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ptz

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I also develop Tesseract UI for Lemmy/Sublinks

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www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/…/ar-BB1lBtQ1

There was at least one lady who thought it was the rapture.

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Assuming it still allows community edits, some brave soul is probably going to go all [Citation needed] on it and probably end up in a gulag.

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Quark’s pouring two-for-ones’? Bet you 5 slips of latinum they’re watered down 😆

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To add on to this answer:

If they’re blocking Wireguard/OpenVPN at the protocol level, there may not be anything you can do (running on a different port, etc).

If HTTPS works, between a cloud VPS and your home connection, you might be able to setup Nginx + VPN-WS on your cloud host to make a websocket-based VPN.

github.com/unbit/vpn-ws

I haven’t tried this, but it looks solid enough. Just make sure you configure Nginx correctly for authentication since it doesn’t do that on its own (intentionally since most web servers already have a solid authentication framework / plugin system).

You may also try SSH port forwarding. Basically your home device maintains a persistent connection to the cloud server over SSH and forwards one or more ports (its SSH, for example) over that, and the cloud server makes that available.

Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time?

I’m sick of random capitalisations mid sentence. I’m sick of common words being replaced by less common ones or even downright nonsense. I’m sick of it taking three attempts to successfully get the word I want. I swear it’s been like this for five years or more. Can we have a better version yet, or at least the old one...

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I miss T-9 and physical buttons. I could type out War and Peace with maybe one typo without looking at my phone once. The on-screen keyboards we’ve had the last ~17 years have been a huge downgrade, IMO.

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Never had a Sidekick, but I had several phones with similar landscape slide out / flip open keyboards. Those were the days.

My current daily driver is about 8 years old (a OnePlus 3 that’s aged very gracefully thanks to LineageOS), but I do need to replace it soon. Looking at something like the Cosmo Communicator that has a full flip-open keyboard.

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For me, it averages out about the same / maybe a slight benefit for T9.

Yeah, I can type faster on a modern on-screen keyboard, but by the time i go back and correct typos, fight the cursor to get it where i want it, and double check that all the words i meant to type didn’t get autocorrected into something else, I could have typed the same thing with much better precision on a T9 style and have, at most, one word to fix.

It’s something of a tortoise and hare situation. lol

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Yep. This 8 year old phone does absolutely everything I need it to do (well, haven’t had to deal with AV1 videos yet, so software decoding those might show its age), but the battery is on its last legs.

I’d just replace the battery (involved but not too difficult), but I also want a newer phone with better support for some of the LTE bands near me. I figure 8 years is a good run for a smartphone as a daily driver lol.

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The temporal trolley problem. Lol

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Some used pumice (I think Lava Soap or something along those lines) but it’s more harsh than the plastic microbeads OP is referring to.

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Definitely not burning it, but pyrolysis has been suggested (basically “burn” it in an oxygen-free environment).

The plastics are heated to about 500 °C in the absence of oxygen. The longer molecules break into liquid fractions like naphtha and diesel, solid cuts like waxes, and lower-molecular-weight gases. In most plants, roughly 10% of the product is char, a by-product.

It’s not without its drawbacks. Some gases are produced, and those are either burned to (partially?) power the pyrolysis process or are flared off. About 10% is reduced to char and would have to be disposed of conventionally (unsure of the environmental impact of that).

I don’t have time right now to dive deep into the topic (just throwing off what I do know plus a link that explains it), but it’s possible it’s less harmful overall than just throwing it in a landfill forever. (Assuming the input energy for the reaction chamber comes from clean sources.)

cen.acs.org/environment/recycling/…/i36

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I don’t care for short form videos, but this is still really cool. Hopefully it provides an embed URL for the videos so the ones that get posted to Lemmy can be embedded (which is how Peertube links work).

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That sounds like something Zapp Brannigan would claim to have.

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I mean…(gestures vaguely at OP’s post history)

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Ugh. AMP link.

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You are awesome :)

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And I’ll sleep better knowing how well we handled the last pandemic (nervous laughter).

But serious question time: now that it’s made it’s way to humans, does that mean we can start working on a vaccine?

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Good news. Thanks!

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Mitch McConnell refuses to say whether he supports a US national abortion ban

That’s old-school Republican for “yes”.

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Klaxon

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Literally just made one because I’ve been looking for one, too: !quite_interesting

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“Ma’am, are you a baby?”

Is there a discount?

“Yes, children under 5 fly free.”

Then I am a baby.

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Thanks for “Ackshually”-ing an obvious joke. Please see the Yes, and… rule of thumb.

Jenna Maroney breaking the ‘yes, and…’ rule at improv by responding, ‘no you don’t, Oprah’

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It’s his evil twin: Bad Cop Carl.

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I think you mean 2025 - ??? will be pure shit.

Pretty sure this nation won’t survive Project 2025 . At least not survive in the way it has until now.

As solar capacity grows, some of America's most productive farmland is at risk (www.reuters.com)

Dave Duttlinger’s first thought when he saw a dense band of yellowish-brown dust smearing the sky above his Indiana farm was: I warned them this would happen. About 445 acres of his fields near Wheatfield, Indiana, are covered in solar panels and related machinery – land that in April 2019 Duttlinger leased to Dunns Bridge...

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I don’t know about corn, specifically, but it’s been shown that solar panels are actually beneficial and can increase yields: wired.com/…/growing-crops-under-solar-panels-now-…

The only mention of corn in that Wired article is a concern for the height (since corn grows tall).

Height, too, is an issue: Corn and wheat would need taller panels, while shrubby soybeans would be fine with a more squat variety.

Thanks to those gaps, crops grown under solar panels aren’t bathed in darkness. But, generally speaking, the light is more diffuse, meaning it’s bouncing off of surfaces before striking the plants. This replicates a natural forest environment, in which all plants, save for the tallest trees, hang out in the shade, soaking up any sunbeams that break through.

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I am able to see votes on my instance, and I can run aggregate reports.

The “usual suspects” are all heavy downvoters by a large margin. They’re just miserable people it seems. (shocked Pikachu face)

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Health officials maintain — and experts agree — that pasteurized milk is safe to drink. The FDA detected small pieces of the virus in milk, not live, infectious virus.

“Right now, all indication is that pasteurization is effective,” said Dr. Andrew Bowman, a veterinary epidemiologist at Ohio State University.

Pasteurization doing its job.

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There’s a certain crowd of people who are absolutely determined to consume raw milk. You can’t get it across state lines, because the FDA bans it, but some states permit it.

My state’s dumbass legislators, ladies and gentlemen: mashable.com/article/raw-milk-sick-lawmakers

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You got it! lol

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You’re the first fan of that show I’ve seen in the wild. lol. Love that show.

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And if you crank it up enough, it becomes like a Snapchat filter for your voice.

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They’re gathering info from my shopping habits, but I have no idea who they’re associating it with xD

I’ve used the same Kroger card since 2002. It’s one I found in the Kroger parking lot near my college dorm and have used since.

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I don’t use the app (or any for that matter), but yeah I guess they can track via my debit card.

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Smart.

Haven’t had this happen for a while, but cashiers used to ask for a zipcode when checking out. Always gave them 90210 .

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The “Cool Pope”

People call him that?

Edit: Apparently they do. No idea why this is the first I’ve heard him called that.

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LOL, right.

Olivia Bensimon of the NYT writes: ‘Trump’s motorcade left the courthouse just after 1:05 p.m., wrapping up the trial’s first day of testimony. The view was blocked by an N.Y.P.D. dump truck, to many reporters’ great frustration. Inside Collect Pond Park, across from the courthouse, a lone pro-Trump protester’s “Trump for President ’24” banner flaps meekly in the light breeze.’

Sauce: nytimes.com/…/7717e205-063e-5703-a75c-1d365d885a5…

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I don’t know why, but I never thought to question that until this very moment.

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So, Gravity is so strong it can hold down the ocean, but balloon still go up? Checkmate, Pythagoras. /s

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I don’t think that it’s a prerequisite but it’s definitely a catalyst.

Another catalyst is one company buying another. I cannot think of one example where the acquired company’s product/services got better after a M and A. OTOH, I can think of many examples of it getting worse. Confirmation bias? Absolutely. But still makes you go “hmm…”

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That’s true, and also why I added that last part about it being confirmation bias on my part. Definitely not saying there aren’t good examples, but like you said, I’m also having a hard time coming up with any.

Has Valve ever bought any other company? lol They’re one of the few I could see actually making the child company better xD

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Interesting. I’ve never played TF but Portal is one of my all-time favorites (I’m not much of a gamer lol). Will try to look into that when I have time because it’s definitely interesting if true (and can be my token good example lol).

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I knew that link was going to be something related to Oracle, and I was not wrong. xD

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I’ve followed that for a while :) Saw it on Hack a Day early in its development and thought it was one of the coolest ports I’ve ever seen. Sadly, I think he got D&D’d. Best I recall, I think it was unlicensed use of the N64 SDK or something like that.

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Just gonna leave this here: Black Mirror - Arkangel

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I was gonna say, everyone I know and myself tweaks them to look like a Mac. 😆

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They don’t, because it would be an insane proposition. The point of the meme is to say that asking to disable my ad blocker is like asking me to disable my antivirus.

Ad companies don’t or very poorly vet their submissions, and it’s incredibly easy for malicious actors to slip hostile code in through ads. Ad blockers prevent that and are a first line of defense.

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