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jqubed , 1 month ago to greentext in Anon wants to ride a zeppelin

This was nowhere near the only deadly airship disaster, nor was it the last, but that’s not really what ended airship travel. With the advances in airplanes by the end of World War II, lighter-than-air ships just couldn’t compete. Even postwar piston aircraft were cruising at more than 3 times the speed of most airships with range to make nonstop transatlantic crossings, and once the jet age really started to take hold in the ’50s it was all over. I mean, by the ’60s multiple countries had started supersonic passenger aircraft programs. Not a lot of success there, but still there were nowhere near enough customers to support commercial service on airships when faster, cheaper options existed.

jqubed , 1 month ago to til in TIL one of the oldest TV shows was simply called "Sea Stories" on the BBC, featuring Royal Navy Commander A.B. Campbell describing the personalities and places he had seen. No known footage exists.

Given that reel to reel tape recording of television didn’t begin until the 1950s I’m going to say they didn’t. The only way they recorded back then was pointing a film camera at the TV, but this couldn’t really be used for rebroadcast, so I’m guessing a lot of these early TV broadcasts weren’t recorded.

jqubed , 1 month ago to games in Streets of SimCity 27 Years Later: An LGR Retrospective

I always wanted to get that and drive my cities but never did

jqubed , 1 month ago to technology in Slack is now using all content, including DMs, to train LLMs

Yeah, now there is, but I don’t think a lot of those features were in when I first used it over a decade ago. It became a lot more useful over the years.

jqubed , 1 month ago to technology in Slack is now using all content, including DMs, to train LLMs

Does IRC still exist? I remember laughing when I first saw Slack and its early competitors because people were excited about it and when I finally used it I realized it was basically just IRC with a nicer interface. I’m assuming these offer improvements like encryption?

jqubed , 1 month ago to technology in Sony Music opts out of AI training for its entire catalog

The difference being that Sony actually has teams of lawyers who specialize in copyright violations, including unauthorized sampling. If the AI companies are caught using Sony material this won’t go nearly as easily for them as stealing some random blogger’s writings or a small artist’s images.

jqubed , 1 month ago to pcgaming in Next iteration in “one of 2K’s biggest and most beloved franchises” to be announced at Summer Game Fest 2024 Showcase

I’m leaning towards that, but they did announce in February of last year that the next Civ game was in development.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/8ec6e961-d4ad-4d7d-8bb5-f07df180a37d.jpeg

jqubed , 1 month ago to nottheonion in Maine Cybertruck Owner Sad Everyone Hates His Truck

I saw one in person finally a few weeks ago and just started laughing; it’s even uglier in person! But I wouldn’t intentionally try to damage someone else’s vehicle; that’s even more ridiculous.

jqubed , 1 month ago to linux in The history of LibreOffice

I’m still confused on what happened with OpenOffice. Is it not good now that it’s with Apache?

jqubed , 1 month ago to greentext in Ivan Outs Himself

But the flag on the comment says he’s American! Surely that can’t be faked!

jqubed , 1 month ago to technology in Read the memo: Meta is shutting down Workplace, cutting back enterprise ambitions

I’d never even heard of this product

jqubed , 1 month ago to pics in Eagle being re-located from Denver International Airport

That eagle looks so confused

jqubed , 1 month ago to maliciouscompliance in Man gets boat painted on fence meant to hide boat.

Interestingly this one was actually a town ordinance, not an HOA rule!

jqubed , 1 month ago to nostupidquestions in Did the premise of an entity approaching you only when it's not being viewed originate with Doctor Who's Weeping Angels?

That one did work in Mlem

jqubed , 1 month ago to pics in Sunset in La Rochelle

La Rochelle on the west coast of France? I don’t remember any hills like that being there.