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Deebster

@ Deebster @infosec.pub

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

  • NHS nurse ordered to remove ‘antisemitic’ watermelon video call background launches legal action

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  • Watermelons became symbols of Palestine amid censorship of the Palestinian flag because of its similar colours.

    Ah, ok - before reading I thought someone had got their stereotypes mixed up.

  • xkcd #3104: Tukey

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  • This reminds me of Charles Babbage's response to being asked if his computer would give the right answer if the wrong numbers were entered:

    I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

    I've been tempted to drop this line in meetings more than once.

  • Occurences of swearing in the Linux kernel source code over time

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  • I think a lot of people don't realise how much of what makes "them" them is gut biome and your brain retrospectively assigning yourself agency for actions your body decided on (flinching from hot surfaces is one).

    We just keep finding more ways that gut bacteria influence our diet and behaviour. And if you obey your gut flora and eat sugar instead of protein, you'll allow them to increase which expands their influence over you. Or that part of you, since where's the line?

  • Vomiting Emoji

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  • This reminds me of those games where you start off with water, wind, earth and fire and combine them to make new elements, which you then combine to make new elements, etc.

    I wonder how the code works on emojikitchen.

  • TIL there's a solar powered pink refrigerator in the Namib Desert

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  • Imagine stumbling upon a fully operational pink refrigerator, stocked with cold beverages, nestled incongruously in the heart of this arid wilderness. It's not a hallucination or a mirage—it's a deliberate and whimsical creation by the Namibia Tourism Board, designed to surprise and delight weary adventurers.

    Those two sentences pretty much cover it.

  • How GitLab decreased repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes with a fix to Git

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  • Seem ok to me, both in grammar and what it's saying about the change. O(N²) to O(N) would be an exponential drop (2 down to 1, in fact).

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    Why are you here and not on Reddit?

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  • Not using Lemmy, but there are other options that can do both thread/Reddit style and microblog/Twitter style like mbin. Personally, I find them so different that I'm happy to stick with different accounts on different sites.

  • if vibe coders built houses

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  • I'm not sure I understand your reply, but if your second sentence is saying that this image is AI-generated then you might like to know that this building is in Belgium and there's other photos online.

  • Spaiar vs. Spaiar

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  • I was watching the gameplay of the old Amiga Spy Vs Spy the other day (didn't seem as good as I remembered)

  • Is public WiFi actually dangerous?

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  • Why do Americans want to know the month first and the day second?

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  • Not for me, e.g. "remember, remember the fifth of November" is how we remember the date of Guy Fawkes Night in the UK. "Fourth of July", "14th of February", "First of April", etc.

    I guess you mean in the States, but perhaps they say it that way because they write their dates M-D-Y.

  • TIL: UnitedHealthcare Caught Paying Off Nursing Homes to Let Seniors Die Because Hospital Transfers were “Too Expensive”

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  • I wonder if this news will influence Luigi Mangione's jury.

  • Your help needed: PhD research on why people choose to self-host

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  • Also there's that a file on a cloud service might change. E.g. Amazon sometimes updates ebook covers to advertise that there's a show - even for those who have paid extra to have the ad-free option.

    E.g. the sticker-type graphic on this and that the title is updated to "The Fires Of Heaven: Book 5 of the Wheel of Time (Now a major TV series)":

  • Self-hosting is having a moment. Ethan Sholly knows why.

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  • Podlet is really useful in this area.

  • xkcd #3093: Drafting

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  • xkcd #3092: Baker's Units

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  • It's a shame that it looks a bit stupid in Voyager (post title and link are both next to each other and the same) but hopefully it's an outlier.

  • xkcd #3090: Sail Physics

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  • If you upload an image, the URL field is populated with the URL of the uploaded image, so there's not really multiple fields like it appears.

    I can definitely change the template, although I won't edit the bot before the next comic which might be any second now.

  • xkcd #3090: Sail Physics

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  • Bot author here - I thought that the current implementation was a big improvement because it meant you didn't have to load up an external website but I should have known that not everyone would be happy!

    Looking at the votes for the comments for and against this idea, it looks like if it went to a vote the current setup would win, but I'll think about how it can be improved.