[-] davidgro@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago
[-] davidgro@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The local PBS station carried a science show called Newton's Apple. Not only was the content amazing to a nerdy kid, the theme song was way too cool for a PBS show.

That and Animaniacs.

[-] davidgro@lemmy.world 68 points 3 days ago

Here it is just outright spoiling a joke (censored, but you can see that it quotes the punchline):

Gemini giving away the punchline before one can even read the joke.

[-] davidgro@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago

Well. That explains why it was very suddenly and forcefully uninstalled and blocked at work.

I hope this means it can be unblocked now, but I'd assume not anytime soon if ever.

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The app in the screenshot is URLCheck, it is my "default browser" and allows me to see where a link is going and edit it or choose what to open it in.

It's showing that the ! link I tapped on the bottom of the screen got an "https:/" (one slash) put in front of it instead of being treated as a proper link to a community.

The same thing happens with @ links:

A screenshot showing that a user-link from a post summary ended up with part of a protocol prepended to it

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Note: this is a true story, it happened a couple hours ago.

We were at the skating rink. "Low" by Flo Rida was playing. Suddenly a little kid spun out in front of us. Fortunately she wasn't hurt when she hit the floor (she hit the floor), next thing we knew Shawty got low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low.

She was fine and got up on her own. Kids are rubber.

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[-] davidgro@lemmy.world 132 points 9 months ago

Epic win! Lol!
All your base are belong to us.
Ceiling cat is watching

Etc, etc.

[-] davidgro@lemmy.world 95 points 1 year ago

Generally explosions do in fact involve an object suddenly increasing in volume (with corresponding decrease in density)

Said objects typically become partially gaseous, but if the rest of it is porous then it's not unusual at all for that to increase in volume also.

Easy example: popcorn.

[-] davidgro@lemmy.world 74 points 1 year ago

Assuming it's a surprise, this is Earth All Along. Genre Shift is similar, but that's more about tone than plot

[-] davidgro@lemmy.world 72 points 2 years ago

Another prominent example is Android. Sure system apps can be upgraded individually -- by storing the new version in a restricted part of the 'user' partition -- but otherwise the system files are strictly read only until a new 'image' is 'flashed' to it by the update system or a power user with debugging tools. In the past, a common use of root capabilities was to remount the system partition as read/write and then change files on it directly. It's more complex now.

That's also why system apps can be rolled back to the stock version, and can sometimes be disabled, but can't be directly uninstalled like user apps. Only the updated version on the user partition (if there is one) can be removed.

[-] davidgro@lemmy.world 77 points 2 years ago

So now we can have an Android port of the "I am rich" app.

[-] davidgro@lemmy.world 87 points 2 years ago

Yes it is, and because of who owns it, I would even prefer that to an unsandboxed closed source native binary.

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The links inside the linked post are relative links, such as xkcd which is a link to /c/xkcd@lemmy.world

Boost does not open them when tapped, flashing an error instead.

[-] davidgro@lemmy.world 197 points 2 years ago

NewPipe at least already doesn't use the API, it scrapes the website.

... Which it just occurred to me might be one of the reasons Google is pushing that web integrity thing. Dang.

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