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Cevilia
1 year ago
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I support this decision.
Thanks for looking out for us, Ada. <3
UKCasual
I can excuse shit and late trains, but mispronouncing Northern train stations? An abomination.
Cevilia
1 year ago
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Bold of you to assume Northern paid a voice actor and didn't just sit a random driver down in front of a microphone. /joke
UKCasual
I can excuse shit and late trains, but mispronouncing Northern train stations? An abomination.
Cevilia
1 year ago
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How did you think it was pronounced?
Not judging you for not magically knowing how random place names are pronounced or anything, genuinely curious.
UKCasual
I can excuse shit and late trains, but mispronouncing Northern train stations? An abomination.
Cevilia
1 year ago
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Got it in one! Or, two. You got it in two.
Cevilia
1 year ago
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But I would've let it lie, Vic!
Atheism
Cevilia
1 year ago
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Now you're just putting words in my mouth. You clearly aren't engaging in good faith so this conversation ends here. Have a nice day. :)
Cevilia
1 year ago
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Ah, my good old friend the slippery slope fallacy. I haven't seen you for checks watch a couple of days.
Cevilia
1 year ago
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I would've let it lie!
Cevilia
1 year ago
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Free speech, sure.
Freedom from consequences, absolutely fucking not.
Cevilia
1 year ago
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I've been rewatching Vic Reeves Big Night Out on All4. Presumably because I hate my sanity and want to confuse myself? /joke
Gaming
Cevilia
1 year ago
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Cloanto, the company that owns the rights to the Commodore Amiga line, have a legal emulator that they sell called Amiga Forever. It's about half the price of one modern AAA game, and when you download it, it comes with about fifty games of varying notability, and there's many times more you can just install and play. And it's all legal.
I would love this to be the industry norm, imagine being able to download a NES! It's annoying that if we want future generations to be able to experience games of the past (whether to learn from them, or just for pleasure) we need to teach our children about piracy.
Cevilia
1 year ago
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Surely the answer is "Depends which bit of it you're quoting." For example, if you quote something that calls for genocide then, obviously, yes. But if you were to quote something relatively innocuous, then yes because you're quoting from a book that, among other things, calls for genocide.
UKCasual
I can excuse shit and late trains, but mispronouncing Northern train stations? An abomination.
Cevilia
1 year ago
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Funny thing, when I was growing up there, depending on which side of the town you lived on you pronounced it one of two different ways.
Neither of which was slay-th'wait.
No Stupid Questions
When do you start feeling bad about asking for a raise?
Cevilia
1 year ago
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You absolutely should not feel bad about doing this. Ever.
If anything, you should talk about it and share your experience, because your experience could help some of those who work manual intensive jobs and are still struggling to get raises of their own.
Remember: If the company isn't able to fairly compensate its workers, it doesn't get to have workers. That's how supply and demand works.
F-Droid
Awesome F-Droid app lets you repurpose old Androids to help scientists find disease cures (BOINC)
Cevilia
1 year ago
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!boinc@sopuli.xyz
Cevilia
1 year ago
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I have no idea what you're on about. Literally every phone I have ever owned turns off mobile data when I'm connected to Wi-Fi, and turns it back on again when my Wi-Fi disconnects.
No Stupid Questions
Into which pocket do you place your phone?
Cevilia
1 year ago
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My phone is my wallet. It goes in my inside pocket where people aren't going to be able to pick it. I've played Skyrim. I know how pickpocketing works. /joke
You Should Know
YSK: Many price drops aren't what they seem...
Cevilia
1 year ago
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There is a small, but growing, number of retailers that have decided to apply this worldwide. Perhaps GOG is the most noteworthy. Look at anything that's discounted there and you'll see their "usual" price, as well as the lowest price they sold it for in the last 30 days before the current discount started. It's a good rule, makes me more inclined to feel I'm actually getting a good deal, wish more places would do it
Cevilia
1 year ago
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TIL only men are allowed to think Link is cute.
/sarcasm
Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ
Clipgrab w/YouTube: How bad is the audio quality?
Cevilia
1 year ago
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It varies based on the age of the video, newer ones do indeed have separate audio downloads. You can force audio only with
yt-dlp -f bestaudio <url>
This will cause the script to only consider audio-only formats, if bandwidth is a concern. However, how it decides which one is "best" is beyond me. For example, I tried one video and got a webm that contains only an audio track:
~ $ yt-dlp -f bestaudio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
[youtube] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
[youtube] dQw4w9WgXcQ: Downloading webpage
[youtube] dQw4w9WgXcQ: Downloading ios player API JSON
[youtube] dQw4w9WgXcQ: Downloading android player API JSON
[youtube] dQw4w9WgXcQ: Downloading m3u8 information
[info] dQw4w9WgXcQ: Downloading 1 format(s): 251
[download] Destination: /data/data/com.termux/files/home/storage/movies/ytdl/20091025__Rick_Astley_-_Never_Gonna_Give_You_Up_Official_Music_Video.webm
[download] 100% of 3.28MiB in 00:00:00 at 6.91MiB/s
Cevilia
1 year ago
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yt-dlp can just download the audio. It usually comes down in m4a at quality that I would describe as "very listenable". So only the first of those three steps are mandatory if you do it that way.
yt-dlp -x <url>
Cevilia
1 year ago
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I learned that lesson quite recently actually, that games should be fun! I ended up starting watching someone else play through the game so I can catch the end of the story and have closure. :)
You Should Know
YSK: Lemmy DOES have a karma system
Cevilia
1 year ago
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I am extremely disappointed by this.
I thought we were free of such toxicity here.
Futurama
Cevilia
1 year ago
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See also https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/175172 :)
Cevilia
1 year ago
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If you are treating your paying customers worse than someone you perceive as stealing from you, you are doing something seriously wrong.
Shitty Life Pro Tip
SLPT: Change your password to the word "incorrect".
Cevilia
1 year ago
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Thanks for the lemonade, kind stranger!
Math Memes
95.121% accuracy
Cevilia
1 year ago
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But the only way it would actually get there depends on you, and your willingness to ignore data. :)
Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ
What Torrenting program do you use?
Cevilia
1 year ago
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Same here. I occasionally try other clients, but qB is the one I always end up going back to, mostly because it automagically blocks hosts that send garbage.
Shitty Life Pro Tip
SLPT: Change your password to the word "incorrect".
Cevilia
1 year ago
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But what happens when you forget it?
That way, when you forget it, you'll get a helpful reminder that your password is incorrect.
Math Memes
95.121% accuracy
Cevilia
1 year ago
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It would be very easy to increase that to 100%, if you're prepared to ignore enough data...
Showerthoughts
When Threads eventually will not federate, the same people that urged to deferderate in advance, and thus remove the point of being ActivityPub compatible, will be the same to complain.
Cevilia
1 year ago
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Oh no. I won't be part of The Zuck's EEE plan. How terrible. /sarcasm
No Stupid Questions
When a Flight Data Recorder/Cockpit Voice Recorder is found, they are often taken on a plane and flown to an investigation headquarters. But what if the plane carrying those black boxes crash?
Cevilia
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According to the National Safety Council there are "too few deaths to calculate odds". (source). So, I'm pretty sure we can call the probability of two extremely-rare events happening independently in succession as near to nothing as makes no odds.
Also, modern combined units (sometimes called CVDRs) are built to withstand multiple impacts, and their storage medium is solid state. It is highly likely that, in the event of this near-impossible scenario, the recorder could be recovered again.
Mildly Infuriating
When someone writes a sentence, uses a comma instead of a conjunction
Cevilia
1 year ago
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Thanks for your message though I'm a little confused, what more is there to say?
No Stupid Questions
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Cevilia
1 year ago
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I know I'm not the target of this question but I can't imagine tipping a hairdresser.
Explain Like I'm Five
What is defederation?
Cevilia
1 year ago
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Defederation = the defederating server refuses to talk to the other server.
Imagine Hotmail and Gmail. Hotmail decides to defederate from Gmail. Going forward, any Gmail user trying to send mail to Hotmail will simply be ignored, and Hotmail will ignore any email bound for Gmail.
Cevilia
1 year ago
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No experience with it, but…
- Founded in 2018
- Copyright date says 2020
- Still says "Join as a Founder!" in 2023
- Appears to be tied up in crypto nonsense
Signs point to untrustworthy.
Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ
Sources for audio books
Cevilia
1 year ago
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Not an answer, but just to cover the bases:
I use https://audiobookbay.li/ but, as you say, it can be a bit unreliable, especially if the book isn't recent.
There's https://tokybook.com/ (from the Megathread) but its selection is somewhat lacking too.
Meta seems to have money to burn, so they'll gladly pay for the disk space to host your uncompressible images. Here's a Python script to generate them! ::: spoiler generate.py ``` from PIL import Image from tqdm import tqdm import numpy as np import sys import os number_of_images = 1000 width = 2048 height = 1024 for filename in tqdm(range(number_of_images)): image = Image.fromarray(np.random.randint(0, 256, (height, width, 3), dtype=np.uint8)) image.save(str(filename) + ".png") ``` ::: ::: spoiler requirements.txt ``` pillow tqdm numpy ``` :::
Q: Is climate change sending us towards an apocalypse, or will it just make life shit/hard? A: Yes.
It's surprisingly hard to google something with a plus sign in.
Dear past me, I still haven't forgiven you for making that difficult Pokémon battle "a problem for future me". Yours faithfully, Future you
www.pcgamer.com
Yet another argument in favour of piracy…
lemmy.blahaj.zone
Do you use [Lemmy](/c/inclusiveor@lemmy.blahaj.zone) or [kbin](/m/inclusiveor@lemmy.blahaj.zone)? If your answer is "Yes", we'd love to have you! Formal link: !inclusiveor@lemmy.blahaj.zone
I upgraded to Executive a couple of years ago and got this very classy black card. Do they look the same everywhere? I assume the URL printed on the card varies, but what about everything else?
lemmy.ml
Has anyone ever kept a biro long enough to run out of ink? I'm pretty sure the ink's unlimited and we just lose them. Also, dental floss. /joke
www.gog.com
Price of the Skyrim Anniversary Edition in the UK: £17.19 Price of buying the Special Edition and the Anniversary Upgrade separately in the UK: £8.99 + £8.00 = £16.99 The pricing is slightly different but similar on Steam, and in other regions. But, in general, please make sure you know you're paying the right price for you before you buy, to avoid feeling ripped off later. <3 (also, the Special Edition is extremely good without the Anniversary Upgrade, you can always upgrade later if you wish to :) )
I saw this in a documentary called Grand Theft Auto V. It works every time!
external-content.duckduckgo.com
Video link: [watch](https://invidious.projectsegfau.lt/watch?v=OngM5d0lhiQ) | [fallback](https://invidio.us/watch?v=OngM5d0lhiQ) | [if all else fails](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OngM5d0lhiQ) No, I'm not sure why this speedrun exists either
mander.xyz
**Update: This giveaway is now closed and keys have been distributed via DM. Enjoy!** I have three keys to give away, but I want to make it fair rather than just first-come-first-served, so, 24 hours after the time of posting (Wed 28 June, 8:39am UK time): - The top-level comment with the most upvotes gets a key - My favourite comment gets a key - A random commenter gets a key Upvotes are from the perspective of my instance, and downvotes don't count. Multiple comments are permitted but won't increase your chances. Enjoy!
I see a lot of hype about being able to pet dogs in video games. Why?
*The rule doesn't say posts have to be images, so have this thing I wrote in a text file **a couple of years ago** and never got around to redrafting.* A: When it comes to downloading the entire internet, there are problems. For the sake of argument, let's define "the internet" as "the surface web". Y'know, what our parents think of as "the internet". It turns out we'll face some extra problems if we define it as "everything stored on every computer currently connected to the internet", namely how to find it all, so let's just go with the surface web because this is pretty intuitive, and it sounds like it's do-able. Right? The first problem is disk space. To do a right-click "Save as" on the whole internet, you're gonna need somewhere to store it. You can use zfs to squash it all down, remove redundant data, that sort of thing, but ultimately, you're going to need a lot of disk space. My first computer had no hard drive. My second computer had a 720MB hard drive. My current computer has about 20TB, which is a lot. But on the grand scale of things, that's not even enough to download all of Google, and Google is just one website. [citation needed] Let's say, just so we can get past this problem, that you don't care about storing it. You just want to download it for the sake of downloading it, and you'll be satisfied if all the ones and zeros come down the wire at some point. Suddenly the first problem goes away and this ultimately-pointless task becomes even more pointless because, at the end of it, you won't possess the entire internet. The second problem is Cloudflare. Cloudflare is a big problem. It also will hinder your downloading ambitions. It turns out they "protect" [citation needed] about 20% of all websites, and try to prevent users from doing things like automated browsing, or DDOS attacks, or using screen readers, or downloading the entire internet. You would need to solve Cloudflare. And that's very difficult: after all, if it were easy, Cloudflare would be circumvented on a regular basis, which would mean Cloudflare is little more than a protection racket with bad PR. And I would never, ever, ever, accuse Cloudflare of being a protection racket, because I don't want to wake up with a server's head in my bed. There are also smaller competitors to Cloudflare, some of which will pose you a real challenge. But let's assume you've circumvented Cloudflare, along with its smaller competitors. Now, it's finally possible to start the download. There isn't a button you can click that says "download the internet" so you'll need to install a specialised tool. HTTrack is one such tool, it's what's called a "web crawler", it'll visit a web site, intelligently follow links, and store everything it sees in a form you can browse on your computer. You'll need to get it to not do the last bit, because you don't care about storing, you just want it to be downloaded. You also need to tell it what, specifically, you want it to download - "the whole internet" isn't a default option for some bizarre reason - but as you've got this far, a complete list of currently registered domain names should be trivial for you to obtain by comparison. Feed that list into HTTrack, sit back, and watch the bits flow. The first thing you'll notice is that you're going to be watching it for quite a while. Even if you have a 10 gigabit connection, your peak transfer rate will be 1.25GB per second. In optimal circumstances, a terabyte would take you a little over two hours, so you'd be looking at a theoretical maximum on the order of 10TB per day. But even leaving aside things like delays in getting responses, you can bet a lot of websites won't let you download at anywhere near that speed. In fact, it turns out we've finally reached a problem that we can't solve, or even handwave away - the march of time. The internet is constantly changing, with information being added and deleted at breakneck speed. The English Wikipedia alone receives roughly 2 edits per second. So, every time you're close to finished, you'll find you still have more to do, and because HTTrack is dutifully following every link it encounters, the task of downloading the internet is one that it will never be able to complete. Therefore, it is not possible to download the entire internet. Sorry.
www.youtube.com
Hi, I'm Cevilia, or Cev, or Lia, or "Oi You!". You may use she, they, or any pronoun to refer to me. I’m from the UK. I'm 38 and becoming less certain of my gender with each passing day. I enjoy gaming, chatting, hanging out, and finding out I'm wrong - after all, it's the best way to learn new things! :)
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Seeing as Wednesday seems to be literal piracy day around here, here's a couple of classic videos on how to be a pirate.
I know some of you are interested in what Costco is like outside of the USA. Here's the UK food court menu as of my visit today.   Menu items with their approx. US dollar equivalents: - Double Chicken Fillet Sandwich: £4.29 ($5.49) - Chicken Bake with Bacon: £3.79 ($4.85) - Korean BBQ Beef Bake: £4.49 ($5.74) - Aberdeen Angus Cottage Pie: £3.49 ($4.47) - Jacket Potato with Baked Beans, Cheese, Beef Chilli, and/or Tuna: £2.49 ($3.19) - 1/4lb+ all beef hot dog with bottomless 22oz soda: £1.50 ($1.92) - Pizza Slice (BBQ Chicken, Five Cheese, or Pepperoni): £1.99 ($2.55) - 18" Whole Pizza: £9.99 ($12.78) - Pizza Family Bundle (18" Pizza, 18" Garlic Bread, 2x Garlic & Herb Dip, 2l Pepsi Max): £13.99 ($17.90) - Gelato (3 scoops served in a waffle cone, can't quite make out the flavours, sorry): £2.79 ($3.57) - Strawberry & White Chocolate Sundae: £2.29 ($2.93) - Vanilla Soft Serve Ice Cream: £1.99 ($2.55) - Mango Smoothie: £2.50 ($3.20)
They're rubbish bins (or perhaps textile recycling bins, but probably not) specifically for national, regional, and/or local flags. Edited to clarify: No judgment, I am not making a political or societal argument, just posting about a thing I learned exists. If this post gets hijacked I'll ask the mods to lock it.
www.domesticshelters.org
What it is: Someone shows you the palm of their hand with their thumb conspicuously tucked across it, then closes their fingers around their thumb, in a video call or in real life.  Why YSK: If a person uses the signal for help, they are telling you that they need help, and they can't directly ask for it. Do not acknowledge the signal. When you can, contact them in a way that you're less likely to be overheard such as text or email, and try to find out what they need. Asking yes-no questions will further reduce the risk to them. A good first question would be "Are you in danger right now?" followed by "Do you need the emergency services?"
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