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How Disney and Warner Bros. Are Causing Internet Piracy to Boom | Platforms like Netflix, Hulu, and Disney+ were supposed to do away with pirated media. Instead, they may make them stronger than ever. in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] gallopingsnail 2 points 1 year ago

https://www.defectivebydesign.org/

Traditional art in c/memes@lemmy.world

[–] gallopingsnail 5 points 1 year ago

Alpine is an alternative to GNU that can also be used with the Linux kernel.

A long and distinguished family in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world

[–] gallopingsnail 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here it refers to hot dogs rolled in croissant dough and baked.

How will we ever get away from plastics when they are ubiquitous for safety in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

[–] gallopingsnail 1 points 1 year ago

It's plastic lined paper, same as (modern) paper cartons and cups.

Lemmy.ml `v0.19` upgrade issues and downtime. in c/announcements@lemmy.ml

[–] gallopingsnail 1 points 1 year ago

Looking forward to the update! Just a heads up though, my instance has been on the 0.19 beta for a few weeks, and this update WILL break logins through Jerboa until Jerboa is updated with 0.19 support. Took me like 2 weeks to figure out why I couldn't log in.

Barefoot workers, bacteria found at factory that made big-brand eye drops | Ars Technica in c/technology@lemmy.ml

[–] gallopingsnail 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I work in a hospital pharmacy, and I had to compound some custom eye drops for a patient the other day. I have to wear a hair net, beard net, shoe covers, a gown, and sterile gloves to even enter the cleanroom. Being barefoot in a cleanroom for sterile manufacturing is a hard no.