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  • Verily, I shake mine head

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  • I'm not a linguist, and the timeline here is vague, but two things:

    • We're in the second-person singular, so "dost", not "doth"
    • Using the auxiliary verb ("do-support") is a fairly modern construct at least in written English; "hatest thou" would be more likely.

  • How would you quickly describe Lemmy to a non-fediverse person?

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  • I'd love to know if my enormous blocklist of instances and communities is unusual or if most people end up curating their global feeds massively to keep them interesting. Anime, porn, US-specific politics, authoritarian-friendly politics, furries, wojak-style barrel-scraping memes - I don't want to downvote most of these just because they're not my bag, but I suspect I end up with a tiny fraction of the total Lemmy+Piefed content.

  • Hamas condemns 'Israeli' tank attack killing 11 family members in Gaza

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  • The news source, Roya, is Jordanian and does not recognize Israel as a state.

  • Am I the only one that finds this absurd?

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  • YMMV, but this problem went away for me when I disabled syncing to my MacBook via WiFi. My guess is that it was caching backup images but never successfully copying and removing them.

  • YSK: Reddit webpage has unblockable trackers, even with Ublock Origin installed

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  • Gandalfs a hobbit hiker

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  • They don't hve extra pointy ears

    But neither do elves, as far as we know.

  • Day 444 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing

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  • He said he was a doctor, but i don't know what kind of doctor smokes over a corpse.

  • TIL all photographic film and photo paper contain gelatin made from animal bones

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  • Two things I can think of: first, that the harvesting process will unavoidably involve killing a lot of lac bugs, even if they're filtered out later, and secondly, that some vegans include insect-produced substances (notably honey) in the things they avoid.

  • Everyone should have a home server (or a friend that has one)

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  • Also addressed in the video! Neither I nor the video creator has any stake in what you choose to do, and I'd prefer not to rehash the whole video for you since it's right there for you to watch if you're interested in this topic, but the main points were generally about reducing subscription costs and gaining better control of content (e.g. no surprise removals of music, videos, and ebooks).

  • Everyone should have a home server (or a friend that has one)

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  • Persist with the video! The text-to-speech is only for a couple of quick screens - the rest is very personal, and they cover a bunch of use cases.

    If you really don't want to, the server OS they recommend around two-thirds of the way through is YunoHost, a beginner-friendly way to run services as containers on any capable spare computer. The YunoHost website has a bunch of use cases that are also covered in the video.

  • Bat science

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  • Bat science

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  • Laser Adventure

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  • ultimate (adj):from Late Latin ultimatus, past participle of ultimare "to be final, come to an end"

  • Oh dear

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  • The combination of eggplant and deluge turned them all into babies. Unable to hunt or communicate, they were wiped out.

  • Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA”

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  • Psst... O, not O' - it's the vocative particle, not a contraction of of or on.

  • China leads nations with new climate plans, defying U.S. climate denial

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  • Solid response, thanks. FWIW, I wasn't trying to suggest that the US is doing well in this regard, just that someone could read the headline and assume that China could reasonably be considered a green country (so to speak).

    Regarding the UK, it's certainly true that domestic manufacture has nearly vanished in the last 50 years, so while a reduced dependency on coal, stricter rules on vehicles, and other similar factors are probably important, I agree that they're also likely not the only type of change that affects this – and if so, that really represents the carbon pollution moving elsewhere, as you've mentioned.

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    A summary of trump

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  • Microsoft doing shady Microsoft stuff again

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  • Firefox is fundamentally fine; a lot of the recent-ish news about it has been sensationalist (and it wouldn't be surprising to find that Google or Brave LLC were seeding it, honestly, though I'm totally speculating).

    The AI stuff is just them exposing the DOM to an LLM of your choice, if you want to, to stay competitive with the other browsers. If the telemetry is an issue for you even when you've changed your settings, use a fork like LibreWolf.

  • China leads nations with new climate plans, defying U.S. climate denial

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  • I'm not sure who downvoted you, but China's carbon emissions p/c have more than tripled this century, and for only two years (up to 2022) in that period have they been less than the year prior, and even then, by tiny amounts.

    Plenty of countries have worse figures (including the US, Canada, and Australia), but unless the trajectory has changed notably since 2022, it doesn't paint a pretty picture. The US has dropped by a third in the same period, though it's much too high.

  • It just confirm my point.

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  • Oh 'shit, here come's an 's.