I wonder what the “fuck that hurt” rate is for these fishes
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Trump has threatened to end democracy in the US. So yesterday may end up being the last time anyone in the US gets to vote.
I wouldn’t call that a win for democracy.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Smart TVs are like “a digital Trojan Horse” in people’s homes | 48-page report urges FTC, FCC to investigate connected TV industry data harvesting.English
281·1 year agoUnfortunately it’s very hard to buy a decent dumb TV these days.
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World News@lemmy.world•Japan firm says it stopped making walkie-talkies used in Lebanon blastsEnglish
2·1 year agoMost likely it was counterfeit radios. The batteries in decade old Icom radios would probably be dead by now.
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World News@lemmy.world•Reuters- Putin says West will be fighting directly with Russia if it lets Kyiv use long-range missilesEnglish
18·2 years agoDidn’t he already repeatedly claim that he’s fighting directly with the West?
Even in his own words what would this change?
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World News@lemmy.world•Mexico will amend its constitution this weekend to require all judges to be electedEnglish
346·2 years agoHaving elected officials makes sense for politicians since their job is to represent the interests of the people but it’s terrible for other types of public office.
What do you want from a judge or a sheriff? Someone who’s experienced and competent. Who can best judge that? Would it be the hierarchy of their peers who they work with every day or would it be random members of the public who’ve barely even heard of them?
Edit: and no, I’m not suggesting political appointments. That’s also a recipe for disaster. Do it like Commonwealth countries: make the civil service independent of the political process and make appointments be part of the usual process of promotion.
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News@lemmy.world•Most US voters say plastics industry should be held responsible for recycling claims – report
8·2 years agoRecycled plastic is also inferior quality with worse structural properties so it’s not really suitable for many applications.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Bluetooth 6.0 adds centimeter-level accuracy for device tracking — upgraded version also improves device pairingEnglish
22·2 years agoThat’s absolutely not true. Bluetooth has many “profiles” which define different capabilities. Here’s a list of them. These are all defined in the official bluetooth standards.
Maybe you were thinking of the “core specification” which defines the underlying protocol but doesn’t define the profiles? But that’s just the way they broke up the spec documents. The profiles are still official parts of bluetooth.
Apple’s proprietary extensions for audio are not part of any official specification though.
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memes@lemmy.world•Good job, Britain! A major contribution to the nations of the world!
4·2 years agoIt’s certainly the one most likely to shank you if you step on it. Beyond that I’d rank it as the least space efficient plug. I honestly think it’s the worst design I’ve seen.
“But it has built in fuses”, I hear all the Brits say. This isn’t the advantage you think it is. Why not put the fuses in the actual appliance with all the other components where it makes more sense to put them?
C++ can do a lot of things but one thing it can’t do is perform as poorly as python.
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World News@lemmy.world•Putin seizes $100m from Google to fund Russia’s war machine (in 2020)English
61·2 years agoThey took them in 2020 while they were pulling out of Russia, not recently.
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World News@lemmy.world•Putin seizes $100m from Google to fund Russia’s war machine (in 2020)English
354·2 years agoTo be fair, the seizure happened back in 2020 when companies were still in the process of removing themselves from Russia. And it happened in retaliation for google complying with international sanctions against Russia.
They’re important details. And you would have seen them in the article if you’d read it.
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Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL that in January 2014, a seven-year-old girl named Charlotte Benjamin wrote a letter to Lego, pointing out the lack of female characters compared to male ones.English
13·2 years agoYou just know a lot of those “Research Institute” sets ended up on scientists’ desks at research institutes.
They still create microplastics.
When you scratch it you’re making microplastics though, and they’re going right into your food.
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Technology@lemmy.world•AMD lawyers claw back CUDA compatibility layer ZLUDAEnglish
81·2 years agoNot in reliability…
But they’re probably still selling more CPUs to your average buyer who always buys Intel, doesn’t read tech news and never even heard about the controversy.
It’s a tax on buying a house.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Intel was once a Silicon Valley leader. How did it fall so far?English
21·2 years agoIntel didn’t actually manufacture the chips.
The chips with the oxidisation issue were manufactured by Intel at their Arizona fab plant.
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News@lemmy.world•People who had severe covid-19 show cognitive decline years later
31·2 years agoI saw another study which said vaccines reduced long covid by up to 50% depending on which strain it was.











Sounds like they should arrest Microsoft for that, like they did with Mega. /s