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- Comment on Me too. 22 hours ago:
- Comment on Terrible liquid coils 1 day ago:
also the maelstrom in question actually does exist: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moskstraumen
- Comment on Terrible liquid coils 1 day 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 1 day 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? 3 days 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? 3 days 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 4 days ago:
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- Comment on Bird 2 weeks 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 weeks 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
ininstead ofassertEqual(and the expected string not containing the closing tags) but I trust it conveys what i mean to - Comment on Bird 2 weeks 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 weeks 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: AssertionErrorHTH, and thanks for writing free software!
- Comment on Bird 2 weeks 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 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
could it be that sucking at eating popcorn is correlated with having subtitles enabled? 🤔
- Comment on Microwave Intensifies 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Twitch's largest political streamer, Asmongold, shovels racist and xenophobic messaging to his audience of 52K+ live viewers 4 weeks ago:
(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 4 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
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.
- Comment on Which one are you? 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on You gotta see this one 5 weeks ago:
hey, “humorless if you want”, it’s a fake screenshot created for entertainment purposes
- Comment on IYKYK 1 month ago:
- Comment on The cell wall is the wall of the cell. 1 month ago:
Wikipedia says:
The mitochondrion is popularly nicknamed the “powerhouse of the cell”, a phrase popularized by Philip Siekevitz in a 1957 Scientific American article of the same name.[4]
But know your meme attributes its meme status to this tumblr post from 2013:
Contrary to comments in many places like this reddit thread from 2018, I suspect the phrase wasn’t actually used in many textbooks or very commonly known prior to that tumblr post.
(If you search on Google Books you can find numerous textbooks using the phrase. Range-based search on Google Books appears to be broken so I’m not sure, but all the ones I checked were published well after 2013.)
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- Comment on ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic 2 months ago:
This article buries the lede so much that many readers probably miss it completely: the important takeaway here, which is clearer in The Register’s version of the story, is that ChatGPT cannot actually play chess at all:
“Despite being given a baseline board layout to identify pieces, ChatGPT confused rooks for bishops, missed pawn forks, and repeatedly lost track of where pieces were."
To actually use an LLM as a chess engine without manual intervention as this person did, you would need to combine it with some other software to automate continuing to ask it for a different next move every time it suggests an invalid one. And, if you did that, it would still tend to lose, even to much older chess engines than Atari’s Video Chess.
- Comment on originality 2 months ago:
- Comment on Happy anniversary of the day absolutely nothing happened at nowhere square! 2 months ago:
it’s not a particularly long post; if you’re really confident in the veracity of the narrative you’re familiar with then you shouldn’t need to be afraid to read something that contradicts it.
(and btw, neither of the two posts i linked claims nothing happened there.)
- Comment on Happy anniversary of the day absolutely nothing happened at nowhere square! 2 months ago:
- Comment on faen 2 months ago:
Due to the Norwegian language conflict there have been various competing forms of written Norwegian over time, two of which have been officially recognized as equally valid by the Norwegian parliament since 1885. Both apparently changed their spelling of “slut” to “sludd” in the 21st century, Bokmål in 2005 and Nynorsk in 2012, presumably in an effort to encourage English speakers to make jokes about Swedes and Danes instead of them.
- Comment on I'm a bit freaked out 2 months ago:
