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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40641106

In 2000 Avery Brooks did some television commercials for IBM:

[-] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 10 points 20 hours ago

Wait until you hear about the Alderney pound, Manx pound, Jersey pound, Guernsey pound, Falkland Islands pound, Gibraltar pound, Saint Helena pound, ...

which ones are accepted where is... complicated:from wikipedia:

Throughout the UK, £1 and £2 coins are legal tender for any amount, with the other coins being legal tender only for limited amounts. Bank of England notes are legal tender for any amount in England and Wales, but not in Scotland or Northern Ireland.

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Bank of England, Scottish, Northern Irish, Channel Islands, Isle of Man, Gibraltar, and Falkland banknotes may be offered anywhere in the UK, although there is no obligation to accept them as a means of payment, and acceptance varies. For example, merchants in England generally accept Scottish and Northern Irish notes, but some unfamiliar with them may reject them.[142] However, Scottish and Northern Irish notes both tend to be accepted in Scotland and Northern Ireland, respectively. Merchants in England generally do not accept Jersey, Guernsey, Manx, Gibraltarian, and Falkland notes but Manx notes are generally accepted in Northern Ireland.[143] Bank of England notes are generally accepted in the Falklands and Gibraltar, but for example, Scottish and Northern Irish notes are not.[144] Since all of the notes are denominated in sterling, banks will exchange them for locally issued notes at face value,[145][failed verification] though some in the UK have had trouble exchanging Falkland Islands notes.[146]

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[-] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

the edit history on Shehbaz Sharif's tweet shows that it began with "Draft - Pakistan's PM Message on X" when it was first posted 😭

[-] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

thanks, i edited the post to link that instead

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/45640943

  1. The US must fundamentally commit to guaranteeing non-aggression.

  2. Continuation of Iran’s control over the Strait of Hormuz.

  3. Acceptance that Iran can enrich uranium for its nuclear program

  4. Removal of all primary sanctions on Iran.

  5. Removal of all secondary sanctions against foreign entities that do business with Iranian institutions).

  6. End of all United Security Council resolutions targeting Iran.

  7. End of all International Atomic Energy Agency resolutions on Iran’s nuclear program.

  8. Compensation payment to Iran for war damage.

  9. Withdrawal of US combat forces from the region.

  10. Cease-fire on all fronts, including Israel’s conflict with Hezbollah in Lebanon.

... are the 10 points, according to https://gulfbusiness.com/en/2026/iran/iran-10-point-plan-war-us-israel-trump-hormuz/

There are many varied but similar versions of these points circulating elsewhere:

Here are two of Trump's recent posts about it:

edit upon request to clarify the question: is there an official/canonical version of these 10 points published anywhere?

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  1. The US must fundamentally commit to guaranteeing non-aggression.

  2. Continuation of Iran’s control over the Strait of Hormuz.

  3. Acceptance that Iran can enrich uranium for its nuclear program

  4. Removal of all primary sanctions on Iran.

  5. Removal of all secondary sanctions against foreign entities that do business with Iranian institutions).

  6. End of all United Security Council resolutions targeting Iran.

  7. End of all International Atomic Energy Agency resolutions on Iran’s nuclear program.

  8. Compensation payment to Iran for war damage.

  9. Withdrawal of US combat forces from the region.

  10. Cease-fire on all fronts, including Israel’s conflict with Hezbollah in Lebanon.

... are the 10 points, according to https://gulfbusiness.com/en/2026/iran/iran-10-point-plan-war-us-israel-trump-hormuz/

There are many varied but similar versions of these points circulating elsewhere:

Here are two of Trump's recent posts about it:

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[-] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago

You mean GrapheneOS? Or is GraphiteOS a different OS I’ve not heard of?

two years later: GraphiteOS is now a thing that exists https://github.com/cawilliamson/treble_graphiteos

cc @InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/45236296

from Pictures for Sad Children

(this particular strip found via this reddit post)

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/45236145

8-panel comic strip, featuring a person lecturing to a room in front of a hockey stick graph.panel 1:since the printingpress, things havegotten shittier,exponentiallypanel 2:shitty books,shitty art andshitty ideas, nowmore than everpanel 3:at this rate, whatwill we reach inabout 25 yearspanel 4:(an audience member says)the shitty singularity(lecturer says)that's rightpanel 5:after this point,we can't imaginehow shittythings will bepanel 6:(audience member)but what we thinkwill happenpanel 7:(other audience member)we wont evenbe able todie(lecturer)good, yespanel 8:we'll liveshitty livesforever

from Pictures for Sad Children

(this particular strip extracted from this shitty semi-login-walled pinterest link...)

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from Pictures for Sad Children

(this particular strip found via this reddit post)

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8-panel comic strip, featuring a person lecturing to a room in front of a hockey stick graph.panel 1:since the printingpress, things havegotten shittier,exponentiallypanel 2:shitty books,shitty art andshitty ideas, nowmore than everpanel 3:at this rate, whatwill we reach inabout 25 yearspanel 4:(an audience member says)the shitty singularity(lecturer says)that's rightpanel 5:after this point,we can't imaginehow shittythings will bepanel 6:(audience member)but what we thinkwill happenpanel 7:(other audience member)we wont evenbe able todie(lecturer)good, yespanel 8:we'll liveshitty livesforever

from Pictures for Sad Children

(this particular strip extracted from this shitty semi-login-walled pinterest link...)

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[-] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 191 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No, SVG files are not HTML.

~~Please change this post title (currently "today i learned: svg files are literally just html code"), to avoid spreading this incorrect factoid!~~

~~I suggest you change it to "today i learned: svg files are just text in an html-like language" or something like that.~~ edit: thanks OP

SVG is a dialect of XML.

XML and HTML have many similarities, because they both are descendants of SGML. But, as others have noted in this thread, HTML is also not XML. (Except for when it's XHTML...)

Like HTML, SVG also can use CSS, and, in some environments (eg, in browsers, but not in Inkscape) also JavaScript. But, the styles you can specify with CSS in SVG are quite different than those you can specify with CSS in HTML.

Lastly, you can embed SVG in HTML and it will work in (modern) browsers. You cannot embed HTML in SVG, however.

[-] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 128 points 2 years ago

shoutout to the person who reported this post with "Reason: Bot meme, you can't even read it. whoever replies is a bot too" 😂

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[-] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 140 points 2 years ago

the famous "This incident will be reported" error was briefly removed last year before being replaced with a less ominous version.

[-] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 124 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm disappointed in arstechnica for only supporting their provocative headline (Judge in US v. Google trial didn’t know if Firefox is a browser or search engine) with this vagueness in the article:

While Cavanaugh delivered his opening statement, Mehta even appeared briefly confused by some of the references to today's tech, unable to keep straight if Mozilla was a browser or a search engine. He also appeared unclear about how SEM works and struggled to understand the options for Microsoft to promote Bing ads outside of Google's SEM tools.

What did he actually say?!

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