brbposting

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[–] brbposting 8 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

This?

@[email protected]

IDK why there aren’t articles complaining about it

[–] brbposting 4 points 23 hours ago

It’s nice that unlike the available tools:

you can really vet the math!

[–] brbposting 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Any of you finish reading the paper?

[–] brbposting 7 points 1 day ago

Join us, won’t you? :)

sh.itjust.works

[–] brbposting 6 points 1 day ago

This is the way

[–] brbposting 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Nice. Did you try any eBay fee calculators first? Feels good having your own solution of course!

[–] brbposting 4 points 1 day ago

How’d you break it?

[–] brbposting 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] brbposting 9 points 1 day ago

Link us to your favs?

[–] brbposting 3 points 1 day ago

Human vacuum trucks. Wow!

[–] brbposting 2 points 1 day ago
[–] brbposting 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

reddit implemented that and I’m sure it’s abused

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Groom of the Stool (sh.itjust.works)
 
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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by brbposting to c/main
 

Shoutout to our hard-working maintainers, first of all.

Wanted to open a space for the community to discuss this aspect of marketing/identity.

Original comment link [e: snip]

 

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Two horizontally stitched screenshots comparing a search for “Reavers GIF” on DuckDuckGo and Google in Safari iOS (private tabs). DDG presented zero Firefly/Serenity relevant results while Google found them exclusively.

Hopefully a privacy-focused yet fast instance for US West Coast cheapskates who probably should pony up for Kagi, buttttttttttt

SearXNG Instances list on SearX.space

 

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A user asks Bing/Copilot chat to summarize an invented article:

[User]
summarize

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/29/us/dinosaurs-found-roaming-playground.html

Copilot

The article from The New York Times reports a surprising and amusing incident where life-sized dinosaur replicas were found roaming a playground in a small town. These realistic models, part of a local museum's exhibit, were accidentally released due to a security malfunction. The sight of dinosaurs in the playground caused quite a stir among the residents, especially the children, who were both thrilled and startled. The museum has since apologized and retrieved the dinosaurs, ensuring such an incident won't happen again. The event has sparked a lot of local interest and laughter, turning into a memorable story for the community[1].

Note this is problematic for a number of reasons including someone who wants to summarize a real article/thread won’t be informed an accurate summary may be impossible.

 

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Four stitched screenshots of an iOS 18 home screen. The icons are themed in the style of a “NookPhone“ from the video game Animal Crossing.

Source

Translated:

&:

Reference, apparently: NookPhone


I’d like to try heavily theming my home screen, paradoxically while keeping icons quite recognizable.

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Taylor & the end times (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by brbposting to c/[email protected]
 

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Taylor Swift on the red carpet with this text superimposed:

As the bulbs flash, I can't help but think of cyberwar - When the arcing death of electric transformers will light the night, leaving our nation in darkness.

  • Taylor Swift

Edit:
Credit: Swift on Security

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Pizza rule (sh.itjust.works)
 

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The image contains a cheese pizza, with one single slice flipped over. The accompanying text includes:

  1. A tweet from "spence" stating: "pizza tip: always flip a lucky"

  2. A reply from "Carrier Technician" saying: "Looks awful"

  3. A follow-up tweet from "spence": "if you died nothing in my life would change"

The timestamps show the follow-up was posted at 4:54 PM on September 5, 2024, and notes it has 99 views.

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Inhuman rule (sh.itjust.works)
 

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A screenshot of a YouTube video embedded in a news article where YouTube is throwing the error “Sign in to confirm you're not a bot. This helps protect our community.” Stitched below is a screen grab from Avengers Endgame where Captain America says, “no, I don't think I will.”

 

My friend’s had this before but doesn’t know which to buy!

 

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“David Attenborough” (a soundalike voice) explains the Cybertruck's parasitic relationship with flatbed trailers; transcript:

Here we see the Cybertruck has formed a peculiar symbiotic relationship with the larger flatbed trailer species. Evolutionarily disadvantaged, the Cybertruck has come up with a clever way to transport itself long distances.

By attaching itself to the flatbed trailer, the Cybertruck can reliably move about without risking injury to its fragile exoskeleton or internal organs. What the flatbed trailer gets in return for this kindness, science has yet to discover.

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I wondered who had made the video and found myself on Reddit, in r/CyberStuck, where the video was originally posted. The creator of the fake Attenborough video, who has since deleted the post, explains in the comments that they wrote the script and edited the video, and for source material, they used "a bunch of Cybertruck fanboys on YouTube, Whistlindiesel, and also the lovely people on this fair subreddit."

boingboing.net

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by brbposting to c/[email protected]
 

Source: @royalarmouriesmuseum on that ByteDance-owned site

Edit 2: OK it’s not this guy but I’ll leave it as it was; original edit below:

credit to Jonathan:

Jonathan Steven Ferguson is a British firearm historian and author who is currently the Keeper of Firearms and Artillery at the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds, England.

Thanks @[email protected] :)

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