Yeah, and the magnet was not to blame for this incident despite how the title of this article reads. Given all the (alleged, I guess) facts of the case, I'm pretty sure sure the cops showed up in a clown car that played Yackety Sax when the horn was pressed.
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Yeah, this is kindof ticking all my checkboxes for what I'd want in a terminal emulator. I'm an st user currently, but I might have to give wayst a try. It's not often a piece of software comes along and entices me like this one.
(And yeah, I see the notice about it being alpha quality, but I suspect I'll be able to get a feel for it even if I can't really make it my daily driver yet.)
Also, I didn't list the terminal image protocol thing among what attracts me about it. But I've never had that before. Who knows. Maybe wayst will convince me that's a must-have feature in terminal emulators.
It's said that "Google pays Silicon Valley's legal bills." (And by that, it's meant that Google ends up in court a lot and often in groundbreaking, no-existing-precedent situations. As a result, there is a lot of case law that's already decided when some smaller company comes up behind wondering whether they can get away with such-and-such business model intellectual-property-wise. Google has already "paid the (legal) bills" required to get a more-or-less definative-ish answer on the question.)
It feels weird to me to see a headline like "Google wins such-and-such lawsuit" and be like "fuck yeah, good job Google". I guess it only feels weird because Google is a big evil company. But I guess I have to admit a not-small number of Google IP cases found in Google's favor have had a net positive effect. I guess I'm glad Perfect 10 v. Google (2007), in which a purveyor (or rather "perv-eyer", amirite?) of nude model photos sued Google for serving Perfect 10's images on the Google image results page, was found in Google's favor. And in Author's Guild v. Google (2013), Google's ability to provide to the public relatively significant snippets/previews of commercially-available books was protected by the courts as well. And while I'm at it, Google v. Oracle (2021) decided that Google was allowed to copy the Java standard library API (the interface bits, not the implementation so much) was protected fair use, which also seems like a net good thing.
And I'm not familiar with any Google cases that I'm glad or I wish Google had lost.
At work, I used to use a Mac, and when they switched me to the model with the touch bar (because of a recall around potential battery explosions), I had a terrible issue with hitting that fucking Siri button just barely north of where my backspace key was all the time when I was trying to hit backspace. This would be similar.
I do this sometimes, and I hate when I catch myself doing it.
First off, MS Gothic is a monospace font. (Meaning all characters have the same width and move the cursor by the same horizontal distance. Ok, that's a slight oversimplification. Especially when you're dealing with asian characters, there's a possibility of "double-width" characters which are twice the width of "single-width" characters and move the cursor twice as far.) In sites like Lemmy, there are usually ways to tell Lemmy to switch into "monospace" like you did with the first cat art you posted in the body of your post. And that ensures consistency in the output. With non-monospace fonts, it's more of a crapshoot. Arial's "m" might be a different width than Comic Sans', for instance. Typically, sites like Lemmy (or 4chan or Reddit or Facebook or whathaveyou) won't have ways to specify a particular font (different Lemmy clients are also free to use different fonts), so if you composed ASCII art with a non-monospace font and pasted it into a Lemmy post/comment, even if it looks right to you in Lemmy, it may not look right to other viewers of your post. And that's why monospace is popular for these things.
How to make these? I honestly don't know if there are specialized tools for that. Probably just a standard text editor. The examples you posted have some asian characters in them, so a way to input such characters. I'm on a Linux machine and have fcitx set up for Japanese text input. If you're on another OS, I'd expect the way to set up input for asian characters would be different. Alternatively, there are probably unicode character explorers/apps that can be used and don't require quite the learning curve.
As for how to manage these, no idea. I can think roughly about how I might go about writing a program that migth manage these, but I'm not sure if any exist out there currently.
"Thrice" is a somewhat obscure word that otherwise fits.
"Adventitious" is a good one. It means "non-inherent" or "acquired" (as opposed to inherent.)
Yeah, but I can see how a 6-year-old living a 90s suburban childhood might think the way Calvin does.
Similar energy:
And Dumbledore dies at the end.
Yesterday, I started watching a video on YouTube but closed out of my browser (Firefox) only a few minutes into the video.
I've got my Firefox set to delete all cookies, history, form data, etc on every close. (Pretty much everything but bookmarks.) The image on this post is a screenshot of my relevant settings.
Today, after having exited my browser and fully shut down my computer for a while, I remembered the video and decided to continue watching it.
In Firefox, I searched for the video (I used the search term "gnu taler" -- something worth looking into especially for folks interested in this particular Lemmy community by the way). In the search results, the video I was searching for showed the red bar at the bottom indicating I'd watched only the first few minutes of it.
Which seems weird given that I'd cleared all my browser data since I watched the first few minutes.
So I did some experimentation. I closed my browser completely again and opened it back up, searched in YouTube, and it still had the indicator. I updated to the latest version of Firefox in the Arch package repository. Same indicator. I tried the same in Chromium (which I've also got set to delete all browser data on close). Still the indicator. I installed Tor Browser Bundle (specifically torbrowser-launcher on Arch Linux), changed none of the default settings at all, and searched in YouTube. The indicator is present. In Tor Browser Bundle.
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Anybody have any idea how that's possible?
My only guesses are:
- That search is so niche as to be literally unique (which if true makes me sad -- I really hope GNU Taler takes off and becomes widespread) and YouTube is using that to identify me.
- YouTube doesn't know where I left off at all. Not even my browser knows (because if it was my browser keeping track, it wouldn't persist between browsers). It's something else on my system that my browsers depend on or tap into.
The only other pieces of relevant info I can think to share:
- There's another video (also about GNU Taler) that I watched all the way through the same day that I started the video this post is about. It doesn't show any indicator.
- I tried searching on my phone's browser. No indicator. But then I'm not sure my phone ever shows indicators. I haven't tried this on any other devices on my network or anything.
- I still haven't watched the video in question. Heh.
Thanks in advance for any insight you might have.
Edit: Sorry for neglecting to mention previously that at no point during any of the above did I log in to YouTube. And the "Sign in" button was visible at the top of the page indicating I wasn't logged in. Since multiple people asked, I figured I should edit my OP with that info.
Edit2: Two more things to mention. I think some folks are thinking I copied the link and pasted it between browsers during the above test or something? The only reason the timestamp is included in the link I posted above is because when I copied it into this post, I didn't think to remove the timestamp. But I didn't do anything like copying the link from the search results in one browser and then paste the link into TBB or anything. In each separate browser, immediately after opening the browser, I went to YouTube (by typing "youtube.com" into the address bar) and put "gnu taler" into the search bar and hit enter. And in each browser, YouTube somehow remembered where I'd left off in a whole different browser -- with a different IP address in the case of the switch from Chromium to TBB. And no urls were copied between browsers in any of the above.
The other thing to mention. Changing my search term to the full title of the video ("Building an Open Source Payment System - Sebastian Javier Marchano, Taler System" sans quotes) gives the relevant video as the top search result, but no "left off" indicator. And I'm in the Firefox in which I first noticed it had remembered.
Oh, actually, one more thing to mention. After posting this, I continued watching. I'm probably about 3/4 done with it now. But I closed my browser again before completing it, reopened my browser, and searched "gnu taler". It gives the indicator, but the position of the indicator is roughly (possibly exactly) where it was when I first noticed it had remembered. Not where I left off after watching to roughly the 3/4 mark.
Edit3: Wow! Ok. I'm 99% sure folks smarter than me have hit upon what's going on here. Thanks in particular to Tony N and Chozo for the right answer. It looks like YouTube has a feature where, depending on your search terms, it may automatically skip you a certain ways into the video. (Like "oh, you searched for 'gnu taler'? Well, in this video result, this bit in the middle is the part that's relevant to your search terms, so we'll just start you such-and-such-many seconds into the video.") The red bar doesn't mean "you've watched this" at all. And YouTube isn't "remembering me" between browsers. It's just consistently (as long as I use the specific search terms "gnu taler") suggesting that I start that video 273 seconds in rather than from the beginning. And anyone who searches that exact search term should get similar results... unless they're on mobile for some weird reason? That paired with the coincidence that I'm pretty sure I just happened to have stopped the video yesterday right about at the same place where YouTube recommends you start had me very confused. Whatever the case, I'm satisfied this must be the right answer. Thanks again, ya'll!
This was on the Netflix login page until pretty recently. I can't be the only one who thought it was unintentionally... suggestive, right?
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That doesn't look like a cybertruck. It's got curves.