[-] Technus@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

Maybe to see how quickly it was noticed? Yeah, possibly

[-] Technus@lemmy.zip 32 points 2 days ago

I knew there was a reason I didn't like Lisp.

[-] Technus@lemmy.zip 30 points 2 days ago

[...] code hosted on the polyfill domain had been changed to redirect users to adult- and gambling-themed websites.

I wonder if the intent was to actually send users to these sites, or to generate bogus clicks on ad links.

Seems like a lot of effort to go through just to drive a little extra traffic to some random porn sites.

[-] Technus@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 days ago

Balls to throwing soup at paintings, where's the climate warriors blowing up oil refineries? That's the kind of activist that I'd buy a drink for.

[-] Technus@lemmy.zip 15 points 6 days ago

The language definitely seems made up just to fuck with people.

[-] Technus@lemmy.zip 53 points 6 days ago

The fact this was apparently posted by someone from the Netherlands makes this so much funnier.

[-] Technus@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 days ago

Some applications use those unused bits to add tags to pointers but it's important to mask those out before attempting to dereference the address. I'm not sure about ARM but x86-64 requires bits 49-63 to be copies of bit 48 (kinda like sign-extension), ironically to ensure that no one is using those bits to store extra data.

[-] Technus@lemmy.zip 218 points 4 weeks ago

Not once have I encountered a trans person on a dating app who wasn't 100% transparent about it. Some even asked me after matching, "you're aware that I'm trans, right?" just to be sure.

There's no logical reason to falsely pretend to be cis on a dating app to get matches. If someone's cool about it then it's better to know up front, right? And if they're not, then you probably don't want to waste your time on them.

The "justification" for this app is just bigotry, plain and simple. Fuck TERFs.

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http://web.archive.org/web/20240512204543/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon_design

(Archive link in case it's changed.)

This article is a surprisingly entertaining read for a few reasons:

  • one or more people who wrote it clearly have very strong opinions about how nuclear weapons should be built
  • the article contains a surprising amount of detail, including stuff that seems like it'd be classified or at least censored
  • due to both of the above, there's a ton of [citation needed] that I doubt will ever be resolved
[-] Technus@lemmy.zip 163 points 1 month ago

My friends and I still use TS3. The audio quality and voice activation is better than Discord's, and the desktop app doesn't take ten fucking gigabytes of RAM to run.

[-] Technus@lemmy.zip 217 points 1 month ago

Being exposed to queer culture doesn't turn you gay, it just tells you that it's an option. That's why conservatives see it as so dangerous.

[-] Technus@lemmy.zip 212 points 2 months ago

The children yearn for the mines.

[-] Technus@lemmy.zip 174 points 4 months ago

Worst part is, now you can't find a dumb TV anymore. The closest thing out there are "commercial signage displays" which are just dumb TVs with limited inputs and usually without remotes, but 25-50% more expensive because "commercial" (and because they won't be able to continue making money by showing you ads and selling your data) and a lot of retailers won't let you order one without a business account, or force you to order in bulk.

And every Neanderthal I complain to is like "but smart TVs have so many more features," like, bro, I can make any TV the smartest fucking TV in the world by plugging it into the desktop PC I'm gonna keep right next to it anyway. All the "smart" bullshit just gets in the way. I've yet to encounter a smart TV UI that didn't require a dozen button presses to change inputs and spend two seconds or more re-drawing the UI with EVERY INPUT because they put the cheapest processors they can find in these pieces of shit.

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submitted 4 months ago by Technus@lemmy.zip to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

Over the past couple weeks I've gotten emails from both Senators and a House Rep from the State of Minnesota. All three emails have been concerning the Israel/Palestine conflict, and are worded as replies to a some message I sent them.

I've never set foot in the state, let alone lived there (I'm on the other side of the country). I've never sent messages to any of those members of Congress, and I've never signed any petition giving any group the right to contact Congress about this matter.

I suspect my name and email address might have been used in some sort of astroturfing campaign targeting Congress. Or these might be spam emails impersonating the members of Congress for some reason. I noticed the House rep and one of the Senators is up for re-election this year.

Has anyone else gotten emails like this?

I've tried to send messages back to these people but the forms on their websites require submitting an address in their state/district, so I'm not sure what to do. The From: addresses seem like they might have been faked, or they're no-reply addresses, so I wasn't sure about just replying to the emails.

I also thought about calling their offices but I wasn't sure if this was something important enough to bother their staff about, and they're two hours ahead of me so their offices are closed by the time I get off work anyway.

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submitted 8 months ago by Technus@lemmy.zip to c/memes@lemmy.ml

This meme has become a running joke in my friend group: https://lemmy.world/post/7405623

We were fucking around with the Meta AI in WhatsApp and I got it to say this

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