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  • FTs

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  • They compromised the official Instagram account then phished its followers for their NFTs.

    The attacker seized control of the BAYC Instagram account and sent a phishing post that many followers were fooled into clicking on, connecting their crypto wallets to the hacker’s “smart contract” – a mechanism for implementing a crypto transaction. That enabled the attacker to steal the assets held in the wallets, seizing control of four Bored Apes, as well as a host of other NFTs with an estimated total value of $3m.

    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/apr/26/bored-ape-yacht-club-nft-hack-theft-art-simian-oblivion

  • last minute quick lemon poppyseed cookies

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  • How solid are they? From the picture it's hard to tell if they have a crisp texture or more chewy, brittle, you get the idea. They sound delicious though, might have to try this.

  • If only...

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  • I grew up before the Internet was mainstream and I don't remember this. We all had access to basically the same information and some of us still had worse or better ideas than our peers. Access was always only one part of the equation; beyond that, you need the information to be useful and accurate (big problem on the Internet), you need the desire to engage with that information, the ability to process and understand it correctly, the ability to discern when factual information is being cherry-picked or otherwise used in misleading ways ...

    If you trip over on any of those points or whatever else I've forgotten to mention, you come out the other end with bad information, access be damned.

  • ‎ ‎ ‎ ඞ

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  • Fucking google did it again, they "fixed" something that never broken. This time they make thumbnails way too big even with 70% zoom

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  • It does, yeah. I'm not sure if there's any advantages to Floorp's implementation or anything else that makes it preferable to upstream or a more shallow fork.

  • Fucking google did it again, they "fixed" something that never broken. This time they make thumbnails way too big even with 70% zoom

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  • Yeah, it's a Firefox floork where the main differentiator is vertical tabs, IIRC.

  • How is nobody talking about the fact that The Simpsons Arcade Game got home ports to DOS and Commodore 64 but not NES, SNES or Genesis -- and didn't arrive on console until Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3?

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  • I wonder how Konami decided which of their licensed beat-'em-ups did or didn't get console ports. In order of release, they go ...

    • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1989 arcade, 1990 NES)
    • The Simpsons (1991 arcade)
    • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time (1991 arcade, 1992 SNES)
    • X-Men (1992 arcade)
    • Asterix (1992 arcade)

    Maybe the answer is just "TMNT was a juggernaut"? The Simpsons was extremely early in its run (mid-season 2) when the game launched. The X-Men cartoon hadn't even started yet. Asterix is just aggressively European. The games probably all did well, but I wouldn't be surprised if the TMNT titles eclipsed them in earnings.

    I don't think it's a hardware capability thing, or we wouldn't have console versions of the TMNT games, either. While the SNES hardware is obviously less capable than the original arcade cab, many consider the SNES port of Turtles in Time to be definitive. There's no reason Simpsons couldn't have been similar.

  • The same picture

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  • In a two-party system like the US, assuming all supporters of a particular candidate share their ideals is folly. There's a major difference between being someone who actively describes themself as a "moderate" or "centrist" and somebody who just happens to be a voter in a flawed democracy.

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  • The Fitbit Sense line is cooked because it was too good for Google

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  • I like how the author says Google killed the Fitbit Sense so they could sell an inferior product without having to compete ... then said author reluctantly buys and recommends that inferior product. I'm way pettier than that. I'd use anything else, even if it sucked, rather than directly reward a company for fucking me over.

  • ruleman meow

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  • Australia 2025 – Wrap-up of the night

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  • I think what they mean is more that when the Coalition does better, the Greens have a better chance of winning than when they do poorly. In theory, the Greens could lose a seat not because Labor did better, but because the Coalition did worse.

    Imagine at the 2022 election, the Greens win a seat on an election that goes like this:

    • Liberal: 10,000
    • Greens: 9,000
    • Labor: 8,000

    The preference flows from Labor go mostly to the Greens and the final 2PP is something like this:

    • Greens: 15,000 (+6,000)
    • Liberal: 12,000 (+2,000)

    Then, at the 2025 election, the Liberal vote collapses. In order to keep the Greens and Labor counts the same, assume the Liberals all just moved out of the district.

    • Greens: 9,000
    • Labor: 8,000
    • Liberal: 7,000

    In this case, after preference flows, the result looks like this:

    • Labor: 13,000 (+5000)
    • Greens: 11,000 (+2000)

    The only change in the primary vote is that Liberal lost 3,000 supporters, but as a result, Labor wins. That's how preferences work, but it is at least kind of weird that the right-wing vote collapsing moves the whole district further to the right instead of the left as you might expect. In a single-seat election like this, the ultimate deciding factor is "Who came third?"

    Viewed another way, if your preferred candidate ultimately lands in second, then your vote was effectively not used at all. Your preferences were never taken into consideration because your candidate never got knocked out. Coming in third at least means your vote can still have an impact on the result.

    The proportional representation system is more intuitive in cases like this. A right-wing collapse simply means that more of the left-wing candidates are elected, at the expense of the right wing. Instead of a right-wing collapse moving the district right, it moves to the left.

  • Watch Peter Dutton lose his seat, live

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  • Ali does what Dutton't.

  • Watch Peter Dutton lose his seat, live

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  • ABC ELECTIONS ANALYST ANTONY GREEN HAS JUST CALLED DICKSON FOR ALI FRANCE.

  • Chances for the fediverse? Elon Musk takes hit as Europeans ditch X in droves

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  • What's the quality like of the people who are still on Twitter in 2025? Does the fediverse want them? (These are real questions, I have no idea if there's still any decent people on Twitter.)

  • Liberal Bruce Fanjoy topples Pierre Poilievre in Carleton | CBC News

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  • Even if that's how it goes, I think his days are numbered. There's 100% a couple of rivals in dark rooms right now, calling around trying to get the numbers to oust him as leader. Whether they'll be successful, I don't know, but this is such a dramatic snatch of defeat from the jaws of victory. It's only been a couple of months since the Conservatives were 30 points up. That can't all be blamed on Poilievre, but there will be those within the party who will. Party unity will be shot.

  • Watch Pierre Poilievre lose his seat, live

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  • Thanks, glad you didn't mind the thread hijack!

  • It was a good night for Carleton

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  • Seriously. If he had said it a couple months ago, that's pretty cocky, but over a year ago? Brass balls.

  • Is electoral reform possible now?

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  • Absolutely, the vote splitting has cut both ways (all three ways, including the Bloc Quebecois). Three broadly left/centre-left parties are competing against a right that is, on the surface at least, united. All three of them stand to benefit from electoral reform in a way that the Conservatives do not.

    Much of the Conservative strategy is around splitting the vote. In a post-electoral reform Canada, that strategy becomes useless and the Conservatives will have to bring something new. Their ability to pivot to a completely new strategy within a single election cycle is questionable, so getting this done is directly in Carney's interest right now.

  • It was a good night for Carleton

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