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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod?⁩ ⁨⁨25⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  their fishing rods are invisible for you? including the hook and line? that must be rough. how do you avoid getting caught when you can’t even see them?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'd like to control my air-purifier with one of those power-socket-timer-switch thingies – Is there a way to "auto-press" those non-mechanical buttons?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  subtitled screenshot of the scene in The Big Lebowski at Johnie’s Cafe Shop Restaurant where Walter Sobchak (John Goodman) is saying to Jeffrey “The Dude” Lebowski (Jeff Bridges) “You want a toe? I can get you a toe.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LICK EM⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Obviously this is a bakery for giraffes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They have a right to feel smug⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am thinking of airtight windows! No other country can build such airtight and beautiful windows. - Angela Merkel in a 2004 interview, answering the question what emotions Germany arouses in her

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Woooow. So greaaaat⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  when the LLM doesn’t have enough layers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is anyone NOT steaming their Music?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  i’ve gotten some cooked mp3s before. i don’t know if they got that way through steaming or what but i did need to uncook them before i eventually burned them 🤔

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨proof of wormholes⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tylenol is Acetaminophen

  … which is what most of the world calls paracetamol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Foolproof advice⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  🖖

  also: username checks out

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🦈🦈🦈⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  here is the full res version of the image, via the author’s 2019 twitter thread… where there was also this important update two years later:

  twitter screenshot of 3 different microsoft shark emojis, with text " 🚨 Important update!! 🚨 Microsoft’s 🦈 finally found some gill slits! …only 2/5, but an improvement nonetheless. Your move, Twitter!!!"

  this other post “A Marine Biologist Ranks Shark Emojis” covers some of the same and also some other ones

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨kansas can get fcked⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Screenshot of the 2002 film Austin Powers in Goldmember showing radar operator Johnson Ritter (played by Clint Howard) wearing a headset with a microphone. He has a concerned facial expression as he looks over his shoulder away from his circular radar display. Above the display is a placard with the text “WORLD ORGANIZATION SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pandering to conservative Americans⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I bought some cheap Chinese 2-way radios. The packaging has a big American flag and a “Designed in U.S.A.” claim, which I suspect is bullshit given the company involved. Also, there are two Bible verses referenced. This smacks of pandering to a particular slice of conservative Americans. All I want is cheap radios for skiing with my kids next winter, not a reminder of my country’s socio-political bullshit.

  This bullshit is not from the well-known Chinese radio maker Baofeng (baofengradio.com) but rather from a US company called “BTech” which has the deceptive URL BaoFengTech.com.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Me too.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Botryllus schlosseri, also called a star tunicate, is humans’ closest evolutionary relative among invertebrates in the sea. […] The way the invertebrate’s brain degenerates and disappears has important parallels to the way the brain degenerates in human neural disorders.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Terrible liquid coils⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  also the maelstrom in question actually does exist: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moskstraumen

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Terrible liquid coils⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  looking closer I see the earliest archive.org snapshot of this URL (from Feb 27, 2020, the day it was published) also says 1857 so it seems like the transposition to 1847 must have happened somewhere else - and yet the attribution to SciAm (external to the screenshot) was somehow preserved. @nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world can you shed any light on this mystery? where did you obtain this image (and know to attribute it to SciAm)?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Terrible liquid coils⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  apparently in 1857 “I have been informed by a European acquaintance” was sufficient sourcing for something to be published in Scientific American :)

  somewhat relatedly, it’s 2025 now so you can actually link to a thing instead of just posting a screenshot of it: scientificamerican.com/…/that-giant-sucking-sound…

  i wonder why this screenshot (and OP’s text which includes the fact that this comes from scientific american, which is not included in the screenshot) both say 1847 while the text on the SciAm website says it’s actually from 1857 🤔

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do gangs that collect protection money actually do any protecting?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  2nd arrest made in alleged shootings at GTA movie theatres

  article doesn’t say which of these theaters it was 🤔

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could I just create my own drive format?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  NTFS, fat32, exfat, could I theoretically create my own filesystem?

  Yes. There are many different file systems and with a bit of work you can absolutely create your own. Making one that is reliable and performs well, and/or is something you can actually use for the disk that you boot from, is a lot of work and generally involves low-level kernel programming - not exactly a beginner’s programming project.

  However, you can also more easily play with implementing filesystems in a high-level language using FUSE.

  If so would my computer even be able to work with most files or connect to other devices?

  Your computer can use many different filesystems at the same time. You can also store a filesystem in a file on another filesystem, rather than dedicating a partition of a physical disk to it. So, yes, you can use a filesystem of your own design at the same time you are using other storage devices formatted with more common filesystems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Le Penguini⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
  grok is this true

  simpsons bart and homer “worst day of your life so far” meme template, first panel text “i don’t think that’s true” second panel text “it’s not true yet”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Zach Galifianakis Math gif

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bird⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  hmm, i see my first edit to this comment got federated to piefed but subsequent edits did not; the version after subsequent edits can be seen here on the lemmy instance i’m posting from

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bird⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  oops, i read my test closer and realized it will never pass as-is due to being cribbed from another test that was using in instead of assertEqual (and the expected string not containing the closing tags) but I trust it conveys what i mean to

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bird⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  compare the rendering of the test output (which i also wrapped in backticks to tell the markdown rendering to render it as code) on lemmy vs on piefed.

  Essentially, it is not possible to reliably identify the URLs in code (in a language that is not known to either PyFedi or its markdown parser), because they be adjacent to URL-valid characters which actually terminate the URL in whatever syntax is being used inside the code block. So, even though it is sometimes harmless to auto-linkify inside a code block, it is also often wrong and therefore should not be (and generally is not) done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bird⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  URL perfectly clickable from PieFed

  PieFed W

  that is not a W… i surrounded the URL with backticks, which means it should be treated as code and not made into a link.

  cc: PyFedi developer @rimu@piefed.social

  I had a glance at the source and don’t see a very quick fix, but I think the solution involves getting rid of the auto-linkification here and instead have that be done by the markdown library. This issue indicates that the markdown library PyFedi is using is capable of doing that.

  Here is a test I wrote which I think should pass which does not currently :)

  diff --git a/tests/test_markdown_to_html.py b/tests/test_markdown_to_html.py index 329b19be…108276c5 100644 — a/tests/test_markdown_to_html.py +++ b/tests/test_markdown_to_html.py @@ -37,6 +37,12 @@ class TestMarkdownToHtml(unittest.TestCase): result = markdown_to_html(markdown) self.assertTrue(“<pre><code>code block” in result) + def test_code_block_link(self): + “”“Test code blocks formatting containing a link”“” + markdown = "\ncode block with link: example.com \n" + result = markdown_to_html(markdown) + self.assertEqual("<pre><code>code block with link: https://example.com/ ", result) it currently produces this failure: ====================================================== FAILURES ======================================================= _______________________________________ TestMarkdownToHtml.test_code_block_link _______________________________________ self = <tests.test_markdown_to_html.TestMarkdownToHtml testMethod=test_code_block_link> def test_code_block_link(self): “”“Test code blocks formatting containing a link”“” markdown = "\ncode block with link: example.com \n" result = markdown_to_html(markdown) > self.assertEqual(“<pre><code>code block with link: https://example.com/ “, result) E AssertionError: '<pre[24 chars]ink: https://example.com/ ’ != ‘<pre[24 chars]ink: <a href=“https://example.com/” rel="nofoll[61 chars]e>\n’ E - <pre><code>code block with link: https://example.com/ E + <pre><code>code block with link: <a href=“https://example.com/” rel=“nofollow ugc” target=”_blank”>https://example.com/</a> E + </code></pre> E + tests/test_markdown_to_html.py:44: AssertionError

  HTH, and thanks for writing free software!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bird⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For some reason this post caused me to search to see if there are types of birdseed which are not suitable for ducks. From a few minutes of reading, I’m relatively sure now that at least all common types of birdseed are fine for them. But, along the way, I found this LLM slop https://plantnative.org/can-ducks-eat-bird-seed.htm (URL rendered unclickable since it is spam) which strongly implies that ducks are not in fact birds:

  • “Yes, ducks do eat bird seed. Although bird seeds are specifically prepared to meet the nutrient demand of birds. But still, bird seed can be served as a snack to ducks in limited amounts.”
  • “Bird seeds are loaded with nutrients and can be beneficial for ducks the way they are for birds.”
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SCOOP: Substack sent a push alert promoting a Nazi blog⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  some more history:

  April 2023: Substack CEO Chris Best Doesn’t Realize He’s Just Become The Nazi Bar

  December 2023: Substack Turns On Its ‘Nazis Welcome!’ Sign

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Off topic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  could it be that sucking at eating popcorn is correlated with having subtitles enabled? 🤔

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microwave Intensifies⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  On the Effectiveness of Aluminium Foil Helmets: An Empirical Study

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitch's largest political streamer, Asmongold, shovels racist and xenophobic messaging to his audience of 52K+ live viewers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  a black and white photo of people walking in front of Pier 14 on San Francisco’s Embarcadero, with the “Raygun Gothic Rocketship” sculpture visible (dating the photo to sometime in 2010 or 2011). A giant Lt. Cmdr. Data (Brent Spiner) stands between the Ferry Building and the Ferry Station Post Office Building, taller than the former’s clocktower. The large text “BIG DATA” is overlaid on the left side of the image.

  (it’s either something like this, or OP elided the word “audience”)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitch's largest political streamer, Asmongold, shovels racist and xenophobic messaging to his audience of 52K+ live viewers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  not only a racist but also a misogynist, a present-day gamergater, who is literally in 2025 still complaining that “video games used to be made for guys and now they’re made for everyone” 🤦

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨poor jeremy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  screenshot of a (fake) tweet by @UberFacts with text: “facts” posted on UberFacts are rarely factual.

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_(snail)

  these two snails mated with each other instead, producing 170 right-coiled snails. One of the left-coiled snails later mated with Jeremy, producing 56 offspring, all of which also had right-coiling shells.

  they also omitted this crucial detail:

  Jeremy was named after the left-wing British Labour politician Jeremy Corbyn, on account of it being a “lefty” snail, but also due to Corbyn’s reported love of gardening.