't help anyone else. I think that's a problem.

  • Israel committing genocide in Gaza, say Israel-based human rights groups

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  • Oh of course, just like how Netanyahu reassured us that the (Israeli newspaper) Haaretz reporting of Israeli soldiers admitting war crimes was mere blood libel.

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  • I think that PSU is larger than necessary for running a PC with a single graphics card - I haven't done the maths but it's probably comfortably under 850W (a common PSU size). (l should have done the maths, judging by the responses)

    The memory is huge but fractionally "slow" at CL32 - I'd say 32GB of CAS latency 30 memory would make more sense (or even CL28). With such premium kit, you might even be able to use DDR5-6400 (running at 1:1 mode).

    It's a huge price though - a really good PC should cost about a half of that (or even a third depending on your local prices), those components are in the "money's no object" end of the range. It does match what you asked for, so if you don't mind the price it's a solid build using all of the latest and greatest speeds and versions.

  • Brits can get around Discord's age verification thanks to Death Stranding's photo mode, bypassing the measure introduced with the UK's Online Safety Act. We tried it and it works—thanks, Kojima

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  • I think that credit cards are unambiguously tied to you, whereas a photo could be a bunch of people. I appreciate that having someone take a photo of you before you go to a porn site isn't exactly anyone's idea of a utopia.

  • Brits can get around Discord's age verification thanks to Death Stranding's photo mode, bypassing the measure introduced with the UK's Online Safety Act. We tried it and it works—thanks, Kojima

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  • The techies implementing it probably knew this, but hoped that people would just quietly do it and not blast the news all over the internet. Nope!

    I guess soon there will be only the more intrusive/trackable options like credit card or bank details.

  • Geordi needs to delegate his department better.

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  • I've been rewatching TNG and reading the trivia afterwards and I always forget to look out for the 47 references. Some people go too far and "find" tortuous references that are more like numerology.

  • ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing

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  • When I say I don't accept, I don't mean I live in denial, I mean I don't acquiesce - I resist it, whether that be by avoiding services/products, paying for premium, installing ad blockers or modding things to remove telemetry.

    I am aware that my phone company knows where I am and I'm on cameras, but I'm not going to make it easy for the next Cambridge Analytica.

  • 'Clanker' is social media's new slur for our robot future

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  • I can't believe these bigots are so casually using the c-word

  • ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing

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  • I'm assuming this is a young group, and they've grown up in the always-connected, always-surveilled modern world.

    I've met plenty of people that are surprised or even suspicious when I say that I try to avoid corporations and governments tracking me. I guess the Overton window has shifted so that people expect and accept constant surveillance.

  • We spoke with one of the founders of DICE about their first game

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  • I thought that was Pinball Dreams from the thumbnail, I loved that game! I played it to death on the Amiga. And Pinball Fantasies too, but I don't recognise the name Pinball Illusions.

    We knew that the game was going to be cracked, given that we ourselves did some cracking and distributing of cracked copies. So was not really a big thing, but we did put in some crack detections that altered some of the scoring and ball physics in later games, that was never fixed by the crackers so they played worse than if you owned the original game.

    That's quite funny.

  • Linux users are about to face another major Microsoft Secure Boot issue

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  • Has anyone here generated their own keys? I'd looked into it before and it didn't seem too complicated (but never tried).

  • Israel kills Palestinian journalist and family in Gaza strike

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  • Her death brings the total number of journalists killed by Israeli forces since October 2023 to at least 231, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office.

    The Committee for Protecting Journalists has been tracking numbers of journalists killed and recently there's been a massive uptick from the average of 80 a year between 2003 and 2022.

  • Major Rule About Cooking Meat Turns Out to Be Wrong

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  • It's more like the rule is right for the wrong reason, but it's an interesting article - even if it does feel like an ad for that fancy thermometer at times.

  • My cat Candy and Poppy inspired me to build a free tool for all cat owners (cat tax included!)

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  • Great project, great domain name, brilliant stuff.

  • My cat Candy and Poppy inspired me to build a free tool for all cat owners (cat tax included!)

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  • If memory serves, virtually all of them have high nitrate levels, which cats, dogs etc don't clear out very well, leading to risk of nitrate poisoning. (Or perhaps it's nitrates, but either way.)

  • Exhausted man defeats AI model in world coding championship

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  • On the name of LInux

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  • I didn't know Calvin's dad was into Unix.

  • What's Happening to Reading?

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