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MoonMelon

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  • Someone in Global Times cited BreadDaddyLenin lol

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  • I could see people in the USA reflexively denying this is true because of the dramatic nature of "kill line", but if you used the phrase, "barely keeping my head above water" or, "treading water" they would agree it's true.

  • Very Cuban indeed.

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  • Me either

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  • I just remember it being really expensive. I think it was $4 to rent? Plus the looming potential late fees. Whatever it was, at the time it seemed like a fortune. So you couldn't really fuck around and rent "Mansquito 2: Womansquito" just for laughs because it really was a huge ripoff when a movie sucked, or was damaged, or something. Also the popular movies were never in stock. They would put hundreds of empty boxes on the shelves to make it seem like it was there, but the actual tapes were always gone.

  • A little whimsy should be allowed

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  • The marginalia of medieval manuscripts are often pretty wild. Just my personal theory, but I always thought it seemed like one of the places where the artists could inject a little of their own ideas, elaborating on the subject or drawing parallels, using symbolism, maybe little in-jokes for the client (hours books were made for one person), etc. Sort of like the extra panel of an xkcd comic.

  • How to query the map offline, on Linux?

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  • Can osmium-tool do what you want?

    For example if I go here and export an osm file as pittsburg.osm: https://www.openstreetmap.org/export#map=18%2F40.440748%2F-79.999822

    Then I run osmium tags-filter pittsburg.osm n/amenity=library -o out.osm

    I get an out.osm with a bunch of libraries in it:

     
        
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<osm version="0.6" generator="osmium/1.18.0">
  <bounds minlat="40.438994" minlon="-80.003256" maxlat="40.442501" maxlon="-79.996389"/>
  <node id="367964200" version="3" timestamp="2024-05-21T20:41:15Z" uid="3199858" user="Mateusz Konieczny - bot account" changeset="151646829" lat="40.4417942" lon="-79.9973275">
    <tag k="addr:state" v="PA"/>
    <tag k="amenity" v="library"/>
    <tag k="ele" v="227"/>
    <tag k="gnis:feature_id" v="2429945"/>
    <tag k="name" v="Downtown and Business Branch Carnegie Free Library of Pittsburgh"/>
    <tag k="source" v="USGS Geonames"/>
  </node>
  <node id="367964584" version="4" timestamp="2024-05-21T20:41:32Z" uid="3199858" user="Mateusz Konieczny - bot account" changeset="151646829" lat="40.4397308" lon="-80.0008734">
    <tag k="addr:state" v="PA"/>
    <tag k="amenity" v="library"/>
    <tag k="ele" v="223"/>
    <tag k="gnis:feature_id" v="2430651"/>
    <tag k="name" v="Point Park University Library"/>
    <tag k="source" v="USGS Geonames"/>
  </node>
  <node id="367964938" version="3" timestamp="2024-05-21T20:42:16Z" uid="3199858" user="Mateusz Konieczny - bot account" changeset="151646829" lat="40.4392024" lon="-79.9972654">
    <tag k="addr:state" v="PA"/>
    <tag k="amenity" v="library"/>
    <tag k="ele" v="233"/>
    <tag k="gnis:feature_id" v="2430211"/>
    <tag k="name" v="Carnegie Library of Allegheny"/>
    <tag k="source" v="USGS Geonames"/>
  </node>
  <node id="2127151495" version="3" timestamp="2024-05-21T20:45:12Z" uid="3199858" user="Mateusz Konieczny - bot account" changeset="151646829" lat="40.4407273" lon="-79.9997963">
    <tag k="addr:state" v="PA"/>
    <tag k="amenity" v="library"/>
    <tag k="ele" v="224"/>
    <tag k="gnis:feature_id" v="2430637"/>
    <tag k="name" v="Pittsburgh Downtown Branch Library"/>
    <tag k="source" v="USGS Geonames"/>
  </node>
</osm>

  • London’s murder rate drops to lowest in more than a decade

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  • I don't live in the UK but I got pulled into the UK camper van / canal boat / bushcraft segment of youtube. The recommended videos are often something like "London has FALLEN" on a video featuring a normal street with people walking around, but I guess not enough of them are white. It's a whole subgenre, each channel full of people with St. George's Cross profile pics agreeing wildly in the comments that its all gone to shit now.

    It really is a tragic parallel to what you see on algorithmic "media" in the USA. Every comment section is a gutter where terminally online people circlejerk with fear and hatred as lube.

    Anyway I'm thinking of starting a peertube channel where I upload art videos.

  • Haven't been to a McDonald's since luigis capture. Never will forget. Never will forgive.

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  • I'm not sure I buy the McDonald's worker story, the whole narrative of the arrest seems really bizarre. (Not that I eat their shit food, one way or another.)

  • After 40, we just don't sleep

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  • At some point in my 40s I started doing that medieval "first sleep" and "second sleep" thing where my eyes just blast wide awake at 2am. I don't have to pee, I'm not uncomfortable, I just wake up. I read, take the dog out, brush my teeth again... After awhile I go back to sleep and wake up at the normal time.

    I guess it is kind of nice to do a patrol around and make sure everything is cool, and the dog loves it. It's just kind of weird.

  • I watched several videos on a Combine Harvester's inner workings

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  • Scythes require more specific wind and moisture conditions compared to sickles (as do combines), but they do save a ton of work. My favorite scythe fact is that there is an even faster but more dangerous version called the Flemish Scythe, that is one-handed. From "The Scythe Book":

    ...John Gerard, in his seven- teenth-century Herball, recorded an accident wherein the mower:

    made a wound to the bones, and withall very large and wide, and also with great effusion of blood; the poore man crept upon this herbe (Clownes Wound wort or All-heale), which he bruised with his hands, and tied a great quantity of it unto the wound with a piece of his shirt, which presently stanched the bleeding, and ceased the paine, insomuch that the poore man presently went to his dayes work againe, and so did from day to day, without resting one day until he was perfectly whole, which was accomplished in a few dayes.

    Fucking hardcore.

  • "The closer the collapse of the Empire, the crazier its laws" -Marcus Tullius Cicero

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  • Hic tamen vivit.

  • Circumventing the algorithm

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  • New York’s incoming mayor bans Raspberry Pi at inauguration

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  • Funny it's listed by name. Banana Pi is fine, guys.

  • Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030 - Plans move to Rust, with help from AI

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  • Yeah, I'm old enough to remember this song and dance with Java. Also this isn't like deciding all your javascript should be coffescript. Rust has some pretty big differences. It would be hilarious if the AI just threw a huge unsafe around giant blocks of code.

  • How concerned are you of watermarks in videos or images you share?

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  • They are, if you scroll to the bottom of the github repo that OP posted there are some examples of what works and doesn't work to break it.

    Watermark data like this is stored in the least significant bits of the pixels themselves, or in the case of OPs example, they do a frequency decomposition on the image then store the watermark data in the coefficients. Basically you have to trash the pixel data at least a little bit to defeat it. So cropping or flipping the image won't do it, but resizing or rotating with some kind of filtering will.

    I have no idea how the machine-learning technique listed there is working, and their documentation link is broken :(

  • what was the anime before anime?

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  • Also Dr Who. Our school had a kid who wore a big Tom Baker scarf and hat everyday. I hope he's doing well.

  • A huge chunk of U.S. GDP growth is being kept alive by AI spending ‘with no guaranteed return,’ Deutsche Bank says

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  • The worst part of all of these charades is there isn't even a side-effect benefit for the average person. Our make-work programs don't build roads, they terrorize immigrants. Our "ghost cities" aren't future homes for a rapidly urbanizing population, they are enormous datacenters that actively harm rural communities.

    As someone who enjoys urbex videos, at least I'll get to feast on abandoned datacenter explorations in a few years. Can't wait for that giant hole in the ceiling with a tree growing in the shaft of light surrounded by mounds of rust that used to be nVidia GPUs, the imagery will be great.

  • Is DeleteMe.org real? Looks too good to not be a data stealing scam.

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  • I've tried, it sucks. Each broker has their own process, often several steps, and often a step is broken (like server errors, can't get past a captcha, "try again later", etc). You end up not just having to do the process, but also follow up with many of the ones that are ambiguous or returned server errors or whatnot. I did the top 8 or so brokers and then stopped.

  • What's the best lecture you've seen in 2025?

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  • English as a second language learners: what words were really hard for you to pronounce?

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  • I was listening to a best-selling author's recent audiobook, and the professional voice actress messed this one up. So you're in good company. Really, who can we blame but the Greeks?