[-] Deebster@programming.dev 11 points 4 days ago

Others have answered, but the UK has been rabies free for over a century!

The British Isles (GB and Ireland) have been rabies free since the disease was eradicated in terrestrial animals in 1922.

per DEFRA

[-] Deebster@programming.dev 25 points 4 days ago

forcing passengers to flee

Err, why? We know they're not rabid since it's the UK, so why not just ignore them?

[-] Deebster@programming.dev 15 points 4 days ago

Perhapsburg they are

[-] Deebster@programming.dev 12 points 4 days ago

Only if enough people do it. Then again, loads scrapers outside of AI already pretend to be normal browsers.

[-] Deebster@programming.dev 22 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The phrasing of "First actual case of bug being found" definitely sounds like it's a reference to an existing term. Nowadays maybe people would say "a literal bug lol".

Edit: to be fair, OP doesn't say that Hopper invented the term

[-] Deebster@programming.dev 12 points 4 days ago

I had a "T-Mobile MDA Vario II" (HTC TyTN 300) which was similar, and also had a collapsible stylus which lived in a little hole on the bottom. It was Windows Mobile, but it was great having the keyboard fully accessible (without that extra bottom bit the G1 had).

It looked like this, just less German:
"T-Mobile MDA Vario II" (HTC TyTN 300)

[-] Deebster@programming.dev 11 points 4 days ago

That's the first Android phone, the HTC Dream (or TMobile G1). I loved this phone, even if it was chronically underpowered.

[-] Deebster@programming.dev 1 points 5 days ago

What about proxies and the like? It might be less relevant in a world where most communication happens under TLS.

[-] Deebster@programming.dev 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Makes a lot of sense - it's a GET with the body from POST (I know, there's more to it than that). Definitely cleaner than encoding a huge URL or query string.

However, we're still implementing IPv6, so how long until we could actually use this?

[-] Deebster@programming.dev 3 points 6 days ago

Shame on you APNews for not including any Hoiho memes

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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/24946971

TL;DW:

Does It Make Sense To Put Data Centers In Space?

At some point in the future, yes.

Can They Really Cost Less To Operate?

In theory, yes.

Scott expresses concerns that current startups have not adequately addressed some of the practical challenges, such as cooling.

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[-] Deebster@programming.dev 184 points 2 months ago

[The customer] said that Webflow’s sales representatives were uncooperative when asked for more details. He quoted a sales rep saying, “No because you’ll tweet about it.”

Wow, that says a lot about how Webflow views its own policies.

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Piped mirror: https://piped.video/watch?v=UVlBmdvIC6s

This channel is about architecture, and this video (from Nov 2023*) is about Solar Punk and covers some of the history and real-life attempts.

I was amused that shortly after talking about Solar Punk's rejection of consumerism she did the sponsor section, but that's Youtube for you.

* it's been posted elsewhere on Lemmy but not here that I can see

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submitted 3 months ago by Deebster@programming.dev to c/xkcd@lemmy.world

xkcd #2942: Fluid Speech

https://xkcd.com/2942

explainxkcd.com for #2942

Alt text:

Thank you to linguist Gretchen McCulloch for teaching me about phonetic assimilation, and for teaching me that if you stand around in public reading texts from a linguist and murmuring example phrases to yourself, people will eventually ask if you're okay.

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Raccoon cuisine (programming.dev)
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xkcd #2937: Room Code (imgs.xkcd.com)
submitted 4 months ago by Deebster@programming.dev to c/xkcd@lemmy.world

https://xkcd.com/2937

Alt text:

Sorry to make you memorize this random string of digits. If it helps, it can also double as a mnemonic for remembering your young relatives' birthdays, if they happened to have been born on February 5th, 2018.

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  • Chechnya officials have banned music deemed too fast or slow, restricting compositions to a tempo of 80-116 BPM.
  • Minister of Culture Musa Dadayev announced the decision at a meeting, as reported by TASS.
  • The ban affects all musical, vocal, and choreographic compositions in the Russian Republic of Chechnya.

Chechnya is a republic of Russia since losing the Second Chechen War but this means that the Russian national anthem, at just 76 BPM, is also banned.

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This year's (belated, as is tradition) April Fool's XKCD is written in the Rapier.rs physics engine.

It's like The Incredible Machine, but each person can contribute a cell towards the larger machine.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/17292833

Abandoned industrial building 2/8

[-] Deebster@programming.dev 234 points 6 months ago

I assume this latest bump is due to lemmy.world updating and now counting lurkers when assessing active users.

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I posted a comment with the message "Don’t let doomscrolling lead you into despair and apathy over climate" and got a fair few downvotes, so I thought this was worth sharing.

YouTube version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9p5VKd8VkE

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submitted 7 months ago by Deebster@programming.dev to c/xkcd@lemmy.world

https://xkcd.com/2896

Alt text:

Also, we would really appreciate it if you could prominently refer to it as an 'eHit'.

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