brbposting

joined 2 years ago

10g more than likely 10k typo (perhaps more brain than body/finger typo, there a word for that?)

Oh, “thinko

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

Super simple on iOS—double hyphen!

(On the second press of the dash button, the dashes automatically joined 👆)

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago

These images are mindblowing. Bring me back down to Earth? Do you have a favorite image with reasonable coloring and contrast?

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wow great point!

btw I’d also thought to mention how I wish it could just be merch or live show tix b/c: did that creator I love REALLY like the new widget that was released or were they financially incentivized?

Which is why I mentioned transparency & labeling. Some will falter and some good people will subconsciously be incentivized, but some will choose sponsors so well they’ll be fine, too.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Related note

I’m a Ublock Origin kinda guy, but not a SponsorBlock one

Because gestures at capitalism is the thing for now:

Sponsorships, when transparent and well-chosen and clearly labeled and clever, are less grating and don’t use anti-privacy targeting methods. That’s a path forward I’m pretty much OK with (remember capitalism is the thing, you & I have to eat like the YouTubers?).

My expectation is not “everyone should do everything for free” or “you’re only allowed to sell merch, without ever mentioning it” or “uploaders must have live shows and sell tickets if they ever want a dollar”. It’s “ewww, ads” and the malware that we’re exposed to alongside them.


Meant to make a post about this but your comment triggered it early :)

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Perfect for when malware distributors host on Microsoft domains (Sharepoint?)… built-in ain’t blocking that enormous mess, sigh

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Did you mean to post a link to the index or a deeper link? Looks like the website is employing… URL cloaking, I once saw it called?

Nowadays we see that all the time on mobile where a website pushes a special URL when we use the share sheet, but manually copying the URL out of the address bar remains unaffected.

Not in this case though!

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Quotable quotes - “”NSFW”” depending on your text size settings, maybe

 

Rubbing anti-contaminate gel all over each other… all right all right

But more importantly, and I’ll have to make a new post, this show has held up so incredibly well. Absolute blast watching it.

 

Feeling blessed and thinking about folks who operate a “hardware store” in Kibera, Africa’s largest slum:

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(As I recall, they’d recover rusty screws and bent nails from the pig manure-laden ditches; watched a YouTube video years ago.)

Or less interestingly for some, maybe your experience vs. the top 100 elites’. Though for many of us that gap might not seem too notable (if I can choose where to apply/work, choose what to eat, choose leisure activities, etc., who cares about zero or fifty yachts at that point—not losing sleep).

Monaco (people who care about) Yacht(s) Show:

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Yes, the images focus on wealth, but I’m thinking about the freedom and the power, or lack thereof. Perhaps y’all have read good books on this subject. Closing with the Oxford English Dictionary definition of agency:

collapsed inline mediaAction, capacity to act. - Ability or capacity to act or exert power; active working or operation; action, activity. 1606–

 

Ever experienced the beauty of Lemmy automagically refreshing when a new comment is posted?

It just came to mind how many duplicative comments that feature has prevented.

Thanks for this small quality of life boost, and since it might be my only post like this for a while, thank you to all those making this place work 🙇‍♂️ you’re either bringing your IQ or EQ here (or more likely both), keep it up!

 

It would save not one but two entire taps! Think of the milliseconds!

Especially when posting images, it’s nice to confirm you are indeed posting a meme and not a screenshot of your tax returns. And formatting can always get messed up once in a blue moon.

So, the existing flow is to write your comment/post, tap the three dots, tap preview, review your comment/post, tap done, and tap post.

The new flow would be to enable “preview by default“ in settings once. Then, write your comment/post, tap preview, review your comment/post, and tap post.

 

Researchers create 30 fake student accounts to submit model-generated responses to real exams. Professors grade the 200 or 1500 word responses from the AI undergrads and gave them better grades than real students 84% of the time. 6% of the bot respondents did get caught, though... for being too good. Meanwhile, AI detection tools? Total bunk.

Will AI be the new calculator... or the death of us all (obviously the only alternative).

Note: the software was NOT as good on the advanced exams, even though it handled the easier stuff.

 

alt-textA three-panel comic strip. In the first panel, a man in a suit (Alex Jones) is sitting at a desk with a banner behind him that says "Info Wars". Offscreen, someone says "Cut!! That's a wrap for today!"

In the second panel, “later”, Jones asks a green frog washing dishes "Everything ok, babe?"

In the third panel, the frog cries and demands "How long do we have to hide who we are??"

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Frog truth via UC Berkeleyhttps://news.berkeley.edu/2010/03/01/frogs

Pesticide atrazine can turn male frogs into females

Atrazine, one of the world’s most widely used pesticides, wreaks havoc with the sex lives of adult male frogs, emasculating three-quarters of them and turning one in 10 into females, according to a new study by University of California, Berkeley, biologists.

The 75 percent that are chemically castrated are essentially “dead” because of their inability to reproduce in the wild, reports UC Berkeley’s Tyrone B. Hayes, professor of integrative biology.

 

alt-textSocial Media Post:
Star Trek fans have held the national stereotype of being way too rabid about things for decades but they’re probably the nicest fan base in all of science fiction and the one least likely to have a large faction of them absolutely lose it over a torpedo being fired by a woman or dumb shit like that

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alt-text: there’s laundry to do and a genocide to stop. I have to eat better and also avoid a plague. my rent went up $150. I’ll need to pick up more shifts. Twenty people died in Rafah this morning and every major news outlet is stretching the limits of passive voice to suggest whole families may have leaped up through the air at missiles that otherwise had the right of way. I just got a notification that my student loan payments are starting up again and my phone isn’t charged. My cousin got COVID for a fourth time and can no longer work or walk or even feed himself. The person across from me on the L train seems to fashion themself a punk rock revolutionary, but they’re not wearing a face mask, and that’s the kind of cognitive dissonance that makes me want to steal batteries. Fascists keep winning primaries for both parties, and I think I gained a few pounds. The CDC just announced there are no more speed limits on highways, and I think this Ativan is finally hitting. The NYPD farmer’s market only sells bad apples, have you heard that one? Listen it’s warm today, too warm for March. But I don’t have time to think through the implications because there’s laundry to do and a genocide to stop.

 

For your simple[r] tax needs: https://directfile.irs.gov/

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Source: Oxfam

 
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