CombatWombat

@ CombatWombat @feddit.online

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6 mo. ago

My condolences for your loss.

1w ago

Also, in my state, all the drivers are the worst

Capricious is my favorite adjective, rather than trying to ascribe mental disorders to global systems. If you’re asking regarding a specific human, you should talk to a psychiatrist — if it is disruptive to their life, it may be a sign of borderline personality disorder.

1w ago

Also, in my state, all the drivers are the worst

This use of bipolar has very little to do with the experience of most bipolar people. Bipolar rapid cycling is defined as four episodes per year, much closer to the change of the seasons than the change of weather from day to day.

1w ago

In software the map and the territory are the same thing.

Not so. The code may be the same, but the code is the map, not the territory. The code is not enough to understand the territory, even with mock data, c.f.

Our staging environment contains data that matches Production as closely as possible, but was not sufficient in this case and the mock data we relied on to simulate what would occur was insufficient.

From cloudflare’s most recent outage

1w ago

At least 3 major outlets — The New York Times, The Guardian, and Reddit — have blocked the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine from accessing their content

Ugh. Thanks for the heads’ up — I’ve definitely posted archive links without noticing they’re blocked before. PBS and NPR have really gone downhill with the budget cuts. ProPublica is great, but their coverage is pretty narrow, so there’s a lot of stories they don’t cover at all. It’s getting harder and harder to find a quality source.

1w ago

At least 3 major outlets — The New York Times, The Guardian, and Reddit — have blocked the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine from accessing their content

I’m certain they’ve wanted to do this for a long time, and AI is a convenient way to justify it, rather than admitting they don’t want humans using it to circumvent the paywall. It does solidify for me personally that the LA Times is the paper of record for the United States going forward, rather than the New York Times.

Comic Books @lemmy.world

aiptcomics.com /2026/02/20/marvel-preview-punisher-1-3/

1w ago

Marvel Preview: Punisher #1

1w ago

AMC Theatres Grapples With Nearly 10 Percent Attendance Drop In Latest Quarter

Announce what time the movie actually starts and pay ushers to enforce good behavior and you’ll fix those attendance drops right quick. There’s still demand but the movie theater experience is so awful even cinephiles won’t brave it anymore.

1w ago

Vibe Coding Has a Security Problem Nobody Wants to Talk About

Read the diffs. Not all of them.

How do you write this whole article and come to the conclusion you can merge unread diffs?

2w ago

Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links

Any good archiver will check for an archived copy before making a request, and batch requests. This was very different than the attack you’re imagining — if you opened any archive.today page, it would poll a developer’s personal blog, regardless of whether you were interacting with content from that blog.

2w ago

Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links

Unfortunately, they’ve allegedly modified the contents of some archived articles, so even though they may do better to archive, nothing archived is of any value because it cannot be trusted.

Economics @lemmy.world

www.apricitas.io /p/the-supreme-court-ruled-against-trumps

2w ago

The Supreme Court Ruled Against Trump's Tariffs. Now What?

2w ago

Sorry, for taking so long/two-weeks in getting back to this/Internet, beyond just deleting E-Mails in my G-Mail account to get back under size limit, still doing that.

I’m sorry, that seems very difficult. I’m not trying to be rude, but I just wanted to check — is this community where you intended to post this? It seems somewhat out-of-character.

2w ago

How far back in time can you understand English?

LeopardsAteMyFace @lemmy.ca

Yep! For instance, the author discusses the changes from a blog post to a letter from 2000 - 1800. As they move back in time, both the language and also the themes and form change to match the style of literature and culture of the time.

www.local10.com /news/local/2026/02/20/small-business-owner-who-voted-for-trump-feels-pain-of-partners-ice-detention/

2w ago

Miami-Dade small business owner who voted for Trump feels pain of partner’s ICE detention

2w ago

Former FIFA president pans mixing soccer with politics, blasts U.S. ahead of World Cup

"The Americans are bad losers," he snapped during an interview with Radio-Canada, referring to the awarding of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar over the United States, which had been seen as the heavy favourite.

You’re damn right I am. We could have avoided building dead people into the walls of ridiculous air-conditioned stadiums, and avoided a Trump World Cup altogether. You better believe I’m salty about it.

2w ago

Shocking

We are At War now, according to President Bush, and I take him at his word. He also says this War might last for "a very long time."Generals and military scholars will tell you that eight or 10 years is actually not such a long time in the span of human history -- which is no doubt true -- but history also tells us that 10 years of martial law and a war-time economy are going to feel like a Lifetime to people who are in their twenties today. The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Americans who will grow up with a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed.That is extremely heavy news, and it will take a while for it to sink in. The 22 babies born in New York City while the World Trade Center burned will never know what they missed. The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks. The time has come for loyal Americans to Sacrifice. ... Sacrifice. ... Sacrifice. That is the new buzz-word in Washington. But what it means is not entirely clear.

From Hunter S Thompson: https://www.espn.com/page2/s/thompson/010918.html

Still wild to me that he was publishing stuff like that for ESPN. Can you imagine ESPN putting something like that about Trump on the page today?

2w ago

Advantages

It’s so strange that the people who are most strident about “there are only two genders and you can only be the gender you were assigned at birth” are the first to insist that a woman is secretly a man because she’s good at sports, or a man is secretly a woman because he doesn’t watch sports. You’d think the gender essentialists would be most strident about great women athletes being women no matter what, but somehow gender is something assigned at birth that you can’t decide to change about yourself, but can be removed by a committee of old white men if they don’t like you.

2w ago

Permanently Deleted

It does more to handle client-side rendering than archive.org, so there are pages that could be rendered by today that were not archivable by org. Also, because of differing usage patterns, it has archives of pages that org didn’t, and even for pages that org does have, at times org doesn’t.

2w ago

Permanently Deleted

Deeply saddening. Archive.today was a great resource, and stored a vast repository of human knowledge. As the internet turns to slop, we need sites that preserve the history of the web more than ever, and it’s very disappointing that the team at archive.today has failed us so profoundly in our hour of greatest need.

Seattle @lemmy.sdf.org

www.theurbanist.org /2026/02/19/seattle-superbowl-victory-parade-spurs-ridership-records-for-transit-and-scootershare/

2w ago

Seattle Superbowl Victory Parade Spurs Ridership Records for Transit and Scootershare

wikipedia @sh.itjust.works

en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2025_Alvarado_ICE_facility_incident

2w ago

2025 Alvarado ICE facility incident

Women's Hockey / PWHL @reddthat.com

www.nytimes.com /athletic/7058478/2026/02/19/laila-edwards-usa-hockey-history-gold-medal/

2w ago

Laila Edwards becomes first Black woman to win gold with Team USA in women’s hockey

2w ago

Heated Rivalry TV drama sparks wave of new ice hockey fans