[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 56 points 1 week ago

This is so poorly written I have no idea if it's sarcasm or not.

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 58 points 2 weeks ago

Why any international students still want to go to the US is beyond me.

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Receiving a spam call puts you in a bit of a dilemma, or at least it does for me: How do I deal with this call that doesn't alert the spammers that this is an active number that they can call again? Answering the call is obviously the wrong choice, but I always assume that rejecting the call outright will also be detected as a deliberate action and therefore a person is on the other side. Some people have suggested answering the phone but not talking, so they think it's a dead number, but I want something more definitive.

My idea is to have a "spam" button on the incoming call screen, that answers the call but doesn't connect the microphone. Instead it plays either the standard "the number you're dialing is not assigned, please check your number and try your call again" recording, or a fax/modem sound to make them think the phone number belongs to a machine and not a human.

Would this work? Or would they still be able to determine that the recording is spoofed by the phone itself? Does anything like this already exist?

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Also, do y'all call main() in the if block or do you just put the code you want to run in the if block?

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Also, do y'all call main() in the if block or do you just put the code you want to run in the if block?

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[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 66 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Remember that the Holocaust had majority support in Germany too.

Saying Israel is like Nazi Germany is absolutely not a metaphor. There are more similarities than there are differences, they just switched up which ethnic group is the target.

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I remember, and I'm gen z. And some higher end laptops had two battery slots so you can hot swap the batteries without turning it off.

Those were the days. Everyone talks about how smartphones nowadays get people addicted to instant gratification and convenience, but IMO the ability to swap out the battery when it died was a level of instant convenience we had decades ago that modern devices are severely lacking. Having to tether your phone to a battery bank while on the go is nowhere near as good as just popping the back cover and replacing the battery.

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[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 62 points 2 months ago

Windows is malware. If you give the slightest shit about your privacy, switch ASAP

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 59 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

~~Doubles the workforce~~Removes the artificial societal limit that arbitrarily cuts the workforce in half

FTFY

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 66 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

More like yelling at the one fighting the fire because they're getting water everywhere

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 63 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Why do they keep allocating land to wildfires if they're so destructive? /s

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 66 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Just the fact that financial crimes over a certain amount are punishable by death in China (and people have actually been executed for them) says a lot. It's a law that literally applies only to the rich because a normal person would never even get to glimpse the amount of money required for execution to be on the table.

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 60 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

A lot of outdoor survival "common sense" can get you killed:

Moss doesn't exclusively grow on the north side of trees. Local conditions are too chaotic and affect what side is most conducive to moss. Don't use moss for navigation.

Don't drink alcohol to warm yourself up. It feels warm but actually does the opposite: alcohol opens up your capillaries and allows more heat to escape through your skin, which means you lose body heat a lot faster.

Don't eat snow to rehydrate yourself. It will only make you freeze to death faster. Melt the snow outside of your body first.

Don't assume a berry is safe to eat just because you see birds eating them. You're not a bird. Your digestive system is very different from a bird's digestive system.

If you've been starving for a long time, don't gorge yourself at the first opportunity when you get back to civilization. You can get refeeding syndrome which can kill you. It's best to go to the hospital where you can be monitored and have nutrients slowly reintroduced in a way that won't upset the precarious balance your body has found itself in.

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 66 points 5 months ago

US doing exactly what they accuse Communist China of doing exhibit 420

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 73 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

No Trump voter is casual unless they literally closed their eyes and scribbled randomly on the ballot

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 58 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I genuinely believe that the Mozilla board is secretly working for Google. They already get most of their funding from that search engine deal, is a backroom agreement to slowly run the organization into the ground in order to force the last holdouts over to Chrome that hard to believe?

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