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Whoa, that was a close one. I almost replied to someone's brid.gy account.

Stay safe out there, people.

in reply to Max Leibman

Personally, I just blocked that domain from my account so I never see those posts.
in reply to Eugen Rochko

@Gargron I have, as well, but I have an alt account on another server that has more reliable search, and sometimes I see something there and pass a URL back here to boost or reply. I think I'm going to block it there, too.


I have no idea how this happened but a game crash seems to have not only destroyed its wine prefix but lutris whole ABILITY to create wine prefixes. Not even reinstalling lutris or the game worked.



how do you include an emoticon inside a parenthetical? :boost_requested:

#poll #polls

  • (of course :) (3%, 3 votes)
  • (of course :)) (16%, 13 votes)
  • (of course :) ) (65%, 52 votes)
  • (of course) :) (6%, 5 votes)
  • something else/it depends/i never do this/bald/vanilla extract/show results (7%, 6 votes)
79 voters. Poll end: in 2 days

in reply to Lynnesbian

voted for "something else" because I always try to reword or pick a different emoticon when this comes up


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in pokopia, you play as a ditto, a pokémon with the ability to take on the appearance of other pokémon, but with a distinct tell that it's not really that other pokémon.

you can name your character anything you want. i went with "lynne", obviously.

the other pokémon refer to you as "ditto" until you max out their friendship level. then they'll call you your actual name.

now, i know this would never happen, because nobody would name their kid this... and because this is the internet, i want to be exceptionally clear that i am joking and do not consider this to be a legitimate concern, but consider: what if your deadname was ditto and the only way to get pokémon to accept your identity was to befriend them by plying them with gifts and berries and only then would they say "oh you know what, you're so nice i'm gonna call you that other name you keep insisting on"??? 😭

in reply to Lynnesbian

also i only just realised this when looking up the wikipedia article to link for the above post: it's actually called "Pokémon Pokopia".

in a way that makes total sense -- every* pokémon spinoff is called "pokémon something" -- but it's a bit of a mouthful, isn't it?

not nearly as bad as Nintendo 2DS Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS Bundle, of course, but still.

*i am distinctly aware of the possibility that there is at least one pokémon spinoff that isn't called "pokémon something". please do not reply with counterexamples unless your post contains a delightfully naïvely optimistic poster-worthy art piece from BYTE magazine (example). that way you get to pedantically correct me, and i get a potential wallpaper for my laptop/phone. win-win!

in reply to Lynnesbian

The Pokémon Pokopia game for the Nintendo Switch 2 system


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See which jobs are most threatened by #AI and who may be able to adapt 🤔
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#AI
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

It will be a long time before AI can do real interpretation because so much is context dependent, and requires a knowledge of the culture/ethnicity . Certainly in person interpretation services.

As for secretaries, automation has already affected them, by moving many tasks to their bosses! Soon the bosses will have no secretaries and will be spending al their time making their AI try to perform secretarial tasks. Believe me, I have worked in IT and know that 99% of the bosses (and programmers) don't know what their secretaries do. And I have seen how things like automated calendars moved the work to the managers.

But I never thought management or programmers particularly savvy, and sometimes they aren't even smart.

in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

Where do you fall on this distribution, if you are the human pet of an electro-mechanical overlord?


Remembering this cool piece of art that I love tanjaostojic.com/looking-for-a…
in reply to Em

wow that's brilliant! And intense. Thanks for sharing.


‘Trump is aiming for dictatorship’. That’s the verdict of the world’s most credible democracy watchdog | Martin Gelin | The Guardian

The US is no longer a democracy. One of the most credible global sources on the health of democratic nations now says this outright.

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Iran oil crisis: why NZ’s car dependence is now a strategic liability


...For a country that imports every drop of its petrol, diesel and jet fuel, this is not only a problem, it’s a hard reminder New Zealand has failed to mitigate such strategic vulnerability.

Since Marsden Point stopped refining oil in 2022, New Zealand has imported all its refined fuel, mostly from South Korea and Singapore. Those refineries rely on crude oil shipped through the waters now blocked by Iranian drones.

The latest official fuel stocks update suggests roughly 52 days of total cover, with less than 33 days of petrol in the country. This buffer was only designed to smooth over short disruptions, not substitute for a prolonged supply crisis.

Motorists are already starting to hoard supplies, with petrol stations in Auckland already selling out of fuel cans. Some drivers may well be regretting not having bought an electric vehicle earlier...



Denmark Just Switched to Red Streetlights
By shifting the wavelength of the light, the city sought to maintain essential road safety for drivers while protecting the natural behaviors of local wildlife. dailygalaxy.com/2026/03/denmar…

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I've only just learned about this because Palantir is in the midst of doing the same thing to the British NHS.

Report: ICE Using Palantir Tool That Feeds On Medicaid Data


...In addition to the amicus brief we co-authored challenging ICE’s grab for Medicaid data, EFF has successfully sued over DOGE agents grabbing personal data from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, filed an amicus brief in a suit challenging ICE’s grab for taxpayer data, and sued the departments of State and Homeland Security to halt a mass surveillance program to monitor constitutionally protected speech by noncitizens lawfully present in the U.S.

But litigation isn’t enough. People need to keep raising concerns via public discourse and Congress should act immediately to put brakes on this runaway train that threatens to crush the privacy and security of each and every person in America.



In case you missed it, new particle just dropped. The LHC has confirmed (and in ridiculous accuracy) the existence of a heavier version of the proton.
A proton is made of 3 quarks, up/up/down. This new particle is made of charm/charm/down, where the charm quark is basically the same as the up, just heavier.
So not groundbreaking like finding supersymmetric particles, but still cool. Further confirmation that the standard model of particle physics is reasonable.
home.cern/news/news/physics/lh…


@Friendica Support

Hi there,
some of you might have seen strange comments from this profile about circles\groups and that they do not work, or do not work as expected, up to the claim that the idea and system itself is "broken".

Right now the best guess is that this is a specific problem of this profile because it changed at some moment to become a forum page profile already existing for quite a while and having some contacts as a standard profile.
As the idea of a forum page profile was dismissed, it was changed back to become a standard profile.
It is unclear if or how many new contacts were created in the time being a forum profile.

Is there some experience or recomendation about what could be done to reset all contacts and the profile itself to behave as a common standard profile?
(as mentioned, circles do not work as they should for example, and as always other unknown problems are unknown).



#TIL (not really, I knew about it for some time) about Kaktovik numerals <en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaktovik…>, and I like their graphicality and ease of arithmetics.

@neauoire it reminds me of the intersection-based multiplication example on your wiki article about paper computing. Any chance you'd be interested in Kaktovik numerals?



Onion in recipes should be by weight not number, as they vary by size considerably. Tonight's dish requires "6 onions" which is anything from 300g to nearly 2.5kg. Based on what we had in our fridge, that is.


name a musical album you listen to, more or less, once every day. Strict ruleset. You REALLY listen to it every day, unless life intervenes, as it is wont to do
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in reply to Jeff Atwood

The closest I can give you is Casualties of Cool, which since last year I've started putting on before bed to calm me down, although it is by no means meant to be used that way as it is a very good album in its own right.




That "linkedIn Speak” translation option on Kagi is quite good and funny


so, there's those like. magnet implants right? for being able to detect magnetic fields n shit

is there any reason those have to be Implanted? like. could you just wear a magnet ring for prolonged periods and get the same effect?

in reply to Devine Lu Linvega

@neauoire huh! I mean, you could prolly use a bigger magnet externally than you could internally to get stronger feedback

do you have thoughts on the implants? I keep hearing conflicting opinions

in reply to ليلى النحلة

don't get them, it's fun while they're there, but it's not worth the cost.

After 5-6 years, I had to remove them(myself) with a knife because the gel wrapper around them broke, they always do.



youtube.com/watch?v=QLRS2N-IYF…
#theStudio
in reply to Devine Lu Linvega

I've listened to it countless times already since you last posted it :neofox__w_:

I'll trade recommendations and suggest this: youtube.com/watch?v=tqqPBSUs52…

in reply to nakst

Oh shit! classic track from Tales Of The Big Room, that's one for @strstr
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Been enjoying The Sandman series recently. They aged really well both in style and in content.

in reply to It's FOSS

It annoys me. It destroys me. It ruins our work. I switched to Linux and all of sudden I have to "administer" Windows servers with tomcat. Who is endorsing this shit?


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The latest Linux desktop market share numbers are in.

Check out what changed. 🗞👇

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#linux



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Bethesda reveal the huge Starfield Free Lanes update and new Terran Armada DLC gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/beth…

#Starfield #Bethseda #Gaming #PCGaming







Holy shadow bias! I think they might have focused on "fixing" the wrong thing. Well, good thing I haven't been particularly interested in any recent AAA titles for a while. This all looks like hot garbage.

#dlss5 #nvidia #aislop



@neauoire You might like this. BANDIT a 32bit baremetal computer that runs Color Forth: youtube.com/watch?v=HK0uAKkt0A…
in reply to Mastarmi

yeah it's neat ^_^ I've been following the development for a while


I made a chrome extension that makes LLMs appear to run very slowly...

slowllm.lav.io



Get even more Steam Deck Verified games in the latest Fanatical Play on the Go Bundle gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/get-…

#SteamDeck #PCGaming #Gaming #SteamOS #Linux



The resistance against age verification is growing.

There's now a dedicated Linux distro that stands against it. 😼🗿

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#linux #ageverification

in reply to It's FOSS

ageless linux is just normal debian right now, dont use it yet

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