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  • Evening in Stockholm - 1945

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  • Was this photo from before or after the end of the war? I’m also very impressed by the color; most color photos I’ve seen from that era are not this vibrant!

  • Come on, I left Napster running and my mom got Choco Tacos.

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  • I’m still sad they discontinued Choco Tacos; that was my go-to at ice cream trucks

  • Which living creatures can swim and fly, but not walk?

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  • If they actually generate lift I’d call it flying, but I don’t know if they do

  • The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K

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  • You don’t even need IMAX for 4K; ordinary 35mm film can normal scan to a nice 4K video. Films shot on the 65mm IMAX cameras would probably make good 8K content, but most of that was educational films, not what most people apparently want to watch all the time.

    The digital IMAX projections were actually a step backwards in resolution.

  • How small does a broken potato chip have to be before you consider it a crumb?

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  • Smaller than my fingertip

  • How do you argue against "I have nothing to hide" in relation to privacy and security?

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  • You don’t lock the doors of your house because you have something to hide, you lock it because you have valuable things you want to protect.

    Your dad’s fear is not the government (whether or not it actually should be), but he should have a reasonable fear of criminals taking his money. Technology has made it easier than ever to be robbed but also created better locks than ever to fight the criminals.

  • In a future that will hold robotic police there will surely be robotic house burglars.

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  • Feelgood Friday... what's something you're looking forward to this weekend?

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  • Hopefully a nice snowfall that I can just sit inside and enjoy in my own home. We only get one about every 4 years and we’re due this year. I used to work in local TV and snow was rare enough here that we’d do extended coverage and I’d stay in a hotel by the station instead of seeing it at my house. I’d left the industry by the time the storm came 4 years ago but we had gone to my wife’s hometown because her dad was really sick so we missed it. I think I’ll get to see it this time!

  • Linux Gaming Developers Join Forces To Form the Open Gaming Collective

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  • I’m surprised Valve isn’t a member either

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    Now you gotta share

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  • I don’t know if the picture is just low-resolution/highly compressed, but something seems slightly off and I’m wondering if it’s AI-generated

  • Selling watermelons by day, chip design by night

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  • Everybody has a side hustle

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    Apple’s M3 Silicon Surrenders to Linux: A Technical Milestone for Open Source

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  • For all the breathless enthusiasm from the author, I feel like he’s overselling a lot of the impacts:

    For Chief Technology Officers and IT procurement managers, the viability of Linux on Apple Silicon introduces a complex variable. Historically, engineering teams demanding Linux were relegated to Dell XPS or Lenovo ThinkPad units, which, while capable, often trail Apple in battery efficiency and thermal management. If the M3 becomes a first-class citizen in the Linux ecosystem, organizations may face increased pressure to support Apple hardware for backend engineers and DevOps professionals who require native Linux environments rather than virtualization.

    Corporate purchases typically purchase new products either direct from the manufacturer or from the authorized resale channel. The M3 was introduced over two years ago and the only products I see Apple still selling with the M3 architecture are the Mac Studio (M3 Ultra) and iPad Air (M3). So any IT manager looking to procure a MacBook for an employee would need to find new old stock still in resale channel inventory or purchase a second-hand device, all for something that the article admits is still in an alpha stage of usefulness.

    The progress the Asahi project is making on Apple Silicon is fantastic and important, but I think it will primarily benefit private individuals, not businesses. Perhaps in the future as the developers become more adept at reverse engineering hardware and if Apple makes fewer changes between generations then Linux could start supporting active Apple products, but it’s not there yet.

    With Apple putting M-series chips in iPads and Linux gaining support for those chips, I’ll be very curious to see if we start seeing more Linux tablet support for iPads.

  • Straight into my adblocker

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  • Do you mean specifically from online advertising? Because unless they live in an impoverished country and never buy commercially purchased products they almost certainly have purchased something they’ve seen in an ad. Many people think they aren’t influenced by advertising, because they haven’t seen an ad for Coca-Cola and then immediately gone out and purchased a bottle of Coke, but advertising can be very influential in subtle ways that many people don’t even notice.

  • Ads have a new trick for ad blockers

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  • I’ve never seen that for direct advertisements, only when an article was embedding a video with related content from an outside source like YouTube or Facebook. And it didn’t have to do with the ad-blocker but because I had rejected third-party/social media tracking cookies and those get set by the embedded media.

  • Newegg stock falls 17.7% after owner is detained by anti-corruption authorities in China

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  • I didn’t know it was owned by a Chinese company, nor publicly traded

    Newegg was established in California by Fred Chang in 2001, but Lianluo acquired a majority stake in the privately held company in 2016. By 2021, it had merged with Beijing-based Lianluo Smart Limited, with the company being renamed Newegg Commerce, Inc., finally taking it public. At the moment, Lianluo currently owns 54.5% of Newegg.

  • A process crucial to the system has unexpectedly exterminated

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  • Is history about to repeat itself?

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  • No, this year’s storm hit on a weekend, and didn’t really get going in Raleigh until nighttime. Most people stayed home. That year’s storm arrived pretty much as forecast but a lot of people ignored the forecast because a storm forecast a couple weeks earlier had fizzled out. It was around lunchtime on a weekday and everyone thought they could still stay at work and drive home and it wouldn’t be a big deal. Then the snow came quick and heavy and everyone panicked and tried to go home at the same time, unleashing rush hour traffic on bad road conditions with traffic jams blocking the plows from treating the roads.

  • Cronch

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  • Gummy vitamins, felt something crunch. It was one of my fillings and it got jammed into my gum at a point where it was wider than the gap in my teeth and my dentist had to send me to a periodontist. Needed oral surgery afterwards because of the damage.

  • What kind of job can you never imagine yourself doing?

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  • I could never do most medical care jobs. About the only thing I could do is work in the pharmacy, and even then they sometimes have to give people vaccinations. I might be able to do that but that’s still pushing my general squeamishness.

  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL “sleet” does not have the same meaning in all English speaking countries

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ice_pellets
  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    Maybe sprinkling 1337 into our online texts would make them less useful to AI training

  • Beavers @lemmy.world
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    Look at how proud he is of his work.

  • math @lemmy.world
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    First Shape Found That Can’t Pass Through Itself

    www.quantamagazine.org /first-shape-found-that-cant-pass-through-itself-20251024/
  • Hockey @lemmy.ca
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    Anybody watching tonight’s Whalers at Nordiques game?

  • And Finally... @feddit.uk
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    Firefighters rescue man stuck in slide on Vernon [Connecticut] playground

    www.nbcconnecticut.com /news/local/firefighters-rescue-man-stuck-in-slide-on-vernon-playground/3626381/
  • Bun Alert System @lemmy.sdf.org
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    Photo by @JimsPhotos@ohai.social

  • Offbeat @lemmy.ca
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    Selfies of woman "dripping in diamonds" on cruise led to her arrest for jewelry theft, police say

    www.cbsnews.com /news/selfies-woman-dripping-diamonds-cruise-arrest-jewelry-theft/
  • Books @lemmy.ml
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    What English translation of The Three Musketeers do you like?

  • Comic Strips @lemmy.world
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    Admiral Wonderboat

    Physical Media Forever

  • Comic Strips @lemmy.world
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    Jim Benton

    fffft

  • Microblog Memes @lemmy.world
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    Found this old post. Wonder if they’re still using AOL?

  • IdiotsInCars @lemmy.world
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    Once again: “a bad driver never misses their turn”

  • Crazy Fucking Videos @lemmy.world
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    Moving Freight Train Hit by Tornado (2009)

  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
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    Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit

    www.bbc.com /news/articles/c9vy191rgn1o
  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL The Hayes Barton neighborhood in Raleigh is named after Sir Walter Raleigh's birthplace

    www.britishexplorers.com /woodbury/hayesba.html
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    BlackBerry's iconic keyboard patent has expired

    mobilesyrup.com /2025/02/15/blackberrys-expired-keyboard-patent/
  • Food Crimes - Offenses against nutrition @midwest.social
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    I believe Skyline Chili-flavored ice cream should meet the definition of a food crime

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    The best “I told you so”s are the ones where you never have to say “I told you so” because the other person clearly knows you told them so

  • Electricians @lemmy.world
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    Is this outlet okay?