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A portrait of Unsinkable Sam. A cat who survived the sinking of three navy ships during WW2. by scholar in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 32 points 20 hours ago

A common denominator

Keir Starmer gives go-ahead for British missiles to be used in strikes against targets inside Russia by scholar in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

They're in a similar humanitarian situation, but not the same political situation

Saudi Arabia Threatened to Sell Off Europe’s Bonds If EU Seized Russian Assets by scholar in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago

It's very clear that's not what OP was talking about

Anon wants to be a vampire by scholar in c/greentext

[-] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago

"That was never the case." "That then became the case."

'New Vegas is a very, very important game to us,' says mildly exasperated Todd Howard, who will never stop getting grilled about New Vegas by scholar in c/games

[-] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago

I think he was refering to the show being set after new vegas and having to continue on from a game which had different possible endings

With Labour in his sights, left-winger Galloway wins in English town by scholar in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Shame he's apparently an anti trans brexiteer who promised to 'make Rochdale great again'

edit with source: https://zirk.us/@nickbwalking/112017046193404787

Plex for books? by scholar in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago

Jellyfin has ebook support and allows you to download them for offline reading, which I reccommend because the ebook viewer is very basic

Best games that can be completed in under ten hours? by scholar in c/patientgamers

[-] [email protected] 50 points 6 months ago

Mirror's Edge - a perfect way to spend 5 hours

FFmpeg now has multi-threading by scholar in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 37 points 7 months ago

As far as I'm aware this is only for the cli version of ffmpeg and won't affect the threading of codecs many of which were already multithreaded.

Youtube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox. Spoofing Chrome magically makes this problem go away. by scholar in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 378 points 7 months ago

It's bizarre how blatent this is. Google has so much power over web standards that Mozilla have to work really hard to make firefox work, but YouTube don't bother being subtle or clever and just write 'if Firefox, get stuffed' in plain text for everyone to see.

My friend sent me the invite code then went AFK for an hour...so I collected every box I could find by scholar in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 56 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

'we have minecraft at home'

minecraft at home:

Visiting from the states, your road signs seem... graphic. by scholar in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Road signs, like safety regulations, are written in blood. There was a big drive a few years ago to get the aristocracy to donate blood so that they could use the colour blue on road signs.

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Deus Ex and the federated net (lemmy.world)

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One of the things that Deus Ex captured really well was the pseudonymous federated internet; interactions between random strings on different networks that could go on and on without either party learning who they were speaking to. Alex Jacobson had no idea that the Oracle he was receiving messages from was actually a self aware AI on the net.