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Large sheep the size of a small sheep! Late 20's queer sysadmin, release engineer and programmer. Likes tea, DIY, and nerd stuff. Follow requests generally accepted but please have a filled out profile first!

  • The Innovation That’s Killing Restaurant Culture: Delivery has turned America into a nation of order-inners.

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  • @alyaza As someone who's still very covid-conscious and an agoraohbe, takeout being widely available has been a boon. Still, the commentary on the experience lost resonates with me. I generally tend to favor certain kinds of meals that I know are going to tolerate being in 3 layers of container for half an hour and still be pretty good. I don't tend to get apps or dessert, since that just prolongs the degradation. It never occurred to me that restaurants would be actively prioritizing menu items that deliver well, but in retrospect it's obvious, and I think it's a bit sad to think about. There are so many meals that are much better served fresh and plated nicely in courses rather than slopped into a box.

    And before anyone chastises me for being "lazy" or relying on extractive services, I highly favor ordering directly from the restaurant and picking up. The deeply abusive nature of Doordash et al towards both customers and restaurants is not lost on me.

  • What's if instead of a dead internet we end up with a dark forest internet

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  • A Word on Omarchy

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  • Instagram is testing new iOS push notifications that include a profile photo. Each time the notification is shown on your screen, it triggers a GET request to fetch that image, letting Meta track ever

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  • Israeli military says first stages of assault on Gaza City have begun

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  • @knokelmaat @Beachbum If you're referring to the fact that she @ mentioned OP, that's not her specifically trying to call him out. She's responding from Mastodon (as am I) which just handles all post replies like that.

  • Strawberry Music Player fork from Codeberg have been taken down

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  • @brickfrog @faruniversity1990 The dev saying it's about "information on how to fund the project" is being... misleading. Windows binaries from the project are paywalled, so alternate builds being distributed via Winget presents a pretty clear threat to that funding by being free and more convenient. They're well within their right to not distribute their own builds for free, but the misleading way it's framed here is not endearing... especially given this is a fork of another piece of FOSS software that will happily provide you Windows builds.

    As an aside, it really is so much better to have stuff distributed by a package manager. Who the hell wants to download an installer from Patreon for every new release, honestly. Some devs drive me crazy with their insistence on asinine distribution channels.

  • "This Week in Plasma" brings drag'n'drop now made easy, zoom with a gesture, higher quality for the RDP server, per CPU and task monitoring, and many more tasty goodies.

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  • This Week in Plasma brings file transfer progress graphs, per-virtual-desktop custom tile layouts, improved KRunner search result ordering, and much more to your favourite desktop.

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  • Is there any way to un-freeze my device when it freezes, without shutting down and losing my work?

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  • Preferred Pronouns

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  • Ben & Jerry's says parent Unilever silenced it over Gaza stance

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  • @KillingAndKindess @alyaza B&J's have always been quite principled and outspoken about it - they're also staunch critics of the US prison industrial complex.

  • The Benefits of World Hunger

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  • This might also apply to conferences.

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  • @fossilesque Don't forget those of us in the back row because we slept in and got there late!

  • Introducing SUSE Typeface: SUSE’s new open sourced font

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  • Our basic assumptions about photos capturing reality are about to go up in smoke.

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  • @Gaywallet I have a couple thoughts on this:

    1. This seems like a way that device attestation could worm its way further into our devices. Right now Google is trying to watermark AI-generated photos as AI, but you could easily go the other way - if a photo hasn't been manipulated, it's signed with a key that is locked down to device attestation. What, your phone is rooted? That's kinda suspicious - how am I supposed to know your photos are real?
    2. Short of that, though, I suspect that the most likely consequence of this is the videos will start being increasingly seen as necessary for true proof, since those are harder to fake - for now, at least. And of course, there will be a lot more misinformation on the internet, especially in the short term while awareness of this catches up.

  • Vance agrees that raising grandchildren is ‘whole purpose of postmenopausal female’

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  • @MicroWave

    “Why didn't she just keep her job, give us part of the wages to pay somebody else to do it?” he asked. “That is the thing that the hyper-liberalized economics wants you to do. The economic logic of always prioritizing paid wage labor over other forms of contributing to a society is to me ... a consequence of a sort of fundamental liberalism that is ultimately gonna unwind and collapse upon itself.”

    “It's the abandonment of a sort of Aristotelian virtue politics for a hyper-market-oriented way of thinking about what's good and what's desirable,” he added. “If people are paying for it and it contributes to GDP and it makes the economic consumption numbers rise, then it's good, and if it doesn't, it's bad ... that's sort of the root of our political problem.”

    It's really funny when conservatives are like "See the problem with Wokeness is describes capitalism"

  • I Worked For MrBeast, He's A Sociopath

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  • @SPAUZPiMP @scarabic Oh wow, did he literally say "irreducible complexity?" That is SO blatant lol.

  • Sacrilege rule

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  • @zephrc @nifty The character in the drawing is Hatsune Miku, so this is alluding to vocaloid music which could be produced purely digitally as you say.

    Completely agreed otherwise, though.

  • Ladybird web browser now funded by GitHub co-founder, promises ‘no code’ from rivals

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  • @AVincentInSpace @remington The Lemmy devs are infamously difficult to work with. They've repeatedly shown an unwillingness to even acknowledge the existence of the many problems that instance admins face. That has been a big driver in Beehaw's decision to move platforms, not just because of a difference in political views, and they've been pretty open about discussing it. You're way off-base.

  • The Unbreakable Kryptos Code

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  • @remington There are few creators whose videos I will jump to view the instant they drop, and Lemmino is one of them. This is a pretty interesting subject that I haven't heard of, despite it apparently being quite well-known.

    Tbh, Sanborn not being confident/experienced with math and cryptography kinda tracks with his apparent surprise that expert cryptographers cracked a Vigenere cipher in a couple days rather than follow an obscure breadcrumb trail that's still unclear, even after knowing the key. For me, K4's enduring mystery prompts comparison to the Zodiac killer ciphers, which ended up being so difficult to unwind not because they were brilliant ciphers devised by a mastermind, but because the author made a bunch of mistakes. Still, at this point it seems likely that Sanborn has checked his work over multiple times, so maybe there really is just some trick that no one has thought of. He's clearly eager for it to be solved, so we may know in the coming decades!