[-] [email protected] 137 points 1 week ago

There's a trademark for Linux so Microsoft can't name a product starting with Linux.

https://xcancel.com/richturn_ms/status/1245481405947076610

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The shortlist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award was published a few days ago and I missed it! Links go to openlibrary pages. Most of these novels don't have fully fleshed out pages though on there though... :(

Private Rites by Julia Armfield

The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

Extremophile by Ian Green

Annie Bot by Sierra Greer

Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock by Maud Woolf

[-] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago

How did they bar train the maine coon?

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Unexpected Downtime (literature.cafe)
submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

So sorry about that downtime, our VM was unexpectedly shut down. Everything should be up and federation will level out soon.

Again so sorry. I'm going to set up an uptime and status page on a different server so I can communicate if things go sideways again.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

You're not doing anything wrong in my opinion. Some of us just don't get an endorphin boost from exercise.

I'm a marathon runner and I have never experienced a runner's high or whatever these other people get from normal training.

There's this chart about "types of fun" that finally made it click for me. Some people find the mundane training as "Type I" fun. Some of us have activities that are this and others that aren't fun in the moment. For me, skiing is type I. Running is not.

I run as a discipline, it feels good looking back on my calendar of training and seeing the work I've put in. So I get Type II fun from it. I like to say "I run for the medals" and that's mostly this concept. I don't run for the fun, I train for the PR or the "win" or a medal. It's seeing my work pay off, my discipline for months on end being paid out.

So it's not the running, it's achieving the hard goal I set. Anyway, I hope this makes you feel seen. It's really frustrating to see all the hype about endorphins or whatever being a mood booster, but that's not the reality for a lot of people.

Also good job on the consistency for a year! That's impressive! Especially without the mood boost other people get!!

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submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Hey everyone!

Sorry for the delay in the application process, I was out of town and very behind. I just approved a bunch of new users today and over the last few months.

If anyone wants to introduce themselves, ask for recommendations, get help, etc feel free to reply. I would love to hear more about the people in our little community here!

Enjoy!

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Updated to v0.19.10 (literature.cafe)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

We have updated to lemmy v0.19.10, you can read the release notes here.

Small release, except one notable "fix/feature" is the removal of PMs when a ban happens... I think we all know who that is for...

Enjoy! Feel free to PM if you have any issues at all with the instance. I know I'm a lurker, but I am trying my best to keep the instance humming along.

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submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

This might be the end of Libby/Hoopla/Boundless for a lot of smaller library systems. :(

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submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I just finished reading Roadside Picnic for the first time and came across this blog post that I wholeheartedly agree with. Obviously the title is a little bold, but the body lays out a really strong argument for the beauty of this novel.

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I'm very interested in seeing this story translated to a screen and wow the art work shown off here is incredible.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago

Youtube apparently.

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submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

We have updated!

v0.19.6 has the changelog that matters - https://join-lemmy.org/news/2024-11-08_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.19.6

v0.19.7 fixes three regressions found in v0.19.6 - https://join-lemmy.org/news/2024-11-15_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.19.7

No real new user-facing features, but a lot of optimization on the server-side to keep things snappy. Enjoy! Please reach out if you notice anything wonky!

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Ouch.

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Ouch.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

Raised by Wolves... 🥲

[-] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago

Teenage Engineering is a hardware design firm that Nothing contracts with for hardware design. They aren't a division of Nothing and they don't work on just earbuds.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

You might be interested in the documentary "It's Quieter in the Twilight" about the engineers who keep the Voyagers alive.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Ah the classic "oh it was just a joke" strat.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Google launched "Google Wallet" in 2011. Killed it in 2015 for "Android Pay". Android Pay was killed for Google Pay. Then Google Pay was deprecated for the version of Google Wallet that you currently use.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

This was my favorite quote from the article.

But neither of those books was actually checked out from the Hayden Library on his trip. One of the books was checked out from another library, and another was stolen off the shelves. Norris refused to return the books at first, and Alexa Eccles, the executive director of the Community Library Network, told me in a phone call that, when Norris eventually returned them, the barcodes had been cut out of the book covers, and the library has not been able to return them to circulation or get new copies.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Beeper Mini registered your phone number with Apple and connected directly to the iMessage servers. That version was killed after three days of usage. The mac mini farm still works but that's just through an apple ID email address.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

iOS 17 uses a small gpt-2 based model for predictive text.

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