I'm surprisingly level-headed for being a walking knot of anxiety.
Ask me anything.
I also develop Tesseract UI for Lemmy/Sublinks
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If true, that's like the one thing about them I wouldn't judge :shrug:. I've run more on less hardware than that. lol
Please use the actual article headlines as the post title.
I think the minimum deposit for most of them to even talk to you is $10,000 or $100,000. I realize that's a big range, but I can't remember if there were 4 or 5 zeroes when I did some cursory research. Either way, too rich for my blood.
"Why do you think I bought them, Elrond?"
Good riddance.
I do that already and have for years...? .doc and .docx work just fine.
Edit: The only issue I've had is one place requiring a specific font of all things. Was able to just install a free version of that, and was all set.
Three people in Hood River County have contacted Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease over the span of eight months, an unusual pattern for an incredibly rare disease.
Three people in Hood River County have contacted Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease over the span of eight months, an unusual pattern for an incredibly rare disease.
A small Oregon county has been struck by one of the rarest but scariest ailments known to exist. Health officials in Hood River County have reported an unusual cluster of people coming down with Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, or CJD.
Three residents in the area have contracted CJD over the past eight months, according to the Hood River County Health Department, two of whom are already dead. Local and federal health officials are now investigating the cluster, but they have not identified a link between the cases to date.
While CJD is the most common prion disease, only around 500 new cases of it are estimated to happen in the U.S. annually. This rarity makes three cases showing up so close together in the same relatively small county (roughly 24,000 people live in Hood River) all the weirder.
My understanding from the articles I read is that the whole platform ran on PHP 5.5, and porting from a version that old to current is no small task.
If they do, hopefully they flock to a single instance which is easily blockable
Harvard: You first.
A deadly blow?
I hope so.
Will a copycat spring up?
History says yes, but if a loving god truly exists, one won't.
Where are the users going in the meantime?
Hopefully outside.
Does any of this really matter?
Only if they bring their bullshit to the fediverse.
Yeah. We have a decent budget and aren't opposed to buying software (or, shudder, contracting a vendor), but we always try to seek out an open source solution first.
Why won't lawmakers stop it?
Just a guess here, but...
That's $17,500 to Republicans in 2022 and $24,800 to Republicans in 2024
https://www.opensecrets.org/political-action-committees-pacs/C00771196/summary/2024
Larson predicting Starliner back in 1983 lol.
That's a big part of it for me, too. The other part is that I document things pretty thoroughly, but no one wants to read that. I'd much rather they read the docs I wrote and ask specific questions than expect me to just explain everything from scratch.
Cat S22 Flip. Sadly discontinued as well as the manufacturer (Bullit) out the phone business.
Yeah, not sure how long that'll hold up for me, but for now, so far so good.
The rule-of-thumb used to be "look at the hands", but I use a combo of focus, lighting, perspective, background objects (especially ones with text), color saturation, common sense (e.g. 'could this even be remotely real?'), etc. The scary part is if someone would run that through a filter and present it like grainy CCTV footage, all that (minus the common sense part) would be lost and I'd likely be stumped.
This probably isn't a super-helpful answer, but for the most part, I haven't needed to use any (yet?). Dunno if it's just me, but pretty much every AI generated image still just looks "off" and uncanny in a perceptible and slightly off-putting way.
That said, there are occasional false positives depending on the lighting, focus, and filters used for legit photographs. No false negatives yet, though.
"By the time I explain how it needs to be done, I could have just done it"
More of a general journalism minor gripe, but when articles say "X number of states are affected by Y", they should list all of the states.
Best list I can come up with is only 20 states out of the 27 claimed:
Remember the what, now?
S6:E3 - Force Projection: Bobbie and Amos forget the Cant.
1.4.37 Released
Apologies for the rapid release cycle this week. I'm taking advantage of the rare overlap in free time and motivation and trying to knock out all the low-hanging fruit as far as bugs and annoyances go plus incorporate feedback from the prior releases. The smaller, faster releases also help prevent me from getting too deep into feature creep.
Minor update with bugfixes, UI polish and, at least for now, the removal of a few rarely-used post views (they're rarely used and incompatible with the rewrite to the post body component).
/post/instance/postid loader as it was preventing the prettier error in +page.svelte from showing <hr> element was used toward the top of the post bod 
The structural biologist, who has devoted his life to studying the processes behind aging, discusses the surprising things he has learned and the public misunderstandings about longevity.
In a recent interview with Wired, Nobel laureate Venkatraman Ramakrishnan discusses his book Why We Die, in which he argues that death is not genetically programmed but rather a consequence of evolution favoring reproduction over longevity. Here are some of the most thought-provoking excerpts:
WIRED: Professor Ramakrishnan, the crucial question in your book is why we die. But exactly what is death?
Venki Ramakrishnan: By death, we mean the irreversible loss of the ability to function as a coherent individual. It is the result of the failure of a critical system or apparatus, for example, heart, brain, lung, or kidney failure. In this sense there is an apparent paradox: When our organism, as a whole, is alive, millions of cells within us are constantly dying, and we do not even realize it. On the other hand, at the time of death, most of the cells in our bodies are still alive, and entire organs are still functioning and can be donated to people in need of transplantati
Is anyone using "Reader" or "Ultra Compact" views, or can I drop support for those?
Summary: Unless anyone speaks up, I'm leaning toward removing those two views.
I'm rewriting the component for the post body preview in the feed to address my own gripes as well as Issue 35 in Github.
TL;DR is that the "Ultra-Compact" and "Reader" views rely on the "Post Body Preview Length" setting and the old method of doing the previews which was just a dumb "show X characters of the post body" based on the un-rendered body markdown.
The new method uses the rendered output and controls the height of the body text for a similar effect. It's also MUCH more responsive and able to take the screen width into account. In short, it's much more flexible, looks much better, and is probably what I should have done the first time.
"Reader" and "Ultra-Compact" rely on a setting that I'm going to be removing. So, rather than re-implement those and complicate what is, finally, a clean/simple refactor, can I just get rid of them?
If
Before I change the post post buttons again, thoughts?
Currently, the post buttons are always a double row. In dev, I've set them to be a single row on desktop and reflow to 2 rows when the screen width goes below the xl breakpoint for smaller viewports and mobile (see main post image).
I like it, and I think it makes better use of the available space + more compact on desktop, but before I change the post buttons again, thought I'd ask for feedback. This is probably not something I'm going to make an option for (there's too many options already lol).
Current Layout: Post action buttons/indicators are always two rows.
Dark Matter Virtual Season 4
I experienced a range of emotions upon hearing of Dark Matter’s surprising cancellation: disbelief, anger, sadness, and a lot of frustration at the thought of leaving this story incomplete. As most of you know, I went in with a game plan from Day 1, a thorough narrative blueprint encompassing every...
Boasberg held there was probable cause to show the government's transfer of immigrants to CECOT without due process was a willful violation of his order.
Cross-posted from "A Federal Judge Is on the Brink of Criminally Prosecuting Trump Officials for Contempt" by @[email protected] in [email protected]
In a thundering opinion on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg announced that he had found probable cause to hold the Trump administration in criminal contempt for defiance of his orders. It is “obvious,” Boasberg wrote, that government officials “deliberately flouted” his commands by deporting Venezuelan migrants to a Salvadoran prison on March 15 under President Donald Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. And now they must answer for their unlawful conduct. “The Constitution,” he declared, “does not tolerate willful disobedience of judicial orders—especially by officials of a coordinate branch who have sworn an oath to uphold it.”
Season 17 of 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia' will premiere on July 9.
If things start feeling too toxic around here, remember that the 'block' button is your friend and always there for you.
I get it. There's some real jerks around here. Whether they're constantly argumentative, downright rude, always acting in bad faith, just plain trolls, overly opinionated on every subject, have the social skills of a Nausicaan, or whatever - the Fediverse is growing, and it's bound to attract toxicity in one way or another.
This post is mostly a PSA for anyone who's feeling like leaving because they're tired of dealing with things like that. I've been there several times myself, I know exactly how you feel, and I'm tired of seeing good people harassed off the platform.
Just remember that blocking is a very powerful way to stay in control of your experience. Be it a set of users, me specifically, a list of keywords, a whole community, or an entire instance: if it's causing you nothing but stress, hit that block button and see if that improves your experience here. Unlike the alien site, there is no limit to the number of entities you can block; you're in control.
Another thing
1.4.36 Released
Note: This only works for your home instance. It does not work for remotely fetched posts. Additionally, this is not a "supported" way to share Tesseract links; it's just there for convenience if you want to turn a local Lemmy UI link into a valid Tesseract link.
If you're in Lemmy UI and want to view a post in Tesseract, you can just change the domain and the post and/or comment params should translate transparently.
e.g. Where 123456 is the post ID and 98765 is the comment id:
Change https://lemmy.world/post/12345/98765 to https://t.lemmy.world/post/12345/98765
I just wanna see cool, funny, interesting, or stupid stuff.
There's like, infinity videos to choose from.
Marge Questions if Hanlon's Razor Still Applies
1.4.35 Released
This is a bugfix / fine tune release building upon 1.4.34. No new features, just optimizing a few things based on feedback.
"Scientists revive organism found buried at bottom of the ocean. 'What's the worst that could happen?' said the scientists.
Inspired by https://infosec.pub/post/26626990
First sentence taken directly from this headline.
Found a Little Simpsons Easter Egg: Khlav Kalash Vendor
S5E02: Churn when Amos is in Baltimore and trying to find Erich.
1.4.34 Released
banned_from_community is present in the API response. getCommunity lookup results. While nice in theory, it prevents being aware you've been banned or any changes to the community during the cache validity window with no way to automatically invalidate beyond a fixed TTL. 
30 years on from the revelation of her betrayal in 'State of Flux,' Seska remains one of Star Trek: Voyager's most interesting villains.
[O]ne thing defines [Seska] in contrast to the Cardassians we’d been regularly seeing on Star Trek at that moment in time: she’s just kind of an absolute hot mess.
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But it’s kind of what makes Seska work as a character: despite all this, villainy or otherwise, nothing ever quite clicks for her. It’s a great mirror to uphold against Janeway’s decision to have the crew take the long way home in the first place, the idea that, if they did ultimately just go Seska’s route and exploit their advantageous power in an unknown quadrant, it would doom them.