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NeatNit

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  • Well. That escalated quickly

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  • OP posted the two pages in the wrong order, so you (and I) saw page 2 before page 1.

  • Password123!

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  • Well, sort of. They're not for secutiry, that's for sure. They were originally about making it harder for automated bot requests to go through and overload the server. ReCAPTCHA then started turning it around to make OCR better using machine learning, which is commonly agreed to be a Good Thing since it helped digitize old books and things like that. But of course, this in turn made it possible for bots to get past the CAPTCHA, and everything spiraled from there.

    At some point everyone kind of forgot the real point of a CAPTCHA, and it's now much more of a free training data generator and much less of an obstacle for bots. But it still can prevent complete rookies from making thousands of requests per second with a simple python script, so it does serve a little bit of that original purpose.

  • Password123!

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  • Love this webcomic. Original source: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/014.html

    It's an open-source comic. The Krita project with all the original layers is free to download, and the SVG and text for the speech bubbles is hosted on git so it can be translated to many other languages. I've never seen a webcomic do this before, it's really neat. And of course, the artwork is just beautiful!

    It's an awesome comic.

  • everywhere

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  • If you watch enough Only Connect, this becomes trivial :P

  • everywhere

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  • If they're as useless and ambiguous as they are in English, we're doing fine without them, thanks :)

  • everywhere

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  • I'm sure all languages get proportionally similar amounts of flak, but crucially it's in their own language. You don't see anyone making fun of Korean because you (presumably) don't speak Korean and don't go to the same kinds of forums where such mockery is more likely.

    Source: I speak Hebrew and we make fun of Hebrew all the time.

  • Breakthrough Triple Therapy Eliminates Pancreatic Tumors in Mice Without Resistance, CNIO Study Shows

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  • It still is a choice, and certainly not an easy one.

  • i need sleep

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  • Incandescent bulbs like that in the picture don't really flicker. They might pulsate a little bit but even at their faintest they would still have significant light output.

    Some LED bulbs do flicker though, it depends on how they implement the AC to DC conversion. If they flicker, it is easily noticeable to the human eye, especially when looking at motion.

  • What technologies are constant failures but we can't stop trying to make work?

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  • Too true :(

  • Why I gave up electronics club

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  • Refusing to turn reality on its head for a null change in the end is something else entirely.

    I do agree with you, just want to give voice to the other side of this. Don't underestimate just how much of a barrier this confusion is in teaching. It's confusing. Students who are new to electricity almost universally hate this, and in some cases it can cause misunderstanding, miscommunications, etc. There is a genuine cost to this mislabeling, and there would have been effectively no cost if electrons' charge was considered positive instead of negative.

    As I said, I do agree that in practice, with all the existing knowledge, writings and technologies that all agree that electrons are negative, it would be a global disaster if the labeling was switched. There's no question about it. But I kind of disagree about "null change", it's true that it wouldn't change what we can create or (almost) any of our equations, but it absolutely would make it easier to teach it to future generations.

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  • I don't use one myself for much the same reason as you. But I think a lot of people just need their phone and up to 3 cards (credit card, license/ID of some sort), so a wallet phone case isn't that much bulkier than a simple phone case. Yeah there's other things you'd put in a wallet, but they aren't strictly everyday carry things, so you can put them in a separate wallet or purse/bag and only take that when you need it.

    For my mom I think she just likes a case with a front cover, and it happens to have space for cards so she uses it. So the "bulk" of it is a direct result of what she's after (the front cover), it doubling as a wallet is just a bonus.

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  • I can never see it as cool, maybe because my mom uses one. But it's practical.

  • What’s a cat behavior you secretly find adorable even if it’s inconvenient?

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  • Pretty much all of them, up to and including biting me. 🥰

  • Who spilled cat right by the door?

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  • that is without a doubt the liquidest cat I've ever seen

  • LG joins Sony and TCL in abandoning 8K TV market

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  • I highly doubt they were talking about gaming.

  • Why I gave up electronics club

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  • While funny, this doesn't work because the time traveler told him specifically which one is negative.

  • 1st Feb is #GlobalSwitchDay

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  • Yeah, you're right, and that sucks. Mastodon is much better at this.

  • 1st Feb is #GlobalSwitchDay

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  • The Fediverse's biggest onboarding problem is having too many choices that seem important but don't really matter. Namely, which instance to sign up on. Listing two different platforms that do the same thing and even federate with each other would only make it worse. I'm guessing that's why they only listed one.

    As for why choose one over the other, I don't have a horse in this race, I'm sure they had their reasons.

  • The Universal Operating System

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  • Maybe the necessary codecs just aren't installed in Debian by default? Mint and Ubuntu are targeted at laptops for general use, so it makes sense they'd bundle all Bluetooth codecs in a default installation to be ready for most users. But Debian makes fewer assumptions like that, and is often used for servers, so perhaps they didn't want to bloat it with codecs that many installations will never need.

    I'm just guessing here, but that makes sense to me.

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
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    Comments on this webcomic (SMBC) are only available on the first few days of every month

  • Technology @beehaw.org
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    AI Ruined My Year - Robert Miles

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    How does DNA decide the shape of the body?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Can I install Ubuntu 18 software on Ubuntu 22.04? (Technically Linux Mint 21.3)

  • Israel and Palestine Politics Discussion @lemmy.world
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    Podcast: 'Unapologetic,' young Palestinian-Israeli podcasters advocate for a third narrative

    religionnews.com /2023/11/27/in-unapologetic-young-palestinian-israeli-podcasters-advocate-for-a-third-narrative/