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[–] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 5 hours ago

It does kind of suggest that you could do much more elaborate printing in that fashion using smoke-equipped drones.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

uncensorable

I don't really see the point from a censorship standpoint. I mean, if a moderated community or instance is seeing posts being removed, whoever wants to post there is probably not going to have a good time there in the first place. Like, you probably want to be in a different community or instance that doesn't take issue with whatever the content is that's being posted.

EDIT: Oh, maybe I'm misunderstanding. You're trying to archive the Web and then publish activity about that to ActivityPub, rather than archive ActivityPub and create a Web interface?

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

Is there a community for gaming device streaming on Lemmy?

Even if there is, I wouldn't try going to super-specialized communities, because there aren't enough users to support them at the moment. I'd move to more-specialized ones when existing communities have too much traffic to handle.

https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=streaming

I don't see anything specifically dedicated to streaming games.

Both on 5g network.

I experience constant notifications of poor connection even though both the tablet and PC are in the same room as the router.

I'm assuming that you mean 5GHz WiFi, rather than 5G; 5G would be a cellular link to a phone tower. I'd hope that you have the tablet on the WiFi network; if not, that would certainly limit the available bandwidth.

The screen also turns off after 2 minutes even though I’ve changed it to 30 minutes. Turned off battery saver. Tried everything.

I don't know of another setting in vanilla Android that would do that. Could be that you have some other Android app that can turn off the display.

There's an Android app permission for "keep screen awake". If whatever Android app does Steam link uses that, could check to see whether that permission is enabled.

I guess it's possible that it might be overheating and that some kind of protective thing is kicking in. I've normally seen Android devices reboot when that happens.

Might try leaving it plugged into a USB charger, see if it stops. Desktop OSes on laptops typically have different settings for "on wall power" and "on battery".

[–] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

What fucking idiot/asshole decided to even have an api for your gpu

Well, most websites in 2026 don't use 3D stuff, but some do, and for some of those, there isn't really an alternative. Take Google Earth as an example.

I think that given its limited use, you could realistically make 3D an opt-in thing where each website has to have user authorization, the way location data is.

There's also some more-widely-used HTML5 Canvas stuff, which permits for rapidly-drawn 2D stuff. I think that, say, MarineTraffic uses it to draw its map. That provides a lot unique identity stuff to be leaked, but its hard to, for example, let Javascript rendering pixels run without knowing, say, the DPI of the screen.

Light/dark mode?

That isn't your systemwide mode, but provides a request from your browser as to whether to use the light or dark version of the website. Not all websites have handmade dark and light versions, but for those that do, it's generally preferable from a user standpoint to using something like Dark Reader to dynamically generate a dark mode.

Visibility (whether or not the tab is ‘active’, the fuck?!?

I'd guess that it probably permits a tab with Javascript running to deactivate itself in the background and to stop using CPU time.

My OS

That's been around for a long time, as IIRC it's in the User-Agent string. You can fake that if you want, and honestly, it's probably not a critical piece of information, but a lot of websites that let one download software use it to preselect the appropriate version for whoever is downloading stuff. May be some other uses; not sure.

As a side question, why is the capability built in by a browser, but the user is never given a choice about whether or not any of this is shared?

A lot of it can be disabled or faked, but websites that rely on it may not work. Firefox has CanvasBlocker, which prevents a lot of HTML 5 Canvas queries in a way that still lets most things work, faking approximate information. It may break some websites for you, but that'll avoid leaking some of that information.

If you disable Javascript with something like NoScript, you can block a lot of that by only letting Javascript run on a per-website but...a very high proportion of websites in 2026, unfortunately, won't work without Javascript.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Your majesty, as head of the Church of England, perhaps you could engage in a bit less blasphemy.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 5 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Deuteronomy 21:10--14:

When the Lord your God gives you victory in battle and you take prisoners, you may see among them a beautiful woman that you like and want to marry. Take her to your home, where she will shave her head, cut her fingernails, and change her clothes. She is to stay in your home and mourn for her parents for a month; after that, you may marry her. Later, if you no longer want her, you are to let her go free. Since you forced her to have intercourse with you, you cannot treat her as a slave and sell her.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 15 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

Self hate right here. His parents were cuban immigrants.

Most of the hardline anti-Castro people in the US are, I think, Cuban-American. That's typically the reason that they're in the US.

I don't know if that's a factor for Rubio in particular, but "person with Cuban background living in the US who is very unhappy with the Castro regime" is not an oddity.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

the whole thing fell over...Do I need to make the model smaller, or is there something wrong with the print settings?

I haven't done 3D printing for some time, despite following the community, but can you add a base, perhaps, that would make it more stable and is only attached at a few points and can be snipped off? There's probably terminology for such a thing, but I'm afraid if there is, I don't know it.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago

I mean, Scottish separatism got time on RT. Hell, Russia ran that "international conference of separatists" that involved Texas and a bunch of other places. Russia amplifying separatists isn't exactly new.

https://qz.com/506701/russia-hosted-a-conference-of-the-worlds-separatists-including-hawaiians-from-the-us

Russia, where separatism is illegal, hosted a conference for foreign separatist groups

Russia invited a bunch of international separatist groups, including dissidents from Ireland, Spain, Italy, the US, and Ukraine, to discuss “the right to self-determination” to a Moscow conference—despite “separatism” being a crime in Russia.

Here they are way back in 2016:

https://abcnews.com/International/texas-california-separatists-attend-pro-kremlin-conference/story?id=42395066

Texas, California Separatists Attend Kremlin-Funded Conference

Meet the attendees of Moscow's international conference of separatists.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

https://www.google.com/search?q=disregard+definition

Works for me. My top hit is this:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disregard

The AI response at the top of the page is:

I have reset our conversation. Let me know what you would like to talk about or ask! I am ready to help with whatever you need.

So it's probably not useful for AI results, but seems fine to me for searching the Web.

EDIT: Oh. That's actually what the article is saying too. It's just saying that the top result in the AI result (and, in fact, they show a screenshot of the Mirriam-Webster result), and saying that users might not scroll down to see other results. That...seems kind of clickbaity. I mean, if that's your bar, you could equally claim that Google doesn't return Web search results, since the top result is the AI-generated response.

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

I don't buy fountain pens there


despite following this community, I use only a handful of very inexpensive fountain pens, and am not a very "serious" fountain penner


but I have purchased other types of pens from jetpens.com and I've been fine with the experience.

https://www.jetpens.com/

Looks like they're based in Texas and have free US shipping over $35.

As for Goulet, I haven't purchased pens from them, but in the past I have enjoyed looking at their ink samples and watching their fountain pen YouTube videos. Looks like they're in Virginia and have free US shipping over $99.

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by tal@lemmy.today to c/world@lemmy.world
 

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.

 

Some quotes that people might not expect, given their originators and the political views and groupings of the present day:

Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.


Karl Marx, Address of the Central Committee to the Communist League in London, March 1850

It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.


Adam Smith, Chapter II, Book V, The Wealth of Nations

I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races—that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermingling with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which will ever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together, there must be the position of superior. I am as much as any other man in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.


Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln-Douglas debates, October 13, 1858

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