Skip Navigation

InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)N

nfh

@ nickhammes @lemmy.world

Posts
0
Comments
239
Joined
3 yr. ago

  • Andrew arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office as King says 'law must take its course'

    Jump

  • Yeah that's the surname used by members of their family who don't get the Prince/Princess title, since princesses and princes don't need surnames for some reason.

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

    Jump

  • To be fair, we'll probably get there at some point. There are some reasonable large size/viewing distance pairs where 8k can make a difference.

    But you're right, we're not there, and we're not especially close. Maybe in 8-10 years, it'll be a more serious endeavor. But it's probably not an upgrade most people will get much out of then.

  • YSK facts about renewable vs fossil, and more

    Jump

  • He's really good at making topics you might not expect to be interested in into really good videos. Dishwashers, heat pumps, and so many more

  • ‘Repatriate the gold’: German economists advise withdrawal from US vaults

    Jump

  • Also the Soviet Union during the Cold War was much closer than Russia is today. Part of Germany was under Soviet control, and the Western capitol was Bonn, several hundred kilometers from the border. Modern Russia is a bit further than that, with a whole county between them.

  • ICE’s Facial Recognition App Misidentified a Woman. Twice

    Jump

  • If you dig far enough, there's a chance you even find some sexist bullshit in there somewhere

  • NHS defends cousin marriages because ‘only 15 percent lead to birth defects’

    Jump

  • It also compounds over generations; if you're the child of first cousins, you really should seek someone who it would take genealogy research to find a common ancestor with. If you're not, it's still a serious risk to have kids with anyone too closely related, but level ramifications seem really harsh, especially thinking of situations like adoption where someone could end up there accidentally. And to your point, it isn't the only way to end up with that kind of risk profile.

  • Took you a while...

    Jump

  • He did just reacquire ownership of GOG. Porting software can take time, but this actually might happen in the near future, at least a beta version.

  • Protesters decrying the killing of Renée Good know what they saw with their own eyes.

    Jump

  • They believed what they did about Jewish people, the queer community, and communists, about as much as modern MAGAs do about the queer community, immigrants, and "Marxists", and for basically the same reasons. The Nazis practiced cruel violence for propaganda purposes too. There are differences to be sure, but I don't think you'll find they're not huge or terribly ideological.

  • Pope Leo calls for Venezuela to remain an independent country

    Jump

  • The Papal states, which was the middle ages version of Vatican City, didn't exist for a period of almost 60 years, when modern Vatican City was first recognized as a nation, in the Lateran treaty.

    At some level, it's a question of whether you view Vatican City as a new successor state, or a continuation of the former Papal states. The treaty framed it as a new state, which is at least an interesting historical fact.

  • Could he 0ass the test?

    Jump

  • No, it's tricky for native English speakers too, and that's the point. It's a literacy test that was given to black people in Louisiana in order to justify taking away their right to vote

  • New York teachers stunned to learn some students can’t read time on old clocks after phone ban comes into play

    Jump

  • That's not necessarily true, how clocks display time, and how they maintain time don't have to match up. You can get digital or analog clocks that keep time by setting them then using a quartz clock to count the passage of time. You can also get digital or analog clocks that talk to a network time server, and can keep within tens to low hundreds of milliseconds easily. Gear-driven analog clocks are reasonably common, and you can even find a gear-driven clock with a digital face, though those are more of a gimmick.

    Obviously, a clock with an analog face that speaks NTP is digital electronics, and there's a certain aesthetic loss, in that something like a grandfather clock that does this is a silly thing to make. But you absolutely could if you wanted to.

  • What Americans in a 1998 poll expected to happen by the year 2025

    Jump

  • There have been a small number of cases where it actually worked, but to my knowledge nothing universally applicable. AIDS treatments, however, have become so good that the disease is no longer seen as a major problem of our times.

    We have a type of stem cell treatment used in extreme blood cancer situations that had cured a number of people of AIDS. To my understanding, it should work for most patients, but it's a risky and extreme enough procedure that it's not worthwhile compared to the standard treatment regimen. But if you also get leukemia, the treatment might cure both diseases.

    Cancer is not one disease, at best you can cure a small specific subset of cancers.

    With one given treatment, maybe. As far as I'm aware, there aren't any cancers that are in principle untreatable, though a handful are very difficult to cure people from. We have a wide variety of treatments for a wide variety of cancers, some of which are now really close to 100%.

  • How much money should one person realistically make or have?

    Jump

  • Getting to direct where every dollar goes above a billion is a huge amount of power. A single person deciding how to spend millions or billions of dollars to do what they deem to be improving society? They may do some good things, but a democratic process would probably do better overall.

  • Deleted

    Permanently Deleted

    Jump

  • You can run a VM in Windows. Virtualbox is what I've used in the past, and it's pretty good. It's obviously work to set up, but you can revert a VM and use it to test other sketchy software if you need

  • Deleted

    Permanently Deleted

    Jump

  • My household is down to one old MacBook not running Linux, I use firefox for most browsing, lemmy obviously, I've replaced a bunch of nonfree tools with things like krita, and host a number of things on docker.

    But I also have an old Plex lifetime pass, and haven't moved to jellyfin, functionally need an Android (or iOS) phone for work purposes, and fully abandoning corporate software like social media is hard, because so much communication happens there. I've used my own domain for email since college, so I have the option to move, but self hosting email is a very big step, and I don't have the time to do it right. It's small in some ways, but I try to run proprietary things in-browser rather than native builds when practical.

  • Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux

    Jump

  • Have you tried a user agent switcher?

  • Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage

    Jump

  • Asking whether the project uses AI responsibly means you either need to define responsibly in a way that people can apply objectively, noting that everyone will have opinions about whether it's a good definition. Or you leave it undefined and the answer basically means nothing.

  • We'll never forget whatshisname

    Jump

  • Instead he became a modern George Lincoln Rockwell.

  • It says a lot when even the meth users don’t want the right around.

    Jump

  • It turns out, when you kick people out of a community for being toxic, racist, or otherwise counterproductive to maintaining a community... they go form a right wing spinoff of that community. I feel like it says a lot that when you kick people out for traits that aren't "being right wing", they form communities around that shared identity.