[-] kabe@lemmy.world 32 points 3 months ago

Now there's an idea.

[-] kabe@lemmy.world 120 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

English teacher here. Articles in English can be really confusing but essentially we use the definite article in this situation because:

  • Uniqueness: In most situations, there's only one mirror in a room or a home that's readily available for someone to look into.
  • Generality: Similar to "going to the bathroom," "look in the mirror" refers to the general act of using a mirror to see oneself, not interacting with any specific mirror.
[-] kabe@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago

Dolce et Decorum est - Wilfred Owen. A grim, anti-war masterpiece written by a soldier fighting in the trenches in WW1

Ozymandias - Percy Shelley. A reminder of human transience and hubris

Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night - Dylan Thomas. Helps me to endure when things seem bleak or hopeless.

[-] kabe@lemmy.world 51 points 7 months ago

Day Theme Night Theme

Gnome + Dash to Dock + Arc Menu. Nothing too crazy.

[-] kabe@lemmy.world 46 points 7 months ago

"We have investigated ourselves and found no evidence of wrongdoing."

[-] kabe@lemmy.world 58 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Thanks, I couldn't find that part anywhere.

I'm personally not sure that saying "We're trying to work out ... an immediate ceasefire" has nearly the same urgency as as calling for one, but hey at least it's something.

[-] kabe@lemmy.world 63 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Sadly, this headline seems to be misleading. Checking for additional sources, I can find none that confirm that he actually called for a ceasefire.

According to the Associated Press, he did decry the loss of life in Gaza and announce that the US are about to commence airdrops of humanitarian aid, but at no point did he seem to do what this headline implies.

A Reuters article covering the same conference mentions the possibility of a ceasefire, but this apparently referred to a previous conversation a few days ago.

Unless anyone can find evidence to the contrary, I have to assume that this Newshub article is clickbait.

[-] kabe@lemmy.world 25 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Foobar2000.

By far the best, most customizable local music player app ever. Plus it's ~~open source~~ free.

[-] kabe@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

American are just as bad. A similar thing happened to my wife last month.

She and a bunch of other passengers missed their connecting flights due to the airline's incompetence. She stood in line for four hours, without food or water, to wait her turn for American to get her on another flight but as she neared the end of the line the staff closed up their desks and said "sorry folks, come back tomorrow" and walked off, leaving her and about 50 other people to basically sleep on the floor and wait for them to re-open five hours later.

No mention of finding them a place to stay, nor providing even a bite to eat. Zip. Nada.

While it's not quite as bad as what these poor people went through, it's the same "not my problem; sucks to be you" energy from the airline.

[-] kabe@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The scrolling lag is still an issue though. Go from Summit, Voyager, or Sync to Jerboa and it's definitely noticeably worse.

[-] kabe@lemmy.world 56 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The format actually has a lot of benefits - it supports transparency, animation, and compresses very efficiently. So it could theoretically replace GIF, JPG, and PNG in one fell swoop.

The downsides are that many apps don't currently support it and that it's owned by Google.

Personally I use webp for images that are not intended to share (e.g. banners and images on my blog), but stick to JPG/PNG for sending to other people.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by kabe@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

Some insights from Alex Stamos that I found quite interesting.

TL:DR;

He predicts the challenges will be as follows:

  1. Content Moderation: Enforcing actor and behavior-based content moderation will be difficult in the federated environment. The lack of metadata available in Federation makes it harder to stop spammers, troll farms, and abusers.

  2. Privacy Obligations: With Threads content being pulled down and cached by other servers, it becomes challenging to comply with right-to-data-deletion requirements, such as those imposed by GDPR. The Fediverse lacks mechanisms to enforce content deletion.

  3. Competing with Other Platforms: Meta may face difficulties in competing and reaching feature-parity with platforms like TikTok and Twitter while being bound by the feature set of ActivityPub.

Thoughts?

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by kabe@lemmy.world to c/newcommunities@lemmy.world

Hey, all.

If you're someone who likes to think critically about extraordinary claims and outlandish statements being made online or in the news, come hang out with us at !skeptic@lemmy.world

[-] kabe@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They didn't.

https://lemmy.ml/c/Ukraine is still up.

What seems to have happened is that the admin from lemmy.world removed that community from lemmy.world due to rule violations. You can see this in the public modlog.

People shouldn't be jumping to conclusions since we don't know the specifics.

Edit: clarification

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kabe

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