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- Comment on Has a patent office ever refused to grant a patent to something on the grounds it was too obscene? 1 week ago:
Crap, well now I keep it that way.
- Comment on Has a patent office ever refused to grant a patent to something on the grounds it was too obscene? 1 week ago:
Do I see a repo the generic opera reference here?
- Comment on Why do some say they own or have bought something that they technically haven't (e.g. domain names, expensive things, etc.)? 3 weeks ago:
For domains, you actually own them. If you define ownership as being able to trade them compared to leasing something where you are not allowed to sell the item for example.
- Comment on Hypothetically, if you are in prison and want to communicate with the outside world without being detected, what are some ways to hide a message within an innocuous letter? 4 weeks ago:
You usually get the book corresponding to your faith, so that would be an option. Given that the Bible (can’t speak mich about it but way less about the others) has chapters and verses and what not, addressing single words is simple.
For the “name of relative is the code”, yeah that needs a good memory.
- Comment on Hypothetically, if you are in prison and want to communicate with the outside world without being detected, what are some ways to hide a message within an innocuous letter? 4 weeks ago:
Your options depend on how much code you can agree on. Ask about imaginary relatives map each name to a meaning, so asking about the health of Aunt Judy could mean that the prison refuses your access to a lawyer and telling you thought about Uncle Sam could mean they keep you in solitary. Or whatever facts you want to communicate. Your revolutionary friends could respond in the same manner. The flaw is in being limited to previously agreed upon code words.
If you have access to a common book, you can refer to words by page, line and word number. You could embed the numbers as words in a story you are writing to your (imaginary) child. “Behind the seven hills, there were five houses with nine rooms each” can translate to “take the 9th word on page seven, line five”. Obviously you need the exact same copy of the book for this to work, the Bible is quite common for this cipher.
- Comment on Nothing against disabled people but how come I can't replace my arm with something augmented that can carry more weight? Also other parts? My disabled bro asked me this and got me thinking 5 weeks ago:
If he continues to play deus ex human revolution, he will eventually learn why it didn’t work out that easily even in the future Detroit.
- Comment on What does a week of groceries look like to you? 1 month ago:
We manage our “food inventory” with Grocy which calls itself “the ERP beyond your fridge”. It basically tracks every single purchase and consumption of food and also each items best before date. It needs a bit initial setup and you need to remind yourself to checkout stuff you consume but then it’s just great. Not a single item spoiled because it got pushed too far back on the shelf. And since Grocy knows how much of what item we want in stock, it automatically writes our shopping lists with stuff which is about to run out.
So the shopping is basically day to day as we return from work and pass the store just ticking things off the list. And we made a rule for ourselves to only buy the stuff on the list, nothing extra to avoid impulse purchases.
- Comment on Firestone email unsubscribe page isn't actually clickable so you can't unsubscribe 1 month ago:
The domain itself is a joke on its own.
- Comment on Like Trump says that the cartels have invaded Canada wouldn't they have to pass through the US, avoid checkpoint, border control on both sides and many other things? So Canada can only blame the US? 1 month ago:
GTA told me that, one mission in particular.
- Comment on When Lemmy got named did no one think that the "lemming" association might alienate people? 1 month ago:
TIL, thank you.
- Comment on what’s with some adult tv shows using tiktok speak/“brainrot” or acting like the example below, wouldn’t this approach work better with children’s shows? 1 month ago:
It could be an instance of “how do you do, fellow kids?”
Wanting to fit in but not knowing how to do it right.
- Comment on Why do so many UK electrical sockets have an on/off switch next to them? 2 months ago:
Well duh, they freeze and burst in winter so they obviously need to be outside for easier repair! Think of the mess they would make if they were inside the walls.
- Comment on Why do so many UK electrical sockets have an on/off switch next to them? 2 months ago:
I expected Technology Connections or ElectroBOOM, was not disappointed.
- Comment on How do you deal with it when you download library source code from github and need to change all the header includes to actually be correct? 6 months ago:
I really love the
–virtualof Alpine’s apk system. - Comment on Do deaf people play media with sound on? 7 months ago:
I would expect them to watch at the lowest volume level. The “muted” icon on screen would me annoy too much.
- Comment on Can i safely turn the power on on this open outlet? if not, how do i solve this? 7 months ago:
From my POV, I would say you are good. The dangerous blue and black wire are covered and yellow-green being exposed is not an issue. If you only have responsible persons in the house, you can turn it on without issues. You could also tape card board over it if you want to.
But keep in mind I’m not an electrician and give only my layman’s POV.
- Comment on Do I need to store this in the fridge when opened? 7 months ago:
It usually says this on the label, at least in my country it has a phrase like “Store refrigerated after opening and consume within a few days”.
If it has no instructions or you are unsure, I’d default to yes, put them in the fridge after opening.
- Comment on is iceraven a good fork of firefox? 8 months ago:
Out of curiosity, what turned you away from Firefox?
- Comment on Why is DNS often joked about in the I.T. Industry? 8 months ago:
Might be related to long TTL on DNS entries making it hard to connect one failure to a thing you changed days ago.
- Comment on How might Lemmy appear on an analytics page? 8 months ago:
Depends. Could be links on Lemmy have the
rel=“noreferrer”attribute set. (Can’t check, im online from mobile) - Comment on What do you do with Nazi memorabilia? 10 months ago:
Maybe a theatre is interested in it as requisite for a play.
- Comment on We constantly have spit in our mouth 100% of the time but if we were made to drink any amount of our spit it'd be disgusting. Why? 10 months ago:
Same reason you wear your socks the whole day but once you remove them they become eww. Human brain is weird in that regard. Probably has evolutionary reasons but from an entirely rational POV it’s weird.
- Comment on Forams 11 months ago:
You wouldn’t enjoy regular sand either. It’s coarse and rough and gets everywhere.
- Comment on What 11in laptop do you suggest? 11 months ago:
It’s a bit dated already, but still going strong for my workload: theT530
- Comment on What 11in laptop do you suggest? 1 year ago:
In general, I try to stick to ThinkPads. They come with a bit of a price, but well worth in my experience.
- Comment on What's inside the London Tower Bridge? 1 year ago:
Thanks to Spider-Man: Far from home, I knew of the glass floor decks :D
(And it was just plausible enough to be not ruled out as “the glass is just in the movie so it can shatter”)
- Comment on What will happen to large companies once poor people have no more money to use? 1 year ago:
Zydrate!
- Comment on How is surgery safely performed on the rectum and its connected piping? 1 year ago:
Not an answer, but I have to say you have a way with words.