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[–] tal@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

checks

https://lemmyverse.net/communities has a list.

It's on the lemmy.porn instance, !forcedincest@lemmy.porn. Presumably that instance is, well, for porn.

If you don't want to see it, you can block that community and you won't see any more from it. If you don't want to see anything from that instance, you can block that instance. If you don't want to see NSFW content in general, you can block that.

As to "why" in the broader sense, it's because the Threadiverse is a global system. It spans many countries and different groups of people. It's like asking why something is "allowed" on the Web


everything is allowed as long as the local country is okay with it.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don’t think he decided to end it all over AI

It's hard to know what's going on in someone's life. That is, the proximate cause of him storming off might have been that argument, but that didn't mean that he didn't have other things creating pressure.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Magewell Pro Capture card

I've been kind of shifting towards use of USB devices over internal cards.

All of the USB devices that I have still can be connected to computers. Ditto for DE-9 serial ports, though I might need a USB adapter.

But I've seen ISA->PCI/AGP->PCIe obsolete a lot of old hardware that I've had sitting around, and that's just on the PC. That includes my video capture hardware.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If it would be a concern for you, I'd imagine that ATMs probably scan bill serial numbers.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 7 points 2 days ago

but definitely don’t come across as murderers

Well, I mean, the charge is manslaughter, not murder.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 39 points 2 days ago

I doubt that this is political theater. The judge


who is a neutral party here, and introduced the question


is asking a pretty straightforward question, testing the argument that the lawyer is making. "If your argument that Trump can rebuilt the wing of the White House holds, it seems that it'd entail X (where X is something that it seems like we wouldn't want). Is that true?"

If you read court transcripts, this isn't an uncommon thing for a judge to do.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I haven't watched anime for quite a while, but when I do, I've certainly preferred subbed.

That being said, I can imagine computer voice synth hypothetically getting to a point where I'd prefer dubbed.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 24 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

“use a strong password” whats that gonna do if the database gets pwned, sandra?

Strong passwords aren't intended to simply protect against brute-forcing a password via trying to authenticate repeatedly, but also to help protect against brute-force attempts to obtain passwords from a compromised password database using a dictionary attack, the scenario you're describing.

Typically


if an authentication system is storing its password database competently


the password shouldn't be stored in plain text. Instead, the password will be salted (to avoid rainbow table attacks) and then hashed via a cryptographic hash. The password database entry will look something like a tuple of (username, salt, salted hashed password). If the password is a strong one, it will be computationally-hard to obtain the plaintext password, even if someone has the salt and the salted, hashed password.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

adimantium

Nitpick: "adamantium", with an "a".

[–] tal@lemmy.today 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

In March 2019, Bevin said in an interview that he deliberately exposed all nine of his children to chickenpox so they would "catch the disease and become immune."[287]

What year was that?

I mean, when I was a kid, there was no chickenpox vaccine available. I didn't even realize that we'd finally developed one until a few years ago.

I don't think that my parents intentionally went out of their way to expose me, though I did catch it, but intentional exposure certainly wasn't some sort of wacko practice at the time. You were likely to catch it sooner or later, and it could be much more severe if you had it late in life


you wanted immunity earlier rather than later. Chickenpox was just kinda part of life.

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Looks like it was rolling out in the US in the mid-1990s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pox_party

Pox parties, also known as flu parties, are social activities in which children are deliberately exposed to infectious diseases such as chickenpox. Such parties originated to "get it over with" before vaccines were available for a particular illness or because childhood infection might be less severe than infection during adulthood, according to proponents.[1][2] For example, measles[3] is more dangerous to adults than to children over five years old.[1][4][5] Deliberately exposing people to diseases has since been discouraged by public health officials in favor of vaccination, which has caused a decline in the practice of pox parties,[6] although flu parties saw a resurgence in the early 2010s.[7]

In the United States, chickenpox parties were popularized before the introduction of the varicella vaccine in 1995.[9][19][20] Children were also sometimes intentionally exposed to other common childhood illnesses, such as mumps and measles.[21] Before vaccines for these infections became available, parents regarded these diseases as almost inevitable.[21]

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Ehhh...yeah, maybe, but I think that the problem is really broader than that.

Petflix, a Roku app documented by The Verge, is a representative case. Its opt-in screen reads: “To enjoy Petflix for free with fewer ads, you are allowing Bright Data to occasionally use your device’s free resources and IP address to download public web data from the internet...

Say you have kids. And your kids have friends over. Are you curating what "free" apps your kids' friends have on their phones that they connect to your WiFi network?

[–] tal@lemmy.today 17 points 2 days ago

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https://www.humaneworld.org/en/campaign/ending-chinas-dog-and-cat-meat-trades

Globally, an estimated 20 million dogs and 6 million cats are slaughtered annually for human consumption. Of these, approximately 10 million dogs and 4 million cats are killed each year in China alone.

Sounds like it.

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Cranberry glass (en.wikipedia.org)
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Cranberry glass or 'Gold Ruby' glass is a red glass made by adding gold salts or colloidal gold to molten glass.

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Japan recorded the highest ever temperature of 41.2 degrees Celsius on Wednesday, beating the previous high of 41.1 C marked in 2018 and 2020. Authorities are strongly urging people to take precautions to avoid risks of heatstroke.

The mercury hit the above-human temperature of 41.2 C in the city of Tanba, Hyogo Prefecture, at 14:39, while two cities — Fukuchiyama in Kyoto and Nishiwaki in Hyogo — also recorded extremely high temperatures of 40.6 C and 40 C, respectively.

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