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Sauron be like, "dumbass elves, Imma gaslight the fuck out of them, for the lulz".


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If you want to help the victims of the terrorist attacks in Lebanon, the Lebanese Red Cross is working pretty damn hard right now and could do with some support.

You can donate here:

supportlrc.app/donate/

#IsraelLebanonWar #Lebanon #ExplodingPagers

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in reply to CGN2WORLD

@CGN2WORLD That's exactly what you said.

Anyway, I think you're a pretty evil person. Blocked.

in reply to Adam Jacobs πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦

@CGN2WORLD As you are from the UK. My ancestors started bombing your country in August 1940 killing civilians and children. In the spring of 1942, your country gave the only adequate answer, hitting civilians and children in Germany as well. Was it right? The answer is a resounding yes, just considering how many more people the Nazis would have murdered if they had been left alone. Would I have minded if SS people had been treated medically? To be honest, I don't care.


It appears that there may be an issue with Google Chrome not starting for some users of Mac OS Sequoia.

I have found a workaround. In the Finder, open the Applications folder, locate Chrome, drag it to the bin, then empty the bin.

Fixed

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Been trying to contact a shipwright, ANY shipwright, in France, to help with my annual boat maintenance and, is it a French thing that NOBODY EVER FUCKING ANSWERS THEIR FUCKING EMAIL?

Do not make me fucking phone you. I am neurodivergent and I don't speak French.

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Update: Tried texting one.

Not only did he reply, he said I can speak English with him, AND THE TEXT BUBBLES ARE BLUE!

Thank god!

in reply to GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

blue means iMessage on iPhone. So it indicates the person is an apple user. Don't know how that means anything.
in reply to GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

@GreenSkyOverMe means they're both using the Messages app on an apple device (iphone, ipad, mac). secondarily, that they can confidently send other media eg: photos, videos to each other; it doesn't depend on phone networks to work (once each end knows the other is on iMessage, it just goes over internet) and is secure (end-to-end encrypted)


Just replaced my old Apple TV 4K with the newer model that is also a Thread border router. I now have two: the HomePod Mini (WiFi) and the Apple TV (Ethernet).

And OMG, Thread is so much faster & more reliable!

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I'll probably skip it. I want to pass the 2K to my parents and get a 4K for myself, but I would need to swap the remotes otherwise my father is going to throw that thing out the window, and I don't blame him.


Upgraded to iOS 18?

Check the calendar month view our. Try pinch zooming. Thank me later.



Rings of Power: is it just me thinking that the last words Pharazon will ever hear are, β€œI am no man”?
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Maybe also Elendil's daft daughter who's replaced Anarion... and possibly some of the weird sorcerer types in Rhun, who knows?

In a way I'm glad it's ripped up the canon and started again, the lore might as well be toilet paper now so it's keeping me guessing.


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!Friendica Developers

Any idea what we can do to mitigate remote contacts using animated GIFs for their avatars and causing zombie worker jobs because PHP can’t handle the format? It started as a small issue, but more and more people (especially on lemmy) seem to be using these avatars and it’s causing a significant administration headache where I have to find out which contact is responsible by manually searching the SQL database and then server blocking them.

If Update Contact failed gracefully it would be less of an issue, but it doesn’t. I’m sure I can’t be the only one seeing this?

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@Sarah Brown @Steffen K9 🐰 @Hypolite Petovan Maybe it is something Alpine Linux specific. I Am also using Alpine and I also had this error all the time. Either the one you posted (gd-webp cannot allocate..) or another one. Currently I only see this one, but very often :

Fatal Error (E_ERROR): Allowed memory size of 536870912 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 96485376 bytes)

I tried to allow more memory, up to 2048M.. it didn't help.. (now I am using 512M again) I don't know why this happens. But I understand it is not nice, having the admin log section full of it. πŸ˜•

What PHP version and memory_limit do you use? ( I use PHP 8.3.10 and 512M)

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@xy.. @Steffen K9 🐰 @Hypolite Petovan I’ve a bunch of those too. The Docker container for 2024.08 uses 8.1.29 and 512 megs.


Been thinking about Sarah’s history of English royalty since William t he Conquerer. Let me know if I left anything important out:

Succession crisis -> civil war.

Civil war resolved, negotiated succession.

Descendant of negotiated successor pisses everyone off -> civil war.

Descendant forced to accept terms.

Stability for a bit while they’re busy fighting other people.

Succession crisis -> civil war.

Civil war resolved violently.

Succession crisis (religion). Civil war narrowly averted.

Dynasty goes extinct. Succession negotiated.

Descendant of negotiated successor pisses everyone off -> civil war.

Civil war resolved through decapitation.

Succession crisis. Civil war averted via negotiated succession.

Succession crisis -> civil war fizzles

Dynasty goes extinct (yes, Charlie, it did. Shut up)

Parliament is finally utterly fucking sick of this lot starting civil wars, installs German puppets. The end.

in reply to Sarah Brown

Until the last year or so, I had believed something more or less along the lines of "England has been uniquely stable over the past 1000 years. Other countries have had bloody revolutions (France, Russia) or pulled themselves together out of fragmented parts (Germany, Italy) but England has missed out on all that, the elites here have always known how and when to soften and to give up a little power in order to avoid those excesses".
in reply to Ben Curthoys

@goatsarah Listening through The Rest Is History podcast has disabused me of this idiotic idea. We've had just as many usurpers, revolutions and civil wars as anywhere else, it's just that the English have had better marketing.
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@bencurthoys @goatsarah Fair. I think most of that view derives from Britain being the odd one out while everyone else was doing 1848/midcentury civil wars. We wrote that up as β€˜look how stable we are as we loot the rest of the world’ and it was never internally criticised.
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@Ben Curthoys lol, yeah. The Anarchy, 1st barons war, 2nd barons war, Wars of the Roses, Mary marches on London, 1st civil war, 2nd civil war, Restoration, Glorious Revolution, Jacobite Rising. Probably missed some.

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You’re scared we’re going to beat you at sports.

We’re scared you’re going to beat us to death.

We are not the same.


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@Alexandra Lanes @gz You … you … shut up with your remarks about how I’m definitely not going to be trudging along Curbar edge in September 2025 wondering why the fuck I did this to myself.


BREAKING! In a move that the Liberal Democrat party hopes will finally deal with their transphobe problem, they have handed the Sudetenland to the transphobes.

In exchange, the transphobes pinky promised that they won’t demand any further concessions, β€œyou know, for a bit anyway”.

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A transphobe spokesworm was later overheard muttering something about what a shame it would be if something happened to that nice Poland you’ve got there.
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Nothing quite illustrates the desperate need for proper civics education than a man with a policy platform of β€œstopping imaginary transgender immigrants eating your cats” being neck and neck to be US president.

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I better keep my cats indoors 🀣🀣🀣
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I only saw bits of it on the news this morning and switched off immediately. I really feel sorry and scared for my US friends.


Apple: β€œAnd our new iPhone 16 has hardware ray tracing for unparalleled mobile gaming performance”

Mobile gaming:

in reply to Sarah Brown

but also mobile gaming:
youtu.be/Rf5pB31k3dw?si=dRuPVG…
in reply to Alan Braggins

@Alan Braggins bet I know which ones get played and played and played.

Never seen anyone on a train or plane or bus playing a 3D FPS thing on their phone.

But word searches and distant descendentes of Tetris? All the time.


in reply to Sarah Brown

how many hours/days would you give your current location of living, until looting and riots would start, if the power was completely down?
in reply to mxk

@mxk I have experienced a 5 day power cut before. None of that happened. People pulled together.
@mxk


Now smartphones are mature products we’re into the annual β€œthis is an incremental upgrade over last year. I’m so mad replacing my 2 thousand quid perfectly functional phone with one that’s almost the same for another 2 thousand quid” cycle.

My brother in Christ; have you considered just … not?

I’m upgrading this year. My phone is 3 years old and the camera stuff is worth it for me. My step daughter is getting my old one, which she is thrilled with.

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yes, which I have done a few times, however, and this might be due to my obtaining cheap highstreet repairs, they never seemed to last long.


Yesterday I saw a discussion about whether you can smell in a dream.

As fate would have it, I had a lucid dream last night (I have a cold. That’s probably why), so I decided to test it.

Yes, you can smell in dreams.



Spoilers for Netflix's Kaos
Loved Kaos, but it tickled me to realise that it is basically the same plot as Jupiter Ascending, only in this case Jupiter is the baddie.

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"Why don't women use artificial intelligence?" asks The Economist.

"Maybe it's because we don't need a computer to automate mansplaining when there's already an excess supply produced by men" answers one woman


in reply to Dgar

depends if you want the correct answer. Of course it's entry, but I was being silly.

There is a really good stackoverflow that gives information about CI (cancel input) as well as CA and CK too
superuser.com/questions/449637…

It's the only answer I could see.

in reply to Lewis Cowles

mnemonics and initialisms and acronyms, are always very difficult to get right. And more often than not, an icon would likely do a better job if we have to learn one anyway.
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@xs4me2
vintagecalculators.com/ or stackoverflow? or is there another?

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The simplest, most direct way to disabuse someone of the notion that LLMs have any kind of model of reality, even an implied emergent one, is to play a game of 20 Questions, with the LLM asking the questions.

In the real life game, the player guessing has ‧nothing‧ to go on other than their world model and logic, and it becomes obvious very, very quickly that an LLM simply stringing "typical" questions together has neither, and has no framework for extracting any kind of information from your yes/no answers.

To me, this seems much cleaner than to "trick" them with riddles or logic puzzles or ambiguous language etc., and is also not merely harder, but fundamentally impossible to patch.

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@goatsarah I tried a trickier one where I used the standard hack of thinking of an abstract concept (love, in my case), and it absolutely nailed it.