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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you people all bots?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Let me guess, you’re a “business man”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do crappy parents defend their child when they are masively publicly misbehaving and being shitheads?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “Get your car out of the bike lane” gets 'em real mad every time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Think about it⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Welp, I guess that outs me as a not-gay; I didn’t even think about those.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Think about it⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Are there any hiatorically-accurate depictions of Mary Magdeline? That’d give us the answer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where are the marketing volunteers?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Could it be that marketing is an inherently pro-capitalism line of work and its practitioners are unlikely to be altruistic enough to volunteer, especially for something like Free Software?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Right to protest is under attack in England and Wales, reports warn⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I am starting to get real sick and tired of all these fascist deniers pretending things aren’t getting worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Github Banned a Ton of Adult Game Developers and Won’t Explain Why⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m OOTL. Why don’t people recommend GitLab?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He took it literally⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not about confessing, it’s about being tricked into saying something innocuous in context that they twist to implicate you anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon thinks about wheat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And porridge is just incomplete beer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon thinks about wheat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And by “porridge” you mean “beer”.

  Booze was the real motivator.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Snitches get switches⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what makes them the exception that shouldn’t be reported.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Snitches get switches⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, it’s sufficiently descriptive to imply that randos shouldn’t be messing with the plants on it. As a native English speaker, it makes sense just fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Snitches get switches⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It could mean anything from private land with an easement to prohibit building on it to a National Park, depending on context and jurisdiction. It’s just a non-specific term for “land that is conserved in some way.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨enclose.horse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  64

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The 10 most anticipated video games of 2026⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t say I’m “stoked,” but those two looked the most interesting in a list full of AAA licensed garbage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨True of mine but he more than made up for it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How do you avoid accidentally buying the same thing twice?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes I know it doesn't work like that⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ordinarily, sure, but we’re talking about hot salt water, which is definitely less corrosive.

  Oh wait.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ġ̵̻ͅį̴̹̜̼̙͍͋̈̕m̷̦͎͈̎̄̄̿̈ṁ̶̭̫͓̞̻̾̂̚ë̶͚́̍̀͆ ̴̻͗̈́̿̂̚͝f̴̧̳̝͓̫̆̍͌͠u̸̧̖̠̗͔̽̽̾ȇ̶̝̠̎̔l̵̡͙͔̀́̃́̓͘,̵̠̜̽͛ ̴͙̜͇͚̥̜̑͛͐̓͆͒ḡ̸̮͝͠ḯ̸͍̩͛͗̍͝ṁ̶̛͎̖̭̖̓̃͑̃ḿ̵̫̇e̸͈͕̍̍͒ ̸̧̣̣̣̹̺͌̃ẇ̴̤̳͇̪̝̑̈́̏̚i̶͖͒̒r̶̢̪̙͉̭̥̂̐e̵̞̳̻̍͘⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “I’ll make my own wire! With ions! And plasma!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do US airports have a lot more jet bridges than EU airports?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe something to do with ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) compliance? Europe tolerates a lot less accessibility by necessity since they have so many older buildings, so maybe that translates over into having more tolerance for stairs when boarding planes?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some website logins have the username and password entry on different pages?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  login ceremony

  What pretentious asshole came up with that bit of jargon?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Industrial Strength Shitpost⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Look, I’m not saying I admit anything, but if I, for one, were to do some naked woodworking, I’d be extra careful about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is audiophile bullshit cheating?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  From catb.org/jargon/html/magic-story.html

  Some years ago, I (GLS) was snooping around in the cabinets that housed the MIT AI Lab’s PDP-10, and noticed a little switch glued to the frame of one cabinet. It was obviously a homebrew job, added by one of the lab’s hardware hackers (no one knows who).

  You don’t touch an unknown switch on a computer without knowing what it does, because you might crash the computer. The switch was labeled in a most unhelpful way. It had two positions, and scrawled in pencil on the metal switch body were the words ‘magic’ and ‘more magic’. The switch was in the ‘more magic’ position.

  I called another hacker over to look at it. He had never seen the switch before either. Closer examination revealed that the switch had only one wire running to it! The other end of the wire did disappear into the maze of wires inside the computer, but it’s a basic fact of electricity that a switch can’t do anything unless there are two wires connected to it. This switch had a wire connected on one side and no wire on its other side.

  It was clear that this switch was someone’s idea of a silly joke. Convinced by our reasoning that the switch was inoperative, we flipped it. The computer instantly crashed.

  Imagine our utter astonishment. We wrote it off as coincidence, but nevertheless restored the switch to the ‘more magic’ position before reviving the computer.

  A year later, I told this story to yet another hacker, David Moon as I recall. He clearly doubted my sanity, or suspected me of a supernatural belief in the power of this switch, or perhaps thought I was fooling him with a bogus saga. To prove it to him, I showed him the very switch, still glued to the cabinet frame with only one wire connected to it, still in the ‘more magic’ position. We scrutinized the switch and its lone connection, and found that the other end of the wire, though connected to the computer wiring, was connected to a ground pin. That clearly made the switch doubly useless: not only was it electrically nonoperative, but it was connected to a place that couldn’t affect anything anyway. So we flipped the switch.

  The computer promptly crashed.

  This time we ran for Richard Greenblatt, a long-time MIT hacker, who was close at hand. He had never noticed the switch before, either. He inspected it, concluded it was useless, got some diagonal cutters and diked it out. We then revived the computer and it has run fine ever since.

  We still don’t know how the switch crashed the machine. There is a theory that some circuit near the ground pin was marginal, and flipping the switch changed the electrical capacitance enough to upset the circuit as millionth-of-a-second pulses went through it. But we’ll never know for sure; all we can really say is that the switch was magic.

  I still have that switch in my basement. Maybe I’m silly, but I usually keep it set on ‘more magic’.

  1994: Another explanation of this story has since been offered. Note that the switch body was metal. Suppose that the non-connected side of the switch was connected to the switch body (usually the body is connected to a separate earth lug, but there are exceptions). The body is connected to the computer case, which is, presumably, grounded. Now the circuit ground within the machine isn’t necessarily at the same potential as the case ground, so flipping the switch connected the circuit ground to the case ground, causing a voltage drop/jump which reset the machine. This was probably discovered by someone who found out the hard way that there was a potential difference between the two, and who then wired in the switch as a joke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🤏🤏🤏⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How is that a sequel? It’s not even by the same author.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whatever happened to the days when shit just...worked?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not just software, online updates. Even things that were computerized used to have a lot more QA effort put into them when fixing a bug meant having to physically ship a new product revision, or at least a new disk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Skyrim on Switch 2 ships with severe input lag and a huge 53GB file size despite being capped at 30FPS⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Prior to my GPU reaching the age where it overheats easily

  That’s not some sort of natural aging process; that’s you failing to do maintenance. Clean out the dust and/or replace the thermal paste.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨don't tell the cable company about the splitter⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Flat CRTs were probably even heavier than curved ones because the glass has to be thicker to hold vacuum with a less structurally-efficient shape.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ohio Politician says he wants Governor to approve bill allowing minors to work later⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For it to get vetoed it had to have passed through the legislature, which means the problem is way bigger than just that one fuckwad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's going on with Quentin Tarantino?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Of the movies you listed, Hackers is the only one I’ve seen. Hack the planet!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Latitudes⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  🎵 Portami a casa, vie di campagna 🎶

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why isint lemmy more popular?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Lack of marketing.