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Most a backup account for now, other @Deebsters are available.
- Comment on Ronnie Le Drew, puppeteer behind Zippy and David Bowie’s goblins, dies aged 78 2 days ago:
Here’s him on the set of Labyrinth:
- Comment on Alternative medicine 1 week ago:
“Herbal medicine’s been around for thousands of years!” Indeed it has, and then we tested it all, and the stuff that worked became ‘medicine’. And the rest of it is just a nice bowl of soup and some potpourri.
From Dara Ó Briain. Also from him:
Chinese medicine, oh, Chinese medicine! “But there are billions of Chinese, Chinese medicine must be working.” Here’s the skinny on Chinese medicine. A hundred years ago the average life expectancy in China was 30. The life expectancy in China at the moment is 73. And it’s not feckin’ tiger penis that turned it around for the Chinese. Didn’t do much for the tiger, if you don’t mind me pointing out.
- Grok Build Uploaded Entire Git Repositories to xAI Storage, Not Just Files It Readthehackernews.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to cybersecurity@infosec.pub | 0 comments
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I thought that one came from TokTok.
- Comment on Butter 3 weeks ago:
You should! Or people who leave their empty wrappers in the tub with the uneaten chocolates/sweets.
- Comment on Butter 3 weeks ago:
Ignore all the armchair physiologists, this is definitely mildly annoying, along with people who leave the microwave with a few seconds left so you can’t see the time and you also need to cancel their remainder before you can use it.
- Comment on NHS app to use AI to determine which service best for patients 3 weeks ago:
It would be a better article if it gave some more information about what they mean by “AI”. I assume it’s an LLM, but which one? Hosted by the NHS, or calling out to some US/wherever service? Privacy, data retention, cost?
- Comment on Doing it now 4 weeks ago:
I hadn’t heard of him, diatoms, or the fact the Victorians were making microscopic art, so thanks for sharing.
It seems he passed away three years ago, but had a fascinating life: isdr.org/in-memory-of-our-friend-and-colleague-kl…
- Comment on If Steam were to shut down tomorrow how much money would you have lost in total on games / DLC ?? 4 weeks ago:
£1094, or £2055 today (15 year account).
Rookie numbers, looking at the other replies.
- Comment on Hbd 2 uu 5 weeks ago:
Dara Ó Briain does a great bit on this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHNQqCCOoZ8
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
No-one’s commented on the skeleton watching and touching themself in the original picture. Although, I guess skeletons don’t really have anything to touch down there.
- Submitted 3 months ago to cybersecurity@infosec.pub | 0 comments
- Comment on The Joys of Motherhood 3 months ago:
I had to look it up too. You might want to stop reading after the Kangaroo paragraph.
Kangaroos are born after less than a month, and then climb into the pouch, attach to a teat and stay there for half a year before being ready to face the outside world.
Spotted Hyenas gestate for about 110 days and then have to make it though the mother’s pseudo penis, which can tear with first-time mothers (fatal to her) and can suffocate the cub (fatal to them) with cubs of first-time mums only having a 40% chance of surviving birth.
- Comment on 8<9 3 months ago:
When Shakespeare mentioned it in Romeo and Juliet it was already old. The proverb “a cat has nine lives, for three he plays, for three he strays, and for three he stays” is older than the USA. Nine is often seen as an magic/auspicious number in Anglo-Saxon culture, which the US is very influenced by.
The multiple lives thing goes back to the ancient Egyptians, who believed cats were divine creatures and were incarnations of the goddess Bastet (who had the power to reincarnate herself nine times). The Bastet link makes me think that nine is the “right” number of lives.
- Comment on Give the people what they really need 3 months ago:
Pure water has a pH of 7.0, which is neutral, although it will draw in C0₂ from the air and form carbonic acid so I guess you’re technically right. Sea water is slightly alkaline.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
I think that the relative lack of content is actually a feature for this reason - sometimes I open Lemmy out of habit, but I see the same content and go do something more worthwhile instead.
- Comment on The Human Flatus Atlas: Join the study today! 4 months ago:
Rhyming is generally the opposite of alliteration, because alliteration’s repetition of initial sounds, and rhyming’s repeated sounds at the end (like flatus atlas).
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
I think any federated service is more vulnerable, because there’s no central oversight of e.g. IPs used to create accounts.
Even without any code, you could easily register accounts at the 20 largest instances and upvote yourself. I’m sure some people will have done just that.
- Submitted 5 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 9 comments
- Comment on Nomenclature 5 months ago:
Brilliant articles, thanks - written by someone completely conversant in both birds and internet culture, with a sense of humour but also communicating bird facts and including citations for things like why round things are cuter.
- Comment on Thanks Alot 5 months ago:
That user seems to spend most of their time on Lemmy “correcting” people’s spelling, including correctly spelt words that Americans spell differently. So, they’re either a troll or just insufferable.
- Comment on Nova Launcher unashamedly inserts malware ads into your home screen now. 5 months ago:
Yeah, it’s really pleasing
- Comment on On Venus. 6 months ago:
Or get a better app! Vogager (app, not probe) lets you double click to make tall posts zoom to screen width.
- Comment on I dunno 8 months ago:
I learnt it as BODMAS (brackets, orders, division and multiplication, addition and subtraction).
- Comment on haveibeenpwned alternatives / data? 8 months ago:
The founder was asked to provide a subscription level for individual domains and he said no and pointed people at the suggestion to occasionally pay for a month instead.
HIBP subscriptions can be taken out monthly and cancelled at any time. If the appearance of your domain in a breach is infrequent, you can take out a one month subscription then immediately cancel it after performing the search (the subscription will remain active until the entire month period has elapsed).
- Comment on haveibeenpwned alternatives / data? 8 months ago:
If it takes me on average 5 minutes to login and change an email address, it would take me about 1 days, 18 hours to change them all! It definitely looks worth it for others who want to start using aliases.
- Comment on haveibeenpwned alternatives / data? 8 months ago:
Perhaps that message only shows up if some of the results are from the paid lists. For me, I don’t see anything listed beneath, even though 34 addresses match, so I guess nothing’s in the free lists.
- Comment on haveibeenpwned alternatives / data? 8 months ago:
- Comment on haveibeenpwned alternatives / data? 8 months ago:
It’s entirely possible that my best fix is just to delete my haveibeenpwned account and just react when I see spam, but where’s the fun in that?
- Submitted 8 months ago to selfhosting@slrpnk.net | 13 comments
