[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

This must depend on country and carrier. My carrier has never removed 4G or 5G bands. They've added new ones and they've phased out 2G and some 3G but that's all. My phones from 10 years ago can still connect just fine, although obviously newer ones are faster.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

LOL same. Really should've read the thread before thinking "oh free games, yoink!"

[-] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Figures. If these shysters at Colossal had any integrity, they wouldn't be calling their modified gray wolves "dire wolves" in the first place. Everything Colossal says about their dire wolf project is misleading or just plain bullshit. They're not "de-extincting" anything. They're making a larger breed of gray wolf. But that doesn't sound sexy enough to set them up for a cash-grab IPO.

[-] [email protected] 61 points 2 days ago

King Of Ink Land King Body Art The Extreme Ink-Ite has written to his local MP to air his grievances.

Holy shit. That's his legal name?!

For King of Ink Land, this is particularly tricky as the system believes he’s wearing a mask – but it’s actually his tattoo-covered face.

So is it first name 'King of Ink Land', last name 'King Body Art The Extreme Ink-Ite'? Or is there a middle name in there?

The King of Ink Land, who is now considering using a VPN, was attempting to access a live webcam site when the issue arose.

Whoa whoa whoa. "The" King of Ink Land? That's his name, not a title!

Godspeed, King of Ink Land. I sincerely wish you success in this fight.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 4 days ago

All major browser engines are FOSS.

Chrome and Edge are proprietary wrappers around Chromium (BSD license). Firefox and derivatives are FOSS (Mozilla Public License). Safari is built around WebKit (LGPL/BSD).

The problem, however, is governance. These projects are all too big for anyone to realistically fork and maintain independently. So in practice, they are under control of Google, Mozilla, and Apple — all of which have questionable priorities (especially Google).

[-] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago

It would be like taking your compiled machine code and editing it by hand because your compiler sucks.

Just use the right tool from the start.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Maybe so? I mean, I'm exaggerating a little, but those are the two primary ingredients of most of these non-salad "salads" that I would find in a typical diner or supermarket.

Potato salad, egg salad, macaroni salad, and tuna salad are fundamentally mayonnaise, potato/egg/macaroni/tuna, and spices. Probably some chopped onion and herbs as well. They are often nearly-homogenous glop.

I'm sure there are less offensive ways of making these things, and perhaps I would actually consider some of them "salads". But yes, the glop I described is commonly called "____ salad". I don't think it would be reasonable to call them "salads" with no qualifier. These are compound phrases, and it's best not to get stuck on the etymology.

You can also call a poorly-written headline "word salad". And yet if I ordered a salad and got a copy of the New York Post, I would be very confused indeed.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

The problem here is the assumption that modifiers can be safely ignored.

In the same way that veggie chicken is, obviously, not chicken, a bowl full of potatoes and mayonnaise is not a salad. It is a potato salad, and the word "potato" is doing too much heavy lifting to omit.

If I asked someone to get me a salad, and they came back with a potato salad, I'd assume they were pranking me.

This is why dictionaries list multiple definitions for words.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Perhaps this goes without saying, but if you want to do that, be sure you are installing Firefox through similar means across distros. This will not work with the Flatpak, for example.

Manual installation of Firefox is quite simple, and it self-updates, so that's always an option.

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[-] [email protected] 344 points 1 year ago

Nobody tell her about daemons.

[-] [email protected] 228 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

For context, original lyrics:

Don't wanna be an American idiot
Don't want a nation under the new media
And can you hear the sound of hysteria?
The subliminal mind fuck America

Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alienation
Where everything isn't meant to be okay
Television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones who're meant to follow
For that's enough to argue

Well maybe I'm the faggot America
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda
Now everybody do the propaganda
And sing along to the age of paranoia

Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alienation
Where everything isn't meant to be okay
Television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones who're meant to follow
For that's enough to argue

Don't want to be an American idiot
One nation controlled by the media
Information age of hysteria
It's calling out to idiot America

Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alienation
Where everything isn't meant to be okay
Television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones who're meant to follow
For that's enough to argue

Super tame.

In the New Year's show, they changed "a redneck agenda" to "the MAGA agenda". Okay, little bit more explicitly partisan, but basically the same thing.

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Edit: This appears to have been fixed already with another backend update. Leaving the post below as-is.

Current version in the footer: UI: 0.19.0-rc.11 BE: 0.19.0-rc.10

Starting today, most image thumbnails and pictrs links will not load. I tried clearing cookies and I tried in three different browser engines (Firefox, Chromium, Safari).

If I try to open one of the image URLs directly in my browser, it shows {"error":"auth_cookie_insecure"}.

Interestingly, images will load correctly if I am NOT logged in. Why are the pictrs URLs even checking cookies when they do not require auth? Is that new behavior in this version of Lemmy?

Here is an example post: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/8482278

And an example direct image URL from that post: https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/c8556f4f-d33c-4cac-86f3-975726ea69ec.png

I am interested to know if others are seeing the same issue. I have not exhaustively tested different cookies settings in my browsers, so it's possible some anti-tracking privacy settings are interfering with this behavior.

Worth noting is that the Eternity app on my phone continues to work. I did not even need to log out and back in today, like I did in my browsers.

[-] [email protected] 184 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Not once in the entire article do they measure energy in a unit suitable for measuring energy.

Measuring batteries in km is misleading and nonsensical. Batteries do not have a distance range. Cars have a distance range, based on many factors, only one of which is battery capacity.

Similarly, please stop measuring light output in watts that an imaginary incandescent bulb from 30 years ago might theoretically have used to produce that amount of light.

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