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  • Google searches for deleting Facebook, Instagram on the rise after Meta ends fact-checking | TechCrunch

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  • Yeah, 

     
        
1 + (1*5000%) = 51

    Honestly I prefer just writing "51 times more frequent".

  • It's a Unix system! Elon knows this!

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  • Waddaya mean we can't just arbitrarily delete stuff of a public server once we know its ip address? It's not fair! 😡

  • Elon Musk reportedly set to have office space in the White House complex

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  • It's not like you couldn't say the same thing about Donald Trump. Yet here we are.

  • The Worst Person You Know Made a Great Point; Asmongold Asks Elon Musk To Prove Legitimacy of His ‘Path of Exile 2’ Account

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  • yes

  • The Worst Person You Know Made a Great Point; Asmongold Asks Elon Musk To Prove Legitimacy of His ‘Path of Exile 2’ Account

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  • He made a post using command line lingo too, but anyone with even basic knowledge of those commands can tell you that both the syntax and the way he alludes to them are wrong.

    It's the equivalent of slinging a guitar in a picture to look cool but pressing the side with the strings against your belly.

  • The Worst Person You Know Made a Great Point; Asmongold Asks Elon Musk To Prove Legitimacy of His ‘Path of Exile 2’ Account

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  • Yeah, what a joke. Especially when Musk is right there in the headline 😞.

  • Why do games like Minecraft require a launcher?

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  • Ah yes, if you've ever had the problem of a game's graphics not working properly but you can't adjust the graphics because it requires you to launch the actual game and navigate the settings menu you will appreciate that. Most games store and read their settings in an external file and a launcher can provide a meaningful way to edit those. That being said there's many launchers who actually don't offer this feature and are just used to shove ads your way or track your behavior.

  • EU law mandating universal chargers for devices comes into force

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  • Imo they should at the very least standardize some color coding and labeling. All charging-only cables are yellow, data cables are blue. Something like that.

  • Microsoft tries to convince Windows 10 users to buy a new PC with full-screen prompts

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  • Ah yes, there isn't even an option to permanently disable this popup, only remind me later. When the operating system is the nag ware. `

  • You shouldn't worry

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  • ¿Does it comment on your life with latent cynicism, in prosaic tone and with a deep, haughty voice like Wayne June (narrator of Darkest Dungeon)? Damn, now I want one too.

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  • i got u covered, fam:

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  • That but it was also just a depiction closer to reality: for instance famine and starvation were a common theme in Grimm's collection of tales (Hänsel & Gretel, the star money, etc). But in the modern world [industrialized west] we know longer have a direct cultural experience of it.

    Similarly gone down have:

    • corporal punishment, mutilation (the girl without hands, Cinderella)
    • indentured servitude, slavery (Rumpelstilzchen)
    • cannibalism (Hänsel & Gretel); note that this in the context of a famine
    • austerity at old age (the Bremen town musicians)
    • despots abusing their power (Snow White)
    • maternal death, parental absence (Cinderella, Snow White)
    • child labor (Cinderella, Mother Hulda)

  • Germany to enforce strict knife ban at Christmas markets

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  • Unfortunately this just amounts to symbolic politics:

    • anyone seriously willing to hurt others will ignore it or find ways around it
    • the general public is mildly inconvenienced by any measures to enforce/control it

  • Asking the real questions

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  • Y̴̥͉͕͌̀ǫ̴̗̅̕u̵̱̾̋͐̚ ̷̡͕͈͛̇h̴̳̱̘̆ä̶̼́̕ṽ̷̬͕è̷͓̰̔̌ ̸̪͋m̷͍͎͙̂́̔ͅy̷̰̘̎́̉ͅ ̷̳͒v̷̭̕o̷̢͚̟͇͒̃͐̕t̴̪̙͗̐͆́ë̶̦͗ ̵̗͌̅p̶̰̫͛̑r̷̨͛̏̈́͝e̷͇͍̋̚͜s̸̳͙̒͘î̶̞̍̍̋͜ͅd̴̰̭͚̞͗ě̶̯̖n̶̩̿̕t̶͎͉̂ ̵̦͂̍̀Z̵̧̲̦̹̾͋a̴̒̑ͅl̷͇̘̝̬͒̊͝ǵ̴̹̣͖'̷͂͜o̴̢͔̱̔ò̷̧͛!̷̦̎͑͆͘ ̵̺̼̜̃̑

  • Asking the real questions

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  • Na, names are about pronunciation (how you call someone). Written letters are an approximation of that. You can't pronounce a newline, so there's that.

  • At what point do you stop calling the years "two thousand and X" and start calling them "twenty X"?

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  • You're on to something but I doubt it's the syllables. Rather it seems about phonetic ambiguity.

    "twentynine" could mean both 29 and 2009, so it's better to use "twothousandandnine" for the latter. "twentyten" cannot be interpreted as 30, only as 2010.

  • had to rescue data via a live USB boot. turns out the USB image got corrupted too

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  • To those saying it's likely hardware damage: nope, luckily not. Booting into a different USB image doesn't produce this. But booting into tone same ISO produces these errors every time (it starts out normal and progressively gets worse over time).

  • What's a good gift for a 2-year old?

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  • Just ask the parents what (s)he likes.

  • TIL about Titivillus a medieval demon that would feed on misspellings, mispronounced syllables and mumbled words. He was considered a natural enemy and tempter of scribes.

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  • There was some degree of standardization. Especially for important legal and religious texts alteration, even if accidental, was considered a sin/vice.

    Scribes very often simply had to produce 1:1 copies of existing texts. So the standard was right in front of them.