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dave

@ dave @feddit.uk

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  • CIA tracing those IPv44 addresses

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  • Those IP addresses were about the most believable thing in that episode. It’s occasionally amusing nonsense, requires about 1% concentration, and if you fall asleep in one episode and wake up in the next, you won’t need to reach for the remote.

  • CIA tracing those IPv44 addresses

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  • It’s from FUBAR. I think they took the show’s name as a general directive.

  • What are the options if my country makes VPN's illegal?

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  • You could buy a webserver outside the country and set up your own VPN software or something. I think there are forms that look like https.

    Anyone used / got any opinions on Algo?

  • Human em dash users, are you still afraid of being mislabeled as "AI"?

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  • The character was created specifically because when we write we use different length dashes to mean different things—subtraction through to a pause for thinking.

    The automated test will have no difficulty telling them apart. Are you saying it’s hard looking at the results of this tests? You might need to use a font that makes that easy (I agree many monospaced fonts don’t, but that’s not the character’s fault. Or include a step that replaces en with 2 hyphens and em with 3.

  • What is the most obscure fact you know?

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  • It’s more that they used to be shipped 2x4 unfinished, and would be planed smooth on site. Once the equipment and distribution was able to do the planing before it got to the customer, they had so much established practice that the installed timber would be smaller, they had to keep to what people were used to.

  • What is the most obscure fact you know?

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  • 2” x 4” construction timber is 1.5” x 3.5” because of industrialisation (not shrinkflation)

  • I created the weirdest political compass

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  • Among this chart's many other issues raised elsewhere, Ada is in totally the wrong place. Probably more system than Rust right now, and definitely not obsolete.

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  • Geez did they build that page with asp? Is janky-scroll a default setting?

  • I just erased my project

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  • I have been burnt by Dropbox in the past so now use Syncthing between my desktop, laptop, and a private remote server with file versioning turned on. Trivial to global ignore node_modules, and not giving data to a third party.

    It's saved me on several occasions.

  • Fox news trying to explain github.

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  • I'm almost more irritated by the use of two hyphens instead of a colon after the first definition. They just didn't give a shit really.

  • What do you do with the sole purpose of annoying people?

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  • You can find many discussions about that online, and it's basically a BE / AE thing. In BE, it's not correct, hence I'm annoyed a lot of the time.

  • What do you do with the sole purpose of annoying people?

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  • I'd just like to thank you for writing "how big a deal" instead of the now ubiquitous "how big of a deal". That would have really annoyed me.

  • No!!! Not relationship talks...

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  • Yup--a sarnie shop in a Spa town. See what they've done there...

  • Funny @sh.itjust.works
    dave @feddit.uk

    No!!! Not relationship talks...

  • Does this exist anywhere outside of C++?

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  • vbCrLf

  • Dart! The new AI Task Management tool! It has one of the most disgusting privacy policies I've seen in a long time! You can't even use the text!

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  • What is the longest word in your language, and what does it mean in English?

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  • I remember hearing a story of a UN or EU real-time translator working German to English suddenly stopping, the English listeners looking a bit confused, and after another 15 or 20 seconds of hearing the German speaker continue with still no translation, just heard a whispered "the verb, dammit, the verb!" through their headsets.

  • Whats the most quotable movie?

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  • 'Get her!'--that was your whole plan?

  • Which well known public figure would you say is washed up and desperately trying to cling to relevance? (No politicians)

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  • You should read his wiki page--quite the rollercoaster from tax evasion, Wimbledon commentator, professional poker player, to prison.

  • Do you know anyone who uses drag-and-drop for text?

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  • Sometimes you can Ctrl+drag (which is copy) text to those annoying 'repeat your email' fields that won't let you paste.

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
    dave @feddit.uk

    Problems with Arch upgrade

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
    dave @feddit.uk

    The bot truncation algorithm is getting suspiciously clickbaity

  • Programmer Humor @programming.dev
    dave @feddit.uk

    OK, now what?

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
    dave @feddit.uk

    Well, at least they know they are annoying...