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  • Mexit, not Brexit, is the new priority for the UK

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  • Or Windex.

  • Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source

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  • I kind of wish this headline just kept going.

    Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source, bad taste in music, murdered family of five

  • I wonder how many people throughout history have confused Eye Floaters with ghosts, UFOs, or other paranormal phenomena

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  • I'm thinking about my eye floaters roughly 200% of the time and I still mistake them for bugs flying past my face at least once a week.

  • PokeGENDA

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  • I checked, whoever CONEY is isn't saying these things, it's a reaction video making fun of the satanic panic around Pokémon. That's why in the profile pic he looks like one of those dudes who would make an outrageous reaction face in the thumbnail, because he usually does. No shade, except for the obvious shade.

    EDIT: I'm watching the OG video (35 damn minutes); favorite pull quote so far:

    The danger of Dungeons & Dragons or any kind of role-playing game like this is that it's played with the mind and--when played with the mind--the mind begins to lose that fine line with what's real and what's fantasy. And the more you get into the fantasy world, the more it seems real and all of a sudden now, you don't know what's real or what's not.

    Seems like.

    EDIT2: Hold up though, is this guy working undercover for Prima Guides or something?

    And now, parents, if you're not up on Pokémon, you need to be. And one of the things you can do is go out and buy the official Pokémon Trading Card Game Player's Guide. And you can get this at any store that sells any of the Pokémon stuff. I mean anything. You can get it like at Toys 'R' Us or any of those places that sell any of the Pokémon.

  • Paranoid Hegseth Ordered to Quit Polygraphing Pentagon Staff

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  • This was so funny I had to double-check the linked article: yes, this part is also real.

  • Dating App That Lets Women ‘Rate’ Men Hits Number 1 on the App Store, Immediately Suffers Data Breach

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  • "Rate" in the headline feels a bit misleading. It's not an app for quantifying hotness, it seems to be more about checking whether the men you meet online are safe to be around. You can upload their photos to do reverse image searches to detect catfishing, search public records for criminal records, sex offender registries, indications that they're already married, etc. and have anonymous discussions about men you are or have dated in case of any red flags.

  • Top employer in each state, 1990 vs 2024

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  • Sounds like you've never had to endure Amateur Services.

  • TIL that from 1264 to 1827, anyone who received a Master of Arts degree from Oxford had to swear that they would never forgive Henry Symeonis. By 1608, no one knew who he was or what he had done

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  • For those who didn't follow the link:

    But what was the reason for Henry’s condemnation by the University to five and a half centuries of infamy? It was a murder. In 1242 he and a number of other men of the town of Oxford were found guilty of murdering a student of the University. Henry and his accomplices were fined £80 by King Henry III in May 1242 and were made to leave Oxford as a result, forced to stay away (and allowed no closer than Northampton) at least until the King returned from abroad.

    Further research is needed to discover the exact details of what happened here but it seems that Henry Symeonis had bought the King’s pardon and his permission to return to Oxford. The King was willing to allow his return if the University agreed to it. But the University refused and chose to ignore the King’s order of 25 March 1264, resuming its hostility to Henry Symeonis. In fact, it felt so strongly about it, that it gave Henry Symeonis the unique honour of being named in its own statutes, making the University’s dislike of him official and perpetual.

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  • Pascal's family left Chile when he was nine months old, so it would be a lot weirder if he did have a Chilean accent.

  • This man lies more than he speaks

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  • I would kind of argue it's Fox News that lied on this one. They edited down his full response which was a lot more sketchy about whether he would release the files.

    In the interview, co-host Rachel Campos-Duffy asked whether Trump would declassify “9/11 files” and “JFK files.” He said yes without hesitation. Then she asked, “Would you declassify the Epstein files?”

    His answer, as it initially aired: “Yeah, yeah, I would.”

    But in the full version that only aired later, Trump said, “Yeah, yeah, I would. I guess I would. I think that less so because, you don’t know, you don’t want to affect people’s lives if it’s phony stuff in there, because it’s a lot of phony stuff with that whole world. But I think I would, or at least—”

    Campos-Duffy interjected and said, “Do you think that would restore trust? Help restore trust?”

    Trump hedged again: “I don’t know about Epstein, so much as I do the others. Certainly, about the way he died. It’d be interesting to find out what happened there, because that was a weird situation and the cameras didn’t happen to be working, etc., etc. But yeah, I’d go a long way toward that one. The other stuff, I would.”

    His actual answer hedges on how much or whether he'd release any of the Epstein files and especially the actually damaging stuff, preferring to release only the stuff about how he died while casting aspersions about the reliability of the whole ... pedo jet and island part. Fox edited him down to a more agreeable position than the one he actually held.

  • Free Speech Booth, St Louis airport

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  • "OK, have fun. Enjoy your right to free speech. The armed forces welcomes your dissent."

  • Day 369 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing

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  • If you don't mind revealing (hi ninjas), how were you playing this on PC? Only, there's a lot of options these days. There's the time-tested N64 emulators, but more recently we've got two new methods:

    The PC port of the source code decompilation:

    And the recompilation of the binary:

    For anybody who's unfamiliar with decomps ports and recomps, they have outwardly similar results but are achieved using very different methods.

    Using the old "source code == recipe" analogy, a decompilation is where you purchase a meal and take it back to the lab where a team of scientists painstakingly analyze it to uncover the original recipe that made it, both in terms of ingredients and the cooking method. Once you have that, you can either make an exact copy of the meal or change it to suit your preferences. Dropping the analogy for a minute, you can modify the game any way you like and even go as far as building it for completely different platforms, across as many CPU architectures as you like.

    Recompilation is a bit harder to describe using the recipe analogy, because at no point do you actually uncover what the original recipe was. Let's say you have a fancy Klingon delicacy prepared which is utterly inedible to humans. Unfortunately, you are human. Without knowing how it was made, you feed the dish into the back end of a replicator, which puts it back together in a form which offers the same flavor profile but is edible by humans. In this analogy, the Klingon meal is a game built for the Nintendo 64's MIPS CPU, while your human anatomy requires food for an x86-64 CPU. However, you can't feed the output to a Vulcan for the same reason you couldn't eat the Klingon meal.

    As an end-user, the result doesn't change that much if your goal is just to play Mario Kart 64 on PC. Decompilation is the more labor-intensive process which eventually results in a more flexible "recipe" you can mix around as you like, while recompilation gets you a meal without necessarily helping you understand what went into it or how to make it yourself or change its composition to your preference. Both of these analogies undersell the amount of work that goes into either approach, so I do apologize for making it sound as easy as the sci-fi technology suggests.

  • My mom found my great-grandfather's discharge paper from the US army. It's 107 years old.

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  • As a male kinder teacher I agree more needs to be done to protect children. But the solution is not to vilify people like me

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  • You might be missing the context, which is that an Australian childcare worker, who is a man, and who was in the industry for about a decade and had access to over a thousand children in that time, was recently arrested on child sexual abuse charges relating to a number of those children.

    This has prompted a lot of editorial inches on the myriad problems in the for-profit childcare industry and how they compounded to allow this situation to occur for so long. I haven't seen any coverage that blamed men, but there have been a few talking about the prejudice against men who want to work with children and the suspicion directed at them, especially right now.

    Nobody sensible is actually suggesting that the solution is to vilify men who work with children, that's just a side effect of the revelation that a man who worked with children was a child molester. This piece is simply trying to redirect some of that reflexive distrust toward reforms that could actually make childcare and similar industries safer for children.

  • Why do people hate coldplay?

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  • There were definitely backlashes to big popular artists of prior decades, like Elvis and the Beatles. Partly it was couched in that "They're corrupting the youth" conservatism, but also anything that's popular with tween and teen girls tends to catch a lot of flack regardless of whether or not it's deserved. Think Twilight or One Direction. I don't care for either, but they both became out-sized hate figures for weird adult men. There was no shortage of enraged nerd hot takes when that sparkly vampire guy was cast as Batman.

    I think Coldplay is kind of on the same page. Which is obviously faint praise, but they have a sort of inoffensively palatable sound which is both the reason they're so successful and the thing people dislike about them. But it's probably not worth getting angry about.

  • Did you hear about the butcher who backed into his grinder?

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  • That's a shame, I've only heard good things about putting your butt on Grindr.

  • 800 children to be tested for STIs as police investigate accused Melbourne childcare paedophile

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  • The for-profit childcare system in Australia is profoundly broken. They're chronically understaffed and the pay is awful to boot, so there's tons of burnout and staff turnaround as people move around trying to get hours at different locations, etc. I don't know that 27 different gigs over a decade is actually that unusual in the sector.

    If you're interested, ABC News Australia did an article on it:

    Fair warning, there are some pretty unpleasant descriptions in the article of things that have been done to kids in the system.

  • Since we're doing magic eyes now...

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  • Same here basically, cross-eyed viewing is super easy for me but I have to work for minutes to perform wall-eyed viewing. I was really excited to see a post with cross-eyed stereograms.

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  • Occasionally they take the "investigation bungled by police" angle, but that's the exception rather than the rule.

  • Australian Politics @aussie.zone
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    Watch Peter Dutton lose his seat, live

    www.abc.net.au /news/elections/federal/2025/guide/dick
  • Canada @lemmy.ca
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    Liberal Bruce Fanjoy topples Pierre Poilievre in Carleton | CBC News

    www.cbc.ca /news/canada/ottawa/canada-federal-election-2025-carleton-pierre-poilievre-results-1.7515695
  • Australian Politics @aussie.zone
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    Suffering from minor party confusion? Some links I found helpful

  • Firefox @lemmy.world
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    A look at Firefox forks - LWN

    lwn.net /Articles/1012453/