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ptz

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Ask me anything.

I also develop Tesseract UI for Lemmy/Sublinks

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Worf does not look pleased to be on that particular away mission.

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Peter Griffin dressed flamboyantly asking people to not look at him and that he does not want this attention.

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That's....literally the same process trolls use.

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I disagree you're helping smaller instances in any way and posit that you're making the fediverse worse with that practice.

You're creating and abandoning accounts on the regular. Those accounts federate out to every instance the home one is linked to and exist in perpetuity. We're talking several thousand instances or more. All filling up with abandoned accounts from the same person.

This post isn't the flex you think it is.

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But they're not real accounts; just abandoned burner accounts. I would hardly call that growth.

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I mean, you're right, it kind of is provoking an "immune" response 🤷🏻‍♂️. Several UIs already add badges to new accounts since trolls spinning up new accounts to ban-evade is an ongoing problem.

I maintain a Lemmy UI, and I'm now adding a feature to let people hide new accounts; they can specify a minimum age and only accounts older than that will be shown in communities they're not a moderator of.

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Re: landlines

Technically they are from the CO (central office) once they hit the carrier's trunk.

Re: Cell phones

I'm not sure about 3G, but VoLTE (voice over LTE) is VoIP.

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Totally agree.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_PFlKYoALw

I....don't hate that cover.

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Ha, yeah.

The first time I saw the video for this song, I wasn't familiar with Tenacious D nor had I seen the movie Airplane!. So much of it was lost on me 😆

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I love that. lol

Specifically, when that happens to critics; they invent a whole ethos and message, and the artist is just like "What? I just wanted an ice cream cone."

Edit: Just saw the Clarkson interview video you added. She practically died inside. Oh man. lol.

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Or goats.

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Thank you!

I knew that photoshop reminded me of someone, but I could not place it. Funny they're both con-artists 😆

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The entire Republican party needs checked for brain worms.

The Sisko is linear... ( lemmy.world )

(note: because a similar meme in another Lemmy community resulted in lots of angry comments yesterday... I should clarify that this "men do _ instead of therapy" is a common meme format and is 100% a joke. It's lighthearted and not a serious criticism of men, their hobbies, or therapy.)

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I mean, it's either get yourself displaced from linear time or turn yourself into a pickle. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Assuming $25 per meal, that $90M could have fed 1.2 million people for a day (3 meals/day). Or fewer people for a longer period of time.

Instead, it was spent on hatemongering.

The wrong people have money.

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Oh, don't even get me started on that. lol. I had a very long rant about that earlier this year with a family member.

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Probably. lol. You look out the window to see what's making all that racket, and you see their logo on their truck / shirts.

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More like a replay of the same train wreck we already watched in slow motion. He planned the same thing on the last election.

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The moment you think you understand it, that superposition collapses and you're back to "huh?"

Every damn time.

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I'm more like the NX-01 where the damage doesn't get rebooted between episodes.

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Ablative plot armor. Hmm. Wonder if there's meme potential in that? 🤔

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Took me a minute to realize this was in Dad Jokes. When I lived out in the boonies, that was, like, a Tuesday.

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That's literally how I got mine, though from Babbages when they were still a thing. I think I paid like $35 + tax for the unit (which came with Mario Tennis) and Wario Land.

Loved it, but I can see why it failed. Still, 3D Mario Tennis was amazing.

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Yeah, it was a cool concept, but the execution was terrible. For all its faults, the one I can't overlook is the fact that it required 6xAA batteries (that it would chew through in 2-3 hours). LIke, WTF? Its design literally required you to use it on a table/stationary location. They sold an AC adapter for it, but it was a separate purchase.

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Was it? The one I remember clipped onto the back of the controller in place of the battery box. Or did it have a power port on the unit itself ?(it's been forever lol)

My OG Game Boy had a 6v DC input on the side. My off-brand rechargeable pack for it plugged in there instead of clipping into the battery compartment.

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Olives are gross as a food/garnish. Their oil, though, is not. I will put olive oil, Parmesan, and basil on literally anything, and it comes out delicious.

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When they become climate change refugees, my worst impulses are telling me to treat them the way they treat other migrants.

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Cape Fear

The family goes into witness protection and Sideshow Bob finds them on their houseboat. To buy time, Bart gets him to sing the entire score of the HMS Pinafore.

Also has my favorite gag where Sideshow Bob is surrounded by rakes.

https://media4.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExZjduenU0OWltcDAzMW83a3Ixdmd1eDBwOWRzNnhjaHd5MmszNDIzOSZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/RSOUOj8H9A3Xq/giphy.gif

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Seems like solar power with extra steps lol.

(Sun -> Plants -> Food for people/other food)

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True. All just inefficient ways of harnessing fusion power.

Connected cars’ illegal data collection and use now on FTC’s “radar” ( arstechnica.com )

The Federal Trade Commission's Office of Technology has issued a warning to automakers that sell connected cars. Companies that offer such products "do not have the free license to monetize people’s information beyond purposes needed to provide their requested product or service," it wrote in a blog post on Tuesday. Just...

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Carnac the Magnificent holding an envelope to his head predicting the contents

In 6 months, automakers will be suing all the way to the Supreme Court challenging the FTC's regulatory authority (like every frigging industry is doing for every regulatory body nowadays).

!RemindMe months

They're like a bunch of petulant children screaming, "I don't want to, and you can't make me!".

Connected cars’ illegal data collection and use now on FTC’s “radar” ( arstechnica.com )

The Federal Trade Commission's Office of Technology has issued a warning to automakers that sell connected cars. Companies that offer such products "do not have the free license to monetize people’s information beyond purposes needed to provide their requested product or service," it wrote in a blog post on Tuesday. Just...

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I'm predicting, like every other industry is doing to every other regulatory agency, they'll be suing all the way to the Supreme Court challenging the FTC's regulatory authority. :sigh:

ptz ,
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I'm with you on that.

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I've never used an AI image generator, so why start now? lol. Though I did use Google image search to find "train with rocket on it" which probably does use ML under the hood to classify images. So it's not completely devoid of irony lol.

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Same. I don't mind it as an option if that's what some people want, but stop "enhancing" the default experience with it and shoving it down my throat. No lo quiero.

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I fear that as well. I use Searx-NG at home, so am expecting that to start dying a death of a thousand cuts soon.

Was thinking about standing up (or contributing to) either YaCY or Stract, but you made a good point about the bot allowances for the Googlebot et al crawler UAs. Wonder how frowned upon it would be to spoof the crawler UA in a self-hosted one?

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s it because you expect other search engines to follow suit until there are no search engines anymore, only hallucination machines?

Basically, yeah.

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......yeah.

I had that thought after I replied when I realized that most of the reputable search crawlers will publish the IPs/ranges they use in addition to the UA. The disreputable ones (cough Bytedance cough Xiaomi cough) will just spoof Chrome on Windows 10 and flood you with requests from AWS datacenters in Shanghai or Singapore.

That said, I may still continue looking into working with one of the actual self-hosted search engines (vs meta search) and see how well that works.

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On the bright side, at least it wasn't labeled as "up to 10 bars" like ISPs get away with.

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