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  • anaemic* (Sorry, that bothered me for some reason.)

    As for capture groups, you'll have to find another way. Perversely, perhaps BusyBox continues to be included on certain systems because they know that the extra space is required for the code that works around BB's shortcomings. That sounds asinine until you realise that "solving the problem properly" most likely leads to that one XKCD comic about the proliferation of competing standards.

    At worst, multiple sizes of BusyBox itself.

  • FCC hits Verizon with $1M fine for dropping 911 calls, again • The Register
  • The real punishment ought to be an atomic wedgie. For everyone who was a C-level for more than a month at that company in the last 10 years.

    This ought to be the punishment for a lot of unethical business practices. You can't delegate that to a customer's wallet.

  • NBC to use AI-generated version of Al Michaels' voice during Summer Olympics
  • If we tried this in the UK with someone like, say, the late David Coleman, I'm not entirely sure anyone who remembers him would be able to distinguish - other than, as I said, the knowledge that he's been gone for quite some time now.

    Coleman, was considered a go-to commentator for decades despite being gaffe-prone even at the best of times. He was occasionally oblivious and apparently lacking any self-awareness too. (He did kind of learn to laugh at himself though and was a good, well, sport, about it all.)

    Sounds very AI to me. Come to think of it, he may even have been kept around precisely because of the entertainment value.

    I assume that Al Michaels is not of this bizarre calibre and it wouldn't take long for people to notice.

  • MAGA panics before Donald Trump's first debate with Biden
  • I've said this before and I'll say it again: There are better things to attack Trump for than how he looks, what physical conditions he has or how he smells.

    At face value, those sorts of things have little effect on the ability to run a country well.

    Even his hair is a better target because how he wears it would appear to show vanity, a quality that might actually interfere with stable management. That's still a relatively big stretch without other evidence (of which there would appear to be plenty) though.

    Attack his ideas, his intents, his politics. He makes this easy enough, right? Start there.

    "LOL u smel" is something you expect in the playground. Something Trump himself might use, perhaps.

    We have to be better than that.

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  • If they've heard of Lemmy then it's probably the Tankie connection that's putting them off. If.

    Guessing Kbin/Mbin is also either unheard of or tainted by association.

    Or it could just be: "But why male models not Reddit?"

  • Why does nobody here ever recommend Fedora to noobs?
  • You joke, but I wouldn't be surprised if that's at the back of some people's minds.

    There's also the whole association with Red Hat, and since Red Hat got bought, went corporate and murdered CentOS, Fedora is tainted somehow.

    These things aren't necessarily good reasons to not recommend Fedora, (for those see other comments) but they're reasons nonetheless.

  • Welcome to Hell!
  • Other than the psychopath angle, there's also those who are mentally ill and/or delusional and believe they're terrible people when they're not far off average, maybe even better.

    Likewise, perfectionists, but maybe I'm repeating myself.

    Got to hope that you're not right for their sake.

    Personally, I'm hoping for oblivion. Like it was for the billions of years before I was conceived, I assume, not that it's possible to remember that.

  • Words for an Epic Quest, Part 5
  • Fun fact: The past tense of "wend" was once "went", but that was co-opted for the past tense of "go", and the past tense of wend is now "wended".

    "But what was the past tense of 'go' before that?"

    Kind of hard to tell what it would be now, but "goed" does seem likely - like we might have said as toddlers - but irregular "yode" / "yoed" is closer to the old form and is also possible.

    Evidence from other Germanic languages as well as "do" becoming "did" suggests a less likely "gid", "gig", "ging" or even "gang" (compare "sang").

  • Memetic Evolution
  • So I decided to go peek at the ragecomic subreddit. Yes, the very one-time ragecomic home-from-home outside of 4chan. Last post 17 days ago, using at least two "extinct" faces, got 600 upvotes.

    It's complaining that there are no good tools to make ragecomics any more. (I have not checked to see if that's true.)

    Y'know, I feel like they should stay there. Anything that'll mess up an AI should stay on that site for as long as humanly possible. smilingthumbsuprageface.jaypeg

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    palordrolap @kbin.run

    Some middle-aged guy on the Internet. Seen a lot of it, occasionally regurgitates it, trying to be amusing and informative.

    Lurked Digg until v4. Commented on Reddit (same username) until it went full Musk.

    Is on kbin.social but created this profile on kbin.run during a week-long outage.

    Other Adjectives: Neurodivergent; Nerd; Broken; British; Ally; Leftish

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